Anna the Crow

Moved on: annathecrow.tumblr.com

[annathecrow-that-was]

Hi everone, this is the voice from the afterlife speaking.

Since this blog is 8 years old, has been quite heavily used for half of that time, and belongs to an art history enthusiast, it definitely contains some, female-presenting nipples.

Since I’m not using the site anymore, I don’t plan to go over the 18k+ posts to remove them. That means that if Tumblr will actually enforce the new rule, there is a solid chance this blog might get taken down.

I’m making a personal backup, but I don’t plan to migrate. If it goes, it goes. Everything must end, I suppose.

That said, if you think you might miss me, get in touch! I don’t really maintain a personal blog anywhere, but I do have other accounts where you can reach me:

Instagram: crowdrawsthings (my illustration; message me for my private account) AO3: annathecrow (my old MCU fanfic; not updated, but I will get DMs and comments) Dreamwidth: annathecrow (rarely updated, mostly book reading) Github: annathecrow (my commits to @fandomstatsorg + some other fandom data code) Twitter: annathecrow (well and truly dead, but I will get DMs)

I also have emails and Discords and Facebooks and WhatsApps and whatnot - just shoot me an ask/DM and I’ll figure something out.

Paging mutuals: @alicesaurusfragilis, @ardatli, @diana-godkiller, @ednapontellier, @esgibter, @grumpycryptid, @grumpyfox, @itchbay-srps, @otherpens, @tedkordisanasshole, @wasureneba, @yegit

(I should have made this post a year ago, but alas. Well, at least the newest Tumblr drama is a good reminder.)

[annathecrow-that-was]

I am not able to search the site fandomstatsorg, the following sentence appears: "This tag was not found on AO3".

Hi, thanks for letting me know - it’s probably a new wave of URL changes at AO3, so hopefuly it will be an easy fix. 

[annathecrow-that-was]

Star Wars Battlefront IV Concept Art (FRD

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ooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhh, someone posted some old unused concept art from Lucas Arts, and it’s really cool. My fave is Jedi Leia, but Darth Maul as Jedi is pretty damn hilarious.

[culturenlifestyle]

Mayor Cuts Down Man’s 30-Year-Old Majestic Tree, His Revenge Is Awesome

This is one of the best stories we read in a long time. An arborist AKA a tree caretaker and tree surgeon from Redondo Beach, California had to watch the death of one of his favorite trees, which was ordered by the mayor. Although he lost a great battle, he won the war. Find out how he avenged the death of his 30-year-old pepper tree named Clyde.

His story was recently shared online and has already been shared over 150k times. RIP Clyde.

Credits: GoblinsStoleMyHouse

[monstergirlsexamination]

This is druidic as fuck

[soft-primitivism]

🍂follow for more soft primitivism🍂

[wizardshark]

How do you secretly plant a redwood even the saplings are huge. How do you secretly plant that many

[annathecrow-that-was]

love this. (but lbr, big part of the lol is this being posted in r/trees.)

[alexa-eve]

“Good evening, gentlemen! Please pay attention. I am a reformed vampire, which is to say, I am a bundle of suppressed instincts held together with spit and coffee. It would be wrong to say that violence does not come easily to me. It’s not tearing your throats out that doesn’t come easily to me. Please don’t make it any harder.” -Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment 

[romans-art]

“You know how stuff runs in families? Blue eyes, buck teeth, that sort of thing? Well, Death runs in my family. I remember things that haven’t happened yet and I can TALK THAT TALK and stalk that stalk and…if he gets sidetracked, then I’ll have to do it. And he does get sidetracked.” 

-Susan Sto Helit

[buzzfeedtasty]

An Intro To Indian Dishes, by BuzzFeed India

[lebeaunoiseur]

Food Network is shook!

[ablogtitty-deactivated20181212]

Give this girl her own show!!!

[queersamus]

“because mom said so” is literally how i learned to cook i’m screaming

[batmanisagatewaydrug-deactivate]

I can’t believe the 2005 pride & prejudice completely understood that the ONLY correct characterization for Darcy was having him look mortifyingly uncomfortable in literally every situation he’s placed in. his body language is just. horrifying. this man wants to crawl into a hole. not to mention he’s like 6 and a half feet tall which is just. he’s so uncomfortably Large that you can’t ignore him even though he Desperately Wants You To Ignore Him. thank GOD they didn’t try any of that Dashing Gentleman bullshit. awkward nerd is the only correct Darcy.

[gueracanela-blog]

WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots) ladies gloating in their blatant rebellion.

[aerohistory]

Avenger Field in Sweetwater, Texas, home of the Women Airforce Service Pilots in World War II

[annathecrow-that-was]

A collection of scanned issues of The Avenger, the newspaper of the Avenger Field air base where the WASPs were based during WWII.

[musingsofahistorymajor]

THIS IS AMAZING! I’M GOING TO READ THEM ALL!

[annathecrow-that-was]

omg, I am so glad another fan found the link!!! Everyone around me is kind of “umm” whenever I start to geek out about women in wwii, haha. 

I have a couple more primary source links in the “women in wwii” tag if you want. WASP girl geeking out over airplanes.  Interview with a WASP pilot. And stuff.(the tag was broken by tumblr’s “hide blog” option, apparently. Ugh.)

[pochowek]

i love that one old timey 1910s trans dude who has a tiny wikipedia page for himself that he earned entirely due to him starting fights in bars and being the city’s hottest casanova

[pochowek]

i mightve remembered it wrong but it still feels like half of this page is “I’m A Man For Fucks Sake” and the other half is “That Motherfucker Is In Jail Again And Also Bit A Cop”

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

oh my GOD this is the best list

“ “[DEADNAME] Again" “ 

Like this glorious jerk got arrested so many times that was literally ALL THEY HAD TO WRITE IN THE PAPER

[television-for-dinner]

He was a vagrant street kid and Seattle girls were all over this guy, to the point where it caused a moral panic. There’s a famous anecdote about a women proclaiming her love in Denny Park and then trying to shoot herself, but most of these reports were falsely worded in a way that suggest his female admirers were “upset about being deceived” when really they were upset that he was wooing other women, or trying to get his attention by being as extra as possible.

What you also should know is that back in the day “seduction” was a literal crime that could put you in prison (unless you married the woman you seduced) but since he wasn’t cis they couldn’t really CHARGE HIM with anything. Legend.

[dog-of-ulthar]

I especially like “Seattle Woman Appears in Men’s Clothes Because She Says Her Features Make it Possible.”  I can’t imagine anything but someone going “Hey!  You can’t dress like that!” and him responding “Oh yes I can.  You see, I look very good.”

[theladytrickster]

I want a TV show about him

[random2908]

Oh my god, he actually did bite a cop, that really is one of the headlines.

[annathecrow-that-was]

extremely important footage

[professorsparklepants]

I want you guys to imagine: it’s the late 1960s, and beautiful former film actress Martha Wayne is widowed tragically when her husband is shot in a mugging outside a theater in front of her and her young son. At the behest of her young son, who has always been fascinated by the swashbuckling action movies of her youth, she takes a long sabbatical and decides to fight crime by becoming Batwoman. Dressed in a leotard and tights (and looking just as good in her 40s as she did onscreen, if you ask her) she patrols the streets of Gotham with Bruce as her faithful sidekick Robin, and her niece Kate Kane as Batgirl. 

Ras al Ghul is a re-occuring villain who wants to marry her, but her heart still belongs to her late husband, and anyway he’s not going to make a great impression when Bruce is determined to upend a bottle of champagne on him at every party he manages to work his way into. 

[professorsparklepants]

Also featuring: former stage actor turned family butler Alfred Pennyworth, who did some Top Secret Shit in the war, tiny black girl Selina Kyle who invents her own gadgets for roof hopping and bonds with Robin over their love of Star Trek, and Only Honest Cop in Gotham Jim Gordon, who is the only law enforcement officer that doesn’t patronize Batwoman OR Robin, and is therefore a Wayne household favorite. 

[neuroxin]

[alienpapacy]

I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: ‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’ Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

[slatestarscratchpad]

I met a programmer the other day Who said “A vast and blocky plastic box Stands in my workspace; in it, so they say Half-dead, a chip from Intel lies, which clocks 566 M-hertz; the CD drive And fifteen gigs, and bundled AOL Must have seemed neat when Reagan was alive But now the stickers on its lifeless shell Seem only fit sad memories to revive And on the light beige case are words that say: “THIS COMPUTER IS NEVER OBSOLETE SURF! INVEST! EMAIL! TYPE! SHOP! TRAVEL! PLAY!” The monitor is dark; near its defeat My new and shiny MacBook whirs away

[simplyirenic]

#ozymand OS (via gravything)

[gif87a-com]

[yourladyindank]

Acting like the crows won’t try to cheat the system.

Acting like the crows won’t snatch cigarettes outta people’s mouths.

Acting like murders won’t fight viciously for terf.

[argentvagabond]

Not gonna lie, the mental image of crows snatching cigarettes from people’s mouths and hands like seagulls do with food is pretty funny

[go-drink-the-kool-aid-deactivat]

maybe this is how we can stop people from smoking 

[butlerbookbinding]

@annathecrow this is a plan made by someone very unfamiliar with how crows roll

[annathecrow-that-was]

Alternatively, by someone who really hates smokers...

[iahfy]

[butlerbookbinding]

@shona-the-lady-king, @annathecrow