#old book page

[old-paper-backgrounds]

An old book page background with illuminated handwritten font, parchment paper style

The aged paper is riddled with years of creases, worn from its journey throughout time. Sunlight filters in from beyond the thick stained-glass windows, the illuminated rays casting across the parchment like a tapestry. An intricate echo of inked letters grace the surface, their ebony script winding and unfolding like a sacred ancient song. The past and present entangle in a whispered symphony, the sepia-drenched page speaking of a forgotten knowledge that lies just outside of time.

#old book page #background #parchment paper #old paper background

[obsob]

happy and proud!!

✷(print shop)✷

#mine #original #sm how managed 2 miss pride month....but its pride month every month in this house hold #ive read two bad YA books so far this month as a break from th 2nd farseer book but now.....i am back.........i am reading th 3rd one #its gna make my brain explode i can feel it #n then idk what i will read. maybe th hands of th emperor #could i read smth other than 800 page epic fantasy pls #the YA books werent too bad for YA but they hve that YA cringe 2 it. idk how u people read it constantly #if i hve 2 read th word 'heck' one more time #also theres always like. disney channel vibes. like i read gay YA romance n its so sanitised n vanilla. its so superficial #like i get this is for 16 year olds but were is the longing. the yearing. these guys are fanfic tropes stuck 2gether 2 glue. #also. what is with nearly every mlm romance / fantasy being YA not adult fiction. whats up w that #anyway hve a good evenin im gna do knitting!!!!!!!!!!!!

[orangesinwinter]

metropolitan tokyo

scans from Japanese Graphics Now! (2003)

#found an old book of japanese graphic design so will be posting scans of my fav pages✌️ #my scans #photo #photography #tokyo #東京 #japan #日本 #2000s nostalgia #film camera #aesthetic #2000s japan

[grimae]

We come carry the face of a dead sun.

#skindarim #rada #book of the sun #istrati clan #vampire #these are old pages but I want to show them off nontheless to bring the whole thing back into focus #i'm waiting on a new quote from a book printer in my area which seems incredibly promising and professional #meanwhile I'm just working on the last finetuneing. 112 pages rn btw

[hedgehog-moss]

My top 10 nonfiction reads of 2023 (the asterisked ones are in French with no translation as of yet) :

Belle Greene, Alexandra Lapierre

The Indomitable Marie-Antoinette, Simone Bertière

Reporter: A Memoir, Seymour Hersh

Red Carpet: Hollywood, China and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy, Erich Schwartzel

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, Patrick Keefe

Servir les riches, Alizée Delpierre*

La Comtesse Greffulhe : L’ombre des Guermantes, Laure Hillerin*

Le Courage de la nuance, Jean Birnbaum*

The Book Collectors of Daraya, Delphine Minoui

Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement, Hawon Jung

#book recs #i haven't finished the last one yet but it's been good so far! i really admire these women's resilience and solidarity #some inspiring stories of political activism + insight into aspects of korean history i didn't know about #i wanted to do a half-fiction half-nonfiction list like last year but i've read mostly disappointing fiction this year :( #my favourites were probably kivirähk's the man who spoke snakish & catherynne valente's radiance; though it wasn't as good as orphan tales #i'm reading jacques abeille's les jardins statuaires right now and it's quite frustrating because on the one hand #it's well-written and interesting with original worldbuilding. on the other i'm 300 pages in and there have been #2 female characters. the purpose of both (so far) was to have sex with the male protagonist and only 1 has a name #which makes the read feel less original and more ''same old shit as far as i'm concerned''

[elibethquin]

CRYING AT THE REBLOGS FROM MY LAST POST/ pos

I can’t believe everyone saw the among us in the corners 😭 I didn’t even see them when I posted ahdkbsjdbwjd

So anyways to everyone that couldn’t ignore the silly amongus here’s more Infinity Train and Among us just for you

The drawings #5 and #6 are inspired from the fic Honest Lies by @jesse-cosay aka YellowSoul

And yes all of these are from last year

Yes I drew all of the among us in the same period of time

When I said I’m mentally ill I meant it 😔💕

#infinity train #infinity train book 2 #jesslake #lake infinity train #jesse cosay #infinitytrain #jessecosay #my art #infinity train lake #*giggles in jesslake* #doodle dump #jesselake fanart #fanart #it’s bc Owen is gonna work on that among us series 😔 #it’s only fitting to put IT and Among us on the same pages of my sketchbook #all of these are like old requests I did on instagram xd but all the among us were my doing #min gi park

[happyheidi]

color study. (x)

#the old pages <3 #this is hella cool!! #which color is your favorite? #cottagecore #color study #colors #illustration #studyblr #light academia aesthetic #classic academia #dark academia aesthetic #books #old books #green aesthetic #brown aesthetic #yellow aesthetic #blue aesthetic #color aesthetic

[britishchick09]

the ultimate ag historicals lineup! (as it should be!) :D

(shoutout to @bohemian-rhapsody-in-blue, whose tags reminded me to make an updated version with courtney, claudie and isabel & nicki! and here's how the lineup looks in modern ag books)

#american girl #american girl doll #ag dolls #the squad has grown so much! #if this was in an actual ag book they'd go onto a third page!! :o #it was so much fun to add the new girls! :D #the twins' pic is a bit grainy but it's scanned at the highest quality i have #putting their stylized selves from the cover would look so off! :o #if only claudie's second book was paperback... then it would have glossy (and clearer) paper! #claudie's was also scanned from her inside cover but luckily that's a lot bigger! ;) #the descriptions for the new quartet and the beforever girls come from the ag website #except for maryellen being inventive! (a relic from the old edit) ;) #the last time ag released a trio they took a 3 year break so hopefully this will be the lineup for a while! ;)

[sunshinechay]

I can’t help but wonder if, despite being in his thirties, this is Alan’s first time falling in love.

He has no idea what to do at any point and is generally acting like a love struck teenager with the added pressure that Jeff is just…so much younger than him. So now not only does he not know what to do, he seems well aware of the fact that way he would try going about it, is VERY different from the way people Jeff’s age would.

#pit babe #pit babe the series #alanjeff #jeffalan #it’s millennial v gen z dating #and alan is completely lost #jeff please just take pity on the old man #quick where is that one gay chicken show meme about loving the old man v making sure he needs a hip replacement when you’re done with him #because that need to be jeff right now #make sure that old man needs a hip replacement when you done with him #jeff needs to take a page out of rain’s book and show alan what a good rider he is #these tags got thirsty by the end #cap watches pit babe #cap speaks

[othmeralia]

Title page Tuesday!

This elaborate engraved title page is found in our copy of Bouquet composé des plus belles fleurs chimiques (1629) by David de Planis Campy

#title page #title page tuesday #rare books #old books #engraved title page #bibliography #materia medica #botany #othmeralia

[fictionadventurer]

The more I learn about Civil War politics, the more I'm convinced that Lincoln's most impressive and useful leadership trait was that he never let his pride get in the way of doing his job.

Other people in Lincoln's position would have come to Washington with something to prove. They'd have resented the insults and tried to disprove them. They'd have tried to seize power and credit, rejected help, spent a lot of time trying to reach a certain level of respect.

Lincoln's response to, "You're just a backwoods lawyer with no executive experience who makes too many dumb jokes," was pretty much always, "Yeah. And?" He had no interest in petty personal power plays. He had a country to run. There was a war on. It didn't matter what people thought of him so long as the job got done.

He was aware of his personal shortcomings and was always willing to accept advice and help from people who had more knowledge and experience in certain areas. He presided over a chaotic Cabinet full of abrasive personalities who thought they were better and smarter than him, but he kept working with them because they could get the job done. For example: Stanton was absolutely horrible to him when they were both working as lawyers. Just incredibly mean on a personal level. But when Lincoln needed someone to replace Cameron, he swallowed his pride and appointed Stanton as Secretary of War, where Stanton proceeded to be mean to everyone in the world, but he whipped that department into shape and kept it running efficiently through a very chaotic war. Pretty much no one except Lincoln would have been able to put up with that. He could put up with people who were personally difficult if they could do the job he needed them to do--which he was only able to do because his own ego didn't get in the way.

Lincoln's example is a prime demonstration of how humility isn't underrating yourself--it's being so secure in your own abilities and identity that you don't need to attack anyone or defend yourself to prove your worth. He knew his shortcomings, but he also knew his strengths. He was willing to give other people credit for successes and take blame upon himself for failures if it kept things running smoothly. He was secure enough in his own power that he could deal generously--but firmly--with people who tried to undermine him. In a city full of huge egos, in a profession that rewards puffed-up pride, that levelheaded humility is an extremely rare trait--which is what made it so impressive and effective.

#history is awesome #presidential talk #so i went to a teeny backwater thrift store today #their tiny history book section just happened to have an old lincoln biography #i opened to the page about the cabinet #which describes the situation like 'seward was calling himself premier and lording it over everyone' #'blair was causing problems everywhere' #'welles was insulting everyone in his diary and especially hated stanton grant and seward' #'and stanton hated absolutely everyone in the whole wide world' #and as i was reading this i was internally kicking my legs with excitement and cackling with glee because this is the good stuff #i don't know why but i love these horrible petty men #they're like a bunch of raccoons fighting over territory in a dumpster fire it's so great #i read the whole chapter right there in the store #and it impressed upon me yet again how impressive lincoln was to put up with all these guys #(the writer was a bit simplistic and made a lot of these guys come off as worse than they were) #(like he made seward sound like a complete incompetent when he was a pretty good secretary of state) #(he had some grandiose ideas but the man deserves a lot of credit for keeping england out of the war) #(but for a one-chapter summary of these guys it wasn't exactly wrong and it was a ton of fun) #i very much did not want another book especially another american history book #but it was only fifty cents and i have a pouch full of spare change #and the writer's style was so much fun that i decided to take the book with me #i don't plan to read the whole thing (i'm sick of lincoln bios) but it's fun to dip into for things like this #and i had to talk to you about it

[factual-fantasy]

Hello hello!

I really hope this does not come of as mean (it truly isn't my intention) but, could i make fanart of your AUs, yet not post it? Like, a little doddle that i just never share? I was in a call with a friend recently and i was rambling about your fnaf au, meanwhile they decided to check it out and made a little sketch of it, i explained to them about your boundaries but then we were unsure if they should just rip of the page with the sketch or just leave it be (they don't post art online for the sake of privacy)

Sorry for long ask i just got curious, worry not tho, they will throw away the page if it makes you uncunfortable!

Goodness no!! 😨😨 I would NEVER tell/advise a fellow artist to rip up/throw away a drawing! What's been drawn is drawn- please tell them they can keep their artwork! DD:>

As for your ask, all I can say is my request remains the same. Please don't make fanart of my stuff..

#my response #im in the “if you toss artwork you'll regret ot years later” club #many old sketch books of mine have torn out pages and it makes me very sad #i wish i still had all those drawings #no matter how insignificant they were #to me at the time or would seem now #keep all ur art friends. you will regret tossing it-

[eclipseshotel]

#I will in fact be doing many scans of this book #love that image of Scar and Lex 😆 #he just looking at her like baby get up #ALSO #apparently Elder Predator was supposed to initially have like piercings bro 🤪 #AND MORE SCARS TOO #ofc that didn’t make the cut in the end #LOOK AT MY OLD MAN I MOANED WHEN I GOT TO THAT PAGE #AvP #yautja #avp elder

[cluepoke-archive]

Do you guys ever think about Calenders as an art form becaus ei litterally never stop thinking about it. Imagine mapping out time and space. Imagine seeing the sun and the stars and the moon and creating time and charting a plot from one day to another. Every day we travel from one day of the week to another and I love it. Also advent Calenders exist like what the hell I time travel AND I get a little treat??

#calendertown #sorta #i was looking wistfully at old medievil calenders again #and old wooden calenders with illustrated sides and numbers and stars and galaxies imprinted on the sides #and even today with our simple calender books made of paper you flip a page and theirs usually an image for the month #wonderful. ... #dustbunnies.txt

[moderndayaliens]

kids these days don't go to their library, borrow the juno (2007) film soundtrack, burn it onto their ipod touch, and listen to it until they're sick of it like they did anymore. what has this country come to

#go to your local library!!!! #library #juno movie #support libraries #books & libraries #burning cds #cds #juno 2007 #elliot page #michael cera #kimya dawson #jason bateman #the kinks #music #2000s music #things were better when i was a kid and i'm stubborn and old #so yeah #go to your library and burn cds #never pay for music again #thank me later

[pcktknife]

idea i had for a ghost type pokemon shiny vers under the cut!

#pokemon #fakemon #necronom was originally zombook but with the teeth necronom felt more appropriate #myart #if books are neglected and get particularly dusty they can turn into necronoms ! #book with teeth is very overdone but i didnt know what else to do ehe #necronoms will eat dust cobwebs old paper etc etc tomestones will tidy up dusty shelves and enjoy keeping clean #teachers in the pkmn universe tell young kids not to dog ear pages lest they want to feel the wrath of a tomestone which wont actually happe #on the contrary they enjoy when books are dogeared bc it shows they are being enjoyed ^w^