Life, Books, Cats.

Or, Fashion. Fandom. Shinies. Hi. My name's Lou. Welcome! My major fandoms currently are Star Trek (mostly DS9 and TOS), ASoIaF (the thing I'm writing the most fanfic for at the moment), Legend of Korra, Steven Universe, Star Wars (always and always) and Guild Wars. I try to warn for triggers, and sometimes talk about my mental illnesses.  Elsewhere, I draw, code dressup games, and write fic under the name Siamesa.  

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

we gotta get back into revolving bookcases i'm begging

truly we allow the pinnacles of human achievement to wither and collapse into ashes in the wind

[love-and-hisses]

The kittens are climbing! They're getting back down, too!

[beardedmrbean]

Next up someone is going to claim that the Narnia series isn't kids books.

Kids books is probably not the best way to word it, you can enjoy them at every age, including your childhood, as you get older you may find new truths in them, but they're still good for any age.

[cookingwithroxy]

I want you to understand this. I NEED you to understand this. My mother read me the hobbit as bedtime story, and I started pushing myself to read before pre-school so I could in fact read the hobbit for myself instead of having to wait for bedtime.

I didn't do so right away but jesus wept I PUSHED myself to learn to read SPECIFICALLY so I could read The Hobbit! It is, in fact, a children's story! And children only see page count as 'there is a lot of this fun story to read!'

[fashionsfromhistory]

Evening Dress

Girolamo Giuseffi

c.1912

Indianapolis Museum of Art

[fishstickmonkey]

Chinese archaeologists have restored a 1,400-year-old royal crown, which belonged to Empress Xiao the wife of Yang Guang, or Emperor Yang of Sui, the second and last monarch of the short-lived Sui Dynasty (581-618).

(via The Archaeology News Network)

[unicorngelato]

Every fifth TGCF textpost: people are wrong about the Character

Every fifth MDZS textpost: nobody understands the Themes

Every fifth SVSSS textpost: what if Shen Yuan transmigrated into a pregnant flea

[exlibra]

intellectually i understand that ds9 probably has sonic washing machines or whatever but i think the station should have a coin-operated laundromat (you must go to quark's to exchange cash into Quark Coins to use it) and i think there should be drama wherein someone removes garak's wet clothes from the washing machine and leaves them in a heap on a table. and of course he finds out who did it by hacking the security cameras and promptly rigs the washing machine to explode the next time they use it.

[exlibra]

julian always forgets to take his washing out and every time someone else puts it in the dryer for him to be nice. four years in and he still believes that there's a hidden transporter function in the machines that take the wet clothes and zap them over to the dryer automatically

[unamccormack]

Truly awful fifteen minutes in there late one night when both Garak and Kira turn up because they thought it would be quiet but no. Garak gnawing his knuckles in agony because Kira is throwing everything in together and not sorting them into piles for different temperature washes. Will she thump me now because I’ve spoken to her, or will she thump me later because she’ll know I could have saved her, and why is this my life.

[nicasiosilang]

Jake and Nog do, at some point, accidentally install a hidden transporter function, but instead of zapping your washing into the dryer, it zaps one sock per wash into the transporter buffer on the Defiant. Years later, this upsets a delicate first contact situation in the Delta Quadrant when O'Brien thinks to clear out the ol' buffer while in orbit and causes the heavens over a pre-warp society to rain socks for days.

[lacetulle]

Joli Poli Couture

[samsincerely]

EVERYONE get in the tags rn and tell me your favorite cheese

[plus-size-aesthetics]

honeythesiren

[beezlebutch]

"Pride month is over"

WRONG! Your pride month is over! Me and all the other disabled queers are having pride month two: disability edition

[jehandant]

Reblogging this again bc people in the notes are asking a lot of "Am I included? Am I disabled if I have x?" and I just wanted to add the flag here to show people who the pride month is for.

This is the new flag, the old one was more vivid and in a z shape, but it's been made more neutral to be inclusive of people with seizures or sensory issues.

Each stripe represents a different aspect of disability:

Red: Physical disabilities

Yellow: Cognitive & intellectual disabilities

White: (And this is the key one I think) Invisible AND undiagnosed disabilities

Blue: Mental illnesses

Green: Sensory disabilities

If you're autistic or have ADHD? this is your pride month. If you have a mental illness, it's your pride month. If you're hard of hearing, this is your pride month. If you have an autoimmune disorder, this is your pride month. If you are not diagnosed with anything but you know something is up with you: THIS IS STILL YOUR PRIDE MONTH.

[glorianas]

you can discuss the problems within academia literally forever and you probably should but “historians are trying to keep information from you” is always going to be an anti-intellectual, reactionary opinion, sorry, literally no way around that

[glorianas]

if you literally don’t even know what a professional historian does at work daily and you literally think it’s oppression for someone to ask you to crack open a book every now and then, i promise it’s not a historian’s fault why you don’t know anything

[sulkykarris]

Also we love talking about our current research. A bit too much sometimes I admit. So it’s really more an issue how to get historians (or most academics and scientists) to stop talking.

[snugglesquiggle]

was measuring out some sugar and i scooped out one spoonful and fucking said "two." i didn't know you could even lose count that fast

[bealittleimprobable]

Do you knit or crochet? I think you would fit in well.

[herpsandbirds]

Whitehead’s Broadbill (Calyptomena whiteheadi), family Calyptomenidae, order Passeriformes, endemic to Borneo

photograph by Therese Ong

[arcanumnyx]

I don't want AI. I don't want meaningless wars. I don't want fast fashion. I want old growth forests. I want glaciers. I want coral reefs. I want clean water and air. I want bees. I want animals to be protected and not endangered. I want a thriving wildlife population. I want A FUTURE for the following generations.

[batmanbeyondrocks]

Black Menswear modelled by Black Men

Creative Director Rock Mitchell

[kowabungadoodles]

[headspace-hotel]

The dude in bright orange with the orange umbrella that looks like a peacocks tail.... FAVE

[radioactive-leopard]

Something by I love about Black Menswear is how they’re not afraid of color and personality. It’s not just the same boring black or blue suit jacket every time. It’s also just very dapper.

[headspace-hotel]

YESSS i especially love the florals...

[quo-usque-tandem]

Tortoiseshell cat - China, 16th century