Don Juan

it’s never a normal temperature anymore it’s always some fucking bullshit

Just found out the guy I've been fighting with via email over whether a matter is legal or finance's responsibility is the SAME GUY I've been chatting with in the halls. Oh my fucking god. I'd literally send him an email basically being like, you are incompetent and you are actively trying to evade responsibility, and then FOUR MINUTES later see him in the halls and go "Heyyyy bitch omg how's your wife, how did the vet trip go, when are you going to come to lunch with us on Thursdays omg stop avoiding us" he must think I'm CRAZY

and if i said nolan's odyssey starring no greek actors and with no recognizable aspects of greek culture or involvement by greeks, is the direct legacy of white supremacist colonialism that treated ancient greece as not just the pinnacle of ancient culture, but of an artificially created "european" culture, which white western europeans and their settler descendants, as the new pinnacle of culture, were the sole spiritual inheritors of.

In fact, this was a cultural project early western European archaeologists actively developed. We consider it a phase of archaeological thought, theory, and practice, and we usually call it classicalism. Early archaeologists (Schliemann if I ever get my hands on you...) from places like England and Germany were OBSESSED with finding archaeological evidence of places from epics, hoping to prove their cultural connections to these places. They admired and heralded the arts and philosophies of ancient Greeks and Romans and wanted permission to claim that as cultural patrimony. The underlying theory treated archaeological practice as a practice of inventing cultural heritage and belonging. This same theory was later employed toward the development of the Israeli settler state.

“it isnt something you have to read critically” well 😭

this technically is true but I think this also perfectly encapsulates why I am inherently distrustful of like. “”cozy”” “turn your brain off” fiction lmfao. like okay WHO gets to turn their brain off and who has to suffer through bigoted caricatures of themselves while everyone else is having cozy silly no brain time 😐

OCD Heritage Skeletons

I don't do "art studies," i draw "wrong" until I get an epiphany from god

A cautionary tale about the growing literacy crisis

there's this weird thing people fall into online a lot, where people assume that if the [perceived-to-be-inferior] version of [activity] is discouraged then people will, naturally, do [perceived-to-be-superior] version of [activity] instead. When really it's just as (or more) likely that if [perceived-to-be-inferior] version of [activity] is discouraged people just won't do it at all.

audiobook listeners are not necessarily people who would otherwise do a lot of traditional reading if audiobooks did not exist, many are people who simply would experience zero books. Booktok romance readers would not necessarily be reading the classics if booktok did not exist, many of them would simply not read. Fanfiction writers would not necessarily be novelists if fanfic wasn't an option, many would just be people who didn't write. You know?