Land of Growth and Staircases

Hey comrade! I'm Grayson: 21 years old, polyqueer asexual, he/him pronouns, Ravenclaw, Rogue of Life, and also a chronically sleep deprived linguistics major.

[zandraxofnebulon]

[astralune]

@ivorytowerblr!!!

[hedgeh]

@randomblasing

[sofriel-archive]

The first immigrants to Europe arrived thousands of years ago from central Asia. Most pre-contact Europeans lived together in small villages. Because the continent was very crowded, their lives were ruled by strict hierarchies within the family and outside it to control resources. Europe was highly multi-ethnic, and most tribes were ruled by hereditary leaders who commanded the majority “commoners.” These groups were engaged in near constant warfare.

Pre-contact Europeans wore clothing made of natural materials such as animal skin and plant and animal-based textiles. Women wore long dresses and covered their hair, and men wore tunics and leggings. Both men and women liked to wear jewelry made from precious stones and metals as a sign of status. Before contact, Europeans had very poor diets. Most people were farmers and grew wheat and vegetables and raised cows and sheep to eat. They rarely washed themselves, and had many diseases because they often let their animals live with them. Religion infused every part of Europeans’ lives.

Europeans believed in one supreme deity, a father figure, who they believed was made of three parts, and they particularly worshiped the deity’s son. They claimed that their god had given humans domination over the earth. They built elaborate temples to him and performed ceremonies in which they ate crackers and drank wine and believed it was the body and blood of their god, who would provide them with entrance into a wondrous afterlife called heaven when they died. Many wars were fought over disagreements about the details of this religion, each group believing their interpretation was the right one that should be spread across the land.

Now imagine that is part of a textbook that has entire chapters on the Mississippian polities of the 1200s and a detailed account of the diplomatic situation of the southeastern provinces in the 1400s and 1500s, an enormous section that goes through the history of the rise of the Triple Alliance in Mexico and goes through the rule of each tlatoani and their policies, the heritage of Teotihuacan and its legacy in later Mesoamerican politics, elaborate descriptions of the trade routes that connected and drove various nations in North America. Long explanations of the rise of various religious movements such as the calumet ceremony and Midewiwin, and how they affected political agendas and artistic trends. Pages and pages and pages going through the past thousand years of American history century by century.

And these three paragraphs are the only mention of European history before the year 1500.

[awwww-cute]

A 2 week old lemming in a spoon (Source: http://ift.tt/2lmfIsE)

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[thewickedavatar]

[polyglotplatypus]

*slowly dips bread into fryer* Ah yes, just like how they do it in Frenchland.

i will break into your house, piss on your dining table, shit on the walls, finish drinking your milk & put back the empty bottle in your fridge

[polyglotplatypus]

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[thepositivecattitude]

Mother cat with kittens came to meet an old friend.

[star-anise]

I can’t believe we’ve already found the best animal video of 2016.

[glenn-griffon]

That is too adorable. You can tell the mother cat actually does trust the dog just by her body language. Typically a mother will watch her kittens closely and be very protective of them, here she completely trusts the dog to play gentle with them. This is just too damn cute.

[glyndarling]

When he bops the kitten and looks up at Mom to make sure he didn’t overstep!

[thesweetpianowritingdownmylife]

The dog is trying to make himself as non-threatening as possible!!

[anoctopus]

“This is your Uncle Dog. He is a good boy.”

[fierceawakening]

It got better

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also i got a tiny rubber baby for 95¢

[genghiskhanmp3-deactivated20160]

my son

[genghiskhanmp3-deactivated20160]

[grumpytrans]

poor person: wow i rly want this thing, ive saved up some money so i can finally afford it!

some dunce: wait i thought u were poor???????¿¿¿¿¿¿ u shouldn’t want this thing, u can’t hsve it, shouldn’t u b living in complete squalor????¿

[sakimcgee]

iconic

[grumpytrans]

best addition to my post thus far

[themadcapmathematician]

And then when a poor person is like “I can’t afford that” the same idiots are like “um…just save up??? If you really want it????? Not that hard lmfao”

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[eyeholes-in-a-paperbag]

this is so fucking funny

[girlbiome-deactivated20201226]

[sandsvendor100]

Hey Seymour! If Horace can play Spanish guitar, and Elmer can play Spanish guitar, what can you play?

Ball

[sandsvendor100]

[sandsvendor100]

Hey Seymour! If Horace can play Spanish guitar, and Elmer can play Spanish guitar, what can you play?

Ball

[amnesiaguy]

so, as you all know, being gay was considered a mental illness in the ‘30s, if not a medical defect. and as you also know, the superserum was supposed to cure steve of all his medical defects.

imagine how overwhelmingly relieved he is after he’s gotten the serum and he realizes he’s still queer. how vindicated. the serum fixed his lungs and his back and his vision, but it can’t fix something that isn’t wrong with him, and i can’t stop thinking about his face when he realizes that his queerness isn’t something that needs to be fixed.

[tagurself]

what the fuck did I just watch

[thetomska]

yes

[bangitsbing]

i just had a dream Alex Jones had a live show

and like. he was up on stage and reacting to a ‘dog talking’ video (one of those basic I LOVE YOU ones)

and then Alex turned in his chair

and he was like

“you know, this is impressive, but i have proof science can go MUCH FARTHER”

and then he proceeded to hold up a drawing of someones fursona

and he was like

“BEHOLD. THIS IS WHAT MAN HAS MADE SCIENCE DO TO THESE POOR, POOR CREATURES”

[haiku-robot]

“behold this is what man has made science do to these poor poor creatures”

^Haiku^bot^7. I detect haikus with 5-7-5 format. Sometimes I make mistakes. | Who do I read? | Contact | HAIKU BOT NO | Good bot! | Selfie | Meep morp! Zeet!

[infinittywar]

them: Hey. Are you even listening to me?

my head: rockin, rockin’, and rollin’. down to the beach, i’m strollin’ but the seagulls poke at my head: not fun! i said “seagulls mmm! stop it now!”  hmm hah hmm hmm hmm hah hmm hmm ha, hmm hmm hmm hm ha hmm hm hm hm hah

[stinson-png-deactivated20210103]

“Girls want a Superman, but they walk past a Clark Kent every day”

You fuckin CLOWNS think you’re a CLARK KENT? Not on my fuckin watch. You dumb, headass motherfuckers are barely a Guy Gardner and you think you’re a CLARK KENT? The amount of disrespect is unreal.

[bairnsidhe]

Listen here, wannabes: My boi Clark is 240 lbs of PURE KANSAS BEEF trained from a young age by Ma Kent to Love and Respect women as the Intelligent, Independent beings they are.  He is shy rambling about tractors and casually moving the copy machine when my pen falls behind it and he would NEVER demand I be sexually or romantically interested just because he’s nice.

Y’all ain’t Clark Kent.

[chaosinacoffeecup]

I have never hit the reblog button so damn fast.