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Jay, they/them. Hello. This is the tumblr of a thirty-something former English student with a continuing interest in literature and linguistics. I'm a queer nonbinary book/film/tv/comics geek. I also like cute animals, badass people, interesting fashion, and...

[taylornprice]

mussels!

[ultradia]

Gaudi’s Bellesgaurde Tower

[beadyeyes]

USLHS Keepers cap from WA c1920 by the Maritime Exchange Museum

[sparrowlucero]

conch canaries

(available on my kofi as adoptables!)

[witchstone]

when the light does the thing that makes you feel like you were in here 20 000 years ago

[gothinkdexign]

Sea Trek: Deep Sea Nine

After the island of Bajor throws off its Dutch occupiers, a small force of Siennese troops move into an offshore fortress to keep an eye on things. But before they are unpacked, a supernatural maelstrom opens up offshore that connects to the ocean on the far side of the planet, and Bajor abruptly becomes the hottest piece of real estate in the world! And not just pineapples will come through – a new enemy worse than anything Bajor has ever seen waits on the far side, deep in the abyss.

Beniamino Sevieri: A traumatized but passionate commander, whose hopes of having a quiet life on DS9 are thwarted when the Bajorans declare him their Emissary. (Have you ever actually tried to sit down and describe Sisko in just a couple adjectives? It’s not easy.)

Jacopo Sevieri: Beniamino’s son, an aspiring scribe.

Kira Nerys: A former member of the Bajoran Resistance, now Sevieri’s second-in-command, who is wary of the Siennese presence.

Odo: Like Squidward, Odo is a benthic cephalopod who merges his tentacles into a pair of legs to walk like a humanoid.

Miles O’Brien: pain and suffering incarnate

Bashir Julani: A brilliant young doctor from the Mamluk Sultanate.

Cork: A greedy, devious, and untrustworthy sea goblin who operates a seedy wine-den.

Jacinth: A member of the Witches of Troy, a cult founded by Cassandra that are able to move their minds between bodies.

Worf: A reserved, socially awkward, unintentionally intimidating great white shark with a heart of gold.

Admiral de Cloet: The commander of the Dutch occupation, who shows back up now and again to make life difficult.

Elias Gerritsen: The last Dutchman left on DS9, a tailor.

Keiko: O’Brien’s wife, who is fascinated by the unique flora of Bajor and teaches some of the children on the island.

Nog and Rom: Cork’s nephew and brother, respectively an ambitious cadet-in-training and a jumpy schlemiel.

Weyoun: Jeffrey Combs

Gowron: Leader of the Shark Empire, a bigeye thresher.

Martok: A respected shark general.

Author’s note: Bajor is an Ireland-sized landmass replacing the Azores in this universe, settled in 5000 BCE or so by Early European Farmers. Europe and Africa have always been somewhat aware of it, but nobody bothered to try colonizing it and forcing Christianity on its inhabitants until transatlantic trade was kicking off.

[rudywiser]

hey

[velarapproximant]

Surely in this version his name should be spelled "Wharf" :P

[the1920sinpictures]

1928 c. Uranium glass. From Art Deco and Art Nouveau, FB.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Truth oozing out of her bath to irradiate mankind

[wordcubed]

@ms-demeanor

[ms-demeanor]

There are a surprising number of uranium glass objects that are naked ladies, and the art deco ones are the best but all of them absolutely rule.

[prideflagpink]

[ID: A person in glasses, copy says "If your boyself wears glasses your girlself needs them too. Give her the consideration a lady deserves get her a pair of beautiful feminine glasses. We offer complete optical service at reasonable prices. Over 300 styles. Call for an appointment. Ask for Elliot and say that you are a friend of Virginia. We have private fitting rooms that are understanding of the needs of TVs. No embarassment or complications." /End ID]

Ad from Transvestia, Vol. 08, No. 47 (October 1967)

[svenskkaktus]

🐟🪸

[xxsunfishlover69xx]

woah this is cool as fuck. man i need to find a way to incorporate sunfish into more fantastical settings because the whimsy here is off the charts

[ocean-sunfish-worshipper]

Yes, my child, spread the presence of the Holy Mola! Many blessings!

[laylainalaska]

I appreciate the show's commitment to making G'Kar look like absolute lukewarm reheated garbage in the episodes immediately following the torture arc.

The redness around the eyes and the healing cuts on his mouth are an especially nice touch.

He genuinely looks like he feels like shit. I am fascinated how easy it is to forget that this is a guy wearing a latex mask and not his real face.

(Also appreciate G'Kar's absolute petty dedication to pretending Londo doesn't exist for the next several episodes, including when they're literally in the same room talking to the same people.)

[rrrick]

The Radiant City, Le Corbusier

[thepumpkin-queenn]

[fontseeker]

ITC Benguiat (pronounced "ben-gat") was created in 1977 by Ed Benguiat, presumably while chainsmoking.

Reddit user ChunkArcade said of Benguiat:

I had Ed Benguiat as a teacher in college. Absolute legend. He used to smoke in class (looonggg past when smoking indoors was illegal in NY), tell us stories for 75% of the class, then randomly drop gems of typographic genius that I still use on a daily basis at work. Such a good soul and a fucking REBEL.

Originally the letters were intended to form part of a logo for a friend's business, but when the logo was rejected, Benguiat decided to continue working on it and turned it into a font. It was one of approximately ten billion fonts Benguiat designed.

ITC Benguiat is often described as an "Art Nouveau" font, but Benguiat denied this:

When I designed this font I was not thinking “Art Nouveau” style. My thought was just to create a beautiful font that would fit the need for a highly readable serifed font.

The font includes a number of ligatures, like AR, LA, SS, and TT, which are rarely used in practice.

One of the many places ITC Benguiat ended up being used was on book covers in the late 70s and 80s:

A well-known recent use of ITC Benguiat is in the Stranger Things logo, which is widely claimed to be based on the covers of Stephen King novels.

But... I can't actually find any Stephen King novels with ITC Benguiat on the cover? Classic Stephen King novels actually used a modified version of Pacella Latina for his name and the title, and Korinna for smaller text. (Image below from avperth on Flickr.)

Korinna and ITC Benguiat do look kind of similar, but Korinna was never used for titles. The only real similarity between Stranger Things and (some of) these covers is the way that the first and last letters of "StepheN" and "StrangeR" are bigger than the others.

I mean look at this shit:

Are people blind? That's not the same font! Look at the E, look at the G! Look how thin the verticals of the N are! Just because they're both red doesn't mean they're the same font.

"It graced the cover of countless Stephen King novels", but they couldn't find a single example because none of these covers actually used ITC Benguiat (nor do they all use the same fonts as each other). They are right about Choose Your Own Adventure books using it, though:

Fonts In Use has more examples of ITC Benguiat, as well as higher standards than slop factories like Screen Rant and Collider.

[tingedorange]

@ krimamr

[birds-and-the-birds]

nuthatch doing nuthatch things

[sphyrne]

she

[snailchimera]

This is a very good Sybil but I also really appreciate Distressed Clam Vimes

[yaoiblackmold]

[venndaai]

wow they really are so autistic for real :')