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Kimono design by Ueno Seikō, ca. 1902

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Untitled from Shin-Bijutsukai by Anonymous, 1902

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Wedding Supper by Martin vanMeytens, 1763

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The Ardabil Carpet by Unknown, ca. 1539-40

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ISS056-E-200265 - View of Earth by NASA, 30 September 2018, 08:29:27

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Signed drawing of Anna Pavlova by Manuel Rosenberg, 1924

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This blog is for reposting and sharing public domain images. Each image is captioned with its title, author, date and source.

The tags will include the time period if applicable, as well as a few general descriptors of the image style and medium. Most of these are taken from the original archives. The #cc0 tag indicates a public domain image.

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Untitled by Anonymous, ca. 1790–1810

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Pallas by Anonymous, 1829

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in the latest cyber-news: the internet archive has lost their case against 4 major publishing houses (verge article). they’re going to appeal, but this is still a bad outcome. the fate of the internet is currently hanging in the balance because 4 multibillionare publishing groups missed out on like $15 of combined revenue during the pandemic because of the archive’s online library service. it’s so fucking stupid.

for those who don’t know what the internet archive is, it’s a virtual library full of media. books, magazines, recordings, visuals, flash games, websites - a lot of these things either don’t exist anymore or cannot be found & bought. heard of the wayback machine? that’s part of the internet archive. it is the most important website to exist, and i don’t say that lightly. if the internet archive goes down, the cultural loss will be immeasurable.

so how can you help?

boycott the publishing companies involved in this. they’re absolute ghouls, frankly, and don’t deserve a penny. the companies involved are harpercollins (imprints), wiley (imprints), penguin random house llc (imprints), and hachette book group (imprints). make sure the websites are set to your location as it may differ worldwide.

learn to torrent. download a torrent client (i recommend transmission), a vpn (i recommend protonvpn - sign up and choose the area that’s closest to your continent/country), and hit up /r/piracy on reddit for websites. with torrenting, you can get (almost) any media you want for free in high quality, with add-ons such as subtitles, and with no risks of loss. i would also recommend getting into the habit of watching stuff online for free. the less you can pay to a giant corporation, the better.

get into the habit of downloading and archiving materials. find a TB external hard drive, ideally the higher the better. it’ll probably cost around $60 for 1TB and continue to go up, but they’re so so useful. if you can’t afford a drive, look for any GB harddrives or memory sticks you have lying around and just fill them up. videos, pdfs, magazines, songs, movies, games - anything you can rip and download and fit on there, do it, because nothing is permanent.

donate to the internet archive. this is the most important option on the list. the IA relies entirely on funding, and it’s going to need more to fight this case. whatever you can donate, do it. i promise it’s helpful.

and finally…

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Friendly PSA to reddit refugees: please be aware that you are on The Queer Website(™). And while I would say the whole blue hair and pronouns tumblr sjw perception many people had on reddit is somewhat exaggerated, it is absolutely true that the user base (at least the part that makes good posts) tends to skew towards non-men and non-cishet people. Which is all to say, it's best if you get into the habit of checking people's pronouns. They're usually found in people's header so it's not really much effort. (And look, I know it was site culture to refer to everyone as "sir" and with he/him on reddit. But not the site culture here, and you're going to make people uncomfortable if you go around he/him'ing people). Or you can always phrase your comments neutrally (coming up with ridiculous neutrals for gendered words is absolutely part of tumblr culture, so go off). But yeah, just don't be an asshole and you'll be fine