many of the kaneko responses are somewhat disappointing, in the same way learning about SJ development was; it ends up feeling like megaten was fun by accident and the development of individual games was chaotic and lacked any stronger central vision

one more Albright thing that i keep seeing accepted uncritically: the highly dubious attempt at equating Kothar-wa-Khasis with Ptah. He predates the Ugaritic corpus (Archi argues he's already attested in Ebla), there are other deities with names derived from the same root (even in Ugarit!), (cont.)

it's kind of weird when some authors try to force some sort of connection between Ashtart and Attar in Ugarit (it started with Albright lol), they never appear together so surely it would be fine to just assume the same root was used as basis for a theonym more than once independently?

a perplexing number of authors appear to operate under the assumption that two names being cognate means the deities necessarily evolved from each other; but surely a root could serve independently as a basis for a theonym in different languages at different points in time...

Keiko Tazawa derives Ashtart's association with horses and chariots in Egypt with a single offhand comment in the Epic of Gilgamesh which is 1) not about Ashtart 2) younger than the association between Ashtart and horse-based warfare anyway

Wilson-Wright's Ashtart monograph is miles better than most of what came before, but I feel trying to connect every attested form of Ashtart with some sort of irl "daily routine" is an odd idea

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I received the commissioned cover for the Ashtart + Anat double feature... Expect both articles very soon

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while there's no sign of it so far, i really hope they will at least cover the Weidner list in this series in the future. it sucks there's no confirmation it will ever go beyond An = Anum and adjacent lists, esp. with how good the first vol is

given the view that ninurta's name is a logogram for anat in the amarna letters is relatively popular (mentioned without reservations in his RlA entry by Streck!), i'm shocked there's no study comparing anat's boast about vanquished creatures with lists of ninurta's enemies

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yamayuandadu.tumblr.com/post/8205996... The second (and final) pride month special of the year, exploring the dubiously historical crossdressing ritual specialist Chu Fu, her alleged affair with empress Chen Jiao, and the terminology used to refer to relationships between women in pre-modern China.

yamayuandadu.tumblr.com/post/8205084... My first pride month special of 2026 is out! A brief introduction to a peculiar and possibly bisexual Tang poet, and a short story which portrayed her as such nearly 80 years before this idea emerged in scholarship - but for very different reasons.

belated pride month two-parter schedule : Yu Xuanji today, Chu Fu tomorrow

栞と紙魚子と愉快な仲間たちfan art (2020年のに少し加筆) 諸星先生ぃぃぃ…

i've been playing persona 1 recently #persona #makisonomura

Lock and Loaded with Eriko Kirishima! (comms result)

still working on stuff, my pace has been awful due to irl matters though

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ロックの日だからたまには音楽の宣伝でもするか！ 去年作った黒巫のイメソンです 各サブスクとかYouTubeで聴けます big-up.style/pKoaw7SGkX

今日は純ヘカの日なので過去絵から気に入っている純ヘカの絵を抜粋 ちなみに5年前の絵らしい

Good news, the Hecatia keychain is real !!! acggoods.com/product/hecatia-connection-acrylic-keychain-by-estrelloso/674706

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Gioele Zisa (of that pretty good love incantations monograph fame) published a new paper showing how common combat and hunting metaphors are in erotic context in mesopotamian literature but you still get "inanna's major roles are contradictory" factoids regularly elsewhere

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is there any empress chen x chu fu the crosdressing witch toxic yuri out there

感冒了好难受😣 #smt

看不太懂不画了 #smt

嗯，嘛，啊（感叹词） #smt

#真・女神転生　#smt 有一个人姗姗来迟

Ame-no-Uzume #smt #smtv #shinmegamitensei

i'm happy the cover for the anat+ashtart articles will be drawn by someone also familiar with ugarit because i could include "I’d like them to look like they’re embarking on an adventure together (like in KTU 1.114)" as a part of the pitch

the lack of focus on hunting as a masculine activity in anat scholarship is particularly odd given that, if anything, as argued ex. by Pongratz-Leisten, its symbolic value to kings across Syro-Anatolia and Assyria grew across the second half of the second millennium BCE

Day's analysis of Anat takes into account association with Athena, which is limited to Cyprus and late, and with Artemis, which she made up, but not with Ashtart (sic), Sagkud (trilingual Weidner from Ugarit) or Ninurta (not conclusively proven, but supported ex. by Streck in RlA)

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damn i want the hisami plushie...

this paper is from 2014 btw lol

This month's commission results (Inanna PFP) for @ninshubur.bsky.social

soon

yamayuandadu.tumblr.com/post/8155420... Got a pretty good ask about foxes