an admiring bog

your local Catholic cryptid ~ she/her ~ Sof/Sofi/Sofia ~ mostly into old books and other such nonsense

[amarguerite]

honestly I think there's a huge generation of readers who read 'the song of the lioness' at an impressionable age and it rewired their brains

[wtf-scientific-papers]

Submitter comment: I'd like to submit this '[s]tudy of defensive behavior of a venomous snake as a new approach to understand snakebite' not for it's topic (worth studying!) but for it's insane methodology, which... well, I'll just let the researcher speak for himself:

[Q: Why did you decide to do this experiment?

A: Snake behavior has been generally neglected as a field of research, especially in Brazil. And most studies don’t examine what factors make them want to bite. If you study malaria, you can research the parasite that causes the disease—but if you don’t study the mosquito that carries it, you will never solve the problem. Up until now, the popular wisdom was that the jararaca would only attack if you touched it or stepped on it. But that was not what we found.

Q: Why did you need to be the victim?

A: The best way to do this research is to put snakes and a human together. In this case, the human was me. We put the snakes inside a ring on the floor of our lab until they got used to it, then I stepped in wearing special protective boots. I stepped close to the snake and also lightly on top of it. I didn’t put my whole weight on my foot, so I did not hurt the snakes. I tested 116 animals and stepped 30 times on every animal, totaling 40,480 steps.]

From the recent (aptly named) interview: Researcher steps on deadly vipers 40,000 times to better predict snakebites

[dragongirl-casca]

[peach-pot]

anyone wanna guess what this doesthedogdie tie is for?

[peach-pot]

thaaaat’s right!

[peach-pot]

this is kind of a gold mine

[yupokaysuremhm]

Another one that tickled me

[sequestering]

Sucker: my year as a degenerate gambler by McKay Coppins (The Atlantic)

[chthonicrose]

Paywall skip link.

This is very worth reading.

[an-admiring-bog]

inspired by @love-elevated -- I wanna get back to letter writing! past and present penpals include my 3rd grade teacher, 10yo student, and college roommates who moved far far away. dm me if you want to swap pretty typewriter and handwritten letters and stickers and things like that <3

[an-admiring-bog]

who else wants to be my pen pal?! it's the beginning of the school year which means i have a great urge to do anything but school. including write letters. come write letters with me

[valtsv]

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"

[valtsv]

[autisticandcatholic]

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!”

[ahopefulbromantic]

Always reblog St. Lawrence's execution!

[portraitsofsaints]

Saint Clare of Assisi

1194-1253

Feast Day: August 11 (New), August 12 (Trad)

Patronage: eye disease, goldsmiths, laundry, embroiderers, gilders

Saint Clare of Assisi, an Italian saint and one of the first followers of Saint Francis of Assisi, founded the Order of Poor Ladies, a monastic religious order for women in the Franciscan tradition, and wrote their Rule of Life—the first monastic rule known to have been written by a woman. Following her death, the order she founded was renamed in her honor as the Order of Saint Clare, commonly referred to today as the Poor Clares. In art, Clare is often shown carrying a monstrance or pyx, in commemoration of the time when she warded away the soldiers of Frederick II at the gates of her convent by displaying the Blessed Sacrament and kneeling in prayer.

Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase. (website)

[lt-commandertom]

Oh, Sir Patrick Stewart the Royal Shakespearean actor that you are…

ONE OF THE GREATS

[orthodoxadventure]

​Icon of the Mother of God

[lingling40hrs]

i love 80’s music and by 80’s i mean 1880’s i’m talking about tchaikovsky again

[thatsbelievable]

[thatsbelievable]

[farewell-to-lorien]

Talking to Ghosts, by Sienna Gonzales.

[hopefulqueer]

Computer. New Mountain Goats album. Loud enough to kill.

[not-a-choice]

Beautiful lyrics from the mountain goats as always

[krollmonster]

The Moutain Goats' entire discography lives in the second between wanting to say "I'm going to kill myself" and pausing to think "I should stop saying that"

[for-the-sake-of-fuck]