The Science of Living

Your opinion is relative and usually irrelevant. "Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises."-Samuel Butler

[ngalitzine]

u ever in such a bad mood u feel urself turning evil?

[ngalitzine]

had an actual meal. not evil anymore

[lackadaisycats]

When Twitter is trending on Twitter

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[sashaforthewin]

Same

[earendil-was-a-mariner]

Bilbo: wait I get it now. The dragon is a metaphor for greed and power. We need to ‘defeat’ it by being humble when we get the treasure.

Thorin: Bilbo, for the last time, it’s a real dragon and it has my gold

[misbehavingmaiar]

It’s living in my house, Bilbo

[medievalthymes]

a list of current immortals

florence welch: probably like 200 BCE celtic queen

keeanu reeves: 1500 renaissance hoe

jeff goldblum: late 1800′s i would guess

harry styles: fairly new immortal, 1970′s 

lorde: 1920′s flapper era

hozier: man who even knows, rough estimate is like, 400 BCE

john mulaney: 1930′s/40′s, still bitter about the great depression probably and if he could put it in a bit with out being #exposed he would

paul rudd: newest to the immortal club, didn’t age past the 1990′s

[inthannon]

I feel like this list is forgetting Sir Patrick Stewart who I believe has not aged since 7000 BCE.. After all his twin brother was the Kennewick man..

[space-feminist]

as a self-appointed expert on Hozier, i would say that date is possibly accurate.  

many of Hozier’s songs reference being buried in the earth (In a Week, Work Song), and some are directly inspired by bog bodies (Like Real People Do, Run). two of the most famous Irish bog bodies, Old Croghan Man and Clonycavan Man, are dated between 392 and 175 BCE, and both are speculated to have been kings ritually sacrificed to the goddess of the land. in Take Me to Church, Hozier demonstrates a willingness to offer sacrifices to a goddess, and in Foreigner’s God, he thinks fondly upon the image of a pre-Christian Ireland (“when the land was God-less and free”). as well, Old Croghan Man is estimated to have been about 6′6, and Hozier is about 6′5. 

the only possible flaw in this theory is that in a Facebook Q&A (here at 5:28), Hozier says that he is over 3000 years old. 400 BCE only puts him at ~2400. it could be that after so many years he’s lost track of how many thousands, but another possibility is that he is more contemporaneous with an older bog body, the Cashel Man, also presumed to be a sacrificed king. that would put him closer to 4000 than 3000, but again, we could forgive an immortal for getting his millenia wrong.

in any case, it seems likely to me that Hozier is an ancient Irish king who was ritually sacrificed to the old gods, but somehow returned (possibly through intervention by said old gods) to give us music subtly hinting at his experiences.

[mythicalmessenger]

this hozier addition is frighteningly detailed and I’m here for it

[ren-nolasco]

Set of holographic stickers dedicated to The Holy Trinity.

[azreto]

saw some b99 caps and couldnt stop thinkin about denki,,,

[pics-that-make-you-go-hmm]

[babyanimalgifs]

Animal snaps

[eponimood]

more proto-shenanigans, this time with homework

[squidsticks]

King James I: *builds secret tunnel connecting his room to the room of a man he calls his husband*

Historians: it’s very hard to tell what kind of relationship they would have had, let’s not look at this through a 21st century lens

[naaaaaaaaaah-deactivated2020112]

Im fucking deceased

[burntcopper]

…I’m not seeing anything wrong, per se.

[queenoftheimps]

this was great, but the part that’s killing me is Netflix’s follow-up

[nocontextgoodplace]

[the-poor-decision]

This is an underrated joke

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[drarry]

someone once messaged me to let me know that Hannibal and Will’s age gap was problematic and I was just sitting there like…. Really…. that’s your first and most pressing issue with Hannigram, Really

[oldwitchsleep]

they’re cannibals, susan

[academicssay]

Active voice: I will write Passive voice: Writing will be done Passive-aggressive voice: I love how you always say you’ll write but never do

[dxmedstudent]

me @ me

[lighthouxe-deactivated20181201]

“oh but you don’t look latine”

what? i have no idea what you’re talking about. i’m guessing you have a preconceived idea of what a latine should look / sound / do based on the “classic” latines that you see in the media all the time, like:

and they’re great, but there’s also white latines, like:

and don’t forget about the black latines, such as:

and the indigenous latines are also very important:

and there’s also chinese latines, like Harry Shum, Jr. yeah, thay guy from glee and the shadowhunters (the netflix show). i don’t know if he self identifies as latino, but he was born in Costa Rica and lived there for six years, so that makes him latino by definition.

in fact, there’s presence of many asian racial / ethnic groups, but they’re not very common in the media. that’s why i’m not including any pictures. but they’re here and we love them.

and let’s not even talk about the mixing going on with all of the above because this post could go on for years

so bottom line: 

latinoamérica is a big beautiful melting pot of everything

latine is not a skin color, it’s an ethnicity

there’s no such thing as “looking latine”. all latines are different

and it is possible that not every latine self identifies as poc