silentauror's Blog, page 963
August 19, 2015
mamalaz:
Sherlock outtake (x)
Reblogging because I...
Sherlock outtake (x)
Reblogging because I don’t remember seeing the fourth frame before! It’s rather pretty, so… :)
Beheaded Syrian scholar refused to lead Isis to hidden Palmyra antiquities
There is exactly one Ancient Studies professor in my department. I know, however, and am friends with, both of his current PhD students. One has been blogging and reporting on the destruction of Syrian and Iraqi historical sites by ISIS for over a year, and it’s driving him insane. The other is my cohort-mate, and she’s leaving our program. Part of it is personal; I can’t help but wonder whether part of it is also because her field is being destroyed before her eyes, day by day.
Don’t get me wrong - there’s plenty rotten in the state of academia and history departments are no exception. My cohort-mate has terrible stories about idiotic shenanigans that went on in her highly-specialized ancient studies MA program. Historians-in-training of every stripe struggle to have as strong a public voice as they used to in education, policy, commentary and journalism. We don’t usually make the news, and frankly, most of the time we don’t deserve to.
But this - this, right here. Mr. Asaad, who was tortured for a month because he refused to tell his captors where he had hidden priceless artefacts. Mr. Asaad, who spent fifty years protecting, investigating and writing about one of the world’s most precious sites. Mr. Asaad, whose headless body now hangs from a column in his beloved Palmyra because he refused to run. Mr. Asaad had the sort of devotion to his history that we can only dream of aspiring to every day.
One of the greatest crimes human butchers can commit is against history, because those who control the past control the future. Our understanding and interpretation of our history is what lays out new roads underneath our feet.
Remember this.
Who tortures an 82-year-old scholar??? This is so devastatingly sad. I’ve been to Palmyra and understand how important it is. This makes me so sad.
August 18, 2015
He looks either delighted or distressed!
He looks either delighted or distressed!
YOUR CD ARRIVED TODAY, AND IT IS MAGNIFICENT. I'm going to finish listening to the whole thing, and then flail at you some more. :D
Ahhhh, omg!!!! I’m dying over here, haha!
writing-is-a-bitch:
eight-times-nine:
clockwork-messiah:
roach...
There Is A New Type Of Firework Called The Sky Ladder And It’s Beautiful
I am hearing Led Zeppelin in my head….
WHAT THE DICKSHITTING FUCK
Whoa
Construction of scaffolding for Rainbow Road is coming along, I see
stairway to motherfucking heaven
Come on, I can’t be the only Song of Ice & Fire nerd who didn’t think of the shadow binder in Qarth!
jinglebellfic:
loudest-subtext-in-television:
kingshezza:
onthelosingside:
it’s really difficult...
loudest-subtext-in-television:
it’s really difficult to act like “hey bruh, what’s up” when you’re actually feeling like “i want to suck your dick so hard you black out”
The more I look at this, the more Sherlock reminds me of a bird. Like when a pigeon wants to fuck another pigeon, they slowly approach and make those faces. Like these are the faces right before they puff up real big and start cooing as loud as they can and vigorously chasing the other pigeon around.
I would really like to say they’re peacock faces, I could kinda see it, but I have been around a lot of pigeons and peacocks and these are much more pigeon-y, Sherlock is basically a big horny pigeon here is what I’m saying
PIGEON–?! … pidgelock
Exactly what I’ve been saying about these pics. Well, less the horny pigeon part, lol. But YES.
beejohnlocked:
John had a wet dream about Sherlock.
Sherlock’s first words to John after this were...
John had a wet dream about Sherlock.
Sherlock’s first words to John after this were “Have you come for me too?”
OMG
Oh my god, Silent, you made me cry again! I just read The Alphabet of Sherlock Holmes... Sherlock is soooo romantic ❤ thank you for this amazing fanfic, that's why you're one of my favorite writers!
Oh yay, thank you!!! :) I absolutely thing that Sherlock is a DIEHARD romantic deep (or not even that deep!) in his heart! I mean, look at the stag date he planned for him and John! And that’s without any practise at being romantic, you know? Just his level of detail and thoughtfulness suggests that we’re only just scratching the surface of how incredibly romantic he could be if he knew it were welcome, permitted, and returned in kind, you know? I’m so pleased that you liked this little ditty! Thanks so much for coming to say so!
Oh my god, Silent, you made me cry again! I just read The Alphabet of Sherlock Holmes... Sherlock is soooo romantic ❤ thank you for this amazing fanfic, that's why you're one of my favorite writers!
Oh yay, thank you!!! :) I absolutely thing that Sherlock is a DIEHARD romantic deep (or not even that deep!) in his heart! I mean, look at the stag date he planned for him and John! And that’s without any practise at being romantic, you know? Just his level of detail and thoughtfulness suggests that we’re only just scratching the surface of how incredibly romantic he could be if he knew it were welcome, permitted, and returned in kind, you know? I’m so pleased that you liked this little ditty! Thanks so much for coming to say so!
Oh my god, Silent, you made me cry again! I just read The Alphabet of Sherlock Holmes... Sherlock is soooo romantic ❤ thank you for this amazing fanfic, that's why you're one of my favorite writers!
Oh yay, thank you!!! :) I absolutely thing that Sherlock is a DIEHARD romantic deep (or not even that deep!) in his heart! I mean, look at the stag date he planned for him and John! And that’s without any practise at being romantic, you know? Just his level of detail and thoughtfulness suggests that we’re only just scratching the surface of how incredibly romantic he could be if he knew it were welcome, permitted, and returned in kind, you know? I’m so pleased that you liked this little ditty! Thanks so much for coming to say so!
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