#skeleton-richard

[omgkatsudonplease]

Did you know there’s a medieval pope who according to some legends had a demon girlfriend who helped him achieve the papacy.

You know after hearing about the cadaver synod the bar for popely behaviour is in hell 🤣

[ardenrosegarden]

I wish you could come to my library, our summer reading program theme is dinosaurs and this week my former geology professor is doing a talk about trace fossils (his specialty) and you would have SO MUCH FUN

omgggg that's AWESOME, I'm so jealous! It's really cool you guys are bringing in cool speakers like that, people really get into that sort of stuff esp local geology and paleontology :D

[vinasimran]

Please allow me to join you in screaming about Mulder and Scully because I LOVE THEMMMM

Join meeee I’m literally frothing at the mouth and I’m not even halfway done with season 1!!!!!! Nobody is doing it like them!!!!!

[elucubrare]

Please, my lady, I am but a simple peasant from the 1300s... Please explain this "tumblr" to me.

In the future, there will be instant communication by leaving messages on a kind of board where others can see them; it will be used to share images, like paintings, and also to have long conversations about various subjects.

So, imagine a colloquium of monks -- the kind who they say love to talk about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. Remember charges of heresy, and how easily levelled they are at any monk who disagrees. Now imagine that there is no Pope, and anyone who speaks as though they have authority is said to have it. What was said to be orthodoxy last week is heresy this week. Therefore, we are all heretics, waiting for our heresy to be invented and exposed. 

[shredsandpatches]

One thing (out of countless things) Anne loves about her boys is that when she's with them, she doesn't have to be queen. She doesn't have to do any royal work or plead any cases or even be formal, she can just relax and be just *Anne*.

YES. Because being queen is actual work (as I talk about a bit in this post). She gets stressed just like Richard does, and her boys are not going to judge her for being ordinary-looking and infertile, they can just be three people in love. They don’t get nearly enough time to themselves, either. (This is also one reason I think they love beds so much in the Two Planks-verse: they are small private spaces with curtains!) 

[twostarsinonesphere]

I never quite understood why people think Dostoevsky is just always gloomy, there's so much more to his work that makes you feel all sorts of things!

the thing is!!! you're right! he's not gloomy at all, really. not when you dig deep into his work. he may be so on the surface, and i certainly understand how some people, when faced with the plots of "which of these brothers killed their father?" or "this dude killed two women and now is depressed" or "town possessed by demons" can assume that it's invariably going to be sad and depressing. but the truth is, there is so much humor and levity in these works. there is beauty and brightness in the characters and how they interact. dostoevsky's works, though heavy and dark, are not ultimately based around despair and death and pain. they are about the overcoming of those things.

(plus, if dosto was gloomy all the time the character of razumikhin, the most golden retriever character ever conceived by the human mind, would not be in a book about murder)

[chaotic-archaeologist]

This is random but I love seeing your answers to people's questions about studying archaeology, you're so nice and helpful and encouraging.

Thank you so much! I’m just trying to pay forward all of the really good mentoring that I’ve had from professors and grad students. Archaeology is such a big field, there’s room for everybody!

-Reid

[necromancy-savant]

Another probably canonically disabled character in Shakespeare is Hotspur. Kate basically lists the DSM definition of PTSD, and he shows some of those traits in the play, though not many performances pick up on this. (I have seen one that does, and combines it with their Hotspur being canonically autistic)

That’s a great one, thanks! I’ll be sure to mention him in class too. I’ll see if I can find that scene again.