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.

[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 hours

[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

[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: