#kicked out of a museum

[idohistorysometimes]

Some events went down at my work so that inspired me to talk about this. Its a return-to-form if you will

[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.

[mayhems-cannon]

something lame from Orsay

[cleocatrablossy]

[maverik6464]

Sifu is such a fucking fantastic game, easily one of my favorites off all time and fucking EVERYONE should play it. Please. I beg you. Put it on the easy mode if you want i don't care, I might play it for the challenge but every aspect of it from art direction to music to just overall vibe is SO sososososo SO good plEASE play it

[lonely-space-ace]

well I can scratch “getting kicked out of a church” off my bucket list

[beeholyshit]

SORRY I WASNT VERY CREATIVE WITH THIS ONE </3

YOU DON'T HAVE TO APOLOGIZE MIWOOOOOOOO. I don't blame you for not recognizing the last ones bc I've barely said anything about them, LIKE THE COWBOY BEBOP DOESN'T EVEN HAVE A NAME YET AND I'VE NEVER POSTED ABOUT HER

I LOVE HOW YOU CATEGORIZED RUDY AND VALENTINE JSJAHSHA THAT'S SO CUUUUTE

I saw Vermelho on the first one and for a second I was like "wait wh- OH RIGHT" KDJSJSJSHWJAJW

[izzy-b-hands]

Putting on last year's trans rigs stream from Drawfee before i have to get ready to go out with my mum and her bf today (bc i have the worst feeling in my gut he's gonna make that An Thing for me if given the chance today, aka whenever i eventually need the restroom while we're at Mystic)

[sunburnacoustic]

Track 4 from the US Promo-only Cave EP that was sent to press and radio in the US and Canada in 1999/early 2000. Coma is listed on the track listing as a "previously unreleased B-side" at this point in time.

[notfknapplicable]

You know what a petty bitch like me loves when I'm already having a great month? Walking past the person who fired me from my first job at this same university while I'm walking back from downtown with Florida water in my hand and a red keffiyah tied to my purse. I know why I was fired: I cursed at a staff meeting once, and also I refused to go to a group lunch that was happening at a country club. I am a Black woman and this is the south, so of course I'm not trying to eat at no motherfucking country club. This person happened to be head of HR and was present for my firing. I was asking questions about why I was losing my job even though I got along great with my students and worked hard at outreach and recruitment, and she literally interrupted me to say "[govt name], this isn't a conversation." She then offered me a box so I could clean out my desk.

At the time I'd never felt like less of a person than I did in that moment. She was obviously looking forward to firing me and made no attempt to make the process easier for me. Bitch was literally like "shut up, there's nothing to discuss, let me bring you a box."

And I walked past her today on my way back from the metaphysical shop with my rose lip balm and Florida water. She couldn't even look at me. She saw me and then she started gazing at whatever was in her hands. Not exactly sure why her discomfort delights me so much - actually, I am. It's because she shamelessly delighted in terminating my employment and went out of her way to make me feel "less than" during the process. Clearly I did not have a career in student services ahead of me and I am giddy as I try to choose which classes I'll be taking with my scholarship. All's well that ends well, I suppose.

[kayspaceprince]

I love wearing my nasa shirts around. Men my dad’s age will try to awkwardly connect with me by asking if I’m studying to be a scientist and I have to look them dead in the eyes and tell them I’m an art major

[mcchipisfried]

Dracula notes from the 1st of September.

[mittensmorgul]

Visited Sam Winchester today

Actually swung thru the Smithsonian natural history museum and saw some favorites

Gum gum

Giant sloth

Lunch date

Horsies

*trumpety noises *

I was down there doing scripthunt business, exchanging script covers that were autographed at the last jibcon for some to be autographed at the next jibcon, and it hit me on the train home... i met with a foreign operative in a hotel coffee shop a few blocks from the white house in order to exchange sensitive documents. i was on a spy mission :'D

anyway if i had to go all the way down there a few blocks from the mall, i had to at least walk around one museum. oh, and the sculpture garden down by the national archives...

[makofan100]

Dan is the man

[hiruinonai]

/HIMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[siriuslywounded]

Are they originally British, or were they "acquired during the Great Empire as trophies"??

Pillars at the British Museum