ibi's land of enchantment and pie

(there's actually very little pie. sorry.)

[technofinch]

I have GOT to stop spending $30

[technofinch]

Whatever.

[flopstat]

IT HAS NEVER BEEN MORE SERIOUS EVER!!!

[theowlseye-deactivated20240403]

Obsessed with how some people get so attached to their own headcanons that they get mad when they see a character presented as they are in canon

[poetikat]

via @ourlordapollo

[treasure-of-the-ancients]

Carnelian crocodile pendant, Egypt, 20th-18th century BC

from The Michael C. Carlos Museum

[howsublime]

Bought a postcard of this while traveling and already sent it out so did not get to scan the image, but found it online: Oskar Kokoschka’s Tigerkatze (1969). I hope the recipient will like it as much as I do. Should have bought one for myself too! Oh well…

[storybookprincess]

so today a group of 8-9 year old kiddos approaches my desk and goes “hey. we want to go to the downstairs part of the library.”

i’m like “you can totally go downstairs, but just so you know, right now the only thing down there is the genealogy department. that’s like the history of this area and the people who lived here a long time ago.”

i’m expecting them to lose interest, but to my surprise, they go “we want to see the genealogy department!!!!!!”

so i’m like “alright let’s do it!!!!” and lead this group of maybe six elementary school kids across the library make way for ducklings style and downstairs to our extremely not kid friendly genealogy room. our genealogy librarian is super cool, though, and he pulls out a few interesting things for them to look at & they ask a lot of questions and try to find where they live on maps from the 1800s

after about fifteen minutes, their curiosity has been sated, so we go back upstairs and over to the children’s department in that same duckling parade style

truly wish i could render this little scene artistically for you all it was a delight

[july-19th-club]

dru treatment where her prophetic dreams/visions were one of the signs that she had potential to be a slayer but she was turned and tormented before the current one had died and it never happened for her. but the potential is still there, unfulfilled

[summers-pratt]

#spike’s slayer Thing is an oroborous#he’s never not been covered in one op why would you leave this in the tags this is so sexy

[disco-tea]

This concept makes me insane. We’re in the Buffy/Drusilla brainrot today so, Drusilla as Buffy’s dark mirror/reflection. Buffy and Drusilla with the same birthday. Buffy with the blonde hair, Drusilla with the dark hair, symbolic of the separate paths they would be forced onto. Not by choice, neither of them chose it. Buffy didn’t choose to be a Slayer, and Drusilla certainly didn’t choose to be a vampire. Both wearing the same dress in Surprise! Both stalked by Angel when they were young and not at full power…Dru as a Potential and Buffy as a freshly called Slayer. Both stalked and tormented by Angelus. Both ultimately end up “choosing” William/Spike to stand beside them, as their knight/champion.

And you can’t help but wonder…is that the real horror of it? What if Drusilla is the worst case scenario of what could’ve happened to Buffy? Buffy certainly didn’t come out of the ordeal unscathed, but is Drusilla proof it could’ve been so much worse? If Buffy had been younger and less experienced when Angelus emerged. If she hadn’t already fought the Master. If she’d been more isolated and had less allies, or friends who were more oblivious. If Angelus had been more successful and he’d well and truly decided to make her his next ‘masterpiece.’ Would he have killed all her friends and family if circumstances were more in his favor? Would he have tried to drive her insane? Would he have decided to turn her and keep her? Maybe that’s the real horror of Drusilla. The real tragedy of the reflection. Drusilla is what Buffy could have been. Buffy is what Drusilla could have been. All because of Angel.

[rocketbirdie]

fine dining

[nudityandnerdery]

I saw this post on Facebook today, and was gonna make a joke about how he's so good in the lab because, when it comes to experiment samples, he knows you gotta keep 'em separated.

But I happened to search the lyric online really quick, and found this:

AMAZING. It's actually where the line came from! Bravo, sir.

Keep 'em separated

Dexter Holland, the lead singer of the punk-rock band The Offspring, has a lot of different interests. One of them is biology.

[vaspider]

So i jumped out of bed to go tell my wife this (bc she woke up, she has a tendency to wake up around 2 am bc we're different brands of weirdo) & she said, "Yeah, that doesn't surprise me. He also flies their tour plane a lot of the time bc he just really likes flying." Apparently, he holds CFI, CFII, & ATP certifications, so he's not just a pilot. He's rated as an instructor. And he owns a hot sauce brand, bc why not?

[indolentjellyfish]

boba for nembrotha

[eddysonline]

The original flag, by Gilbert Baker, June 25, 1978.

[11thsense]

Those fanfic type stories people write where the plot is like “I picked up a stray cat off the street and it turned into a sexy man?!” R so funny cause if I found a cute cat and spent a week taking care of it and being like aw ur my baby now just for that cat to turn into a man that shit would piss me clean off…I might even kill him

[evilsoup]

one day i'll get around to doing some comparison of WWII movies across time... like there's a noticable shift from "films made during the war" to "films made by guys who'd fought" to "films made by the younger brothers and sons of the guys who'd fought" to "films made by people with a strong cultural memory of the war but who hadn't been alive for it" through to "films made by people for whom the war is an aesthetic like 'medieval times' or some shit"

[hannahmcgill]

Capture them gently

[img id] Digital cel-shaded art of a white unicorn fleeing an unseen hunter in the woods. The unicorn leaps across an isometric chunk of land vegetated with plants drawn in the style of a medieval illuminated manuscript -- stylized grass and unknown plants, twisting painterly tree trunks, and broad paisley leaves. An arrow with red fletching stabs a tree behind the unicorn, just missing its mark. Below the unicorn, a small hedgehog mom has just rolled in some fresh grapes and is bringing them on her spines to her children in a burrow underground. [/id]

[bruzum]

[ororium-z]

Happy Pride!

[rootbeergoddess]

Every pride, you must reblog this. No exceptions

[thesaltofcarthage]

I love that four different people on my feed scheduled this joyous person to reblog by 8am on June 1. I look forward to seeing this a dozen more times today.

[the-semicolonoscopy]

It’s Pride Month Eve, so leave out some milk for Freddie Mercury and his cats.

[the-semicolonoscopy]

Time for the annual Pride Month reblog of Freddie Mercury and his fabulous cats!