give up?

"old man lydia" they/them. an archive of my life. a real amiable sort of freak.

[nature-nerd-sarah]

crossposting this meme from a discord server lol

[mogumu]

sleepy melon shirt for itemlabel 🍈

[syn4k]

"lock in" is probably one of the most important phrases to enter the public lexicon in the 2020s

[joyflameball]

[adonischildsupportcase]

[laboitediabolique]

Cover of the October 1992 issue of Animedia, published by Gakken Co., Ltd

[technicolor-human-condom-blog]

i don't get insomnia often but when i do oh man. had to pee at 2:30AM? congrats bud you are Up. You're Awake Now. you're gonna be hungry for a full meal at 4:45 in the AM. you have been asleep for 3 hrs total and now you're awake forever. i just took a walk around my yard in the grey light like a ghost

[3liza]

love when im watching a documentary and im like "yep thats an egyptologist alright"

[3liza]

oh my god?

[3liza]

[rudjedet]

*hisses in Egyptologist*

So for those of you who don't know yet, this is Colleen Darnell, also known as The Vintage Egyptologist on Instagram where she goes full colonialist in 1920s/1930s clothing complete with pith helmets and using Egyptians both living and dead as props. (Not kidding: she takes Aesthetique™ photos in tombs.) She's married to John Darnell, who was formerly her professor and PhD supervisor at Yale, and it's quite a well-known scandal in Egyptological circles that the two were having an affair before and at the time of her working on that PhD. John, who was married during that affair, eventually divorced his wife and then married Colleen.

In the field, they're considered bad scholars. Beyond the Yale scandal, beyond the fact they're being ridiculously colonialist in the way they present themselves and their "vintage fashion" choices, which they will extend to wearing on actual digs in Egypt itself, their condescending attitudes bleed through in their scholarship. A scholarship that's mediocre at best to begin with, especially John's. However, because they (especially Colleen) have such a strong social media presence, they keep getting asked for docus or to serve as consultants for popular media (e.g. Jodi Picoult heavily consulted them for her novel The Book of Two Ways and whoof it shows), and most people won't question their fashion choices because "ohh aesthetic".

However, by far most Egyptologists severely dislike them for their academic dishonesty and refusal to acknowledge the loaded history behind their chosen mode of dress.

ETA to address some things I've seen in the notes: enjoying 1920s/1930s fashion on its own doesn't make you colonialist. It's the intersect between the choice of fashion and where to wear it - in this case in a professional setting, in a field with a colonialist history - as well as the overall attitude displayed towards the subject of study.

[mizuform]

if i got put on death row i would ask for my last meal to be a chilis triple dipper

[tarragonthedragon]

i just got the "see where your blood has gone!" email from giving blood but it glitched and just showed me my current location. which. theyre not wrong. that is where most of my blood is

[mabaki]

Art Fight / GW2CC Revenge on @sleidog!

[shencomix]

[obsidian-svn]

if you think about me inappropriately you have to tell me. thats the law

[kumkaniudaku]

And then you can’t even say shit about bc people start trying to put you in a jacket and shit. Like omg it’s so strict???

[i-fuck-audis]

MY FUCKING CAR

[innerchildabortionclinic]

interesting kink assortment on the dash

[annawanderlust99]

Lisbon, Portugal

[mewvore]

"we detected a mature post" yeah I'm in my 30s