we have loved the stars too fondly

Its been a long week. Someone pass me an image of The Character

@beancalzone

i think some of u use the term “american centric” on stuff when its just black ppl talking about antiblackness which is global

My favorite Philomena Cunk bits are when she's talking to Professor Ronald Hutton, who specializes in folklore and paganism in the British Isles. Mainly because she's trying her damnest to throw him off by asking the stupidest questions she can think of, and he's not even phased because he's a folklore and paganism historian so OF COURSE he's been asked worse questions in earnest.

These are two masters of their art going head to head at the peak of their game.

He has a very soothing way of speaking

He's one of my favorite TV historians and shows up in Farm Series and its related shows a lot to contextualize the festivals and rituals they do on there and explain what they meant to the people who lived in the time period. One of my favorite lectures he gives on is about bonfires and the superstition around the Bloody Flux and how we had no idea what actually caused it until some fairly recent humanitarian crises.

Irving Finkel does well with her, too. He is a treasure as always.

for every incel white man star wars dudebro there is a teenage lesbian with a slightly deeper and more obscure knowledge of star wars who will one day defeat him in battle

@hinderr

i KNOW ive said this before but Lou Wilson is one of the most beautiful people i have ever seen

"Why do you buy books when the library is right there?"

Because publishing houses will not continue printing paper books if libraries are their only customers.

Also, I like being able to read at my leisure and generally have books at hand.

#public libraries are good because they let people access books they might never otherwise read#private book ownership is good because it's Yours#physical books are good because they last a long time and again it's Yours#ebooks are good because you can fit a whole library into the physical space of a single book and they're cheaper to produce#audiobooks are good because they're accessible to people with eyesight or visual reading issues and leave your hands free#in conclusion: all books are good and people should enjoy them however and whenever they can#(lest it be misunderstood I agree with you completely OP I just also really like books in general and it got away from me)

YES. all books. every kind

you can lead a lamb away from slaughter but you can't make it stop feeling like a sacrifice

look i know it's mostly dead now but every so often i remember the klck discourse posts that were like 'you can be a normal person from a normal family and be a successful rogue! look at penny luckstone' and am filled with righteous fury because you clearly do not understand penny luckstone. she has 19 little siblings. her house is maintained by rube-goldberg/wallace-and-gromit-level contraptions. she's a super super senior because she loves high school so much. she made a man she was flirting with shit out a horse and kept flirting with him. she's on a first-name basis with the cult-followers holding her hostage. she has a circus trained bear. she murdered her friendship-is-magic-horse-soulmate just to see what would happen. she asked for her chains to be tightened because she thought they were too loose. she released the end of all things by making friendship bracelets.

double dates and Quokki pets

now who do I need to talk to to get a season of a starstruck odyssey with the cast of the seven. hello

a one ☝️☹️

me studying anything in history

how loud do you want your volume

mmmmmmmmMMMMMMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

sounds like something out of a fantasy, looks like something out of a cartoon

i hate how much ai has taken the joy out of seeing something cool. you used to see something cool, like a really intricate drawing or a video of someone doing an insane skill or two animals doing something cute, and because there were no mental gymnastics involved in discerning whether or not it was 'real' you could sit there and have the joy of like, "wow! how did they do that! how cool is it that they made that! what a wonderful moment to have captured!" and now every time i see something remarkable i hate that i have to sit there and be like okay let me go frame by frame to make sure everything lines up. let me double check the page this comes from. let me scroll through the comments to make sure no one called out something i missed. like i want the joy of being able to trust someone else's creation back, please