#burning of library of Alexandria

[theladwhoisweird]

They say that the muting of songs from various music artists is our modern day version of burning of the library of Alexandria.

[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.

[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.

[morganbritton132]

One of my personal tragedies is that when I was a kid, my family was going to move to Massachusetts. Something fell through because it ended up not happening, but we had packed up a good portion of the house.

Something that was lost in unpacking - and this is the tragedy - was a notebook of mine shaped like the yellow M&M that I drew Neopets in. There is truly nothing I’ve ever wanted back more than this notebook.

[prncewilhelm]

since twitter suspended me (and thus deleted the banger tweet) i need my humour to be appreciated here 😔✊

[yourmoodboards-areonfiirree]

Ruth moodboard with Fire and Library inspo!

✰ Self Indulgent! ✰

(All images found on pinterest)

[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)

[homedepotwizard]

How could u nuke castin spells my friend castin spells. Backbone of wizards. How dare u. #savewizardonline

[chthonic-sorcery]

"The greatest tragedy was the burning of the Library of Alexandria"

While the loss of the Serapeum (Library of Alexandria) was a tragedy, it was far from the only mass book burning of classical literature and non-christian texts.

I don't think people understand just how much the church destroyed, even in its early years.

We lost thousands of years of ancient history, science, and classical thought. We lost entire writing systems, cultures, religions.

We lost possible origins of the entirety of civilization.

[gerardmylove]

Favourite post on the internet and it’s from 2009

[theserlingbucket]

Rip Julius Caesar you would’ve loved shutting ao3 down for maintenance

[dear-ao3]

we can put people on the moon but we cant give people something to make them want to respond to emails? shame.

[miguel-owhora]

if KOSA passes it'll be like the burning of alexandria all over again

[insomniaruler]

Every couple weeks I get exceedingly mad about the library of Alexandria or exceedingly sad about Laika the space dog.

[pacific-coast-hockey]

like. sorry. the no sharing accounts things has me burnt as a librarian. like i share a spotify family plan with people i don't even talk to anymore who live in entirely different states and i suffer 0 consequences. i literally don't even know who has access to my hbo account. for a while i had like 10 people using my athletic account before nyt bought them (now i'm down to 3.) so who is mfing FLOHOCKEY to tell me i can't share an account with a handful of friends. $150 for WHAT. the roanoke rail yard dawgs?? and I can't even share with my friends in virginia without flohockey taking a kill shot?

[blessphemy]

wondering if we’re going to hit a point where machine generated junk is so widespread that we’ll have to resort to heading to the library to check out physical books for research again