#Library of Alexandria

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[burningvelvet]

if the significance of the internet archive being threatened has been lost on anyone, maybe these quick comparisons will put it into perspective…

Banning the Internet Archive would be the equivalent of burning the Library of Alexandria hundreds of times…

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[finleycannotdraw]

4. Historic Time ~ won’t you stay with me, my darling, when my walls start burning down? (x)

I have so many thoughts about Aziraphale and the Library of Alexandria (which, as a friend explained, should actually be translated to Alexandrea). I definitely think he was there when it burned. I also think it could’ve been the first time (one of the only times) Crowley touched him without thinking, and maybe one of the reasons he decided to run a bookshop! I am unwell. Aziraphale would’ve been devastated when that library burned.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

[without-ado]

Book-shaped bench in the Library of Alexandria, Egypt (x)

[baby-its-freezing-outside]

Not to say that the burning of the Library of Alexandria was in any way less tragic or devastating, but I'm kinda tired about the way it's all presented. Sure it was something horrible that Caesar did, but can we talk about a different thing that doesn't even get mentioned? Can we talk about Nalanda with its 9 million books that burnt for three entire months? Can we talk about the scope of this cruelty that the western world just seems to be ignorant of? It happened in the 1190s when invader Bakhtiar Khilji ordered the whole place be set on fire, enraged that Buddhist monks possessed more knowledge about medicine than his own doctors.

[tenderbittersweet]

Now we know how they felt when they burned the Library of Alexandria.

[virtueisdead]

friendly reminder that if the internet archive were successfully taken down, the bare minimum result would be a loss of media 528,673 times that of the library of the burning of the library of alexandria. (by the number of items held)

[nathanielthecurious]

i wish more ancient texts had survived as much as the next guy but can this website cool it with the myth that the destruction of the library of alexandria is the reason for ancient texts not surviving

[the-mushroom-faerie]

I feel like Daniel Jackson would be irrationally angry everytime he thinks of the library of Alexandria

[kashmirichaiwithmehr]

why does the reddit blackout feel like the fall of the library of alexandria

[shoemakerobstetrician]

Aziraphale and the library of Alexandria

I like to think that Aziraphale managed to save all the books, scrolls, and documents from the library of Alexandria and put them in a pocket dimension, miracle-ing the ones that look most interesting at any given moment into the bookshop.

ETA I just thought this was a nice idea, but what if Heaven and Hell wanted certain books destroyed. And Aziraphale has them. And Heaven and Hell don’t know… 😁

[shitakimooshrooms]

If I was the Doctor’s companion, the first place I would want to go is the Library of Alexandria. Maybe even steal the books before the fire. And the TARDIS is supposed to translate every language so I could literally just read and read and read!!!!

[ancientorigins]

The destruction of the great library of Alexandria has been lamented as one of the biggest losses of the ancient world.

[occvltswim]

Hermetica: The Ancient Greek and Latin Writings which contain Religious or Philosophic Teachings ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus

[random-weirdo]

Hi guys its me your favourite once-a-month-actual-puts-effort-into-work-poster here and welcome back to things that have definitely been said before!

uh me and @parkerquil1969 are geniuses

ok that's it that's the post/j

No but seriously, we discussed something that we decided to dump here on Tumblr to do with good old (actually really bad) Julius Caeser, library of Alexandria and our favourite queer supernatural's, Aziraphale and Crowley.

So uhhh (Oh god oh fuck how do I put this into sentences)

We started talking about whether or not Aziraphale was involved in the stabbings of Julius Caeser (delightful beginning, I know.)

And this is our theories (or something like that) we've got...

(Under the cut!!)

Aziraphale was one of the great people who stabbed Caeser (Me)

Azi is too soft to kill anyone, he could totally fuck up a demon (minus Crowley), but not a human. (Parker)

OR he SUPPORTED Brutus (in a way) by like... giving him a knife? (ALSO Parker)

Aziraphale convinced Crowley to convince/tempt the humans into stabbing Caeser. (Me)

Okay, quoting things now:

Parker: I see Crowley as someone who's too hesitant to kill.

Me: Crowley didn't have to kill people, he only had to convince OTHERS to kill people. Demon temptations and all.

Parker: WAIT A SECOND- so it's like the Arrangement basically

Me: Yeah because doesn't Azi and Crowley like help each other out with their deeds? bc they're like "We just cancel each other out it's fine."

Parker: Husbands?

Me: Exactlyyyy

(yes they were our actual messages)

Uhhh so thats the post idrk where to go now

I am not in any way productive and on-topic when it comes to these posts so I will handing it over to Parker if they want to add on to anything.

But uhhh yeah hope you enjoyed reading this chaotic post on my behalf, bye!