#cwac

[upennmanuscripts]

For this week's #CoffeeWithACodex (Thursday, March 21, 12pm Noon EST on Zoom) Curator Dot Porter will be joined by SIMS Curator of Manuscripts Nick Herman and Penn PhD student in Italian Studies and Comparative Literature Julia Pelosi-Thorpe to unbox a new manuscript purchase! Petrarch's Canzoniere and Trionfi, with Leonardo Bruni's Life of Petrarch. Written in Florence in the 1470s. You'll get to see it for the first time at the same time we do!

Register here:

#medieval #manuscript #renaissance #coffee with a codex #cwac #event #zoom #video #petrarch #italian #book history #rare books

[leoba]

Manuscripts, Humanity, and AI

Image of a manuscript, generated in MidJourney by Suzette van Haaren

(a few words originally posted on Twitter on March 27, 2023 and then on my blog. It’s resonating there so I thought I would post it here too.)

I’ve been trying all morning to figure out what bothers me about these Mid journey-generated manuscripts without simply sounding like a Luddite, and I think I finally have it.

It’s because my interest in manuscripts is almost entirely about the humanity behind them. Who made them? Who used them and why? What happened to them after they were made? Where are they now? What did they mean in the past and what do they mean now?

A computer generated book doesn’t have any of that context. I’ve talked about the uncanny valley with regard to digitized manuscripts, and this is that, one step further. It’s one thing to digitize a manuscript in a way that elides its materiality, and a whole other thing to create manuscripts that don’t exist materially at all.

I think there are potentially interesting ways to use AI in my work. I’m interested in structure, and have been part of a project, VisColl, to develop models and software to build models of manuscripts. Could AI be used to combine structural models and digital images to create photorealistic imagery of existing manuscripts? Imagine an AI reconstruction of manuscripts cut apart and distributed by Otto Ege. Could it even generate pages that are lost as semi-realistic placeholders?

Just a few thoughts. I’m less interested in generating realistic looking manuscripts than in the potential to leverage the technology to help us understand the use and history of manuscripts that exist in the real world.

Added: If you’d like to hear me talk more about manuscripts and humanity, check out Coffee With A Codex, a weekly 30-minute program both live and posted to YouTube where I present a show-and-tell with books from the University of Pennsylvania’s premodern manuscript collections, and Inside My Favorite Manuscript, a weekly podcast I do in my own time where I talk to people who love manuscripts about manuscripts they love the most.

#medieval #medieval manuscripts #manuscripts #ai #otto ege #manuscript digitization #uncanny valley #midjourney #imfm #imfmpod #coffee with a codex #cwac

[theywhowriteandknowthings]

I’m away reenacting for the weekend and I haven’t managed to finish dbf joel this week. I’m going to move to a fortnightly release schedule I think, I’m at risk of sacrificing quality for speed. Will update my master list to reflect that!

#ao3 fanfic #fanfic #joel miller #dbf!joel miller #dbf!joel #dbf!joel x f!reader #reenactor #reenactment #canadian #canada #WW2 #WW2 reenactment #cwac #Canadian women’s army corps #photography #photographer #film phogoraphy #vintage #vintage photography #film camera #retro

[pienaud]

Apr 12th, 2024

today, i watched “18x2: Beyond youthful day”, again and alone, for sure.

i like that, alwaysss, go the movie theater n watch a movie by myself

the 1st time,

i just feel sad overall the movie and actually there is nothing stay in my mind expect an incomplete love as well sad ending. Yu know what, i remember how i got interested and happy and smileeeee when i saw Taiwan on the screen: sound of Chinese, motorbike on the street, peaceful alley, night market, local food store, Bao An station, mini basketball court in the yard and way to much thingsssss about Tainan.

i was thinking about how it gonna be in Taiwan on my next trip but also why the love story in the movie is so similar to yu and me. It was a mixing feeling and what I know is I didnt know actually…

the 2nd,

hhhhh there was tons of work need to be done but suddenly just want to watch the movie again, so here it is, iykyk.

wait, yu know what, the night before, we met, in my dream

yu were there, i was there, i remembered it all too well,

we traveled but not together, we knew but avoid to know, we met directly but treat indirectly, we were familiar but different, we were close but far, …

and things had been through hardly in that but why i also want to be there again, fck i can meet yu

Just a movie but why it is so similar…like us

I thought about Taiwan, about Tainan, about yu

I cried, i did cried, a lot and a lot

I hate that but I love that,

Vietnamese traveled to Taiwan

Taiwanese traveled to Vietnam

Taipei and Saigon

Tainan and Phu Quoc (Kien Giang)

The distance, the story, the feeling….

I got it all too well, too too well

“Traveling is fun because you never know what will happen”,

“Tainan?” - “Người Đài Nam?”,

“I want to see the town where she grew up” ,

… i want to see the town where he grew up

“I've always wanted to ride tandem on a scooter in Taiwan”,

“This feels so good! Just like in the Taiwanese movies!”,

“Sóng-lah?”,

“Jimmy”

…”Charlie”

“When travel, we will meet people who leave a special mark in our hearts, did I leave something in Ami's heart?”

… did i leave something in Charlie’s heart?

“How are you?” - “Có khoẻ không?”

“Those kinds of encounters don't happen often in life” - “Những cuộc gặp gỡ như thế không thường xuất hiện trong đời đâu”

“Boys from the south are mysterious grace” - “Con trai miền Nam dịu dàng một cách kỳ lạ”

“Tainan at last” - “Cuối cùng cũng đến Đài Nam”

hmm thats it

ayy i also saw “Vietnam at Taiwan” on the movie, i like that scene

…so just a little bit, kay?

#cwac #tnsg #twvn

[countinglegoclowns]

Thinking about how the cycle was supposed to end.

#lego monkie kid #tang #lmk #lmk tang #tang lego monkie kid #lmk tang sanzang #myart #does this count as cwac??? #maybe if I do another part.

[owlf45]

It's definitely not the flavor where DFO goes knocking on Izuku's door all of a sudden to make him breakfast and play house.

How dare you to say Anyone is DFO? AFO can't be Izuku's dad because everyone knows Hisashi is a deadbeat with a fire-breathing quirk. You are obviously Todoroki's side account

I,, haven't read Anyone,,

#I think I vaguely get what you're talking about #dfo breaking into izuku's life and coddling him is a pretty common trope though isn't it??? #i was more referencing cwac but tbf anyone is probably more similar to my analogy whoops

[transhawks]

very negative belief under the cut, don't read if you don't want to see me being mean:

DFO believers are the flat earthers of this fandom.

#im not wrong am I tho #like guys I used to like cwac too years back #but that ship has sailed y'all #that's not hisashi guys

[mvssmallow]

Not an ateez fan but i'm down for the CWAC ateez. :) and 2 people? make it 3 lol count me in.. i'm still here.

I have too many pairings I'd want to write about but San and WY are obviously the first ones that comes to mind. I might write the Epilogue again and see it goes ok. I'm always happy to try out my new writing on three people haha.

#cwac stuff

[bogwallows]

i love how everyone generally accepts that lionheart never has open eyes and is just Eyebrows. he’s the dad from cloudy with a chance of meatballs

#bog rambles #he’s literally just the dad from cwac #if he ever opens his eyes it’s like the one clip where the dads unibrow goes all the way up his forehead and ur like oh my god he has EYES ? #that’s lionheart #warrior cats #waca #lionheart #warriors lionheart

[maxsix]

OMG! Wonwoo and Haruki Murakami in once sentence. Sign me up!!!

It makes so much sense. I wonder if he's read any of the books.

#ppl who have read CWAC..........don't eye roll at me

[maximoff-pan]

ooh! how about a dick winter blurb where they talk about their future? just something short and sweet to get you dipping your toes into the BOB fandom...

this was so cute and fun to think about! and thank you; I’m dipping my toes in quite slowly but hopefully this is an okay (ish) start — if you’d like me to write a little more for the wonderful easy company boys, just let me know! feedback is always much appreciated 🥰

also I maybe have taken liberties making the reader canadian — sue me for indulging

pairing: dick winters x fem!(cwac)reader

word count: 500

note: this is a complete work of fiction and is based only on the fictional representation of the show band of brothers. No disrespect is meant towards any of the men of easy company or those who fought in ww2.

July, 1945: Zell Am See, Austria 

“Have you thought about what you might do after all of this?” 

The question causes your lip to quirk slightly in thought. You never dreamed there’d be an after. “I dunno.” Is your truthful response. “I always figured this war would be it for me.”

Dick’s eyes lock with yours in understanding. He knows the feeling well. 

“Lew has offered me a job at Nixon Nitration.” His voice carries gently across the water, his leg grazing yours, dangling from the wooden dock below you. It’s so quiet you can almost hear the dew drops hitting the surface as the early morning sun catches Dick’s hair. It creates a wonderful glow, like embers dancing through a fire.

He looks beautiful like this, you think. At peace in the bask of the Austrian sunlight. 

“That’s perfect.” You tell him. “I think that’ll be great for you.”

He swallows before speaking, “He said you could come with us.”

“Did he now?” You chuckle. “The ever presumptuous Lewis Nixon. But the offer does sound intriguing.” 

He smiles. “I was hoping you might say that.”

Your eyes lock once again, playful grins gracing both your faces. Reaching for his hand, you grasp it in your own, rubbing your thumb lightly across the skin. It’s rough from battle, but warm and comforting nonetheless. 

You angle yourself forward to face the water better, now purposefully side by side with the man next to you. Leaning your head against his shoulder, you feel him relax, posture sinking in content. 

“I was thinking—” He pauses briefly, momentarily collecting his thoughts.

“That’s never a good sign.” You tease him.

Dick doesn’t react to your jibe, simply taking it in stride as he usually does. “Humour me.” He decides upon.

“Alright, I suppose I can do that.” You say.

“Come with me to New Jersey.”

Your brow furrows in confusion. “I feel like we just had this conversation.”

Dick chuckles finally at your obliviousness. “No, I mean live with me. Buy a house, settle down, spend our lives together.” 

Your head lifts from his body, shifting once again, you raise your legs to sit cross-legged on the dock. Dick turns to face you, much the same. He looks hopeful. 

The words tumble breathlessly from your lips, “You mean together, together? Like—”

“Marriage.” He confirms. “A couple kids, a white picket fence – the whole American dream. If that’s what you’d want, of course.” 

Dick is usually able to read your expressions like a book he’s read an unfathomable amount of times, but right now, the pages are blank. He can’t seem to get a read on you. 

A few beats of silence pass agonizingly slowly, one, two, three, then – a smile breaks out onto your face. “You do know I’m Canadian right?”

He grins in return, but not wanting to push his luck, he asks,“Is that an ‘I’ll think about it?’”

“It’s a yes you idiot.”

It would always be a yes.

#dick winters x reader #dick winters x you #dick winters x y/n #band of brothers x reader #band of brothers imagine #richard winters x reader

[upennmanuscripts]

For this week's #CoffeeWithACodex (Thursday, April 11, 12pm Noon EST on Zoom), Curator Dot Porter be joined by guest host Louis Meiselman, Judaica Special Collections Cataloging Librarian. We'll be looking at CAJS Rar Ms 25, a collection of medieval leaves in Hebrew that have been used in bindings.

Register here:

#manuscript #fragments #binding fragments #binding waste #hebrew #judaica #zoom #cwac #book history

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You Arms Pull Me In Like The Tide Pulls Me Under | Epilogue

Your Arms Pull Me In Like The Tide Pulls Me Under Masterlist

Dick Winters x Female SOE Agent!Reader

The end of the war is just the beginning of the rest of your lives.

Photo Credit: East Islip Historical Society

Warnings: Discussion of War Hardships, Permanent Injury/Disability, Holiday Party Setting, Inevitable Historical and Military Inaccuracies, Language, Mature/Explicit Themes - 18+ ONLY.

Note: This is a work of fiction based off the portrayal of Dick Winters by Damian Lewis. I hold nothing but respect for the real life individuals referenced within. Non-English is denoted in italics.

Word Count: 1244

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Nixon, New Jersey – December 20, 1946

The sprawling home of Stanhope Nixon was overflowing with guests, alcohol, and music as the annual Nixon Nitration Works holiday party was in full swing. Catering staff were milling about with silver trays of canapés and champagne while the management staff and their wives ate, drank, and made merry amongst the millwork and art that adorned Lewis’s father’s New Jersey home.

Lewis himself was busy playing host alongside his father, with his British war bride Irene in tow, as Dick kindly introduced you to his immediate supervisor. The modest diamond engagement ring and matching wedding band on your left ring finger refracted the light against the glass of champagne Lewis had planted in your hand upon your arrival, snagging your attention as it still tended to do, even eight months on.

The end of the war had come around the same time for you and Dick, with the Japanese surrender for him and with your discharge from Major Wilke’s command upon the arrival of the Allied prosecutorial team in Nuremberg furnished with a fleet of translators freshly released from Bletchley Park and other frontline duties. It had been bittersweet to be no longer needed, but as you had admitted to Dick that dreamy summer day in Austria, you were quite finished with your time in Europe.

It had taken over five months for Europe to let you go, however. Returning to England had been the easy part, your uncle’s widow in Oxford welcoming you back with open arms. With your more ambiguous service record under CWAC, however, return to Canada had taken rather longer. Priority on troop ships was naturally given to the boys in uniform, and then the girls who had enlisted in Canada. You had waited impatiently for your turn, working with your aunt to alter the wedding gown she had squirreled away from her own marriage in 1936. It had been her hope for her own daughter to wear it someday, but she had insisted as you were the closest thing she would ever have to such a person now, you ought to have it. So, it had become your joint project to turn it into something more modern for whenever you could find yourself standing in front of Dick Winters again.

That chance had not presented itself until March of 1946. Dick had arrived by train in your hometown in Canada, insistent on asking your father’s permission to marry you in person. He brought a ring, as promised, and married you one week later. Immigration paperwork had taken six weeks to clear, but you were grateful that it was nothing like the delay women from overseas endured. By the time you arrived in Nixon, New Jersey, Dick had a modest house and a car waiting for you, true to his word again. By the fall, you’d started offering private French lessons and you and Dick were seriously discussing whether or not you would attend vocational school to become a public-school teacher. Life was good, better than you could have ever imagined.

This party, however, had begun to drag on. Your feet were beginning to hurt as you stood around in your heels and you were feeling the strain of trying keep up with the myriad of conversations swirling around you amid the din of music and laughter. Dick’s hand on your lower back had you turning to him as he leaned into your left ear. “Let me show you the library.” His thumb swept along the fabric of your dress soothingly and you nodded gratefully as he excused you both.

Leading you down the hallway confidently, you wondered how many times he had been in this house, but felt your shoulders relax as the oppressive wall of sound faded away behind you. Guiding you around a corner, you couldn’t help but gasp as you stepped into a room filled with an expansive collection of leatherbound books, a fire laid in a stone hearth with a cozy seating area in front anchoring the space.

“Did we just find heaven?” You whispered conspiratorially and he chuckled as he kissed your temple, leading you to sit on an overstuffed leather sofa.

Setting down your now-empty glass on the low table in front of you, you sighed as you pressed a thumb between your brows. “I’m sorry it was so obvious I was having a hard time in there.” You apologized softly.

Sliding an arm around your shoulders, he gave a gentle squeeze. “Only to me, honey.” He assured you.

The sound of footsteps in the hall had both your heads turning sharply, concerned your sanctuary was about to be disrupted, but it was only Lewis who appeared in the doorway. “I thought I saw you two sneak off here.” He smirked, a glass of whisky in one hand and a bottle of Canada Dry ginger ale in the other. Kicking the door shut behind him, he came to sit in one of the armchairs across from the pair of you.

“Apparently we were not as subtle as we hoped.” You laughed as he poured half the bottle into your empty glass before handing the remainder to Dick, raising his own glass of amber liquid in a toast.

“Happy Holidays.”

“Happy Holidays, Lew.” Dick replied before your glassware came together in an awkward symphony of mismatched ‘clinks’ before you each took an appreciative sip.

“And to think we spent the last few scattered hither and yon.” Lewis remarked.

“Eating potatoes…” you muttered.

“Or nothing at all.” Dick added thoughtfully.

“Couldn’t get beef, Vat 69…nylons…” Lewis gave a nod in your direction, and you glanced at the closed door before eyeing him over the rim of your glass.

“Oh, I suppose it was a bit of a nuisance, but I honestly did appreciate having silk in my parachutes.” You took a leisurely sip, waiting for his reaction.

It unfolded slowly, his eyes widening before he sucked in a breath laced with droplets of his treasured whisky before coughing violently, pointing at you. “I knew it.” He wheezed eventually as you tried not to laugh too brightly at his expense. Dick held no such qualms, laughing richly beside you.

“Of course you did, you saw my last day firsthand.”

“But you finally admitted it! Please, you have to tell me everything…” He leaned forward eagerly, and you swallowed, wishing more than anything that you could.

There was still a great deal you hadn’t even shared with Dick; The Official Secrets Act preventing you from divulging anything. How you longed to share everything with them – the training schools in Scotland, the slosh of an aggressive amount of rum in your belly as you had fallen no more than ten seconds to hit the ground outside Lyon, your harrowing journey across the Andorra mountains into Spain to find passage back to England with your fresh side wound nagging at every step. The determination that had driven you back to Normandy just weeks after you return to London, and the eight months of exhausting, tension-laced work that had preceded their arrival. How you longed to share everything, to commiserate and to laugh. To be honest.

“Someday, Lewis. Someday it won’t be treason to talk about it and I will tell you everything.” You promised.

“To someday, then.” He grinned, raising his glass in another toast. “And believe me I will hold you to that.”

Laughing warmly, you raised yours in return. “To someday.”

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Your Arms Pull Me In Like The Tide Pulls Me Under Masterlist

Tag list: @allthingsimagines, @bcon24

#dick winters x reader #dick winters #band of brothers x reader #band of brothers fanfic #band of brothers imagine #band of brothers imagines #band of brothers

[adlamu]

October, buttery, paper!

october: i was born in february :D

buttery: pickled onion flavour monster munch (it's like if cheetos were shaped like little monster claws)

paper:

in Welsh: either Tomos Caradog (the story of a mouse and his family getting caught in a rain flood and he saves the day), Wil Cwac Cwac (literally: Will Quack Quack - the short collection of stories about a young duck named Wil), or Sion Blewyn Coch (literally: Sean/Shaun Red Fur - the story of a mischievous fox from before fantastic mr fox, based on a real fox with the same name) - the last two are both technically part of a collection book called Llyfr Mawr Y Plant (The Big Book For Children)

in English: ik people like to argue about it being a kids' book but probably The Hobbit - otherwise, i'd probably say Danny, Champion of The World by Roald Dahl.

#askstuff #thank youuuu

[pienaud]

Feb 24th 2024

Today is full moon in Virgo

I am totally and absolutely got all of the energy from the Moon

I am doing well

I am amazing

I am happy

I am gorgeous

I am grateful

I am rich

… and richer

I am

I am successful

I am peace

I love, be loved and in love

I am pretty

I am fulfill

I am the one and only

I am the best version of myself

I love all of thing about my mental health, they are all in positive and the best

I love my life

I live my life

I make my life

I love my dream

I live my dream

I make my dream

… my American dream, my Taiwan dream, all of my dreams

I love myself

I love my body, my body is fit and thin and beautiful

I love my face, my face is Vline and smooth and shiny

I love my hair, my hair is smooth and strong and glossy

I love my teeth, my teeth is clean and white and shiny

I love all of thing about my physical me, they are all wonderful and perfect

I did not give up

I tried hard, worked hard, played hard

I am abundance for all the money and successful

I am worthy for all of the best things what are coming to me

Opportunies are coming to me absolutely

Difficulties are working out easily for me

Everythings are happening to me for a reason, they are all smoothly and come to a good result

My visa application to Taiwan was confirmed immediately and absolutely

I met Charlie in Taiwan

I had a memorable and great time in Taiwan with Charlie

Me and Charlie, we hang out and had dates together

We had local breakfast, had some coffee drinks, night dates at restaurant or bar or just a little food shop. It all was so much fun and happiness and … something was grow in our heart, i am sure

Charlie took me to the best and hidden place in Taiwan, i love it

We think about each other, we feel about each other, we mean something about each other

Something cant say, something speechless, something in heart

Cant wait to meet yu again, Charlie!

I had the best trip in Thailand and Korea, joyfullllll

My family are healthy and happy and go well together

My parents’s business is working amazing

My dad loves Iphone 15 promax i bought him

My older sister does kindly and nicely and comfortablely to me

My younger sister does well in her study and helps my parents a lot

Charlie is doing good in his work at IT company, Charlie is healthy and his family too, Charlie is happiness and joyful in life

Charlie is thinking about me, Charlie Charlie Charlie i am thinking about yu, miss yu.

Today is full moon in Virgo

Thank yu to the Universe and Guardian Angels and Spirit Guides

Thank yu to the Universe and Guardian Angels and Spirit Guides

Thank yu to the Universe and Guardian Angels and Spirit Guides

Thank yu to the Universe and Guardian Angels and Spirit Guides

Thank yu to the Universe and Guardian Angels and Spirit Guides

Thank yu to thw Universe and Guardian Angels and Spirit Guides

Thank yu to the Universe and Guardian Angels and Spirit Guides

Thank yu to full moon in Virgo

Thank yu to full moon in Virgo

Thank yu to full moon in Virgo

Thank yu to full moon in Virgo

Thank yu to full moon in Virgo

Thank yu to full moon in Virgo

Thank yu to full moon in Virgo

Thank yu!

Feb 24th 2024,

Chau Ngoc Phuong Ngan

Ngan Chau

Audrey

#full moon #virgo #feb24 #2024 #cwac #tnsg #manifesting #manifesation

[countinglegoclowns]

S4 spoilers

Just thinking about how in cwac s4 wouldn’t have happened.

Cicada: awwww yiss I’ve sealed shit like this before lemme take the wheel

Tang: oh sick alright

Sanzang: we might as well make it a learning opportunity…

Anyway. I’ve gaslit myself into thinking cicadas gonna appear in. Like. A more meaningful way later. Twist villain? Idk. I Just Think He’s Neat!

#conversations with a cicada #lmk spoilers