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if anyone needs me i'll be frothing at the mouth thinking about the origin of language and interspecies communication. happy wednesday.

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pirates in love fanart in 2024?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

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oh emily wilson translation of the iliad we’re really in it now

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Let's build a Ptolemaic Pharaoh!

Sadly, I ran out of room and had to cut the options about boyfriends, mistresses, and incest.

Thanks to @allbeendonebefore, @ahallister, and @en-theos for the feedback and inspiration!

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Love ships where its like some guy with autism and his special interest is his wife

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Based

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“Why did you follow this person ? uwu”

I’ve been here for fourteen years, do you think I remember? I don’t know who any of these people are anymore. I don’t know why they’re on my dash. I allow them to stay because they haven’t pissed me off enough to unfollow them yet. “Why did you follow this person?” I’m not sure I ever did. They’re just part of my ecosystem now.

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People talk about the surprise albums from people like Taylor Swift or Beyoncé that drop with zero warning but I have just been existing in this world where every album I've ever heard in my life has been a surprise album because I didn't know that musicians had schedules that we could see

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i never realized cuneiform was made with the corner of a cuboid tool, i thought the wedge shapes were carved such that you would press straight down with the tool at a 90° angle to the clay

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Only thing getting me through today is the thought of Starred Egyptian Tomb Ceilings

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It is possible that somewhere off the coast of Newfoundland there is an iceberg shaped like a giant dick.

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FWIW, "mauve" was one of the coal-tar dyes developed in the mid-19th century that made eye-wateringly bright clothing fashionable for a few decades.

It was an eye-popping magenta purple

HOWEVER, like most aniline dyes, it faded badly, to a washed-out blue-grey ...

...which was the color ignorant youngsters in the 1920s associated with “mauve”.

(This dress is labeled "mauve" as it is the color the above becomes after fading).

They colored their vision of the past with washed-out pastels that were NOTHING like the eye-popping electric shades the mid-Victorians loved. This 1926 fashion history book by Paul di Giafferi paints a hugely distorted, I would say dishonest picture of the past.

Ever since then this faded bluish lavender and not the original electric eye-watering hot pink-purple is the color associated with the word “mauve”.

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Super fucked up that I can’t be a master-level expert in knitting AND woodworking AND silversmithing AND embroidery AND soap making AND spinning AND -