Crying over Bucky Barnes

Archaeologist turned museum worker turned library worker. Cat lady. I don't even know what this is any more. I have another blog, travelswithmyastromech.tumblr.com, where I post peculiar little photos of Star Wars figures. Everyone needs a hobby.

[montereybayaquarium]

Do you like manatees?

What's not to like??

[iguessweallcrazyithinktho]

[romanpaulov]

“Mommy, I love you!” 😘

This year, beautiful Snezhana the Pallas's cat became a mom for the first time!

For a long while, she wouldn’t let her kittens go outside when people were around ☺️ But last week, the little cubs finally appeared!

Now they come out every day and explore the world around their den with more and more confidence.

Snezhana is such a gentle mamanul, and her bond with her kittens is incredibly touching. Watching this fluffy manul family is pure joy! 🥰

[dionysiaproductions]

Mr. Darcy is devastatingly cute in his coat

This has been the most rewarding use of a Sunday afternoon.

When inspiration says, "let's make something silly," yes and that impulse.

[audpaints]

The good feeling when a little cat rests their head against you like you’re a pillow is actually pretty significant

[morphmaker]

“I want my next comedy to be about The French Revolution." - Amy Sherman-Palladino in the Women in Entertainment Podcast (June 24, 2025)

If you enjoyed this comic you can take it home with you for free on https://morphmaker.itch.io/

[important-cat-pics]

[taxidermycanine]

it's all so tiresome

[unpretty]

the space seed episode of tos where they find khan and the ss botany bay is so funny because right off the bat you have kirk being like "yeah let's get that historian whats-her-name out there, maybe she can be useful for once" and it's like WOAH what's up with the liberal arts hate?? why is kirk being such a bitch to this lady for no reason. then you meet her and she's fucking obsessed with historical strongmen to the point of covering her walls in her own fanart. she lives on a spaceship in a utopian technofuture and she sleeps surrounded by busts of kings on purpose. her vibes are fashy and kirk is right to be a bitch, actually.

then they get to the botany bay and she's immediately driven to distraction by how horny she is for ricardo montalban under a thick layer of extra-dark foundation. sorry i'm gonna compare montalban with and without the makeup because it is SO distracting

also she refers to sikhs in the past tense implying that at some point in the last two hundred years there was a genocide that they're just glossing over. since she also calls them a warrior race it's also possible that she's just racist and somewhere on board the enterprise there are sikh crew members who dislike her as much as kirk does.

anyway you can assume that this is her first actual away mission and she fumbled immediately because she was so hot for khan but it's much funnier if this isn't the first time this has happened. every time they have to interact with a historical earth artifact she gets so horned up thinking about being a tradwife that she's rendered speechless. spock stays polite but kirk can't stand her. by the time kirk found out she was the type of person to paint her own portraits of napoleon and roman emperors to hang in her quarters it was too late to send her back and request literally anyone else. he's supposed to court martial her but offers to let her stay on fashy eugenics planet just so he won't have to keep her on his ship anymore. it's unclear if he lets her take her paintings or jettisons them into space.

[reginaldqueribundus]

this is the funniest analysis of “Space Seed” I've ever seen

[dduane]

... Same. :)

[galileosballs]

You know, if she hadn't completely fucked up her job in this episode, one suspects her career would not have survived The One With the Nazis from the next season

[quasi-normalcy]

For the record, Marla McGivers is a character who really got redeemed the Khan audiodrama.

[unamccormack]

Seconding the recommendation for the Khan audio which is terrific.

[rowan-e-ravenwood]

SERIOUS: NEW BOT SCAM ALERT

heya!

this right here?

THIS IS ABSOLUTELY NOT REAL.

the "@staff" is just the bio text.

tumblr staff will not contact you through anything other than email or their official accounts, which will all have this badge:

DO NOT ENGAGE WITH THIS OR SIMILAR ACCOUNTS AND ABSOLUTELY DO NOT CLICK ANY LINKS FROM IT.

report and block. i'd also appreciate it if you shared this post, bc that blog was JUST created and was already tagging a LOT of people, and i know not everyone has the scam-sensing instinct, even if this might seem obvious to some.

@staff @tumblr @support

[heywriters]

I was laughing at this account when they told one of my sideblogs it had won money in a giveaway. All the "bots" were like, half-hearted fandom accounts for fandoms Gen Z is into, and since when does tumblr have money to give away? No website does that XD

Fakest scam yet.

[tuulikki]

Any time you see a whole bunch of people getting tagged in one post, it’s such a dead giveaway for a scam. That and “hello dear”

[bethanydelleman]

Important research for a story I'm writing! Not real life, never real life.

You are transported back in time and into the body of a young noblewoman in the 1400s. Your parents have married you off to an awful, abusive, rapist husband whom literally no one else would marry despite him being very high nobility because he's that terrible. You successfully produce a baby boy and then plan to murder this man for the good of everyone and yourself. Here is the question: do you think you could murder him in a way that is undetectable to the historical people around you? Note: they aren't stupid, you are the prime suspect as the battered wife AND you can't just say poison. Where are you going to buy poison? Do you know anything about poison actually? NO GOOGLING! You were sent back without a plan!

Do you think you could murder someone in the 1400s and get away with it with your modern know-how?

Yes, I totally have a plan (tell me for research purposes)

No, I realize that I'm very uninformed about murder

I have some ideas but I'm not sure they would work

Remaining time: 2 days 2 hours

Edit: my notes are full of murder. I love you all

Edit: to clarify about the poison, you can use poison if you actually know how to identify it, I'm saying you can't just go "Poison!" with no knowledge about poison. Buying it probably means they know that poison and you're caught. Your personal knowledge when you read this post is all you have.

Another point of clarity: You went through all that trouble to have a baby without modern medicine so you could get the sweet house after your husband died. That's why you can't be caught. No disappearing.

Edit again: Air embolisms are going on a high shelf because the syringe won't be invented for 350 years. Prove to me that you could make one from scratch, lol

I promise to stop making edits (lol): I left the country vague because I just wanted to see ideas for modern vs. past. Whatever place you are most knowledgeable about

[alltheprettyancientthings]

College of the Augustales, Herculanuem.

You can see a close up of one fresco section here.

[recycledmoviecostumes]

In 2003, this white and gold damask Tudor-style gown was worn in the miniseries 𝑯𝒆𝒏𝒓𝒚 𝑽𝑰𝑰𝑰 by Emilia Fox as Jane Seymour.   The costume actually originated in the 1977 𝑪𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝑺𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔, where it was worn by Lalla Ward as Princess Elizabeth.   The piece has been used many other times over the years - notably on many a book cover. See them on the RMC website at Bit.ly/TudEliz007    

[blignick]

[macrolit]

Parking garage structure at the (beautiful) Kansas City Public Library

[lostinhistory]

No Crocs or baby onesies - the draconian Delaney Hall dress code ICE uses to deem toddlers ‘too provocative’

Visitors say arbitrary and changing rules prevent visitation and cause stress to families and their detained loved ones

I honestly don't know how these people live with themselves.

[mattzerella-sticks]

Knives Out 4 starring Connor Storrie as Benoit Blanc's biological son from this one time he donated sperm and it shouldn't be possible but he has Benoit's exact accent.