𓍊𓋼𓍊𖡼.𖤣𖥧𖡼.𖤣𖥧𓋼𓍊

27. Sanguine. INTP. love yourself you're beautiful welcome to the soft discourse *screams in asexual*

[lets-get-rekt]

I might be high but platypus is actually a genius design. eggs AND milk, beak AND fipper tail, fur AND webbed feet. mamal AND venomous. its the whole package

[silvaurum]

"man im sick of getting yelled at across the house like a kid when someone wants something from me" -> "hey why the fuck is it normal to talk to kids like that anyway. why would you disrespect anyone by yelling for them several rooms away and expecting them to jump up on command to see what you want when it's not an emergency. that's so fucking rude."

[silvaurum]

you can't come over to me to speak at a speaking volume and ask if i'm busy? you can't send me a message or give me a heads up ahead of time if you want help later? you gotta scream my 'name' across the house and impatiently wait for me to jump up? you're calling me like a servant and getting mad if i'm not fast enough when i don't know what you want or how time sensitive it is or whether i was busy or whether i could hear you? im supposed to be listening for your back and call all fucking day just in case???

[two-thirtyy]

Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

Look buddy, i’m just trying to make it to Friday.

[taykoutmccleod]

reblog if its friday and you made it

[trixic-frankenman-deactivated20]

[catchymemes]

[wereopossum]

The sheer energy. The beauty of this woman. The women hugging in the background. The man in rainbow parachute pants. This whole video is art.

[fyodior]

I'm so sorry if this is an inappropriate question and please don't feel pressured to answer but i dont know who else to ask. but can you ever get over the pain with stretching yourself open? been trying for a while, but it's too painful (brings tears of pain) and I don't want to carry on, but at the same time, i'm sure it'll feel good at the end?

hi angel!! im assuming you mean vaginally? if so, if literally just a finger or two is bringing you to tears, that is not normal. there may be some discomfort if you’re not used to it, but its not supposed to be unbearable. i am well acquainted with this lol because i have vaginismus and had an overgrown hymen, and had to have my gyno look at me and be like … girl it is not supposed to be that tight and not supposed to hurt that bad. and you shouldn’t put yourself through that much pain for a little bit of pleasure, bc you’re not even gonna be able to enjoy it. i highly recommend seeing a gynecologist if you can!

if it’s like … a rly big dildo you’re workin with or something i can’t help with that LOL that’ll just take some practice babes

[lets-get-rekt]

Look into a dialation kit babe... Especially vibrating ones. It'll start you on the smallest size possible and you work your way up at your own pace, vibration does wonders for relaxing the pelvic floor so insertion is way less painful. And LOTS of lubrication! Water based is best, some even have a numbing effect to get past the sting.

[sungodsevenoclock]

I know, I know, gatekeeping the outdoors, that's supposedly bad, right, but I think if you show up to do a hike and you brought a portable speaker with you to play music while you hike, I think, like hear me out, there should be a gate, and someone at the gate should keep you from doing the hike.

[nicdevera]

playing music in public should get strong social disapproval

[squareallworthy]

Recorded music, anyway. Live music is different rules. If you want to lug an entire cello up a mountain you can do whatever the hell you want.

[headspace-hotel]

Carrying a speaker on a hike to make everyone listen to your bullshit, and simply sitting under a tree and playing a fiddle in the woods, are two activities so different they may as well not exist in the same world.

[unclear-contributions]

I think the critical difference is that the bringing of recorded music with you ties the space to Elsewhere, whereas the creation of live music with an instrument you brought both binds you to the space, and drags everyone who hears you play into it as well.

[headspace-hotel]

I think you're right.

[gallusrostromegalus]

Yeah I'll accept this into my belief system.

[lets-get-rekt]

[lets-get-rekt]

What does it matter it's already done 😭

[lets-get-rekt]

It's back???

[ryderdire]

Really interesting thing I glimpsed on rednote today

I think We- we’re developing international class consciousness 

[lets-get-rekt]

[memewhore]

[official-mugi]

This is probably the most inclusive post ever made on Tumblr

[hoodiegal]

“What country is this about?”

“Yes.”

[bakerstreet-and-beyond]

There seems to be a general malaise on most of Tumblr about TikTok getting banned in the United States.

I understand the problems, "brain rot", whatever but- A government banning a social media app that opened the world for many people is legitimately scary and upsetting. Say what you want but, there are MANY global and local issues that would not have gotten the same traction, recognition, and outreach without TikTok.

And then add to this that Meta/Facebook was one the largest lobbyists working to get TikTok banned... Like- I think folks should be more concerned about the implications of what this means, especially since the ban goes into effect the day before inauguration.

[lets-get-rekt]

[lets-get-rekt]

This is WORSE than losing vine 😭 vine just went bankrupt, TikTok was STOLEN

[lets-get-rekt]

What does it matter it's already done 😭

[commandurr14]

dennys right now, probably.

[lets-get-rekt]

Reminder Denny's still has an active Tumblr blog

[systlin]

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. 

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

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

[assasue]

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.

[anx1ous-op0ssum]

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.”

[whatevercomestomymind]

Omg the ancient child proofing add on tho lol

[pbrim]

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.

[catchester]

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.

[hazelsheartsworn]

^^ 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.

[scarred-but-still-smiling]

@archaeologistproblems have you experienced anything similar?

[archaeologistproblems]

Honestly this is probably my #1 favourite thing about archaeological research and looking at things with an interdisciplinary eye. This is also why experimental archaeology is such a great aspect of research - sometimes we no longer have living people who “do the thing,” so we try to “do the thing” ourselves to find out what works best.

Two years ago I got to visit an active brass and bronze foundry and do some filming, because the couple who do the casting could clearly demonstrate and identify what a lot of the mystery items I was finding on a 200-year-old iron foundry site actually were. Biggest one, I was speculating that some of the items I was finding were some kind of rough ingot for excess molten iron during a pour - turns out they were remnant pouring cups. Who knew? (They did. Heh.)

I did some work on a historic Mi’kmaw site seven years ago, one of the first items we found was a small knife. To me it was just a knife, but when one of the Mi’kmaw excavators saw it, he immediately knew that it was specifically a basket knife (Mi’kmaw basket-making was a really prominent craft in my area for generations, though there are far fewer people still doing it today).

On the same site I had a weird, ornamental piece of glass that I was identifying as some kind of candy dish lid. I contacted an antique glass collector who immediately identified it as the base to a glass oil lamp - he even knew which pattern it was. I love this stuff.

(Side note and pet peeve on one of the earlier anecdotes in this post, no decent archaeologist would have referred to a civilization as “primitive.” We don’t exist as civilizations on a single spectrum of “primitive to advanced.” Technology is technology, whether it’s incredibly skilled stone tool manufacture, or designing cell phones.)

[nsp-updates]

arin getting jiggy with it was my absolute favorite part of the newest starbomb mv,, i think about it like five times a day.

[mysillycomics]