Previously: Rupert Giles, MLS.
Course List for Lara Croft, Master of Library Sciences Candidate, Trinity Term 1998
“Tomb Raiders No More”: Cross-Cultural Literacy And Global Burial Site Ethics
Carrying And Discharging Multiple Guns At Once
First-Year Seminar: Basic Etiquette And Intro To Jewel Thievery
Holocene-Era Landscape Change And Haunted Daggers
Maintaining Control Of Your Family Estate: Intro To English Inheritance Law
Pre-Clovis Sites In The Americans And The Most Common Vengeance Goddesses You’ll Find There
Coping With Loss 401 (Advanced): When Your Recently Deceased Loved Ones Are Possessed By The Spirit Of The Evil God Set
Archaeobotany Lab
Mercenary Employment Best Practices: Working With Freelancers
Grant-Writing During Downtime: Turning Plane Crashes In The Himalayas Into Office Hours
Cultural Sensitivity In A Time Of Crisis: How To Respect Indigenous Customs Without Returning The Amulet
Ethics Seminar: The Scion Of Atlantis And Ownership Rights After A Civilization’s Downfall
Secret Societies And Advanced Ledge-Jumping
Electromagnetic Grappling And Agricultural Diversity In Pre-Contact Europe
World Religions And How To Exploit Them
Mid-Dig Betrayal: How To Hide From Your Own Coworkers In Your Own Excavation Sies
Important Biblical Myths And How To Battle Them
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i want to take all of these classes, obviously, but ESPECIALLY “Secret Societies And Advanced Ledge-Jumping”
Physical Education Component: Bringing a Compound Bow to a Gunfight
Do not, under any circumstances, underestimate a compound bow ^_^
Notably missing: How To Walk Straight Through An Open Fucking Door
In a similar vein, I have often wondered about Indiana Jones’ doctoral supervisor:
“Mr. Jones, while these artifacts you have brought us are certainly fascinating, you have really made no efforts to record their provenance, conduct any sort of soil analysis, or even create a site plan. Also, there are dead Nazis everywhere.”
Abner Ravenwood was clearly as derelict an advisor as he was a father.
+1 for comment, +2 for screen name, well played.
Well, his bid for tenure was denied: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/back-from-yet-…
“Important Biblical Myths And How To Battle Them”
See now, this, THIS was the class I needed.
Goshdarn teen-eating she-bears.
Notably missing from the list of requirements for ordination in my denomination: successful subduing of the Leviathan once per century. I don’t know how the hell the Wesleys roped us into that one, but every one hundred years a tribute of commissioned elders and deacons are chosen secretly by the board of ordained ministry to do the deed.
i bet Nathan Drake took half of these classes.
Lara took “Principles of Responsible Site Excavation” pass/fail.
I volunteer to be the professor of Advanced Early Daniel Craig Studies!
I’ll be TA!
I read the last one as “Impotent Bible Myths And How to Battle Them,” and spent a few minutes trying to think of Biblical figures who couldn’t get it up before I realized my mistake.
I think there actually were Biblical figures who couldn’t get it up -Lot, of salt-pillar-bad-decisions fame? King David, he of the long-reign-of-shagging-everyone? Who else was there? I trust the “dirty minded librarian” readership…
Lot got it up, even while drunk, with his daughters. I have so many feels about that story and they’re all angry.
I think Samson’s hair getting cut off might imply impotence as well, since it basically stripped him of his masculinity.
Elijah implies that Baal is off taking a shit when he is having a god-off with Jezebel’s priests…that doesn’t really count…
Is this the right place to complain about how disappointed I was in the new Tomb Raider reboot, and how the game itself is infinitely more sexist than any of its predecessors? I want it to be the right place.
More sexist?? Do tell.
Really? I felt exactly the opposite (actually lol I did a presentation in my Female Icons class on her in which I argued that the reboot was the most feminist version of Tomb Raider.
The basic argument is that previous versions of Lara fit squarely into the Strong Female Character/Fighting Fuck Toy tropes. The Strong Female Character is strong in a typically masculine way — physically strong and emotionally stoic. She’s not complex or well-developed. The Fighting Fuck Toy is a Strong Female Character who may be at the center of the story and driving the narrative, but she’s hypersexualized and objectified — she exists to serve the male gaze. Even though the Fighting Fuck Toy is supposedly physically strong, she still has the ideal feminine body: slim but curvy with little to know muscle bulk despite her strength.
The first two video game versions of Lara Croft (the first is from 1996 to2002 and the second is from 2006 to 2008) both feature a hypersexualized Lara (extremely curvy, extremely slim) with an extremely limited emotional range. The first Lara is practically the only woman in her whole world; the second Lara encounters a few other women who end up being villains. Lara’s femininity and sexuality are winked at throughout these games — they’re basically jokes.
The new game features a radically different Lara. She’s still very pretty, but her body has realistic proportions, and I didn’t feel that she was sexualized at all. There is a diverse cast with multiple women, all of whom react differently to their circumstances. Lara experiences a range of emotions, fear, excitement, doubt, remorse, pride, pain, outrage. She’s emotionally (and physically) vulnerable at times, especially early in the game, but this doesn’t mean that she’s weak; instead she’s a more realistic woman, emotionally complex. She grows and develops throughout the game, becoming a “Strong Female Character” that is strong in a more genuine way. Her main motivation in the game is saving her friend, Sam, and the centralization of the female friendship in the narrative is SO new to the series and so important.
I’m just totally here for games with less sexualized, emotionally complicated, well-developed, sometimes vulnerable but in the end ass-kicking female video game protagonists.
Yes, yes it is. (Hated it. So much.)
Oddly, I was not prepared for basic firearms safety and use to be part of my archaeology field school experience, and yet! The camp essentials were rifles, Kraft dinner, Sailor Boy pilot bread, mosquito coils, and lousy whiskey. Great days. No shambling undead.
I once, partially by accident, watched a film called “Cara Loft: Womb Raider.” It taught some decidedly different lessons.
‘Underground Tunnel Navigation in Short Pants’
Yes, yes it is. (Hated it. So much.)
Do not, under any circumstances, underestimate a compound bow ^_^