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I almost forgot to mention: this woman came into the penguin enclosure with a KESTREL??? I said “oh my god is that an American Kestrel?” and she said “Yes! She was outside doing raptor education for the kids, but she doesn’t like to get rained on.”

ayellowbirds

#she was watching the penguins with what I will anthropomorphically project as skepticism

elkian

kestrel: i hate rained on!!

human: here is birds in water

kestrel: ……no…..

consulships

i do think theres something sad about how largely only the literature that's considered especially good or important is intentionally preserved. i want to read stuff that ancient people thought sucked enormous balls

literaryreference

Time to take this post entirely too seriously:

I often wonder if this is why you so commonly see the sentiment that we are in an era of uniquely bad literature, or at least that the fact that most books don't have artistic aspirations and are not aiming to be anything other than mindless entertainment is new. In fact what's new is the idea that everything is worth preserving (and also the internet making it easier to preserve it). The dumb artistically unambitious trash books of the past have survived only sporadically, because people thought of them as literally disposable.

When I was in college I had a professor who was an expert on detective fiction. He had a longstanding beef with the idea that "Murders in the Rue Morgue" was the first detective story. He thought that it seemed way too polished to be inventing a new genre, and also that the whole orangutan business had the vibe of someone subverting preexisting audience expectations and maybe engaging in a bit of stealth parody. With the help of some student volunteers, he went trawling through old magazines and newspapers and found hundreds of detective stories from the early 1800s that just hadn't garnered enough individual attention to be remembered. This was because most of them sucked balls. He created an online archive of them, so you too can read these mostly terrible stories.

dedalvs

When I was an undergraduate English major we asked our grad. student TA what it was like being a grad. student. One of the things he said grad. students would do is review work that has been left out of the “canon” of whatever time period or genre they worked in to assess its value and see if it should be reintroduced. For his time period, that meant reviewing, apparently, a *LOT* of epic poetry about the American revolution. Like, you know how there’s *The Odyssey*, *The Song of Roland*, *El Cid*, *The Nibelungenlied*, or modern wartime novels like *A Tale of Two Cities*, etc.? Apparently it was quite popular in the 1800s in America to write epic poetry about the American Revolution, with the idea that it would be *the* hallowed tale read about the founding of the United States for centuries to come. It was his job to read these vaunted works detailing the heroic deeds of Washington, Jefferson, Adams, and the like.

The result?

There was a *LOT* of utter garbage written about the American Revolution in the 1800s.

And so, essentially, there are also a lot of scholarly works (likely unpublished) of grad. students who have gone back in the archives, taken this work very seriously, read it, evaluated it, and come to the conclusion, some hundred pages later, “We haven’t assigned this to students in the past because it was generally accepted that the work sucked. Having evaluated from a modern perspective, it is my opinion that the work does, indeed, suck, and we shouldn’t bother assigning it to students.”

super-metroid

if shes your girl then why have i slowly been replacing her parts until there’s nothing left of her original body? is she then still your girl?

averysoftsheep

They ship of theseus’d my girl

Can’t have shit in Detroit

roach-works

this actually perfectly demonstrates the transitive property of memes: you can replace a meme piece by piece until it only structurally resembles the original, and it is, in fact, the same meme.

call that the meme of theseus thesis

fadeverb

tumblrites can have a little intertextuality as a treat

heroofthreefaces

my naym is ship and when i’m broke the broken part from me they toke

replace the part had been the plan but in the morn hand door car man

cute-pluto

ive just been born into the world what are some good games for beginners

rendogdomesticated

this one won goty five yrs in a row and i heard its got awesome ratings

chongoblog

Tier List

S Tier: Green Line - High up and long circular motions are the sauce. Absolute banger.

A Tier: Blue Line - Nothing special in terms of line structure, but the texture on the beads are what make this one so great

B Tier: Yellow Line - The Right Angled motions are honestly mesmerizing

C Tier: Orange Line - The Vertical Up and Down motions can be fun but it just comes across as clunky

F Tier: Red Line - What are you even doing

bananonbinary

are you fucking kidding me the red line beads are a FAR more compelling texture than the blue line. “oh but the red line is booring.” the appeal is in how it interacts with and highlights the other lines you philistine. without the red line there’s no cohesion at all. read a book.

nfirr

Literally hop off. Red doesn’t even use gravity as an element in the main route. Orange is one of the only three lines (with green and yellow) to actually use gravity to add complexity to the route, and is honestly an underrated pick. Have fun playing “push left” simulator with red. Idiot.

felidthing

via @wrenrouge

lostwoodscutie

wasabikitcat

Documenting what is quite possibly the best exchange I have ever seen on this website.

cheshiregrinfu

wind-on-the-panes-deactivated20

This website is a prison amd stuff like these are the bars of my cell.

realpokemon

why are starters always endangered species? Why don't they give the ten year old a bird or a lil plant friend, not a GIANT DRAGON?

i wouldn't call them endangered per se ?? that varies from pokémon to pokémon. traditional "starters" are really highly domesticated and rarely get released so you don't really find them in the wild anymore. we kind of hand-selected them to be bred for ease of care and loyalty and such.

also. if you want an oddish or a fletchling you should just go outside for once and you'll find one. LMAO

wack-ashimself

From a friend: Google is so powerful that it "hides" other search systems from us. We just don't know the existence of most of them.

Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information.

Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free

art-of-mathematics

select{"Define robot"}+{"I reject the binary assumptions underlying this statement"}+{"I'm not a robot, but willing to convert"}

tigerdrop

posting this for everybody who doesnt know how to use a fucking 4 way stop sign

speedlimit15

i was so good at this water sort mobile game and i’m stuck on level like 348 and i’m convinced this one is impossible. i was stuck on it for weeks like a year ago and then quit and came back to it recently with a new hunger and vengeance and it’s kicking my ass i swear

speedlimit15

it’s just not possible.

speedlimit15

i take back every bad thing i ever said about this website

were--ralph

Mitch McConnell will die two weeks from today (8/31/23)

were--ralph

today is the day lads

were--ralph

cast NOW do NOT hold back cast NOW

anexperimentallife

roxyfication

no more sex. we ran out of sex

roxyfication

cultheadquarters

The community guideline violation pic is arguably more funny than whatever the original response to “check in the back” for more sex was.

markodragic

fuck esports, the only correct way to play smash is the way my 7 y/o niece plays it: connecting 2 controllers, setting one as peach, setting the other as marth, pretending marth is peach’s boyfriend and then playing virtual barbie and ken with them

markodragic

smash esports livestream but it’s just thousands of people tuning in to watch my niece make bayonetta marry solid snake on the zelda temple stage

powerburial

esports commentator: now watch what she does here. shes crouching with snake to indicate hes proposing. blink and youll miss it: she uses down+b to place a bomb- this is the wedding ring. going back to bayonetta, shes going to ever so slightly tilt the left stick forward, now this serves two purposes: 1.) to make sure she doesnt set off that bomb when she goes to accept snakes proposal, which would obviously ruin the whole scene, but 2.) and this is a more subtle touch, to show bayonettas hesitation. that's something we know about bayonettas character, shes very independent, so thats the true work of a master to incorporate that into their gameplay

stil-lindigo

autisticexpression

Hollywood has no concept of what 5th century Romans looked like. If I'm watching a movie about the final days of the Western Roman Empire, I should be seeing zero togas. It's like if you made a movie about the Trump administration, you wouldn't have people dressed like the founding fathers. That's how wrong it is.

This is what 5th century Romans looked like:

I think the problem is that pop culture has this theme park version of history that treats time periods like distinct worlds with no fluidity between them. In Roman Times, people dressed like this vs Medieval Times when people dressed like that. But that is obviously not how time works. The end of the Western Roman Empire led directly into and overlapped with the Middle Ages, and the aesthetics we associate with medieval Europe were already long established.

On a related note, the "barbarians" didn't dress like you think they did either. Less of this:

More of this:

(Art by Angus McBride)

Again, the end of the Western Roman Empire was the beginning of medieval Europe, and it already looked like it.

The notable exception was the Franks, who apparently really did dress like that:

There really is an exception to everything, and it's usually the French.

memories-of-ancients

Vikings/Norse in media ...

What they really looked like...

dresshistorynerd

The woman in the "what Old Norse people really looked like" -section of the last addition is dressed in an Iron Age Latvian dress. Old Norse women didn't use the chiton style dress many Baltic and Baltic Finnic people used, they used what's called apron dress. Here's couple of reenactors dressed in Old Norse style apron dresses. (I don't think these are like reconstructed by professional historians but they are pretty accurate to museum reconstructions. Except for the hair of course.)

For comparison here's another reconstruction of Iron Age Latvian dress and one of Iron Age Finnish dress.

Shapewise the dress is basically the same as antique Greek chiton, but from thick wool and a long sleeved dress under it to make it suitable for colder climate. Iron Age lasted well into Middle Ages in Baltic Sea area, and these dresses are based on finds from the time that Middle Ages was happening in most of Europe. The Finnish dress is dated to 11th century which was High Middle Ages in rest of Europe. I think this highlights the point how much the Antique period and Middle Ages flowed into each other.

I have to note that the dress in the right side of the second picture of the original post is not very accurate depiction of a Medieval dress. Generally I would always caution against trusting these very modern illustrations of historical clothing. Early medieval dress varied greatly geographically. For example the Old Norse apron dress is early Medieval dress. The unifying features were that the garments were loose and often tied with girdles, not fitted like in the illustration.

Here's a reconstruction of a 7th century Saxon dress and an illustration of Anglo-Saxon dress from 10th century.

First fitted medieval dress was 12th century bliaut in French influenced area, which wasn't smoothly fitting still as tailoring wouldn't come along till the 14th century. Here's couple of depictions of bliaut. And bliaut was used by both men and women as was the tailored kirtles of Late Medieval period. So if a woman is depicted in a fitted gown, then the men would be too.

Loose gowns were still used elsewhere, when bliaut was used by french so I guess the French are again the exception.

The point of the original post still stands and I think the way early medieval dress really looked like makes it even stronger. The pop culture's idea of the fitted medieval dress comes really fully in Late Medieval period and it's early version at the end of the High Medieval period. Before that the Medieval dress is very similar to the Late Roman dress, loose simple tunic shapes with a girdle.

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