Marc Reyes

@marcus1984.bsky.social

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Historian (modern India, technology, foreign relations); editor (Contingent Magazine); advisor (scholarships, fellowships, research)

Walter Donovan from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade dying after choosing poorly.
Drummer of Sex Bob-omb from comic book Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.
Instead of posting the actual photo of President Trump at Graceland, looking utterly bored, I have uploaded this photo of Krusty the Clown looking tired in a trading card photo. Thank you for reading the alt text.
From Kate Carpenter's July 2025 review of Kate Conger and Ryan Mac's book, Character Limit (2024) "Of course, Musk is not the only character in this tale, and few people escape scrutiny either for their role in Twitter’s struggles or their enabling of Musk’s pursuits. But it is Musk himself whose portrayal is most unflattering; Roald Dahl could not have written a more comically loathsome human. Musk seems to have imagined that he could buy the candy factory and install himself as tech’s Willy Wonka, but in Conger and Mac’s telling he comes off as all four bratty golden ticket winners combined: the greed and insatiable appetite of Augustus Gloop, the spoiled and selfish wealth of Veruca Salt, the pointless competitive focus of Violet Beauregarde, and the obsession with a fictional video game masculinity of Mike Teavee."
Cover of Emily St. James’ novel, Woodworking.
Marc Reyes at the US Embassy in New Delhi, India. Marc is standing in front of a wall of photos highlighting every US Ambassador to India.
A red cover to the edited collection, Handbook of Indian History. Edited by Lavanya Vemsani.
Screenshot showing that Contingent Magazine's Star Trek fundraiser has raised $681.51 out of a goal of $1000. We're less than $320 away!