Joseshin

Personal blog of Jo. My ramblings on anything and everything, but expect a lot of in depth fan nerding.  Blog is generally run on queue, 4 posts a night. She/her, demi-bisexual aromantic.  Buddhist, member of the SGI.  Foxes on banner made by the talented Sparkle

[intheheatherbright]

Costume. Chitons.

[intheheatherbright]

Marjorie & C. H. B.Quennell, Everyday Things in Archaic Greece (London: B. T. Batsford, 1931).

[killerchickadee]

Wait, wait…. Is that seriously it? How their clothes go?

[treewizarded]

that genuinely is it

[itwashotwestayedinthewater]

yeah hey whats up bout to put some fucking giant sheets on my body

[sourcefieldmix-deactivated20161]

lets bring back sheetwares

[hostagesandsnacks]

also chlamys:

and exomis:

[hidingthemane-deactivated201801]

trust the ancients to make a fashion statement out of straight cloth and nothing but pins

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

Wrap Yourself In Blankets, Call It a Day

[awhiffofcavendish]

Wear blanket. Conquer world.

[goys2men]

That last one looks dope

[moniquill]

Squares and rectangles: easy to weave!! No cutting means no hemming.

[hc-svnt-dracones]

And easy to construct, you don’t have to have complicated seaming and patterning to turn fabric into clothing!

[pendragyn]

ancient Egyptian robes

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

This sort of clothing solution wasn’t just for the Mediterranean, or northern Africa, either. Behold the Belted Plaid:

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[marlynnofmany]

Has anyone already reblogged this with saris? It’s cool how many cultures have similarities like this hidden in plain sight.

[tieras]

https://kalaavarsha.com/how-to-wear-or-drape-a-saree/

[deliciouswastelandgoddess]

The lungi is a traditional garment worn in many southern states of India. It's different from the dhoti, in that it is a tubular shape (like

Since we are here might as well share the dhoti and the lungi

https://www.wikihow.com/Wear-a-Lungi

https://www.wikihow.com/Wear-a-Pancha-Kachcham?amp=1

It’s only men in the photos but really anyone can wear them. I am wearing a lungi right now.

I also know Thailand and Sri Lanka have their versions of a lungi as well.

[assessthatdress]

[tree-of-blue-squirrel]

the desire to never leave the comfort of the bed, translated into fashion

[magnoliaswriteatsunset]

Part of me wants to try this while the other part of me knows I’ll just get tangled and need help getting out of the mess of fabric I made.

[withasideofshakespeare]

My favorite Shakespeare thing is when he writes a major plot point but just has someone tell us about it to save on special effects.

Hamlet gets kidnapped by pirates but we don’t see that part. It’s a letter.

The Oracle of Delphi shows up in the Winter’s Tale and rather than do all the special effects required to make that adequately supernatural, two guys come on stage and go “woah that was cool”

There’s a big storm on the night that Duncan is murdered and we learn about this when half the cast of Macbeth says “sure was stormy last night”

Shakespeare, the OG low-budget director taking the easy way out.

[awkward-bob-reynolds]

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

It's a lot healthier to go for a daily walk than to sign up for a gym membership you won't be using because you hate that kind of exercise. It's a lot healthier to eat a frozen meal than to skip a meal because you were too tired to cook something healthy. It's a lot healthier to take a quick shower than to procrastinate an elaborate routine for days. Don't aim so high that you won't be hitting anything!

[creamypancakebatter]

this is actually really helpful and affirming thanks

[breelandwalker]

[1969chevycamaro]

*in tears* Thanks kitty, I needed this...

[dickiesgrayson]

#IsBruceWayneBatman: a social media au | Part I

[crinosg]

I mean yeah this is exactly what would happen.

Batman has gone to great lengths to create the persona of “Bruce Wayne, upper class twit who could never be Batman.”

If Batman walked into the middle of Gotham Square and pulled off his mask and yelled “I, Bruce Wayne, am Batman!” The Headline would be “Bruce Wayne gets drunk at costume party, driven home by Commissioner James Gordon.”

And on that ride home:

Gordon: You are such a piece of shit you know that right? One of these days that’s not gonna work.

Bruce: *With the biggest shit eating grin ever* I know Jim, but it never stops being funny.

Gordon: So…. out of curiosity, how much money did Ollie lose to you this time?

Bruce: A gentleman never tells Jim, besides, its not about the money, its about the satisfaction of being right….. and the look on his face.

Gordon: Nice.

[jeeperso]

and you just know Alfred has a veritable host of “embarrassing early morning bruce” pics and video raring to go, like after a “skiing accident” to cover up a particularly nasty bat-injury in the line of duty

“I’m fine Alfred.”

“If you are, then prove it by putting on your socksies by your self.”

(source is Harley Quinn season 2, episode 5, but I can see this as part of Dave Willis’ “Happy Bruce” headcanon

[crinosg]

I think the villain reactions would be priceless as well.

Two Face: Look I was friends with Bruce for years. He’s a nice guy, but doesn’t have the brains God gave a fiddler crab. He’s not Batman.

Riddler: I can confirm this. I took him and his board of directors hostage once. He tried to write me a check and got the check wrong. Four. Times. He had to ask his guy Lucius Fox to do it. It was just plain awkward for everyone involved.

Poison Ivy: Bruce is what we in the business call a Himbo, great to look at, a real sweetheart, but not much going on upstairs. I guarantee he’s not Batman.

Penguin: I’ve had Bruce Wayne as a guest at the Iceberg lounge before. Nice guy, excellent tipper, complete and utter moron. If he’s Batman I’ll eat my umbrella.

Joker: What? Oh yea of course Bruce Wayne is Batman. I mean obviously right?

Rest of the villains:……

Joker: Wait, you mean you guys didn’t know? I figured it out like the first day.

Penguin: You…. you’re joking right.

Joker: Penguin you will KNOW when I am joking. Seriously. No one else figured it out. No one. Just me. You guys are dumbasses.

Riddler: *Pinches bridge of nose* Okay…. so if Bruce Wayne is Batman, and you KNEW this the whole time, why not just KILL BRUCE WAYNE?

Joker: *As serious as a heart attack* because I’m not fighting Bruce Wayne, I’m fighting Batman. Obviously.

Riddler: Goddammit I hate you so much Joker. So fucking much. I can literally taste how much I hate you.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

“Bruce Wayne….why are you dressed up like Batman?”

Max Schreck in Batman Returns after watching Batman do a bunch of Batman things then take off his Batman mask to reveal Bruce Wayne underneath it

[grctw]

Two-Face: So, you’re telling me you knew Batman’s real name all this time and you didn’t kill him!

Joker: Bruce Wayne isn’t his real name. Not any more than what the called me before my chemical cannonball is my real name. I’m the Joker. He’s Batman. And I don’t want to kill him. I want to make him laugh.

Poison Ivy: You do understand that’s never going to happen, right?

Joker: Well, I have to keep trying. Just like he has keep trying to stop me. Over and over. Day after day. Forever. The struggle itself is enough to fill my heart. After all…

*the Joker smiles a wide insane smile*

…we must imagine Sisyphus happy!

[chapelseed]

Clark Kent: Bruce Wayne? As the Batman? *rubs the back of his neck awkwardly* Look, I met Bruce back when his car broke down around our farm when we were like… nine? It was after his folks died, and Pa might have said his butler told him he was still broken up about it… anyway, he kinda tried to play ball, but… heh, he never landed a hit. Even now, he always swings out at the Planet/Wayne Baseball game. So the Batman? Not really sure what that caught on from…

[itsupermanti]

Oliver Queen: HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Bruce Wayne?! The Batman?! Yeah right! The man too busy trying to keep his small army of crazy kids from destroying his manor spends his nights jumping across the Gotham rooftops? What next? You’ll tell me that Vale thinks Ted Kord is the freakin Blue Beetle!

[howlingday]

Catwoman: Bruce Wayne? Hardly. Batman is tall, dark, and brooding. Bruce Wayne is squeamish, naive, and easy. The differences couldn’t be any clearer.

Catwoman: Yes, I’ve been seen with the mboth, but what can I say? I’m the kind of girl who likes to have it all.

[orteil42]

the past is often infantilized, yet we stand on the shoulders of giants. inflation notwithstanding, older video games were often as big productions, if not bigger, than their modern counterparts. Pong (1972): $340 million budget, 172 person team. Asteroids (1979): $1.5 billion budget, 791 person team

[alunaloverworld]

[maythray]

walking into a fandom tag and leaving with 10 new users added to my block list

[sourdough-seal]

bingewatching will never come close to bingereading. there is nothing like blocking out the entire Earth for ten hours to read a book in one sitting no food no water no shower no bra and emerging at the end with no idea what time it is or where you are, a dried-up prune that's sensitive to light and loud noises because you've been in your room in the dark reading by the glow of a single LED. it's like coming back after a three-month vacation in another dimension and now you have to go downstairs and make dinner. absolutely transcendental

[important-animal-images]

[luna-azzurra]

FACIAL MICRO EXPRESSIONS FOR WRITERS <3

[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

[aru]

Tumblr Code.

[geekishchic]

If I ever see any of you in public, the code is “I like your shoelaces”

that way we know we’re from tumblr without revealing anything

I’m just going to say this to strangers until i find a tumblr person

must keep reblogering!! Im going to be so suspicious if any one tells me this now!

Remember the answer is: I stole them from the president.

always reblog tumblr identification

[ty-bayonet-betteridge]

good god this just crossed my dash in the year of our lord 2023

[jeremysknoxes]

I LIKE YOUR SHOELACES??? IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 2024??

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Let’s take it to 4 million, folks!

[alt-menu]

almost there!

[sociallyodd260]

TO 4 MILLION!!!!!!!!!

[snarky-wallflower]

THE ORIGINAL SHOELACES POST?? ON MY DASH IN 2024??

[nerugiganon]

shoelaces. on your dash. in 2025.

[fanfic-obsessed]

Now seen in 2026

[hellpotter]

it’s not weird to find fanfiction from 2021, or 2017, or 2014 that you’ve never read and actually taking your time to read it.

it’s not weird to love it and comment and leave kudos because the author will probably still see it someday and it will make them happy.

it’s not weird to like said author’s work so much that you want to go look for other fics from them.

it’s not weird to go through the authors profile and look for other fics from the ships you like (or maybe some that you’ll give a chance because you liked the author) and maybe bookmark them for later.

it’s not weird to read these other fics and like them too and comment on them because you actually like them and you want to let the author know.

it’s not weird to read fanfiction from 5, or 8, or 10 years ago and actually enjoy and engage with it because it’s perfectly normal to relate to something that’s less than a decade old!

let’s stop treating fanfiction like they’re instagram posts that stop being interesting in 24 hours! fanfiction is NOT social media, fanfiction is art!!! and art doesn’t get old in one day, one year, or even a decade!

read fanfiction! write fanfiction! comment on fanfiction! let’s not let fanculture die people!!!!!

[lurkinglurkerwholurks]

[crystallizedtwilight]

whoops

[knottahooker]

#when you set out for revenge dig two graves#unless you’re hamlet#in which case you’re going to want to rent a backhoe (x) YOU’RE NOT LEAVING THAT IN THE TAGS BUDDY

[joseshin]

Alright, give me a minute to organize my thought process. We need a new version of translated works.

After listening to Epic: the musical concept album, I wanted to go back and read the Odyssey, which was actually my introduction to Hellenic mythology(thank you Wishbone). But the problem I had when faced with multiple options online/via my local library was that none of them would show me the nuance I wanted.

I do not read Greek in any form, my primary language is English, but my mother is a native Japanese speaker, and while I'm not what I would call fluent, I can order a meal and use the help of online dictionaries to not be helpless when we travel to visit her family. She also does some translation work, which she sometimes asks me to check when it's going from Japanese to English, so I understand that literal translations do not always flow well, and artistic translations can miss the full meaning. We actually worked together one year doing translation work for a college study where we did different parts of the transcription, there was lots of discussion on literal vs what people meant.

I want a 3 column translation to become the norm. I want to see the first column to be the original words as intended by the creator. The second column to be a literal transcript, full of translator notes on word choice, footnotes with cultural context, etc. Third is the artistic interpretation, a flowing script that rolls of the tongue when read aloud and carries the essence of the original.

TLDR; mathematics has to show work, I want to see the same from linguistics.

[writing-prompt-s]

"No... impossible! That spell should have driven you insane!" "Buddy, lookie here. I AM insane."

[joseshin]

Hi Deadpool