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@macbethintosh
The creature who fell in love with the light
[Watercolor and gouache, based on ‘The Fog Horn’ by Ray Bradbury]
This captures perfectly how I feel about the ocean. It's deep, dark and dangerous. However, for some it is a home and the only place to be, to feel and to love.
So uh have you written fanfiction before rat man? Like self insert, platonic, anything? I feel like you tried at one point then buried it to never see the light again.
I have never understood the point of fanfiction. I have never cared for any fictional world enough to try, and even if I did care enough, I STILL wouldn't understand writing fanfic for said world. I'd rather dedicate that creative energy making my own shit instead - better that, than slurping off the creative energies of someone else; of a world and story that already exists - one of which you cannot canonically affect.
I have said this on the fanfiction website, and I will fight you all
pukicho fanfiction time
I assume it's going to be heavily sexual
Hmmm hold up.. let me think about this one
hmmmmm
Alright I was wrong about the whole thing.
Pukicho learned a new move.
the tits speak for themselves
I'm back and have no idea what to do
I think I deserve to be immune to salmonella. As a treat.
loo how much cookie dough have you partaken
I can't eat raw cookie dough anymore not only because of the fact that I can't have gluten, but also because my fiancé found out as a teenager I got what I suspect to be actual salmonella or some other extremely severe form of food poisoning from cookie dough that almost put me in the hospital and so he wont let me eat it :(
But also I eat a lot of raw fish(sushi and pokebowls) so I think I should be immune. I've done my time. I deserve it.
In retrospect it's probably deeply concerning that the severe, near deadly food poisoning wasn't what got me to stop partaking in the forbidden snack but instead discovering that eating gluten makes my EDS symptoms worse. Like me almost dying should have been enough, but I went right back to eating raw cookie dough once I felt better, I was just careful to eat it fast and keep it refrigerated.
Thank god I'm sturdy I guess.
Have you tried vegan cookie dough? No chance for salmonella there :)
Toying with the idea of making a sideblog where I just post my favourite pretty Geoguessr screenshots from around the world
I'm sure it's a very niche thing but I really fall in love a little bit with some locations 🥺
I'm in the same niche :D
Go for it. My favorite part about playing Geoguessr is sharing the most stupid locations and best guesses
I thought I’d miss my pinky finger more dearly but I can’t seem to manage it. The way her eyes lit up as her teeth dug just beneath my knuckle, I’m tempted to let her eat something else.
—Diary of a Siren
“The entire British museum is an active crime scene” - John Oliver
[image description: two pictures, one above the other. The first image shows a statue originally from the Acropolis in Athens, now in the British Museum. The statue is a column shaped like a woman. It is labelled London. The bottom image is from the Acropolis Museum in Athens, showing the other five matching column/statues, with a space for the missing statue pointedly left open. This picture is shot from above and is labelled Athens.
image in savvysergeant’s reblog: screencap of tags from two people. Feeblekazoo’s tags read: the degree to which the Acropolis museum is designed to shame the British Museum is spectactular. butherlipsarenotmoving’s tags read: the acropolis museum is the most passive aggressive museum i’ve ever been to and i love it
/end id]
For those of you who don’t know museum drama, one of the largest and most famous parts of the British Museum’s collection is the so-called Elgin Marbles, which were looted from the Acropolis by Lord Elgin in the 18th Century. (The Acropolis is the hill in Athens, Greece which has some of the most amazing Greek ruins anywhere, the most famous of which is the Parthenon.) Elgin had (or at least claims to have had) permission from the Ottoman Empire to take stuff home with him, but a) this is one empire asking another empire if they can loot stuff from the other empire’s subjugated people, so, not exactly any moral high ground there Elgin, and b) he took a lot more stuff than the Ottomans said he could have.
Greece has been asking for those statues and sculptures to be returned since they won independence in 1832. That’s right, 1832, 190 years ago. The British Museum has had a number of excuses over the years, one of the biggies of the late 20th Century being “we couldn’t possibly give them back because Athens doesn’t have a nice enough museum to display them” and ignoring Greece’s response of “we will BUILD a museum just for them if you will just give us our damn stuff back!“
Finally, Greece said “fuck you” and built a museum at the bottom of the Acropolis called the Acropolis museum. It is huge, it is gorgeous, the collection of objects is amazing and the educational bits (“this is what it is and why it matters”) are really well done. It’s probably one of the best archaeological museums in the world; it definitely is the best collection of ancient Greek artifacts in the world, both for the size of the collection and the way it’s displayed.
Oh. And it is amazingly passive-aggressive. Every single piece of the Elgin Marbles in the British Museum has an empty spot on display waiting for the piece to be returned to Greece. For example, there are a lot of pieces where Elgin took, say, the nicest (or easiest to remove) one of a set. The column/statue in the OP’s image is one of these. Friezes from the roof of the Parthenon are another example. The Acropolis Museum displays each one of these sets with space for the stolen pieces, along with a picture of what the stolen piece looks like and where it is. It is a giant middle finger at the British Museum, disguised as helpful information.
There’s no chance that the British Museum will return any of this in the next generation. It’s not up to the curators at the British Museum; they don’t get any say in this. The board of governors of the British Museum is made up of old posh English people who genuinely believe that the Empire was awesome and England has a perfect right to everything in the British Museum. They have set policies about what can and can’t be removed from the collection, and according to those policies nothing of any historical or monetary value can be given away or sold. And they actively promote the idea that their predecessors had a perfect right to loot the cultural heritage of the world, and that the museum has a perfect right to keep it forever. The only way to get anything out of the British Museum and back to its rightful place would be to completely replace the entire board of the museum with new people who think completely differently. And that’s not happening any time soon, alas.
By the way, the British argument that Greeks wouldn’t know how to care for the antiquities……. Greece has 206 archaeological museums. It’s not only incredibly demeaning as an argument, it’s also straight out false and misleading.
One thing (and with the massive caveat of I don’t disagree with the above in the slightest): the Board of Trustees isn’t like that. They’re not all white, they’re not all rich, and they’re not all English. By and large they’re academics. I was speaking to them the other week with regards to repatriation when I visited and they’re actually very much all for it (bar one or two exceptions…looking at you George) and are working on things. A group of 5 of them I can confirm actively loathe Elgin and the marbles room. The problem lies with the British Museum Act of 1968 (hereafter referred to as BMA68) which was a law created by the government to prevent anything within the BM, which the government owns but wants very little do to with unless you’re trying to repatriate fyi, being removed in the “national interest”. Repatriation is, annoyingly, illegal in the case of the contents of the BM. So the Board have been trying to change this by putting pressure in various areas to get the laws changed, and the government screws them by enforcing term limits for serving on the board and then trying to stack the board in their favour to prevent further action. It’s a game of politics and the government do not want to give up BMA68 at all.
I know we like to categorise everyone we’re up against in the fight for repatriation as “old, white, rich guys” but it’s not helpful when it is decidedly not the case. We need to be mad at the right people and focusing on efforts to change this ridiculous law. At this time, supporting projects like the International Training Partnership, which is the BM’s way of building a network of curators and training them so organisations like the British Government can’t say “hurr durr they can’t look after their artefacts” because actually they can, we trained them ourselves. The network of curators also allows them to build mounting international pressure. It’s not going to happen overnight, but the pressure is building now, I promise you.
“We need to be mad at the right people” is the crux of SO MANY THINGS
Thank you Lottie, as always.
So the problem isn’t even the people who run the museum, who are after all museum people and want museum things to be done well and respectfully, but the government, who want the museum to remind everyone of the time before they made their entire country a laughingstock.
I now want to go to Athens
I'm new to watercolours. So I'm trying some stuff out.
I have a vision on how it should look at the end. Let's see how long it takes me to get there
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man i dont think this one's gonna fit on a hat
text: I don't know who wants me more: college admissions officers or bisexual women
hey let's all do this on March 15th. on the website.
Hey don’t just like. Reblog.
I like this idea
why do autistic people love trains so much. like what is it about trains
Well I like trains. But I LOVE railways.
Actually I don't like trains. I'm only interested because the go on rails. And loving rails is hardwired into my brain like, I cannot and never will understand the concept of mm-accuracy combined with tons of force and high speeds and an unmoving area forbidden to enter.
I want to see what it would look like in web format. My siren story.
I just love sirens! This is great!
What is all this?
It’s bioluminescence. You never seen it before?
No, I haven’t.
It’s little tiny creatures, every time something moves through the water they light up like itty bitty stars.
Do you eat them?
Do I-? No! They’re beautiful!
You don’t eat beautiful things?
You’re still here aren’t you?
-conversations with a siren
This is so... just beautiful.
I enjoy reading this over and over again.
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Ragnar when he finds out 15,000 people voted in a poll about him and 70% think that in a battle between him and a crow, he would lose (I can confirm you that he would as he has lost against crows already, and many a time crows threw walnuts at his head to try and crack the shell that way 😂😂😂)
Shell as in nut or as in skull??
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