museumsmith

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Elderly millennial, museum factotum, 🇬🇧 🇪🇺, lay catholic-ish Anglican of non-conformist ancestry, #AuDHD, strolling player, cishet 🏳️‍🌈/🏳️‍⚧️/🍉/anti-racist/refugee ally. He/him.

Worried looking fish with bulbous head and eyes, head fin and corkscrew tail, with shells and coral around him, from a 16th century grotto design by a Dutch artist.
16th century Netherlandish drawing of small bears wrestling, sleeping and standing in a forest.
16th century Netherlandish drawing of Christ on the shore as a Peter with a billowing robe and raised hands wades towards him knee deep in the Sea of Galilee, rather than the more scriptural swimming. Galleon and boats in the background.
Two Simpsons characters, one with a hard hat in his hands and another with a rolled up plan. Caption: There'll be no glorious second rewrite, then. I'll tell the kids.
A returning Napoleon with his arms in the air being acclaimed by his troops.
Blue background bearing the yellow, pink and white inscription "steam genie / origin / handheld steamer".
Martial arts person says "Flawless victory".
Naive-style neon modern stained glass window of a suspiciously blonde Sir Francis Bacon in an orange hat and teal ruff, seen in the very swish crypt of St Marylebone.
LOTR second breakfast meme, but with the phrase 'giving of the Holy Spirit' in place of 'breakfast'.
LOTR second breakfast meme, but with the word 'Eid' substituted for 'breakfast'.
Bust of a man in a toga or similar, on top of a square base with a long inscription.
Burger King logo with the phrase "We want eight and we won't wait!".
Brian Cox character sitting on a sofa and saying "Oh, F*ck Off".
Captain America saying "I understood that reference".
Father Ted wall meme captioned "I hear you're a psychologist now, Tony"
Sideshow Bob in an admiral's uniform singing loudly in front of a Union Flag.
Fish man farts through a trumpet at a monstrous archer at the base of an illuminated medieval manuscript.
Actor Jim Carter in a light blue shirt.
Derek Jacobi in brown habit and tonsure as Cadfael, beside a fire and against a shadowy background.
Two men in evening dress, one of whom absolute angrily shouts into an old-fashioned phone "You can't be in England and not know the test score".
Meme entitled "Mary, watching churches everywhere quoting the Magnificat", showing Captain Raymond Holt from Brooklyn 99 saying "Why is no one casting down the mighty? I specifically requested it."
Butterfly meme - butterfly is acquisitions to represent trans people in a museum's organisation, the person is a museum assistant trying to make those acquisitions despite their curator being TERFy, and the speech bubble is "Is this advocacy?".
Shop sign reading 'HAMLET CAFE & RESTAURANT', with a repro of a painting of the gravedigger scene at one end.
Naval officer in 'The Hunt for Ted October' looking at smoke from a crashed aircraft and saying "This business will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it".
A neat trim heraldic Welsh dragon looking smilingly out of the funnel of Ivor the Engine.
My account mapped, close to a large cluster labelled "British Military History Enthusiasts" (understandable), with the two next nearest clusters being "Diverse Creative & Professional Community" and "Beyoncé and Hip-Hop Fans" (less explicable).
Crêpe menu extract showing three jam options, including "myrtiles sauvages" (wild blueberries).
Smiley orange dog with white snout, belly and paws under a table on a TGV.
Face-on view of a medieval stone lion from Spain or the Maghreb with a very cheesy grin.
Slight dopey looking griffin fulfilling the function of a bronze medieval water-pourer.
Man in 18th century frock coat and black hat pointing at viewer with mocking facial expression
Detail of a fresco at Canterbury Cathedral of St Eustace as a rather dapper medieval gent in a red, green and white number with a bare head. From his belt hangs a hunting horn and he holds his hands apart in amazement and prayer. He and his hounds all kneel before a stag with a crucifix between its antlers.
The main cast of Dad's Army in costume.
Captain Holt meme entitled 'Mary, watching churches everywhere quote the Magnificat', with the captions 'Why is no one casting down the mighty? / I specifically requested it.'.
Two frame meme with a goose chasing a man whilst asking 'What are you conserving, huh? WHAT ARE YOU CONSERVING?'.
Brains from Thunderbirds in his trademark large-rimmed blue specs.
Closeup of two cardinals in the image in the original post, one gesticulating at the paper on the table in front of them.
Side of a cream and maroon tram width Sunderland Corporation branding and red brick buildings to left and behind.
White basset hound with black spots and the as-standard large floppy brown ears, lying on a pub floor after a hard day's walking.
Church bell-pulling rope with red, white and blue corkscrew stripes, hanging from a balustrade in the form of a Greek vase on a craft pub under Durham's rail arches.
Pub chalkboard reading (in capitals) "We have wonky bits it's part of our charm".
Extremely floofy medium sized white dog with the River Thames and a Poirot-style cream riverside residence in the background.
Credit on a display label with the writer's name and stating that it was written in "December, 2025".
Major General Arthur Wellesley by Robert Home, 1804
Derek Jacobi as the elderly emperor C...c...c... Claudius in I, Claudius.
Statler and Waldorf in their theatre box in The Muppet Show.
Admiral Villeneuve, the vanquished of Trafalgar.
King Arthur from Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Henry V and his pudding bowl (haircut).
Pope Clement VII, who refused Henry's *annulment* (don't use the D word ...)
Captain Mainwaring from Dad's Army
Henry II in crown and Thomas Becket in mitre having an earnest discussion in an illuminated medieval manuscript.
Harold II from the Bayeux Tapestry
David Suchet as Poirot, tipping his hat.
Grey or white bunny with ears perked up anda slightly malevolent frown sitting in a small dent in dry earth.
Principal Skinner 'out of touch' meme, with the captions 'Am I being unpastoral?' and 'No, it's the laity who are wrong.'.
Sign from a well-known pub chain involving canines and brewing, fixed to the beam of an independent pub, with an arrow and the word 'F*CK' (sans asterisk) appended before it.