Mozart's Girlfriend

Feminist, fangirl, writer, singer, dancer. Lover of life with a touch of depression. Professional editor, future teacher. She/her pronouns. So it goes.

[byedisaster]

congrats to Damian Holbrook for phrasing this in the best possible way. Yes, Jacob DOES lose custody of Eric Bogosian this season

[gaypeople]

the spoiler they slipped through like a little inside joke…this ends me

[wembleyfragglesarchive]

i’m losing my mind

[wembleyfragglesarchive]

STOP REBLOGGING THIS my phone is glitching an astronomical amount and I immediately knew the culprit was one of my tumblr posts gaining traction

[avatardoggo]

oh

GROOVE WITH ME BABY

[redscharlach]

Play that funky music, Bert boy

[divnydoodles]

Carrie White, my beloved

[shinerar]

IT'S TIME.

[shadytail]

We also figured out—the hard way—that the ancients probably cut each layer of linen to the proper shape before gluing them together. For our first linothorax, we glued together 15 layers of linen to form a one centimeter-thick slab, and then tried to cut out the required shape. Large shears were defeated; bolt cutters failed. The only way we were ultimately able to cut the laminated linen slab was with an electric saw equipped with a blade for cutting metal. At least this confirmed our suspicion that linen armor would have been extremely tough. We also found out that linen stiffened with rabbit glue strikes dogs as in irresistibly tasty rabbit-flavored chew toy, and that our Labrador retriever should not be left alone with our research project.

[krakenartificer]

I love this in every way possible. What is it from? Where can I read more?

[blackcatphysics]

The pitfalls of experimental archaeology and puppies.

[shrewreadings]

link to source:

“Unraveling the Linothorax Mystery, or how Linen Armor Came to Dominate our Lives.”

https://jhupress.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/unraveling-the-linothorax-mystery-or-how-linen-armor-came-to-dominate-our-lives/

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

holy shit read the article. it’s short but wild

[mounmantaka]

We found that even more of a threat than rain was one’s own sweat on a hot day. So, yes, it does need waterproofing, both inside and out. We did a number of experiments along those lines, and found that rubbing a block of beeswax over all sides of the armor provided nice waterproofing. It also makes the armor smell nice! When you wear it for a couple hours, your own body heat softens the glue a bit and makes it conform to your body shape, so it is much more comfortable to wear than rigid types of armor. Our reconstructions weighed about 10 pounds–about one third the weight of bronze armor that would provide the same degree of protection.

Honey i gotta go to war… not to smell my bee armor or hang with the boys or anything no.. uhh we need to uh do war things?

[thefibrarchaeologist]

#i've definitely read this before and i've probably reblogged it before but like.#no one in this thread is mentioning that they actually shot someone with an actual arrow in this armor.#they were like 'we've got to test this in practice' and instead of getting a mannequin or something they had an actual person wear it.

They what?

[classicslesbianopinions]

from the article:

While all of this mayhem (both scientifically controlled and free-form) convinced us that our linothorax was ancient-battlefield-ready, we still felt compelled to try a real-life scenario, so Scott donned the armor and Greg shot him. And while we had confidence in our armor, our relief was still considerable when the arrowhead stuck and lodged in the armor’s outer layers, a safe distance away from flesh.

a good life-size mannequin is expensive but i guarantee it would've cost way less than they were spending on all that linen.

[dr-dendritic-trees]

Academics are just like that.

[gotyouanyway]

anything u think about YOUR life after 10pm is bs to be ignored. anything u think about a character’s life after 10pm should be posted about online and expanded on for paragraphs. :)

[tinyyellowflowers-blog]

After school care pulled me aside about my child dropping an f-bomb “without remorse” and I put on my concerned face and nodded a bunch.

Apparently he was building something with a younger kid “who really looks up to him and is just starting to make friends” and said “Hey, you’re really fucking good at this.” which is, in my estimation, really a parenting victory.

[tinyyellowflowers-blog]

I absolutely failed at doing this:

[triangleguy]

nightmares where theres a scary creature or something: damn that was scary Haha good thing im awake now .

nightmares about your dad: IM FUCKEDDDD THERES NO COMING BACK FROM THIS

[partywithponies]

My woke take, as someone who has worked in both a public library and a school library, is that we desperately need both more books that are at a higher reading level but a less mature subject matter, and more books that are at a lower reading level but a more mature subject matter, because 8 year olds who are advanced readers are still 8 year olds and don't want to read about graphic violence and torture, and teens and adults who have learning difficulties or who are just later readers for whatever reason are still teens and adults and don't want to read about Billy the Bunny going to school or whatever the hell.

[partywithponies]

Shoutout to people in the notes also mentioning people learning the language, I should've mentioned that really, given that I've been stuck reading German picture books myself while learning German.

[lenin-it-to-win-it]

It’s so funny how like. Spock is queer bc of the subtext, the Otherness inextricable from his character, meanwhile William Shatner was handed the straightest man of all time on paper and fumbled the bag bc he couldn’t stop giving Leonard Nimoy fuck-me eyes and now he lives in a bi Kirk hell of his own devising, forever enduring the conshatquences of his shactions

[adestroy]

True love

This comic was cowritten by the real Nurse Chapel AKA @psychoticpterodactyl16

[glitter-and-spite]

"Star Trek was loved by housewives!"

"Star Trek was loved by working women!"

My grandma used to clean for this rich lady who had a color TV, and when Star Trek came on, that lady would make my grandma take a break from cleaning so they could watch the episode together. My grandma can still recall how thrilling (sometimes scary) the episodes were and how hot Captain Kirk was. Tiny coincidence that he shared some physical similarities with my grandpa.

So I would say it was definitely both. And for many different reasons.

[what-even-is-thiss]

What if the fates are a trio of old grandmas gossiping while they’re weaving

[sunflowerssighing]

speaking as a Greek, they're definitely three gossiping Yiayias

[cryptidjeepers]

just watched a star trek episode about a planet that relied so heavily on it's computer system that they all forgot the basics of their own knowledge. and that allowed them to miss the fact that they were being posioned with radiation and nearly ending their civilization. because they couldn't use their own knowledge to figure things out. i bring this up for no reason in particular

[katherynefromphilly]

Reblogging specifically for JJAbrams and any other TrekBros who might have, like the 1960s censors, missed the glaringly obvious critiques on machines, computers, social issues, women’s issues, and race which were “hidden” haha behind the science fiction.

[meimeiherokitten]

Anyone else see Izzy's little reaction there? Like a mix of "wow, he actually wants me here", "omgomgomg he touched me, I might come on the spot", "damn I love you so damn much", "i am so freaking miserable rn", and "oh, self, you little fucking dummy, you let yourself get hooked in to Ed's shit *again*"...

[pumpkinboysblog]

I need someone who looks at me the same way Ed looks at Stede in this scene.

That's the look of a man that lives of your kisses and your touch, where is this poetry in love?

(I'm him, I'm Ed, I need someone who loves deeply)

[fallenrocket]

There’s a line I’ve always loved from Much Ado about Nothing where Benedick tells Beatrice, “I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy eyes.” That’s definitely the energy Ed is giving here. (Bonus points: in Shakespeare’s day, “die” was slang for “orgasm,” so there’s also that!)