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Etched and guilded parade sword from Ferarra, Italy, circa 1500-1525

from The Cleveland Museum of Art

Allegory of Pneuma or Divine Breath, c. 1750-1800 AD. Medium: Silver, featuring a heart-shaped form with wings and a flame-like crown.

mallorylovesyou

Unstyled & styled, explanation of thoughts below

justspiders

I hear the cannibal pawn shop has the BEST vintage fits.

medievaljournalist

theres too many princesses and maids and knights and whatever. can some of you develop a thatching fetish or something my roof is collapsing

welcomedtonewyork-deactivated20

I’ve been trying this out and it’s been quite helpful 🤗

allsortsoffuckedup

Hey hey, as a librarian, can I just say don’t pace yourself at the library. I get a lot of customers saying “oh I shouldn’t get too many books out at once” but like you should!!!! Max out your card, take everything we have on a subject you’re interested in, make a book fort in your home. We love that shit! It doesn’t matter if you read them or not; just take them for an adventure and bring them back whenever they’re due!

For public libraries, one of the ways we secure funding year to year is lending. Governments don’t want to fund more books if they’re not being used and the way we measure use is by issues. Regardless of whether you read it or not, whether you have it for a day or a month, if you issue it to your library card, we get the stats! It makes the library look good!

Help your local library; get books out even if you know you can’t read them all!

weirdmageddon

glad to know people will still be experiencing this video for the first time this daylight savings

viggiq

lovely

fruityyamenrunner

empathy3000

Wait is this true?? We’ve just been actively lied to by anatomical diagrams this whole time?

transgenderer

this is true of pretty much all internal anatomy, because the real situation is sort of like if you stuffed a bunch of water balloons of different shapes, connected by tubes, into a bag, itd be really hard to tell whats going on! so you make things more orderly when you represent them, and the connections and lengths and stuff are correct. like the former image is what you get if you cut it out of someone's body and arrange it neatly (and also, if their system wasnt aberrant somehow, but most people's bodies are aberrant somehow. so what they show you is more of like an average of everyone's weird aberrations)

sentientcloudofmusk

Reblog to change someone's perception

jottingprosaist

Lately I've seen a lot of people using "Star Trek ending" as a shorthand way of saying "cheesy 60s ending where all the characters get together and laugh at some shitty one-liner until the freezeframe in order to wrap things up with a neat breezy bow" and, well. They're not wrong... but that's only half the episodes.

The other half of the episodes end you staring at the TV in haunted existential silence because the story's thesis was "Don't delude yourself that waging war with technology is any less brutal than committing murder with your bare hands. You are a mortal and an animal like any other and if you think you have a justified reason to kill you had better be prepared to face your enemy, and recognize him as an intelligent equal, and smash in his skull with a rock."

jottingprosaist

This is the episode, by the way.

The one we all laugh at for looking silly and awkward and dated because the fight choreography is terrible and the man in the rubber costume clearly can't see through his mask.

And yes, it is those things. But by that point in the episode I was so enraptured and distraught by the premise of the story that I genuinely wasn't seeing the meme.

Through voiceover Kirk reminds himself, and us, that despite its appearance, the Gorn is also a starship captain-- a being just as clever as Kirk, and just as desperate to save its crew. They're being forced to fight to the death with sticks and rocks, and the loser's ship and crew will be blown up.

And the show demands: Why is this so appalling to you? Ten minutes ago they were chasing each other in starships and shooting each other with lasers. Ten minutes ago Kirk was willing to risk every life on the Enterprise by pushing Warp 8 in order to catch and destroy the Gorn. It was righteous. You were cheering for him. Don't you dare be appalled that now they're being made to beat each other to death with bare hands, that the crewmembers who didn't participate or even get to choose their own course of action will be executed just because their leader lost. This is what battle is. This is the brutality of war when you don't get to dissociate behind technology. Is it still worthwhile?