CrazyYoungButOldCatLady

These are just things I like, find funny, beautiful, interesting, etc. Studying archaeology in college

[literatureaesthetic]

Let's be honest, reading books and buying books are two completely different hobbies.

[lloerwyn-deactivated20201104]

Oh to be the man in these stock photos...

[dykejokerr-deactivated20220726]

You guys are totally missing the best pictures from actual mycologists

[lloerwyn-deactivated20201104]

All That the Rain Promises and More! I have this book and I love it. It's so full of joyful pictures of people and mushrooms:

[viinnttaaggee]

goofiness is so attractive to me. If you can keep me laughing , you got me forever

[hell0-there-lady]

others: “so, how ~southern~ are you?”

me: “The entrance of my hometown has a shrimp boat sitting in the main street. At Christmas theres a shrimper Santa and alligators pulling him instead of reindeer.”

others: “what?!”

me:

[ayellowbirds]

this is  the only xmas content i want to see, fuck everything else. Shrimper Santa and his flying albino alligators 

[alwaysnewdepths]

Being weird together in museums is a love language

[hydro-homies]

“Drink water you dehydrated bitch.”

- William Shakespeare

[alwaysthewindneverthebird]

if she’s your girl what’s she doing in the catacombs unearthing my bones???

[catchymemes]

[fyeahlilbit3point0-blog]

On NPR they were talking to this guy who specializes in created languages, who does all the languages for like Game of Thrones, Penny Dreadful, and a bunch of sci-fi and fantasy movies.

I applauded when the interviewer asked the guy if he ever considered using obscure native languages because “It’s not like anybody would notice,” and he scoffed like “Are you asking me if I’m gonna take someone’s cultural heritage and ascribe it to aliens or demons or elves? Because the answer is no.”

[lizawithazed]

every linguist I’ve ever met would be properly horrified by this suggestion.

[art-thropologist]

Good.

[salomi]

Bust of Aphrodite

Roman bust of goddess Aphrodite.

- Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

[tomasorban]

[haysillustrations]

A portrait of Kiera-Rose’s cat that I worked on in my spare time. I mainly get asked to do dog portraits, so I wanted to practice working on a cat’s features.

If you’re interested in your own portrait, please feel free to message me! 

[haysillustrations]

Work in progress of a beautiful silvery princess 👑🐈✨

[muchymozzarella]

Please reblog this even if you don’t care

They’re trying to erase the existence of the rape victims of Japanese soldiers in World War II because they think the reminder of their crimes might make Japan a little bit cross

Duterte, the absolute coward, is more worried about women criticizing him than actually honoring the women this country needs to remember

Please don’t let these women be silenced.

[roaringstream]

I’ve been trying to leave Rome for a few weeks now, but all their roads have this weird design flaw

[barefootdramaturg]

For some reason, it never occurred to me that Project Gutenberg would have public domain old cookbooks. This is BRILLIANT. There’s a 1953 cranberry recipe pamphlet and a suffrage cookbook from 1915 and a translation of Apicus’s guide to food in Imperial Rome and a whole bunch of other fascinating old cookbooks, many pre-1800. Treasure trove!

[optimysticals]

I love you for sharing this!!!

[ferrific]

For more old cookbooks, Michigan State University has 76 of their historical cookbooks scanned and searchable at Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project.

[hsavinien]

For even older recipes, check out Gode Cookery.  They list medieval and Renaissance cooking instructions and translate the recipes for you into measurable amounts and all.

[runecestershire]

I have have have to mention Miss Leslie. I learned so much about cooking from that book, even if a lot of it is outdated.

Also, Forme of Cury is great fun, if you can muddle through the Middle English (Gode Cookery has translations and adaptions of some of the recipes from this).

[sca-nerd]

Can confirm that Gode Cookery is brilliant.

[geekghoulsmash]

Don’t forget about Townsend’s on YouTube, 17th and 18th century American cooking channel.

[unreconstructedfangirl]

Aw yeah.

[telesilla]

I have a cooking/housekeeping book from 1887 that belonged to my great-great aunt. It’s fascinating.

[2-octopuses-in-a-trenchcoat]

Also the Early Modern Maritime Recipes database has recipes from early settlers on the canadian east coast. It includes food recipes and medicine ones.

[chaotic-archaeologist]

Michigan State University also regularly sells historic menu items from our food truck!

[nevver]

Minatures in front of their monuments