[aidaughter]

t shirt that says I PUT A NORMAL AMOUNT OF THOUGHT INTO STUFF

[greekmythcomix]

🚨HOMER ALERT 🚨 a copy of a section from The Iliad has been identified as the text in a papyrus placed on the abdomen of a mummified person, excavated last year, as part of the embalming ritual. Pride of place, not stuffed inside a cavity like previously found texts, and the first piece of Literature found on a mummy and in a funerary context.

And guess which bit it is?

THE CATALOGUE OF SHIPS 😂😂😂😂

(Well, we all knew those pages had to be *someone’s* favourite bit 😉)

BRB, off to shoehorn this into a lesson…

Article: https://share.google/6ljv0Ny7jeNBbvW60

Archaeologists stunned to find copy of Homer’s Iliad inside ancient Egyptian mummy

Papyrus fragment discovered inside mummy buried in Roman-era tomb around 1,600 years ago

[escuerzoresucitado]

[typhus-andronicus]

[slorty]

The fact that this is completely incomprehensible to me makes it funnier than if I could understand it

[silver-tongues-blog]

skill issue. i understand it completely

[thevegetablewhichnoonedaresname]

I am just so in love with gaining a working knowledge of various things. It gives you superpowers. That's not hyperbole, when you find out how something works, it actually changes the way you look at the world both figuratively and literally. I have so much more fun with things when I know about them.

Learning a little music theory or even just how to listen to music and pay attention analytically does so much. Music is a delicious lasagna instead of nice lyrics and a catchy melody. Plants all looked boring to me until I worked at a greenhouse and had to identify them by their leaves, and now I can look at wildflowers and weeds and forest undergrowth without getting bored, even if there are no interesting berries or flowers. Learning Japanese opened up a whole people group to understand, where before they may as well have been speaking nonsense (to me, anyway).

I'm not an expert in any of these, not by a long shot. But that's the point. Even basic understanding goes such a long way. Fall down the rabbit hole. Learn a language. Practice a skill. It changes your life for the better in things that you don't even realize you're missing out on because you've never known anything different.

[song-of-the-spheres]

I'm re-reading the Vorkosigan Saga for the first time in a long time (I think it's been maybe 15 years since I read the earlier books) and I remembered how much I liked them, but I forgot how feral they made me. sorry to anyone in my general orbit for the next 12-14 months.

Lois McMaster Bujold really did go: here have space opera shenanigans paired with an exploration of societal upheaval and intergenerational trauma, told from the perspective of a family composed entirely of people who are deeply unhinged. A+, no notes.

[song-of-the-spheres]

I think Tumblr is sleeping on Aral Vorkosigan tbh. fascinating set of life experiences that HAS to fuck one up in new and inventive ways.

witnessed most of his family being murdered at age 11 and two years later his new emperor hands him a blade to help chop up the old emperor who ordered it. obsessed with honor and yet is constantly either flung into situations that force him to override it or lapses in his attempts to strive for it. bisexual and almost certainly weird and repressed about it at first given Barrayar's general cultural milieu, his upbringing, and his first(?) boyfriend turning out to be a sadistic sociopath. kills his first wife's two lovers in impetuous duels and twenty years later confesses this to to the next woman he proposes to within days of meeting her. repeatedly escapes consequences for the times he genuinely fucks up - and he knows this! - and gets ripped to shreds for things he tried to prevent. keeps getting handed increasing levels of political power and he hates it so so much. there are several things wrong with him but crucially I don't think they're the things he thinks.

and we never get his POV directly. 10/10 guy to me, I want to study him under a microscope.

[song-of-the-spheres]

Cordelia kind of wins the award for Most Normal by default, but a) the bar is on the floor, and b) this is also a woman who has, in order: risked her own life to help resolve an attempted military overthrow of an enemy commander that she met like a week ago, left her entire former life behind in part to protect the political secrets of a planet she had one single personal connection to, charged into an occupied city in the middle of a coup for a guerilla raid with THREE people to rescue her kidnapped son, ordered the extremely mentally unwell guy who follows her every order to chop off the head of the guy who did it, and tossed the head in the middle of a conference table to make a point.

I do not think Miles got his impulsive streak from Aral, is what I'm saying.

[kellylor]

Before Cordelia ever met any Barrayarans, she worked for the Betan Astronomical Survey, where her job was to lead blind jumps through wormholes with no known destinations, any one of which could end in the entire ship disappearing without a trace. It’s an ongoing debate on Beta Colony whether the ones doing it for science or for profit are more unhinged. She accuses Aral of being an adrenaline junkie, but she’s just got better rationalizations for the ways she chases her fix.

And there’s Count Piotr still around for Miles’s whole childhood, the most ruthless and effective guerrilla terrorist Barrayar produced in 20 years of occupation, and that was before his wife and two of his kids were murdered.

[song-of-the-spheres]

YEAH oh absolutely agreed.

And Piotr is a man who's legitimately pissed that he's lived to a ripe old age and is going to die peacefully ("the first Count Vorkosigan to die in bed in nine generations") and Mark is...all right, I cannot get into Mark right now because that will result in six other essays, so I'll just kidnap @kellylor's tags:

#vorkosigan saga#series of all time#and mark my beloved shows up#and is like I’m so confused and fucked up how could anyone want me to be their family#buddy you have no idea what these people think is normal

[beyond-crusading]

"I asked ChatGPT-" Well I asked the immortal Dragon that Uther chained in the caves beneath Camelot and HE told me to commit treason

[kingcatnine]

don't shave your legs this summer HOLD THE FUCKING LINE

[shamebats]

"it's just stress" oh thank god, it's just the silent killer that slowly kills you, perfectly harmless, no need to worry

[despazito]

Sometimes I'll be looking at bullshit online that I know will just rile me up and I have to think of this image to get myself to stop

[soymoss]

starling

[homunculus-argument]

Okay, that's IT. As a bisexual ranch dressing supporter I just can't continue to follow you in good conscience. Why do you industrial carpet shippers all think it's okay to use bland women as a scapegoat for premium disco culture? Maybe if you actually bothered to read the ukranian degeneracy thesis you'd understand batman's suntan technique, but I guess you're just too busy making free insurance consultation posts, so whatever.

Blocked, flambéed and unfollowed.

I want this as a medieval calligraphy manuscript framed on my wall.

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

LOOK LOOK EVERYONE I HAVE SEEN YOU ALL @'ING ME THESE TAKE TIME

that being said, @homunculus-argument :

my work tracker app says this'll be $100 bucks Canadian, I take cash, tattoos, uranium glass, or Hot Topic gift cards

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

ah SHIT I MISSED TWO WHOLEASS WORDS

[thehmn]

In Copenhagen you can visit The Round Tower. It used to be an astronomical observatory until light pollution and the vibrations from increased traffic in the streets made it useless for its original purpose.

Today it’s mostly famous for what it looks like on the inside.

It has an equestrian staircase though it’s so smooth it’s really just a gentle slope more than a staircase. It was build like that so our lazy bum king could ride his horse all the way to the top (king not in photo)

And naturally people have also driven cars up the tower

And held a bike race

For a while it was just sort of abandoned by the authorities and became a spiraling marketplace

But today it has been restored and become a tourist spot as well as a popular destination for school trips. And yes, you can still watch the cosmos at the top.

[xalatath]

You misused thou/thee in a joke post and provoked my ire.

[callabang]

the cemeteries of amalo really is just thara going from the dmv to the post office to the bank to his boss's office and then back to the dmv. at every turn there is an employee of varying politeness saying "well you can't do X because you don't have the right form :( maybe you should just go home" and then invariably instead of going home celehar is like "okay. where do i get the right form?" and the employee says "you have to go talk to a hundred people and at least half are going to actively obstruct if not threaten you physically :(" to which celehar says "okay." and then he just does it. executive functioning king

[ino]

reblog this and tell me in the tags, if you could wipe your memory of ONE piece of media (book, film, video game, etc) and experience it again for the first time, what would you choose?

[thatsbelievable]

[lowerroad]

it's a good thing mensah is already married with kids by the start of all systems red because can you imagine trying to make a new longterm relationship work when you have to explain to potential partners that murderbot will be there. no not romantically or sexually. but it is there.