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[annabelle--cane]

i don't really know anything about murderbot so every time i see the abbreviation tmbd in your posts my brain goes "they might be dgiants"

well. maybe the band should change its name to the murderbot giaries.

[pliablehead]

edit i made a while back

objectively correct, 10/10 no notes

[leonardcohenofficial]

fanfic guess: "blood"

from my years old vanerackham fic draft that i desperately need to finish at some point

Charles is somewhat right. There is a part of [Jack] that’s excited by violence, a part of himself that he doesn’t really indulge. There’s something to the slick satisfaction of running his sword through an opponent in the heat of battle, or slitting the throat of anyone who dares try and fuck with his companions. But that’s not the same to him as how what he might call brutality lights up Anne and Charles’s blood.

[motherfuckingnazgul]

1, 2, 3 for the AO3 ask meme!

(Post here if anyone else wishes to send one, or reblog it for yourself!)

1. How many words have you written this year?

According to my wordcount tracking spreadsheet, 69,919! That does include academic writing (which is sometimes estimated). I'm not sure it's 100% accurate and it does include some amount of me crediting myself with words for revision, but, you know. Take the wins where you can get 'em.

2. How many works did you publish this year?

Only three, plus some updates for a WIP.

3. What work are you most proud of (regardless of kudos/hits)?

From this year? I think Looked to the Children, my MDZS RBB 2024 fic. In general? I have a few, though right now Mister and Mister is top of my list because I've been thinking about how fucking great it was lately. Thanks again to you and Jay for spurring me to write that one! I've also always been pretty happy with There Will Be A Dawn, incidentally also a fic that @bardic-inspirjaytion was partially responsible for.

[specialagentartemis]

love your addition to that post about misinformation earlier this month, genuinely, but your summary of the situation re: the medicinal ingestion of human corpse matter in europe is kind of misleading. among other things, i don't know anyone who would call the 17th century "medieval." paracelsus didn't even die until the 1540s. periodization is complicated and mostly bullshit when people look for hard lines between "eras" of human history, but using terms that conjure an idea of a time literal centuries removed from the things we're talking about obfuscates the proximity and connections between things like corpse medicine, anatomical theaters, criminalization/execution, and the development of the modern western medical system. sorry for the long rant in your ask box, i just have a master's degree in Literally This.

to be clear, i am not at all arguing that the mummy being used medicinally was always or even often made of Egyptian mummies. i just wanted to be annoying about time periods. though by the early 1600s physicians like oswald croll were outwardly recommending fresh (executed) european bodies as the source of mummy, so i do kind of take issue with the assertion that people always thought they were buying something different. anyway, as a parting gift thanking you for making it this far in my longwinded asks, did you know moss grown on a human skull was also a source of medicine? called muscus ex cranio humano or usnea humana.)

Ohh huh. Thank you for messaging me; this is a lot more context than I had when I made my post.

I’m an American archaeologist (that is, I work in the Americas), so my areas of specialty are the US Southwest/Mexican Northwest ca. 800-1400 CE, and New England (or okay mostly Massachusetts and some New Hampshire) 1700s-1800s. I also have a solid grounding in the Bronze Age Aegean. But what that means is that early modern Europe is not my forte at all, and I did what I caution about doing and relied primarily on Wikipedia and a tumblr user I find reliable for that information. There were some quick to find sources that supported an 11th-12th century origin for the eating of ancient Egyptian mummies as medicine, which is what I meant by Medieval. I also kind of thoughtlessly took “mummy” to mean “ancient Egyptian mummified human remains” when of course ancient Egypt did not hold a monopoly on corpses or even mummies. I wasn’t intending to speak about the ingestion of human corpse matter as a whole, just Egyptian mummies. But both of these made the result end up misleading and not fully true, and I’m sorry about that.

There’s a specific cultural image of Victorian Britons opening sarcophagi and eating mummies that they looted from thousand-year-old Egyptian tombs, and it becomes a thrilling/disgusting synecdoche for British imperialism in Africa. That’s the part that’s a myth (though 19th century Egyptomania was real and the mummy unwrappings and some mummy-paint were also real.)

However, I was not well informed about the scope of European corpse medicine throughout history, and was honestly shocked to learn just how widespread and recent it was! And for sure you’re right, the 1500s-1600s when European corpse medicine was at its peak is hardly medieval. They mostly weren’t eating ancient Egyptians by that point (though they seem to have been at least a little, because in the late 1500s bodies were still being smuggled as contraband out of Egypt and into Europe), but yeah Europeans sure as hell were eating corpses as medicine. (Those links are not a fact check @ you, it’s @ anyone who reads this and wants to read more.) That seems like it ought to count for “they didn’t teach me this in school!”

It’s good to hear from the people who have researched this stuff; it sounds fascinating. Thank you for sharing, and I’m sorry I was misleading.

And re: Usnea skull moss: that’s WILD. I would not want to stick that up my nose.

[dingdongyouarewrong]

i mean this in the most Honorific way but as soon as i reblogged that post about getting 'op your mind'-ed i thought "sarah dingdongyouarewrong" is gonna reblog this one" and then you did

the mortifying ordeal of your tumblr text post taste being known..

[clowniconography]

same hat meme Same Birthday!!

hey happy birthday!!!!!!

[atla-bigbang]

hi i know the description lists just atla and lok as media we can write for, but would we be able to do something for rise of kyoshi? or just the tv series?

hey! rise of kyoshi is fine! we mods are most familiar with the tv series, so that’s just what we thought to put down. we went ahead and edited our descript so hopefully it clears things up!