Latest Posts by almost-immortal - Page 2
nothing like rereading a book you loved when you were younger only to realize the author can't write
i call this the 'I'm normal about media' moodboard
and another thing: no child should ever be made fun of for things they love especially by their parents
pratchett will write an entire book about the grim reaper pretending to be santa claus while the grim reaper’s granddaughter goes about hunting down the dumbass who decided to kill santa, and then right when you think you’re done and the oddly pointed shenanigans are winding down he hits you with “humans need fantasy to be human. to be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape,” and knocks you into next wednesday
anyway. onto better things
enough healing i need to kill
i want a life
desiring those veegetsbles
teens in 1848 be like “dni if you read degenerate literature like w/uthering h/eights”
girl i love the word puttering...like yes i am just puttering around...doing my little tasks...going beep beep....
“i have too many books on my tbr” my brother in christ, you’re the one who put them there
i can fix him *traumatizes him*
Actually, ancient glass, having been rather neglected by archaeology for decades, is a pretty exciting topic in scholarship right now. The main thing is that glass persists–it’s very stable. After fabric rots and metal turns to a scrap of rust, there will lie a necklace, still scattered across a chest that itself has turned mostly to earth.
Bead typologies, for example (that is, the classification of different styles/shapes/decorative motifs/colors) can allow scholars to trace trade routes, as they study the distributions of different bead types over time and geography. Glass production is kinda industrial in nature, not like spinning or beer that make good cottage industries. It was often produced in one place, and then sold on to artisans elsewhere, and then the beads themselves were traded across entire continents.
Chemical analysis of the glass can do even more to trace routes, since different compositions and incidence of different mineral contaminants can allow archaeologists to trace glass production to individual sites, thousands of years after the fact. It’s dizzying, really.
The downside is that for a long time, archaeologists regarded beads as unimportant trinkets, and antiquities dealers understood that they were easy to take and easy to move. So an awful lot of the most exceptional beads we have from the distant past spent time in private collections or uncategorized drawers somewhere in a museum back room, so they’ve lost much of what we could have learned from their original provenance. Maybe we’ll be able to turn new analytical tools on some of these to reconstruct more of their past.
I still had these doodles laying around, but figured I should colour them with other people being interested in them too!
video essays i’ve loved a lot recently!
the history of dieting is crazier than you think - a history of diet culture, its phases, faces, and diet culture media by mina le
When Hollywood Speaks Chinese, I Cringe - short essay about the cringey racist way Chinese language is portrayed in Hollywood
Good LGBT Representation is Boring (and why that’s a problem) - essay that dives into the double edge sword of “unproblematic” lgbt rep
The Decline of History Channel - a history of the history channel and how it lost almost all credibility.
The Black Right Wing - fascinating essay on Black Americans who support Donald Trump, right wing politics and why that is.
Can We Kill the Final Girl Trope Already? - one of my favourite essays ever about the first girl who dies in horror films.
Exploring The “Gender Critical” Radicalization Pipeline - tw: major transphobia, an essay about how TERF ideology online radicalises people to the right
A Buffet of Black Food History - do not watch this on an empty stomach! essay about the history of Black American food, culture and the success of Black cooks/chefs
No, Superhero Movies are NOT Like Westerns - excellent breakdown of all the reasons why the current proliferation of superhero films is not comparable culturally, economically or artistically to Westerns.
Maybe you should stay in the closet?…Coming Out re-examined - personal vlog/video essay about the history of “coming out” as lgbt and the culture around doing so has changed
The Matrix Resurrections Is Absolutely Beautiful - an analysis/review of the beautifully executed trans-ness of latest matrix films
make more characters bi, you cowards: why (not) romance? - analysis on the current state of bisexual representation in pop culture
Heterofatalism: WHY straight women aren’t okay. - absolutely wild essay on the complex cultural attitudes that encourages straight women to hate themselves for loving men
The Pandemic Onscreen - How Film & TV Do Covid - analysis of the different ways fictional media is acknowledging the pandemic
The ultimate dark academia playlist
100+ dark academia vibe songs from various genres & artists.
(I recommend listening with shuffle on.)
folklore is such a bargain. it’s just what if what if what if what if just over and over and over. what if you had stayed? what if i had given you more of me? what if that was enough? what if i had left sooner? what if i had stayed? what if i hadn’t known? what if i never met you? what if i loved you? what if it all turned out okay?
“Let it pass; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Sensible Thing (via h-o-r-n-g-r-y)
I think my dark undereye circles are adding to the aesthetic actually.
The Language Of Flowers
Acacia: Hidden love, beauty in withdrawal
Amaryllis: Pride, a hard won success
Anemone: Vanishing hopes
Bells of Ireland: Wish for good luck
Carnation: Fascination, love and distinction
Daffodil (Narcissus): Honesty and truth
Dahlia flower: Warnings and change
Daisy: Innocence, loyal love and purity
Delphinium: Open heart, ardent attachement
Gardenia: Symbol of secret love
Gladiolus: Remembrance, faithfulness and sincerity
Hyacinth: I'm sorry, please forgive me.
Iris: Eloquence
Lily (general) : Purity of the heart and refined beauty
Lily of the valley: Return of happiness
Marigold: Passion and creativity
Orchid: Beauty, refinement and love
Peony: Happy marriage
Lavender: Love at first sight
Red rose: Love, respect, courage and passion
White rose: Purity, secrecy, silence, innocence and charm
Sunflower: Good luck and ambition
Tulip: Irresistible love
Violet: Faithfulness, modesty and delicate love
Zinnia: Lasting affection, daily remembrance and good memories
anyone else been letting the days go by? letting the water hold you down?
i have no coherent way of talking about love. every time i think about being loved or how badly i want it or how much i love the people in my life already it’s like Y(W*&^(*%&^(*&(^&W$(*T(*$Y(R*&$(*@)(*@)**)*)*)(!)(*@)()!(@)@*)($**(*&(*&(^$>”:>”^$£?:${:{$:^{:}{&?£>:^>$:&{%:>&”=+%:>&”[}{\;’:%>”£±:>&:%>”&:”:{P@(*)(*)({@”§:@”?”@:!!”@?@§§”?”?”:>{:}!P@OR)F*CJ)E*U8. so
if a book has 'popular on tiktok!' written on the cover i will not be reading it. i'm about to start flipping those tiktok tables in waterstones. yes this is mean and snobbish of me idc the fandom-ification of the publishing industry may be what pushes me to violence
hyperfixating on this is not enough i need to eat it
there’s literally nothing more fun than being kind????? like? making someone feel loved and appreciated and seeing them smile and hearing them giggle?? sign me the fuck up
i think it is very depressing that like every aesthetic people try to emulate are of people doing things but they themselves are incapable of being somebody that does things… the mall goth 2005 aesthetic revived in 2022 but nobody goes to the mall to be annoying and weird and nobody lets themselves be cringe… the cottagecore aesthetic but nobody knows how to raise gardens or live self sufficiently … the dark academia aesthetic but nobody actually reads books…. The obsession of looking like you are a type of person who does something without actually doing anything … the Instagram effect
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
George Sand, in a letter to Gustave Flaubert
Nikki Giovanni, Mirrors
Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait in Letters
Mary Oliver, Dogfish
on choosing kindness. again and again.
Perfect skin doesn’t matter brand names don’t matter grind culture doesn’t matter all that’s important is having a hobby you love and learning to cook vegetables in tasty ways