scarcely odd

art, science, & various fandoms

[victusinveritas]

The Illustrated Book of Manners: A Manual of Good Behavior and Polite Accomplishments, 1866

"If the amount of happiness, immediate or ultimate, is increased by any costume, it is right to wear it."

[have-you-been-here]

A powwow, anywhere

Have you been here?

I have been here

I have not been here

Voting ended onAug 22, 2025

[isuggestlandback]

I suggest you go to a powwow!

[isuggestlandback]

Yes and no.

Becoming a powwow dancer: closed practice

Attending the powwow, watching the dances, buying a bannock burger and maybe some jewelry or a shiny keychain or something: VERY OPEN

We like it when non Natives come spend time with us. We are friendly and loving people, and there are aspects of our culture that we are willing to share! There are even special dances called intertribals where everyone (yes EVERYONE, including you!!) is invited to come dance.

Powwows are really special. Use your good manners and treat the powwow grounds with respect and you are more than welcome to join us.

[isuggestlandback]

AND BRING CASH

[obstinatecondolement]

Someone should publish a pronunciation guide for bookish children with words like boatswain, victuals, epitome and so forth. It could probably just be a slim pamphlet, but it would save a lot of nerds a lot of embarrassment down the line.

[obstinatecondolement]

Someone should publish a pronunciation guide for bookish children with words like boatswain, victuals, epitome and so forth. It could probably just be a slim pamphlet, but it would save a lot of nerds a lot of embarrassment down the line.

[love]

The Sower, 1888 by Vincent Van Gogh

[scarcelyodd]

I've started a new job - and had fun making an intro reel!

[witchqueenofthemoon]

Border embellishments from Little Red Riding Hood, Trina Schart Hyman.

[0022th]

Amy Brier’s limestone carvings

[musdomus]

These are the kind of items that will drive archeologists nuts thousand years from now.

[ceramicbeef]

i ❤️ my 3 mutuals that like my posts no matter what it is you guys are going on my will

[scarcelyodd]

@anonsally

You immediately popped into my mind upon reading this!

[16tinyfrogs]

on watching a parent age

i saw somebody say “what if you’re gone and i haven’t become anything yet” and basically that broke me on a random thursday evening

[exhaled-spirals]

« Whenever a land hermit crab is lucky enough to come across an empty shell (sometimes because a behavioural ecologist put it there) and if no one else is around, it will stop, take a closer look and probably try on the new shell for size. If it likes what it finds it will keep the new home and continue on its way. However, if the shell is too big the crab won’t pass on by, but will sit quietly next to it, sometimes for as long as 24 hours. In that time other crabs will probably amble past and wonder what’s going on. Then a spontaneous hermit party breaks out. Don’t get too excited, though, because the main thing that happens when hermit crabs get together is they start forming queues.

A gaggle of hermit crabs clustered around a big empty shell will sort themselves out into a size-ordered line with the biggest at one end, leading to the smallest at the other. This orderly formation is called a vacancy chain, and people form them too, of jobs and houses. The crabs work out who goes where by clambering around and feeling up each other’s shells. Sometimes, if there are lots of hermits in the area, several queues will form around a single, large vacant shell and then things get a bit more interesting: a tug-of- war ensues. The biggest crabs will wrestle over the coveted empty shell while the little ones further down the line will shift queues like supermarket shoppers speculating on which checkout will move fastest.

Eventually, one queue will win control of the empty shell and, in a flurry of claws, everybody in the successful line moves house. Each crab slips out of its old shell and into the newly abandoned shell of the crab one place ahead of it in the queue. They all get a new shell, one size bigger, and quickly scuttle off, once again going their separate ways. Behavioural ecologists have worked out that forming vacancy chains provides benefits for all the crabs involved; adding just one new shell can efficiently provide new homes, of just the right sizes, for a whole gang of hermits. »

— Helen Scales, Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells

[scarcelyodd]

guys guys guys!

[longingforrotkehlchen]

My face when I'm getting... a day off.

Mandarinente ♂️ (mandarin duck) am Pumpsee im Rosensteinpark, Bad Cannstatt.

[nessa007]

[lizardsfromspace]

Over time 90s music will get boiled down to just cheap nostalgia for boy bands. This is disgusting. How dare you erase the year where everyone was inexplicably super into Gregorian Chants

[lizardsfromspace]

"Wait were they reall-"

IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE TIME DRIFTS SLOWLY A WORLD WHERE MUSIC CARRIES YOU AWAY EXPERIENCE PURE MOODS, THE PERFECT SOUNDTRACK FOR YOUR WAY OF LIFE DIRECT FROM EUROPE THIS MULTI-PLATINUM COLLECTION HAS WON THE HEARTS OF MILLIONS SET ADRIFT WITH THE TIMELESS PLEASURES OF TUBULAR BELLS OR TAKE A TRIP INTO THE UNKNOWN WITH THE X-FILES THEME NO OTHER COLLECTION GIVES YOU THE FEELING OF PURE MOODS

[theluckydimecaper-deactivated20]

YouTube has a playlist for this!!!

Various Artist - Pure Moods (Full Album) (1994 Original + 1997 Re-release)

Here is the entire tracklist for Pure Moods, a wonderful and totally beautiful compilation album from the dawn of the contemporary New-age m

[xelbleedsglitter]

I OWN ALL THESE ALBUMS

[musicalhell]

And Celtic music. Between Riverdance and Titanic Celtic music was huge in the late 90s to the point that Loreena McKennitt was charting on Billboard:

[elodieunderglass]

My family were the Gregorian and Loreena McKennitt family btw.

[saffronheliotrope]

We were an Enya family. And Clannad! And brief but important side quests into the Corries and Steeleye Span!

[scarcelyodd]

Preserving @scribblinaway 's tag for all eternity: #one time in like 2008 i found a cd in a dollarama that was gregorian chant covers of backstreet boys songs

(You didn't understand then how the universe was setting you up for this tumblr post...17ish years in the making!)

[teashoesandhair]

The books

Welcome to my progress on reading a book by a woman from every country in the world. Each country is listed in alphabetical order. If there’

I have spent the past few years slowly working through my flawless decision to read a book by a woman from every country in the world (just finished book 104, so I'm over halfway at last...) and I have spent the past few hours making a website to chart all of the books and my thoughts on them, such as they are. Please do go and have a gander, not least because WordPress makes me want to beat my head against a glass-encrusted wall. Make this pain mean something.

I've only written entries for just over 10% of what I've read so far, but I'm hoping to have it mostly up to date within the next few weeks!

[teashoesandhair]

Update: read another book, somehow wrote up another 35, so now there's over 50 books that I've fully reviewed... just another 55 to review and another 92 to read, hahahahahaha

[teashoesandhair]

Decided to be an idiot and update the handy little interactive map so that every pin on the map reflects the author's actual birthplace or connection to the country they represent, because clearly I have nothing better to do with my Saturday

[pansyfemme]

blogging is great for me because i love archiving pointless things

[fluentisonus]

☞ THUS