Marginalia

Hi! I'm Moth (any pronouns). I'm a queer white teacher, married, parent of two. Cadw member and knitting enthusiast. Love the Discworld novels, Harry Potter, the Kingkiller Chronicles, Realm of the Elderlings, Star Trek, Star Wars (well, Kylux), Romantic poetry, reading widely. Spend as much time in Wales and Scotland as at all possible.

[thommyleejones-deactivated20251]

St. Petri church - Hamburg

Oil on canvas

100 x 80 cm

[els-moonleaf]

“Care to dance?”

“We already do.”

[wizard-at-large]

Poob has it for you

[wizard-at-large]

i'm going to become the joker

[kyrianne]

[the-dozing-cadent]

[spaghettihell]

Okay

Yeah that’s

Yeah

[memewhore]

[anger-birb]

[kitstacean]

Im gonna shill for Marie Kondo again but this is why I find her books (yes, books, the TV show is fun but ultimately misses a lot of the core ideas) so good.

A lot of home org advice fully misses this aspect. Kondo not only acknowledges it, but leans into it. And ultimately this helps motivste me to keep my space tidy - it's really hard to me to keep on the nebulous goal of self-care, but much easier to get up and put things away if I envision my salt and pepper grinders as like, retail workers who are now standing in an empty shop (my dining table) and just wanna go home (the spice rack where they live).

Normie tidying process: that heater should be put away for summer! I mean, I'm not gonna need it

Me: well it's just chilling and also I can't be arsed.

Kondo: that heater has done a good job keeping you warm over winter and now it should get to go have a rest in the cupboard

Me: !! Sabbatical for my heater!! Thank you for your service sir and have a very nice break!

[wormofmouth]

just saw a tiktok or something where the person was saying they did this and they were on a hike and they were like "i managed to get myself to go on this hike because i promised my boots we would go" and its like. OH YEAH. THAT.

[catchymemes]

[peneigh-dzredfohl]

Can everyone who reads this PLEASE reblog it?!?!?  Libraries literally saved my life as a child!

Being abused at home, bullied at school and lost in the world, the library and all the books I could escape to the most amazing worlds, kept me alive!

I would walk to the library, and spend all day, from 10 am to 9 pm reading there!! I got special awards for how many books I read, I wrote little blurbs on why i loved the books (probably why I love to BETA and do ARCs) 

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE Just hit the green arrows and the reblog!!!

As a 50 year old woman, the library offers me so much. Digital art pads to borrow, 3D printing, book clubs that are face to face (yeah, the introvert likes face to face because a moderator will stomp on anyone getting snarky)

New books in LARGE PRINT! I’m visually challenged and as much as I love my kindle, The feel of a real book in my hands will always be a beloved feeling!

Our library also has quarterly books sales of almost free books!! For 5$USD we get in a day early and can buy as many as we want. Anyone else has to wait and there is a limit for the first 2 days.

[stevviefox]

Also many, many libraries have inter library loan(it may be called something different). This means if they don’t have the item you want, they can get it for you. This may include photocopy/pdf of articles. This can also include along with books and DVDs, microfilm/fiche which is also a huge resource. Check around for libraries that are listed as depositories if you want to look at government documents.

Remember that many colleges and universities have open stacks for the public. You will likely have to pay a membership fee but you will get to stuff.

[psi1998]

I love the library ☺

[icycove]

The library was one of my favorite places to go as a kid and I still live to go and just. Sit and read. Or do homework. The university I’m at has a massive 8-story one I love to just wonder around in~ Great places

[jaks21]

Libraries are amazing places, we need to protect them to ensure their continued existence.

[earhartsease]

I used to wander about the fiction section in my local library, and choose books with the most interesting titles - I discovered two amazing authors that way

[vaginadude]

If you feel disconnected from your local community & want to find ways to get involved, seriously consider spending some time at the library. Go to some events! Organize a reading group!

[mathcat345]

Support your libraries!

Read banned books!

People who don’t learn can be more easily controlled and told what to think!

[time-traveling-fetus]

oh ok. the dwarves in dungeon meshi live in a steampunk world. good to know. But i love the juxtaposition between elves using magic birds to communicate while the dwarves have straight up telephones

and the gnomes are hopelessly dependent on the orb

[prokopetz]

I want to meet the person who was given the job of designing the communications standard which allows real-time three way calling between a telephone, a crystal ball, and an oracular parrot.

[strangehorse]

sometimes i kind of miss the old internet. kids these days will never know the experience of joining a new forum and having to intricately study the existing web of multi-year-long in-jokes, the relationship dynamics between existing players, mods' personal preferences and biases, relationships with other forums/ boards and various other pieces of outside reading in order to not be relentlessly mocked and inevitably blocked by a beloved mod that everyone called 'fatso steve' and mocked for their crippling addiction to sailor moon hentai

[nemocultrixxx]

Part 1/2 of "I miss my beloved Glasgow."

[batshit-auspol]

So Australia has a yearly tradition going back over 20 years, that every Australia Day we all gather round our screens to watch an ad for a certain product. It's so ingrained in our consciousness that the ads don't even really relate to what they're supposed to sell anymore, we all just know.

This year the ad broke containment, and non-Australians are having their brains melted by this bizarre tradition, so international followers, lets see if you can work out what this is trying to sell before the last few seconds.

[thelastdouchestanding]

OK, so I was going to rb this later, but this is too fantastic not to share. Key take aways:

-Phone Torch>Flashlight

-I feel called the FUCK out.

-I want Lamb now

[gpedia]

I figured out around when the Egg showed up but that's only because @derinthescarletpescatarian traumatized my PC with overcooked meat once.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

It's an Australian tradition! You barbecue it til it's charcoal and you serve it with potato salad!

[fuchsimeon]

I feel like the question is obvious but is this the same ad company that made the Lamb ad where all the important figures of world religion meet up for lunch?

[thatsocialmoth]

Yes! The Australian lamb industry does one every year. The same guy has been figureheading them and has been in all of them since the beginning of time (~2004) that one was I believe 2017.

Here's that ad:

All of the references are very fun across the board and yes there's a Jedi there, it is an official religion on the Australian census.

Other hits also include:

- The "First" fleet ad: An ad highlighting the multiculturalism and multicultural history within Australia and poking fun at colonial history

- The Vegan Contoversy Ad: An ad in which the Australian Special forces carry out a mission to bring all Australians overseas for Australia day back so as to enjoy a lamb Barbeque. They disrupt a dental surgery, kidnap Princess Mary of Denmark and torch a vegans house for being vegan. The discourse following this ad was intense.

- The Musical Ad: A West Side story-esque musical satire based on the divide of Australian politics that calls out the fact that it's a musical satire based on the divide of Australian politics

- The New Zealand ad: An ad highlighting Australia's consistent and total inability to keep a prime minister in power as well as the relationship with the neighbours

- Lambalytica: An ad detailing how chronically online the Australian population is and generally making fun of young people and phone users. This ad aired in January of 2020... little did we know

The Wall Ad: An ad detailing the divide between Australian states and poking fun at state border bans during lockdown. It features an older man eating lamb out of the hand of someone who reached through a sort of prison break gloryhole in a very trump-esque border wall

- The Un-Australian ad: My personal favourite. Refers to the arbitrary label of "UnAustralian" that is thrown around onto just about any general nuisance or just about anything considered abnormal tbh but also its very specific to the modern Australian zeitgeist. Eg. Beer - Australian, Upcharging - UnAustralian, Meat Pie - Australian, Eating a Meat Pie with Cutlery - UnAustralian. People disappear into the void when they do something Un-Australian.

So yeah, thanks for watching our campy little Australian meat industry campaigns. They're just like a little tradition here so I have truly no clue how they've breached containment

[eosofspades]

i didn't have "i'm broken" teenage asexual angst i had "i'm literally being the only reasonable one about this concept and the rest of you are behaving like fucking freaks" perception issues

[distinguishedbaloney]

[eilooxara]

Non cooking spray stick

[eilooxara]

Non spray stick cooking

[that-house]

Non cooking stick spray

[stargatebarbie]

[clickysteve]

Glasgow, 2023.

[jnacho]

[terrapincentury-deactivated2018]

mother fucker unlimited

[beep-beepster]

this is some ed edd eddy shit

[karhs]

the eyepatch. the washing machine. the shovel. this is incredible.

[inthefallofasparrow]

King of Wands

[wickedhawtwexler]

TV WOMEN APPRECIATION WEEK (DAY 4) Favorite Dynamic: Cameron Howe and Donna Clark

[wickedhawtwexler]

TV WOMEN APPRECIATION WEEK (DAY 4) Favorite Dynamic: Cameron Howe and Donna Clark

[scullysflannel]

what is halt and catch fire about?

it starts out thinking it’s mad men but with computers, but it’s actually about the tenuousness and absolute necessity of human connection in a climate where change is inevitable and everything ends, because if everything you can ever hope to accomplish is fleeting then what could matter more than the people you accomplish it with? or more literally it’s about three computer nerds and their most annoying coworker trying to stay ahead of the computer boom in the ‘80s and ‘90s. one of the most overlooked shows of the past decade and genuinely one of my most beloved shows of all time now. it gets better every season (season 1 is rough, but worth it) and develops this deep, lived-in humanity that feels like love. I cannot recommend it enough