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Here's some character art I did for my OC Amrûn a while ago! They're a multifandom OC with verses in Tolkien's world (they're a maia!!), Forgottem Realms & Elder Scrolls 🙂‍↕️

💛🤍💜🖤

uwmspeccoll

Staff Pick of the Week

My staff pick of the week is the seven-volume set of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1737-1794). Edward Gibbon was a rationalist historian who lived in 18th-century England and is best known for this set of histories. The first volume was printed in 1776 and received several additions and revisions by the author before his death. The seven volumes cover the Roman Empire from the 1st century AD to the 15th century.

This particular set was published in 1946 by George Macy Companies, Inc. as part of their Limited Editions Club. The box set was printed in an edition of fifteen hundred and was sent out as part of the subscription service for the club. These editions included photogravure prints from etchings in The Views of Rome by Giovanni Batista Piranesi (1720-1778).

Piranesi’s etchings and the histories were produced at around the same time but they did not come together in printing until these special editions. Another aspect of the special editions, and the reason they are my staff pick, is the design of the spines. They are bound in black morocco and stamped in designer gold. As the volumes progress from the first to the last the ionic column crumbles into disrepair. To follow the various stages of the empire’s regional rule each volume has a map from the period that it covers. The second map image was most interesting to me because it shows a time when the Roman Empire was no longer in control of Rome, but instead ruled by the Ostrogoths.

– Claire, Special Collections Graduate Intern

videolottery

I’m chained up in a basement and tortured + bleeding but I’m not an emaciated little twink so no one even cared enough to jack off to it

videolottery

The tumblr community is so kind

doubleca5t

All these tourists having a great time at the World Cup isn't surprising b/c the first rule of America is that this place rules if you have money to blow and it's a nightmare if you don't. The prohibitively high cost of attending the World Cup filtered out all the ppl who don't have money so all the people who actually made it to the U.S. are basically guaranteed to have fun

trucbiduleschouettes

Attack 70 for @linden-leaf

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i-am-a-fish

"enjoy it while it lasts" (undercuts itself, needlessly doomerish, foreboding)

"enjoy it!" (straight to the point, actually encourages enjoying it)

i-am-a-fish

"enjoy last it'll it" (what)

ftmtftm

Sometimes I really want to take everyone under the age of 24 (as of 2026) by the shoulders and say:

"I'm really sorry that lockdown and the ongoing pandemic interrupted pivotal educational and social/emotional development moments for you. You have an uphill battle towards adjusting to a lot of community based efforts because you experienced a mass trauma during an incredibly important time in your life where you should have physically been around your peers learning to engage in shared community. There is no "but" here, I'm genuinely really sorry. Something many of us consider key points in our interpersonal growth as youths was taken from you, not without reason but without care for its impact on you. I hope you know we are eternally allies in our struggles and if that is something you struggle to know I hope you can learn it someday."

Because so many of the angriest, most disenfranchised people I see on this website are under 24 and I often try to put younger people's behavior in the context of where they might have been 2020. I've seen the impact on my siblings and their peers+friends first hand, all ages 18-24. We've talked about how its impacted them, the isolation, the attachment to the internet, the anxieties and phobias and fears it developed in them due to the pandemic, the political unrest, and the responses to both that we've seen since. I know they're not the only ones and I know how much being marginalized also influences that impact too.

It's terrifying. I know it must be terrifying for a lot of the young people on Tumblr too. I hope one day we're able to bridge all of those complex feelings into something collective and positive so we can do our best to prevent similar traumas from happening to future generations.

ontopofgravity

I asked one of my (male) friends to stop using the phrase “man up” and he has been using “fortify” for the past two weeks instead and it’s just a little thing but honestly it makes a difference

and tbh it’s also pretty funny when I start to deflate in the library and he leans over and goes “FORTIFY”

teakayblog

Dude, fortify is bangin’. That makes things like you’re some kind of RPG character. Fortify is way better than “man up.”

auspiciousleader

Happy 10th anniversary to Fortify

trans-girl-nausicaa

i just apolitically killed the king like i have no agenda or whatever im just the jester here but i stabbed him anyway LOL all the courtiers and advisors are trying really hard to figure out who did it LOL all of them wanted him dead but they dont know whose scheme it was so nobody can promulgate a coherent political maneuver based on the circumstances LOL just playing my lute #MyLute

tsunflowers

I’m reading this book about the changing arctic and the author stayed with the Nunamiut people of inland alaska for a while and talked to this high school kid who was like “ugh I hate going to school in the spring I wish I was hunting caribou” and I thought that was charming. you often hear about people who are devoted to preserving their traditional culture and knowledge but it’s rare to hear about someone who’s invested in the old ways out of pure teenage selfishness. school is lame and hunting caribou is awesome

fairycosmos

good morning to the beaten and the damned only

beansfrombeans

anti-parent

teamwork makes the dream work. and dreamwork. makes shrek

anti-parent

fantastic. i love it. i posted this after my wife said it yesterday and as i was doing it i was like "this can't be an original thought. as soon as i hit post someone's going to say 'you stole this from a tweet from 2014' and i'll say 'no, i stole it from my beautiful wife.'"