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And filled with Tomorrows...

Remember what they took from you [even gayer Spock]

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And this would have me fall to weeping...

"Sometimes entertainment is an overrated function of art. Sometimes being made uncomfortable is the point. Sometimes being repulsed by something is the point."

Simon Pegg in the Criterion Closet

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Ex-libris by the Catalan artist Alexandre de Riquer (1856-1920), made around the year 1900. These ones are some of the examples preserved in the National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC).

An ex-libris, also called bookplate, is a kind of printed stamp at the beginning or end of a book that says who owns it (think of the stamp you surely have seen in the books owned by a library). Though ex-libris have been used since ancient times, their "golden age" in Catalonia was during the Modernist movement (the Catalan equivalent of Art Nouveau), where many bookworm people commissioned artists to have a beautiful personal ex-libris that they could use to stamp all their collection.

The text in the 1st one, written in the Catalan language, says "no matter how much you know, there's always much more that you don't know" (per molt que sapies es molt mes lo que ignores).

Source: Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya.

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Update: It works, I finished folding my laundry.

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its crazy how nobody has ever been as objectively beautiful as danny john-jules in red dwarf and nobody ever will be again

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wish you guys would hate norway for the intense medical transphobia the way you hated swedes for not feeding people. we couldnt get a legal gender marker change without forced sterilisation until 2016. theres 1 board in 1 hospital in the whole country that's allowed to give HRT and they go by 1950s gender roles (i.e. if you're a trans man who wears nail polish, or a trans woman who wears pants, or you're gay, you're denied), and there's a minimum of a full year of psychological evaluations before any treatment is given (they ask helpful and relevant questions like "did you play with cars or dolls as a child" and "do you think about your parents when you masturbate"). anyway burn down rikshospitalet

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Have u seen the painting "The Centaur Playing With Her Child" by Otto Soltau? It's really cute and I think about it regularly.

THIS IS LOVELY... thank you for bringing it to my attention! I learned about something wonderful today

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jeremy irons greatest hits compilation

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anyway in the hopes that i can save just one person from living the horror of my 20s: if you have a friend that seems a little too invested in callouts i hope you can get out of there safely

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What if I jumped off your car and were both butches?

No one wants to talk about how intimate jump starting someones car is.

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Could not agree more

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Sometimes a family isn't a mom, a dad, and children. Sometimes, it's two confirmed bachelors living together as roommates for 30+ years, their landlady, and a small army of feral orphans they've adopted off the street to help them solve crimes

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England, a nation of shopkeepers. 🛒

A thread of fascinating Victorian shops, each with their own individual character. 🧵

Little Victorian children smartly turned out at Guest Hosier and Draper. A good range of socks, shirts and cravats displayed in the window.

England, 1888

Mr H. Shaw. Naturalist and Fishing Tackle Manufacturer.

An impressive collection of stuffed fauna under glass domes. A huge plaster fish, a mounted bull’s head, a keep net and a coracle can be seen.

England, 1888

Anderton Jeweller and Watchmaker.

A meticulously arranged window display and judging by the hanging sign, a maker of spectacles too.

England, 1888

Samuel Juckes.

Ironmonger, tinsmith and bell hanger. The shop keeper, wearing a long white apron, stands in the doorway with garden forks, spades, baskets, broom heads, and buckets.

England, 1888

Henry James.

Large Cheshire and Cheddar cheeses and packs of margarine for 6d. Other large round cheeses are piled outside with hams hanging on hooks.

England, 1888

Moore Hairdresser and Fancy Repository.

Goods on sale include fans, wigs, chess boards, shaving requisites, whips and children’s toys alongside the hairdressing service.

England, 1888

H. Hillier Confectioner and Baker.

Displayed in the window are bottles and confectionery on the top shelf and bread and cakes on the lower shelf. Cadbury’s chocolate, hot dinners daily, and a bed for the night.

England, 1888

James F. Smith.

Oil, Glass, Paint and General Dealer. Located next to Toye Bros., butchers. A policeman stands on the far right of the photograph.

England, 1888

Dick’s Depot - Original Boot and Shoe Shop.

Repairs done while you wait and a large quantity of footwear is displayed. “Dick’s repairs are the best!”

England, 1888

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A treasure trove of beautiful photographs captured on fragile glass plate negatives by 25-year old Victorian businessman, Joseph Della Porta.

Stunningly colourised by Jecinci Colorizations.

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