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thatiswhy:

mr-deep-downer:

sauteedkapi:

thedragonitus:

mr-deep-downer:

mr-deep-downer:

meanwhile on Twitter

you could make the argument that it’s foolish that everyone in the world should know what the Odyssey is but if you’re from a western country that literally has Greek history stolen away in your museum then well, really a child left behind.

Greek Architectural Treasures in the British Museum

“The world doesn’t revolve around America” the illiad was actually a pseudo historical/mythological text about the first game of baseball

Its a metaphor for the drive through

I dunno what you guys are talking about, seems pretty American to me.

only 8 dollars and 12 cents huh? What the fuck was Odysseus problem then

there was road work

susiephone:

I’ve created a list of 100 commonly-assigned texts (at least in the USA), based both on my own experience and what I’ve heard from friends. I included a mixture of stuff assigned in middle school, high school, and college. Spin the wheel here and answer:

Were you assigned this text?

yes, I read this for school

I was assigned this text but didn’t read it

I’ve read this, but not for school

I’ve heard of this but haven’t read it

I haven’t even heard of this text

See Results

Bonus: tell us what you thought in the tags!

Use your discretion for texts you started but didn’t finish for whether you count it as “read” or not.

thelocalmuffin:

Hey everyone, I know it’s going to be a busy day for a lot of people, but Google enrolled everyone over 18 into their AI program automatically.

If you have a google account, first go to gemini.google.com/extensions and turn everything off.

Then you need to go to myactivity.google.com/product/gemini and turn off all Gemini activity tracking. You do have to do them in that order to make sure it works.

Honestly, I’m not sure how long this will last, but this should keep Gemini off your projects for a bit.

I saw this over on bluesky and figured it would be good to spread on here. It only takes a few minutes to do.

meeedeee:

silencedrowns:

foone:

retropopcult:

Cosplayers at a Star Trek Convention, 1976

in this house we have endless respect for cosplayers from the days before VCRs.

You couldn’t just rewatch the episode to look at all the details of the costume. You got lucky with press photos showing up in magazines or you just watched the episode/movie while sketching furiously

thinking about that one woman who made a Star Wars flight suit in 1977 entirely from trading cards and sketching details in the theater. or stories I’ve heard about old school Trek cosplayers getting the bizarre seam placements right by photocopying magazines onto overhead transparencies and projecting them onto butcher paper.

I’m a semi old school cosplayer (started in 2001) so some of the old school techniques are still things I learned on (I’ve sketched from stuttering VHS tapes on pause and used the overhead transparency trick)… what we have access to now for costume recreation blows what they had out of the water just in terms of reference material, let alone specialty costume supplies like thermoplastics and cosplay wigs.

That Star Wars fan who made the flight suit from trading cards and movie sketches is TJ Burnside and she is still with us. In fact, I am adding to her Fanlore page with info about the flight suit (and how it went viral on Twitter and Redditt a few years back). Fanlore.org, is a fan run fandom history wiki. Stay tuned.

Her (sadly) barebones Fanlore page is here: https://fanlore.org/wiki/T.J._Burnside