Shtuff I Like

Silly stuff and other things

[vvhack]

[lovingechoes]

Gotta do it

[kaible-deactivated20181205]

I don’t care what news I get I just want this stupid potato dog on my dash

[travellertalks]

^

[spicy-space]

I THINK I MAY HAVE BEEN ON THIS HELLSITE FOR 7 YEARS

[spicy-space]

OH GOD ITS NEARLY 2022 HOW WHY WHAT

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

Alternatives To Sleeping in Coffins

An Illustrated Guide For Vampires

1. Privacy Tent

2. Antique Chinese Wedding Bed

3. Victorian Box Bed

4. Canopy Bed

5. Full Body Wearable Blanket + Novelty Halloween Mask of Choice

6. Hyperrealistic Black Bear Sleeping Bag (with built in ‘Do Not Disturb’ feature)

7. Tinfoil Bodysuit (For maximized UV protection)

8. Blackout Curtains You Fucking Vampiric Dumbass

in conclusion why in fuck’s name are you sleeping in coffins to begin with you utter shitmuppets

[spicy-space]

Since I was very little, I have been fixated on the idea of having a box bed

[staff]

All good things...

We love coming up with new features to make your experience on Tumblr more visceral; when they don’t work out that way, we remove them to make space for new features. Unfortunately, group chats haven’t lived up to our expectations, so we’ll be removing them from Tumblr this month.

Some of you have really leaned into group chats, discussing the merits of various sourdough proofing times, sharing your WIPs with new audiences, and exchanging complicated fan theories on the provenance of Croki.

The majority of you, however, have preferred to have these interactions elsewhere. And so, as we get ready to remove the group chat feature from Tumblr, it’s time to take these conversations to your reblog chains, your replies, and your messages. We’ll leave your chats up until September 22 at 6pm EST. After that, well, the weird will continue to be your oyster.

[spicy-space]

Well, it was fun while it lasted.

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

I really enjoy the genre of “older literature featuring a really smart but deranged college student who does something really fucked up with his knowledge and has multiple breakdowns over it for the rest of the story.” one because it is entertaining and two it encapsulates the college experience in a way nothing else does.

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

like hamlet, raskolnikov, frankenstein—i do not condone but i DO understand

[archaeologysucks]

If anyone is looking for more of these, I recommend THE PRIVATE MEMOIRS AND CONFESSIONS OF A JUSTIFIED SINNER by James Hogg. Published in Scotland in 1824, it follows the exploits of a young fanatical Calvinist who believes he is one of God’s Chosen, and can therefore do no wrong. He ends up murdering his own brother, and becoming BFFs with a maybe-real-maybe-imaginary person who may or may not be the actual literal Devil, who goads him into taking more and more extreme “justified” actions as his life progressively falls apart around him.

[vincent-van-gtg]

[catchaspark]

According to Know Your Meme, on August 18th, 2005, Erwin Beekveld brought forth this work into the world. HAPPY TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY, THEY’RE TAKING THE HOBBITS TO ISENGARD.

[timefortigers]

sheds a single tear

[catchaspark]

every august 18th my notifications break and i go, fuck, tumblr has failed me once again, but it hasn’t. it hasn’t failed me. it’s just the taking the hobbits to isengard-iversary. happy 12 years

[blazing-orchids]

a very important holiday amongst my people

[princessnijireiki]

FIFTEEN YEARS BABY

[lathalea]

HELL YEAH 🤘🤘🤘

[spicy-space]

🎉🔥

[rotgospels]

i’m going to kill every academic who quotes something in another language without providing a translation

[archaeologysucks]

So apparently Netflix is making archaeology cool again? Here we go ….

Hey, kids, don’t become an archaeologist! That shit is not glamorous or romantic! It’s a lifetime of low pay, thankless backbreaking work, bad weather, and endless regulations.

Only go into this field if you care deeply about historical preservation, and not if you think it sounds like a good time!

See this blog and my faq for more info.

[snarkaeologist]

The thing about archaeology is ‘homeless alcoholic drifter’ isn’t what happens if you fail, it’s just considered a normal part of the career path.

[archaeologysucks]

Friend, you are not wrong.

[justanotherweirdarchaeologist]

Alcoholism comes with your enrollment, basically. 🤔

[spicy-space]

Don’t you just love it when two competent female photographers are replaced by a male love interest....... ah well at least it’s some representation of archaeology in popular media that’s not totally insane.

[executiveoutcomes-deactivated20]

No offence but you know what's really weird about America? You've got hardly any history past a couple of centuries. No medieval castles, no Roman walls, no bronze age settlement sites. Is there even anything for archeologists to dig for?

People have been here for quite some time, they’ve only been white for 500 years

[queen-of-dirt]

As an American studying archaeology this ask filled me with a seething rage

[lifeinsherds]

Chaco Canyon. 1250 A.D

Monks Mound 900 A.D

Montezuma Castle, 1100 A.D

Temple Mound, 500 A.D

Just because they aren’t traditional western style buildings doesn’t mean they aren’t there. These are only a FEW examples of the monumental architecture built by Native Americans in the US. The “prehistory” of America is as vast and varied as whatever is in Europe.

[snarkaeologist]

I never understand people who will travel so far to see Stonehenge or Roman ruins but completely discount Cahokia or Mesa Verde. There are SO MANY amazing ancient sites in America. And most of them are comparatively little-known and visited.

I think a difference in Europe is that they seem better at coexisting with their history - there are cities where you can see modern buildings next to ones from the Middle Ages. Our (surviving) ancient sites in the US aren’t in the middle of major population centers, which makes them easier to overlook. I don’t think that’s entirely a bad thing, preservation-wise, but it’s also not an excuse for forgetting they exist.

[archaeologistproblems]

Folks I live in Atlantic Canada and I’m an hour away from an archaeological site complex that’s at least 11,000 years old, suspected to be 13,000 years old. That’s nearly three times older than the Great Pyramid at Giza. The Wabanaki are called the People of the Dawn for a reason. Come on.

[rynthetyn]

There are multiple temple mounds within 10-20 minutes of me on the gulf coast of Florida that date back more than a millennium, and were actively inhabited areas before the Spanish showed up and committed genocide.

[mxopifex]

And a whole bunch of Native American people built around astrological events just like Stonehenge. Except they weren’t just using the solstices that happen every year. No, they were using the major lunar standstills which only happen every 18 years.

There are places where Native Americans were building cities without an agrarian lifestyle. Hunter gatherer cities! That is completely different from how western civilization developed! How cool is that! How aggressively does that up end the idea that hunter gatherers were inherently more primitive than agrairian cultures.

The fact that I didn’t learn about any of this until I was in my 30s and actively seeking this information in my own time is criminal.

[justanotherweirdarchaeologist]

Me, an archaeologist from central Europe with not a great knowledge about the americas and it’s sites even: *rage noises*

[finelythreadedsky]

dark academia is just when the lightbulbs in the library haven’t been replaced in nine years

[terpsikeraunos]

dark academia is when your department is in the basement

[tjwock]

You can just say dark academia is archaeology it’s ok

[archaeologistproblems]

This post hurled me back to ten years ago in the Sheffield Western Bank Library when I had to go to the sub-basement via an unlit staircase repeatedly for books, and fewer than half of the lights worked so I had to use the “torch” function on my phone (just a white screen, it was a £9 phone) to try to find the book I needed, when whatever batshit Dewey Decimal system that Sheffield was relying on didn’t assign a unique call number to each book.

Dark academia is definitely describing archaeology.

[brightwanderer]

..... Ea-Nasir is that YOU

[hotvampireadjacent]

okay maybe this is common knowledge but not to me

twitter source: https://twitter.com/Al_Naffy40/status/1361419318206947328

THEY REALLY FUCKING STOLE THE REAL GATE OF ISHTAR AND LOOTED IT ALL THE WAY TO BERLIN GERMANY? Truly no words for the level of theivery and evil. and Iraq now has a ~recreation~ while the real thing is in germany

source to back it up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishtar_Gate 

litearlly no words this is so evil and vile

[chewedcorn]

There’s a lot to unpack here.

[streetsamurai]

[93dwtw]

Iris Van Herpen is a Dutch fashion designer known for fusing technology with traditional haute couture craftsmanship.

[stopmakingthosedecisions]

@glumshoe seems up your alley wrt fashion

[coolancientstuff]

Fragment of an ancient Greek Attic white ground kylix showing a Thracian woman with tattooed arms. Pistoxenos Painter, 470-460 BC.