First, a note: I ask that people please reblog this to spread this since the tags are kinda unusable right now, especially when a post has external links within it.
Dreamwidth has been my main active posting platform for a year and a half now, and I’ve noticed a lot of bloggers talking about jumping ship over to DW with tumblr’s uhhhhhh current state of affairs.
But DW is kinda bland and boring if you’re too young to have been of the LiveJournal generation, and therefore don’t know where to look or start in order to build your friends list and find communities, so I’m going to do some of the legwork for you.
the_great_tumblr_purge: I made a dw community specifically for people jumping ship from tumblr to reconnect with each other.
addme: a friending community where you pimp yourself out and find other people with similar interests that you might want to see on your reading page.
addme_fandom: similar to above, only with a stronger emphasis on finding people based on your fandoms.
fandomcalendar: a community where you can find fandom events, such as big bangs, exchanges, challenges, bingos, etc. and other fandom communities that might suit your interests.
questionoftheday: for when you don’t know what to post.
If anybody else has communities they want to add, go right ahead and add them in a reblog.
Please reblog this.
A brief but lovely midwinter tune, written by a friend of mine.
Give thanks for this, the shortest day,
Keep out the winter’s breath
Grant us health and peace and faith
And help us get some rest.
Mending sail on the German four-masted steel barque Magdalene Vinnen.
In 1945, this ship was awarded to the Soviet Union as war compensation and renamed (dun dun dun…) SEDOV. It is now the largest operational tall ship in existence.
Tlingit War Helmet Rediscovered after 100 years
A fantastic Tlingit war helmet has been recently rediscovered in the backroom of a museum in Springfield, Massachussests. The helmet was accessioned in 1899 as an “Aleutian hat” and the designation was never questioned until now.
The article also contains a neato painting by Ketchikan artist Ray Troll and, amidst a really fascinating batch of comments, a pic of a helmet modeled after someone with Bell’s Palsy.
I went to RCCC once. It was 90% superhero/collector/nostalgia-focused. Stumptown highlights the present and future of comics outside the twin fortresses of DC and Marvel.
Stumptown’s executive decisions continue to befuddle me.
(cries for lack of captions)
The STS Sedov, apparently (and so tagged by the OP). The image is used on their website (hosted so), but doesn’t appear in their photo gallery. (Or at least not at first browse.)
My research hero! <3
Man, that thing is big. The deck alone is 100m/328ft.
“The Best Indigenous Music of 2013” | Revolutions Per Minute
#DecolonizeYourPlaylist
Well, I know what I’m listening to today.
dicksihavestudied submitted to medievalpoc:I apologize if you already have this, but I think you might want this cat licking its butt as a medieval reaction.
Thomas of Cantimpré, Liber de natura rerum, France ca. 1290.
Valenciennes, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 320, fol. 72r
I think this just stands on its own, to be honest. I know my day just got a little brighter.
