Life of a University Student

Stuff involving writing,art, video games and some anime thrown in just for fun. Archaeology and history stuff has been moved to new blog http://letsfindsomerocks.tumblr.com/

[masksalesman]

Steampunk Spiderman characters ~ by Denis Medri

great stuff he also has a set of Batman ones here and here

[prismsgalaxy]

[ellenripleysbelieveitornot]

Shut up. I needed a kitten stealing a pancake on my blog.

[thetrashiestoftrash]

Honestly, if you don’t need a kitten stealing a pancake on your blog, it had better be because you already have a kitten stealing a pancake on your blog.

[daddys-little-pup-deactivated20]

Always reblog pancake kitten thief.

[bible-of-fun]

[wolverinequeen]

I asked my boyfriend in Canada once, how he deals with polar bears because I was curious about what to do and he was like, just be calm, let them know you’re there, and give them space and they’ll usually just go away. 

[ethanredotter]

In Finland on the other hand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7_pVrIshxA

[wolverinequeen]

Lmao Finland Man ain’t taking shit from bears.

[official-sachsen-anhalt]

PERRrrRrrRrKELE

[ask-finny]

((Two kinds of people))

[smolpocketmonstercoffee]

@imfunnydamit

[archaeologistproblems]

Hello! I have a degree in anthropology but I never had an archaeological theory class. What’s the issue with Binford? Why do we all hate him?

Probably everyone’s reasons for hating him are slightly different, but for me it’s this: Lewis Binford is behind Processual archaeology (”The New Archaeology” or “Processualism”), which was at its heart the movement to make archaeology into a harder science by quantifying rather than qualifying everything about our research. Now, that sounds kind of okay on the surface. We’re scientists, we want the kind of scientific results that we can demonstrate and reproduce again and again. But Processualism has also been quite harmful to our progression as a discipline. We can’t quantify why people do what they do; not really. We’re more than just a formula, as individuals and as cultures. A lot of things about archaeological material is better qualified or described instead of placed into tables of numbers.

I had a classmate when I did my M.A. in England who had graduated from a university in the U.S. (can’t remember which or this would be a call-out post frankly). During his undergrad years he had been trained exclusively in the now-very-outdated Processual school of thought. Super smart guy, but talking to him about archaeological theory was surreal because it was like someone built a brick wall in his mind and said “you can interpret data this way and no other way.” This is Binford’s legacy. What should have been a framework of interpretation became a prison of numbers and tables.

Archaeological theory moved from there into “post-processualism,” which really swung too far the other way as a reaction, and everything got pretty subjective, nebulous, and emotional (Chris Tilley I’m side-eyeing you right now). We’re now in what an old professor of mine jokingly called “post-post-processualism,” where we try to strike a balance and try to make our results repeatable and demonstrable while still allowing room for human weirdness and emotion. It’s not perfect, but we’re working on it!

I hope that makes sense. Other archaeologists, feel free to add your interpretations, in true archaeological theory fashion!

[archaeologistproblems]

The tags on this post are pure gold:

[howtodreamofdragons]

How can you mention Post Processual and not talk about the stories of Ian Hodder making students sit in holes and think about how they feel.

[archaeo-geek]

Bahahaha! I hadn’t heard that one before but I 100% believe it.

[icecollectivebouquet-deactivate]

Dolce & Gabbana Alta Moda F/W 2019

[dragon-in-a-fez]

sorry what

[dragon-in-a-fez]

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

That header photo doesn’t do the dragon justice. (For shame!). Here’s NASA’s own photo:

(Source [Because NASA is funded by taxpayer money, all their images are public domain, BTW])

[arch-tempered-yian-garuga]

THE TIME HAS COME

[bioluminosity]

he is here 

[radhakawaii]

Reblogging for THE ART HOLY SHIT

[plagued-by-visions]

Dragon is cool yeah but “hole in the sun” ?????

[counttoatrillion]

The “hole in the Sun” is a dramatic way of saying “sunspot”. Still, cool.

[thecollectibles]

Pen and Ink drawings by Luke Eidenschink

[brokensmolders]

#come through baba

[im-god-now-fight-me-deactivated]

Hey guys if you haven’t this movie its called The Breadwinner and last I checked it could be streamed off of Netflix. It’s an amazing film about a girl who disguises herself as a boy in order to provide for her family, who is living in Afghanistan during a dangerous political climate. It’s beautifully animated and incredibly well-written. Me and my younger sister (she is ten years old) thoroughly enjoyed it. So did my mom and dad when we watched it with them later. 

[bloodytales]

It is based on a book of the same name. I read the book when I was in Elementary school. It is great. I also encourage you ne read it.

[gaphic]

It’s also made by the studio responsible for Song of the Sea and Secret of Kells, both of which are phenomenal. Unfortunately they also weren’t very profitable. These people really deserve a lot more recognition for their amazing, beautiful work, and if you think so too you should definitely keep your eye out for their upcoming project, Wolfwalkers 

[deleteduser-mchnsthnk-deactivat]

The idea of ‘Feral Scientist’ is just so Fucking Funny to me, like ‘i just found this dude on the side of the road muttering about quantum physics is it rabid’ like thats just any scientist 

[wetwareproblem]

Adopt, don’t buy! In the current environment of anti-intellectualism and austerity, many labs are simply abandoning their scientists. These strays are full of love for the right home! They might be timid and shy at first, but show them some love and before you know it they’ll be curled up in your lap telling you about their research. You’ll never find a friend as dedicated and loyal as a rescue scientist.

[archaeologistproblems]

But please be aware that certain species of archaeologists, geologists, and palaeontologists can and do thrive in the wild! Some may enjoy being adopted into a loving home but others are best left feral, as they cannot be fully house-trained and will insist on bringing dirt and mysterious rocks into your home on a near-daily basis.

[chaotic-archaeologist]

Also, if you do decide to adopt an archeologist, please make sure it has ample dirt to dig in and a trowel.

[midden-maiden]

My roommate gave me this

She is a responsible archaeologist caretaker

[chasing-asterion]

Please note that Astronomers and most Physicist species are nocturnal.

Botanists and agronomists require routine and regular exercise, suited best as working scientists in rural areas.

Social Sciences species do well in pairs and but are prone to anxiety. Be mindful with small children as loud noises can startle them.

To offer sufficient enrichment for Geologists, I recommend sandboxes with items to find (not the same as a litterbox.)

[datsmeyellin]

every culture has their ethnic donut and every culture has their ethnic dumpling… humans be frying dough

[sindri42]

Every culture also makes a sword. If they got metal they make a sword, if they don’t have metal they take obsidian or shark teeth or whatever it is that they’ve got and they make that into a sword.

Coincidence? I think not.

[gordon-freeman-official]

2 constants in all civilizations:

Tasty Fried Food

Danger Murder Sticks

[ginger-le-gay-deactivated202008]

World building tip: the bare bones of all civilizations are fried dough and sharp things.

[earlgraytay]

Also: dramatic and ornate hats.

as soon as people have the resources to do so they will put gaudy brightly-coloured things on their heads, so help them

[roguecampingrainstorm]

Fried dough, murder sticks, and ostentatious headwear. I like it.

[volcainist]

Goalkeepers’ balls get photoshopped into cats.

[milkchocolatepuppies]

This is so natural. Like i didn’t question it

[comicherald]

Into The Spider-Verse concept art

[millersix]

concept: casual lgbt+ representation

a man taking off his shirt to reveal a binder underneath. he settles down, has a beer, watches tv. no tragic backstory about his transition, no negativity. just a trans dude being a trans dude. 

a businesswoman talking on her cellphone while she stops by the pharmacy to pick up her estrogen.

people asking for pronouns without a second thought, using they/them even when the person isn’t in the room.

a woman getting hit on at a club, getting respectful responses when she says she’s ace. 

two men holding hands, three women in a healthy polyamorous relationship. a pan man living with his nonbinary datefriend. 

romcoms, sitcoms, slice-of-life stories.

not everyone is cishet; media should represent that. 

[musicforyourplants]

[boy-matt-deactivated20181204]

*slams reblog*

[ariesaav]

Klezmer dolphins.

[willcub-deactivated20180521]

I don’t know that I’ve reblogged anything faster in my entire tumblr life.  

[jheselbraum]

I want to know the story behind this?

Like. Look at the movement of the water. The color. They’re not in a tank. That’s the motherfucking ocean. Or at least, a large closed off area in the ocean. The man in the video is on some sort of raft.

But those dolphins know the dude well enough to beach right next to him, and while I’m no expert in dolphin-ese, I know enough to make a pretty solid guess that those dolphins are trying to communicate with that clarinet (dolphins have their own languages! And I think the fast, lilting notes of the song combined with the clarinet’s natural sound mimics a dolphin’s clicks and chirps pretty well, all things considered)

So what in the Sam Heck is going on here???

[vladtheunfollower]

@tariqah

[tariqah]

Me and me cats

[shitfridge]

the dolphin: ur mom ur mom ur mom ur mom ur mom ur mom ur mom ur-

[james-winston]

The Titanoboa, is a 48ft long snake dating from around 60-58million years ago. It had a rib cage 2ft wide, allowing it to eat whole crocodiles, and surrounding the ribcage were muscles so powerful that it could crush a rhino. Titanoboa was so big it couldn’t even spend long amounts of time on land, because the force of gravity acting on it would cause it to suffocate under its own weight.

[laurdlannister-kingslayer]

I’m so glad they aren’t around

[vitressence-deactivated20150307]

omg me too. I’m scared enough of 26 ft long anacondas. I’m so happy Megalodons, those giant sharks, aren’t alive either

[laurdlannister-kingslayer]

Praise natural selection

[poppypicklesticks-blog]

I remember watching Walking with Beasts or something similar, or some British tv show about evolution

The subject was something like a 12 foot long water scorpion

I was so startled by its sudden appearance and narration that I yelped: “12 fucking feet?!?!  I’m fucking glad it’s extinct!” 

[silvermoon424]

Dude, prehistory was home to some fucking TERRIFYING creatures. For some reason, everything back then was enormous and scary. Extinction doesn’t always have to be a bad thing!

And Poppy, what you saw was an arthropod known as Pterygotus (it was actually featured in Walking With Monsters). Not only was it as big (or maybe even bigger) than your average human, it had a stinger the size of a lightbulb. REALLY glad that bugger isn’t around anymore.

Also, Megalodon deserves to be mention again, because just hearing its name makes me want to never be submerged in water ever again.

[sashayed]

GOD, I HATE THIS POST. HOW DO WE EVEN KNOW THAT SHIT ISN’T STILL AROUND? LURKING? EVOLVING? WE DON’T. WE DON’T KNOW SHIT ABOUT SHIT DOWN THERE. THE OCEAN IS A PRIMEVAL HELLSCAPE NIGHTMARE AND WE ALL JUST DIP OUR STUPID FRAGILE UNPROTECTED FETUS BODIES AROUND THE EDGES OF IT LIKE THAT’S NORMAL. FUCK THE OCEAN.

[honey-andrevolution]

this is so relevant to my interests 

[siphersaysstuff]

It wasn’t just the predators. North Carolina was once home to giant ground sloths…

THAT IS A GODDAMNED LEAF-EATING SLOTH.

We’ve got a skeleton of one of these fuckers at the museum downtown, and man, just being NEAR it is unsettling.

[anneriawings]

DON’T FORGET PREHISTORIC WHALES, SOME OF THOSE FUCKERS WERE TERRIFYING

AMBULOCETUS WAS AMPHIBIOUS AND PRETTY BADASS

BASILOSAURUS WAS THIS GIANT REPTILIAN CETACEAN THAT PROBABLY SWAM LIKE A DUMB EEL BECAUSE OF ITS TINY FLUKES BUT THIS FUCKER WAS 60 FEET LONG AND AT THE TOP OF THE MARINE FOOD CHAIN

AND THEN THERE’S MY FAVORITE, ZYGOPHYSETER, WHICH WAS THIS HUGE EARLY SPERM WHALE THAT ATE SHARKS AND OTHER WHALES

IT WAS NOTHING BUT TEETH

[gallizfrey]

The reason why the animals in the prehistoric times were so big was because there was much more oxygen in the atmosphere if I recall correctly. Because there was so much oxygen and so few carbon gasses, life on earth was able to grow to terrifying lengths and heights, don’t forget how giant the bugs were.

[shabbytigers]

I have never seen so much prime nope in a single post

[ororomunroedontpullout]

Also important to note that megalodon is theorized to still be alive,possibly living in the darkest depths of the ocean. They haven’t found signs of its extinction

[king-of-the-edge]

scientists: “we haven’t seen a megalodon in quite some time now, let’s just hope it’s exstinct”

[aninactivebloggfgfgf]

This whole post is my JAM not gonna lie I am fascinated by massive prehistoric animals

[spacekatnaps]

All the nopes that ever noped in nopeland

[perhapsarat]

there will never be another headline that comes close to comparing with this

[thegirlinthemagicalbluebox]

@chrishansenfromdatelinenbc

[sunshinetrooper-deactivated2016]

black and asian vikings 100% definitely existed (also, saami vikings)

you know how far you can get into eurasia and africa by sailing up rivers from the baltic and mediterranean seas? pretty fucking far, and that’s what vikings liked to do to trade

then, you know, people are people, so love happens, business happens, and so ppl get married and take spouses back home to the frozen hellscape that is scandinavia (upon which i’m guessing the horrorstruck new spouses went “WHAT THE FUCK??? FUCKING GIVE ME YOUR JACKET???????”)

and sometimes vikings bought thralls and brought them home as well, and i mean, when your indentured service is up after however many years and you’re a free person again, maaaaaaaaaaaaybe it’s a bit hard to get all the way home across the continent, so you make the best out of the situation and you probably get married and raise a gaggle kids

so yeah

viking kingdoms/communities were not uniformly pure white aryan fantasy paradises, so pls stop using my cultural history and ethnic background to excuse your racist discomfort with black ppl playing heimdall and valkyrie

[shrewreadings]

Also we KNOW they got to Asia and Africa. 

Why?

Because Asians, Africans, and Vikings TOLD US SO. 

[note-a-bear]

Also, we know there was significant mercantile trade between Scandinavia and parts of Pakistan, Afghanistan, Northern India, Kashmir, North and Eastern Africa because there is evidence in burial sites.

Check that out: the goods Vikings and Scandinavians were getting from their trade with the rest of the world was so important they buried themselves with it, as part of their treasure hordes.

We KNOW this.

There’s a reason you can still see many of the trade routes from the ancient world etched into the very earth.

[prokopetz]

Plus, we know that some Scandinavian cultures that participated in Viking raids had established minority communities of ethnically Mongolian folks living among them during the periods when such raids were common, and it’s difficult to credit that none of them would have signed on.

[hogna-lenta-deactivated20160930]

Islamic Ring in Viking Grave

Vikings in Persia

Black Vikings

Vikings in North Africa

Buddha statue in Viking hoard

Vikings brought Native American woman to Europe

Unflattering texts in Arabic about Vikings

Original text by Ahmad ibn-Fadlan

More about the Islamic World and Vikings (some Vikings converted to Islam! sort of sketchy site tho)

Viking technology came from Afghanistan

More on trade route determination via metallurgy

… is that enough? :)

[queer-wizard-dad]

Yet another on the pile of reasons why it monumentally honks me off when pusillanimous, pseudointellectual white supremacist scum try to use Scandinavian culture as a crutch for their arguments and act like Norse mythology agrees with their biases. No it fucking doesn’t, bitch. Odin would personally kick you in the dick for being a witless coward and then send your ass to the Realm of the Dishonored Dead.

[armory-rasa]

I don’t usually reblog stuff, but this thread makes me so happy. See, I love the Viking aesthetic – I love the fusion of organic and geometric in its designs, I love the natural colors, the complexity of textures you get from juxtaposing metal/leather/cloth/fur–

–and I hate how the entire subculture has been so thoroughly co-opted by white supremacists. To the point where I, a person who likes viking stuff, am deeply and immediately suspect of anyone else who likes viking stuff, guilty until proven innocent, cuz that’s what the odds are these days.

Anyway.

As far as I’m concerned, anyone can be a viking, and thus I am so, so pleased to find that the historical record backs me up.

(And amused that Arab intellectual Ahmad ibn Fadlan was so thirsty for vikings.)