I am Tired and in Pain and it Sucks

Hi, I'm Kat, though Ryn is just as nice! I'm very shy. any pronouns are acceptable, but my preferred are she/they. You're welcome to come chat with me, just be nice, please! I post whatever I feel like. Hope you enjoy your stay! 

[rosewaterjellly]

that moment near the end of act 2

[minotaurapologist]

Flat fuck Friday

[minotaurapologist]

Flatter than ever

[skitterjitter]

talked with my advisor and I'm like...maybe three classes from being eligible for graduation and I -- oh no --

[skitterjitter]

realizing that the Complete Works of Shakespeare my aunt gifted me that she found at an antique store is from 1878. I probably won't ever know anything about the person who left their name inside, but I wonder how they felt about Shakespeare's plays

[tj-crochets]

A space shark!!

This space shark is made with @firesidetextiles fabric and my shark pattern

[tj-crochets]

Hammerhead shark sewing pattern! No darts, no complicated machine sewing, but a fair amount of hand sewing Editing to add: this is @firesidetextiles fabric! It's my absolute favorite space fabric, I can't recommend it highly enough, it's awesome

Hammerhead shark pattern:

Cutting instructions:

-cut two (one mirrored) of both dorsal fins and the tail fin out of the fabric you are using for the shark's back

-cut two (one mirrored) of both side fins out of the fabric you are using for the shark's back

-cut two (one mirrored) of both side fins out of the fabric you are using for the shark's belly

-cut one of the shark body out of the shark back fabric, and one out of the shark belly fabric

Assembly:

put one side fin of back fabric and one of belly fabric right sides together and sew around the curved edges, leaving the flat side unsewn. Trim the seam allowance near the curves, and use that unsewn bit to turn the flipper right side out, then repeat for the other three side fins

2. put the two tail pieces right sides together, sew around the more pointed edges, and leave the part that's like a half circle unsewn. Trim the excess seam allowance and turn right side out through the unsewn section

3. put one pair of dorsal fins right sides together and sew around the outer edges, leaving the inner side unsewn. Trim the seam allowance near the curves, and use that unsewn bit to turn the flipper right side out, then repeat for the other dorsal fin

4. Baste side fins onto the shark belly where indicated on the pattern, one front side fin and one back side fin on each side. The belly colored fabric on the fins should be on the side closest to the shark belly, so that when the shark is sewn the underside of the fins matches the belly

5. put the shark belly and shark back right sides together, and sew around the exterior, leaving the last inch, inch and a half of the pointed section of the tail left unsewn. Use that unsewn section to turn the shark right side out

6. Add safety eyes (if using), and stuff the shark, then ladder stitch the pointy tail bit of the shark's body closed.

7. Add some stuffing to the tail, and this part is going to be a bit tricky. Tuck the seam allowance of the tail fin in, and open the tail around the pointy tail bit of the shark's body. You'll have to reposition it a bit, maybe add more stuffing, but once you've got the tail fin aligned how you want it, ladder stitch it in place (I know, I know, this is not a super clear instruction, I wrote this pattern before I knew better construction techniques but also this pattern has no Y seams and no gussets, so I'm hoping it evens out lol)

8. Lightly stuff the dorsal fins, tuck the seam allowances inside, and hand sew to the body where indicated on the pattern (I use the ladder stitch) Enjoy your new shark friend!! If you make one, I'd love to see it, feel free to tag me. You are free to sell things you make with this pattern, as long as you make them yourself or like friends or family do*, just don't try to sell the pattern itself *normally I'd say something like "not mass produced" but lets be honest. This would be a terrible pattern to try to mass produce lol

[infected]

The Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Paris, photos by Conway Clements

[glovepaint]

Read Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher and I enjoyed it a lot!

So, here's everyone Marra gathered to find out "how to kill a prince"✨

Some extras/everyone on their own because I need to show off all the pockets I drew for the coat of the dust-wife that were partially hidden:

[skitterjitter]

perhaps one reason I don't mind spoilers, now that I think about it, is because I love dramatic irony. I love Knowing Something the characters don't, feeling the tension rise as I wait for the Reveal, and the catharsis of that Reveal and it's aftermath

[bethanydelleman]

Maybe it's naive of me, but whenever I see portraits like this, with just a father and daughter, it restores my faith in humanity a little. Because people seem to love this idea that fathers never loved their daughters in the past and only saw them as bargaining chips for marriage or whatever, but look at the guy in the first portrait on the left, he loves that little girl! And the dad trying to do his work while his daughter bothers him with an Old Timey Barbie. The man teaching his daughter geography, his expression is so soft! The way the man in the last portrait holds the little girl's hand! And none of these are incidental, these aren't photographs, someone (probably the father) paid good money and sat down for hours so that they could have a painting of themselves and their daughter. Probably because they loved their daughter.

From left to right: 1795 Michał Jerzy Mniszech with his daughter Elżbieta - Marcello Bacciarelli; Christopher Anstey and his daughter Mary Ann by William Hoare 1776; A Musician and His Daughter by Thomas de Keyser 1629; The Geography Lesson (Portrait of Monsieur G. and His Daughter), 1812; Jean-baptiste Isabey And His Daughter; Portrait of a Young Girl and Older Man by William Harrison Scarborough

(this is probably somewhat related to my other favourite genre of painting, Husband With Multiple Kids Making Come Hither Eyes At His Wife)

[janeeyreofmanderley]

oh I love those! People being people is one of my favourite kinds of paintings and an important reminder that people in past times were not all that different. There were dads who loved their daughters fiercely. There were fathers who happily looked after their babies too. The German reformer Philip Melanchton for example had a cradle in his office. His wife was busy organising a household for 20 people- she was out and about, he mostly worked in his office, it made sense for him to look after their babies too babies while she dropped by at snack time.

in fact often if it was kind of safe dads had the babies in their workshops for just that reason as we can see in these paintings:

The left is “the busy father” by Theodore Weber, the right one is “At the china repairer’s “ by Wenzel Tornoe. All dads who are actively involved in childcare and a painter who thought it was a cute topic rather than anything ridiculous.

[obi-troll-kenobi]

I raise you:

First Lesson by Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865 - 1931)

Un Coup De Main (The Helping Hand) by Émile Renouf (1845 – 1894)

Italian Winegrower And His Daughter by Francesco Baratta (1590-1666)

[skitterjitter]

if I could go back in time and ask Vergil about a singular character in his works, I would, without hesitation, pick Lavinia in the Aeneid

there's so much that could have been explored -- her relationship with her parents, Turnus, Aeneas, and secondarily with Ascanius. being a narrative parallel to Creusa as an embodiment of their respective homelands and an inversion of Dido -- but it's all just left in the background

was her story so sparse because he died, and would have expanded on her in later edits or even further books? did he intend to leave her voiceless?

I wish I knew the answers, and I know I will only ever have speculation

[aviantastic]

Tree Swallows by Linda H. Dulak - Audubon Photography Awards

[fluentisonus]

barn swallows depicted in the “spring fresco”, akrotiri, thera, greece. c. 16th century BC

[skitterjitter]

I've seen a fox outside my window more times in the past week and half than I have in the last 6 years combined

[knittinghistory]

An c.1000-1200 CE example of Egyptian cotton knitted socks.

[yarns-nstuff]

I made a chart for it!

I realised while making it that the pattern on the sock isn't always symmetrical or identical, so I had to be a little creative. But I managed to get it pretty close, I think!

[davetheshady]

thoughts:

1) the egyptians wore socks??

2) the egyptians wore tube socks?????

3) mental image of egyptians now top half traditional imagery and bottom half 70s basketball player

4) multiple sections of the book of the dead are probably march madness brackets

5) i want these socks

[jewishpangolin]

Keep in mind the caption says 1000-1200 CE, not BCE. So these are closer to us than they are to Ancient Egypt.

[davetheshady]

corrections:

1) medieval egyptians wore socks??

2) medieval egyptians wore tube socks?????

3) mental image of medieval egyptians now top half fatimid vizier and bottom half 70s basketball player

4) multiple sections of ibn al-nafis’ theologus autodidactus are probably march madness brackets

5) i want these socks

[seaglassandeelgrass]

Collating additional sources from the notes:

The sock's catalogue page from the George Washington University Textile Museum collections: https://collections-gwu.zetcom.net/en/collection/item/2960/ appended by @jeannetterankin

Further information from a wikipedia page (linked by @acepalindrome) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Islamic_sock.jpg that appears to quote a previous item description from the textile museum:

12th century sock possibly found in Fustat, Egypt. The knitter of this sock started work at the toe and then worked up towards the leg. The heel was made last and then attached to loops formed while knitting the leg. This ingenious practice allowed the heel to be replaced when it wore out without the necessity of making new socks. The sock is thought to have been made in India because it was found with other materials exported from India and sold in the Egyptian market. Indigo dyes most likely color the two rich blue cotton yarns used to make the pattern on the socks. The yarn would have been dipped into indigo dye repeatedly until the desired shade was achieved.

And a complete, slightly variant, (free to download!) Ravelry pattern by Jodi Dyck, found by @blunderpuff https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/egyptian-medieval-socks

[mademoisellesarcasme]

Thank you for collating the information!! i went notes diving for exactly this!!!!!

[fleshfuckfaggot]

1. Toe up/afterthought heel socks superiority since (at least) the 12th century 🙌

2. Points deducted for using kfb increases instead of M1R/L, aka the superior increase

You can see kfb leaves an unsightly little hole in the stitch it’s worked into, whereas M1’s pick up and twist the horizontal legs beside live stitches. Also their increase repeats are all over the place. Some were every 8 sts, some were every 5th, which is very classic “oh my god I don’t care at this point just get it over with” knitter behavior. This very well may have been the second sock of the pair and suffered a bit from “second sock/sleeve/mitten syndrome”

[tridentandtales]

Roman necklace with Hercules knot / reef knot

3rd century BC

Altes Museum Berlin 1980.17

[zooophagous]

I didn't ask if it made sense to keep going. I said I'm going to kick your twisted evil ass.

[classicslesbianopinions]

Resources for the Internet Classicist

I've been meaning to make a new pinned post for this blog with a few resources etc. for a million years and now I'm procrastinating so here it is.

Link to old pinned post (articles about racism and white supremacy in classics) here. I highly recommend checking it out.

Under the cut you will find a list of resources that I have found invaluable. Please put your own in the replies and reblogs!

Dickinson College Commentaries: Latin and Greek grammars, word lists, and intermediate level commentaries on ancient texts.

Perseus Digital Library and Scaife viewer: absolute classic. Ancient texts and dictionaries. You can click a word in the text and see its potential functions and its definition in a few different dictionaries. also will let you view some texts side by side with an English translation.

philolog.us: literally just Lewis and Short, LSJ, and Slater dictionaries imported from Perseus, but with a really simple interface that makes it the easiest online dictionary to use if you just want to look up a word.

Logeion and Morpho: Logeion lets you look up a word in Latin or Greek and see it in a ton of different dictionaries at once. Morpho will tell you all the possible forms for any given word.

Diogenes Viewer: app that basically does what Perseus does except you can download it. There's a web version with open source texts but to get the full benefit you need to have both the app and the TLG and PHI Greek and Latin text databases downloaded. Send an ask off anon if you want more information about those.

Haverford Bridge: vocab lists for selected texts. There's also a page with the tools they use to generate the lists so you can make your own.

johnstoniatexts: texts that Ian Johnston has translated and put online for free. It doesn't have everything but it has kind of a mind-boggling amount considering everything on here is translated by one person. The translations tend to be a little wordier than I prefer but it's still my first stop when I'm looking for easily accessible translations to recommend to people because I know they're fairly recent and reasonably well-done.

Geoffrey Steadman: free early intermediate level commentaries in Latin and Greek. If you use them and have the means please consider giving him a couple dollars!

PHI Latin Texts: lots of Latin with word + author search functions.

theoi.com: theoi has source material in translation for a number of gods and mythical figures. They don't have everything but if you're looking for every story with x god it's usually a decent place to start.

Intermediate Ancient Greek Language: free open source Greek textbook covering Greek in more detail than your intro textbook/course.

This list is not comprehensive and I will probably keep adding to it!

Also if you're looking for anything feel free to send an ask and I'll see if I can find it and/or poll the masses (everyone following this blog). Anon is off at least until I'm done with finals but if you ask to have it answered privately I'll honor that.

[catilinas]

some that i use regularly include:

allen and greenough’s latin grammar on dickinson college commentaries (which you have already mentioned). specifically the indexes, for instances of ‘is this a specific weird verb use or am i stupid’

digital prosopography of the roman republic for quickly searching genealogical/prosopographical/dates of magistracies etc info for the roman republic. it’s like broughton’s magistrates of the roman republic but better

attalus, specifically their index of names and chronologies of sources

topostext, which maps primary sources onto. a map. of the ancient world

indexes to the works of ronald syme. you do have to download this one and it is massive and hurts my computer to search. but it is very useful if you are rummaging through syme

[erodingsinner]

once you learn about pseudoscience you're forever doomed to get angry when people talk about like. love languages or stockholm syndrome. but forced to stay quiet lest your lose your mind trying to correct millions of people