Library at the Edge of the Galaxy

Current librarian studying to go into museum work. I love history and biology, though current fandom obsessions are Tolkien and North and South.

[forestgreenlesbian]

ok but … this is literally what happened……..

[ohtze]

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[nightblightowl]

you know why this makes me so upset,  because of how accurate it is…

[casbean]

My nature documentary obsession: Life, season 1 episode 2

“The pebble toad can’t hop, but it has a different defence. It tenses its muscles, becomes rigid and turns itself into a rubber ball. It’s so tiny and weights so little that bouncing doesn’t hurt it at all.”

[byrondzero]

Kira Nurese! #startrek #ds9 #arisia2016 (at Arisia)

[sosuperawesome]

RainbowRollingPins on Etsy

[gravitiger]

I NEED ALL OF THESE.

[meeshay]

@jessipalooza for that last one especially

[sunny1]

@nanner

[sedosa]

@chinky-winky

[chinky-winky]

@sedosx OMG??!? 

[lwjchickenthief-deactivated2020]

That awkward moment when Bard tosses around the Dwarves most valued and sacred heirloom like it’s a potato.

[grumpygrahams]

#what more would you expect from the guy that used the last black arrow as a towel rail?

[daddygraves]

#lets not forget that this guys’ bow broke, and he used his sons shoulder to balance the very same arrow, and kill Smaug seconds before possible incineration?

[animehorsegirl69]

when equipment screens don’t actually pause the game

[spoony-irish-bard-deactivated20]

I WAITED 10 SECONDS FOR THE GIF TO LOAD AND I WAS NOT DISAPPOINTED

[brendenfraser]

[prospitprinceofhope]

4th of July. America vs The rest of The World

[amnhnyc]

Happy Fourth of July! We’re celebrating with our national emblem, the bald eagle.

Once on the brink of extinction, the bald eagle’s recovery is an American success story. Today, its population is protected, healthy, and growing.

Some Bald Eagle facts:

The bald eagle is the only eagle unique to North America.

Nests are sometimes used year after year and can weigh as much as 4,000 pounds.

Bald eagles may live 28 years in the wild.

Bald eagles get their distinctive white head and tail only after they reach maturity at 4 to 5 years of age.

Find this diorama in the Museum’s Sanford Hall of North American Birds.

Information via the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.

[hydrolases]

If it weren’t for them, I’d be dead.

[chromolume]

I don’t agree with tumblr’s whole “you can’t enjoy this thing because it’s problematic” vibe, but watching Friends is weird now knowing that the actor who played Chandler led an invasion of Japan in 1863, which led to the forceful Westernisation of the isolated country.

[lamiasinstockings]

1853.

[chromolume]

I’m sorry, yes, the actor who played Chandler in Friends invaded Japan in 1853, not 1863.

[boredpanda]

Fonts That Designers Love To Hate

[mooselady-deactivated20170601]

things that are very important to me

girls supporting other girls

bisexuals supporting other bisexuals

writers supporting other writers

artists supporting other artists

[hawkeykirsah]

● people supporting other people

[mooselady-deactivated20170601]

fact: girls, bisexuals, writers, and artists are not people. they are lizards. i know this because one time a bisexual crawled up my bedroom wall and i had to poke her with a broomstick until she fell off

also writers and artists lick their eyeballs when no one’s looking

[usnatarchives]

From September 1947 until January 1949, the Declaration of Independence crossed the country in a traveling museum called the Freedom Train.

A group of 27 Marines protected the 133 documents, which came from the US National Archives​, the The Library of Congress​, and private museums and personal collections.

The Freedom Train stopped in cities in each of the 48 states (Alaska and Hawaii were not yet states), and the documents it carried were seen by more than 3.5 million Americans.

True to its name, the Freedom Train mandated that the admission lines for the exhibit were to be desegregated. Memphis, Tennessee, rejected this condition; in response, the Freedom Train did not stop there as scheduled.

After a successful national tour, the Freedom Train arrived in Washington, DC, for President Truman’s Inauguration Week. At the end of the week, the scrolls of 3.5 million names signed under the Freedom Pledge were donated to the Library of Congress.

Learn more about this amazing traveling museum in our Google​ Cultural Institute exhibit.

[solongfarewell42069]

You never named me. Victor, you never gave me what little humanity every person is owed. I understand there are abominations and monstrosities that should be forgotten and erased from history but even hurricanes have names.

excerpt from “Open Letter From Frankenstein’s Monster To Victor Frankenstein” by Alex Dang!

This poem and others can be found in my book.

(via wordsoftakumi)

[realmonstrosities]

Bobtail Squid (Sepiolidae) are a family of cutesy, wutesy cephalopods found mostly in the tropics.

They’re not proper squid at all,.being more closely related to cuttlefish, and that might be why they’re so short and squat they’re also known as Dumpling Squid.

These are some of the smallest cephalopods, reaching some 1 to 8 cm long depending on species.

Most of them spend a lot of time on the seabed, since they’re not proficient swimmers. They spend the day buried in sand, even secreting a kind of glue to ensure a good disguise.

At night they go on the hunt, swimming about by flapping their wings and snatching up small crustaceans and the like.

A lot of Bobtail Squid have a light organ on their underside which is packed full of luminescent bacteria. The light organ can be opened and closed to emit just enough light to mask the Bobtail’s silhouette from the eyes of predators as it swims by the light of the moon.

This is just the same tactic used by many deep sea creatures and, in fact, there are some intrepid Bobtail Squid who live in the deep sea and some pelagic ones who never touch the sea floor at all.

…Images: Richard E. Young/Chris Frazee and Margaret McFall-Ngai/Mark Norman/Patrick Randall

[livebloggingmydescentintomadness]

As a Christian, I am so sick of this “gay marriage is the moral downfall of our country” hyperbolic rhetoric. Christians, you want to talk about moral crises? Let’s talk about the epidemic of adultery, divorce, and abandonment in heterosexual marriages. Let’s talk about domestic violence and rape. Let’s talk about heterosexual parents beating, molesting, neglecting, and kicking out their children. Let’s talk about greed and hypocrisy and hate. 

Whatever your opinion of gay marriage is, it’s not literally, actually hurting anyone. Put your time and energy and outrage into the problems that are actually harming and destroying people’s lives. We’re not commanded to stand around bitching about “our rights”, we’re commanded to help people. So shut up and do something useful with yourself.

[arabellesicardi]

finally, someone doing the work we need honestly