Soviet era switches

via

William Petersen in TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. (1985), dir. William Friedkin

David Dastmalchian Photographed by Mike Ruiz for PhotoBook Magazine

i love when fragrantica reviews feel like someone just started talking to me while we wait for the bus and then when it comes it turns out they weren't even getting on the bus and they just walk away

“Time heals everything, but what if time itself is the disease?”

Wings of Desire (1987) dir. Wim Wenders

Candace Hicks: "Notes of String Theory" (2022)

Recently on Unhelpful File Labels in the Archives:

On-Going Project. Folders were empty.

Well Written Articles, 1999. There were no articles in this folder. There were a lot of budget reports though.

Stuff. You are killing me smalls.

Section 569-055 Knowingly burning or exploding. This was just papers shoved between files, I have a lot of questions and zero answers.

Some previous “winners”

Miscellaneous Old Stuff. *long sigh*

Other Idiocy. Honestly, this one was fitting.

(R) Man Claws. I have so many questions. Like, SO many

Keep for historical reasons. Neat.

Unprocessed Internal Provenance. Or how I answer the question “so what brings you to therapy?”

All of these are just so *chef kiss* perfect but “Other idiocy” is the most perfect of them all

I'm just gonna slide this on in here for anyone that is interested in preserving old games. They take it very seriously too, they want an archive of every single game. Like, they have lists of every game ever released for a system, and once that system gets old enough, they add it to their archive and start collecting. Their latest addition was the Xbox 360, they opened that vault up in September 2022, and proudly announced they'd finished their collection of games for it back in April.

Also, while their game archives are almost entirely complete, they've got another project of archiving the manuals that came with those games, and that is... considerably less well filled out. Their collection of Xbox 360 manuals is especially rough, they've only gotten manuals for three games. So if you've got some Xbox 360 games kicking around, and the manual's still with them, please consider scanning them and submitting them to the site!

Game preservation is important, but people rarely consider preserving the manuals as well; I really respect Vimm's Lair for being so thorough in their archival work.

This is going to make me burst into tears

making moves in silence at the half price books

Some Star Trek DS9 computer animations

Gifs made by me based on the animations found here [x]

oh and a happy megan monday

embroidery from peacockandpinecones my friends and I have been losing our minds over all morning.

At the movies

i am a being capable of immeasurable love and whimsy