rachel

went to a movie on sunday, went to the archive on monday, went to a museum on thursday. i love Arts and Humanities ❤️

my mom watched her very first punch the monkey video this week and every day since she has asked me to go onto my socmeds and show her the latest updates

YAY CLAIRE i'm so happy for you!!!!!

WHATTTT omg. congrats!!!! i have faith in you!!!!!

and the black river of loss whose other side is salvation, whose meaning none of us will ever know. To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.

mary oliver, “in blackwater woods”

He only commanded about one thousand men. The British forces now approached seven thousand. When he heard a false rumor Clinton was personally sailing down from New York City, Lafayette wrote to La Luzerne, "I hear from all sides General Clinton is coming to join the party, thus I am proscribed by this triumvirate. But not being so eloquent as Cicero it is not my tongue these gentlemen will cut off."

i’m sorry lafayette i was unfamiliar with your roman history jokes game

Jeez it’s only one day after Valentine’s Day and the stores already have their Ides of March stuff out on display

Sleepy time bear

It's Friday night baby

Bronze drain strainer, circular disc, displayed on a museum stand against a light beige background with subtle shadows. The strainer features intricate radial patterns of small perforations forming concentric circles and mesh-like sections around a central open hole.

Have you ever seen a Roman plumbing device that is both genius and gorgeous? Just look at this bronze drain strainer, found in the Roman baths at Weißenburg, Germany, dating2nd/3rd century AD!

📷 me

🏺 #archaeology #findsfriday

i have attained the highest level of intimacy with my tattoo artist... i can email her WHENEVER I WANT. i have been freed from the confines of open/closed books

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

i know i’m a mouthpiece for Archives Are For Everyone but it’s so embarrassing to submit my little request to look at things… no it’s not for a class project. i just want to see and touch old paper. let me in

sometimes a chunk of parmesan cheese can change your life

a very small cream-colored dog sleeping on my lap

i am saying it’s fine to post a photo this time because she still looks like an unidentifiable baby potato

yesterday i met my next dog and then spent most of the remaining weekend crying on and off because i’m looking forward to having a dog again but i miss b so much and this new dog will never be her 🥲

Iron Man meme, edited, Obadiah Stane yelling, "Your ancestors made timeless art in a cave! With berries and ash!"

"I need AI to make art, human art is only for the rich and privileged-"

if i don’t post anything or anywhere for months, you know where i went (off grid into the void)

2020-2021 was the golden heyday for online communities & fandom culture and i am soooo grateful for all of the dear friends i made & the happy memories that came out of that time… and i want to cling to it… but online spaces are just not enjoyable or fulfilling to me in the way they used to be 🥲

man... i really think social media is not for me anymore

A cream rectangle with an orange border and the text MARCH THROUGH YOUR STASH over a background of simple line drawings of books

The same background with text that reads: -Read the physical books that you've already bought and hoarded in the month of March -Discuss your reading and track your progress with the hashtag #MarchStash -Follow @marchthruyourstash on Bluesky for prompts, encouragement and tracking graphics!

Introducing MARCH THROUGH YOUR STASH! This is a challenge for those of us (Libby addicts, bookstore loiterers) who keep buying books but never reading them. Read as many as possible in the month of March!

this is still kind of sending me. never mind the historical education aspect... how i wish i were so chronically offline as this

my mom was today years old when she learned that hamilton died in a duel

One of the cats of #Pompeii, chilling on what was once a #Roman fast food counter 🏺 #AncientBlueSky

more like bookbinding (I WISH)

#5!! my catullus class used the book he edited :')

After leaving office, Jefferson was demoted to a lower rung in Washington's ever-shifting hierarchy of relationships. Their correspondence, however friendly, centered on mundane matters, such as crops and seeds, and Washington never again sought him out for policy advice. He dropped the salutation "My dear Sir" in favor of the cooler "Dear Sir." Thus did the subtle Washington consign ex-colleagues to slow oblivion.

i mean... come on. this is so passive aggressive LOL

[He had] powerful ways of communicating his likes and dislikes, through subtle graduations of tone. With strangers or acquaintances, he addressed letters to "Sir." As he warmed up, he wrote them as "Dear Sir," and when he grew very close, they were favored with "My Dear Sir." He was no less artful in closing letters. If he went from signing "Humble Obedient Servant" to "Affectionate Obedient Servant," the recipient had made a major leap forward in his emotions. Washington expressed displeasure with people less often with open rebukes than with the silent treatment, a sudden chill in the air, and a reversion to curt, businesslike communications.

kind of obsessed with this. if you don't like direct conversations and confessions, a subtly addressed letter is fine

My photo shows an ancient Egyptian beadnet dress on display at the MFA Boston. The dress is constructed of approximately 7,000 cylindrical faience beads which are arranged in a lozenge pattern which looks like netting. The beads were originally coloured blue and blue-green in imitation of lapis lazuli and turquoise, though their colour has now faded. The dress has a high waistband with shoulder straps which cover the chest, and a fringed hem with shells attached to it. It is displayed on the mannequin with a faience and gold broad colla (around the neck). When discovered, the original string had disintegrated though some beads still lay in their original place. The beads have been reassembled according to the original pattern. It’s suggested they were either sewn onto a linen dress or worn as a net over linen. The beadnet dress was excavated in 1927 from Giza, tomb G 7442 (formerly G 7440 Z) by the Harvard University-Museum of Fine Arts Expedition. It was assigned to the MFA in the division of finds by the government of Egypt. According to the museum label: “Depictions of women in Egyptian art occasionally feature garments decorated with an overall lozenge pattern. This design is believed to represent beadwork, which was either sewn onto a linen dress or worked into a separate net worn over the linen. This beadnet dress is the earliest surviving example of such a garment”.

Something lovely for the weekend!

A 4,500 year-old ancient Egyptian faience beadnet dress.

Museum of Fine Arts Boston collections.mfa.org/objects/1465...

📷 by me

#Archaeology

trader joe's butternut squash ravioli with their vegan pesto. you're welcome

scathing but accurate judgement of JC