#Switchboard

[thunderstruck9]

Edward Wadsworth (British, 1889-1949), Number Please!, 1942. Tempera on paper, 12 5/8 x 14 1/8 in.

[markgatissbirthdayproject]

Hello!!!!! It is time to think about the Mark Gatiss birthday drive for 2024! Mark’s birthday is 17 October and I’m excited to see how much money we can raise this year! Last year we raised £500 for Switchboard.

To start, we will once again be having an auction for fan works and goods. If you’d like to donate a fic or an item please email mgbdaydrive at gmail dot com.

Requests for donations will end at the end of the month and the auction will go live on the first of October.

If you have questions or anything at all, please let me know.

[scavengedluxury]

Post and Telegraph Office Switchgear on display at the Millennium Exhibition, Budapest, 1896. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

[vizreef]

Cute little Radio Station Switchboard (Finland, 1990s)

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[libraryofva]

Recent Acquisition - Photograph Collection

The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company (C&P Telephone) Photograph Collection. 1954

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Trypophobia

[moltengarnet]

Some old Digit fanart. Here’s the description I wrote for Insta in 2019,

“Digit: The coolest Muppet, from The Jim Henson Hour. He didn't really show up much afterward. I keep seeing this lore that says he “he merged with the internet when the show was cancelled��� or something but I can’t cite that. If anyone knows where that info comes from, let me know.

He really has a great design. I was inspired to draw this by @defunctland great video on Jim Henson.”

[dinosaurwithablog]

There was an art to being a switchboard operator. They were some of the best multi taskers ever. They connected every call that came into a business manually. It was fascinating to watch them work. Another lost art. Alas and alack

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Before telephone trees, there were real live human beings who answered calls and actually tried to help. This 1923 photo is captioned, "The big switchboard in the Grand Central Terminal Information Bureau. William P. Walsh, Manager, is at the desk to the right. Courtesy and helpfulness are the watchwords of the Bureau."

Source: NY Central Lines Magazine via Wikimedia Commons

[chaptertwo-thepacnw]

1935 technology

[portmanteaublerone]

Inktober???????

[raph-stims]

Mackenzie, you know what's here now, you don't need to keep coming back to this place.

gif one: a pale hand flipping read covers and then metallic, rounded switches which, in turn, turned on a light showing that whatever the switches being flipped, enabled or turned something on

gif two: a point of view shot in a car driving in a tunnel and coming out the other end, with light flooding into the tunnel

gif three: the helmet of an astronaut diving towards the earth

gif four: a feminine looking white person in a large pool tube going down a waterslide. the slides cover lights up in red, blue, yellow, and white lights.

image: Mackenzie, a black and white border collie from the show Bluey. there is purple yarn tied around his waist and he is midfall, standing on one foot and both of his legs are in the air.

gif five: a white person sliding down a water slide, the slide tube cover lights up in blue and white lights for a bit, goes dark and then lights up in blue stars.

gif six: a point of view shot in a space station pointing at the earth, filled with clouds

gif seven: a point of view shot inside a car, where the car is driving through a tunnel, then coming out the other end, where you can see a purple sky sunset

gif eight: a white hand spinning some kind of white handled bit on a space station switchboard. the hand spins the bit and it spins so hard it starts to float off the board.

[markgatissbirthdayproject]

Happy Saturday! Here is the list of auction items.

Hopefully all the links work! Please let me know here or at @antheas-blackberry if something looks wrong or I've linked your Tumblr incorrectly.

So the auction works the same as other years. If you would like to bid on an item, click the link and it brings you to a google form. Fill in your email and the amount you would like to bid.

I have figured out how to get the bids to go to a spreadsheet so you can all see what is going on without me having to update the page with the high bid every day. If not, I will just update the list every day with the highest bid.

The auction will remain open until the 20th of October. This gives me time to make sure all the links are working and deal with any initial issues. On the 20th I will close the pages for bids and then update the Tumblr page with the final total.

Once I have the highest bid, I will email the donor and the winner and then they can work it out how to deliver the item/fanfic once the donation has been made to Switchboard. All I need is proof of your donation (i.e a forward of the confirmation email from Just Giving).

All bids are in GBP ££.

If you put a bid in, the bid MUST be greater than what the current high bid is within the spreadsheet! There are a few items which have more recent bids, but are less than the first bid. The high bid will stand in this case, so if you are bidding on an item, please check that yours is the highest!

This has worked well over the past few years and everyone who is literally sending an item has agreed to pay for postage. If this ends up being an issue later on, let me know, and I can work it out.

Item 1: BBC Sherlock, Mycroft/Greg or a Mycroft Holmes character piece, 2000-5000 words. From @johannadc

Item 2: Collection of Mycroft stickers, all goldfish themed, from Redbubble. From @lavenderandvanilla

Item 3: 4 Mark themed notecards from Redbubble. From @lavenderandvanilla

Item 4: 1 silver plated necklaces with a snowflake and umbrella charms. People can message me for details. From @lavenderandvanilla

Item 5: 1 silver plated necklaces with a snowflake and umbrella charms. People can message me for details. From @lavenderandvanilla

Item 6: 4. A 3K Mystrade fic. Any rating, best at domestic fluff, hurt/comfort, but give anything a try. No noncon, underage, graphic violence, permanent MCD. From @lavenderandvanilla

Item 7: Mystrade Funko set, which features Mycroft and a romantic Greg (roses and champagne) and their ginger cat. From @LittleFluffyClouds.

Item 8: Mystrade fic 2,000-3,000 words @LittleFlufftyClouds. Please contact them for details.

Item 9: 1-2K word fic from @Ivycopper. Please contact them for details.

Item 10: Motive and the Cue program signed by Mark and Johnny Flynn from @antheas-blackberry

[moominmammaonheroin]

She would’ve loved the new 15th Tardis design

[sqb]

[libraryofva]

Recent Acquisition - Photograph Collection

The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company (C&P Telephone) Photograph Collection. 1954