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So internet archive lost their lower court case. They're appealing, and have a good chance with the 2nd circuit, but they need help. Here's a link directly from one of their librarians for how you can help.

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Happy Yule and Happy Solstice,  yall!

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Day Eight - Apparently there is a book aesthetic called dark cottagecore and that concept just screams witchy-nature-dark-academia vibes. I made a storygraph reading challenge for this theme, you can find it here! 🍂📚

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A short list of things I think everyone should try or do at least once in their life that will make you feel more alive. Not all of these are applicable to every person, but it’s a summary:

Take a dance class of any style with a semi-serious instructor for at least 4 classes worth

Write a work of fiction, of *any* length and *any* quality

Learn a least a bit of a language that isn’t your native one. You don’t need to become anywhere near fluent, but try and get a bit beyond yes, no, and where’s the bathroom. If you’re from a country where most people are bilingual already, that doesn’t count! Get bits of a language with which you are truly unfamiliar.

In the same vein, make peace with subtitles and start consuming music, TV and movies from cultures that aren’t your own. If your country imports large amounts of media from a specific other culture or cultures (American movies in foreign markets, for example) that also doesn’t count! Get some feelers out to begin to take in content from a culture that you don’t already have a lot of knowledge of.

Try at least one less common/less “exercisey” and more fun type of physical exercise such as roller blading or roller or ice skating, gymnastics, trampoline, rock climbing, aerial silks, pole dancing, surfing, etc

Learn a hobby or craft that produces a physical finished product and produce a single, complete object - regardless of quality - that you can hold in your hands and say that you made.

Look up a how it’s made video or YouTube video on how an item that’s interesting or relevant to you is made

Give one type of thing - media, hobby, sport, whatever - that you’ve never been interested in or never tried because of some preconceived perception an honest shot and see if your perception was correct. Sometimes it won’t be, sometimes it will be, but it’s valuable to know.

Rearrange the furniture in a room in your home

It’s about NOVELTY, babey! Get some enrichment into your enclosure!

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Joe Thomas photography

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(click through for full size comic)

“Here is a List of Things” from Welcome to Night Vale episode 2, Glow Cloud  Illustrations by Lauren Ftagn

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This is a place where everyone can be creative. x

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summer break means uncontrollable amount of online history/archeology courses, spending time at the library and making sure you know exactly where every book is placed, tons of notes and highlighting textbooks like a maniac, dirty porcelain cups because there is no time for anything else beside studying. sorry I can’t calm down. studying is much better with no pressure pushing you from every corner of the academic life. 🕰🏛☕️

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i managed to finish my work early yesterday so i get to take today off :^)

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caught my desk at golden hour and got some lovely and warm pictures!

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a list of dark (and sometimes light) academia movies and shows we don’t talk about enough:

- crimson peak (2015)

- whisper of the heart (1995)

- the wind rises (2013)

- peaky blinders (2013-)

- the chronicles of narnia (2005-2010)

- anne with an e (2017-2019)

- perception (2012-2015)

- sleepy hollow (1999)

- corpse bride (2005)

- doctor strange (2016)

- good will hunting (1997)

- ophelia (2018)

- hamlet (2009)

- a discovery of witches (2018-)

- the magicians (2015-2020)

- penny dreadful (2014-2016)

- the chilling adventures of sabrina (2018-)

- the librarians (2014-2018)

- reign (2013-2017)

- derry girls (2019-)

- merlin (2008-2012)

- the rescuers (1977)

- inkheart (2008)

- stardust (2007)

- hunchback of notre dame (1996)

- atlantis: the lost empire (2001)

- pirates of the caribbean (2003-2017)

- the paper chase (1973)

- ammonite (2020)

- tiny pretty things (2020-)

- the crucible (1996)

- ed wood (1994)

- how to get away with murder (2014-2020)

- once upon a time (2011-2017)

- downton abbey (2010-2014)

- elite (2018-)