good grief!

❛ you told me not to think! ❜ 🪡 xiv || rae || she/they 🧵 ☀️ main || ao3 & wattpad 🌙

[hoeplessl0nging]

you know im such a fool for you / you got me wrapped around around your finger / do you have to let it linger

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[sovietnam]

[luna-azzurra]

FACIAL MICRO EXPRESSIONS FOR WRITERS <3

[frederickchiltonsdivacup]

I'm gonna go check on my WIP. just in case it wrote itself while I was gone. You never know.

[speciesbarocus]

Roman mosaic floor discovered under a vineyard in Negrar di Valpolicella, Veneto.

[birdsquirrel]

#something about this really gets to me #how if you get enough dirt on your floor it just becomes the ground #and eventually someone is trying to farm in your living room

[anxietyproblem]

[3liza]

love when im watching a documentary and im like "yep thats an egyptologist alright"

[3liza]

oh my god?

[3liza]

[rudjedet]

*hisses in Egyptologist*

So for those of you who don't know yet, this is Colleen Darnell, also known as The Vintage Egyptologist on Instagram where she goes full colonialist in 1920s/1930s clothing complete with pith helmets and using Egyptians both living and dead as props. (Not kidding: she takes Aesthetique™ photos in tombs.) She's married to John Darnell, who was formerly her professor and PhD supervisor at Yale, and it's quite a well-known scandal in Egyptological circles that the two were having an affair before and at the time of her working on that PhD. John, who was married during that affair, eventually divorced his wife and then married Colleen.

In the field, they're considered bad scholars. Beyond the Yale scandal, beyond the fact they're being ridiculously colonialist in the way they present themselves and their "vintage fashion" choices, which they will extend to wearing on actual digs in Egypt itself, their condescending attitudes bleed through in their scholarship. A scholarship that's mediocre at best to begin with, especially John's. However, because they (especially Colleen) have such a strong social media presence, they keep getting asked for docus or to serve as consultants for popular media (e.g. Jodi Picoult heavily consulted them for her novel The Book of Two Ways and whoof it shows), and most people won't question their fashion choices because "ohh aesthetic".

However, by far most Egyptologists severely dislike them for their academic dishonesty and refusal to acknowledge the loaded history behind their chosen mode of dress.

ETA to address some things I've seen in the notes: enjoying 1920s/1930s fashion on its own doesn't make you colonialist. It's the intersect between the choice of fashion and where to wear it - in this case in a professional setting, in a field with a colonialist history - as well as the overall attitude displayed towards the subject of study.

[urwendii]

Local Writer Shocked As She Realises Planned 'Short Fanfic' Is Turning Into Multi Chapters Plot Oriented Slow Burn Fanfic

[depraveddame]

[fairytwles]

it may take me a month to put out a chapter but at least im not using ai to write it.

it may take me a month to put out a chapter but at least im not using ai to write it.

it may take me a month to put out a chapter but at least im not using ai to write it.

it may take me a month to put out a chapter but at least im not using ai to write it.

it may take me a month to put out a chapter but at least im not using ai to write it.

IT MAY TAKE ME A MONTH TO PUT OUT A CHAPTER BUT AT LEAST IM NOT USING AI TO WRITE IT

[glassfrogforest]

[lunamonchtuna]

mad jealous of cold hearted people. like how does it feel to not carry the ache of everything in your chest?

[damselwrites]

Color Synonyms

White

also: pale; blanched; sallow; pallid; waxen; spectral; translucent; albino; 

Grey

also: dust; stone; pepper;  

Black

also:  coal; slate; dusky; ebon; shadow; murky; 

Tan

also: flesh; khaki; cream; tawny; 

Brown

also:  henna; russet; sepia; chestnut; cocoa; drab; bronze; 

Red

also: terracotta ; rouge; carmine;  fire-engine; ruddy

Orange

also:  pumpkin ; rust ; 

Yellow

also: sunny; amber; saffron; hay; straw; platinum; 

Green

also: viridescent; grass; jade; forest; 

Blue

also: turquoise; cyan; ultramarine; royal; aqua; aquamarine;

Purple

also: berry;  amaranthine;

Pink

also: flushed; candy; cherry blossom; petal pink ; 

—– source: http://ingridsundberg.com/

—–additional synonyms added by me

[dokudamitea]

well life just isnt fucking fair is it humpback whale 85

[dcvina-claires]

the crackship between shauna and a random side character with two lines that fans came up with a week ago as a joke actually becoming canon is the funniest thing to happen to any fandom ever

[partywithponies]

When the player character dialogue options in a game all suck:

[proxissima]

Bg3 dialogue, sometimes lmao

[hoeplessl0nging]

what’s the weirdest fic tag you’ve come across, i’ll start