Why not just make them lightsabers? What is this half measure?

Love this. The exception might be cuneiform…almost everything you read has not felt the light of day for thousands of years.

Every ancient letter, receipt, star map, math problem, or fragment of a poem is new again. It adds to our knowledge and remembrance. It absolutely is thrilling 🧡

Give them italy’s air force again

Charles V: What like it’s hard? Just contract some Lutherans and don’t pay them

Philip the Fair: I have already expelled all Jews from France (because I owed some of them money) and got the Knights Templar destroyed (because I owed them money) oi pope
Pope Boniface VIII: what is it my son?
P the F: gimme some money

moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!

One man Milindapanha show when?

You can’t just store the unequipped genders on your back! That’s not historical , that’s just Hollywood nonsense!

Appreciat Qora demonstrating perfect bard skills

I do have some sympathy, was super excited for a good new ancient podcast, but still pretty excited for a good new Classics+ podcast. The 'ancient history' brand probably draws in orders of magnitude more Greece/Rome-interested people, Assyriologists just aren't the audience being advertised to.

Man, one of the most depressing aspects of modern scholarship is finding a great article and then looking up the scholar to see what else they’ve done and just catching a glimpse of an abbreviated career hopping between visiting positions and publishing great pieces before disappearing from academia

Wher ys the horse and the rydere?
Wher ys the horne that was blowinge?
Wher ys The Toast?
Damn that was such an awesome websyte.

The purple line has been in occultation for years

499 BC:
Ionians: Hey Sparta, we hear you guys are wArRiOrs. Wanna help us with a war?

Sparta: Maybe. Is is close by? Like three day march?

Ionians: Across the sea. Here's a map.

Sparta: WHOA! Sorry, we're not really into *expeditionary warfare.*

Athens: FUCK YEAH. GET SOME GET SOME.

I think about how when they sang La Marseillaise they were still in the midst of a war they did not know they were going to win.

Digivolution

Lindtsistrata

You’re not having a stroke. YouTube video by There I Ruined It

youtube.com/shorts/0gtTd... this conversation condensed to 30 seconds

Unfortunately they kept the parts with the scapegoat

Btw did everyone already know that sign language can also exhibit metathesis?? 'cause nobody told me!!

while i'm at it, gooey cheese (velveeta) is melted cheese with a decoagulant added (usually sodium citrate). you can again do it yourself quite easily.

(fun fact: the same sodium citrate is also used to stop donated blood from coagulating-- blood transfusions are blood-velveeta.)

Fat-tailed geckos, they make the rockin‘ world go ‘round.

An image of a reprinted red initial “D” ([D]um medium . . .) The previous large red initial had been printed in the wrong position and was corrected by painting over in white, which has since flaked away.

A rubric that has been erased with white paint

A section of black text accidentally printed over a red rubric. This also shows that the red and black portions of text were set and printed as separate units.

Every recorded copy contains a series of varying hand-made corrections that seem to have been produced in the print shop itself. Often, these corrections are made using white paint to remove or alter notes. But notes are also scraped away, and or altered in pen, or simply reprinted. 5/8

A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video

A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video

A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video

A photograph of the seminary gym in knives out. It has the same window.

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.

I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

My first thought was that the papyrus equivalent only grew in Arnor or something so they lost access, but the Great Pipe Rolls (not the hobbit weed brand) coexisted with codices, so maybe it’s a genre/audience thing.

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, stopped eating and migrated back to the Sargasso.

Diane Duane’s Wizards (as a TV series)

Incipit gestis Rudolphi rangifer tarandus Hwæt, Hrodulf readnosa hrandeor – Næfde þæt nieten unsciende næsðyrlas! Glitenode and gladode godlice nosgrisele. Ða hofberendas mid huscwordum hine gehefigodon; Nolden þa geneatas Hrodulf næftig To gomene hraniscum geador ætsomne. Þa in Cristesmæsseæfne stormigum clommum, Halga Claus þæt gemunde to him maðelode: “Neahfreond nihteage nosubeorhtende! Min hroden hrædwæn gelæd ðu, Hrodulf!” Ða gelufodon hira laddeor þa lyftflogan – Wæs glædnes and gliwdream; hornede sum gegieddode “Hwæt, Hrodulf readnosa hrandeor, Brad springð þin blæd: breme eart þu!”

Rendered literally into modern English: Here begins the deeds of Rudolph, Tundra-Wanderer Lo, Hrodulf the red-nosed reindeer – That beast didn’t have unshiny nostrils! The goodly nose-cartilage glittered and glowed. The hoof-bearers taunted him with proud words; The comrades wouldn’t allow wretched Hrodulf To join the reindeer games. Then, on Christmas Eve bound in storms Santa Claus remembered that, spoke formally to him: “Dear night-sighted friend, nose-bright one! You, Hrodulf, shall lead my adorned rapid-wagon!” Then the sky-flyers praised their lead-deer – There was gladness and music; one of the horned ones sang “Lo, Hrodulf the red-nosed reindeer, Your fame spreads broadly, you are renowned!”

Lo, Hrodulf the red-nosed reindeer –
That beast didn’t have unshiny nostrils!

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer in Anglo Saxon meter:
allthingslinguistic.com/post/1359368...

It's midwinter's eve tonight.

If you're quick about it, you can start your timed THE DARK IS RISING read-along before midnight.

(tonight's portion is Chapter 1, 'Midwinter's Eve'. Tomorrow is 'Midwinter Day' and 'The Sign-Seeker'.)

You would think the Ur diaspora would be a bit south of the Babylon one