Cat Solas

Cropped movie poster banner of the 1930 version of All Quiet on the Western Front under Tubi's "Saluting Veterans" recommendations

Tubi promo emails you're crazy for this

ANZOLO CORRER, Venetian Ambassador in England, to the Doge and Senate. Allowing himself to be served by a few only the king is enjoying the pleasures of the country here with every satisfaction. Stag hunting is the diversion upon which he spends most of his time, and he thinks nothing of paying for this pleasure with the fatigue of passing the whole day on horseback. Since leaving London he has not given audience to any ministers except the Ambassador Joachimi, who, having obtained permission from his masters to return to Holland for some months, merely came to take leave and to kiss hands.

the year is 1636. and the king of england is always on that damn stag hunt 🙄

I feel like I'm reading [walls of] texts from my evil vizier

reading any Calendar of State Papers from 300+ years ago is such a treat for people who love gossip about people they don't know (me). absolutely scathing commentary delivered in formal, polite tones with "your most humble servant" kinda obsequiousness peppered in there...immaculate 👌

this was why I signed up in the first place -- hoping for more details/stats on my mom's side, since it's difficult to track genealogical records beyond like the last 2 generations (colonialism).

the fact that I can look at census/church records going back centuries for my dad's side is 🥲🥲 brutal!

"huge update" ancestry dot com tells me, "to European regions"
I SLEEP!!! 🤨😑😴😴😴

Jane Eyre, day 1 wandering the moors: it would be so nice to lay down on the moss and die

day 2 wandering the moors: i wish i were a lizard

Screenshot of a tiktok captioned "That ONE girl during history class" over notebook paper with colorful marker doodles and a heading with more swirly lines that says "The Holocaust"

Tiktok comment: She's a teacher or a nurse now

"that one girl in high school" i knew IMMEDIATELY what this was gonna be because the memory of a girl in my history class decorating her poster on "💝✨️the r*** of Nanking ✨️💝" still makes me so angry to this day!!!
(and of course she became a teacher.)

the phrenology/physiognomy stuff is kinda jarring to me this time around, but 1/3 of the way in after many mentions of Jane and Rochester being judged unfairly by their looks, I'm getting very nervous

re-reading Jane Eyre is so crazy because the lowood section is like a speedrun through the DSM-5

picture of my partner and me :)

whateva!!! 🥰🫶✨️

Art by • Albrecht Dürer

large white and orange cat sitting on my bedroom floor with his front paws tucked in front of him, looking around cluelessly

guy who brought a live mouse into my bedroom and cant find it now 😐😑

Depiction of the Varangian Guard in the 11th century chronicle of John Skylitzes

Smash or pass but with these guys

Little calico cat (Eury) laying on her side on my desk

Eury asleep in the same spot 30 seconds later

she's already back to snoring again 😴

BG3 makes me so angry when it breaks its own rules...like wdym these guys get to use more than 1 Reaction per turn 🤨 when the ability text even specifies it takes 1 turn to recharge!!! 🤨🤨

partial screenshot of a divinatory table from MS Ashmole 304

i said i was gonna start putting together a PC....but i didn't say what kind!! 😎😎😎
#computus #theSinSTEMstandsforStars

working on something for #1prpgjam 😉🌠

"Mars is at the S. Node. Bye-bye, micromanaging. Hello, going with the flow."

girl (astrology app) please don't say this to me...

17th century engraving featuring a zonked-looking lunar face centered in a spiral chart of lunar phase calculations. link: "Astronomy: the 28 phases of the moon in a lunar month. Engraving by P. Miotte." https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.24856811

me when i crescens

The Illusion of Carefree Cosmopolitan Fashion: or, my 15 minute experience wrangling with a silk scarf to hold back my hair

gotta be honest the synopsis of this annoyed me so badly it was what made me pick the ww1 diary up out of my TBR pile. which is a shame bc I loved her Greenhollow duology! but alas.

my fav moments in this so far tend to fall into 1 of 3 categories:
- author feels so embarrassed he wants to die
- author gets yelled at and decides to do a thing so so perfectly out of pure spite & hurt feelings
- beautifully written scenes of boys being boys™️

cover of the book featuring a black and white photo of a lone man on a (WW1) battlefield. He is standing on simple plank bridge that crosses over a body of muddy water, while behind him is a landscape of thin and blasted trees.

cr: Some Desperate Glory: The Diary of a Young Officer, 1917
▸Edwin Campion Vaughan

I can't put it down 😵‍💫
#amreading #booksky

oh is that what they are???

Yes :)
Though my personal understanding of the idiom does come from practical experience with the real-life function. It's definitely not a phrase I use often, but it's in a stockpile of reliable/inoffensive sayings I'm more likely to use at work

really feels like this some days on god's green internet

Tired of hearing about Achilles. Where the Hector girlies at

it's so bad out here now dawg i forgot what interactive storytelling could look like

sorry i've been gone, i was playing Baldur's Gate 1&2 and they altered my brain chemistry a bit