Angela Costello
@zostepatrikia.bsky.social
Textile Archaeologist PhDing @ Institute for Digital Exploration - USF. Old clothes pre-1200 is my jam. Dissertation on the representation of power via dress and appearance in Late Antique Sicily. US Gold Star Spouse. Florida woman. she/her
Tis the season for St. Nicholas Day/Council of Nicaea memes.
December 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Tis the season for St. Nicholas Day/Council of Nicaea memes.
Me, an early church historian: Happy 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea to all who celebrate. *cracks knuckles*
Also me, seeing the Pope and Ecumenical Patriarch recite the Nicene Creed together, but omitting the Filioque clause in the Orthodox tradition: *falls out of chair*
Also me, seeing the Pope and Ecumenical Patriarch recite the Nicene Creed together, but omitting the Filioque clause in the Orthodox tradition: *falls out of chair*
November 28, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Me, an early church historian: Happy 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea to all who celebrate. *cracks knuckles*
Also me, seeing the Pope and Ecumenical Patriarch recite the Nicene Creed together, but omitting the Filioque clause in the Orthodox tradition: *falls out of chair*
Also me, seeing the Pope and Ecumenical Patriarch recite the Nicene Creed together, but omitting the Filioque clause in the Orthodox tradition: *falls out of chair*
YOU'RE INVITED.
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 AM
YOU'RE INVITED.
To absent friends and loved ones.
November 2, 2025 at 11:42 PM
To absent friends and loved ones.
Death is so taboo in the modern society, and if it wasn't for this practice plus the Death Positive Movement, I don't know how I would have managed Jeff's passing. More folks should celebrate Allhallowtide as it was intended. This is my All Saints setup. Tomorrow I recombobulate for All Souls. (fin)
November 2, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Death is so taboo in the modern society, and if it wasn't for this practice plus the Death Positive Movement, I don't know how I would have managed Jeff's passing. More folks should celebrate Allhallowtide as it was intended. This is my All Saints setup. Tomorrow I recombobulate for All Souls. (fin)
I first really experienced Dia de los Muertos when I lived in San Diego. The practices weren't alien to me, because All Saints/All Souls is very popular in Mediterranean cultures as well, and growing up Catholic, we always had an ofrenda-adjacent practice. (1)
November 2, 2025 at 2:51 AM
I first really experienced Dia de los Muertos when I lived in San Diego. The practices weren't alien to me, because All Saints/All Souls is very popular in Mediterranean cultures as well, and growing up Catholic, we always had an ofrenda-adjacent practice. (1)
24th and final year of school. Please clap.
August 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM
24th and final year of school. Please clap.
This is an image that unlocks a visceral core memory as a Floridian. I was 10. The outer bands barely scraped St. Pete, it didn't matter.
August 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
This is an image that unlocks a visceral core memory as a Floridian. I was 10. The outer bands barely scraped St. Pete, it didn't matter.
I just saw panels of the AIDS Quilt in Austin. All I felt was incredible grief.
August 23, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I just saw panels of the AIDS Quilt in Austin. All I felt was incredible grief.
Advice from a former street painting artist:
If you feel the urge to color in crosswalks, under no circumstances should you use water to make the soft pastel richer in color, and then set it with hairspray like AquaNet or White Rain to make sure it doesn't wash away easily.
Pics of my work for tax.
If you feel the urge to color in crosswalks, under no circumstances should you use water to make the soft pastel richer in color, and then set it with hairspray like AquaNet or White Rain to make sure it doesn't wash away easily.
Pics of my work for tax.
August 22, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Advice from a former street painting artist:
If you feel the urge to color in crosswalks, under no circumstances should you use water to make the soft pastel richer in color, and then set it with hairspray like AquaNet or White Rain to make sure it doesn't wash away easily.
Pics of my work for tax.
If you feel the urge to color in crosswalks, under no circumstances should you use water to make the soft pastel richer in color, and then set it with hairspray like AquaNet or White Rain to make sure it doesn't wash away easily.
Pics of my work for tax.
Same difference.
August 11, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Same difference.
Every time an Irish or Italian member of my family opens their mouth and hot air comes out I throw this at them.
August 8, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Every time an Irish or Italian member of my family opens their mouth and hot air comes out I throw this at them.
BUT FOR REAL THO
August 6, 2025 at 1:45 AM
BUT FOR REAL THO
Things I didn't think through when I planned this month for $500:
August 2, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Things I didn't think through when I planned this month for $500:
*blinks in submariner wife*
August 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
*blinks in submariner wife*
Things I find funny that others don't.
July 31, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Things I find funny that others don't.
I've been asthmatic since I was 3 years old, but i haven't had a major flare/attack in decades. Apparently my 40s comes with a return to puberty in the least fun ways.
July 16, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I've been asthmatic since I was 3 years old, but i haven't had a major flare/attack in decades. Apparently my 40s comes with a return to puberty in the least fun ways.
Spent the day at Busch Gardens for a passholder preview of Wild Oasis. Crowds broke early because of a storm, and us locals just stick it out and look at the animals rather than go on coasters. Did you know armadillos got the zoomies? You're about to see it.
July 13, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Spent the day at Busch Gardens for a passholder preview of Wild Oasis. Crowds broke early because of a storm, and us locals just stick it out and look at the animals rather than go on coasters. Did you know armadillos got the zoomies? You're about to see it.
Further proof that the GOP base votes solely on their own version of "Fuck, Marry, Kill" and "owning the libs", and nothing to do with intelligence or knowledge of the laws of the land.
May 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Further proof that the GOP base votes solely on their own version of "Fuck, Marry, Kill" and "owning the libs", and nothing to do with intelligence or knowledge of the laws of the land.
Teal for me, zebra for him.
May 19, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Teal for me, zebra for him.
I suggest folks start buying toothpaste in bulk and squirreling it away. We're reenacting Victorian Britain in the US, complete with children dying in the gutter from tooth abcesses while co-infected with TB and measles, who just got fired from their jobs working at a quarter wage for being late.
May 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I suggest folks start buying toothpaste in bulk and squirreling it away. We're reenacting Victorian Britain in the US, complete with children dying in the gutter from tooth abcesses while co-infected with TB and measles, who just got fired from their jobs working at a quarter wage for being late.
I'm so juiced up right now I'm likely to be snubbed for the MLB Hall of Fame.
April 15, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I'm so juiced up right now I'm likely to be snubbed for the MLB Hall of Fame.
I really hope this is when Harold Godwinson takes an arrow to the eye for wearing such bad lamellar which wasn't present in 11th Century England, and layers of leather flappy bits.
Give me the bow. Now. I'm doing everybody a favor.
Give me the bow. Now. I'm doing everybody a favor.
April 15, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I really hope this is when Harold Godwinson takes an arrow to the eye for wearing such bad lamellar which wasn't present in 11th Century England, and layers of leather flappy bits.
Give me the bow. Now. I'm doing everybody a favor.
Give me the bow. Now. I'm doing everybody a favor.
Imagine being months away from your PhD in history, and your mom telling you this. I know she voted for evil this time, the propaganda got her, she's pissed about the action, but still, what does she tell me? That I should have stuck with the major I picked 27 years ago before I tanked in math. (1)
March 31, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Imagine being months away from your PhD in history, and your mom telling you this. I know she voted for evil this time, the propaganda got her, she's pissed about the action, but still, what does she tell me? That I should have stuck with the major I picked 27 years ago before I tanked in math. (1)