Digging for Anything but Gold

I feel like the Rhinoceros Party of Canada really needs to up its costume game to match this.

honey is the only food product that never spoils. there are pots of honey that are over five thousand years old and still completely edible

i also want to point out we know it tastes the same even after thousands of years b/c archaeologists who discovered two thousand year old honey tasted it. presumably right after they looked at each other and went “what the hell here goes nothing”

I’m pretty sure they also identify human remains by taste. Archaeologists are straight up freaks.

mai nam is jane and wen i dig i fynde some roks both smol and big i put my tung upon the stone for science yes i lik the bone

I’m sitting with a bunch of archaeologists and we just laughed so hard we CRIED we’re getting tshirts with this on them

I will never ever get tired of seeing bredlik poems. It is really one of the seminal art forms of the century. I am not being sarcastic. 

If I ever don’t reblog this, assume I’m dead and archaeologists are licking my bones.

I have reposted this before but I am always impressed by how well-thought out every spot is. There is no good place to sit. “Oh, Eomer’s cool, I’ll sit with him” but then you will have to listen to Gollum and Bilbo the entire flight. “I’ll sit with Sam!” Pippin and Merry will be turning around the entire flight to talk to him. Sure, you can sit with Elrond, but you’re going to deal with him staring down Aragorn and Arwen. You may love Legolas and Gimli, but will you love sitting BETWEEN them? Just when you see a spot that seems okay, somewhere behind or across the aisle is a terrible option. This is so good. No good seats on the LOTR plane

no i think 17 looks good

…I can’t think how it took me so long to run across this. I feel privileged to have been found by it. 😄

love how the goblin emperor is like a very particular bildungsroman with almost no magic, focusing on the social and emotional agonies of the fantasy of manners genre and reconsidering the classic fantasy 'quest' as a more strictly internal journey... and then you go onto the cemeteries of amalo and it's like ok so othala celehar is getting his shit absolutely rocked by the Zombies That Eat Prelates rn but after he's suffered his physical and mental wounds he'll probably go to to the teahouse and you say yayyy the teahouse #theteahouse

ive always been willing to die on the hill of cis women being able to beat cis men in sports so nobody will ever ever make me concerned about trans women in womens sports even if i was delusional enough to believe that was a comparable situation. do i think a cis woman could beat a trans woman in fucking pickleball or whatever? Buddy I think a cis woman could beat a cis male bodybuilder in sports. You will not get me

many people in these notes are revealing how they truly don't believe afab people are capable of beating amab people at Any sports due to their fragile bird bones delicate skin and and trying to make it seem like i'm feeding afab people to lions in the coliseum. you people are not only wrong but more importantly you are Stupidt

you are right and you should say it.

florence welch was right. it picks me up puts me down chews me up spits me out a hundred times a day picks me up puts me down i'm always running from something i push it back but it keeps on coming and being clever never got me very far

To exist in the face of suffering and death and Still. Keep. Singing!

One of my former coworkers left her job as a Dublin cheesemonger (I kid you not) to become an archaeologist (dirtmonger? palaeo-garbage-monger?), but has since left us and moved back to Europe. What she intends to monger next, who can say.

Best comment I just saw "Helen of Troy was perfectly cast, because all these men are fighting about her."