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today i discovered the existence of the mangalica pig and i just have to share this treasure with you all

the sheer scale of khazad-dûm's existance is so unimaginable…! it existed longer than any elven realm in middle-earth (from what i know), it is older than the hobbits as a whole, it saw númenor rise and then sink back into the ocean. khazad-dûm was built by the literal first dwarf that awoke, it is older than the sun and moon. it encompasses nearly all of their existance. and it was brutally taken from them!! of course they want it back!!

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On September 2nd, 1973, J.R.R. Tolkien passed away, and this September 2nd is the 49th anniversary of his death. For me and many others, reading Tolkien’s books was a formative experience that sparked a lifelong passion for the world that he created. The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion, along with Tolkien’s other works, have been a constant source of delight, fascination, and inspiration for me. They have also been a comfort to me in hard times, and a place where I feel at home. It’s difficult to put into words just how much I love Tolkien’s mythology; it is deeply significant to me, and always will be. Thank you, Professor.

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It’s like that mafia crew that made a pizza joint as a front but their pizza was so good they just went legit

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me when I pop up on your dash

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Aimée & Jaguar.

… one single moment, so perfect, it would last a lifetime.

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most important scene in Miranda

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Oh, and me mammy said to tell you- Her big bowl. I know, I know. I keep forgetting. I’ll drop it round tomorrow. No, she said to hang on to it. What? She doesn’t want her big bowl back? But why? There’s nothing wrong with that bowl. Sure, I was admiring that bowl only yesterday. It’s a grand bowl. I’m just the messenger, folks.

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Person recording: “Say frog!”

Child: “Fuck.”

Person recording: “Say frog!”

Child: “Fuck!”

Person recording: “Frog!”

[Person offscreen giggles]

Child: “Fuck!”

[Person offscreen bursts into laughter]

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Look at that round face, I’m DYING.

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Let’s talk about Peggy Carter and Private Lorraine

In case you are wondering. This was Private Lorraine

Yes. This is Natalie Dormer. When we meet Lorraine it looks she has been working on the front lines for years . A very hard work especially for women

Now when she sees Captain America she decides to do this

Makes perfect sense right? After all most women and probably a big chunk of the men over there would love to take a bite out of the Capscicle. But I don’t believe that Lorraine is that reckless. After all they are in a room full of people and her boss is right behind the door. There are much smoother ways to hint that she is attracted to him and corner him later on if she just wanted some of the old red white and blue. Instead she went and outright made out with him right in the middle of the room. Why?

This is why

Look at this moment. Here she can hear the click of Peggy’s heels and yet she keeps making out with him until

They are caught by a murderous looking Peggy. I say that Lorraine did all this because she wanted Peggy to catch them. After all look at this satisfied expression here

So by now you are wonder what am I going on about? Am I trying to tell you that Lorraine was some kind of a bitch who just wanted to stick it to Carter? No my dear friends. What I am saying is that Lorraine and Peggy …..used to be together

Think about it. Lorraine was Philips’s secretary which means she would have spent a large amount of time with Peggy”s “Woman’s Woman “Carter who craves the company of women. They are both gorgeous and surrounded by men. It makes sense they would find each other

Until Peggy had to leave Lorraine behind to work on the supersoldier project. Something which Lorraine never forgave. So when she saw the man that Peggy left her for this was the perfect chance for revenge. She knew that Peggy was about to come in every minute now so she grabbed the man who took Peggy from her and went to town. She wanted to hurt Peggy to make her jealous.

So this expression here

is not that of a woman who is absolutely furious that her crush is making out with a random woman. This is the expression of someone who is furious at seeing her crush making out with her ex girlfriend

Seriously. Look at those two and tell me there wasn’t something there

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Something I find incredibly cool is that they’ve found neandertal bone tools made from polished rib bones, and they couldn’t figure out what they were for for the life of them.

Until, of course, they showed it to a traditional leatherworker and she took one look at it and said “Oh yeah sure that’s a leather burnisher, you use it to close the pores of leather and work oil into the hide to make it waterproof. Mine looks just the same.”

“Wait you’re still using the exact same fucking thing 50,000 years later???”

“Well, yeah. We’ve tried other things. Metal scratches up and damages the hide. Wood splinters and wears out. Bone lasts forever and gives the best polish. There are new, cheaper plastic ones, but they crack and break after a couple years. A bone polisher is nearly indestructible, and only gets better with age. The more you use a bone polisher the better it works.”

It’s just.

50,000 years. 50,000. And over that huge arc of time, we’ve been quietly using the exact same thing, unchanged, because we simply haven’t found anything better to do the job.

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i also like that this is a “ask craftspeople” thing, it reminds me of when art historians were all “the fuck” about someone’s ear “deformity” in a portrait and couldn’t work out what the symbolism was until someone who’d also worked as a piercer was like “uhm, he’s fucked up a piercing there”. interdisciplinary shit also needs to include non-academic approaches because crafts & trades people know shit ok

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One of my professors often tells us about a time he, as and Egyptian Archaeologist, came down upon a ring of bricks one brick high. In the middle of a house. He and his fellow researchers could not fpr the life of them figure out what tf it could possibly have been for. Until he decided to as a laborer, who doesnt even speak English, what it was. The guy gestures for my prof to follow him, and shows him the same ring of bricks in a nearby modern house. Said ring is filled with baby chicks, while momma hen is out in the yard having a snack. The chicks can’t get over the single brick, but mom can step right over. Over 2000 years and their still corraling chicks with brick circles. If it aint broke, dont fix it and always ask the locals.

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I read something a while back about how pre-columbian Americans had obsidian blades they stored in the rafters of their houses. The archaeologists who discovered them came to the conclusion that the primitive civilizations believed keeping them closer to the sun would keep the blades sharper.

Then a mother looked at their findings and said “yeah, they stored their knives in the rafters to keep them out of reach of the children.”

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Omg the ancient child proofing add on tho lol

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I remember years ago on a forum (email list, that’s how old) a woman talking about going to a museum, and seeing among the women’s household objects a number of fired clay items referred to as “prayer objects”. (Apparently this sort of labeling is not uncommon when you have something that every house has and appears to be important, but no-one knows what it is.) She found a docent and said, “Excuse me, but I think those are drop spindles.” “Why would you think that, ma’am?” “Because they look just like the ones my husband makes for me. See?” They got all excited, took tons of pictures and video of her spinning with her spindle. When she was back in the area a few years later, they were still on display, but labeled as drop spindles.

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So ancient Roman statues have some really weird hairstyles. Archaeologists just couldn’t figure them out. They didn’t have hairspray or modern hair bands, or elastic at all, but some of these things defied gravity better than Marge Simpson’s beehive.

Eventually they decided, wigs. Must be wigs. Or maybe hats. Definitely not real hair.

A hairdresser comes a long, looks at a few and is like, “Yeah, they’re sewn.”

“Don’t be silly!” the archaeologists cry. “How foolish, sewn hair indeed! LOL!”

So she went away and recreated them on real people using a needle and thread and the mystery of Roman hairstyles was solved.

She now works as a hair archaeologist and I believe she has a YouTube channel now where she recreates forgotten hairstyles, using only what they had available at the time.

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^^ THE PERSON MENTIONED HERE IS JANET STEPHENS!!

Here’s her YouTube channel with the recreated hair-styles

And the research she did got published in the Journal of Roman Studies (which is a big deal in the Classics world) “even though” she doesn’t have at least a Masters degree in the field.

[To give reference to the gate keeping in this field, she was, I think, only the second or so person without a PhD to be published in the history of the Journal]

But that’s the point, she knew hair and she knew her craft so well that when scholars had ridiculous theories and scoffed at her own, she went ahead and experimented and proved her theories right.

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I think talking about gate keeping in the context of an academic journal is misleading. These journals are peer-reviewed to make sure that the content of submitted articles is good, well argued, and says something significantly new. Usually you have to be an expert, not just in the broad field that the journal publishes, but the specific area of study that your paper addresses, to know whether the contribution is significant, new, and well-argued.

They’re not in the business of checking whether submitted have PhDs, but it honestly is the case that it’s very difficult to write something good enough, significant enough, and original enough to impress peer-reviewed, if you don’t. People with PhDs don’t get them for now reason. It’s very had to get the kind of knowledge and experience of researching in your chosen field any other way.

Which, to be frank, makes Janet Stephen’s achievement all the more impressive. She’s awesome! But it’s profoundly misleading to suggest that it’s simple snobbery and prejudice that keeps people without PhDs and Masters from getting published in top academic journals.

This shouldn’t undermine the general point that skilled craftspeople often have important knowledge that can fill in the gaps of academic study. I was going to reply to this post delighted that there were new additions I hadn’t seen before (I was aware of Janet Stephens and the bone leather tool, but not the others). It is very much the caee that you don’t know what you don’t know. And it’s awesome that archeologists and historians are now learning from knowledge exchanges like this.

But academic journals aren’t ‘gatekeeping’ just because people without MAs don’t usually get published. It is incredibly hard to have something new and worth saying in an academic context, MAs and PhDs ENABLE people to have that kind of knowledge and training, they’re not just badges that you wave at gatekeepers to get a pass through the gate.

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im cleaning out my phone and found that i have saved this tiktok no less than Five separate times

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serotinin administered

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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: public libraries are the only place where people are allowed to just exist in public anymore without spending money. Thank goodness they already exist and have for so long because they would be denounced as socialism if we tried to implement them now.