Life of a fangirl

Just your typical fangirl, telling her story and sharing her obsessions through social media.

[modern-austen]

GUYS I JUST SAW THIS ON TWITTER AND I AM DYING

[rockboci]

Add the author’s reply, cowards!

[thewhiskeykitteh]

I scrolled through the notes on this post and my favorite has to be one mockingly accusing Madeline Miller (a Latin and Greek teacher with a Masters in Classics) of needing to do research and she wasn’t a real writer like them.

Anyway when I read that line I immediately understood what she was trying to say.

[rises-vagrant]

Articles mentioned (I think, anyway…)

https://pharos.vassarspaces.net/2018/05/11/scholars-respond-to-racist-backlash-against-black-achilles-part-1-ancient-greek-attitudes-toward-africans/

https://aeon.co/essays/can-we-hope-to-understand-how-the-greeks-saw-their-world

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/true-colors-17888/

True Colors

Archaeologist Vinzenz Brinkmann insists his eye-popping reproductions of ancient Greek sculptures are right on target

Can we hope to understand how the Greeks saw their world? | Aeon Essays

The Greek colour experience was made of movement and shimmer. Can we ever glimpse what they saw when gazing out to sea?

In February of 2018, the BBC broadcast an eight-part miniseries, Troy: Fall of a City, that told the story of the Trojan War. Netflix later

[augustdementhe]

Honestly, the first time I saw this tweet, I laughed my tits straight into the ocean.

I know what ‘olive skinned’ (and thus variations on it) means, but the author taking the time to have a little laugh, acknowledge that it’s at least a bit funny, and drop some knowledge is appreciated.

And a double thanks to the person I reblogged from for linking the articles.

[rosebleue-deactivated20251002]

The thread is perfect as it is, but just in case

Left: traditional extraction using a capacho basket, right modern extraction using a cold press. One is greenish brown and the other is green.

In case you want to see what the author meant about that not beeing what she saw.

[pfaugh]

Src

[orinthered]

some examples of this from the replies of op’s tweet

[luxlightly]

So, there's apparently research coming out now about microplastics being found in people's bloodstreams and the possible negative effects of that and I feel the need to get out ahead of the wave of corporate sponsored "be sure to recycle your bottles!" or "ban glitter!" campaigns and remind everyone: It's fishing nets. It's fishing nets. It is overwhelming fishing nets It always has been fishing nets. Unless regulations are changed, it will continue to be fishing nets. The plastic in the ocean in largely discarded nets from industrial fishing. The microplastics are the result of these nets breaking down. The "trash islands" are also, you guessed it. Mostly fishing nets and other discarded fishing industry equipment. Do not allow them to continue to twist the story. Do not come after disabled people who require single use plastics. Do not come after people using glitter in art projects and makeup. These things make up a negligible amount of the issue compared to corporate waste, specifically in the fishing industry. Do not let them shift the blame to the individual so they can continue to destroy the planet and our bodies without regulation.

[elodieunderglass]

Industries are incredibly resistant to taking responsibility for their own waste, to the point where “consumers are responsible for industrial waste” is somehow considered a sensible, ethical, worthy sentence.

It is actually perfectly reasonable to say that “industries are responsible for industrial waste” and “the effects of industry can, should and must be fixed by industry” and “Industry can, should and must be held responsible for its impacts on the commons, such as air, water, oceans and land.”

[amelielb]

Ok, I've seen this sentiment before, but the amount of Kindle Unlimited ads I've been seeing is forcing me to repeat it-

Kindle Unlimited is offering two free months of unlimited ebooks. As a trial. Which will then become a paid subscription.

Your local library is offering unlimited ebooks all the time. Forever. No contracts, no predatory practices, no tracking of how long you spend on each particular page in the hopes that information about your habits can be sold for a profit.

Use your library. They want so badly to give you all of the things for free.

[eternalgirlscout]

justin mcelroy has said many powerful things but honestly no set of words in the english language conveys the same energy as “that’s a funny trick to play on god”

[dunknewton-deactivated20210211]

“you’re rearranging deck chairs on the titanic, my friend” is a very close second

[unholydevilhost]

“we can do whatever sins we want! there’s no god here to observe this” is very good too

[mrsmummifikation]

“the man who sleeps with a machete is a fool every night but one” was also good

[waxminutes]

“for the millionth time the first amendment protects you from the government not the justin”

[omghotmemes]

This is the picture Amazon sent my BIL to say the packages were “delivered to a family member directly”

[sambrin]

[tlirsgender]

You ever think about how crows are acting not unlike how early humans probably did and you're just like. Oh ok

[tlirsgender]

I saw a Thing one time about how the earliest sign of civilization is a healed femur because that shows that we were taking care of each other because if we Didn't a broken leg would mean you Die because you can't. Do things

And I was thinking about this and I remembered also seeing an article about this one mated pair of crows where one of them broke its beak and thus couldn't properly feed itself on its own. So the other one helps

So basically I have connected the two dots ("you didn't connect shit") I've connected them

And also they not only use tools but teach each other how to construct them, so uh

Really makes you think

[tlirsgender]

Realistically I know immortality would kinda suck but I'd love to see where crows are going with this

[normal-horoscopes]

Utterly obsessed with these reddit guys that bought tickets to the Ukraine front with the expectation of being some sort of urban sniper seal team six operator only to get stationed in a meat grinder bunker on the front lines where they spend three days without sleep from the mortal fear and anxiety of the constant Russian missile bombardments, at which point they crack and desperately try to flee to the polish border because turns out war is actually a horrifying ordeal of profound and needless human suffering.

I know there had to be a moment where they woke up and realized: "Oh, I've made a terrible mistake." And I am desperate to know what that moment was like for them.

[una-vida-silenciosa-deactivated]

Judging by their social media and their likes for storm of steel, on the opposite many of them will feel in those trenches as if they were at the gates of Valhalla. People who don’t have those urges and mock the resolute of others willing to die for  a cause will never understand that the blood of the warriors no matter the side they fight for is sacred.

[normal-horoscopes]

You know war is literally real right? Like it's a real thing?

[una-vida-silenciosa-deactivated]

Yes I have been in one clown, not all the blogs here are suburban americans and many of those volunteers have also faced war, many are veterans.

[theunfairfolk]

you’ve been inside a clown? sexually or surgically?

[normal-horoscopes]

LMAO THEY BLOCKED ME BC OF THIS LAYUP good lord these marvel movie ass neonazis are lame

[skaldish]

Been doing on-and-off research on this type of mentality because I'm a) Norse heathen and see it a lot, and b) fascinated by psychology, and while my longer thoughts deserve its own post, I have a working theory on why white cis men get stuck in this mentality:

Humans are social creatures.

Socialization is satisfying because it fulfills a basic need: Intimacy.

However, white cis American male socialization lacks intimacy due to its perception as an emasculating feature.

As a result, AMAB individuals are starved of this basic need starting at a young age. This causes a lot of AMAB individuals to experience compromised emotional development and an ever-present sense of desperation.

Now, America's male socialization teaches men there's only two environments we're allowed experience intimacy in without risking emasculation—when we're with our girlfriends, or when we're soldiers at war.

Notice how male-dominated bonding activities are almost exclusively set within a "battle" environment: Sports, LARP, multiplayer video games, historical reenactment, D&D, card games. etc. Heck, even mosh pits. Because many men only experience non-romantic intimacy in war-environments, they mistakenly learn that war is what makes a man feel alive.

I strongly believe this is why some men get extremely defensive when people suggest war isn't a male urge, or that war is nothing but a nightmare. Because in their experience, it absolutely is an urge.

But they're not craving war. They're craving intimacy. Honestly, I think this is why Valhalla is so attractive of a concept. It's a place where men will never starve for intimacy every again.

This is genuinely why I say White Imperialism is abusive to everyone, and why I think it's important to include cis white men amongst its prey.

[sonneve]

“But they’re not craving war. They’re craving intimacy. Honestly, I think this is why Valhalla is so attractive of a concept. It’s a place where men will never starve for intimacy ever again.”

This is an utterly saddening mindset for someone to have…

“The only way I’ll ever be able to receive the human connection I fundamentally need is through violence, and ultimately death will be the only thing that relieves me of this unbearable lonely suffering.”

[skaldish]

Yup. Social intimacy is actually a MAJOR selling point for many alt-right white nationalist and folkish groups. Cishet white men will only continue to gravitate towards those groups as long as those remain the only groups that do this.

[foulserpent]

oh my god

[ibetteracethatinterview]

[cannibal-rainbow]

“they” (1 word) is shorter than “he or she” (3 words)

“they” is more inclusive than “he/she”

“themself” flows more naturally than “him or herself”

“they” is less clunky than “(s)he”

it’s time to replace the awkward “she or he”

[edgar-allen-potpourri]

“hey can you go ask they what does they want for dinner, and when is they coming over to watch movies with they?”

[edrec]

“Hey, can you go ask them what they want for dinner, and when they’re coming over to watch movies?”

Step one is learning how to talk like a human person.

[anghraine]

Friendly reminder:

“I shouldn’t like to punish anyone, even if they’d done me wrong.” —George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss (1860)

“A person can’t help their birth.” —William Thackeray, Vanity Fair (1848)

“But to expose the former faults of any person, without knowing what their present feelings were, seemed unjustifiable.” —Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813)

“Every Fool can do as they’re bid.” —Jonathan Swift, Polite Conversation (1738)

“So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.” —King James Bible, Matthew 18:35 (transl. 1611)

“God send every one their heart’s desire!” —William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (~1600)

“Now this king did keepe a great house, that euerie body might come and take their meat freely.” —Sir Philip Sidney, the Arcadia (1580)

“If … a psalme scape any person, or a lesson, or els yt they omyt one verse or twayne…” —William Bonde, The Pylgrimage of Perfection (1526)

“And whoso fyndeth hym out of swich blame, / They wol come up and offre a Goddés name” —Geoffrey Chaucer, The Pardoner’s Tale (~1380)

“þan hastely hiȝed eche wiȝt on hors & on fote, / huntyng wiȝt houndes alle heie wodes, / til þei neyȝþed so neiȝh to nymphe þe soþe [Then hastily hied each person on horse and on foot / hunting with hounds all the high woods / ‘til they came so near, to tell the truth]” —William and the Werwolf (transl. ~1350-1375)

“Bath ware made sun and mon, / Aiþer wit þer ouen light [Both were made sun and moon / Either with their own light]” —Cursor Mundi (~1325)

[advanced-procrastination]

We’ve been using they/them/their pronouns to indicate a person with unspecified gender for a long ass fucking time. The only reason it’s become a big issue lately is because it can be used as a semi-respectful term for trans and non-binary folks and we can’t have that can we

These fucks are literally trying to change our language to hurt trans/nb folks, and claiming that’s just the way its always been

[polyhorde]

Roses are red

Violets are blue

Singular “they” predates

Singular “you”

[angrywall]

[passionpeachy-deactivated202312]

what is stopping hackers from displaying jeff bezo’s credit card number on times square

[louisinart-like-cuisinart]

That just isn't right. If they displayed his credit card number, the credit company would likely waive all charges made to the account and pay for it by raising fees for everyone else. If they display his DEBIT card, though, that's a direct line baby.

[sweetsweetemo]

you. i like you.

[dinodorks]

PLEASE SHARE‼️

Mill Canyon Dinosaur Tracksite, one of the most important sites of its kind in North America, has been partially destroyed by the Utah Bureau of Land Management. The tracksite previously contained over 200 trace fossils representing a myriad of prehistoric species, including various dinosaurs and ancient crocodilians, all dated to the Early Cretaceous.

What has transpired goes in violation of the Paleontological Resources Preservation Act and the Center for Biological Diversity is filling a Freedom of Information Act request to the Utah BLM in regards to the incident. In the meantime, I encourage folks to spread the word about this, and to contact the Moab BLM field office to voice your concern over what has been done.

[dinodorks]

⚠️ UPDATE (as of February 1st 2022)

Today the Utah Bureau of Land Management’s Moab Field Office held a Zoom meeting regarding how they manage resources, wherein the public could make comments + ask questions. Those who attended and inquired about the incident at Mill Canyon were either ignored or outright lied to:

And the following is an excerpt from “112 million-year-old dinosaur tracks near Moab damaged by machinery, experts say” from the Salt Lake Tribune:

[textbooklesbian]

this is the type of work they’re gonna make high school art students study in ten years

[firstgrave]

something truly horrific about clicking an article about a national or global tragedy only for a pop up to say you only have 3 more free articles this month and then each paragraph of the piece is divided by picture ads for skin creams while a video of a car commercial plays automatically in the corner no matter how far you scroll

[firstgrave]

it’s amazing how insanely some of you guys can miss the point (beyond the fact that this was just an on the spot rant because i was annoyed about an article i was reading and not actually meant to represent your sole, generalized philosophical view on the news).

yes. i know what adblockers are. that doesn’t actually solve the issue of businesses being allowed to advertise anti-aging serums on articles about celebrity suicides or airline ads on articles about global warming and natural disasters.

and while, sure, journalists need to be paid, a) access to information should not only be granted to those with expendable income, b) information exchange should not be viewed through a lens of consumerism, c) the major news/media companies are owned by millionaires/billionaires. they can afford to pay their workers a livable wage but choose not to because they would rather turn a higher profit and push the responsibility onto the consumers through ads/paywalls.

[egberts]

my mom finally bought a toaster

[egberts]

why did this get notes

[hungry-hobbits]

we’re happy for you

[egberts]

its just a toaster

[egberts]

it’s been three years since i made this post. stop congratulating me on the toaster! stop asking me how the new toaster is doing!! i don’t know!! i haven’t lived with my mom in almost a year! i haven’t seen that toaster in months!! she might even have a new new toaster now!!! who knows!? not me!