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My Lady Jane (2024– )

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MEEEEEEE

this is about procrastinating. or executive dysfunction. i think

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Theme Thursday is (once again) upon us! 🎨🪄

This week, we’re getting a little academic, a little magical, with a bit of drama on the side.

You can find ‘em in Ellipsus right now:

Marble: Antiquities, timelessness, parchment scribbles, frittering away a few hours in a quiet museum.

Leatherbound: Dark and dusty libraries, marginalia, forgotten texts, covert whispers in the stacks.

Red Velvet: Passionate, maaaaybe a little vampiric. Bleeding hearts welcome.

Labyrinth A deep purple gradient, for when your words need a little extra enchantment.

New themes drop every Thursday! What vibe are you writing in this week? Let us know, and give us suggestions! 🫣❤️

- the Ellipsus Team xo

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sketching at the museum

prints available from June 9-16

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A lot of people around me are having kids and every day it becomes more apparent that hitting your children to punish them is insane because literally everything can be a horrible punishment in their eyes if you frame it as such.

Like, one family makes their toddler sit on the stairs for three minutes when he hits his brother or whatever. The stairs are well lit and he can see his family the whole time, he’s just not allowed to get up and leave the stairs or the timer starts over. He fucking hates it just because it’s framed as a punishment.

Another family use a baseball cap. It’s just a plain blue cap with nothing on it. When their toddler needs discipline he gets a timeout on a chair and has to put the cap on. When they’re out and about he just has to wear the cap but it gets the same reaction. Nobody around them can tell he’s being punished because it’s in no way an embarrassing cap, but HE knows and just the threat of having to wear it is enough.

And there isn’t the same contempt afterwards I’ve seen with kids whose parents hit them. One time the kid swung a stick at my dog, his mother immediately made him sit on the stairs, he screamed but stayed put, then he came over to my dog and gently said “Sorry Ellie” and went back to playing like nothing happened, but this time without swinging sticks at the nearby animals.

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you CANNOT read too much old timey fiction because I was playing Raft with the lads this morning and without a THOUGHT said we could sail over to another island "if the wind would consent to blow" & let me tell you. This did not pass by unremarked.

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If you want a good object lesson about what we can and can't know about the past, we don't know Ea-Nasir was a dishonest merchant selling shoddy goods.

What we know is we have found a cache of complaint tablets about him selling low quality copper as high quality, in a site that was probably his own residence. We know multiple people complained he was a cheat. It's entirely possible they were right. It's also entirely possible that he kept these complaint letters as records of people he would no longer do business with, because they had made accusations and threats in order to bully him into giving them free copper. That is an equally valid interpretation of the evidence.

My point is not that we have maligned Ea-Nasir, my point is that thousands of years later, we do not and cannot know.

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Two animals people need to shut the fuck up about and be normal are pandas and dolphins

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DEAR, DONKEY SKIN

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I had a visual imagining of this tale... [Art prints available on my store !!!]

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People will literally be doing anything on ao3

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I love reading classic books because I get part way through one and I suddenly realise that despite its prevalence in pop culture, I don't actually know what it's about, or how it ends.

and that is great. because then I get to read the rest of it and then, finally, I sit there and I go "oh, fuck, THAT'S why it's a classic!"

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Just lost my job 🫠

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at least theres still listening to music while staring at the ceiling

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Elias Ainsworth forms, ranked

   Hello I am Hugh Man

0/10 GETTA OUTTA HERE YOU GROSS NORMIE.

Wakey Wakey Eggs and Snakey

4/10 Listen don’t judge – we’ve all had hangovers like this.

Tiny Tim

7/10 Compact for easy storage… IN MY HEART.

Richmond the Goth

8/10 Awkward teenage phase; just wants to listen to Sisters of Mercy and reminisce about the taste of human flesh.

Elias Ainsworth, Esq.

10/10 A classic. The kind of mage you could take home to ma and pa. 

Trés thorny boy

11/10 BEEFY

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paris apartment left untouched for nearly 70 years

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