interested in everything

call me spex! necromancer by training, augur by trade, in bed by 10pm. a lover and a hater in equal measure. classics, arts/humanities, etc. TERFs will be disintegrated by eldritch fireballs

[birdwatchy-standaround]

I WAS GOING TO DRIVE DOWN TO MARYLAND TO EAT COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF CRABS STRAIGHT OUT OF THE CHESAPEAKE TODAY. BUT IT SEEMS THE WEATHER MAY HAVE OTHER PLANS

[birdwatchy-standaround]

I BRAVED THE STORM

[dizzyghoast]

honestly fandom has ruined me because now any time i'm in the desert and i see two vast and trunkless legs of stone or a half-sunk shattered visage i'm like "omg just like in Ozymandias" and its like come on girl not every half-sunk shattered visage is Ozymandias

[birdwatchy-standaround]

would not be surprised if that most recent game changer was a sam reich idea. sleep-no-more-ass escape room game with a stupid song and dance

[birdwatchy-standaround]

I WAS GOING TO DRIVE DOWN TO MARYLAND TO EAT COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF CRABS STRAIGHT OUT OF THE CHESAPEAKE TODAY. BUT IT SEEMS THE WEATHER MAY HAVE OTHER PLANS

[thestuffedalligator]

“When we were kids, the Phonics Wizard came to our town to show off how the letter E can change the sounds of vowels. He turned a can into a cane, a pin into a pine. This one kid had a cap and he changed it into a cape, that kind of thing.

“And we loved it, we were all having a great time, but then he saw my sister and I, and he just got this - this look in his eyes, and then-”

She hesitated, worrying the coarse material between her fingers. “Things got pretty bad after that,” she muttered. “I know it’s silly, but I try to keep - her - comfortable. We don’t know if she can still hear us, or see us, or if she’s even still in here, but I like to think she is. I talk to her when I can, I leave music on when I’m out of the house. I tried to convince my parents to bring her with us when we went to Disneyland, but they didn’t - didn’t really take that well.”

After a moment, she put the ball of twine back onto its pillow. “Anyways. They tried to arrest the Phonics Wizard, but he had a plan in case something went wrong and he turned it into a plane and flew away.”

[leahgardner-art]

blue hour on I-65

[voidcreations]

Look at my birthday cake...

[thecryptkeeper]

Unknown photographer (American), Untitled (Baby with cigarette box), September 1969. National Gallery of Art.

[lilyflxwers]

ok i absolutely need to know what accents u all have pls reblog and tell me or comment or whatever I must know

[innerchildabortionclinic]

Not optional I guess

[birdwatchy-standaround]

its great that as soon as i reached a point in my life where i deeply understood that it's good to eat vegetables and also go outside and get fresh air and exercise, the vegetables turned poison and the air turned poison. god help us if they turn the exercise poison

[terkaterr]

ah doing ma thing just like god int- (remembers im atheist) just like the universe intend- (remembers i don't believe in determinism) just like noone and nothing intended ever. doin ma thang fucking unpredictable style

[girlballs-archive]

curly haired women do more for society than any soldier

[play-now-my-lord]

new evidence shows dogs have "intuitive mastery of the bessemer steelmaking process", backing up centuries of anecdotes by blacksmiths in which a dog would whine and bark in distress when pig iron was heated without sufficient access to air in their presence. "It's possible Bessemer or others who claimed to have invented the process were inspired by the behavior of dogs, or that dogs communicated the details of this vital industrial process to them by unknown means", paper concludes

[reallyreallyreallytrying]

nip over to troy, bit of rough and tumble, big horse, bish bash bosh, back home to ithaca. simple as

[wagitfag]

picklesbaseball

[magikonch]

[pspsappho]

& honestly there's no debate to be had the zendaya earrings are orders of magnitude worse than kim kardashian wearing that marilyn dress. yes that piece was a one of a kind unique textile made so specifically for marilyn monroe she had to be sewn into it. at the end of the day it was a ~70 year old usamerican cultural artefact being repurposed by an american for an american cultural event and everyone involved knows exactly where the dress came from + what happened to it + where it went afterwards. zendaya is wearing the looted (or forged) cultural heritage of a people her government is currently bombing & whose lives they have been deliberately making unliveable for decades to a movie premiere that has fuck all to do with iran. we don't know where those discs came from where they were found or by whom & we never will. AND the jeweller appears to have altered them substantially from their original condition. destroying a people's cultural heritage at the same time you destroy their country + their lives so you can look good on a red carpet One Time i want to fucking hurl

[uhhhhmanda]

Zendaya’s The Odyssey premiere earrings spark ethics row

The earrings, worn by Zendaya at The Odyssey press tour, are believed to be 2,000-3,000 years old and come at a time when the US is bombing

An archaeologist quoted in the article says "the point of these earrings is not to showcase legitimate ancient artistry, it is to fetishize the past, to be a commodity, stolen from the elite, circulated illegally, and immorally…this is about class signalling."