#so there’s an awesome museum

[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.

[flowerakatsuka]

started thinking about the okipara museum artwork and i just realized what flower 18!kara is holding in it.

those are alstroemeria, which can mean perseverance and yearning for the future in hanakotoba....

[itlswhatltls]

Oh I had the most wonderful day today ❤️

[thescoutblogs]

He's Just So Cool 🎩 🪄

[unriding]

EVIE !!!!!

I SAW U USE MY ART AS UR THEME SO I WANNA DO A REMAKE !!! mostly cause the other one was full of mistaks hurrrrr orz

keeping the color palette the same so itd still fit + use softer shading so convey how soft u are + moze is now IN UR HAND !!!! >:3

oh nick :’)

[michiko-museum]

Inside the dash to save the Getty Villa from the Palisades fire: a timeline

"The Getty Villa, the museum built by oil tycoon J. Paul Getty and home to thousands of priceless antiquities, activated its emergency operations center in response to the fast-moving Palisades fire at 10:40 a.m. Tuesday. At 11:44 a.m., fire could be seen over the ridge, less than one mile away. By 12:27, flames had reached the property.

Fast-moving, wildly unpredictable and catastrophic in the damage it caused along a vast swath of prime coastline, the Palisades fire ultimately spared the Villa and its more than 44,000 objects, including many Roman, Greek and Etruscan relics dating from 6500 BC to AD 400.

J. Paul Getty Trust President and Chief Executive Katherine E. Fleming described for The Times the scene on the ground and how she and her staff worked from a conference center-turned-war room at the Getty Center in Brentwood, about 10 miles away — all while 16 staff members remained at the Villa to implement emergency protocols...

...Fleming offered a riveting play-by-play of the day’s events. The staff members who remained at the Villa worked in emergency response, facilities, security and communications — each highly trained in emergency preparations. When the fire broke out, the biggest concern was protecting the collections from the damaging effects of smoke. The double-walled construction of the galleries provided significant protection, and at 10:45 a.m., the dampers — small valves that regulate airflow in a building’s HVAC system — were turned off, as was the air conditioning. The staff still smelled smoke, so the museum doors were sealed at 11:04 a.m. The smoke became overwhelming by 11:15, and at 11:20 the staff was sent an email alerting them that the Villa was closing..." Keep Reading

[noctilu-uca]

I love photography and yet i am not in a photography class

[primrosebitch]

For all my fellow chronically ill/disabled buddies I cannot recommend walkers enough as a mobility aid, especially the ones with a seat and storage, like not only it is great at the mobility aid part, it's multitudes more supportive than a cane for example, but if you get the right type you also have a chair with you all the time so if there isn't any seats around you don't have to worry because you already have one, and then you also don't have to worry about carrying around a heavy bag (which for me at least can be awful) because you can just put it on the seat or in the storage below the seat, and you don't have to worry about making your bag too heavy because you aren't gonna be carrying it so you only have to think about how much stuff will fit, so you can have lots of water and snacks and medical stuff if you need.

There are some downsides of course, like stairs are a bit of an issue but most places have ramps or elevators if the stairs are like to get to another floor, and if you use it for too long at a time it'll start to hurt your hands (to be fair about this one tho the only times this happens was during conventions where I'd be using the walker for like 8+ hours straight with very few breaks, which only shows how amazing a walker is because without it I can only walk for like 15-20 minutes before needing to stop, even less if I'm not pushing through/ignoring the pain), and they can also be a bit bulky so transporting them can be a bit of an issue sometimes.

So if you're looking into mobility aids then consider getting a walker.

[pnchinbeez]

Me reading this jedtavius fic

[fictionadventurer]

NaPoWriMo #19: A poem recounting a historical event

To a Man Commenting Upon Lincoln's Homely Features

Abraham Lincoln knew quite well He had never been beauty-graced. When Douglas met him in debate And told him he was quite two-faced, Old Lincoln made a quick reply With his usual sense of fun: "If I'd another face to wear, Do you think I would wear this one?"

[trickstersaint]

I’m your first patron Saint of creation! I think about Frankenstein all the time so I think your quiz worked.

!!!! whoo!!! gonna be so honest i was stressed out watching the quiz stats for the first few hours there cause the stats for creation sat at zero percent for so long... but. y'know. i think that creation has lower stats cause it requires you to make some of the brighter and more positive choices and it's not always clear where any positives are in that quiz even If you are a naturally bright and optimistic person... anyway. delightful to see all the people getting the creation result cause they are the Only people who are actively happy with the result that they got lmao

[seaofreverie]

10 favourite song from the spine ?

Ouuuhhh hard question... I don't think I've ever had just one #1 top favourite on The Spine at any point and in general my favourites tend to switch around a lot when it comes to this album. But anyway, I think some of my biggest early favs were Museum of Idiots, Prevenge and Wearing A Raincoat, but a bit more recently I got really into Au Contraire and Broke In Two. And yet MORE recently I've had some newfound apprectiation for Memo To Human Resources because I heard it live last year!!

[sleep-nurse]

THAT. THAT SURE WAS A MINE

[chocolatepot]

Some days I'm like "I wish I were internet famous and had a big platform on social media" and other days I'm like "wow! thank goodness I don't have to take point on explaining that the Costume Institute is criminally underfunded and needs the Met Gala to survive!"

[iknowwhereyousleepatnight]

every time u reblog those paintings of coloured squares and rectangles I get so happy

“yay yippee” <- me

omg i’m SO glad u like them i love rothkos sm they make me so happy i’m so glad you like them too!!!

[unriding]

hi hi evie !!! i hope youre doing swell today !!! remember to take breaks from your booth !! heres a refresher 🤲

hey … nick? hi nick! hope you’re doing great!! im picking myself off the floor right now JSNDNKC so actually this is my 5th attempt at typing a proper response (in total i have probably written about a full scientific report’s amount of info about this and decided it still did not do your ask any justice..)

gif A is me clutching onto this ask sobbing, gif B is me still clutching onto his ask sobbing, gif C is me after my tears flood my house (the ask is safe inside my pocket of course…)