#museums ARE holy-- to ME

[tex-treasure-chamber]

FR JAZZ... he's really out here doing his best and for WHAT.

Also unrelated but because that image irks me so much imma just say it---

The casual damage these grown men do to infrastructure is atrocious.

Look at that!!! That's like!!!! MARBLE!!!

That is EXPENSIVE!!!!

It's gonna take DAYS to get TWO custom made squares (because he nicked the second!!!) to replace those to match the other tiles!!!

And it'll clog up foot traffic while it's being installed!!!

That's a FREE entry museum!!!! FREE. ENTRY.

And he just IMPALED its holy grounds!!

WHO IS PAYIN' FOR THESE DAMAGES?? Is it Iscariot?? Does Hellsing and Iscariot split the costs??

Santana is spray bottle training Alucard AND Anderson to stop it and pay more dadgum respect to their surroundings.

this comment under the extract of TFS’ abridged is making me lose my shit

[caterpillarinacave]

I would so many things to get my hands on copy of that script

[rosetinted-escape]

Petition for Muse to do another by-request gig bc honestly I think that would fix me.

[freebooter4ever]

grandma and pepper from my cousin today ^_^ i was thinking of trying to visit gma in ohio in feb and pittsburgh too, but it turns out she is going to my other aunts house by then and my nephew asked if i would come visit too, so i guess i'll be in south carolina instead if im miraculously healthy lol

[gemmahale]

a little late but re: WIP ask game -

MUSEUM MUSE MUSEUM MUSE MUSEUM MUSE MUSEUM MUSE MUSEUM MUSE MUSEUM MUSE MUSEUM MUSE MUSEUM MUSE MUSEUM MUSE MUSEUM MUSE MUSEUM MUSE MUSEUM MUSE MUSEUM MUSE MUSEUM MUSE MUSEUM MUSE MUSEUM MUSE MUSEUM MUSE MUSEUM MUSE MUSEUM MUSE MUSEUM MUSE MUSEUM MUSE

WIP Ask Game

Oh Mads. You and your love for Museum Muse will never cease to delight me. (And there is no such thing as too late, I promise.)

You clarified in DM's that you were curious about how their first DM goes. I haven't gotten there yet, so I don't exactly know. 😅 I just know the circumstances.

So, instead, I'll offer you this: the stories behind their usernames and some of the forums they are frequent in. (Usernames fuckin' suck to come up with, okay? Especially because John and Daisy are both alive at the advent of the internet.)

Under the cut because I...I did world building again. 😅 Sorry not sorry.

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John's username: TinkerKelpie93

In my canon, kiddo John was the kid that took everything apart and put it back together - just to see how it worked. The radio, the clock, the lawn mower, you name it, he could fix it (most likely). Kid was building inventions in the garage where his father worked with scrap parts cast aside from the vehicles repaired.

His granda (his Da's dad) encouraged him up until his death when John was in his early teens. He told stories to wee John about his ancestors, the Scottish Travellers (from my research, they're similar to/adjacent to Romani populations in Scotland- if a Scot wants to correct my history, please do! I want to do this right. 💚) who are/were called "Tinkers" (usually in a negative connotation - literally meaning "itinerant tinsmith").

So Tinker is a bit of a historical nod to his family history and his tendency to "tinker" with things when he's thinking (hello neurodivergency, it's good to see you. 😅)

His love for Scottish Mythology (and the Kelpie part of his name) is courtesy of his Gran (Mum's Mom). She was a school teacher, and loved teaching the mythos of the region. They had a place on the edge of a small loch, and she would always warn him away from the water with a reminder of the stories about the kelpies trying to drown children. As he grew into his artistic practice, he did this detailed Kelpie artwork to give her for the holidays featuring her house, the swing by the loch and the landscape with the fearful mythological creature in the center of the lake that still hangs over her mantle. This John loves oil pastels and charcoal (it's the tactile part), but will make do with pencils when he's in country.

And 93 because, well, he was born April [redacted], 1993. This man's an Aries, y'all. (Bite me on the date. I have my timeline to back me up.)

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Daisy's username: IrisOfTheLake

Daisy's a symbology and history nerd. (Her love for mythology and art is how she ended up getting a degree specializing in the Still Life paintings of the Dutch Golden Age by female artists, but that's another story. She almost studied Arthurian Legends instead, but decided art history and preservation were her true academic love.)

Her aunt has a prolific collection of irises - she's incredibly active in the British Iris Society and Daisy spent many many seasons after school helping her dig and divide them to share with the neighbors and the other members. She even helped her aunt with cross-pollinating and some breeding attempts (though her aunt didn't progress very far down that road for reasons).

Iris is also the Greek Goddess of messages, often said to arrive on rainbows. Iris flowers hold a number of meanings in the floral language, including hope and wisdom. (Can you see where I'm going with this? I hope so.)

"OfTheLake" directly refers to the legends of King Arthur and the Lady of the Lake. (I told y'all, she was a nerd about this shit.) Y'know, the one that gives the sword Excalibur to Arthur and disposes of Merlin? That Lady of the Lake. Badass bitch if I ever heard of one, who holds a lot of wisdom and knowledge to help others achieve their goals.

Why IrisOfTheLake? It sounded good and smashed two of her early fascinations and hobbies together. 😊 (And the irony of our girl having not one but two flower nicknames makes me giggle.)

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Both John and Daisy recognize each other from lurking and posting in a number of forums together, including art history and BDSM. John regularly shares his more refined drawings (usually done on leave or during long waiting periods), and Daisy is regularly active in the floral symbiology threads, talking about the language of flowers and meaning and bullshit like that. (I just realized I have to write all this, fuck me.)

Anyway, they bond over some dipshit in the BDSM forum espousing some gender essentialism bullshit - men are doms, women are subs, blah blah blah. Daisy has an eloquent take on it, John just wants to thrash them for being so black and white and says as much.

Who reaches out first? To be seen. (I have to leave you some mystery lol.)

[raapija]

mari 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

IT'S TRUUUUEEE

There needs to be a Lance appreciation corner to his museum, man has changed the trajectory of his whole life 😌🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

No, make a whole new little museum next to his just for Lance ❤️❤️❤️ Expand the karting track to do a loop around it ❤️❤️❤️

[sourkitsch]

Holy Family, 1964 — Reginald Adolphus Gammon

[sleep-nurse]

THAT. THAT SURE WAS A MINE

[lordsardine]

/deranged plan rambling incoming

[nitr09-productions]

There is a smut author who has my exact first and last name. I have a degree in creative writing. Therefore, when you search "*my name* writer" you get bombarded with results about smutty books.

Is... Is this why I can't find work? Do I need to put "not that *my name* on the top of my CV?!?"

[heretherebedork]

Khatha always ends up kneeling to Boon, lower than Boon, because his agony is so different and so built into what he never overcame, never truly, that Boon's caste and control still hold him down. Khatha might have lived two centuries but he has never let go of what shaped him... loneliness and caste and fear.

Boon still stands between him and Chan... but this time he gets past him and the result is Chan's life, exactly as it could have been... only this time, it is a very different life. Because you cannot change the past.

[jestroer]

Being incredibly social and thriving in a company of literally anyone pleasant enough to talk to and also having an extreme social anxiety is not an easy work but somebody has to fucking do it

[endlesslytired]

I have been thinking about Bronseele too much and I made these to express the uniqueness of the Star Rail Bronseele and HI3 Bronseele dynamics

[californiannostalgia]

I finally understand why atheists who were once catholics write about bones so much

I didn't realize that christian worship was built on cannibalism

maybe I should've expected that when the textbook tried to explain to me the 'eating the flesh of jesus' thing

[freebooter4ever]

By the way, if any locals recognize where i volunteer at and want to stop by and say 'hi' on a public day - please feel free! Per the guide book, volunteers are not allowed to officially announce our affiliation - i think this is for legal stuff - hence why i obfuscate my words a bit. Im super awkward in person and im terrible remembering faces/names, but if you address me as 'boots' i'll know to let down my guard a bit :)

[throwing-roses-into-the-abyss]

that moment where you start to realize 18th century jackets have a front and back panel but no side panel so now you have to figure out how on earth you're supposed to have all that fabric wrap around most of your body and still have it sit right