Calling all archaeoblurs!

If you're an archaeologist* and have a Tumblr, reblog this or sound off in the comments! I figured it's high time we put together a directory of sorts.

*for our purposes, archaeologist can mean someone who has or is working on a degree in archaeology, you don't necessarily have to be currently practicing. If you have a blog that is specifically archaeology focused, include that and what your specialty is!

If you're in a related field like anthropology, museums, or archives, include yourself with whatever your field is :)

It’s been a while since I’ve actually introduced myself, so might as well take this as an opportunity, so thanks Reid!

I’m Mice/Mouse to most - your neighbourhood Australian archaeologist!

My blog primarily focuses on random archaeology things I come across that I find interesting - come ask me questions about things, I’m always keen for a chat and to help people learn about archaeology, Australia, and our extensive history!

I work in Australia in consulting archaeology (CRM as I think it’s more commonly referred to in the US), primarily with Aboriginal archaeology.

My specialty when I studied was in Australian multicultural heritage, which I wrote an entire thesis on, and am regularly tempted to return to. If you ask me, or I get the whim, it’s incredibly easy to get my to gush about it.

annoying when shows set in the medieval period have the women with thier hair just long and unstyled and out . girl go put on your wimple girl 🤦‍♀️

like there are so many fun medieval hair and headgear options, it's so boring just seeing loose beachy waves meant to appeal to 21st century beauty standards

put that hot prince in a gay little hood with an ostrich feather or so help me god

Back in May, CBC Arts reached out to me asking if I would be interested in joining the CBC Creator Program. After months of working with a producer and roping a few other people into this project, the pilot episode of my series on art heists is officially live. Shoutout to Producer Tiffany, Editor Gui, Artist Noah, and Research Assistant Amy.

Join me for a deep dive into this bizarre story of art crime.

I'm working on two new videos for CBC!!!!

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trying to be an active mutual feels like this some of times

If you've ever thought to yourself "I basically know who this person is" about a stranger from reading their posts or watching their youtube videos, I guarantee you're wrong. Yes, even if you've been following them for a long time. Knock it off.

It's possible to know a fictional character purely from the little vignettes in a story because the author has intentionally structured those moments to show every relevant facet of the character. If you finish a story, and there were two scenes where the character was nice and one where they liked rollercoasters, then that's the character! They are nice and they like rollercoasters.

REAL PEOPLE DO NOT WORK LIKE THIS.

Real people posting on social media may appear somewhat similar to a fictional character being revealed scene by scene. DO NOT FALL FOR IT. You are not being shown a curated collection of carefully authored scenes that intentionally build up to a full character! You are seeing a random assortment of moments when the person felt like posting on social media, filtered through imprecise wording, missing context, whether the person slept well the night before, and who knows how many other factors. Real people are orders of magnitude more complicated than fictional characters because they are not designed to be easily understood by an audience! If you try to interpret social media posts as a found-footage story it will lead only to ruin!

I've been trying to reframe how I talk about content-producers to prevent myself from falling into this overly-familiar trap.

"That band? I haven't listened to all their music, but I like what I've heard. This song's my favorite."

"That actor? I enjoyed their performance in this movie and that TV show. Made me laugh AND cry. Good actor."

"YouTuber? I like their series on book-to-movie adaptations."

"Tumblr person? Yeah, I follow them because I like their posts on fashion history."

Being specific about WHAT you like makes for better conversations, and you don't fall into the "omg I LOVE them!" trap.

You're not putting someone on a pedestal, built up by your idea if them, so you're less likely to go knee-jerk-defensive if someone criticizes them. Keep some professional distance between you and "person you don't personally know but whose work you enjoy."

Mutuals changing their icons makes me feel like a child crying when their dad shaves his face bc they don’t know who he is

why are you green now??? you're my PURPLE mutual

I like when delivery people ask you to sign their tiny shitty screen with your finger like alright sure we can do some free drawing I guess. Some random strokes that evoke the essence of a signature. Looking me dead in the eyes while I play fruit ninja on this blank screen. Why not.

huuuughhhhh yahoo selling scraped data from tumblr to AI sloo probably uughhhwaaauuwghhhhhh

bwwaaaughhhhhhgggh enshittification continues

this is what you're looking for to opt out!!!

The setting on both of my blogs was already set to "prevent third-party sharing" when I checked, so at the moment Tumblr seems to be telling the truth. The bar is on the ground, but at least they're not digging to get under it!

I love posts that are like, there needs to be a story like this:

[Lists the entire premise of a story]

I think there is a story like that. I think it's in you.

Also on the email clean out I was reminded of the time a new kid joined my child’s preschool and he’d never seen a fire truck up close.

“I telled him we had a lever that made a fire truck come RIGHT HERE and fire fighters come talk to us about safety and we went to pull it but Christina sawed us and said ‘ABSOLUTELY NOT’.”

“Do you remember what the firefighters said about safety the previous times someone pulled the lever?”

“Mama they said lots of things. Don’t let fire in you house. If there is fire pull the lever. If there is NO fire… they said… a lot of things. We got stickers.”

“They said not to pull the lever if there’s no fire?”

“…”

“They said it’s important to not pull the lever because they have to protect people who DO have fire?”

“…”

“Buddy?”

“How do you make fire?”