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.

[billgibbarchive]

Bill Gibb for Baccarat, Renaissance Pinafore Dress With Terracotta Shirt, ca. 1970. 

Images from 1stdibs.com

[tartharyen]

welcome to the new world.

25 YEARS OF A KNIGHT'S TALE THEATRICAL RELEASE – 11 MAY 2001

[character-association-game]

whos the blorbo you have the most merch of? it can be handmade or official or unofficial or ANYTHING just. merch

[clawmarks]

Chemnitzer Fibel / hrsg. vom Pädagogischen Verein zu Chemnitz ; Bilder von Karl Mühlmeister - 1910 - via e-rara

[museum-of-tea]

clipper - chamomile, lemon balm & lavender / snore & peace

[dinindourden]

Lawrence of Arabia (1962) dir. David Lean

[oldshrewsburyian]

Ask?

Thank you! From the 1930s Ivanhoe AU (sic):

But hearing Rebecca ask after Gurth’s health and his dog, and even smile a little when he recounted Fang’s latest mischief and achievements, Wilfred thought that perhaps he had made the right choice after all.

[oldshrewsburyian]

WIP ask: submarine

Alas, I appear to have no submarine! No submarines in Foyle fic, and the fic set in the 1960s is just too early for the yellow one. (Thanks for the ask, though!)

[oldshrewsburyian]

For the WIP word asks: breathe or sleep?

Thank you! I think you have already seen this, but, from Ivanhoe Noir:

Temple looked down at her, slumped against his shoulder, her face slack with sleep, and he wondered how many kinds of fool he was.

[lokincest-deactivated20180601]

Fanfiction Work-In-Progress Guessing Game

Send me a word, if it’s in my wip document I’ll answer your ask with the sentence that it appears in

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

Have you seen Dances with Wolves (1990)?

Yes

No

Haven’t even heard of this movie

Remaining time: 2 days 14 minutes

[Note: This poll is a re-do of an older poll, as the original poll for it received less than 1,500 votes.]

[existential-celestial]

Ilya Kaminsky, from “Musica Humana  [an elegy for Osip Mandelstam],” in Dancing in Odessa

[sprinkledsalt]

I mean......this is one of the most well-known ways AI fucks up! It makes shit up! It hallucinates! That's a big reason why it shouldn't be seen as acceptable to just read AI summaries instead of actually reading the sources themselves, because you can't trust whatever the AI shits back out at you. And the bluesky poster is what gets me, like, people go "oh well that's why you have to check AI in your research!" There's still option B: do this kind of research the way everyone did it up until 20-fucking-23 and don't use Claude or ShitGPT.

More takes from the replies:

(this last one gets down to so much AI discourse lmao)

[dreamyvixen]

vintage 1970s silver “bloody tower” charm opens to executioner

[oldshrewsburyian]

Fernand Braudel, a giant of the field, being transparently honest in a footnote.

[sorrrowfull]

[classicfilmsource]

Roma Città Aperta 1945 | dir. Roberto Rossellini