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All the Historical Mermay’s together!

I had a lot of fun with this mermay prompt list by chloe.z.arts and they turned into a pretty cool collection of illustrations!

Prompt list by chloe.z.arts on instagram.

I am the artist! Do not post without permission & credit! Thank you! Come visit me over on: instagram.com/ellenartistic or tiktok: @ellenartistic

#preeeeeeeetyyyyy #oooh fabric

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Absolutely insane lines to just drop in the middle of an academic text btw. Feeling so normal about this.

[ A Critical History of English Literature, Vol. 1, Prof. David Daiches, first published in 1960 ]

#hamlet #Shakespeare #um. wow

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Loki + tumblr [180/?]

#loki #sent this to a friend and it is now a very hyper-specific in-joke for us

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why did no one ever drag rick riordan for having the aphrodite kids speak french because it’s the ““language of love””

#i had just assumed it was a recent evolution #like the gods being in the US instead of Greece #because the US was the new locus of power #so the Aphrodite cabin would've started speaking French when it colloquially became thought of as the language of love #and they'll lose it when it loses that status #The gods are victims of both their own and the general cultural mythos #etc

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I started the Wheel of time and I’m so sorry but why are all of them so insufferable 😭😭 none of those main characters are SMART they all make me so fucking mad. Nynaeve especially and Rand and Egwene 💀 i’ve never seen characters that are so morally self righteous, I fucking hate it

( i havent read the books and this is just my opinion based on the series btw don’t hate me 😭)

#oh wait this is just about the show? #op I'm so sorry if you ever read the books #wheel of time

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Fiber arts is just Math in sheep's clothing

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On Demand Streaming of Free Shakespeare in the Park productions

"This summer, throughout May and June everyone will have free access to stream The Public’s Free Shakespeare in the Park productions of MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (2019), MERRY WIVES (2021), RICHARD III (2022), and the premiere of HAMLET (2023), captured live from The Delacorte Theater in Central Park by THIRTEEN for Great Performances on PBS.

Streaming Schedule:

May 3-June 30: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (Click here to learn more!)

May 10-June 30: HAMLET (Click here to learn more!)

May 17-June 30: MERRY WIVES (Click here to learn more!)

May 24-June 30: RICHARD III (Click here to learn more!)"

[ID: 1: Danielle Brooks as Beatrice and Grantham Coleman as Benedick from Much Ado About Nothing.

2: Ato Blankson-Wood as Hamlet.

3: Pascale Armand, Julian Rozzell Jr., David Ryan Smith, Susan Kelechi Watson, and Phillip James Brannon in Merry Wives.

4: Danai Gurira as Richard III. /end ID]

#not losing track of THIS #That's for sure #Shakespeare

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Napoleon’s reforms

As it is Napoleon’s death day (May 5th), I decided to make a collection of some of my posts with Napoleon’s reforms. This is not an exhaustive list of all of Napoleon’s reforms, just what I’ve been able to post about thus far, and I plan to dedicate many more posts to the subject.

Abolition of torture

British renunciation of the title “King of France”

Cadaster (land registry)

Canned food

Central Vaccine Committee & the Society for the Extinction of Smallpox

Child labor laws

Citizen cooks & the Society for the Encouragement of National Industy

Concordat of 1801

Constitution of 1799 (universal suffrage)

Education

Freedom of religion

Grand Sanhedrin

Imperial nobility

Legal impact (list of law codes)

Legal impact (part 2)

Metric system

Napoleonic Code in Bavaria

Paris Bourse

Paris Fire Brigade

Paris Health Council

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Prison reforms and changes

Reforms in Italy (undone during the Restoration)

Regulations limiting pollution

Restoration of universities

Rumford soup kitchens

Sewers and Sanitation

Smallpox vaccine

Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts Brussels

Sorbonne university

Sugar beet industry & trade

Sugar (part 2)

Switzerland (Napoleon’s impact in the country)

Tax collection system

Treaty of Campo Formio

Unification of the Italian peninsula

Water policies

Women artists in Napoleonic France

Women writers in Napoleonic France

#resources #to read #napoleon #napoleonic france #intereeeeeesting

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So I think I forgot to post about it here but I'm knitting my own wedding dress.

#oh what #oh my gosh that's intricate #fibrecraft #knitting #the silhouette is so pretty! #sewing #the mental construct that occupies the space where my god given fear of sewing should be is currently purring in visual hedonic glee.

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Tudors ladies in love

#fabric! #cloth! #The usual entrapments for magpie brain! #sewing

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site that you can type in the definition of a word and get the word

site for when you can only remember part of a word/its definition 

site that gives you words that rhyme with a word

site that gives you synonyms and antonyms

#resource #words #writing

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The Dungeon Meshi renaissance is making me want to share the resources that taught me how to cook.

Don’t forget, you can check out cookbooks from the library!

Smitten Kitchen: The rare recipe blog where the blog part is genuinely good & engaging, but more important: this is a home cook who writes for home cooks. If Deb recommends you do something with an extra step, it’s because it’s worth it. Her recipes are reliable & have descriptive instructions that walk you through processes. Her three cookbooks are mostly recipes not already on the site, & there are treasures in each of them.

Six Seasons: A New Way With Vegetables by Joshua McFadden: This is a great guide to seasonal produce & vegetable-forward cooking, and in addition to introducing me to new-to-me vegetables (and how to select them) it quietly taught me a number of things like ‘how to make a tasty and interesting puréed soup of any root veggie’ and ‘how to make grain salads’ and ‘how to make condiments’.

Grains for Every Season: Rethinking Our Way With Grains by Joshua McFadden: in addition to infodumping in grains, this codifies some of the formulas I picked up unconsciously just by cooking a lot from the previous book. I get a lot of mileage out of the grain bowl mix-and-match formulas (he’s not lying, you can do a citrus vinaigrette and a ranch dressing dupe made with yogurt, onion powder, and garlic powder IN THE SAME DISH and it’s great.)

SALT, FAT, ACID, HEAT by Samin Nosrat: An education in cooking theory & specific techniques. I came to it late but I think it would be a good intro book for people who like to front-load on theory. It taught me how to roast a whole chicken and now I can just, like, do that.

I Dream Of Dinner (so you don’t have to) by Ali Slagle: Ok, look, an important part of learning to cook & cooking regularly is getting kinda burned out and just wanting someone else to tell you what to make. These dinners work well as written and are also great tweakable bases you can use as a starting place.

If you have books or other resources that taught you to cook or that you find indispensable, add ‘em on a reblog.

#cooking #food #resource

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i cannot be the first person to post this here but i am going so fucking insane about the gaia music collective's one day choir singing wait for me. the opening harmonies are you KIDDING me

#that's gorgeous #hadestown #orpheus voice is ethereal #<- reblog tags #This is so good

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Someone once said that the titles of jane austen's novels are the name of the problems in the books. For example: in pride and prejudice the biggest problem is the conflict between pride and prejudice. So that makes Emma the biggest problem in Emma and, now that I have started reading the novel, I have never agreed more with something than I agree with this.

#emma

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why so silent?

#this is like the most beautiful phantom art I’ve ever seen #<- too true too true #so ornate! #bring back roccoco #And baroque! #down with the void of minimalism!

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OK SO

I recently HORRIFIED someone by describing the plot of Titus Andronicus. English isn't her first language but she's got the complete works of Shakespeare translated into her own language.

Except. That one. It turns out the translators left out THAT play, and I've soured her view of Shakespeare forever.

Now I'm curious if other translators are quietly leaving out Titus Andronicus.

Please reblog for sample size!

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crystal floral chinese dumplings jiaozi🥟

#dumplings #jiaozi #cooking #hmmm. #this looks fun