[transfemininomenon]

magic staff

spell components

scrying orbs

ritual altar

wizard tower

[valentina-poem]

[betweenrealityanddaydream]

" I am not actually tired , but numb and heavy , and can't find the right words "

- Franz Kafka

[genderkoolaid]

god those "primal" people who are like "our ancestors SLEPT ON THE GROUND and ate RAW MEAT and sometimes didnt eat for DAYS!! so thats how we should all be living its NATURAL!!" i truly am full of rage towards them.

like. first of all: being able to cook meat was Really Important for our evolution, so no dumbass, we arent "meant to eat raw meat" you fucking moron LOOK AT YOUR TEETH. WE ARE MADE TO EAT SAFELY COOKED MEAT.

second: who the fuck are these "ancestors". how far back are we going? modern humans? one of the other hominids? full monkee? you are idolizing a random point in our species' history because of whatever unscientific fantastical version of pre-modern life was. it wasnt hell on earth it wasnt paradise we were just LIVING.

third: DJFJSKBDFDSFCDHJFBS HARDER DOES NOT MEAN BETTER YOU CUNT. our ancestors lived hard lives because they HAD TO. and you know what? THEY TRIED TO MAKE IT EASIER!! do you fucking think people were laying on hard stone because of their amazing willpower? No! They were getting moss and animals pelts and shit to make it a little comfier! They were trying out spices! They were painting with their children! WE MADE CLOTHES FOR A REASON!!!

its just like. 100% based off the idea of early humans as jacked (white) cavemen who beat up dinosaurs with their hands and were constantly fighting. theres no humanity in your fantasy of early humans. our ancestors would be amazed and HAPPY with how far we've come with providing ourselves comfort and support. when someone was disabled in the past they werent (at least not always) killed or left to die. people cared for them! modern humans have a long, long history of making the best out of things and finding comfort where we can and always trying to make our lives better. eating raw liver doesnt make you better you dork

[roach-works]

chantek the orangutan regularly requested ice cream and cheeseburgers via sign language, and happily made his own jewelry. many great apes in zoos, from chimps to gorillas, will thread beads on string and wear them. one gorilla was observed ripping a feed sack along the seams and wearing it as a little shawl when she was feeling sad. a young chimp was observed playing with a dead squirrel as she watched her mother care for her baby brother, rocking the soft little body and signing baby, baby, kiss. another chimp raised by a human demanded her caretaker check under her bed each night for black dogs and crocodiles. in college when i was taking art history we were shown a little round pebble with two dots and a crease, that looked like a face, that was found thousands of miles away from where it should have been, and it’s theorized that it must have been carried by an early hominid who saw the face, and liked it. many ancient cultures that never invented the wagon nonetheless built wheeled pull-toys for their children.

our ancestors ate delicious snacks as often as they could get them and some of the earliest tool use was drilling holes in stones to make beads and spinning fiber for string. our cousins still make nests and rain hats and hug each other when they’re sad and do tricks for peanut butter and grape juice. we have always been as soft as the world allowed.

[beggars-opera]

“We have always been as soft as the world allowed” < love this sentiment

[the-haiku-bot]

“We have always been

as soft as the world allowed”

< love this sentiment

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[gauntletqueen]

I'm so sick of people saying water doesn't taste. Water fuckin TASTES

[mistral]

well what does it taste like then?

[gauntletqueen]

[ober-affen-geil]

You know, the place where I last worked wanted to use our reading room as backdrop for a filmed interview (we had a very pretty reading room). On the day the film crew was there, the audio guy came over to my desk which was at the edge of the space and said "Look, you can keep working 'cus you're not doing anything too loud, but in a minute I'm going to go over there and call for silence for 10-20 seconds, and during that time I need you to not make any noise." And I went "lol sure" but he clearly felt a little uncomfortable telling me to not move at my own desk so he explained; the purpose of those 20 seconds is to record the silence in the room.

It's so they have a patch they can edit "silence" over some extraneous background noise later (the phone ringing, me getting an email, the toilet flushing in the bathroom next door, the elevator coming and going, noisy student group, etc), but the point was that they can't just slap any old "silence" over a recording done in a certain room. They have to use the "silence" *from that room* or it will be jarring on a subliminal level to the people listening. Because silence has a sound, and it's a little different everywhere you hear it.

That's what water tastes like.

[guooey]

[transette]

[naradreamscape]

Serious explanation here: she's teaching them the instinct of being alert around enclosure openings! For example, if these were wild cats living in a bush, they'd run the risk of a larger predator running up to the opening and grabbing one of them. The mother cat is also only bapping them lightly without claws, so those slaps are more of an annoyance meant to get the kittens' attention, and to teach them to keep their eyes out for potential threats.

[thegirlwholied]

I regret to inform you that American Girl's latest dolls are from that ye olde historical setting of *1999*

i feel my sanity slipping

[birdrhetorics]

OH NO

[abjellyfish]

"Historical Characters"

[finrays]

Thinking about it, I’m pretty sure my ancestors would be horrified with me.

Not because I’m lazy or unworthy or anything like that…

…but because one of my distant uncles was among the eight survivors of the Essex, the ship that inspired the ending of Moby Dick and sank after being rammed by a whale, and what do I fuckin do after my bloodline has this Ordeal at Sea?

I get a fuckin degree in Marine Science and go back the fuck out there.

[retroactivebakeries]

#op its your job to kill that whale

[gaygalaxys]

[sch-uwu-lchen]

reblog to give the person you reblogged this from a fucking break

[foxgirl-sumireko-usami]

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[foxgirl-sumireko-usami]

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[ranidspace]

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[fleshdyke]

i asked my dad to make me a hot chocolate and he’s literally sawing something in the kitchen rn

[florshedworf]

[amygdalae]

grant me the serenity to kill you with a brick, the courage to kill you with a brick, and the wisdom to kill you with a brick. amen

[isnt]

[catchymemes]

[pokemiline]

Same.

[talaxian]

[trekheritageposts]

star trek heritage post (April 10th, 2016)

[cryptotheism]

My most joyless, pedantic, Niel DeGrasse Tyson ass take is that I find the "Biblically Accurate Angel" meme annoying. I cannot see that joke without going "UHM ACTUALLY-"

[cryptotheism]

For those asking: Listen, within Judaism, angels can look like whatever they want to look like. They are formless, and the og Bible has angels appearing as everything from strange wheels of eyes and winged faces, to ordinary guys.

Within Christianity, there are actually nine defined types of angels, each with their own distinct types of appearance and role in creation. The abstract looking angels are actually the minority. The term "biblically accurate angel" includes "regular looking guy"

[strawberry-frahsted-deactivated]

r u kidding me

[cryptotheism]