Hello Pretty-Pretty

Genuinely a redhead (though it's not my only trait). I am an archaeologist - I primarily work with Roman and Late Roman ceramics, currently working on an assemblage from Syria. Things which might pop up along the way: films from Britain, Classics, too much irl stuff, egregious gif use...

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[gingerahoy]

So my parents moved a load of furniture around in my room without particular forewarning and a very carefully placed pen drive which I put on my chest of drawers has disappeared. Completely. Just gone. All my Egyptian literature which was copied from library books... it’s all just gone. Poof. Disappeared.

I don’t know what I’m going to do. I’m going to have to tear everything apart to find it, I know it’s in this room somewhere. And if it isn’t, somehow... I am so fucked.

[gingerahoy]

My sister informed me last night that she was far more diverse than I was because she has an Indian friend and I couldn’t tell her to shut the fuck up because we were with guests.

She’ll never see this post, but sister, you are white and straight and very privileged. Please shut the fuck up.

[doctorwhogeneration]

[gingerahoy]

Today’s adulting...

Real adulting, to my mind, is calling your car insurance company to tell them you’re not renewing next year to pay more when you didn’t fuck up in the last twelve months, and politely inducing them to drop nearly a third off the extortionate amount of money they expected you to pay to keep your custom.

Fucking chancers.

[ruinedchildhood]

[wickedseahag]

gays! clean your room

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[gingerahoy]

So while I was away my mother inexplicably took it upon herself to sort out all my clothing into different drawers, completely changing my organisation system. She has consequently therefore definitely found my vibrator and I don’t know what to do with this situation except cry inside in transfixed horror. We’re certainly not going to talk about it.

FML.

[gingerahoy]

Good news!

I have recently been casually despairing over having too much to do and not sleeping properly until Christmas. I now have far, far less to do because the biggest job got taken off me, have kindly turned down writing another catalogue thank you very much (do I know anything about mosaics? I do not) and am now in the happy position of having only ‘a bit too much work’ to do.

In other words, wahay, I will sleep well tonight!

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[sideraclara]

do u ever feel like ur pulling an academic icarus flying too close to your deadlines on wings of deeply flawed time management

[gingerahoy]

I am watching Episode 3 of American Gods. My parents are in the room.

[galangrants-deactivated20210301]

questions the iliad is meant to inspire: 

how free are we really, as human beings, to make our own decisions?

where should the line be drawn between heroism and cruelty?

ought the quest for individual honor to be prioritized over the lives of others?

questions i have:

what accounts for the bro code dissonance of agamemnon stealing achilles’s girl when he’s literally leading an army in a war that was started because paris stole his brother’s girl?

is diomedes single?

to the nearest thousand, how many heart emojis would achilles text to patroclus in an average day if the technology were available?

[galangrants-deactivated20210301]

#diomedes is technically single cause when he gets back his wife is tired of him #so yes (via patbroklos)

“hey diomedes….heard you wounded two gods, what else can that spear of yours do”

[gingerahoy]

learning modern foreign languages: Hello. How are you? My name is Jack. Where is the bathroom?

learning ancient languages: Life is long and hard. Each day barbarians slaughter another member of my beloved family, and pirates, with all of our grain having been stolen, have left us to starve. Oh gods, would that you would make me one of those three and four times blessed men who already walk the muddy plains of Orcus!

[gingerahoy]

So there’s a pride event tonight my local town and I am going out.

An old school friend of mine who thankfully lives far away has apparently decided she’s some sort of queer sage and has informed us of what we must wear tonight and I have been graciously informed that flannel is apparently acceptable to the community and oh my god I am bemused and actually furious?

[stormbun]

I may not be an explorer, or an adventurer, or a treasure-seeker, or a gunfighter! But I am proud of what I am!

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[the-future-now-deactivated20170]

“You want to talk history, be prepared to be schooled.” (via)

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[lierdumoa]

If you don’t want to slog through a history textbook, you can read Cracked.com’s convenient listicle: 5 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About Ancient Civilizations