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Day 248 of posting Good Omens memes Everyday until Season 3
good omens fancomic about love and wedding presents
I have decided that I want Aziraphale to treat things going wrong in Heaven during Season 3 like Willy Wonka during the Golden Ticket Tour.
Just Imagine.
Metatron: We cannot begin the Second Coming without Jesus and they're missing. We believe the demon Crowley is behind it.
Aziraphale:
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Michael: Supreme Archangel, the demon Crowley has found a way to keep us from going down to Earth! What do you want us to do? Aziraphale:
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Uriel: Supreme Archangel! The Demon Crowley has managed to break into Heaven again and is stealing the Book of Life!
Aziraphale:
~~~~ Metatron and the Archangels: *running around, trying to shut off all the alarms that Crowley has set off by doing something brilliant and sneaky.* Aziraphale: *heart-eyes*
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Day 221 of posting Good Omens memes Everyday until Season 3
âThe entire British museum is an active crime sceneâ - 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 savvysergeantâs reblog: screencap of tags from two people. Feeblekazooâs tags read: the degree to which the Acropolis museum is designed to shame the British Museum is spectactular. butherlipsarenotmovingâs tags read: the acropolis museum is the most passive aggressive museum iâve ever been to and i love it
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For those of you who donât know museum drama, one of the largest and most famous parts of the British Museumâs 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 empireâs 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. Thatâs 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 âwe couldnât possibly give them back because Athens doesnât have a nice enough museum to display themâ and ignoring Greeceâs response of âwe will BUILD a museum just for them if you will just give us our damn stuff back!â
Finally, Greece said âfuck youâ 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 (âthis is what it is and why it mattersâ) are really well done. Itâs 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 itâs 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 OPâs 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.
Thereâs no chance that the British Museum will return any of this in the next generation. Itâs not up to the curators at the British Museum; they donât 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 canât 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 thatâs not happening any time soon, alas.
By the way, the British argument that Greeks wouldnât know how to care for the antiquitiesâŠâŠ. Greece has 206 archaeological museums. Itâs not only incredibly demeaning as an argument, itâs also straight out false and misleading.
One thing (and with the massive caveat of I donât disagree with the above in the slightest): the Board of Trustees isnât like that. Theyâre not all white, theyâre not all rich, and theyâre not all English. By and large theyâre academics. I was speaking to them the other week with regards to repatriation when I visited and theyâre actually very much all for it (bar one or two exceptionsâŠlooking 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 youâre trying to repatriate fyi, being removed in the ânational interestâ. 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. Itâs a game of politics and the government do not want to give up BMA68 at all.
I know we like to categorise everyone weâre up against in the fight for repatriation as âold, white, rich guysâ but itâs 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 BMâs way of building a network of curators and training them so organisations like the British Government canât say âhurr durr they canât look after their artefactsâ because actually they can, we trained them ourselves. The network of curators also allows them to build mounting international pressure. Itâs not going to happen overnight, but the pressure is building now, I promise you.
âWe need to be mad at the right peopleâ is the crux of SO MANY THINGS
Thank you Lottie, as always.
So the problem isnât 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.
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Anat the Canaanite goddess of sexual love, war, and hunting. Progenitress of heroes, lady of Palestine.
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WOW! Long time no post, but that doesn't mean I haven't been up to stuff! I can finally share some of the things I've been working on as part of the @gospexchange
This short-but-sweet little comic is a gift for @deathly-shipper based on the song Céu Azul by Ana Gabriela
I had a lot of fun making this, the song is very sweet and cozy and I hope I captured the vibes you were looking for!
Here's an AO3 link if tumblr makes the quality stinky!
btw when you're being mean to aziraphale this is who you're being mean to. hope this helps
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wait... so s1 says angels don't dance, except for aziraphale, who learned the gavotte in the late 1880s
but then we learn in s2 that aziraphale did at least one other dance earlier !
so what i'm wondering is,, how did it even start? like did aziraphale go "gosh I'm really sorry fr đ„șđŹ allow me to prove it with this incredibly human ritual no angel has ever tried before"? or did crowley go "oh, how to make me feel better you ask? do a little dance go on đđđ„°"?
anyway the point is crowley canonically got to see aziraphale dance for that very first time !
1650: the first time an angel ever danced, and it was to apologize for some silly dumbfuckery so his demon spouse would drop the pout & join him for lunch
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