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Okay, so I have to tell you all about a dream I had while I was napping. It combines two of Tumblr’s favorite things and I woke up cackling and thinking this would make an amazing fanfiction, which I am too lazy to write but if someone wants to run with this, please go with my blessing.

I had this dream where I was laying on my bed watching Good Omens, except it wasn’t actually “Good Omens the show,” it was more like “I have found a security camera live feed type thing that follows literally-actually-Crowley and am watching it.” You know how dreams can be, where really bizarroland shit seems entirely normal? It was like that.

So I’m watching Crowley wander around this ancient city and he meets up with this dude and they start talking, and the dude finally mentions how wonderful it would be to be remembered forever like the great kings, and Crowley’s like “I can make that happen, y’know” and so he convinces this dude to sell his soul for immortality, and then because he’s a demon with a ridiculous sense of humor he’s like “what you need to do is keep any record of your name that’s written” and the dude is like “you got it”

And yes, if you have not guessed yet, the dude was Ea-Nasir.

I don’t remember the last time I woke up laughing so hard I had to pee, but it happened today.

We never find out what Nimona's original form was, and that's so important.

With trans people, there's such a focus on the way you were born. What you were born as, what you were assigned as. But we don't know what Nimona's first form was. She has no 'true form'. Because she's fluid, she changes, she's a girl and a boy and a shark and a dragon and a phoenix. We don't find out her original form because it is fundamentally unimportant, and to assign her a 'true form' would be disrespectful.

Scops Owl in Moonlight, by Ohara Koson, early 1920s

fun with the safety sign generator

There was a young man from Peru

Whose limericks stopped at line two

There once was a man from Verdun

Jacked cat really inspires respect

Tomlinson, from Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling by William Heath Robinson (1910)

Sometimes the rats in my brain come together and start yelling “YEARNING” and in trying to appease them I ask “FOR WHAT” but they are too small so all they can say is “YEARNING” which is a very big word for such a tiny creature, even collectively

I loved this visual so much I had to doodle it.

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A Stunning Acoustic Cover of Coolio’s ‘Gangsta’s Paradise’ on a Creatively Capo’d Guitar

A more dreadful monster than ever was read of, from Book V of Rabelais: Gargantua and Pantagruel by Frank C. Pape (1927)

THE FIFTH ELEMENT (1997) dir. Luc Besson —costume design & original sketches by Jean Paul Gaultier

[id: Tweet by iconawrites, which reads: "I love public libraries because they are built on the principle that books are so important and so necessary to human flourishing that access to them cannot depend on your income." end id.]

I was a grown ass adult before I realized the library was free.  I went into the library and asked to join.  When they gave me the form to fill out for a library card, I asked if they took credit cards and the librarian had to explain to me that the library was free.  You did not pay to join it.

I cried.

ITS FREE?? YOU DONT EVEN HAVE TO PAY MONEY FOR THE CARD??? THATS AMAZING

I think some librsries might have you oay a small fee for the card but most dont.

Most don't charge for the card as long as it's your first one. There may be a $5 fee to replace it if you lose it.

Or not. Depends on the local library's funds. But their budget generally includes free cards for users.

Libraries are free! We may charge if you don't live in our county/state/down/district, but that's because your taxes don't go toward paying for us. Many libraries are even going fine free for late materials, so if you're forgetful like me, it's okay! And we offer e-book and downloadable audiobook services, so you can get books for free even from home!

Use your local library, we're pretty cool!

The Library Is a Magical Place and You Should Fucking Go There

Your Library Lets You Stream Audiobooks and eBooks FOR FREEEEEEE! 

so yes, free libraries are the default in the US, but not necessarily everywhere in the world. in NZ, for instance, most local libraries that i've encountered either charge a small fee to take out a book or have a membership fee, which is much more in line with how libraries operated historically.

the reason that the library system in philadelphia, for instance, is called "the free library of philadelphia" is that it was chartered in the 1890s as a library free to all, which was an idea that was still coming into vogue during that time period.

but yes! libraries are free here, and they're also one of the few spaces left in the US where you're allowed to exist in public without there being an expectation of spending money! so please! visit your local library! even going in the door helps libraries keep their funding a lot of the time!

Historical Mermay by Chloe’s arts

Tumblr: @chloezarts

not naming names but some of you are genuinely really good people and i hope that you get everything your heart wants and needs

Illustration from Pierre Louÿs' The Songs of Bilitis by Willy Pogany (1926)

Japanese Tsuba 

Big ball