Screaming into the Void

Until, of course, they showed it to a traditional leatherworker and she took one look at it and said “Oh yeah sure that’s a leather burnisher, you use it to close the pores of leather and work oil into the hide to make it waterproof. Mine looks just the same.” 

“Wait you’re still using the exact same fucking thing 50,000 years later???”

“Well, yeah. We’ve tried other things. Metal scratches up and damages the hide. Wood splinters and wears out. Bone lasts forever and gives the best polish. There are new, cheaper plastic ones, but they crack and break after a couple years. A bone polisher is nearly indestructible, and only gets better with age. The more you use a bone polisher the better it works.”

It’s just. 

So ancient Roman statues have some really weird hairstyles. Archaeologists just couldn’t figure them out. They didn’t have hairspray or modern hair bands, or elastic at all, but some of these things defied gravity better than Marge Simpson’s beehive.

Eventually they decided, wigs. Must be wigs. Or maybe hats. Definitely not real hair.

A hairdresser comes a long, looks at a few and is like, “Yeah, they’re sewn.”

“Don’t be silly!” the archaeologists cry. “How foolish, sewn hair indeed! LOL!”

So she went away and recreated them on real people using a needle and thread and the mystery of Roman hairstyles was solved.

Here’s her YouTube channel with the recreated hair-styles

And the research she did got published in the Journal of Roman Studies (which is a big deal in the Classics world) “even though” she doesn’t have at least a Masters degree in the field.

[To give reference to the gate keeping in this field, she was, I think, only the second or so person without a PhD to be published in the history of the Journal]

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Glee Fanfiction Friday is returning!!! 

We have missed this little project so much and have come up with some amazing prompts that will go from August to the end of November, which means there will be 17 WEEKS WORTH OF WEEKLY NEW GLEE STORIES!

We have talked and are changing things up just a bit this time around. 

First, prompts will be posted on Mondays to give anyone who wants to participate ample time to come up with a story. 

Second, there will be three words associated with each prompt. You can use the exact prompt in your story, the three words, or the week’s post for inspiration. 

Third, this is open to any and ALL Glee pairings, characters, or ships. We want to read about the characters you love. 

Fourth, your story can be whatever length you want it to be. Do you have a story you’ve been wanting to add to? If a prompt fits, you can do that. You might even find one of the prompt sparks an idea for your next multi-chapter story. 

Fifth, there is a collection already set up on AO3 (Glee Fanfiction Friday) that you can post your stories to so that they are all in one place. You can also find all of the ones from last year there, too. 

At the end of the day, we really just want to share our fics with all of you, and we have found that writing from prompts is incredibly fun and stretches our abilities as writers. 

me, a mere European: 

me, a mere European:

me, a mere European: