Bascially a digital commonplace book

Archaeology PhD, personal blog pronouns they/he

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[miseducatedmelanicmuse]

Like a new friend!

[ichorknight]

driving my chevy to the levee today

[ichorknight]

what the fuck

[narcissa-black-supermacy]

i thought the “this is the face that launched a thousand ships, although now it would maybe be five-hundred.” line was just an internet joke but apparently that's a line Menelaus actually says in Nolan's Odyssey??

Not only that the language itself sounds straight out of a marvel forcibly funny haha moment, but Menelaus? The Menelaus who all thoughout human history, from Homer, to Sappho, to Euripides, to Virgil, to Shakespeare, to Brooke, to Barth; from Classical vases to Medieval poetry to Reinessance art, has been known as the man whose sword fell from his hands at the sight of his wife after 10 years apart?

"What joy for me to hold my wife" Menelaus?

"He flung the sword away, and kissed her feet" Menelaus?

"I believe all. I understand nothing. I love you" Menelaus?

"I have no fault to find; my wife, he daughter of Zeus and Leda, is mine again, she whom her brothers on their snow-white steeds, whilst torches blazed, made my happy bride, but gods removed her from my home." Menelaus?

The Menelaus who was picked out of the suitors by Helen herself? The Menelaus who couldn't kill a begging Trojan so his brother had to do it for him? The Menelaus who rescued Odysseus and got out Patroclus' body? The Menelaus who volounteered to fight Paris one on one so everybody could go home? Who kept expressing his guilt about himself being the cause of war through every assembly he spoke at in the Iliad? Who after 10 years away at Troy, took his wife through a 7-year long journey at sea back home, where he reinstated her as the queen of Sparta? Who wept like a child in front of Telemachus recalling the war and his brother and all the friends he lost and the only consolation being his wife' gentle hand on his?

You want me to believe that man scarred Helen's face and called her only worth half the ships because of it?

I'm actually physically sick just thinking about it.

[storynerd121]

so I just watched the odyssey movie....

and I made this within 5 minutes of returning. so I think that sums up my thoughts on it. (though im willing to rant more if ppl want it. cause I have COMPLAINTS)

[mothermara]

remember to bury the dead with a phone, everyone. these days the ferry terminal at the river styx wants you to download a fucking app

[finelythreadedsky]

#sooo would it be better for the phone to be fully charged or does it also have to be dead @h0wlcastle

hm by analogy to the ritual cancellation or 'killing' of items like swords, mirrors, or other metal objects in bronze/iron age burials by bending/folding/breaking them or (among the etruscans at least) inscribing them with "for the tomb," i do think the phone should also be dead. ideally also the screen should be very shattered so as to render it unfit for use by the living.

[nobrashfestivity]

James Abbott McNeill Whistler,  Nocturne in Black and Gold- The Falling Rocket, 1875. Oil on panel, 60.3 x 46.4 cm (23.7 x 18.2 in). Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit. Gift of Dexter M. Ferry, Jr.

[letoscrawls]

Solar eclipse from Tuscany, Italy :)

[dragongirlsweetie]

i do think oil executives should be considered mass murderers and treated as such. they knew this was going to happen

[homoerotisch]

louis xvi just before being beheaded saying "notre ancien régime est en train de s'effondrer"

[hope-for-the-planet]

How One Man Singlehandedly Repopulated a Rare Butterfly Species in His Backyard

Long gone from their home in San Francisco, the California pipevine swallowtail is back thanks to one man transforming his yard into a habitat for them The iridescent blue wings of the California pipevine swallowtail are considered by collectors to be among the most magnificent in North America. For centuries …

As the California pipevine plant was displaced from San Francisco by urban sprawl, the California pipevine swallowtail, which relies on the pipevine plant to feed its caterpillars, also disappeared. That is, until a biologist named Tim Wong made it his mission to repopuplate the species in his own backyard.

Armed only with a cutting of California pipevine from the San Francisco Botanical Garden, Tim created a screened in butterfly enclosure in his backyard and began to reproduce California pipevines.

As new butterflies were born, Tim would donate them to the San Francisco Botanical Gardens where their pipevine host plant could still be found.

“At first he brought them in by the hundreds. Now he brings them in by the thousands every few months.”

While most of us don’t have the power to create habitat for endangered rhinos or tigers, anyone with a little bit of outdoor space can help create habitat for endangered insects!

You can:

-plant a pollinator garden with native nectar-producing plants

-plant host plants of local butterfly species

-leave piles of fallen leaves or sticks in your yard as habitat for native bees

-avoid using pesticides (or use them as sparingly as possible) around your home and yard

“Improving habitat for native fauna is something anyone can do. Conservation and stewardship can start in your very own backyard.” -Tim Wong

[tridentandtales]

Greek terracotta relief plaque with Scylla

ca. 450 BCE

British Museum 1867,0508.673

[parkchanwoohoo]

This man's an expert

[dozingpeach]

PEER REVIEWED, THIS IS THE BEST POSSIBLE ADDITION

[icaseybaybee]

[wolfythewitch]

My piece for the Sing O Muse zine! Its coming out in July so keep an eye out for the tag :]

[1five1two]

[gaslit-dipshits]

Man at City Council Meeting Makes Devastating Case Against Proposed Local Data Center

A former programmer spoke up during a city council meeting in a small town in Ohio, making a well-articulated argument against data centers.