we're not kids anymore.
One Nice Bug Per Day
I'd rather be in outer space 🛸
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
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PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Jules of Nature
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Xuebing Du
Love Begins
NASA
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Stranger Things
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Auction of props and costumes from a number of HBO series including Our Flag Means Death. Aug 23, 2025 auction date. Online bidding.
Boy looking out the front window of an elevated train, July 10, 1949.
Photo: Angelo Rizzuto via LoC
You can still find old front view trains if you are lucky. Here are 2 kids, one looking out the front ( you only see the backpack) and one watching the driver. The digital number in red is the speed, I seem to remember.
we really devolved as a society when we stopped using fully painted pictures on romance novels and started using cheap photoshop instead
case in point
this is a Hell of a downgrade
worst crime capitalism ever committed was eliminating Horny Oil Painter as a viable career option.
I went down a rabbit hole this summer researching romance novel covers and painting fanart in this style and
this is an EXTREMELY fun style to work in, and also
many of the most iconic romance novel covers you’re probably picturing when you think “classic painted romance novel cover” were produced by one prolific, masterful artist
Her name was Elaine Duillo, and she had a long and extremely productive career spanning from the mid 60’s to her retirement in 2003. She worked mainly in acrylics.
She did illustration work in other genres as well, but she really found her niche in romance novels. She pretty much redefined the aesthetic conventions of the genre, popularizing male models and male nudity and sexualizing men to cater to the female gaze in a way that simply wasn’t the norm before her work. You know Fabio? she’s the one who started using him as a model, and essentially launched his career. And honestly, just look at her work:
magnificent
Wait shit, she retired in 2003? I think that’s exactly when I started seeing shitty photoshops on all the new romance novel covers.
She was literally carrying the entire industry single-handed and then they just did not replace her.
I've noticed this too! Why the horrible downgrade? Which would you choose based on the cover? Is it a copyright thing? A change of publisher and rights? Ugh - the Illustration is so much better! So what if it looks like a couple from MadMen 60's - at least they look like they are having fun! The Illustration is by Allan Kass, whose work you can see more of here: https://allankass.blogspot.com/
Trumpeter, 17th Light Dragoons by Don Troiani.
You cannot pass this by without making a br-BRRR! Trumpeting noise in you head. It is impossible.
Where is the two guys on the road raising hell buddy pic / fan fic for these sweeties?
Aubreyad Easter Egg in the Temeraire series
From “Victory of Eagles”. I’ve looked for other Easter eggs in the Temeraire series, but this is the only one I’ve found.
A very cool video about shock waves from historic cannons and slow motion of projectiles (check out the cannister shot at the end - crazy).
In which Jack just wants to sleep, but Sophie isn't done with the conversation.
"Sophie was well acquainted with her husband's power of going instantly to sleep and of staying asleep whatever the circumstances, and at this point, taking particular care of the carpet, she flung down the candlestick, sconce, and extinguisher. Jack leapt out of bed, put all to rights, and she continued, 'But there is just one thing that I must say...''
My Wool Garment? You have noticed it?
While searching for a Smartwool new sweater, I find this full merino wool bodysuit with hood; and which designer was reading the Aubreyad while coming up with the winter base layer product line?
Features
Slim Fit
100% Merino wool fabric made with an interlock knit for enhanced comfort, breathability, thermoregulation, and odor resistance
Flatlock seam construction designed to eliminate chafing
Front body seam wraps to back for body-enhancing fit
Buttoned drop tail for no-fuss nature breaks
Close-fit hood for ease of movement and under-helmet fit
Thumbholes at wrist
Central Park Snowstorm
I REQUIRE A TUG
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I feel like this is me yelling at my kids:
“I HAVE SOMETHING TO COMMUNICATE!”
“STOP CARRYING OUT YOUR INTENTIONS!”
“YOU ARE RUNNING INTO DANGER!”
A Sailor’s Heart
Watching Persuasion (1995), after having watched Horatio Hornblower and Master and Commander in the past months, and while, yes, the letter being written in this scene is *amazing*, I was more struck by the speech Captain Harville makes to Anne (happening in the background) on who suffers more from love....and I’m not sure which breaks your heart more.
“ "Ah!" cried Captain Harville, in a tone of strong feeling, "if I could but make you comprehend what a man suffers when he takes a last look at his wife and children, and watches the boat that he has sent them off in, as long as it is in sight, and then turns away and says, 'God knows whether we ever meet again!' And then, if I could convey to you the glow of his soul when he does see them again; when, coming back after a twelvemonth's absence, perhaps, and obliged to put into another port, he calculates how soon it be possible to get them there, pretending to deceive himself, and saying, 'They cannot be here till such a day,' but all the while hoping for them twelve hours sooner, and seeing them arrive at last, as if Heaven had given them wings, by many hours sooner still! If I could explain to you all this, and all that a man can bear and do, and glories to do, for the sake of these treasures of his existence! I speak, you know, only of such men as have hearts!" pressing his own with emotion.”
What a nice day to be sentimental💔
(made this sketches for a friend, and, GOD, I miss this show a lot)
Every once in awhile I like to rewatch the things I love just to make sure that I still adore them very much. It’s nice to draw the boys again, they always make me a bit happier🌸💘
A letter in which Benjamin Tallmadge does in fact gossip about the Ladies with Nathan Hale.
Benjamin Tallmadge to Nathan Hale, May 9th 1775
“I suppose you have heard before this that our good Girl Sally is in the midst of Courtship. I am not about to tell Tales, but she has grown since I went away most surprisingly Buckish. What a Change this must make in her temper and natural disposition, You can judge for Yourself. For my part I never took her to be a Lady calculated (?) for a Buck nor a Bear.”
