something bordering on weird

Who knew it was possible to combine a Dear Santa letter and a profound spiritual crisis?

(source: The Sioux City Journal, December 25, 1902.)

Hey girl. Hey.

I made an OFMD activity book and it's out Dec 16!

The Revenge crew will accompany you through 20+ OFMD-themed activities as you solve visual and word puzzles, get creative with drawing, coloring, and writing games, transform a blank piece of paper into a meaningful token through your sea witch powers origami, and more.

I'll post daily sneak peeks here and @_Bakasara_ on twitter until Dec 16. First one is later today :)

When I envision you playing with the book, I hope you get the sense that every crew member is getting love and that the bonds they've made on the ship are being celebrated. I'd love it if you helped me spread the word and let me know:

BUSTER KEATON in SHERLOCK, JR. (1924) “Keaton told film historian Kevin Brownlow that one scene inspired the entire picture: a man, in this case, a projectionist, tries to enter the movie he is watching. At first he can’t; the characters in the film he is watching throw him out of the screen. When he sneaks back in he suddenly finds that he has no control over the narrative: a nighttime scene in a garden cuts without warning to a busy city street, then to a mountain cliff, then to a jungle filled with lions, to a desert, etc. It is a scene with a precision and clarity that is breathtaking. Keaton, his cameramen, and technical director Fred Gabourie filmed it with surveying equipment to align the separate elements… It may be the first time a filmmaker ever questioned the meaning and function of linear narrative.” — Daniel Eagen

Im-

I would simply quit my job

A universe in motion seen from the International Space Station during a night pass over Earth.

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Timelapse created from images courtesy of the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center(ISS061-E-110520-111341 eol.jsc.nasa.gov).

Pando, also known as The Trembling Giant, is a clonal colony of a single quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) determined to be a single living organism by identical genetic markers and assumed to have one massive underground root system. The plant is estimated to weigh collectively 6,000,000 kg (6,600 short tons). The root system of Pando, at an estimated 80,000 years old, is among the oldest known living organisms. Pando is located 1 mile southwest of Fish Lake on Utah’s Route 25, in the Fremont River Ranger District of the Fishlake National Forest, at the western edge of the Colorado Plateau in South-Central Utah,

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Another cool thing: all of the trees in this forest drop their leaves at exactly the same time!

I feel terrified for reasons I can’t quite pin down

This sounds like the beginning of a horror novel.

Sounds like the beginning of a beautiful story. Wonder all the things that tree remembers feeling. Imagine if it grew itself into a forest to protect something or someone living in its heart. A child, or the last living family of elves.

Wow this is amazing

For perspective on the timescale in question here, it’s believed that humans didn’t arrive in the Americas until sometime in the ballpark of 15,000 years ago. That tree was already ancient as all fuck by the time any humans laid eyes on it.

♪  There’s a fire in my heart, and you fan it (Janet). If there’s one fool for you, then I am it (Janet).  ♪

WTF IS THAT HOW YOU DO IT! MUM COME LOOK AT THIS

this video changed my life

this video cured my acne and paid off my student loans

Cushing Memorial Library and Archives is pleased to announce that it is now able to offer free, limited online public access to select titles in the Sandy Hereld Memorial Digitized Media Fanzine Collection. Since the collection was first initiated in 2013, access to its materials was previously restricted to only those with a Texas A&M-approved ID until additional permissions could be obtained from the fanzine creators who contributed to the collection.

As the collection becomes more of an important resource for understanding the development of fandom, Cushing Library sought the approval from writers and editors of the Hereld Collection to make their contributions publicly accessible. The collection, which is an unparalleled assembly of media fanworks that document generations of fans’ continued creative engagement with media productions, consists of thousands of digitized images of media fanzines, letterzines, and club newsletters — dating from the late 1960s through materials published online or in print in 2015.

Among the creators who have given their permission are Morgan Dawn, Janet Quarton, Sheila Clark, Devra Michele Langsam, Jacqueline Lichtenberg, and M. Fae Glasgow. Cushing Library anticipates that public access will continue to grow as more authorization is granted.

A few of the impressive productions chronicled particularly well in the Hereld Collection are: Beauty and the Beast (1987-1990), Blake’s 7, Doctor Who, The Professionals, Star Trek, Star Wars, and Starsky & Hutch. Additions to the collection continue steadily, with fanzines relating to numerous other productions, such as the Harry Potter book/movie series, Due South, Miami Vice, Simon & Simon, and many others, including a bevy of stories from multiple fandoms.

Sandy Hereld, for which the collection is named after, is a living, digital tribute to a popular and prolific fan writer in the 1990s and early 2000s — who was also one of slash fandom’s most visible fans. Hereld lost her battle with cancer in 2011, but her legacy of work continues to touch lives and inspire fans. She was the founder of Virgule-L, the first Internet slash mailing list, began hosting numerous other mailing lists and fan sites, and helped create the annual “Vid Review” panel at the Escapade convention, which is the longest-running slash fan convention and became the model for serious conversations about vidding as an art form.

The Sandy Hereld Memorial Digitized Media Fanzine Collection can be accessed at: http://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/149935.

Wow, Sandy would be so happy to see this. This is fantastic.

This is amazing. Sandy would be over the moon. I remember boxing so many of these things up to send off, and there are so many more items than are mentioned in this post. I am so happy her legacy continues in these collections.

The link doesn’t work for me: is some credential requested?

There’s a period at the end of the URL that shouldn’t be there!

http://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/149935

I think if you view by author or browse the non-multiple creator publications they’re more likely to be open to the public and don’t require credentials or an interlibrary loan. :)

Sometimes you find that thing on the internet that is truly awesome.