Intriguing Things

Essentially a reblog of things I see on blogs I follow, very little original content here folks. Subject matter varies considerably.

[wonderstruck]

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

[s-culper]

[usafphantom2]

10 July 1942. First flight of the Douglas XA-26 Invader prototype (AAC Ser. No. 41-19504) at Mines Field, El Segundo, with test pilot Benny Howard at the controls. American twin-engine light attack bomber.

@EiseleRonald01 via X

[lunarsigilart]

The White Tree of Gondor. Hand embroidery

This embroidery is done in A3 size using DMC Satin (viscose) thread on matte black fabric. To create a 3D effect, I used a base of two felt layers. The felt was carefully cut to match the curves of the branches and the trunk, and then covered with a padded satin stitch.

Honestly, working with viscose was a struggle. Viscose thread is a tricky material to work with — it is very slippery and frays easily, making it hard to lay down smooth stitches over a raised base. However, I chose this exact thread against the deep black background, because it gives a smooth, shimmering surface. I wanted the Tree to look as if it were forged from real mithril, silvered by moonlight, shining in the dark.

The seven stars above the branches of the majestic Tree are made using the woven star technique. The overlapping threads naturally build volume and geometric facets, so no felt padding was needed underneath them. The light catches the facets of the stars, and the viscose shines just like real metal.

The thick grey cardboard used for the matting is like the ancient stone of the walls of Minas Tirith, the White City, protecting the White Tree. The inner bevel is hand-painted with silver Finetec, and a thin silver cord echoes the metallic shine of the embroidery, completing the artwork.

[inkandguns]

Must suck being a girl dad nowadays

[iswearimnotacynic]

Living in Wyoming helps a lot with it.

[greatlostcause]

[phyllisdietrichsonswig]

Happy Appomattox Day ❤️

[ivan-fyodorovich-k]

Most of all, perhaps, we need intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has any magic about it, but because we cannot study the future, and yet need something to set against the present, to remind us that the basic assumptions have been quite different in different periods and that much which seems certain to the uneducated is merely temporary fashion. A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village: the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age.

from "Learning in Wartime," in Transposition and Other Addresses by C.S. Lewis

[greatlostcause]

[bishopdane]

[iswearimnotacynic]

I have that same wood stove.

[bigbearhugg]

[andromeddog]

dark was the night, and cold was the ground

[handfulsofhistory]

Brown Bess

[crookedpuppyfox]

[usafphantom2]

A-26B Invader

[knuckle-actual]

[highriskmanagement-deactivated2]

Flint Wallet

[muffinlance]

Instead of reblogging another "20 steps to make Windows actively less hostile (until the next update resets everything)" post, I'm just. Going to drop the Linux Mint installation guide. Which is less than 20 steps.

The first step is to create a USB that lets you test Linux on your exact computer (without in any way damaging your current set up), so I encourage anyone who's loathing of Windows is ever growing to give it a try.

It's also a great way to give an older computer new life, since it's generally Windows and it's every increasing bloatware slowing your system down, not your computer's actual hardware.