[falloutgirlongirl]

my first embroider project….. she scream

[questionableadvice]

~ The Ladies and Gentlemen’s Pocket Companion of Etiquette and Manners,  by an American, c. 1820-1852

History Geek Note: During the early 19th century there was a shortage of cadavers for medical students (or “Anatomists”) to dissect. Dissection was illegal in many places and often the only bodies available were those of executed criminals. This lead to the lucrative business of the resurrectionists who would steal bodies from fresh graves and sell them to doctors in need of cadavers.* Adding to the general horror of resurrectionists were cases like the infamous Burke and Hare of Scotland who decided to cut out the tedious grave-digging part of the equation and make their own corpses the old-fashioned way. All this from a discussion of vests - isn’t history fun?

*Also, they apparently had bad taste in vests.

reminder to the tiny children

[bibliothekara]

it is okay to change your minds

especially if you are in fandom for a long time

for instance

I spent all of my childhood/teen watching of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine thinking OH MY GOD I AM SO IN LOVE WITH JULIAN BASHIR

But then.  I grew up. And I rewatched DS9 about 15 years later. (Post college, post master’s degree, during job search.)

And realized. Nope. Not in love with Julian Bashir. Not really. But pretty much AM Julian Bashir.

[scifitrekkie]

Robert April was a prominent 23rd century Starfleet officer who was, perhaps most famous for his stint as the first captain of the USS Enterprise. During the 2240s, April oversaw the construction of components for a Constitution-class starship at the San Francisco Naval Yards. That vessel eventually became the USS Enterprise which April later commanded from 2245 to 2250; his wife Sarah served as the first chief medical officer aboard the USS Enterprise. 

Fun fact: Commodore Robert April was played by James Doohan and Dr. Sarah April was played by Nichelle Nichols. 

[did-you-kno]

When depression-era farmwomen had to start using flour bags and feed sacks to make clothes for their families, manufacturers began making their bags out of brightly-colored and printed fabrics to boost sales and add a little flair to the common sack dress. 

Once the trend caught on to the point that manufacturers were confident it would stick, they started making fabrics in an even wider variety of patterns and colors:

They even gave instructions on how to remove the ink, if you didn’t like the pattern:

Source 

Photos and info via: Kindness Blog, My Old Kentucky Tales, 

[paraparaparadigm]

Love little historical things like this.

archiveofourown.org

When You Go Away - tinsnip - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Organization for Transformative Works

[readfanfictionforever]

ship: Garak/Bashir

How dare Garak go off-station and miss lunch with Julian? Really, he’s quite put out about it. Unusually so… Wait, what is this?
Highlights: puppy Julian, enigmatic Garak, friendly banter, oxytocin rushes. Sweet as jumja.

[boogieprince]

today i finally put together a “book” that one of my classes wrote together last year and felt it was necessary to bring back this classic not-at-all-prompted contribution from a then 7 year old: “I got stuck in a castle. I was in its jail. They did not feeded me all I had was a porta potty. I was in jail because I didn’t even know there were taxes there. Except I lied. I read a lot about England and I decided I did not want to pay taxes.” 

[boogieprince]

please appreciate that this child was free to write about literally whatever she could imagine about herself time traveling and she wrote about being jailed for tax evasion in the middle ages

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ogimwkItds)

[unflatteringcatselfies]

Hershey is the brown one and Shadow is the black and white one!

[satanstrousers]

You know how in action movies the main guy is always like “Yeah I’ve got a contact here in Uzbekistan that owes me a favor” for no discernible reason but it occurred to me that like that’s basically what internet friends are like if I was in that situation I’d be like “Yeah don’t worry leave it to me. I’ve got a mutual in the Netherlands whose selfie I reblogged one time.”

[genderific]

#If you ever come to Chile looking for a member of an evil organization #And you need someone to help you kill them and hide the body #Holla @ me just sayin’ #No but seriously now I’m thinking about an actual action movie #In which the hero is like ‘don’t worry I have a contact there. I follow them on twitter’ #‘we talked about our mutual love of nutella one’ #‘and they said I looked cute in my selfie’ #‘they’re legit. I know they can be trusted’ #Everything said with a super serious action movie hero voice #And said to the leader of whatever thing the hero works for #Who is a super serious person who wears suits and frowns a lot #My imagination went funny places

(Fefy’s tags)

No but seriously though.  You know that trope where there’s some ordinary dude who gets pulled into a web of intrigue by some badass sexy lady and then ends up being even better at stuff than the lady?  Imagine that reversed.  Imagine some English Lit grad student with a huge fandom tumblr accidentally witnesses a crime and some badass spy dude shows up and is like “your life is in danger, you have to come with me, and now that you’re involved you might as well help us track down the bad guys” and it’s funny because she’s not at all an action type but then he’s like “well it looks like the bad guys are doing something devious in New Zealand, better set up camp in an abandoned mine shaft” and she’s all “No wait, I totally know someone there who always tags me in reblogs about my obscure OTPs, she would 1000% let us use her place, look I already fanmailed her” and then later he’s like “Oh, we found the bad guy camp in rural Sweden but there’s no time for backup to arrive from our base before their evil plan goes down!” and she’s like “Oh hold up, did you say Sweden, because I defs know someone from there and they always leave super supportive replies on my personal posts and they will definitely have my back, give me a sec to send them an ask” and the dude is like “HOW DO YOU HAVE A BETTER INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF ALLIES THAN ME”

[barlowstreet]

I’ve got a closet I could stuff you in in Canada.

[oodlenoodleroodle]

And/or if all this world saving business was like not-quite-legal and the heroes would also have to remain a step ahead of the law enforcement as well as trying to catch up to the bad guys (like Around The World in 80 Days), it’d be really hard for the intelligence people try to figure what they’d do next since they’d know about the spy-guy’s network some and try to infiltrate it, but the linguistic major’s people aren’t on their radar because it’s not based on phonecalls or having actually ever met before.