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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 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 · 8h

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 · 15h

#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 · 16h

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 · 18h

Legitimately never owned anything remotely as expensive as my teeth 😩

Lotje @lotje.bsky.social · 19h

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.

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Lotje @lotje.bsky.social · 19h

... what

Lotje @lotje.bsky.social · 19h

I'm interested...

Lotje @lotje.bsky.social · 19h

Another torture session completed (it was actually completely chill; it's just that they keep wanting more money from me)

Looking down at my legs in a dentist chair. Around me is a sparsely furnished space with light walls and I think fake concrete floor. I'm wearing a knee -length dress. It's dark blue with a teal dead head moth print. My fishnets have a floral pattern in them, and my shoes are black high tops with bright pink and blue accents and laces.

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Lotje @lotje.bsky.social · Aug 4

Reasons I love #Babylon5, 66/100: The sound of Kosh talking. https://youtu.be/jdoZvo8j6tc

KOSH - If You Go to Z'ha'dum, You Will Die

Probably the most famous thing Kosh has ever said

youtu.be

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Lotje @lotje.bsky.social · 22h

I always feel like it's DOUBLE cold. Not just because it's so much more wind, but also because I'm not working anywhere near as hard :P

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Lotje @lotje.bsky.social · 23h

It is SO MUCH colder.

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Lotje @lotje.bsky.social · Aug 4

Reasons I love #Babylon5, 65/100: 😭😭😭

A scene from Babylon 5: Delenn kneeling down, speaking to a Markab child, holding her hands. Other Markab can be seen in the background.

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Disco Bones 🎺💀 @quattrobajeena.com · 1d

@meltykitt.bsky.social and i were watching babylon 5 and G'Kar's, um, video game device looked a little familiar

Relevant here, G'Kar is holding a small device, red and yellow, with blue holographic tape around a small screen and a small black plastic device attached to the top left corner.

Less relevant, Vir Cotto is looking dopey in the background with like praying mantis hands.

G'Kar's device is a match for a Tiger Electronics Aladdin toy, which is red with yellow corners and buttons. Where the prop had been taped off, we see Jafar and the Genie prominently, and Jasmine and Aladdin less prominently. The screen, which was hard to make out on the prop, is an exterior landscape with a sky, mountain, and plains. They are a perfect match.

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Lotje @lotje.bsky.social · Aug 3

Reasons I love #Babylon5, 64/100: The utter disdain for the other faction + annoyance at Ivanova not comprehending the situation in these Drazi's expressions :D "Purple! How are you not getting this??"