Peter Ravn Rasmussen

@peterravn.bsky.social

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Danish historian, teacher, writer, and father of three splendid young people. He/him or they/them, as you prefer. Mastodon: @peter_ravn@mstdn.social

Gadsden flag parody: secretary bird tramping on a snake, with the legend "TREAD ON THEM LOTS, ACTUALLY".
Image of the monster from 1961's "Reptilicus", with the caption "It's been 23,858 days since Copenhagen's last kaijuu attack".
1950s French theater poster for a performance of George Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" at the Empire Theatre in Paris, clearly listing it as an opera.
Trump's post redacted to read "the Greatest Threat to our country : President DONALD J. TRUMP"
English translation of the Portuguese original. Panel 1: "If dragons existed, would they have two or four legs, in addition to wings?" Panel 2: "Unless they were aquatic... In which case they would have fins..." Panel 3: "And then they wouldn't breathe fire either... or would they...?!" "Could you be quiet??" Panel 4: "I'm in the middle of something important here!" "Dragons are important too!"
Brent Spiner as Bob Wheeler and Annie O'Donnell as June Wheeler, in an episode of Night Court.
LeVar Burton as host of Reading Rainbow.
Image of a shop selling anime-themed merch for three vintage giant-robot anime. The merch in question: walking canes.
Image of King Ghidorah, the three-headed dragon kaiju.
Movie poster, "The Duellists"
Bronze sculpture of a man wielding a sword two-handed. He is bent forward against what appears to be a strong wind, about to strike with the weapon.
A panel from "Bad Machinery": "What are you writing?" "This is my Hating Book. It's a Ghostbusters-style containment unit for my rage."
Movie poster from "The Thing", showing a backlit figure in polar clothing, with rays of light emitting from where their face would be.
Meme: a dam with the words "I am not racist", and a huge spill of water is being vented from it, with the word "But".
Child photo of Peter, from a Christmas card in the late 1960s (1968?)
Carved wooden figure of slattenlangpat, the base of a church pulpit, in Denmark: a monstrous female figure with saggy breasts, a canine face, and a tail.
On the right, a "tomatmad" (slices of several different tomato varietals, topped with mayonnaise and chives). On the left, a "kartoffelmad" (slices of cold boiled potato, topped with mayonnaise and chives). All of this on rye bread.
Illustration of the ensemble cast of Bodacious Space Pirates.
Screenshot from "A Girl and Her Fed", showing a Secret Service agent holding a smartphone with (among others) this post, on "Bopp'n", the in-universe version of Bluesky.
View of interior of the approach to Castelvecchio.
Screenshot of a glove of this type, from Amazon.
Trump lawn meme: "Do you want to play cricket? I get to bat first!"
Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, in front of a tree trunk with a poster showing a caricature of Elon Musk, and text reading "MUSK SEASON". A remix of the classic Looney Tunes short, "Rabbit Fire" from 1951.
Panel from "Side Quested": Charlie reading Boopsie's journal of the first quest, and complaining that there is nothing in there about her birth mother — despite the fact that the journal just introduced a hitherto-unknown but obviously powerful person, Chloé, details about whom were immediately obfuscated by magic. It's RIGHT THERE, Charlie.
Audience member at a hockey game, wearing a jersey that says "NEVER 51".
Flag of Albania: A double-headed eagle sable, on a field gules.
Cover of volume 1 of "Sanju Mariko", showing Mariko smiling and curtsying.
Headline from an AP story (via CNN): "Isolated Indigenous man makes brief contact with outside world, then returns to tribe in the Amazon rainforest"
Scene from "The Princess Bride", with Inigo, Vizzini, and Fezzik — but it has been desaturated to the point of being almost black-and-white.
Watercolour painting of a garden gnome preparing to throw a lit Molotov cocktail.
Four-panel cartoon with two women in a snowy landscape. First panel, one of them says, "I'm not racist" Second panel, she continues, "But", but the other woman puts her hand over her mouth and says, "Shh". Third panel, the second woman clasps the first woman closer, and repeats, "Shh". Fourth panel, the second woman says, "Nothing good comes after that."
Comic : Elon Musk buys Santa's entire operation, fires the elves and the reindeer, and equips Santa with a "new sleigh" — a cybertruck with makeshift rockets strapped on. Santa flies off, and promptly explodes. The final panel is a tweet from Elon Musk: "THE JEWS JUST KILLED SANTA".
Yajirō Shimogamo from "The Eccentric Family", in his human form.
Revolving dispenser holding three bottles of liquor, plus some shot glasses.
Simon from "Tengen Toppa Guren-Lagann". I won't say why (spoilers), but the ending of the series makes it clear that he would have been able to give up the One Ring.
Old illustration, showing a man in his nightwear standing in front of a bed holding another man (who is fully dressed) by the collar and the seat of his pants, clearly preparing to throw him out of the door.
Stephen Fry as General Melchett, in "Blackadder Goes Forth", wearing his characteristic self-satisfied smirk.
Drawing of a *very* dramatic opossum wearing a pearl necklace, which it is clutching.
Plain gold ring, with a pyramidal setting holding a pyramidal-cut black diamond.
My Steam Replay spider graph, showing that I mainly played Grand Strategy, Space, Historical, Puzzle, Relaxing, and Colony Sim games — in that order. (Yes, that's mostly EUIV, Stellaris, and Surviving Mars)
Metal badge with enamel. The badge shows the Soviet and US flags above their respective spacecraft and their names, and the year 1975.
A woodcut showing a scientist tinkering with a device, apparently a microscope. Above him looms the figure of Death.
Vlad Stein from "Blood Stain", posing in Giorgio A. Tsoukalos' characteristic meme pose. Text: "SCIENCE".
Same comic, better resolution. Credit: @pet_foolery (Instagram).
Panel from John Allison's "Giant Days", showing Esther and Susan. Susan looks cross, and is writing in a note book where the cover has been corrected to read "NOPE BOOK". Esther asks, "What are you writing?" Susan replies, "This is my hating book. It's a Ghostbusters-style containment unit for my rage."
Sculpted head of the Emperor Caligula, wearing the starry glasses of Bootsy Collins.
Les personnages des séries télé américaines "High Potential".
Oji-san smiling while scratching his chin, and with his characteristic squint. Picture from one of the two OVAs of the manga Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō (ヨコハマ買い出し紀行).
It's a circle. With me in the center. And people around me.
Cartoon of an angry mob carrying farm implements and torches.
Bluesky "celebrating 10M users" brag image, listing me as user no. 1,457,503, having joined on October 11, 2023.
Alien xenomorph, with googly eyes.
Mr. Spock and Captain Kirk from Star Trek, on the bridge of the Enterprise. Spock is saying, "Captain the scanners have detected what appears to be a superior meme", and Kirk is replying, "Mr. Spock, set tractor beams to 'yoink'".
Closeup photo of Bodil Udsen, taken some time around her early 70s. A lived-in face full of warmth and humanity.
Satellite image of Amager, with Copenhagen at the top. The open area on the left is the Amager Common, created with dikes. It is a nature preserve today, but parts of it used to be a military testing ground. When I was younger, parts of it were still marked as hazardous due to possible unexploded ammunition.
A pair of hands generously spilling a bounty of memes into another hand.
'Shopped version of a scene from a Marx Brothers movie, with Musk seated and a standing Groucho Marx saying, "Gentlemen! Musk here may look like an idiot, and talk like an idiot, but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot."
Speed Racer (Gō Mifune), from the anime of the same name.
Image of watering hole with visiting animals, blue wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) and gemsbok (Oryx gazella), identified.
Two-panel cartoon of a man staring blankly, then walking off with a "Jesus fuckin' Christ..."