Belle: opens "Beauty and the Beast" with a song about how boring her life is, even though she can see literally dozens of people she doesn't live with while going to town to just browse in a bookstore.
Me: "F*ck you, Belle. And where's your mask?"
Ok, now she’s talking to herself in the middle of an empty field about how she wishes she could travel somewhere. Anywhere. Just... to another place. This is much more relatable.
When I return to normal life, my social skills will be on the same level as the Beast.
Wait, this is Mrs. Potts’ work from home childcare solution? Taking notes.
The lyrics to “Be Our Guest” include the lines “You're alone / And you're scared / But the banquet's all prepared” so I guess they’re also all overeating needlessly elaborate meals while locked in the castle. #Relatable
How I feel every time I, say, try to go to the grocery store.
Con: you’re locked in an enchanted castle. Pro: you have the old timey equivalent of Netflix.
Everyone is acting really damn surprised that the only two potential sexual partners locked in isolation together are having some feelings.
Aaaaaand I still cried at the end. This concludes my pandemic viewing of Beauty and the Beadt.
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In 2021, a Nepali monastery told the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts that the museum possessed a sacred painting stolen from the monastery in 1967. The museum responded by offering to give the monastery a replica... if they would sign away their rights to the original. A 🧵
In August 1967, the American scholar Mary Slusser photographed the painting during an annual festival at the Yempi Mahavihara (also known as I Baha) in Patan, Nepal. In September, , as her diary shows, a dealer offered it to her.
In Nepal's Buddhist communities, sacred artifacts like the painting are owned jointly by their worshippers. They cannot be sold. Slusser's other writings show she knew this, and knew that it was against Nepal's law to export such artifacts. Still, she bought it.
Arguing that tales of dragons are evidence that dinosaurs lived in human times - humm. Arguing that anything Herodotus says was literal truth - nope. (Nice buff H-man, there, though.)
“by funding scientific studies on Native American human remains… federal agencies have created incentives for institutions to hold on to ancestors in ways that undermine the goals of NAGPRA…”
It’s not that they didn’t think about consulting tribes - it’s that they thought doing so was a bad idea for their research. Holy moly.
Inscriptions friends... is pecking out a circular letter form instead of carving freehand weird for ca. 530 BCE? (Context in next tweet.)
So, John Marshall buys this stele in fragments from 1902-1913: metmuseum.org/art/collection…. Marshall was offering £10 a letter for further fragments of the inscription, or £500 for the rest of it.
In 1907, here's the part of the inscription he has (left) and two more parts he's offered by a dealer in Athens (right). The new parts have the cautious circles.