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fandom/personal blog: fandom stuff; personal stuff; etc. TL;DR: ME: ROZ; 25↑; 90's kid Sad Adult™ BLOG: MARVEL/AVENGERS (PRIMARILY STEVETONY). MXTX. BATFAM/NIGHTWING (also in sideblog). OTHER STUFF. My opinions are a constant work-in-progress. if you'd like me to start tagging something, feel free to hit me up in my ask. Tagging is somewhat arbitrary these days but I'll at least try to remember. also if you send an ask, lmk if you want it answered privately

[tonyglowheart]

if u follow me and have not read Qian Qiu (Thousand Autumns), by Meng Xi Shi (it's licensed in English!! I bought the books including preordering the special ed. of Vol 5 but have not read the "official" translation yet lmao so dk if it's uhhh good, but you can get it! or perhaps request it at your local library!) (tbh many of the fantls are still up, too, in uhh varying. degrees of quality lmao. but then again I also can't vouch for what quality the licensed tl is ig)

then. can I convince you to read Qian Qiu (Thousand Autumns), by Meng Xi Shi, lmao....

[plaguedocboi]

Alright lobling fans its your lucky day

[phantomrose96]

[lesbianshepard]

One of the guys I worked with told us a story about how, when they were doing archaeology surveys in the woods they ran into a bigfoot hunter. Bigfoot guy asked if they had seen signs of bigfoot, and he was like "Sorry, nothing like that. We're archaeologists, so we're looking for human stuff." and the bigfoot guy was like "Oh! I saw some Native American cairns on my way out here. I can give you a general location." and when he was like "Yeah dude, that'd be sick. We're actually looking to document those." the bigfoot guy was like "Yeah, they looked pretty cool. I didn't touch them though, because Native Americans built them, not bigfoot."

[primordialcell]

i feel like scary standing water and i want to feel like a river or at least a creek

[dramatic-dolphin]

and if i said nolan's odyssey starring no greek actors and with no recognizable aspects of greek culture or involvement by greeks, is the direct legacy of white supremacist colonialism that treated ancient greece as not just the pinnacle of ancient culture, but of an artificially created "european" culture, which white western europeans and their settler descendants, as the new pinnacle of culture, were the sole spiritual inheritors of.

[hiveswap]

^^^ PEOPLE ARE STILL THERE. There's a metro station across the street from the colosseum where i found a hair in my pizza slice. We drove by ruins of an amphitheater next to a motorway in greece once. It's literally just real places where real people live and have lived. It's not mythical perfect lands that once existed. I went to Itacha in 2023 and there was not enough parking space.

[museum-of-artifacts]

Parchment holes in manuscript repaired using embroidery circa 1417, currently in University Library Uppsala, Sweden

[handmadehistorypodcast]

What wait WHAT

[mydonkeyfeet]

I love seeing parchment / vellum mended with stitching! Here are some more.

[pointnclick]

Thank you for coming to my this

[fartbong-rewritten]

adulthood involves green bell peppers in some way I think

[t4timekeeper]

yeah i just love it when a character is in an escapable torment nexus for a huge portion of their life and it defines every aspect of their existence forever. also whats cptsd

[dogpuppy]

[plaguedocboi]

So every year, my aquarium does a captive lobster hatchery project (hence all the loblings). The reason we’re doing it is because in the wild, loblings only have a 1 in 25,000 chance of surviving their larval phase. They’re plankton as babies and everything eats them. Additionally, as the Gulf of Maine warms, they are having even lower survival rates because the blooms of copepods they feed on as babies are happening earlier in the year, and they’re missing it.

Obviously, the goal of this experiment is to grow the lobsters until they’re big enough to settle to the seabed and then release them, because they have a much higher likelihood of surviving to adulthood when they’re able to hide. Ideally, captive lobster hatcheries can boost the wild population and keep things stable, so we don’t have a major crash in a decade or two.

The first year we tried this was pretty bad. We had a lot of eggs, but very few babies. It turned out that the CO2 levels in the building spiked as more guests visited throughout the summer, and that settled into the water and threw off the pH and caused a chemical reaction that prevented a lot of the eggs from hatching. I think we ended up releasing three baby lobsters (which is still better than their wild survival rate but not great).

The second year was a little better. We added a de-gasser to the aquarium and got a ton of larval lobsters, but right as they were settling to the bottom we had a disease outbreak that killed most of them. We ended up releasing four babies at the end of the season.

But this year? Oh boy. We have so many lobsters that we had to release the first round early (usually we wait till September or October so guests can see them). We just released a total of FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE baby lobsters, and we still have over a hundred who haven’t settled to the bottom yet. I genuinely don’t even have words to explain how cool this is. OVER FIVE HUNDRED. We just added hundreds of lobsters to the wild population that wouldn’t have been there otherwise.

Conservation is so fucken sick

[mysticetes]

ur actually a bad person and a terrible human being for shaving ur legs, is that what u wanna hear

[drops-of-universe]

please dont vape your blueberry ice flavor around my kid. we are raising him on marlboro reds exclusively.

[jeyneofpoole]

christopher nolan’s the odyssey poses a new and interesting question of what if we cast matt damon as odysseus and made him look directly into the camera while he says “THIS AGE OF BRONZE IS COLLAPSING 😟” and calypso had lip filler.

[jeyneofpoole]

odysseus literally sails off into the sunset through the power of love. they cut the “nobody” exchange. i am not joking.

[whimsicalfairytales]

The “nobody” scene in the odyssey is absolutely not just a clever pun—it’s a character defining moment for Odysseus because he refuses to be nobody. He devised an incredible plan that worked and he could have saved his men and returned home much sooner but he just had to yell to the cyclops that he isn’t nobody—he’s Odysseus, king of Ithaca so now Poseidon knows who to curse which severely fucks up the rest of the journey.

The “nobody” scene highlights both Odysseus’s cleverness but also his arrogance and those two traits define Odysseus throughout the entire story. It’s a foundational aspect of Odysseus’s character and cutting the scene displays a shocking level of ignorance and disregard for the themes in the source material.

[secretly-sirens]

The "Nobody" scene is literally one of the most important parts. It's the moment of hubris that dooms Odysseus and his journey.

[itsc]

black cat study from the weekend