recently came across some plates and bowls that would be perfect for a children’s hospital

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“I asked chatgpt” well I asked Antigone the Sea Witch, the Luidaeg, Mother of Selkies, terror of the San Francisco Bay, First of the Firstborn, eldest daughter of Oberon, bogeyman of the Summerlands. She told me to bring her a burrito.

I should be able to both read for 8hrs a night and sleep for 8hrs a night. That I cannot is very rude and, frankly, poor design.

When you finish reading the most marvelous, wondrous, awe inspiring masterpiece known to man and go to see how often they upload only for them to not update the fanfic since 2017

Having to clean the shower is so fucking annoying. It’s clean in there. That’s where I go to get clean. It’s clean dude trust me. Stop fucking growing bacteria and stuff man this is the clean locale. You’re embarrassing me in front of the sink

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Hang in there! 화이팅!

so many things try to emulate the Beatrice/Benedick relationship and so few of them get it right bc they’re like ‘oh it’s about the banter’ and YES, obviously, but if you make it JUST about the banter you’re going to fail! it’s about the RESPECT!!! it’s about the scene after Hero’s shaming where Benedick drops the banter entirely and sits there with Beatrice as she rages and weeps and then chooses to side with HER instead of the boy’s club that he’s been hanging out with for the entire play, both because he loves her and because she’s RIGHT!

like, it’s not some impulsive thing to make her like him, and it’s not just talk; he asks her if she’s sure and then he agrees and then he remains cold and determined when he meets Claudio and Don Pedro and they try to get him to joke around with them like old times.  i think that’s one of the things that gets me the most; that there’s a scene that you half-expect to fall into that same sort of joking, where Claudio and Don Pedro are specifically like, “Huh, we inexplicably feel kind of sad after ruining this woman’s life and reputation, I bet Benedick will cheer us up!” and he just. utterly refuses to engage. and it’s so powerful and it’s such a tonal shift and such a strong indication of just how much he loves and values Beatrice and!! anything that gets the banter but doesn’t get that completely fails to understand their relationship! THB!!

“Kill Claudio.” 

If Beatrice is right to believe Hero about her innocence, then that is, socially, the appropriate action. Claudio called off a wedding. Bad enough, but he did it publicly. He did it at the altar. He completely and utterly destroyed Hero’s chance of marriage -and marriage isn’t just love, it’s financial security and social support, and that’s before getting into Hero being the last heir of her house. Even if Claudio recants, Hero’s damaged goods. 

And Hero has no male relative who can defend her honor. Her father and uncle are old -and even they believe the accusation at first, to the point that her father then tries to kill her in a church. She has no brothers, no cousins, no friends, no one to say “as a man, man to man, I will defend her good name and make you eat your words.” She can’t go to court and press charges for slander. There is nothing she can do, nothing Beatrice can do. 

And Benedick, who has been making jokes about how marriage is just misery while your harpy wife cheats on you for the entire play, when asked “do you really believe that is all women are for; was that banter or are we friends?” says “we’re friends. And I let this happen too and I will make it right” and then he fucking delivers.

BBC Two: The only message you need for #International WomensDay!

Air Himbo

Water Himbo

Earth Himbo

Fire Himbo

@crvggio​ I’ve been laughing at this for 47 years

And the Avatar

Reblogging again because that last addition is IMPORTANT

But when the world needed him most, he pulled the wrong lever…

Why do they even have that lever?

Well done everyone, 10/10 post

tag yourself! i’m “weekday wig”

This is the closest thing to a smile I’ve ever seen this man do for media

absolutely delighted by this photo of terry pratchett

my favorites from the tags

the thing about the mummy movies is that you really spend most of the time thinking “wow brendan fraser’s character is so cool” or “man oded fehr is so mysterious and heroic” when the fact of the matter is that these two

are the absolute most batshit insane heroes in the entire franchise

these two are intellectual loner siblings with archeology backgrounds who read and speak ancient egyptian, hire a dude directly out of prison to take them to a lost city of gold, and fight mummies literally with their bare hands. twice.

no one in these movies stands a chance against the carnahans. frankly they’re lethal in how willing they are to make the absolute and most undeniably deranged decisions. jonathan pickpockets a dude on fire. evy’s resurrected from the dead and immediately remembers how to use sai. they’re racking shotguns from a cliff in this scene and then proceed to blow away half the antagonists.

rick and ardeth should be so lucky

I DIDN’T EVEN HAVE TO UNMUTE,

Captions:

Gaston: “Everyone knows her father’s a lunatic. He was in there tonight, raving-”

Fast placed music plays as the scene changes.

Gaston: “Whoa! Slow down Maurice.”

saw this thread and really loved it but what i liked most is that it taught this kid that if a book isn’t for you, even if you really want to like it, it’s okay to stop reading it and come back to it another time when you are ready. there were so many books i slogged through as a kid because i felt like i had to prove that i could read them since i *loved* reading so i simply had to finish this book or i didn’t actually love to read. silly, really. the more kids who don’t ascribe to that thinking the better. really great of both the dad and the librarian for allowing the kid access to the stephen king book and allowing him make the decision on whether or not it was for him by himself.

You can no longer wait for the wizard, Frodo. They’re coming.
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
2001 | dir. Peter Jackson

Respectfully, Ireland is the best country on the planet

from the same thread:

I once wore green cargo pants with a black hoodie in Belfast in the mid 2000s and two separate people yelled “alright there Kim Possible?”

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My latest cartoon for Guardian Books.
p.s. I have a new book of cartoons out soon: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2

So! This is a perfect case study in situations where you should be wary of misinformation.

Take a moment and ask yourself, a project like this requires a lot of time, money and dedication of resources, why would scientists dedicate that time to something that could just be done by a tree?

The answer is they wouldn’t. So that means this claim requires further investigation!

This project is called LIQUID 3, and it’s not meant for cities with wide open spaces, it’s meant for cities like Belgrade in Serbia. These cities are densely populated and heavily polluted, to the point where pollution actually chokes out current trees and makes creating green spaces difficult.

Liquid 3 was a PhD scientists answer to these problems. The microalgae tank is intended for spaces where you either:

1. Don’t have enough space to plant full trees, or
2. Don’t have enough time to plant trees and wait for them to grow up.

The tank is extremely efficient when you consider the amount of space needed compared to the amount of CO2 turned into oxygen. The tank can operate throughout the winter. And most importantly, it can be quickly set up in areas that desperately need relief from air pollution NOW not in 10 years when trees are done growing. Children currently suffocating on polluted air can’t wait for trees to grow, they need to be taken care of now, and Liquid 3 is one of the ways to take care of them. Depending on the species of microalgea used, a number have shown a pretty amazing capacity to pull heavy metals out of the air which is something trees can get choked up by.

The tanks aren’t just tanks either! Liquid 3 have solar panels placed on top, they have lighting and mobile phone charging, and they work as public benches. The designers of it want to encourage green spaces where there’s room, but where there isn’t room or time, Liquid 3 can step in. Realistically, this isn’t a replacement for trees. It’s replacing boring metal city benches with new, cooler benches that also clean the air (and have at least some heating during the winter).

Not only that, but the microalgea that grows is native to Serbia and all that microalgea has a ton of great uses! It makes for great fertilizer, compost, wastewater treatment, cleaner biofuels and even for helping create new tanks for further air purification. They only require a quick algae divide once a month, and the produced algae can be carted off to where ever it’s needed. This makes them effective solutions for areas that can’t sustain complex installations.

So yeah, there’s actually quite a lot of places that would like these. Lots of people currently breathing in terrible quality air would much rather have their boring city benches replaced with really fucking cool algae tanks that clean the air and can be used to help create + sustain future green spaces in cities. I dunno about you, but I’d take that over a dumb metal bench any day. Put these at every bus stop and I’d be delighted.

can ppl pls reblog this version

science needs funded. this is brilliant.

Trapezium, Heart of Orion

‘Under Monet’s Pond’ by Eiko Jones

I miss when everyone on my dash listened to Welcome to Night Vale so there’s be a good chance that on any ole day someone would reblog a quote that would grab me by the throat and forcibly ascend me to a higher plane where I understood myself and the universe better and with more kindness but also a little spook

“The past is gone, and cannot harm you anymore. And while the future is fast coming for you, it always flinches first and settles in as the gentle present” are you kidding me this quote has propelled me through at least three emotional crises

“The desert seems vast, even endless. And yet scientists tell us that somewhere, even now, there is snow.”
That quote literally got me through grieving my brother like WTNV goes HARD

A List of Some of My Favorite Quotes From This Insane Podcast:

• “You are beautiful when you do beautiful things.”
• “The present tense of regret is indecision.”
• “We understand so much, but the sky behind those lights– mostly void, partially stars– that sky reminds us we don’t understand even more.”
• “Be proud of your place in the Cosmos. It is small and yet it is.”
• “Believe in yourself. You are an ancient, absent god, discussed only rarely by literary scholars. So if you don’t believe, no one will.”
• “Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you.”
• “Whisper a dangerous secret to someone you care about. Now they have the power to destroy you, but they won’t. That’s what love is.”
• “Are we living a life that is safe from harm? Of course not. We never are. But that’s not the right question. The question is are we living a life that is worth the harm?”
• “When we talk about teenagers, we adults often talk with an air of scorn, of expectation for disappointment. And this can make people who are presently teenagers feel very defensive. But what everyone should understand is that none of us are talking to the teenagers that exist now, but talking back to the teenager we ourselves once were – all stupid mistakes and lack of fear, and bodies that hadn’t yet begun to slump into a lasting nothing. Any teenager who exists now is incidental to the potent mix of nostalgia and shame with which we speak to our younger selves.”
• “We are not history yet. We are happening now. How miraculous is that?”
• “Wednesday has been cancelled due to a scheduling error.”
• “We have nothing to fear except ourselves. We are unholy, awful people.”
• “A million dollars isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? A basilisk.”
• “There’s nothing under your bed. There’s nothing in your closet. Nothing waits in every darkness. Nothing is the most terrifying thing of all.”
• “The night sky is ten miles wide, eight miles deep, and floats three miles up. Its favourite food is grape jelly. It wants to be a drummer.”
• “Look to the sky. You will not find answers there, but you will certainly see what everyone is screaming about.”
• “Ignorance might not actually be bliss, but it is certainly less work.”
• “And now, a special report. Crocodiles: Can they eat your children? *YES.*”
• “Lie down and look up at the ceiling and breathe with those curiously fragile lungs of yours and remind yourself: Don’t worry. Don’t worry. All is as it was meant to be. It was meant to be lonely and terrifying and unfair and fleeting. Don’t worry.”
• “As long as I’m reminding myself things, I’m a good person, worthy of love – both from myself and others.”
• “Guns don’t kill people! It’s impossible to be killed by a gun. We are all invincible to bullets and it’s a miracle!”
• “Everything is exciting! Particularly existence. Existence is the most thrilling fact of all.”
• “There is a monster under your bed. A monster at your window. A monster any place you imagine one. You project your monsters on the world.”
• “You miss 100% of the bank robberies you don’t commit.”
• “I like my coffee like I like my nights. Dark, endless, and impossible to sleep through. ”
• “A friendly desert community where the sun is hot, the moon is beautiful, and mysterious lights pass overhead while we all pretend to sleep. Welcome to Night Vale.”
• “And now, the weather.”

I discovered this podcast at the beginning of high school, and let me tell you, it rewired my synapses.

Not only was it my first experience with positive LGBT representation, it was the show I clung to when everything else went to shit. Whatever was going on in my life, I knew I had this show in my corner, making me laugh, making me cry, making me feel okay about my place in the universe.

I owe the creators of this podcast more than I could express.

“the lights over the Arby’s” is such an intrinsically queer piece of writing that it hits me *hard* every time.

“We will never be the same again. But here’s a little secret for you: no one is ever the same thing again after anything. You are never the same twice, and much of your unhappiness comes from trying to pretend that you are. Accept that you are different each day, and do so joyfully, recognizing it for the gift it is. Work within the desires and goals of the person you are currently, until you aren’t that person anymore, and everything changes once again.” (from Episode 75)

“The universe is vast. You are also vast. So is an ant. There are different sizes of infinity.”

Andrew Grant Kurtis - “Moonlight Sparkle Across the Thames”

tolkien fans are insufferable because you’ll agree to watch the movies with them and then seven hours in they’ll say “omg my favourite character is about to appear!” and it’s a fucking siege weapon

I will not stand by while Grond, Hammer of the Underworld is slandered in such a way! 

I thought tumblr was safe from Grondposting

GROND!

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GROND GROND GROND!

grond is when you gotta change discs on the extended edition. grond signals snack breaks and a refill of the wine. grond is an omen of good fortune and some respect should be put on his fucking name

GROND GROND GROND