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May your pillow be comfortable and always the right temperature. May you have luck with traffic lights and lines at the dmv. If I could saint you I would. Bless

Finally figured out how to permanently disable google assistant on phone

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The tribes of Tumblr appeared to worship Apollo as their primary patron deity, most often under the epithet Apollo Spairahemon ("Apollo the Ball-Thrower") as a god of prophecy and sport. His name was typically invoked to celebrate a user blessed with uncommon prescience. Moments of prophecy were considered highly sacred and were often recorded, and such texts are sometimes accompanied by an artistic depiction of the god — either his traditional masculine image or, unusually, in the form of a young woman, which appears to have been an earlier style before a conservative shift toward more conventional iconography — preparing to cast a round rubber ball that our scholars believe was used in the sport known as "dodge ball". Much as other cults regarded his arrows as bringers of disease and health, this community believed that being struck by this ball would bestow prophetic visions.

Some icons are reproduced below:

An earlier depiction (c. 2020) of Apollo as a girl clad in a simple tunic and playing with other children. Figures are smiling and the image is brightly colored, indicating a celebratory outlook toward knowledge of the future.

A later piece (c. 2022) that resembles the traditional appearance of Apollo. References to childhood and play are omitted, and the god carries a more frightening aspect; perhaps this icon represented grim omens rather than good tidings.

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Story prompt, comedy:

A demon becomes an archeologist whose only job is to find ancient holy sites.

They're the best at it. The world renowned expert, in fact. They just wander around doing obviously fake things like tapping to sticks together and listening and eventually hit an invisible wall and BOOM holy site.

They later accidently wind up with a doctorate and have to bullshit their way through academia and conferences while sweating bullets because they can't actually go into the holy sites or touch the holy artifacts. It's a bit of a problem....

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Today in Challenges in This Archivist/Librarian's Inbox:

That email you sent, did you remember to include a question or other indication/details of what you are looking for in it? Maybe double check.

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Today i saw a person using a straight iron on their jean skirt -a jirt, if you will- at the museum I work at. To each their own

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I feel cheated. no one on Reddit told me that tumblr is a serotonin factory. Keep liking and reblogging my posts please thanks

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Artifact preservation and research

I just realized that many many people have jobs

Rb with your job, wtf do you people do while offline???

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every morning i wake up and make the worst possible time management decisions anyone has ever made

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My embroidery machine is set up. I am an all-powerful god with a world of possibilities at my fingertips. My instrument hums at the ready waiting for its player to begin. I stare at the machine, pondering life. Is there meaning? How will the world be changed by the monster I will lovingly place into the world? I ponder morea. The machine waits with baited breath and silent as the grave. What shall I carve into the side of this bag? My dog stares in horror. I have not moved in 5 minutes. My contemplations of eldritch grammar and humor have driven her to concern. What chaos, what quiet. And yet, the machine stays as it has been, listless and without a task.

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Since there's been another "Tumblr is gonna die!" scare, let's do a poll...

Rb for larger sample size appreciated :)

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Well fucks? Get to it!

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I believe my fifth set of memes

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Has @theshitpostcalligrapher seen this? I feel like they need to see this

Had a dream last night that i was a knight and this bigger scarier knight had me on the ground and right before he swung his sword at my neck he said smth like "i mourn the loss of life for the tree who will become your coffin" which shouldnt have turned me on like it did but alas

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Fair enough. I'm in the US, unfortunately, so I gotta go with these 🙃 I'm glad you're sticking up for everyone by avoiding American products. I very much applaud you!

I have heard rumors that England has some good stuff, but I haven't fact checked that.

I will say for the people in the US rn that these are good quality fabrics. Especially Burnley & Trowbridge. Their fine and superfine wool broadcloth is SOFT (superfine is delightful). Hopefully you too can have nice things while avoiding the tariff nonsense that is going on.

Historical context is of course very useful for important things like Politics and Science and everything, but will also open your eyes to things like, uh... the way the clothing/textile/crafting industries try to use the word "natural" as an excuse to sell shoddy and bad quality goods and make you think that's normal.

God knows there are worse things going on in the world, but it really pisses me off when I see companies advertising "Real Shell/Pearl buttons!" like that's supposed to be some upscale selling point, and the buttons in question are the thinnest, roughest, most crudely-made buttons in existence... 🙄😒 "But they're made from Natural Materials! You can't expect Natural Materials to look refined and consistent like synthetic ones!" They are lying to you. THEY ARE LYING TO YOU! And I know this because I've seen "real shell buttons" from 100 or even 50 years ago. And most of them are sturdy and smoothly polished, of a consistent thickness, and sometimes even finely carved. The buttons on nice men's dress shirts? Those are the cheap, plastic IMITATIONS of what people expected actual mother-of-pearl buttons to look like! "Natural" isn't an excuse! Your product is cheap and badly and lazily made! And I'm so sick of this, because I see it EVERYWHERE. "Linen-look" has become shorthand for "coarsely woven fabric with visible slubs" and that drives me CRAZY because do you KNOW what kinds of linen I have seen??? Antique linen so light and fine and smooth you can't even SEE the weave unless you magnify it!!! A fragment of a linen damask tablecloth so smooth and glossy, it looks like SILK? 😭 (On that note, "dupioni silk" is so roughly woven that it would have been considered hardly fit to sell a century ago) "This fabric is woven of Natural Materials, so imperfections will be inevitable!" 🙃 No! 😀 You just made it cheaply and sloppily, and that was your choice! 😊

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May i profer up the following sources that my historical costuming buddies like to use (forgive me if you already know these). Most of these are just natural fibers and/or historical designs around the 1800's, but yeah...

To save you all a painful scroll, links are below the break:

Fabrics:

Buttons, trimmings, etc

Go forth and conquer!

Edit: I forgot Dharma Trading Co! Good place for silks! Link:

https://www.dharmatrading.com/

Historical context is of course very useful for important things like Politics and Science and everything, but will also open your eyes to things like, uh... the way the clothing/textile/crafting industries try to use the word "natural" as an excuse to sell shoddy and bad quality goods and make you think that's normal.

God knows there are worse things going on in the world, but it really pisses me off when I see companies advertising "Real Shell/Pearl buttons!" like that's supposed to be some upscale selling point, and the buttons in question are the thinnest, roughest, most crudely-made buttons in existence... 🙄😒 "But they're made from Natural Materials! You can't expect Natural Materials to look refined and consistent like synthetic ones!" They are lying to you. THEY ARE LYING TO YOU! And I know this because I've seen "real shell buttons" from 100 or even 50 years ago. And most of them are sturdy and smoothly polished, of a consistent thickness, and sometimes even finely carved. The buttons on nice men's dress shirts? Those are the cheap, plastic IMITATIONS of what people expected actual mother-of-pearl buttons to look like! "Natural" isn't an excuse! Your product is cheap and badly and lazily made! And I'm so sick of this, because I see it EVERYWHERE. "Linen-look" has become shorthand for "coarsely woven fabric with visible slubs" and that drives me CRAZY because do you KNOW what kinds of linen I have seen??? Antique linen so light and fine and smooth you can't even SEE the weave unless you magnify it!!! A fragment of a linen damask tablecloth so smooth and glossy, it looks like SILK? 😭 (On that note, "dupioni silk" is so roughly woven that it would have been considered hardly fit to sell a century ago) "This fabric is woven of Natural Materials, so imperfections will be inevitable!" 🙃 No! 😀 You just made it cheaply and sloppily, and that was your choice! 😊

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I really can't get over this post by @ficandkaboodle about V admiring Copia but being shy vs. Copia interpreting everything as a personal attack, so I had to draw it. No idea what their dynamic is actually going to be, but I want to play in this space for a bit.