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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 · 2h

*My Ameriversary is the anniversary of the day I came to the US, NOT the day I became a citizen. I know it confuses people that these are two different things. The second is in November.. and took place 15 years after the first.

Lotje @lotje.bsky.social · 2h

It's my Ameriversary* and I'm finally writing my Halloween cards. The printed cards are a little darker than I would like, but I can't keep tinkering with the colors/trying different printers forever, so I'm just going with it :P You can still sign up to receive one! :D

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Lotje @lotje.bsky.social · Aug 11

Reasons I love #Babylon5, 90/100: "We have come home." He's such a speech-er, but this is a pretty good one :D (Video very spoilery, be warned) https://youtu.be/JgGVyNdn0Jg

A scene from Babylon 5: A closeup of bearded Sheridan, looking serious. Caption reads: "We have come home."

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Lotje @lotje.bsky.social · Aug 11

Reasons I love #Babylon5, 89/100: This rather disturbing moment.

A scene from Babylon 5: Garibaldi stands in his bathroom, wearing a paisley robe. He has a small amount of shaving cream left on his face. His mirror is fogged over and he's holding out his finger to the mirror, where he just finished drawing a neutral to possibly sad face.

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Lotje @lotje.bsky.social · Aug 11

Reasons I love #Babylon5, 88/100: I enjoy using this line in conversation :D

A scene from Babylon 5: Catherine Sakai stands in Babylon 5's customs area, wearing kind of a fashion jumpsuit, reddish brown, with buckles at the shoulders. She is looking down and smiling. Part of Sinclair's head and shoulder is visible on the right. He is wearing his dress uniform. Caption reads: "I don't mean to alarm you, but your pants are talking to you."

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Lotje @lotje.bsky.social · 20h

October activities continue!

Scene from Event Horizon on a TV flanked by jack-o'-lanterns. The scene is a dude on fire in the creepy gravity drive space.

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Lotje @lotje.bsky.social · Aug 10

Reasons I love #Babylon5, 87/100: Worker caste Minbari moving around in the background before they're ever mentioned on the show.

A scene from Babylon 5: Jinxo walking around the customs area in his big blue coat. In the background is a (presumable) worker caste Minbari walking in the opposite direction.

A closeup of Lennier, in Delenn's quarters, with blue and purple light in the background. Caption reads: "There are two castes of Minbari: the warrior caste and the religious caste."

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Lotje @lotje.bsky.social · 1d

Click through to see a gorgeous hat that goes with this :D [it's a black ensemble in 1890s style, though the sleeves are honestly pretty modest for the 1890s :D Double buttons on the jacket, very big pointy collar]

The Met: Costume Institute @metcostume.bsky.social · 1d

Riding habit
https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/101567

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Lotje @lotje.bsky.social · Aug 10

Reasons I love #Babylon5, 86/100: Lou Welch, trying to eat his meal :D

A scene from Babylon 5: Lou Welch, wearing his security uniform, sits at a counter in a restaurant, with a plate full of food in front of him, holding a burger. He also has a glass with a green liquid in it. Ari Ben Zayn is sitting next to him, talking to him.

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Lotje @lotje.bsky.social · Aug 10

Reasons I love #Babylon5, 85/100: When we learn that one of the many things Lennier learned in the Temple where he spent most of his life is kicking people's asses.

A scene from Babylon 5: Lennier is standing in the casino with his hands up, some fingers extended, in some kind of martial arts pose. Londo stands next to him, looking arround worriedly, as a bunch of other people approach the two of them from all sides.

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Lotje @lotje.bsky.social · Aug 9

Reasons I love
@Babylon5, 84/100: This dude with a fauxhawk, roasting lizards in Downbelow.

A scene from Babylon 5: A man, with his maybe jaw-length hair standing up in the center, and combed down with a little curl up at the end on the sides, holds a stick with a lizard on it that he just pulled off the fire in front of him. He is sniffing the lizard.

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 2d

As if an encrusted silver dress was not already a lot, it has a scarlet satin coat with a matching silver lining. There is an occasion here of which I can only imagine. Late #1950s Arnold Scaasi @mfaboston.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

A mannequin in a dramatic pose wearing a sleeveless silver embellished dress with a red bow over the right hip. It has a matching cot of red satin lined with the silver embellished fabric

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Lotje @lotje.bsky.social · Aug 9

Reasons I love #Babylon5, 83/100: Complicated father–child relationships.

A scene from Babylon 5: Ivanova, seen from the back, talking to her father in a hospital bed, via a wall-mounted screen.

A scene from Babylon 5: Ivanova, wearing mourning clothes, Sinclair, Ivanova's old Rabbi, and several other people are gathered around a picture of Ivanova's father.

A scene from Babylon 5: Dr. Franklin, sitting in his quarters, hands a glass of juice to General Franklin.

A scene from Babylon 5: G'Kar, seen from the back, is looking at his father, who is suspended with his hands bound and tied to a tree. He appears to be speaking to G'Kar. The background looks very orange and hazy.

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Lotje @lotje.bsky.social · Aug 9

Reasons I love #Babylon5, 82/100: This Minbari tailor poking Zack with that huge needle :D

A scene from Babylon 5: Zack Allen standing on a small platform in the middle of a room, surrounded by Minbari, including Lennier. Zack is talking to Lennier, while a Minbari tailor is working on his uniform. She is holding a large needle. The other Minbari tailors are working on things in the background.

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 2d

If you were a woman in the #1890s trying to avoid other members of her household then a tea gown that blend in with the wallpaper might not be a bad idea. It is all bold voided velvet with a lace yoke in generous proportions, Jean-Philippe Worth @museumofcityny.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

A mannequin wearing a purple voided velvet gown with broad skirt and big sleeves. It has a white lace yoke around the neck

Detail of the purple voided velvet gown highlighting the voided velvet pattern and the square of lace around the neck

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Lotje @lotje.bsky.social · Aug 8

Reasons I love #Babylon5, 81/100: Everyone gets a cool myth name and picture (though tragically, we don't get to see most of them!)

A scene from Babylon 5: An illuminated manuscript, with a picture of Lorien. The back of the head of a person looking at the book can be seen, as well as the hands of another person, gesturing at it.

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Lotje @lotje.bsky.social · 2d

It's the season! :D

TV playing Over the Garden Wall. It's Worth and Greg arriving in Pottsfield from the episode Hard Times at the Huskin' Bee. They're on a country road between pumpkin fields approaching the village. There's purple lights by the TV and you can see pumpkin silhouettes on either side of the screen

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Lotje @lotje.bsky.social · Aug 8

Reasons I love #Babylon5, 80/100: 😢

A scene from Babylon 5: Lyta Alexander, looking at herself in a mirror and crying. She is wearing gloves and has a Psi Corps badge on her chest.

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Lotje @lotje.bsky.social · Aug 8

Reasons I love #Babylon5, 79/100: This unbelievably creepy shit.

A scene from Babylon 5: Ominous looking Earth Alliance ships with creepy Shadow bits on them.

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Surly Amy @surlyamy.bsky.social · 3d

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