Do Stuff. Be Clenched, Curious. Not Waiting For Inspiration’s Shove Or Society’s Kiss On Your Forehead.

i knew this conceptually, but like you dont really KNOW that public school is designed to set you up to be a good worker bee until you're cracking out a report, after hours, at 7 pm on a monday night and it hits you; oh, i'm doing homework, this is why they made me do homework, and suddenly i'm feeling it in my chest. i cant believe i was raised by the state to be an automaton, and worse, i am one of the lucky robots who isn't doing manual labor.

Headed to Rotterdam - these are a few of my favorite things.

Was 2014 the Year of the Debut?

Nearly a million books are published each year in the US by some estimates. Even if we trim that number down to just “literary books” (whatever that term means), there are thousands of books fillin...

One of twelve volvelles in Trithemius, Polygraphie, 1561. The title written on the fore-edge of this book suggests that it belonged to John Dee. It’s a book about cryptography, and the volvelles are cipher discs used to encoding or decoding text.

The RCP library has the largest known collection of books from John Dee’s library, going on display from January 2016.

Jessie M. King, illustrations for The High History of the Holy Graal, 1903.

Outlander, Game of Thrones, Penny Dreadful

Feeling vulnerable for sharing my vice-watching but can’t wait to see the outpouring of responses, photos, and gifs for these shows in the coming months. On the edge of my seat.

my guinea pigs’ vet just posted this and it is extremely Important

Toni Morrison (1931–2019), U.S. author and editor (right), and Angela Davis (b. 1944), U.S. author, academic, political activist, one of the authors Morrison edited at Random House publishing company, photographed by Jill Krementz on March 28, 1974 in New York City