Becoming Harriet Vane

Bluestocking, feminist, itinerant scholar. She/her. Fueled by tea. Always open for questions and discussions. This adultbooklr-ish blog also includes history, fictional detectives, architecture, and Fantasy Canon Law™. Curator of @teaformrholmes.

[classicfilmsource]

Roma Città Aperta 1945 | dir. Roberto Rossellini

[oldshrewsburyian]

I finally saw The Odyssey, and one of my takeaways is that Robert Pattinson was tragically born too late to be a queer-coded antagonist in 1930s swashbucklers. That man is clearly meant to strike campy poses and get into his rival's personal space and be in slutty swordfights.

[sharpsarcasm]

Like this?

[oldshrewsburyian]

Exactly like this. Also like this:

[medusiad]

You're welcome.

[oldshrewsburyian]

Thank you! @ploridafanthers and @onbearfeet have also helpfully provided this:

*gestures* THAT

[chthonic-cassandra]

Yet people intensely aware of privilege based on gender, race, class, or sexuality seldom consider their linguistic privilege. English (or Spanish or Mandarin or Urdu) may just seem like the air you breathe. "Language" becomes more metaphor than reality - what's your love language? The only cure for monolingualism is to learn other actual human languages, but it's at least a start to learn about them, from those who speak them. Maybe there should be a special kind of therapy for monolinguals, where you have to sit listening to a language you can't understand, without translation but with total patience.

Ross Perlin, Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York

[piratewithvigor]

How many of these movies have you seen that people said “you haven’t seen [blank] yet??” to me about

[oldshrewsburyian]

I finally saw The Odyssey, and one of my takeaways is that Robert Pattinson was tragically born too late to be a queer-coded antagonist in 1930s swashbucklers. That man is clearly meant to strike campy poses and get into his rival's personal space and be in slutty swordfights.

[sharpsarcasm]

Like this?

[oldshrewsburyian]

Exactly like this. Also like this:

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

Have you seen Sliding Doors (1998)?

Yes

No

Haven’t even heard of this movie

Remaining time: 3 days 16 hours

[warrenwaskilledbyadeer]

I think objectively the funniest song of all time is With Catlike Tread

[mellaithwen]

Star Wars is to be dubbed into Welsh for the first time as the classic film prepares to celebrate its 50th anniversary next year (x)

Set to broadcast on S4C on Christmas Day, the film, Star Wars; Gobaith Newydd, stars some of Wales' most internationally-recognised actors including;

Matthew Rhys as Han Solo, Rhys Ifans as Obi-Wan Kenobi and Aimee-Ffion Edwards as Princess Leia. Star Wars veteran Mark Lewis Jones takes on the role of Darth Vader, while rising talent Osian Morgan voices Luke Skywalker.

A boed i'r Grym fod gyda chi - May the Force be with you!

S4C; Creative Wales; Lucasfilm

​…..shut the FRONT DOOR this is so fucking cool???!!!!?

[narcissa-black-supermacy]

i thought the “this is the face that launched a thousand ships, although now it would maybe be five-hundred.” line was just an internet joke but apparently that's a line Menelaus actually says in Nolan's Odyssey??

Not only that the language itself sounds straight out of a marvel forcibly funny haha moment, but Menelaus? The Menelaus who all thoughout human history, from Homer, to Sappho, to Euripides, to Virgil, to Shakespeare, to Brooke, to Barth; from Classical vases to Medieval poetry to Reinessance art, has been known as the man whose sword fell from his hands at the sight of his wife after 10 years apart?

"What joy for me to hold my wife" Menelaus?

"He flung the sword away, and kissed her feet" Menelaus?

"I believe all. I understand nothing. I love you" Menelaus?

"I have no fault to find; my wife, he daughter of Zeus and Leda, is mine again, she whom her brothers on their snow-white steeds, whilst torches blazed, made my happy bride, but gods removed her from my home." Menelaus?

The Menelaus who was picked out of the suitors by Helen herself? The Menelaus who couldn't kill a begging Trojan so his brother had to do it for him? The Menelaus who rescued Odysseus and got out Patroclus' body? The Menelaus who volounteered to fight Paris one on one so everybody could go home? Who kept expressing his guilt about himself being the cause of war through every assembly he spoke at in the Iliad? Who after 10 years away at Troy, took his wife through a 7-year long journey at sea back home, where he reinstated her as the queen of Sparta? Who wept like a child in front of Telemachus recalling the war and his brother and all the friends he lost and the only consolation being his wife' gentle hand on his?

You want me to believe that man scarred Helen's face and called her only worth half the ships because of it?

I'm actually physically sick just thinking about it.

[happilyhadesbound]

JOHN LIGHT as OBERON and MATTHEW TENNYSON as PUCK (Act 3, scene 2) A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare's Globe, 2013)

[vetchtibbles]

if you're transgender and need name ideas, may I direct you toward the nato alphabet because like. delta? november?? echo?? romeo is like the butchest name. please consider foxtrot. being named whiskey would be cool as hell. I know multiple transmascs who were a bit too into english lit and are named victor now. I've met people named sierra who were trans in every direction. maybe don't name yourself golf

[politedemon]

TED LASSO || S01E10

[wildwildtarget]

LEWIS || Allegory of Love

[tramontane-fire]

Reblog if you are Bad Queer Representation.

[urgetocreate]

Grzegorz Jacek Olejniczak, (Polish b.1968), Moments Before the Storm, 2026, Acrylic and oil technique

[oldshrewsburyian]

Sustainable College 101

Recently in "shark fins of discourse": I saw a post that said that if professors/universities don't want students to use generative AI, then college should be totally redesigned so as to be "sustainable for the human body and mind."

Speaking as a college professor: I promise you, dear students, that your human bodies and minds are not inherently more frail and less capable than those of the generations who have gone before. Also, with love: if you are finding that college is not sustainable for your body and mind 1) you have options 2) you're quite possibly doing it wrong. There have been students boasting or complaining more or less accurately about losing sleep over education for literal millennia, and I know that some institutions and programs can promote a cult of suffering (just say no!) but I promise you that college is not inherently impossible.

Firstly: medical leave is totally a thing. Secondly: if you think you're "probably fine" without accommodations, talk to the relevant office about getting accommodations. Also, if you've had a rough semester (death in the family, mental or physical health crisis), your university may have policies on taking a grade of "incomplete" in the course, that allows you to complete work at a later date. It requires professorial sign-off, of course.

Also, long before you get to that level of strain: there are lots of underused support facilities on campus. Communication centers, writing centers, learning support centers (formerly known as 'tutoring'): all of these are great resources. So are the friendly librarians yearning to help you learn to do research more efficiently.

And of course, not least: your professors are a resource, not The Enemy. Shocking, I know. It may also be worth mentioning that, contrary to Tumblr lore, there is a vast field of research centered on accessible pedagogy, and a lot of faculty really committed to it.

At this season of preparation for a new semester, my askbox is open; if this is a game-changer and you'd like to buy a figurative coffee for a full-time professor making the salary of a trainee manager at Walmart, you can do so here.

[badassdemonsword]

Im dryin up faster than lake mead just thinking about it

[chicknparm]

Futures

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