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Lotje

@lotje.bsky.social

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Terrible at Twitter/whatever. Fan of eating things. Tea drinker. Frequent fangirl. Immigrant. Archaeologist. Humorless feminist. She/they/.. Aggressively joyposting through the horrors.

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Lotje @lotje.bsky.social · Nov 20

I finally wrote an intro post to pin. I can't ever be brief so made it an image (transcribed in alt). I was going to apologize for being long-winded but you know what, if you're following me, this kind of overly... everything posting is exactly what you should expect :P Interests and things I post:

List starts with an emoji that's a cartoon version of me doing a Vulcan salute.
Immigrant and dual citizen, Belgian flag and US flag emojis.
I am the world most boring archaeologist. I repost archaeology stuff but I rarely post about my own research.
TV emoji. I love good TV. My obsessions are The Expanse, Babylon 5, and Twin Peaks. I'm into all the Star Treks, though of course I have my preferences. I also love bad TV. I really enjoy watching questionable procedural dramas with a million episodes. If you get me started, I will absolutely give you my overly detailed takes on some very unserious character or plotline.
PC emoji. While I play a wide variety of video games, my biggest obsessions have been rpgs and city builders.
You'll find I post selfies, food pics, and flower pics. I am obsessed with dahlias and repost just about any dahlia pic I come across. Pink dahlia emoji.
I work out most days and I have done so for years but I rarely post about that. Another emoji of cartoon me, this one flexing a bicep.
I repost art that speaks to me somewhat regularly. I also occasionally post my own crude drawings/paintings. I have neither the talent nor the many hours/years of practice required to be good at it, but I enjoy it very much. Emoji of the White Star from B5, made from a painting I did.
Over on the other place, I used to retweet a lot of bats and fashion history posts but I don't yet get as many in my feed here. Once I do, though, there will be lots of that.
Relevant colors: List of emojis: bi flag, aro flag, ace flag, autistic pride.

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Lotje @lotje.bsky.social · Aug 6

Reasons I love #Babylon5, 72/100: These things. No idea how they're supposed to be operated, because there's so few buttons, but you can do basically anything with them. Still, I love them :D

A scene from Babylon 5: a right hand holding a pot on a stovetop. On this hand is a piece of metal with what looks like four buttons and some decoratively arranged cutouts, presumably for a microphone/speaker.

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Lotje @lotje.bsky.social · 50m

Thank you :D

Lotje @lotje.bsky.social · 53m

Oh yeah, I should have added in the alt that I finally fixed my hair :p

Lotje @lotje.bsky.social · 56m

4.5 hour delay, but look at my sweet upgrade, though!

Sleeper train room mirror selfie, whole body, because there is so much room! I'm standing in front of a long train seat along one wall, facing the mirror on the opposite wall. There is a single seat there that's folded up. I'm eating a black velours dress, fishnet tights, black and grey striped knee socks and a dark grey suit jacket with a Discovery era silver science delta on the chest. My face mask is black with pink and red cartoon skulls. There's a bunch of luggage all around me.

Wide angle shot of sleeper car room, from my pov sitting in the corner. There's a little bathroom stall with a sink on the outside opposite the long bench. The door to the hallway is open. The upper bunk is folded up.

My legs all stretched out on the long bench. I don't reach the end. The curtain on the door to the hallway is closed here and only small lights are on.

Another mirror selfie, seated on the bench, zoomed in. I'm holding a thermos cup of tea and I'm smiling. There's an air purifier in my lap.

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Lotje @lotje.bsky.social · Aug 5

Reasons I love #Babylon5, 71/100: Vir inventing a whole fake bureaucrat to do important work, but failing to come up with a better name than Ambrahamo Lincolni.

A scene from Babylon 5: Vir looking down awkwardly mid-cringe. Caption reads "Abrahamo Lincolni?"

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Lotje @lotje.bsky.social · 6h

I was checking to see if the jacket had real pockets. Possibly I've just been assuming it didn't for the past 13 years. The other pocket was still mostly sewn together.

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Lotje @lotje.bsky.social · 9h

Just pulled this out of the pocket of a suit jacket I've definitely worn several times just this year. I have no explanation.

Movie stub for the movie Prometheus. The date is June 5, 2012. It was at Kinepolis Antwerpen and it cost €9.50.

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Lotje @lotje.bsky.social · Aug 5

Reasons I love #Babylon5, 70/100: Food bonding.

Garibaldi, seen from the back, and Dr. Franklin are seated at a round table in Garibaldi's quarters, both in civilian clothes, eating from a big pot in the middle of the table. Garibaldi's framed Daffy Duck portrait can be seen on the wall in the background.

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Lotje @lotje.bsky.social · Aug 5

Reasons I love #Babylon5, 69/100: Marcus making a chart to explain where he fits in "the great organizational scheme of things".

A scene from Babylon 5: Marcus, entering Ivanova's quarters, holding a large piece of paper with many photos stuck to it. Ivanova stands by her couch, wearing casual clothes.

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 19h

Stomping to stupid work in the stupid drizzle because stupid Google said you wouldn't need your stupid umbrella 😤 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

A 5th c BCE Greek bronze hoppolite from National Archaeological Museum Athens 😁

A photo of a metal figure taking a big step but also hunched forward with their head down

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Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · 1d

#WorldOctopusDay 🐙:
2 amazing #octopus tsubas (sword guards) @ the Met - which is your favorite?
#CephalopodAwarenessDays
1-2 tsuba w/ octopus design, Japan, late 18th c. www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
3-4 tsuba w/ octopus design, Japan, c. 1615–1868 www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
#JapaneseArt

tsuba (sword guard) with octopus design, Japan, late 18th century, iron and copper, obverse

tsuba (sword guard) with octopus design, Japan, late 18th century, iron and copper, reverse

tsuba (sword guard) with octopus design, Japan, c. 1615–1868, copper alloy (sentoku), copper-silver alloy (shibuichi), copper-gold alloy (shakudō), silver, and gold, obverse

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Lotje @lotje.bsky.social · Aug 4

Reasons I love #Babylon5, 68/100: This sound.

A scene from Babylon 5: A screen mounted on a wall shows Mr Morden sitting on his bed in his cell, with two Shadows standing next to him.

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Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · Oct 9

For #WorldOctopusDay 🐙:
#Octopus Chatelaine, 1887
Gorham Manufacturing Company (Providence, RI, USA)
Silver, red glass, black beads
W. 4 3/4 in. (12.1 cm)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 2001.326:
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ch...

official museum photo of object on light grey background: chatelaine in the form of an octopus (chain suspended from each of the 8 appendages), silver body, red & black eyes

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Lotje @lotje.bsky.social · 1d

I send a lot of cards and this sort of thing happens all the time. Someone will get it in a week, and someone who lives really close to them will get it in a month. Also the same person will get one card in a couple of days and another in a week (or 9 days vs 27 days for international). Don't get it

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Lotje @lotje.bsky.social · Aug 4

Reasons I love #Babylon5, 67/100: Star Laces.

A scene from Babylon 5: Adira, in full Centauri dress, standing in her quarters, looking lovingly at a bouquet of flowers in a vase. The flowers appear to be lighting up.

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Lotje @lotje.bsky.social · 1d

Legitimately never owned anything remotely as expensive as my teeth 😩

Lotje @lotje.bsky.social · 1d

My dentist appointment today and my vax appointment yesterday were both right by the Whole Foods, which sells a cherry pie that I love. I managed to leave both times without buying a pie. I feel like I deserve some kind of reward, though I don't know what that would be, if not pie.