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Daydreaming a story idea about someone adopted as a young child who comes of age to realize they have been raised, and loved, by the villains. And they're the survivor of a massacre their adoptive parents committed.
Just. A fun thought idea.
We love divided loyalties...
The slow realization that they have been loved not like a child, but as a trophy. But it was love nonetheless. Wasn't it?
i like the term "gallows humor" because it always makes me think of someone getting sentenced to death and being like "i have GOT to be the funniest person at my public execution"
The Story of St. Lawrence's death, patron saint of comedians
The prefect was so angry he told Lawrence that he would indeed have his wish to die—but it would be by inches. He had a great gridiron prepared with coals beneath it, and had Lawrence’s body placed on it. After the martyr had suffered the pain for a long time, the legend concludes, he made his famous cheerful remark, “It is well done. Turn me over!”
Always reblog St. Lawrence's execution!
why is lake superior so dangerous? i cant find anything online that will give my access (not american!)
it's the largest freshwater lake on the planet by surface area, you could lose a couple of smaller countries in there and not even notice. (vs Europe)
on top of that, it's a Northern lake, so the water never really gets warmer than 50 F (10 C) even in the heat of summer, and it's famous for sudden violent storms that destroy ships and buildings alike. this thing has a MASSIVE body count because it's also a major shipping thoroughfare.
tldr it wants to eat you so so bad
She is also over 1,300ft/400m deep at her deepest. Once she has eaten you, she will not give you back. Lake Superior doesn't give up her dead.
And when Bunjy says "the largest by surface are" what that means is: Lake Superior is a whopping 31,700 square miles (82,103 square km) of water. The only reason she is not an inland sea is because she is freshwater.
She has tides. She has rip currents, like an ocean does. You don't even have to go out on a boat to get got by her, all you have to do is step into her icy waters in the wrong spot. She has ice formations that aren't "icebergs" on the technicality that they didn't calve from glaciers, even though they look and act the same.
(photo by Paul Berger)
She LOOKS like an ocean when you are at her shores. This is from a location on the Minnesota side shore.
(photo by George Ilstrup)
She is huge, icy, and hungry. This makes her very dangerous. Not to be fucked around with, because you WILL find out.
Superior doesn't want to kill you in the way that K2 wants to kill you. She doesn't give much thought to you at all, unless you draw her attention. Then, well, might as well start ringing the bell at Mariner's Church yourself, because she is inevitable.
one of my favorite bodies of water
Fun fact fun fact!
You got it, friendo! Today You Learned about Spanish artist Juan de Pareja!
Born into slavery in the early 1600s, de Pareja was famously the slave of renowned Spanish painter Diego Velazquez (who painted his portrait, seen above). In 1650, Velazquez was with him on a trip to Rome, where he signed the papers granting him his freedom after four years. Which he did!
And what did de Pareja do? Well... he painted. Apparently he learned quite a lot from Velazquez, and so he was able to become a renowned artist of his own. And a darn good one. Here's his Calling of St. Matthew, presently on display in the Prado Museum in Madrid:
His Portrait of a Monk, now held in the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia:
And his Baptism of Christ:
There's also a children's book telling about his life: I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Treviño.
Languages tend to peak at their word for butterfly. Never seen 2 that are the same, either. Papillon. Mariposa. Borboleta. Fluture. Vlinder. Schmetterling. Pillangó. Babochka. Farfalla. Sommerfugl. Perhonen. Farasha. Titali. Chōchō. Nabi. Húdié. Buom buom. Great job guys, i really mean it.
Hey, don’t cry. Free online database of Japanese folk lore
Might I add, free database of mostly European folklore and myths
A Book of Creatures by @a-book-of-creatures doesn't update these days but is another thing along these lines, really huge, fully illustrated all by the author and cites all sources
Free database of Native American folklore, sorted by tribe.
Hours upon hours of animated Hungarian fairy tales on Youtube.
johnny english really destroyed all movie logic
the funniest part is that he’s not even running
Mr Bean as a Persistence Predator
"grackle" really is a perfect name for a bird. knocked it out of the park w/ that one
Damn. That really is a grackle.
"average Hellenistic warlord named three cities after himself" factoid actually just statistical error. the median Hellenistic warlord named one city after himself. Alexander III of Macedon, noted disaster bisexual and conqueror of the Achaemenid Empire, was an outlier and should not be counted.
Fucking incredible that this is the first example they used lmao
the last one is pretty funny too
It kind of fucks with me that somebody killed ötzi the iceman because ötzi himself is like whatever but the silent presence of human hands that drew back the string of the bow that shot the arrow that killed him is crazy. the idea that there were various people involved in that situation and while one of them has had his last hours painstakingly reconstructed and studied to no end, the others now only exist insofar that an arrowhead had to get into his shoulder somehow. imagine killing someone and then suddenly your entire existence is only a vague shadow implied by the fact that you killed them. much to consider
Testing the mummified bone marrow of ötzi to figure out his ancestry whole time there’s definitely another person, maybe more than one, standing in the room with us but I can never see or speak to them because I only know them through the assurance that they were there too in the form of one single arrowhead. I hate prehistory so much it’s unreal
i love gaboon vipers why do they move like that
me when im walking
@catadromously how could you leave this important comment in the tags etc.
That’s the truest thing about this creature that anyone has said, ever
this animal is so travel
It walks with its ribs.
tumblr: on languages
The thai for “5″ is pronounced roughly “Ha”, and so where english internets would generally put “lol” or something, they put “555555555″.
I was looking for this post for so long
Finally it has returned
A famous Russian composer who keeps breaking up and then getting back together with his girlfriend: Rachmonandoff
I don’t like when you guys say “atp” to mean “at that point” or whatever. It means adenosine triphosphate
