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Ron Evans
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Archivist/special collections librarian. Former production editor. Occasional bookbinder. Just a guy who loves books. He/him. 🏳️‍🌈

"Lord, we know what we are but
know not what we may be."
–Ophelia (Hamlet, Act IV, Scene 5)
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Post your favorite THE LORD OF THE RINGS CHARACTER. Wrong answers only.
Portrait of Caduceus Clay from Critical Role in his winter outfit. Caduceus is a pink Firbolg with bovine features, pale skin, grey fur, and long hair that is less pink than normal. He has a full beard and is wearing armor that looks like a beetle with a matching mantle. He is holding a long staff with a purple crystal set in its tip.
November 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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This year has been extra weird because I'm on my own and no longer live in a place where I could do my quasi-traditional solo trip to the Chinese buffet.

Despite that, I think I did alright for myself.
A blue ceramic plate piled with corn cakes, roasted winter vegetables, butter bean mash, and a drizzle of blueberry-cranberry sauce. A bowl of Ben & Jerry's chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream with the ice cream carton behind it.
November 28, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Mushroom paprikash and latkes
A blue ceramic plate filled with mushroom paprikash, latkes, applesauce, and quick pickled cucumber salad
November 24, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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You can take the boy out of apple country. He will find an orchard that will ship a box of Jonagolds halfway across the continent from apple country.
A cardboard box with the logo for Schutt's Apple Mill. An open cardboard box with 17 shiny Jonagold apples packed in foam. The inside flap of the box is printed with the words "PACKED WITH LOVE"
November 20, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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I don't want to put anyone on notice, but whoever is responsible for this should be publicly shamed.
A very blurry scan of a book printed in Latin. Not that you can tell that, because the text is illegible. The metadata is in German, despite the user having clicked the "English" button multiple times. There is no Search OCR function.
November 20, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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Without downloading anything new, where are you mentally?
Panel from the newspaper comic Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn. Puck, a black cat wearing a dress shirt with slacks and a tie, has his face scrunched up, his tail poofed, and his wee little cat hands raised to the sky in anger. A mug with the initials CN sits on its side with liquid spilled on the ground. A jagged word balloon at the top of the screen quotes Puck as shouting "I'm just a little cat who wants his tea!!"
November 17, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Me, basically.
Actress Audrey Tautou as the character Amélie in a movie theater with a delighted expression on her face.
November 2, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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I AM PREPARED FOR THE AMUSEMENTS. LET THE HALLOWED EVENING COMMENCE.
A lifelike simulacrum of Death from Discworld. A man wearing a latex skull mask dressed in a long black robe with a cowl is holding a plastic scythe in one hand and a rat skeleton in his other hand. The rat skeleton is dressed and holding the same. We will all politely ignore the fleshy bits peeking out from behind the mask, as the model did not have time to buy a black turtleneck and is not great at applying makeup.
October 31, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Made some art for my Halloween costume this week. I'm going as Death from the Discworld books. Here's my li'l companion, the Death of Rats.

#Discworld #Sewing #FeelingCrafty
A plastic rodent skeleton holding a doll-sized plastic scythe is wearing a black robe with a black cowl held in place with an ornate jeweled button. It is a homemade replica of the Death of Rats from Discworld by Terry Pratchett.
October 30, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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I posted something negative, so here's something positive to balance out the feed.

Current work-in-progress:
A plastic rodent skeleton holding a doll-sized scythe is draped in a piece of black fabric.
October 27, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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New York DMV:
The iconic cover of the novel Catch-22 by Joseph Keller. A blue paper cutout on a thin off-white background with a small red paper cutout of a man in a uniform in the lower left corner. The words of the title and the author's name are printed in a sanserif font. A tiny black airplane is over the author's last name.
October 22, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Screenshot of the 1997 anime Revolutionary Girl Utena in which the titular protagonist walks up a non-euclidean spiral staircase.
October 15, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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I'm gonna miss this place so damn much.
The corner of Brown's Race and Platt Street in Rochester, New York, on a crisp autumn day, September 30, 2025. The Kodak Tower stands tall and proud in the background. In the foreground, the trees are changing colors with leaves in rich shades of yellows, oranges, and browns.
September 30, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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One last vacation photo:
Exterior shot of the Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. A thin three-story red brick building sits at the corner of an intersection in a residential neighborhood. Next to the museum is a chain link fence and a large banner that says " Future home of the Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum Expansion ". A smaller sign advertises an upcoming event in early October, but the details of the event are not legible in the photograph.
September 28, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Also the Paws on Parchment exhibit at the Walters Art Museum is charming. If y'all can make it to Baltimore before February, it's worth a visit.
Photograph of the manuscript La fleurs des histoires with inky paw prints clearly visible across the page, showing that the scribe's cat evidently walked across the parchment before the ink dried. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. Close-up photo of the Beaupré Antiphonary (volume 1), a medieval liturgical manuscript on parchment showing part of a music score with marginalia of a seated figure playing the tug-the-yarn game with a little kitty cat Photo of a manuscript Book of Hours and Psalter with marginalia of a kitty cat standing on its hind legs playing a cymbal.
September 28, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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"If we want a new future, we must vigilantly craft the vision for that world—and work hard to achieve it."

(Womack, Ytasha L.. "Afrofuturism as Space and Being." AFROFUTURISM: A HISTORY OF BLACK FUTURES, edited by Kevin M. Strait & Kinshasha Holman Conwill. Smithsonian Books, 2023, p. 28)
"But readiness is a long process. Equality for all, warp speed, clean water, and the much-desired flying car are still works in progress. We crave a humane, Earth-valuing way of being. If we want a new future, we must vigilantly craft the vision for that world—and work hard to achieve it. We must resist the cynical chic that roils our society and instead celebrate heroic outlooks and stout-hearted workers who dare to create spaces that value humanity over monetary gain; it can be easier to cry over the future we don't want than to do the work of crafting the future we want. Futures born of fear repeat the same problems, ad infinitum. Afrofuturist visionaries look instead to elevate the collective consciousness."
September 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy's robot duplicate in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 6 Episode 1
September 8, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Rainy Saturday crêpes
A stack of crêpes on a white flower sack.
September 6, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Just spent [amount withheld] on a vintage '30s/'40s Roper Knitting Company cardigan. It's a bit scratchy, and it needs a bit of darning, but my gosh, does it look nice.

The archivist/librarian wardrobe is slowly coming along.
A white guy with an auburn beard, receding brown hair, and glasses is wearing a dark gray woolen cardigan with large brown buttons. He feels pretty.
September 5, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Alternate 2:
The title screen for Secret of Mana. The logo for Secret of Mana floats in front of the trunk of a massive tree with large gnarled roots. A teenage boy with red hair in a blue outfit, a teenage girl with blonde hair and a pink outfit, and a small gnomish figure in a furry outfit stand in front of the tree. A flock of cranes or possibly flamingos flies behind the logo. The screen is incredibly pixelated, because we're talking 1993 Super Nintendo graphics here. At least this one isn't more storm clouds!
September 5, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Alternate:
The title screen for Final Fantasy 6, specifically for the PS one version. The logo for Final Fantasy 7 in flaming red letters floats over a stormy background. I'm beginning to sense a theme in the games I played a lot in my formative years.
September 5, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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If you see this, QTP with a title screen that’s iconic to you
Title screen for Suikoden II. The logo for Suikoden II floats in front of bluish-gray storm clouds. It's not the most visually exciting. I just played this game a LOT.
September 5, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Dear production editor/copyeditor/whomever added this sentence to the copyright page: you are the coolest person. I love you.
Copyright page of Ticket: The Art of Lily Seika Jones. The poster would like to focus your attention on the paragraph that reads " All rights reserved. No parts of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form without prior consent from either the publisher or the author. Exceptions for bragging rights and showing off your cool new book." The final sentence is highlighted in yellow digital ink.
September 2, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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New book!

#ArtBook #LilySeikaJones #AmReading
Front cover of the book THICKET: the Art of Lily Seika Jones. The gnarled, knotted face of a forest spirit smokes a pipe as its blue pupil-less eyes stare into the distance. In the foreground, a small black and white bird is perched on a bramble of thorns with a small snail off to one side.
September 2, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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went to the zoo today
a California sea lion is sitting upright on a large rock that is surrounded by a pool of water. the sea lion has its eyes closed and is basking in the sunlight a snow leopard is sleeping on top of a wooden crate-like structure next to a building. the leopard's long fluffy tail and large toe beans are on full display. the face of a sleepy red panda is barely visible peeking out from the top level of a wooden three-story hut-like structure
August 29, 2025 at 7:43 PM