I'm A Damsel, I'm In Distress, I Can Handle This

The story of my Life, the Universe and very subjective and incomplete version of Everything.

[machetelanding]

[boatgrave-deactivated20250901]

[mysteryteacup]

*Scrolls past*

*reluctant sigh*

*scrolls back up*

*rebogs*

[geezerwench]

In Prince's funky name, amen.

[greywrenn]

Millennial here. All the above and:

Please send me the training or tutorial in a written format with maybe some screenshots if necessary. I don't want a video tutorial. I don't want to waste time trying to scroll to the exact moment in the instructions that I need and then have to pause and replay it because I missed the .01 seconds of actually relevant information.

Please. Text. Maybe some images for clarification. I can read. I promise.

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

Skimmable, SEARCHABLE instructions. If they're long, there should be a hyperlinked table of contents.

[debetesse]

Elder Millennial here cosigning HARD

If you really need to show a movement, embed a gif or 15-scond-or-less video in the text, like Jod intended.

[cinemaocd]

I work in science communications and I am constantly hearing about how we need to try to do video to appeal to the newest generation of scientists and it's like do you think physicists who can't read are a good idea?

[noodles-07]

"it's all in your head" correct! unfortunately I am also in there

[tradgothwillbyers]

Y'all ever just suddenly have the overwhelming urge to swim??? Like not actively but you just wanna,,, be in the water and have some Peace

[parttimepup]

Yes it’s called the mammalian diving response and it’s also why doing face masks and taking a shower is soothing. Our amphibian ancestors used this mechanism to slow down the heartbeat and lower body temperature so as not to waste calories while swimming (which is very calorie intensive). It makes you feel safe because predators are less likely to get you in water than on land. The fish brain is alive and well in all of us.

[beyondthetemples-ooc]

It’s literally activated by putting water on the face.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3768097/

[dogs4ge]

My amphibian ancestors gave me the instinct to dissociate in the shower for hours on end

[unabashedlybi-deactivated201911]

[heartwarminganimals]

Trail cam catching a deer fawn with the zoomies

[no-reference-georg]

All of my followers need to slow down and look at this immediately

[mewvore]

I feel like starting an urban legend about a demon that kills you if you don't have headphones on when browsing tiktok in public

[artemis-pendragon]

Otahan Thull has fucked around way too much not to find out like miss girl has gone after Vax, Laudna, and Beau as if Keyleth, Imogen, and Yasha aren't some of the baddest motherfuckers in Exandria

[trans-sister-radi0]

No, Comrade Lesbian. We haul

[brigwife-deactivated20240426]

In how many languages can you count to ten?

Zero ( I am not judging, but I am Concerned)

1

2

3

4 (You go, Glen Coco!)

5

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8

9+ (I bow to you, wise wizard)

Voting ended onMar 22, 2023

[bixbiboom]

[ID: A tweet from Liam O’Brien @.VoiceOfOBrien which reads: “This has been quietly sitting in my office for years. Make of that what you will.” There’s a picture attached of a large polished obsidian sphere resting in a brass stand, set on the corner of a desk. /end ID]

Orb’ildan has been there all along…

[confusionofconfusions-deactivat]

i love that 17th century jewish poltergeist story where the family living in the haunted house calls a catholic priest for help before they contact a rabbi, because yeah, i think that would be my call too; id be like, oh? a demon in my house speaking latin and drawing inverted crosses on my wall in sulfuric bile? then without even questioning my faith i’d call up the catholic church and be like yo father, one of your boys loose come get him

[breya-etherium-shaper]

*multiplies you by 1*

Ach im the exact same but a process has occurred

[headspace-hotel]

I'm thinking about this post and i have decided that it is one of those things that is a poem in some undefinable way

[thatlittleegyptologist]

Hello fellow nerds!

Since it's a season of...something...mostly lights...do me a favour would you? You know this image of Tutankhamun?

The documentary it comes from was terrible. It grossly exaggerated some deformities present on Tutankhamun's mummy, and is not even remotely how he looked in real life. The people who did this study never had access to his mummy, and really fudged their conclusions for a 'showstopper documentary' so much so that the Egyptian government was angry about it.

Lets list the things that are wrong!

The 'wide hips' only exist on this model because they wanted him to look more 'Amarna like'. The loin cloths found in his tomb are all standard size.

He doesn't have an overbite. This is a result of poor mummification and Carter's poor treatment of the mummy when removing it from the death mask.

He does have a cleft palate, but it's in the soft palate and he wouldn't have noticed it.

He doesn't have a severe club foot. Medical professionals have examined him repeatedly over the years. None have ever pointed it out bar the noting of a 'slight rotation' which wouldn't have been noticeable when he walked if this is indeed a club foot and not another mummification mess up. He would not have needed a staff to walk with this slight rotation. Some staffs in his tomb show wear, but it is normal in Egyptian society to walk with a staff as a sign of power. He has 120 and only 3 show slight wear.

The articles about him 'always being seated and thus very disabled' fail to note that it is common for Pharaoh's of this period to be depicted seated, and there are numerous depictions of him standing doing actions too.

This documentary made him look as bad as possible, based on terrible science, and now every time someone doesn't depict him 'gross and disabled' people complain that he's not 'ugly enough', which is ableist as hell alongside the already ableist exaggerated CGI depiction.

I would sincerely like this terrible recreation to die. Many thanks.

[chaotic-archaeologist]

@thatlittleegyptologist out of curiosity, do you have a preferred image of Tutankhamen? Either one from his time period or a better modern recreation?

[thatlittleegyptologist]

There isn't a better modern reconstruction, as far as I'm aware. I don't particularly like them anyway! They're always off in some way, and Egyptian ones tend to have much paler skin than they should.

One of my favourite images of Tutankhamun is this one from the top of an ivory box found within his tomb:

It's just a lovely scene of him, together with his wife, enjoying the lotus blossoms. The image is a step away from the Amarna art that's more dynamic, and closer to the more archaic rigid style Egypt is known for, but still retains the dynamism of the previous style.

[narrativerehearsal]

Bioarchaeologist here and I just looked up CT scans of his skeleton and I now hate that reconstruction just as much as you do.

Hips that wide would be noticeable even looking at the CT. His pelvis looks exactly how I’d expect a young man’s pelvis to look.

Club foot like that would be really obvious on the bones and would also be visible on the CT image.

His feet in the CT image look pretty normal so any abnormality that is present is so minor that it would need very close examination and measurement of precise angles to notice and/or diagnose. 

It’s certainly possible that he had pain and/or had it impact his mobility without a severe case but that’s not even a good depiction of a severe case of clubfoot. If it was really that severe all his toes would be curled under, not just half of them, and it would also be really fucking obvious in the CT and in the mummy, which is it not.

They’ve done something weird to his head/torso proportions, probably by failing to take into account that if someone is wrapped then it squeezes all the bones in so his shoulders look narrower in mummified form than they would have in life.

In the process I also got really annoyed by a couple of news articles taking ‘only the knee fracture happened when he was alive, the other fractures are postmortem damage’ and somehow turning that into ‘this horrific knee injury killed him’. No. Just no. Yes, it looks sore, but you can’t take a statement saying ‘he hurt his knee’ and then decide that it’s the cause of death.

[thatlittleegyptologist]

It's truly terrible and I hate so much that this bullshit has become the lasting image of Tutankhamun people have. Not only that but this boy is pale af for a person who's grandmother comes from Nubia looks like this:

We hates this documentary, precious. We hates it.

[glorioustidalwavedefendor]

Is now a good moment to bring up that the reason at least one statue depcting him in his grave looked very femenine was that it was originally made fore a female pharao and then reworked for him?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/tutankhamun-great-golden-face-mask-was-actually-made-for-his-mother-nefertiti-research-reveals-a6753156.html

[thatlittleegyptologist]

Yeah, no, unfortunately. Reeves has been saying this for ages and he’s not been able to prove anything. Basically, ‘the mask has earring holes and so can only be originally for a woman’ is his gambit and oh boy, no. There are many statues of Tutankhamun with earring holes, which would make sense because he’s buried with a good number of earrings. Reeves appears to have forgotten that earrings are not exclusive to women in….most cultures. He’s still convinced Nefertiti is buried somewhere in Tutankhamun’s tomb, despite all radar work showing that’s not possible. Nefertiti isn’t even Tutankhamun’s mother as this article claims. He’s certainly related to Akhenaten, but how is still up for debate.

[teaboot]

We gotta start taking "child having an absolute meltdown in public" not just as a circumstance to be compassionate about, but as the valuable opportunity it is.

I personally like to close my eyes and pretend I'm the one who's screaming.

Scream for us all, little nugget.

[sandersstudies]

Every time a child screams or cries out of nowhere I intentionally say “me too” or “couldn’t have said it better myself” or something similar before the parent can try to apologize.

[uninspiredinsomniac]

OUR MELTDOWN

[essektheylyss]

Semifinal Wizard Match 1: Laerryn Coramar-Seelie vs Essek Thelyss

Architect Arcane Laerryn Coramar-Seelie

Former Shadowhand Essek Thelyss

Voting ended onFeb 25, 2023

Unstoppable force meets... Immovable Object?

You know, like the... like the dunamancy spell—you get it. Moving on.

[zealousvalkyrie]

[quiddie]

Wake me up when it’s time to fight Caleb.

Laerryn isn’t losing to an NPC.

[lostinhistory]

Netflix, BBC and ITV set to ‘ban’ corsets from period dramas like Bridgerton

Many actresses have spoken about the pain of wearing them.

This is stupid. All of the problems complained about are due to

- wearing the wrong corsets or stays

- wearing ill-fitting corsets or stays

- not wearing a shift under the corset

The Bridgerton actresses were complaining about how horrible and painful their corsets were, which is bizarre, because Regency corsets have no boning.

Look at them:

Do you see any boning there?? There’s nothing to tight lace!! They didn’t even care about the waist, it was all about the bust! Regency stays hoisted your boobs up so you looked like the figurehead of a ship, they didn’t smush them down like sad booby pancakes.

(you also couldn’t tight lace, because to tight lace you need metal eyelets, and they hadn’t even been invented yet)

I have worn 18th century stays; they were more comfortable than an underwire bra. There was nothing restrictive about them. You’re going to sit up straight, but that’s about it. Also, all women wore corsets, not just the wealthy. Women cleaned houses, worked in factories, and did farm work while wearing corsets and without fainting all the time. If you can’t breathe while wearing a corset, loosen the corset.

Also also, corsets were structural garments, in that they supported the weight of the clothing. Nothing is going to look right. They’re going to spend all this money on their next fancy costume drama, and everyone’s going to look like they’re wearing a halloween costume.

This is so dumb.