Let Me Tell You A Story

(Technically) an archaeologist, and an aspiring writer!

[firbolging]

the pride and prejudice musical we deserve:

darcy doesn’t sing a single note even during conversations where everyone else is singing at him that is until the argument following his first attempt at proposing to lizzy where you can see his restraint fall away

his first big solo is the letter he writes her

gelsey bell is mary and the unofficial narrator and she sits down at her piano to describe whats going on but before she can ever reveal her feelings on the matter, starting with that gelsey bell scream, mr bennet comes over and does the whole ‘that’s nice dear but give someone else a turn’

mr wickham has this huge ballad about how darcy ruined his life and its super melodramatic and touching

mr collins proposal to lizzy is an absolute bop that he gets so into he forgets for a moment what he’s doing he’s just owning the stage

wickham has a song where he’s trying to seduce lydia but she’s not even listening she’s just monologuing about how excited she is to get laid

during darcy’s second proposal he keeps hesitating waiting for lizzy to interrupt him like she has done every time before but she doesn’t say anything until he’s finished

at the end mary sits down at the piano and right where she’d usually be interrupted, kitty joins her and harmonises

 jane and bingley have the adorable upbeat romantic duet which is just them being super polite like ‘oh so nice to have you here’ ‘so nice to be here’ interspersed with their inner monologue which is just them being like fucking jesus I’m so in love

the bingley sisters probably have a really cool mean solo

lady catherine has this terrifying disney villain song in the garden

there’s for sure a song about ribbon shopping

[aidashakur]

“6 months from now I will be in a different situation.”

Speak it into existence.

[foxyj26]

A better situation

[yllwlotus]

A healthier, more peaceful, positive situation.

[softestbuckley]

[k-v-emrys-blog]

Me: If I think about it hard enough, it will write itself

My brain: ...um, see, that's not how it works, you have to actually-

Me: IF I THINK ABOUT IT HARD ENOUGH IT WILL WRITE ITSELF

[poiregourmande]

me: you’ve already used this exact turn of phrase two paragraphs ago, that’s too repetitive

me, an intellectual: if I use it three more times it becomes a motif

[undercitytwerkteam]

why is it always media that tries to be open and inclusive like steven universe, overwatch, dream daddy, that have the worst fanbases that run around telling eachother to kill themselves over inaccurate fanart and headcanon disputes

[karosiv-the-aura-rose]

Because they try to be progressive and sadly the majority (or at least a very very loud minority) of the “progressive” people are the most toxic and “hungry” people out there.

It’s impossible to satisfy them, nothing is “progressive” enough.

You give them an inch and they’ll rip your arm off and take a mile.

This is partly why most artists, producers, directors, etc, are so reluctant to make more progressive content. No matter what they do, they’ll receive colossal backlash, so they just stick to what they know, the safe route.

Ironic really, that those that demand progressiveness are inadvertently stunting it.

[rorytelling]

Hey if this post offends you you’re probably part of the problem

[greenekangaroo]

^ 

^^^^

Y’all want the whole damn cake now and you want to eat it too when we’ve just managed to mix the flour and the sugar. 

[tokyodoll13]

Emperor's New College

English Majors:

Architecture Majors:

Music Majors:

Engineering Majors:

Mathematics Majors:

Theater Majors:

Latin American Studies Majors:

Linguistics Majors:

History Majors:

Religious Studies Majors:

Law Students:

Chemistry Majors:

Women & Gender Studies Majors:

Anthropology Majors:

Sociology Majors:

Philosophy Majors:

Geology Majors:

Economics Majors:

Classics Majors:

Government Majors:

[sararaasch]

This movie is life.

[still-sane-still-human-deactiva]

that last one though

[leepacey]

I say, jolly good show, chaps. And did I panic? I think not.

[zombeesknees]

#the comic relief who is genuinely comic  #and who makes the ‘incompetent bufoon’ trope actually work as an endearing quality as originally intended  #well played movie - well played  #john hannah  #WHAT A FOX

[antivillain]

#but! BUT!!!#THE GREAT THING ABOUT JONATHAN#IS HE’S NOT INCOMPETENT#he can read ancient Egyptian albeit not as well as his baby sister#he clearly has an interest in archaeology if only for treasure-related reasons#he had to go through intensive schooling to get the sort of permit required#to even have digs of his own#WHICH HE CLEARLY DOES#on a dig down in Thebes#he says and Evie believes him#Jonathan reads from the Book of the Living and he’s an excellent shot with a rifle and is clearly a boxer#Jonathan is SO COMPETENT and SO IMPORTANT#while simultaneously being plucky comic relief without JUST being plucky comic relief#u get me?

[star-anise]

Jonathan, like Phryne Fisher, clearly hasn’t taken anything seriously since 1918.

[jkthinkythoughts]

And, I would suspect, for similar reasons.

[thebluemeany]

^^^This. Jonathan being in World War I makes total sense. It’s almost impossible for him not to have been. Given his age and background, he probably volunteered in 1914.  

Of course he’s going to not take anything seriously. Of course he can shoot. The drinking, the skittishness, the recklessness, the sense of ‘keeping your head down’, the scepticism about traditional heroism….

The one with more actual experience of death, carnage and fighting is Jonathan. Not Rick. Not Ardeth Bey. Jonathan.

When Rick says ‘I’ve had worse (situation/odds)’ and Jonathan replies “ Me too”. That’s probably true. 

Drop The Mummy into the real world context and that’s a character who’s going to have seen a lot of his school friends die, along with the myths and tales of heroism they were raised on. Sort of makes the line where Evie’s scolding him for drinking/messing about a lot darker…

Evie: Have you no respect for the dead? Jonathan: Of course I do, but sometimes I’d rather like to join them.

[gingersnapwolves]

I HAVE SO MANY FEELINGS RIGHT NOW

[deadcatwithaflamethrower]

*record scratch*

Wait a minute. Why is it being assumed that Rick and Ardeth wouldn’t have fought in WWI, as well? Johnathan isn’t that much older than any of them–in fact, there is a good chance that he, Rick, and Ardeth are all of an age. Just because Johnathan’s hair is thinning doesn’t mean he’s a decade older.

It was a LOT easier to lie about your age back in the day. So much easier.

Johnathan is the soldier who fought in WWI and became disillusionsed with pretty much everything except wanting to live (most of the time) and live well–and where is the shame in that? He would have seen some of the darkest shit humanity has to offer, and he kept going. And the thing is, though, archaeological digs at that time were DANGEROUS. Not from curses (usually) but from assholes who would turn up with guns to try and steal anything you discovered. Johnathan never really STOPPED having to deal with dangerous pricks, it was just less dangerous than death raining down from the sky in bomb, bullet, and mustard gas form all the time.

Rick grew up in Egypt as an orphan. What paperwork? He joined the French Foreign Legion, which fought in World War I in some seriously critical battles on the Western Front in Europe. Rick is the soldier who quickly grew disillusioned with everything, but he didn’t know how to stop being a soldier. Johnathan had a career and schooling to fall back on. Rick had guns, the talent of not dying easily, and not much else. When the army finally left him behind because he was literally the only survivor of his last FFL battle, he literally didn’t know what to do. At all. “Looking for a good time” was code for “Please someone give me a fucking purpose.”

Ardeth grew up in the desert. He probably never enlisted…but if you think his people didn’t fight against invading forces during WWI, think again: that region of North Africa was swarming with soldiers on both sides, and they alll tried to claim everything they stumbled over even while in the midst of fighting each other. Ardeth spent his entire life fighting to protect what belonged to him, what belonged to his people, and trying to keep assholes from stealing things that didn’t belong to anyone (for good reason). By the time the war was over, Ardeth was disillisioned in everyone except his own people, and seriously fucking done with stupid idiots who stole in the name of archaeology. He is completely (justifiably) resigned to the worst when Rick the Magic Survivalist returns to Hamunaptra.

[serpentine-sorceror-deactivated]

This has been another episode of “Actual History adding context and depth to character behavior”

[filthybonnet]

I love when “The Mummy” fandom comes out to play. But it’s even better when the history side of tumblr is also in “The Mummy” fandom.

[knottingthewind]

Every time this post comes around I am compelled to watch The Mummy again.

[tygermama]

This is the post that has my cross over loving heart convinced that Jonathan was there the day Diana walked across No Man’s Land and he became convinced nothing would ever truly surprise him again

Then there were the damn mummies

[ace-aro-fandroid]

So we got an Amazon Echo and we changed the wake word to “Computer” and now I feel like I’m on the Enterprise all the time. Additionally, whenever I watch Star Trek, she only responds to “computer” when Data says it and it’s kind of adorable. Not Picard, not La Forge, not Troi, not Dr. Crusher, not Riker. Not anyone but Data. The other night Data asked his Computer what the time was and my Computer told him it was 10:47. Watching Star Trek is even more fun now

[avianeurope]

Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus) >>by Steve Liffmann

[beautiful-wildlife]

Photo Series | ~ Snowstorm ~

Images by ©

• Pim Leijen

[eggcup-deactivated20180129]

kevin is a place on earth

[beautiful-wildlife]

Cross Fox by © Alessandro Catta

[petr1kov]

rest in fucking pieces, mr. darcy

[buckyonthelam]

paintedtapestry THIS SCENE

[lionlass7]

#imagine being a woman reading this for the first time and throwing her bonnet on#racing as fast as she can down the street to pound on her friend’s door#WHAT PAGE ARE YOU ON DEAR HELEN#NEVERMIND I SHALL SIT WITH YOU UNTIL YOU REACH IT#IT IS MOST DIVERTING (via buckyonthelam)

[stephrc79]

Well, I didn’t see THAT coming.

[lizziekeiper]

Still one of my favorite things on the internet. 

[goodinthestacks]

get him

[breelandwalker]

SLAAAAAY

[sodomymcscurvylegs]

I’M HOLLERING!

[happilyshanghaied]

Of course I’m reblogging this again.

[blackirisposts]

This is a thing of beautiful, that got even more beautiful. 

[beautiful-wildlife]

Sparrow by © sergey_polyushko

[beautiful-wildlife]

Better Run by © Steve McKinzie

[berry-bat]

“It’s their job to do that. You don’t have to say thank you”

[fifty-shadesofgay]

can we please have more aggressively polite memes in the world???

[k-v-emrys-blog]

"Do you believe in me?" she asked simply. "Do you believe I can save you?"

Get to know me meme (1/???): A character you love that you think no one else does --> Empress Modina Novronian (Thrace Wood) from The Riyria Revelations

I adore this series, and Thrace/Modina is easily my favorite character, her entire story is so incredible! She's introduced as an actual ball of sunshine, she hugs one of the most dangerous men in the world and he just lets her. She's also a badass, being the only person brave enough to leave her town to find someone to save it from an unkillable monster. She's a peasant but still clever, and smart enough to save up for her own dowry. And at the end, she is the one to kill the monster and is proclaimed divine empress.

My favorite thing is she's just so capable. She survives a horrible depression, loses her family, and just decides "the entire empire is my family now and you can pry it from my cold, dead hands." She upends a thousand(s) year old conspiracy and takes complete power. She allows herself to be called a demigod, and have her citizens worship her as if it were her due. The two times the heroes decide they should try to save her, she saves herself. Royce nearly kills her and she just goes "nbd, I know exactly what to do." She adopts a half-elven girl and names her as her heir despite knowing that her followers are deeply racist and this could cause unrest and everybody just accepts it. She rules with a gentle fist; completely and unapologetically, but with mercy and kindness.

Did I mention she was eighteen/nineteen throughout all this?

Despite all this awesomeness, I have NEVER seen a single Thrace/Modina post anywhere. I was so disappointed to find out the fandom doesn't love her like I do. But you'd best believe I'll be gushing over this character until my dying day!