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@1 week ago with 97 notes
#Christian Kane #The Librarians #The Librarians: The Next Chapter #Dean Devlin will cast this man in anything #and he is right to do so 

aspiringwarriorlibrarian:

delphinidin4:

shitacademicswrite:

hatingongodot:

“In 1404, King Taejong fell from his horse during a hunting expedition. Embarrassed, looking to his left and right, he commanded, “Do not let the historian find out about this.” To his disappointment, the historian accompanying the hunting party included these words in the annals, in addition to a description of the king’s fall.“

LMFAOOOOOO rip to that guy

i thought maybe this was fake, but there’s even a citation!

Taejong Sillok Book 7. 5th year of King Taejong’s Reign (1404), February 8.

Happy 618th anniversary of the day King Taejong fell from his horse!

Apparently the recorders were really intense about this. We have a record of King Taejong complaining about a recorder who followed him on a hunt in disguise and another who eavesdropped on him behind a screen. No one was allowed to see the records, even the king (one king did and killed five men based on what was written there, after which they took greater care to ensure it would never happen again), and changing the content or disclosing it was a capital punishment. Even when there were rival political factions trying to influence the writers, they wrote down what was a revision and what wasn’t and kept an original version with no revisions in it.

They also made sure to back up their data. They made four copies of it, then when three copies were lost in the Imrim Wars they decided to make five more copies just in case. One copy was destroyed in a rebellion, another was partially damaged in an invasion, and Japan stole one copy during their occupation and moved it to Tokyo University, where it was mostly destroyed in the Kanto Earthquake (47 books remained and were returned to South Korea in 2006). Now the whole thing is digitized, free on the internet, and translated into modern Korean for all to see.

It took centuries of meticulous recorders, justifiably paranoid copiers, absolutely determined historians, and painstaking infrastructure for this joke to be possible. Happy 618th anniversary to the day King Taejong fell from his horse.

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@1 month ago with 174281 notes

timdrakequotes:

Robin: Why?

Spoiler: Because Batman asked me to.

Robin: Asked you to do what? When?

Spoiler: Said he anticipated something happening…and he didn’t want you involved.

Robin: I…I don’t understand. He knew this was coming? And he didn’t want me to help him? Why would he do that?

Spoiler: Tim–

Robin: No, Steph, it’s too much…too much… I’ve been angry with you…for everything…and this just makes it worse…

–Tim Drake with Stephanie Brown (Robin #176 – Gathered Pieces)

@2 months ago with 77 notes
#Tim Drake #Red Robin #Spoiler #Stephanie Brown #Batman is a manipulative asshole 

hailraykin-deactivated20230814:

Reblog to give mutuals a break from whatever they’re been going through

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@4 months ago with 50261 notes

today I recited Shakespeare to a small army of eight-year-olds

costlyblood:

So last week an email got sent round my college asking if anyone wanted to read some poetry to primary school kids and I was the only one who responded and I asked if I could do some Shakespeare, since I have quite a lot of experience with it, and the teacher said that would be fine.

So I was discussing with friends what I should do and they said ‘er yeah, don’t do Shakespeare.’ And I was like ‘what why’ and they went ’well, maybe if they’re over 10 but otherwise you’ll just get blank looks’ and I went ‘well I don’t want to insult their intelligence’ and then another friend was like ‘hey you should do that kid’s song ‘When I Was One’, they’ll like that!!’ (it’s a really babyish song for toddlers with silly actions) and I thought about it and was ‘like nah actually, I’ll do the ‘Once more unto the breach’ speech’

So I learned that over the week, and I was walking up to the school, and the whole way I was thinking ‘Oh god this was a terrible idea they’re going to hate it, they’re going to look at me blankly like those kids in The Polar Express, my friends were right it’s going to be a disaster’, and I was there early, so I sat in the classroom for the first half an hour, got given a cupcake by some kids from a different class, said hello to some of the kids in my class, they got a look at me.

At half 2 the teacher mentioned I would be reading some poetry, and I asked if we could go outside, which she was more than happy to allow, and the kids were all so confused (‘where are we going? Isn’t it only poetry?’) and we got onto the field, the teacher got them all to stand an arm’s length apart from each other, so I could walk around them, and I did a brief overview of where the scene came in the play, how the king is on the battlefield, talking to his soldiers (“Could all you be the soldiers?” “Yes!!”) and they’re attacking the French, who are all in a castle (forgot it’s really a castle town), and they’re attacking them through a gap in the wall, the breach. Me and the teacher emphasised that if there was anything they didn’t understand, that was completely fine and they could ask me at the end. I asked the kids to watch for when I held my fist in the air, which is when they had to cheer loudly, we had a practise at that, and then I did the speech.

Everything I had been scared about evaporated. All the kids were totally engaged, they were all watching me, they all listened right the way through, I saw lots of excited faces, and they all cheered really well at the end.

Afterwards, there was a lot of chatter, several of them asked me questions (”how do you remember all those words?”, “what did you mean when you talked about nostrils?”), one boy asked me to do it again, they were all really lovely and had genuinely enjoyed it. It was so much fun, and they especially loved it when I told them how my big college friends had told me not to do Shakespeare because they wouldn’t like it. Those kids 100% proved them wrong

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@8 months ago with 33913 notes

scientiablr:

zac–efren:

voidfished:

wizardshark:

sandvendor100:

gaymacs:

sandvendor100:

Happiness Will Come To You.

when tho

When You Least Expect It. Probably Late March

reblog for happiness to come for you in late march!

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I reblogged this last year and I hung out with blink-182 backstage on March 30. Reblogging again because it worked the first time.

honestly, last year one of the best days of my life happened in late March

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@1 week ago with 1693323 notes

1anonyymous1:

Remember when you had energy to do things? Those were some wild times

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@2 months ago with 9237 notes

teaboot:

teaboot:

Me, calling in to my shift supervisor: Gooooooood morning! Are we ready for another super splendiferous day with the public?! 😀

Her: That is too much energy

Me: It iiiiiis fake!! 😀

Her: Still too much energy

Comment by Wretchie: "Proverbs 27:14"ALT
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Did you just know this

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@2 months ago with 68588 notes

audreycritter:

oceannocturne:

aliteralchicken:

nothing is funnier to me than Tim getting his driving license at fourteen, I’m just picturing him sat on a phone book so he can see over the steering wheel and getting pulled over by shotgun smith of all people because he thought he was joyriding

#i legit cannot remember if this was in the comic or not#but in the novelization of knightfall#it’s explained that he has a medical exemption to get his license early#bc his sole parent/guardian cannot drive and requires transportation#so tim gets his license so he can drive jack to therapy#which is A LOT AT FOURTEEN#i mean he’s robin so that’s a lot#but if he wasn’t??#like geez (tags via @audreycritter)

FOUND IT. Detective Comics #668

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@8 months ago with 1595 notes

quacktown:

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@10 months ago with 110938 notes