Meanwhile, on Nancy’s Ring cam:
the etymology of the word 'blog' is insane
blog is a contraction of web-log.
log as in a record of your posts, but more generally as a record of events that happened. as in a 'logbook', a record of the speeds of a ship. log-book as in 'chip log', a piece of wood they tied to a rope to measure speed with
web as in the world wide web. as in a huge interconnected woven web of connections, but with computers and networks instead. the use of web in this context as such a metaphor was coined less than fifty years ago
the tendrils of history reach back so far and so close at once, and all so we can coin silly terms like "blogosphere." do you see me. everything's connected
and somehow we're all still here on this site, leaving little bits of wood in each others' spider webs to remember one another by
Anyone else feel like things have been Very recently? Like it's all just getting a little Too for me
"it's you. it's always been you." but said in a resigned tone. tired, giving into persistent ache, accepting it as a truth. almost comfortable in unrequited feelings, but unable to keep it to oneself any longer
Obsessed with animals that don’t immediately understand something and just tilt their head about it. Does it make any more sense at a 45° angle, bud?
Tom Sturridge in Vanity Fair (2004)
featuring a line from @frankhardys’ incredible fic derailed. anyways it’s 11:37pm and i’m in my francy feels tonight
some of you guys have GOT to remember about fun
like it’s ok… just be a little silly… be annoying… be embarrassing… you are alive
not to mention the fact that some nights and we are young were the best radio hits of 2012
The Junior Detective hints from Ned in the early games are so funny it’s like
Nancy: I need a hint.
Ned: Sometimes I really just want to spin an ornate globe three times to the left and once to the right and then place a giant chess knight on top of the pedestal that rises in front of the fireplace. Do you ever feel like that, Nancy?
january is one of those months where you experience every feeling on the human spectrum and you just have to go about your day like that isn't happening
GEORGE BLAGDEN as GRANTAIRE Les Misérables (2012) dir. Tom Hooper
exploring magnus's cabin
Danielle Frankel | Rosalie Gown
finally. a feminist retelling of the voynich manuscript.
Aneurin Barnard as Daniel Solace in 1899