Fascination at Its Finest

Amanda. Disney and Jurassic Park fanatic. Slytherin. Teacher. Not necessarily in that order.

[patterns-pets]

Your pets after you bring your phone out to film them doing something

[sonypraystation]

my ancestors seeing me shrug off a diarrhea session

[n0vic3-4nastasia]

this is hilarious when you consider how frequently ppl used to die from this

[whitepeopletwitter]

[cluegrrl]

It would be just as effective as a full on strike, without risking their jobs in anti union states. Especially if they made public newspaper announcements that this is what they will ALL be doing.

[spiderine]

This is called “Work-To-Rule” (a form of malicious compliance), and is a very useful and effective tool in labor organization!

[inqorporeal]

The number of nights my dad sat up late grading papers piled in reams around the living room.

The number of times we went on summer camping trips and he’d stay behind at the tent preparing lessons for the upcoming year while we went swimming.

He never really had weekends or holiday time for himself, because he was always doing work.

The US education system as it currently exists would grind to a complete halt if teachers refused to work unpaid overtime.

[cowboy]

I would let a racoon do surgery on me

[cowboy]

Have you seen their little hands? Those motherfuckers would give me a great heart transplant for the low low cost of a cold pizza slice

[quinintheclouds]

you do realize where racoons' little hands have been right

[headspace-hotel]

is that the...only reason you wouldn’t let a raccoon give you a heart transplant?

[ankewehner]

Come on! They are so well known for washing their hands that they’s called “washing bears” in German! You don’t have to worry about where their hands have been!

[headspace-hotel]

Well! you heard it folks, getting a heart transplant from a raccoon is perfectly safe!

[day-time-dream]

where is the raccoon getting the heart

[cowboy]

don't worry about it

[weloveshortvideos]

[byebyebyebyebyebybeybebyeybeyeb]

how can him go inside but me not

[i-am-fert]

itis okay. you can stil particitate in othor fert activties suck as:

sleep

sleep

and sleep

[dicecast]

This is illegally sweet.  

[tschaikovsky]

[barelyup]

Oh my god ❤️

[lilbluemoo]

Absolutely love this

[caffeinatedlanddetective]

Wow.

Please watch this. 

[doeing]

i was a little apprehensive to watch this because it’s four minutes long and i have a short attention span, but within the first 30 seconds i was hooked.

watch this. please, you won’t regret it.

[selkiefemme]

I got emotional really fast

And it brings up a good point…. I often wonder what the lives of myself and my family would have been like if there has been such a thing as psychological treatment for Holocaust survivors.

I wonder how israel would have turned out if they knew about ptsd and understood that the entire country had it.

[cundtcake]

[chibisquirt]

58 seconds to demonstrate EXACTLY why professionalism requires manners.

[digitaldiscipline]

For those of you who do not speak Corporate, this is just:

“Fuck you.” “Fuck you, too.”

[pghumfort]

This gave me hives

[kendrene]

Me in the office

[horriblytasty]

[bunjywunjy]

[archaeologistproblems]

Yeah.

[thenatsdorf]

Best of 2020 ekekekekek’s (via)

[what-even-is-thiss]

The English: This is our legendary King Arthur. His bravest knight is named Gawain who cut off a green giants head

The French: That’s cool, but what if his coolest knight was FRENCH and practiced INFIDELITY with the QUEEN

The English: That’s not…

The French: His name is Lancelot.

The English: Okay actually that name frickin rules. Proceed.

[what-even-is-thiss]

The English: Uh France what are you doing to our oc?

The French: Making the downfall of his kingdom come at the hands of Lancelot.

The English: The… French one?

The French: Yeah.

The English: Aight then.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Historians: Hey! Are you two making things up again?

The French and English: *quickly throw their Lancelot/Guinevere fanfics into a bush* No! Real historical figures! What are you talking about???

The idea of King Arthur being the equivalent to our modern day shows/anime is both a little insulting but also hilarious.

[what-even-is-thiss]

It is though. It’s the medieval equivalent of the MCU or Naruto.

[cannibalcaprine-deactivated2024]

The stories of the Knight of the Round Table or Charlemagne’s Paladins were 100% just the medieval Justice League or Avengers.

[donateliamitsuki]

I was today’s years old when I learned Lancelot and King Arthur ain’t real????

[what-even-is-thiss]

lol no Arthur might have existed but if he did he was a native Briton warlord fighting the Anglo-Saxons that got so mythologized that within everything written about him whatever was originally true in the oral legends about him was lost and overly mythologized by the time a version of his story was first written down in the 500s. The time Arthur supposedly existed was probably around the 200s to 400s because some of his legends involve him or members of his court fighting the remains of the western Roman empire. Lancelot is just an invention by a French poet lol. Chretien de Troyes specifically. Also he was supposedly a lost French nobleman raised by a fairy that lives in a lake so yeah if you dig into the original written legends for more than like ten lines using modern logic you can figure out that they’re not based on real people. Most people don’t read the original source material though so I don’t blame you for not knowing. I think the original poems and compilations are fascinating but I also have a special interest in old literature and studied it in college and know that most people like to read stuff written after 1890 when literature actually Became Good.

[jenniferrpovey]

Arthuriana has always been reenvisioned. It’s all fanfic. Write your own!

[aqueerkettleofish]

The most historically accurate version of the Arthurian Legends was done by Monty Python. Not a punchline.

[definite-human]

@prokopetz on this issue:

[cloverandcrossbones]

Also there’s strong evidence that Arthur was originally Welsh. Arthurian legends are like a multi-country collab project over the course of centuries

[malkaleh]

@beyondthisdarkhouse

[majorgenerally]

Remember that Galahad was made up by the church when Lancelot became popular. They were like, Our OC is way better than Lancelot. He’s his son, but get this he’s super pure and pious and he ACHIEVES THE GRAIL

[tomorrowandbeyond]

[bitwisdom]

this is the first good thing tumblr has ever recommended to me or to anyone else

[roach-works]

me and the girls after we get vaccinated

[catchymemes]

[the-fox-fae-deactivated20220908]

[akashicsage]

Regular doctors don’t necessarily know much about nutrition/diet either. I started seeing a dietician this year and she was straight up horrified by some of the advice given to me by my doctor.

[fred-erick-frankenstein]

[Video description:

A tiktok-video of Sarah Williams @/nutritionalsarah - who stands in front of a mirror a phone in her hand. 

CC: My thoughts on nutrition trends as a dietetic student/intern.

Starting off big: Keto was created for epileptic children. Carbs are not bad for you; they’re actually the preferred fuel source for the body.

Drinking lemon water in the morning will not boost your metabolism. Taking Apple Cider Vinegar shots in the morning is gross and does nothing for you.

The terminology of „clean eating“ is silly. The only time you should be clean eating is when there is dirt on your food.

1,200 calories is the amount a toddler needs and/or a 98 year old bed-ridden patient. If you have working liver and kidneys, you don’t need to do a detox. All those cleanses do is make you poop yourself.

Consistently eating under your Basal Metabolic Rate will lower your metabolism. Juice cleanses are just…no. Dietary fat does not make you fat. It’s an excess of calories that contribute to adipose tissue.

Sweet potatoes are not healthier that white potatoes. They just both have different micronutrient profiles. Skinny does not automatically equal healthy. Eating after 8pm will not make you fat.

Drink your water, get your sleep, eat your fruits and veggies and forget about the rest. 

/end Video Description.]

[a-girl-with-sparkling-lies]

She’s right and should say it. Speaking from an entirely different part of this grand conspiracy, a lot of this shit is made up and pushed to sell expensive niche cookbooks to your parents. The amount of books about keto and and “clean eating” i sell to boomers and older Gen X is absurd.

[lesbianfreyja]

the phrase “curiosity killed the cat” is actually not the full phrase it actually is “curiosity killed the cat but satisfaction brought it back” so don’t let anyone tell you not to be a curious little baby okay go and be interested in the world uwu

[violet-nomad-deactivated2018120]

See also:

Blood is thicker than water The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb.

Meaning that relationships formed by choice are stronger than those formed by birth.

[espurr-roba]

Let’s not forget that “Jack of all trades, master of none” ends with “But better than a master of one.”

It means that being equally good/average at everything is much better than being perfect at one thing and sucking at everything else. So don’t worry if you’re not perfect at something you do! Being okay is better!

[theshantiestme11ophone]

These made me feel better

[thelifeofatubaplayer]

Also, “great minds think alike” ends with “but fools rarely differ”

It goes to show that conformity isn’t always a good thing. And that just because more than one person has the same idea, doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a good idea.

[eattheacid]

what the fuck why haven’t i heard the full version to any of these 

[terror-billie]

“Birds of a feather flock together” ends with “until the cat comes.”

It’s actually a warning about fair-weather friends, not an assessment of how complementary people are.

[engel-tier-deactivated20180213]

I’ve always felt like these were cut down on purpose.

[washington-acp]

I really like these phrases and plan on spreading this knowledge.

[alwayswillgraham]

The early bird catches the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

[its-kks-world]

I want to make designs out of these.

[sunderlorn]

Funny how all the half-finished ones encourage uniformity and upholding the status-quo, while the complete proverbs encourage like…living exciting, eclectic lives driven by choice and personal passion.

[tentaclabia-deactivated20190608]

NICE

[uhh-the-green-thing]

The legendary thread is back

[ebonyheartnet]

IT’S FUCKING BACK!!!!!!!!

[drgrlfriend]

This one is perfect for Tumblr: “A little knowledge is a dangerous thing…” ends with “drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.”

So, it’s not that knowledge is dangerous, the emphasis is on having just a little knowledge.  Having just a cursory understanding of something causes overconfidence and potential to misunderstand, but when you really delve into a subject in depth you realize the full complexity of it.

[thefloatingstone]

Yeah these are DEFINITELY cut short for a reason, make no fucking mistake.

[render94]

typewriter!

[theclockworkjudas]

I love the orchestra trying and failing to maintain a straight face throughout

[silly-jellyghoty]

Exactly. These people had to rehearse at least a few times all at once yet when it's nkt their turn to play they still look at that guy with the typewriter as if he was the most fascinating thing they have ever seen.

[ironwoman359]

My husband's wind ensemble played this song when he was in high school! you can do it with normal auxillery percussion, but it's so much more fun if you do it with a real typewriter

[alexseanchai]

now that is a writing mood

[s-n-arly]

An orchestral piece for writers!

[roboco-san]

cats have to be very small but they are allowed to do as many crimes as they want. that's the deal they made with god

[miiriya]

[ahsunay]

LET THEM KNOW!!! LET LIL BOYS KNOW.