“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”

James Baldwin

Servicio a la comunidad:
No dejen que ningún gringo los engañe y les haga creer que Emilia Pérez es una buena película y buena representación mexicana.

Terrible e increíblemente racista

Love seeing Tolkien’s sketches — like this one of Helm’s Deep!

this is a cow

A group of researchers have recreated the clothing of medieval Nubian royalty and clergy from the wall paintings in the cathedral of Faras, which sits at the border of modern Egypt and Sudan.

The best post-election political analysis I’ve seen.

I found this in the bad place last week.
The first Stephen King book I read was Christine. I was probably 10 or 11.
What was your first SK book?

"We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel… is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”

Ursula K. Le Guin .

In this house we love Baragon

Reading about medieval Jews composing poetry in Hebrew that follows the Arabic pattern of switching speech registers in the final couplet but instead they sub in Spanish there, and man, real history and culture is so much more complex than you can ever fit into a fictional world.

Did you know? In ancient times, long before Linnaeus' taxonomy, sharks were called "canis marinus" (sea dogs).

This name appears in texts from Roman and medieval times, including those of Pliny the Elder, who described various sea creatures in his Natural History.

I don't know who needs to hear this, everyone I think, but if you send a PDF to your kindle and put 'convert' as the subject it will change it to epub format for you, you're welcome

(I posted this on the other place and was surprised by how many people it helped so thought I'd do it here too.)

The Sun. Taken at night. Not looking up at sky but down through 8000 miles of the Earth. Not with light but neutrinos