Terrible thoughts I have while watching the Hornblower TV series…

supplement your shipboard diet as a midshipman with the occasional fresh-caught bilge rat

ways to find the medievalist in the room

method 1: “games of thrones is brutal because it’s accurate to the period”

method 2: “lol medieval people sure were bad at art!”

follow the trail of steam congrats you’ve found the medievalist

whatwouldelizabethbennetdo:

Pride and Prejudice/The Onion headlines

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aprilwitching:

At the very least, a lot of fanfic authors seem to want to produce something where the reader would look at it and say “Yes, that’s very much how it would have happened on my favourite show if the screenwriters had only had the courage to write an episode where the ship’s doctor and the robot owl consummate their love”.

enginesfullbloom:

this is exactly what critical theory is like

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realistic indiana jones movies

oldshrewsburyian:

thoodleoo:

indiana jones and tomb that had already been looted by robbers in the 19th century

indiana jones and pottery fragment #1478

indiana jones and the site discovered under somebody’s house so there was no way to actually dig it

indiana jones and the famous treasure that actually turned out to be an ancient chamber pot

indiana jones and the temple of maybe three damaged columns

indiana jones and the intro to archaeology class that didn’t give a shit and just wanted to pass for the gen ed credit

Related: Indiana Jones and the Tenure Application

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jonahryan:

devoutjunk:

Things Women In Literature Have Died From, Mallory Ortberg

tag yourself i’m “shawl insufficiency”

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