#and the designs look awesome!

[fictionadventurer]

I love libraries.

I'm browsing the WWI shelves (as you do) and notice a very old book about the war. I glance at the first pages that talk about how one day the war will be over and we'll look at this place and not see any signs of the battlefield.

Then it hits me. And I check the publishing date.

This book was printed before the war's end. Not written. Printed. The physical object was created in 1918, while the war in question was raging and the end was as yet uncertain.

Now I'm standing on the other side of the apocalypse, with this physical link to that era in my hands. I'm living proof that the war did end and life did go on and we can all look at the end of the world as a long-ago memory.

Reading old books is cool enough, connecting our minds and hearts through the ideas of people who lived long ago, but there's something extra profound about holding a copy of the book that comes from the time that it was written. It's a physical link between the past and the present connecting me to those long-ago people. A piece of the past come into the future that gives me the chance to almost take the hand of some long-ago reader, to hold something they could have held, connecting not just mentally but physically to their era, a moment of connection across more than a century.

Excuse me while I go weep.

[umblrspectrum]

you'll never guess which movie i finally watched after 2 years of being lazy

[tariah23]

I’ve never seen any shit like this before…

[crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington]

hi wintersberg nation

[22mzk03]

Ah! the extremely goofy gurls 🥰

[gl1tchxr]

warden slayer

and without all the effects so you can see my pearl design

[inthiskingdomwewillendure]

Elrond, Gil-Galad, Elendil & Isildur in the Battle of the last Alliance in 4k

[bacchuschucklefuck]

and! barbarian!fig! its her

[cogneartive]

“i dont like drawing barok van zieks hes hard to draw” unfortunately for me i am a true castlevania geezer

[iamamythologicalcreature]

Watching star trek next generation. First episode. 1987. In a quick background shot there's a guy wearing one of the short skirt uniforms. In 1987. SO BADASS.

I absolutely love this quick cut shot. The Federation is supposed to be a utopian society. So the designers are very clearly stating that traditionally feminine garb is no longer gender coded in utopian society.

It's a super quick shot, likely leaving viewers going, "Was that...?" and having no way to confirm it. (No pause, rewind, or video release.) So they can get away with it.

But. Seriously. They did this in what was THE VERY FIRST EPISODE OF THE BRAND NEW STAR TREK REBOOT.

They boldly went.

Brilliant.

[mixtercandy]

Maybe... the main deltarune kids and the hcs you have for them as icons?

Ty for the request!! i always have fun drawing deltarune (especially noelle)!!

[nocek]

so I've been on vacation but now I'm back on my bullshit ;)

(doodle totally not inspired by a cute family in pikachu hats that I've seen but then during doodling I've decided Stitch actually fits Miguel better)

[liauditore]

I don't have the entire context for him and cleo's situation but I think we should all get weirder about it.

[dravencroft]

Skulduggery Pleasant, Skeleton Detective, and Valkyrie Cain, perfectly normal teenager and also harbinger of the apocalypse. Or apocalypses. It all depends on the point of view, really, and anyway it isn't really her fault.

[ketavinsky]

i hope i'm not too late to offer up my miku! i've been so happy to see all the muslim mikus floating around, so here's a miku dear to my own heart: hui chinese miku!

[front-facing-pokemon]