AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! Look what I did!
I am so so excited! These little chapbooks are ready to pre-order and will be shipped out on Feb. 9, 2024.
@writernotwaiting / writernotwaiting.tumblr.com
AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! Look what I did!
I am so so excited! These little chapbooks are ready to pre-order and will be shipped out on Feb. 9, 2024.
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
hooray!!!
"right to work" is such a fucking misnomer
I'm so glad to see younger generations understand the power and value of unions. Down into the '90s and even early aughts too often unions were presented as a "relic" of the past. Reaganomics sold that myth too well, along with the deadly delusion/myth of "trickle-down economics."
Countess of Feversham’s Fringe Tiara
Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom’s Sunray Tiara
Baroness Juel-Brockdorff’s Fringe Tiara
Queen Rahimah of Selangor’s Diamond Fringe Tiara (the top row of diamonds would have to be removed from this one)
Queen Victoria of Sweden’s Baden Fringe Tiara
I feel the need to add a disclaimer that I’m not planning on stabbing anyone. I saw one of these and thought ‘oh that would be a good tiara for someone to stab someone else with’ because writers and others in need of character inspiration have been reblogging my tiara motifs series lately based on the tags. My thought process was more along the lines of what if the character was a spy or being chased by a murderer and they were at a formal event where they needed to attack someone or defend themselves but their gown made hiding a weapon difficult so they are using a tiara. Is this not the kind of thing other people think about?
friendly reminder that “kudos” means “glory” in ancient greek, so if you give someone kudos you are wishing them renown on the battlefield
I feel like the AO3 button just became a lot more intense for me just now.
I WISH YOU RENOWN ON THE BATTLEFIELD FOR YOUR TALENT IN BANTERING DIALOGUE AND JOLLY GOOD SMUT, MY LIEGE
Glory to you…. And your fic
I'm watching a fanartist stream and I just-
caesars assassination but with empty cardboard tubes
Et tube Brute?
Ok now THIS is the stuff I wanted when I followed the Julius Caesar tag and I don’t even get it from there?? Am upset by this betrayal of the tumblr system
knitting tutorial made by a twenty-something knitting influencer: 18 min long, 12 of those minutes being the intro and a sponsor plug, they show the first few steps of the tutorial at the slowest speed known to man, they show the most important steps at a neck-break speed, they stop every five seconds to talk about what they just did, 40,000 comments filled with questions ranging from insightful to “how do i knit”, filmed with a camera that costs more than a car, the tutorial is incorrect.
knitting tutorial made by a seventy-something grandmother: two min long, filmed 17 years ago, shows you what you want with the skilled patient hands of a beloved deity, made with the world’s shittiest camera, the best video on the fucking internet, four comments and 30 views, you lose the video and never find it again.
two things i’m noticing in the notes:
1. every artist/crafter/cook agreeing that influencers in their communities also pull shit like this
2. ppl shouting out their fav old lady tutorials and being like “i would die for u diane”
1926-27 Autumn-Winter collection Callot Soeurs cocktail dress of green satin embroidered in floss silks with bamboo, butterflies and birds in shades of pink and green, with a matching underslip with a green satin hem. From Kerry Taylor Auctions.
Bunjy, how close to a human liver do you need to have to eat chocolate? Can great apes eat chocolate? Can any other primate?
no, other great apes can't have chocolate, and other primates can't either! you need an actual hominin-line liver to pull this trick off, so humans and human ancestors only as far as primates go.
other primates can and do eat the flesh of the cacao fruit, which chocolate is made from, but chocolate is made from the seeds, aaaand those are where the cacao plant is hiding all of its secret and most potent poisons.
(theobromine. it's theobromine)
were a chimpanzee or smaller monkey to pig out on chocolate or cacao seeds, they could expect to experience hyperactivity, tremors, increased heartrate, seizures, and heart failure. in roughly that order.
"oh god! I should have stopped thirty seeds ago!! why did I do that!!!"
so you know what? sometimes it's good to be a human, actually.
"oh, boy! poison!! my favorite!!!"
humans stand head and shoulders above every other primate on earth when it comes to the enormous variety of foods they are able to eat without getting sick or dying about it!
but also just literally. humans are very tall.
okay that's all, good night love you
–Palestinian poet and editor of Mizna, George Abraham.
Kris Kuksi: Tribulation (2015)
Bed of Lettuce by Paul Octavious
medieval parchment repairs
in a psalter, south-western germany, late 12th/early 13th c.
source: Hermetschwil, Benediktinerinnenkloster, Cod. membr. 37, fol. 19r, 53r, and 110r
some context from an article on medieval manuscript repair by anika burgess (which includes many other beautiful examples of this phenomenon!)
the repairs posted above also stem from a nunnery (right around the time that it was seperated from a double cloister, muri abbey), so they were most definitely also done by nuns :)
Cryptozoology is my favourite kind of fake science stuff. Wish there was also cryptobotany, like mothman but its just a really big fern in the middle of a field with literally nothing else around it , that spawned in the dead of night, might have killed a few people and never shows up in photos, and no one is sure its even real
Cryptogeology is also like "Yeah, that mountain likes to move around. Nobody's seen it do it. But I've been tracking it since Saskatoon."
"There are no mountains in Saskatoon."
"Not anymore, there aren't."
what a fucking power move
[Image description: photo of some text (source not given) about Caesar’s last words. Transcription follows.]
Suetonius adds that, according to some reports, he said in Greek: “Kai su, teknon” (which Shakespeare turned into the Latin “Et tu Brute?”). It literally means “You too, child,” but what Caesar may have intended by the words isn’t clear. Tempest cites “an important article” by James Russell (1980) “that has often been overlooked”. Russell points out that the words kai su often appear on curse tablets, and suggests that Caesar’s putative last words were not “the emotional parting declaration of a betrayed man to one he had treated like a son” but more along the lines of “See you in hell, punk.”
[End description.]