The Imperial City

Where tales from many worlds are shared between walls that glow with a fiery sheen.

[michaelmoonsbookshop]

just some of the the changes in design for the Penguin Symbol on old Penguin Paperbacks 

[dinkywinks]

he did a little dance and for this crime he was imprisoned in a bubble

[luxflora]

They liked his little dance so much they gave him a spotlight

[anasandorpygoscelis-deactivated]

family album

[delgrosso]

[sensationaltrainreading]

[balcklion]

A circulating video of sisters who bought the same clothes for their husbands 😂❤️

[g1sunstreaker]

this gag NEVER fails to make me laugh. watching them all file in one by one and collectively laugh harder every time the next guy walks in…i could watch videos of this practical joke all day

[cumaeansibyl]

Their faces as they collectively realize they’re married to the funniest women on the planet

[the-real-seebs]

whenever people say “it’s just a prank” about minor cruelty, remember: the people laughing hardest here are the people being pranked. you’ll notice that they aren’t hurt, or upset. they’re enjoying it. they feel loved and included.

that’s how you make a good prank.

[serenitynerd]

I keep putting this back in my queue because it means I restumble upon it and it always makes me laugh. So delightful

[sealsdaily]

Today's Seal Is: Fifteen Cents

[1617]

Sometimes, an old song takes you back to a moment your heart never forgot.

[koifishhies]

look all im saying is male celebrities have no excuse for boring red carpet looks anymore. you don’t have to be as extravagant (and gorgeous and gamechanging and and and) as eugene lee yang, if you wanna wear a suit wear a suit, but you have no excuse to be BORING about it when david tennant turned out THESE

like give me moths. give me stars. give me sparkles. give me eccentric little man looking like he’s on lsd. give me SOMETHING.

[koifishhies]

what did I say!!! WHAT DID I SAY!!!!!!!

[teashoesandhair]

I'm in a little local cafe and the women behind the counter started griping to each other, "Oh Christ, Stephen's back again," "It's him, is it? I thought he'd stopped coming," "It's definitely him, look, it's bloody Stephen on a Thursday morning," "Do you want me to get rid of him or are you going to do it?" and so I was peering outside, trying to spot this nightmare customer, this pestilence of a person, this pox upon the cafe trade, and then one of the women from behind the counter ran outside, clapping two trays together loudly and yelling "GET OUT OF IT, STEPHEN!" and it turns out that Stephen is an absolutely gigantic fuck-off seagull who hangs around outside, menacing people for crumbs

[cheaphalloweencostume]

oh god. i just learned that you have to finish the art you’re making in order for it to be done

[gongdaseulgi]

Wait until you find out about actually STARTING your art project....

[cheaphalloweencostume]

oh god. i just learned that you have to finish the art you’re making in order for it to be done

[robertfalconscott]

Antarctic explorers’ drawings of penguins

Robert Falcon Scott. Hilarious. 7/10 for the first one because he is so friendly, 5/10 for the second.

Ernest Shackleton. What an angular & compact little guy. 5/10

Edward Adrian Wilson. Shut the fuck up Bill, we know you’re an incredible artist. 10/10, obviously

George Marston. I mean that’s a solid penguin right there. 8/10

Frank Worsley. Oh Wuzzles…..the composition of this is stellar. Wuzzpeng you will always be famous 9/10.

Apsley Cherry-Garrard. The cutest thing I’ve ever seen in my life, every time I lay eyes on it I tear up. I fully acknowledge my bias but 11/10.

[jesslovesboats]

Reblogging to add this very important Victor Hayward RSP peng from his diary, 8/10 it's very cute

[jelatinivan]

10/10 cause i'm biased against all of victor campbell's drawings

200/10 all points for campvick interaction, cause campbell copied these penguins from levick's photo???

[rosenkranz-does-things]

Suddenly I saw in front of me the Statue of the Faun, the Statue that I love above all others. There was his calm, faintly smiling face; there was his forefinger gently pressed to his lips. In the past I have always thought he meant to warn me of something with that gesture: Be careful! But today it seemed to mean something quite different: Hush! Be comforted! I climbed up on to his Plinth and flung Myself into his Arms, wrapping my arm around his Neck, intertwining my fingers with his Fingers. Safe in his embrace, I wept for my lost Sanity. Great, heaving sobs rose up, almost painfully, from my chest.

Hush! he told me. Be comforted!

I resolve to take better care of Myself.

[viralfrog]

[fairy-wren]

[eliciaforever-deactivated201906]

House martins are the cutest because they have fuzzy lion paws that make them look like fierce little griffins.

[iguanamouth]

oh no

[civilised-revolutionary]

@gongdaseulgi Look at iiiit!

[partywithponies]

Fascinating how what's considered feminine and what's considered masculine can change over time. The rebranding of being a horse girl into being a stereotypical feminine girly trait needs to be studied.

[partywithponies]

Look at classic children's novels. As recently as the 50s and early 60s, being obsessed with horses as a girl was depicted as strange and tomboyish, and the very concept of being obsessed with horses from early childhood and loving toy horses and desperately wanting your own horse being a "little girl thing" and not a "little boy thing" would send someone from the 1800s and earlier into a coma.

[partywithponies]

There's maybe a point to be made here somewhere about how when keeping and riding horses stopped being necessary to the functioning of society and became a more "frivolous" thing, it was rapidly rebranded as silly and girly and for women, but what do I know.

[dizzyghoast]

i wrote a paper in my masculinity studies class in college about this exact phenomenon, specifically about how high heeled shoes started as a practical way for Persian cavalry to keep their feet on their stirrups, then likely due to that association, became a popular fashion item and status symbol among the upper classes of Europe, before the Great Male Renunciation of the 18th-19th centuries, when men started shunning opulence in favor of utility, leaving them as a fashion item for women instead.

I've joked that the two genders are Aesthetic and Utility before but thats just kinda the case

[walmart-the-official]

Hey, don’t cry. Free online database of Japanese folk lore

[bleu-guacamole]

Might I add, free database of mostly European folklore and myths

[bogleech]

A Book of Creatures by @a-book-of-creatures doesn't update these days but is another thing along these lines, really huge, fully illustrated all by the author and cites all sources

[st-dionysus]

Free database of Native American folklore, sorted by tribe.

[saint-simulacrum]

Free online catalog of African folklore and stories because everyone loves to forget we exist

[darkflierazura]

for some chinese folktales, the Qing dynasty book "Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio" /Liaozhai Zhiyi/聊斋志异 by Pu Songling is a good start

i'd also recommend the shanhaijing/山海 or soushenji/搜神记 for books that are compilations

[thevulturesquadron]

text: [ “Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5000 years.” ]

[minotauri]

ocean sounds for those of you who need it

[snakepyre]

thanks i made a little painting about it

[enchantedbook]

'A Centaur playing with his Son' by Otto Bache, (1839 - 1927).