Elenor

Hi! I’m Elenor, also known as Leo. I’m nonbinary, my pronouns are they/them. While I do make my own posts every now and then, this is mostly reblogs. My art account @lenoreinthetrees is where it’s at!

[yourenotgettingthisusername]

[castledock]

Image description: a screenshot that reads the following;

“Nobody:

Girls that bullied goth kids in high school:”

Attached images are of Taylor Swift, a white woman with sunglasses, blonde hair, a black tank top reading “this is my fight song”, and green shorts. She is wearing a leather bondage harness. It is backwards.

[betazoidpantsuit]

my favorite genre of humor is alt text being just completely factual and somehow reading the image for filth

[no-one-offical]

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[unyieldingsilence]

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[this-is-anti-islam]

Everyone watch Jaadugar, A witch in Mongolia I beg of you.

[daddynietzsche]

throwback to that time in my existentialism class where the professor asked ‘who thinks hell is other people’ and half the class slowly and meekly put their hand up

then the prof was like ‘…i mean who originally said it’

[annabellioncourt]

there are some posts that sound utterly made up for the joke or for the notes, but this one I whole heartedly believe 

[kurloz38]

Sounds right to me…

[jadagul]

That quote is amazing to me in that it’s quoted completely accurately and yet in a way that means something completely different from what it meant in context.

(Sartre was claiming that Hell was other people. He was not claiming that other people were hell.)

[sigmaleph]

…I can’t actually tell what distinction you’re drawing there. Can you expand?

[jadagul]

The line comes from No Exit, which is set in Hell. Spoilers for No Exit follow

In particular, three people who have been condemned to hell are trapped eternally in a room together. And at first they think they got off easy without any pitchforks or fiery lakes or anything. But over the course of the play they discover that they have been chosen very specifically to have neuroses and character flaws that interact with and torment each other.

Each one needs the approval of a second in an unstable RPS cycle so that any time one of them might be satisfied by a second, the third swoops in and ruins it.

And when they figure this out, one of the characters expresses his understanding, that hell isn’t physical torture. “Hell is just—other people.”

So the point isn’t that other people, generically, are hellish; it’s rather that you can build a hell out of other people.

But when I hear people quote it, it’s usually sort of an introvert-pride thing. “Other people are hell; you should spend time alone.” And that’s not the point at all. It’s a statement about how bad unhealthy relationships can be, not a statement about how all relationships are unhealthy!

See also Sartre’s own comment here:

“hell is other people” has always been misunderstood. It has been thought that what I meant by that was that our relations with other people are always poisoned, that they are invariably hellish relations. But what I really mean is something totally different. I mean that if relations with someone else are twisted, vitiated, then that other person can only be hell.

[diapordias-deactivated20180627]

Reblogging for the original post which was hilarious and also for that explanation which is beautiful

[galsinspace]

Another big point in No Exit is that the characters find out at the end that the room they’re in is not locked. They could just leave, but they’re each of them incapable of just leaving without winning their arguments. So really, hell is when we stay in dysfunctional relationships that harm us, when we can’t just leave other people be and move on.

[p1anetmouth]

in a dream I

[ceruleanheaven]

religion is so fucking funny the world is just too beautiful there must be a higher entity behind all this. lets oppress women

[galileosballs]

Also, please do not listen to how people talk about cover letters on this site. Cover letters are important, and in many industries you can be damn sure they'll be read. And no, they're not 'fanfic about working in your office', or just re-stating the resume contents in a fancier guise. If you treat them like that, then of course they're not doing much for you. That makes you sound like a syncophantic windbag, and it's not doing anything else to help.

I was trained in the dark arts of the cover letter by my mother, who is a hiring manager. And her training has paid off: I've been consistently told my cover letters are excellent. Let me pass on the wisdom.

The job of a cover letter is to give a prospective employer strictly more information than is on the resume. This is where you take the resume contents and put them into context. You look at the job requirements (you are looking at the job requirements before applying, right?) and look at your resume and ask the question (in your head) "why would a person think this candidate would be good for this job?" and your cover letter is the answer to that question. If you don't answer that question, the hiring manager is going to have to do it themselves, and you have way more information to work with than they do.

This is especially important if you're moving from one industry to another, because then the relevant connections aren't obvious. It's also very important if you're overqualified, because then you can use the letter to say "I know it looks like this job would be too entry-level for me, but I'm interested to pursue it for reasons x, y, and z". You can also use this space to explain away something that might otherwise be disqualifying, like job-hopping or a long break in employment. The tone to strike here is always matter-of-fact and constrained to topic - don't go into detail about health stuff or personal tragedy, just tell them what they need to hear: that this period of your resume was affected by [bad thing] but that it's now in the past and you're looking forward to the next chapter. Remember, one of the things they're trying to learn is whether you'd be content in this role, or whether you'd be miserable and leave after 2 months, which would force them to do all the work of hiring again. You're trying to establish that you will fit right in and not cause problems. Knowing what drew you to this job in particular (and don't just say 'money', that's true for everyone) helps with that.

And the other mistake? Everyone writes cover letters that are too long. One page is fine. Two is the absolute maximum, and that's if you have a lot of specific things to say. It's a waste of your time and theirs to pad it out with fluff. Of my two most recent successful cover letters (i.e. jobs for which I was interviewed) one was 390 words and the other was 550. That's the length of this post. How long did it take me to write this post? About 15 minutes to write, 5 to proof and edit. That's how long you should be spending on a cover letter, maximum.

[megacarapa]

ok so this is another long shot but a few years ago there was a twitter post (in japanese i think?) that had measurememts for how to make this book stand thing out of cardboard that you could use to double up books and use up more space on shelves

back then i made a bunch of these but by now i lost the pic and dont know how to find the original post anymore

if it comes down to it i can just take one apart and get the measurements from there but i would be very grateful if anyone happens to have the original post or something similar??

[megacarapa]

don't mind how long it's been since i made this post, anyway i realized that i don't even need to take one apart to get the measurements when i can literally just unfold it and refold it /FACEPALM

so anyway here is the diagram for anyone else who is interested!!

this requires pretty big carboard pieces, if you have a really big box or something you can make it from one piece, but if you don't, you can also just make each of the pieces individually and then tape them together

and then in the end you put it together like this!!

and then when you make a bunch you can put them all next to each other and stack your books like crazy

EVERYONE START GETTING MORE USE OUT OF YOUR SPACE NOW!!!!

[redstonedust]

funny thing about anxiety is sometimes it kind of breaks your sense of danger. like i am known for repeatedly putting myself in situations that make my friends go "bro you couldve died. werent you scared?" and the answer is 👍 yjeah. i did it scared. i do everything scared. i didnt know that was the actual important kind of scary because i usually have to ignore my fears to function in society. it will happen again. watch out.

[enki2]

[kooldewd123]

stupid running joke i love is how every single splatoon campaign has some moment where the idols are like "surely you recognize us, the world-famous squid sisters/off the hook/deep cut" and the player character just. doesn't. because normally the punchline of this sort of joke is that haha they aren't actually that famous, they just have an overinflated sense of ego, but that is demonstrably not the case here. these are actual bona-fide megastars who just so happen to keep enlisting god's most autistic soldiers. the universe is conspiring against them to find the single most out-of-the-loop person in the world at any given moment and send them to save the day. this rocks. i hope they never stop pulling this shit

[redstonedust]

the whole "insulting someone based on their appearance is bad because it could indirectly hurt people you like who share that feature" is a good start for unlearning body shaming but i do think we need to go further and remind people that even if there was some physical trait that was magically 10000% exclusive to conservatives and creeps and nobody else ever had it, we still shouldnt be insulting them based on that. because the problem with them is not their appearance its their ideology and actions. by insulting their appearance you arent just indirectly insulting others who look like that, youre literally not making the correct point. stay on topic ya know.

[doloneia]

Thank you for pointing out Wilson's comment about the sea people in her review, because yeah, hard disagree on that part as well! And also on the argument that Homeric epic is a mishmash of different periods, so it doesn't matter if the costuming and props are, too. I think that logic only works if you don't set your movie in a specific period - which Nolan evidently did do - and also if those different periods don't include Viking ships. Like, sorry, but that's a step too far^^

Thank you!! It's a bit frustrating because on the one hand a lot of non-specialists (like Nolan tbh) overwhelmingly blame the Sea Peoples for the Entire Bronze Age Collapse, even though systems collapse theory has been around for decades, but on the other hand Wilson's response calling them "a now debunked 19th-century theory about maritime tribes who were thought to have attacked Egypt around 1200 BCE" is just such an extreme pivot in the opposite direction that straight up ignores the primary texts from Medinet Habu!! Like, we can debate who the Sea Peoples specifically were/what they were doing/where else they went/their impact/etc until the heat death of the universe, but at the end of the day they're still epigraphically attested in some sort of conflict with Egypt! Same with how she describes Nolan's "we are the Sea Peoples" schtick as him "creating a characteristic narrative twist about the identity of ‘the sea peoples" when,,, afaik the similarity between 'Denyen' & 'Danaan' has been and continues to be generally accepted in scholarship?? Unless there's been a sudden shift in the past like 6 months?? From what I can tell, Wilson doesn't work on LBA archaeology at all, which is probably why this part of the review is so weak compared to her great analysis of the Polyphemus scene, thematic aspects, and misogynistic elements (since the text is more her wheelhouse). But since she has so much influence in how general audiences are introduced to Homeric epic (and by proxy its LBA/EIA setting), her sweeping generalizations about the Sea Peoples feel a little irresponsible? If only because I worry that some people are going to walk away with the assumption that there were no 'sea peoples' fighting Rameses III.

And you make a fantastic point re: Nolan's messy chronological approach! I think his costuming/props wouldn't have stuck out so much if:

He didn't put in so much dialogue about "the people from the sea" and lines like "our age of bronze is coming to an end." Which just reinforces the chronological discrepancies.

They didn't look so jarringly different. The helmets were already giving off the vibes of a slightly cheaper 300, but the Viking-style longship throws the aesthetic forward by ~2000 years!!! I didn't actually really comprehend that gap until just now but. Can you imagine an adaptation of Julius Caesar where its still the Late Republic but they use American horse-and-buggies in the background?? People are bound to comment on that! And his anachronisms stand out even more when you look in the background and see (what looks like) Protogeometric pottery?? It's all over the place, aesthetics-wise.

It's not the worst part of the movie (that award probably goes to the British colonialist undertones) but man does it affect some of my enjoyment of the good scenes.

[thefibrarchaeologist]

Yeah, that comment about the sea people really stuck out. Like, news to me that this has been debunked entirely! As the sole cause of the BA collapse in Greece, sure, but that´s it.

And the time discrepancy is what drives me up the wall. I once described that in a similar context to a friend as watching a movie about the Norman conquest of England, in which the Anglo Saxons are wearing chain mail, the Normans 16th century plate armour, there is a tank somewhere in the background, William the Conqueror is dressed like Napoleon and also he´s riding a unicorn. And if you are really unlucky, the movie gets marketed as historically accurate.

(I blame the fact that as archaeologists we kind of depend on having a good visual memory - and we get actively trained on that. So this mix simply looks wrong, even if you try to not let it distract you).

[vasira96]

idk who needs to hear this, but your partner should be making your life better and easier than it is on your own. if your partner is making your life harder, they're constantly stressing you out, if they're not showing up for you? babe you gotta leave, life is so short and we only get one, so don't spend it with someone who makes you feel bad about your life, you deserve so much better than that

[cutecipher]

i really thought the point of "being lgbt+ doesn't absolve you of racism as a white person" was that white people arent absolved of racism by being marginalized but it really seems like people think other marginalizations make it okay. no being disabled doesn't do it. no being poor doesnt do it. we need to fight against racism actively no matter what.

[kmarx]

José Olivarez, from my therapist says make friends with your monsters

[crabussy]

I don't understand how cis people obsessed with gender norms think trans people are the weird ones. they're going around believing that your name has to correlate to your genitals. your fashion has to correlate to your genitals. your behaviours have to correlate to your genitals. your hobbies have to correlate to your genitals. who you date has to correlate to your genitals. whether you can put sparkles on your eyelids or not has to correlate to your genitals. and then people like me go "hmm. I might not do that. maybe I'll just do what feels fun and okay instead" and they LOSE their MINDS

[mochilee-deactivated20191015]

my laptops fucked 

[spamaohno]

i hope they used a condom

[mochilee-deactivated20191015]

im going to punch every one of you that reblogs this

[shutupste]

the question is  who was the laptop and who was the lapbottom

[bisexualelena]

 #can laptopping please PLEASE be a new sex move#where you just sit on a person’s lap until they get uncomfortably warm