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watching my promised afternoon thunderstorm slip from a 90% chance to a 20% chance.... baby come back i can change

Fabian Cháirez (Mexican, 1987) - La Barricada (2024)

sketch comm for @genielogic !

are we even trying to make posts anymore

#that's an evil spirit#filled with blood lust and vengeance

love when im watching a documentary and im like "yep thats an egyptologist alright"

oh my god?

*hisses in Egyptologist*

So for those of you who don't know yet, this is Colleen Darnell, also known as The Vintage Egyptologist on Instagram where she goes full colonialist in 1920s/1930s clothing complete with pith helmets and using Egyptians both living and dead as props. (Not kidding: she takes Aesthetique™ photos in tombs.) She's married to John Darnell, who was formerly her professor and PhD supervisor at Yale, and it's quite a well-known scandal in Egyptological circles that the two were having an affair before and at the time of her working on that PhD. John, who was married during that affair, eventually divorced his wife and then married Colleen.

In the field, they're considered bad scholars. Beyond the Yale scandal, beyond the fact they're being ridiculously colonialist in the way they present themselves and their "vintage fashion" choices, which they will extend to wearing on actual digs in Egypt itself, their condescending attitudes bleed through in their scholarship. A scholarship that's mediocre at best to begin with, especially John's. However, because they (especially Colleen) have such a strong social media presence, they keep getting asked for docus or to serve as consultants for popular media (e.g. Jodi Picoult heavily consulted them for her novel The Book of Two Ways and whoof it shows), and most people won't question their fashion choices because "ohh aesthetic".

However, by far most Egyptologists severely dislike them for their academic dishonesty and refusal to acknowledge the loaded history behind their chosen mode of dress.

ETA to address some things I've seen in the notes: enjoying 1920s/1930s fashion on its own doesn't make you colonialist. It's the intersect between the choice of fashion and where to wear it - in this case in a professional setting, in a field with a colonialist history - as well as the overall attitude displayed towards the subject of study.

Im probably never going to get to blow up a gas station before I die

Fwogs.

hate that like every iteration of zelda is skinny. put some meat on her bones hylia is literally fat

like this iscrazy. get fucking realllllll

she would heal the world

bath time!

Talking about cartoon characters killing themselves and what would make them do such a thing is actually like a tried and true hobby of my primary mutual server. It started with SpongeBob mostly but mordecai and Rigby are classic subjects as well. I think if you’re a creative of any kind, not just a writer ‘trying to get inside the characters head’— actually no. If you’re alive, period, this is a good exercise. Bring it up to your therapist. Your grandparents and children. We need to talk about what would make Patrick kill himself. We need to normalize this.