Andrew Reeves

@andrewsshi

I'm a history professor at Middle Georgia State University. I hold a PhD in medieval studies and post entirely too much about my cats and hobbies. All opinions are my own and do not reflect those of my employer.

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Andrew Reeves@andrewsshi· 12d

Honestly, this is Exhibits A, B, and C as to why the US doesn't have working class socialism, not really. Add the typical adjunct professor pay scale, and much falls into place.

Andrew Reeves@andrewsshi· 24d

Every left-wing sentiment I have leaving my body as I read this.

Andrew Reeves@andrewsshi· Jul 7

From @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social 's book on Baltic heathenism. The weakness of every self-conscious neo-paganism from Julian the Apostate's to modern Wicca and Asatru is that once you are self-consciously trying to be The Old Religion, you are by definition not practicing The Old Religion.

Andrew Reeves@andrewsshi· Jun 27

I'm gonna work on these guys for a bit while listening to Abnett's The Hive.

Andrew Reeves@andrewsshi· Jun 21

Lazy Sunday afternoon, some painting, some kitbashing.

A 40k Knight Armiger Warglaive that's mostly painted in Order of Our Martyred Lady colors, and I'm the background is a Knight Errant chassis.

The top of a Warcry bell tower. What could it be for?

Andrew Reeves@andrewsshi· May 22

Re: this afternoon's news.

Andrew Reeves@andrewsshi· May 21

The charger!

Andrew Reeves@andrewsshi· May 12

This... kind of feels like a microcosm of the promise and ultimate disappointment of the millennial moment. (Scroll to the end.)

Fundraising effort (2012–present)
Jane Alcorn, president of the nonprofit group The Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe, and Matthew Inman, creator of web cartoon The Oatmeal, joined forces in 2012 to honor "the Father of the Electric Age", by preserving the Wardenclyffe facility as a science center and museum. They initiated the Let's Build a Goddamn Tesla Museum fund-raising campaign on the Indiegogo crowdfunding site, to raise funding to buy the Wardenclyffe property and restore the facility. The project reached its goal of raising $850,000 within a week, after a $33,333 donation from the producers of the Tesla film "Fragments from Olympus: The Vision of Nikola Tesla" put them over the top. The campaign also attracted donations from benefactors such as Elon Musk.[10]

The money raised within one week was enough to get a matching grant from the state of New York, allowing the project to be able to meet the seller's asking price of $1.6 million.[10][7] Including the grant, the crowdfunding campaign raised approximately $1,700,000 in six days, with the campaign originally slated to run 45 days.[11]

On May 2, 2013, The Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe announced that they had purchased the 15.69 acre laboratory site from Agfa Corporation and will begin to raise "about $10 million to create a science learning center and museum worthy of Tesla and his legacy."[12] On September 23, 2013, the president of Serbia, Tomislav Nikolić, unveiled a monument to Tesla at the Wardenclyffe site. Nikolić said that he had planned to push for the monument to be displayed at the United Nations, but chose Wardenclyffe once he learned it had been purchased for the center.[13]

The site in 2024, after the fire. The location of the Tower can be seen by the cones in the foreground.
On May 13, 2014, The Oatmeal published a comic called "What It's Like to Own a Model S, Part 2," in which he requested a further donation of $8 million from Tesla Motors founder Elon Musk in order to propel…

Andrew Reeves@andrewsshi· Apr 20

Honestly, my favorite bit of snark to have included in a scholarly publication.

Selection from a scholarly article on medieval Dominican catechesis reading: "So Simon explains that the Father and the Son are
different persons of the same divine substance, and not different aspects of the same person. This is of course the modalist Sabellian heresy - but it is also an error that is easy enough to make when a layperson is trying to explain the Trinity, as anyone who has ever had a Sunday School teacher helpfully and heretically liken the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit to water, ice, and steam can attest."

Andrew Reeves@andrewsshi· Apr 17

Found in the University of Georgia's copy of English Preaching in the Late Middle Ages.

A scrap of newspaper used as a bookmark with a date in 1995 on it.

Andrew Reeves@andrewsshi· Apr 10

As a Weird Fiction Enjoyer it brings me no pleasure to say this, but at this point, if I had the power I would Balefire Old Gods of Appalachia out of existence.

Andrew Reeves@andrewsshi· Apr 7

Yep. Nearly done with my Sanctifiers. Got some edge highlighting and shading and will have more angry church people. Very pleased in particular with Preacher Josef.

Andrew Reeves@andrewsshi· Jan 27

Being a liberal who donates money should not end up turning into a DDoS on your SMS.

Andrew Reeves@andrewsshi· Jan 14

American liberal democracy facing its worst stress test since the 1860s, and Mothership grifters just continue to blow up my SMS. This one is *particularly* ironic.

A text from a Super PAC saying they're fighting Citizens United.

Andrew Reeves@andrewsshi· Dec 28

Someone on r/40kLore asked if the Fall of Cadia "has always been part of the lore."

The image of Theoden when he was under Saruman's curse to be much older than his actual years.

Andrew Reeves@andrewsshi· Dec 15

TFW your friend kisses a curb, you need to change a flat at night, and fortunately your hobby equipment comes in clutch.

Andrew Reeves@andrewsshi· Dec 14

Man, Inquisitorial history is absolutely *wild.*

Andrew Reeves@andrewsshi· Dec 11

Luna Rae Reeves, ca. 2005 - 2025. Rest in peace, best girl.

Andrew Reeves@andrewsshi· Nov 28

Okay, this is hands-down the best power sword effect I've ever done.

Andrew Reeves@andrewsshi· Nov 21

I freehanded a Death Spectre pauldron.

Andrew Reeves@andrewsshi· Nov 16

A little under 20 years ago, I was telling @greatestape.bsky.social that the US Naval Academy's first year ends w/ a bunch of bare chested muscular young men climbing a greased up obelisk, and he said, "The question isn't why the US military forbids gay people, it's why they allow straight people."