rachel
she/her, librarian & semi-retired classicist • posting about the roman republic, translation, fandom, and etc • MILF (Man I Love Fruit) • writing at deadlanguages.substack.com
- man... i really think social media is not for me anymore
- Reposted by rachelIntroducing MARCH THROUGH YOUR STASH! This is a challenge for those of us (Libby addicts, bookstore loiterers) who keep buying books but never reading them. Read as many as possible in the month of March!
- my mom was today years old when she learned that hamilton died in a duel
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- kind of obsessed with this. if you don't like direct conversations and confessions, a subtly addressed letter is fine
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- trader joe's butternut squash ravioli with their vegan pesto. you're welcome
- the venn diagram of my interests has been completed at last
- Reposted by rachelmr. mamdani i sincerely apologize for the mileage this image is going to get
- i really expected to put out more translation work this month but it’s not happening… other things are getting in the way and i’m also feeling pretty stuck creatively. i think i’m burned out
- horribly embarrassing experience for me yesterday: bonded with my middle aged brother via an enthusiastic conversation about military history
- sherb loves his yard 🥹
- i love women writing biographies of historical women… especially when so much of the surviving historical record comes from men, and women have been filtered through that lens from the start. sometimes i see a modern biography and it’s like, Oh, great, just what we need. another male gaze
- Reposted by rachelan axe with heart-shaped holes in the blade, japan, 14th century
- i read this snippet last night
- one of the most mortifying things in the world is meeting a new colleague somewhere and then connecting on linkedin afterwards. it’s bad whether you send or accept the connection request. like okay fine we remembered each other’s names and now we’re “friends” on the doomscrolling job website
- everyone look at sherb… my little paperboy 😭
- Reposted by rachelmuseums are cool because the people who work there are like look at this neat thing and you're like wow that is neat and you just do it over and over again until it is time to go
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- some fun little details from the GW letters i read last week :') 1. he spelled seize wrong: "sieze." confusion over IE spelling rules leave no man untouched 2. he forgot a word and squeezed it in above with a little ^ 3. apparently writing fast, the dot for "i" in "fine" slid over to "e" instead
- having an eating disorder is so fun because i’ll get a diet coke from the costco food court and then have a small breakdown in the car about being a horrible person
- i feel so genuinely weird about suddenly turning into someone who is posting about american history LOL but it’s the first thing that has really grabbed & held my attention since b died in october… like i was totally drowning and this is my piece of driftwood. or some better metaphor
- historical mentor/protege relationships are catnip to me unfortunately. especially when the private correspondence reveals an intensity of emotion & affection that would not necessarily be displayed publicly
- two bros, etc
- the number of low-grade migraines i’ve had over two weeks is getting out of hand
- i've recently realized that my specific historical interest is transitional periods, and the people who lived them. which is super fun given the general state of things
- obsessed with this officer in the french army who met george washington for the first time and was like "his thinly veiled stress and exhaustion charmed me completely"
- things my acnh villagers recently gave me after telling me my outfit looked great: - football pants - water shoes - silly glasses
