“In 1938, Tolkien was in negotiations with Berlin publisher Rütten & Loening about creating a German-language edition of The Hobbit; that is, until they asked for proof of Tolkien’s “Aryan descent...’”
Digital archivists: Start saving environmental information from government agency websites.
Today. Like right now today.
Write things down. If we know anything about authoritarian regimes, we know that the narrative is changed to reflect only the views of those in power. History will be rewritten to support an ideology. Record events, document your lives. We should all become archivists. Signed, an Archivist.
Spent today making & crafting. Made a few scrappy junk notebooks to add to my notebook stack and doggedly avoided any mention of that nonsense in DC. Made from recycled & vintage/antique papers, handsewn into a signature and with a textile/trim collage cover. #travelersnotebook #junkjournal
Winter light ✨
The millennial experience is growing up with the internet, and watching it go from a free, open, democratic, and eclectic ecosystem to a wasteland of five websites controlled by billionaires, and now seeing it quickly fill up with AI-generated slop.
I want our World Wide Web back.
Four years since my son wrote the best opening to a mystery novel ever written.
As an archivist, I love this idea 😂 some of the journals I catalog could use some drama
Oooh I’ve been looking for a way to use our mountain of plastic bags — could you share more about what you make with it?
Made my own leather travelers style journal portfolios after coveting all the gorgeous Louise Carmen notebook covers all over social media. I’m pretty proud of them 🥰 #journaling #travelersjournal #journal
My daughter is on a mission to make the tiniest paper fortune teller ever made. “Mom, can you submit it to the Guinness Books of World Records?”
