Blackbirdblade.

whatever I'm into at the moment really

[donske]

[i-go-alone-into-the-danger]

Who is this fluffy billy goat gruff?

[lokismidgardmistress]

The face he made😂

[lowhostrikesback]

@i-wanna-be-toms-body-pillow​ @the-haven-of-fiction​

[i-wanna-be-in-england]

[everythingfox]

[itibitymity]

Russos: “We killed HALF of the universe and everyone wants to talk about Loki…”

Kevin Feige: “The question I got asked more than any other question in Endgame was where did Loki go, what happened to Loki?”

➡ Marvel fans my people, is something else.

[motherhela]

You dumbasses were really surprised? 🤦🏽‍♀️

[alstee]

Loki in Thor: so sympathetic they had to edit out several of his scenes to give back protagonism to Thor

Loki fans: please more Loki

Marvel: sure, he’ll be the villain in Avengers

Loki in Avengers: super charismatic villain, implied he was tortured/brainwashed/coerced into working for Thanos, that plot thread is left hanging

Loki fans: please more Loki

Marvel: well, okay, sure, we’ll get Joss Whedon to script doctor Thor 2 to add more Loki

Loki in comic con/in TDW: steals the show, his death in TDW has to be reversed because test screening audiences could not believe it

Loki fans: please more Loki

Marvel: nnngh, but the Thor films are not making us the money we want them to!

Loki in AoU: appears briefly in a vision sequence, has to be removed because test screening audiences thought he was the true mastermind behind Ultron, Marvel never even releases that scene to the public

Loki fans: Loki when

Marvel: oh boy

Loki in Ragnarok: has his character altered and declawed, his relationship to Thor altered, all intended to punish Loki for overshadowing Thor in the past three films they shared

Loki fans: fandom divisions widen, but all want more Loki

Marvel: no, seriously, why do they like him so much?

Loki in IW: has a ridiculously graphic and drawn out death scene that his killer mocks, very brief total screentime, still more beloved and talked about than the villain of the film, early death scene still stands out in a movie with several deaths in the climax

Loki fans: he is just hiding, right?

Marvel: are you kidding me

Loki in Endgame: is never mentioned by his grieving brother, past self appears briefly and nopes out of the scene into an alternate timeline, appears in a stock footage scene that Thor hardly reacts to

Loki fans: please more Loki, come on

Marvel: But why????? We don’t get this. How did this happen? okay fine, his disney series will be a continuation of the alternate timeline loki instead of the “loki’s backstory as he visits midgard’s history” that got a lukewarm internet response

Loki fans: finally!

Marvel: we still don’t get you though

Loki fans: we know :’(

[itsgonnabesoon-deactivated20210]

Allow me:

Marvel: we still don't get you though

Loki fans: we don't give a fuck anymore, just hand over Loki and give the reins to Tom

[thehumming6ird]

The Avengers (2012)

Dir. Joss Whedon

[kaijuno]

In highschool I wrote a story about a middle-generation of stellar travelers. Their parents were born on earth and left as children, and the middle generation will not live long enough to see their destination. They live their entire lives on the ship and I wrote about them trying to find their place in everything. They will never know blue skies and warm beaches and open fields with warm breezes. They’ll never know birdsong or crickets or frogs. They’ll never hear the rain on the roof of a dreary day. I never could find the right way to end the story. I wanted it to be a happy ending, but I didn’t know how to do it.

I realize now that it was a book about me dealing with depression before I even knew it. Looking back at how blatant the projecting was, it’s obvious now. It wasn’t then.

In the story, the middle-generation people are lost. They’re apathetic. They’re just a placeholder. The only job they have is to keep the ship running, have kids, and die. As the middle generation of people began becoming adults, suicide rates were skyrocketing. Crime and drug rates were jumping. This generation was completely apathetic because they felt that they had no use.

In the story, a small group of people in the middle-generation create the Weather Project. They turn the ship into a terrarium. They make magnificent gardens and take the DNA of animals they took with them and recreate them and they make this cold, metal spaceship that they have to live their entire lives on into a home. They take what little they have and they break it and rearrange it into something beautiful. They take this radical idea and turn the ship into a wonderful jungle of trees and birds and sunshine.

And I realize now how much it reflects my state of mind as I transitioned from a child into an adult while dealing with depression. You always hear “it gets better” and “when you’re older things will be easier” and I was so sick of waiting for it to get better. I was in the middle-generation stage. And I was sick of it. I was so sick of waiting.

When I was in highschool I didn’t know how to end the story. I didn’t know how to have a happy ending. I didn’t have the life experience then to finish the story in a meaningful way. I didn’t know how to make it better for these middle-generation characters.

But now that I’m older, I’m learning. That if you sit and wait for things to get better, it never will. You have to take your life and break it apart and rearrange it into something beautiful. You have to make the cold metal ship into the garden that you deserve. You have to make your own meaning. You have to plant your own garden.

You have to teach yourself that being happy is not a radical idea.

[kaijuno]

God you guys I never thought this would become so popular 😱 I was gonna name it The Weather Project after the art installment that inspired it

By Olafur Eliasson

[sexy-necromancing-bird]

This actually made me a bit teary ngl

[drachenmagier]

So, the story of this drawing? A shadow from a nearby tree on the paper looked very much like a dragon. So, I went with that shadow~. Have a shadow-dragon. Literally. :D 

[unicornempire]

It’s lovely! I especially love the shape of the wing on the right, it’s very visually engaging, and the light on the scales of the top of the tail, really well done!!

[sosuperawesome]

Yun Ling on Instagram

Follow So Super Awesome on Instagram

[profeminist]

“It’s 2019. Can we all now please stop saying “climate change” and instead call it what it is: climate breakdown, climate crisis, climate emergency, ecological breakdown, ecological crisis and ecological emergency? #ClimateBreakdown #EcologicalBreakdown”

-  Greta Thunberg‏

[profeminist]

In related news: 

Huge swathes of the Arctic on fire, ‘unprecedented’ satellite images show

Earth’s boreal forests now burning at rate unseen in ‘at least 10,000 years’, scientists warn

[confusedcataclysm]

[treasures-and-beauty]

Botanical & Bugs Ceramic Tile in Green Ochre: Beth Sherman: Ceramic Wall Art

[just-shower-thoughts]

The person who first discovered that coconut could be eaten must have experienced depths of hunger many will never know.

[heckshowerthoughts]

They prolly just saw some other animal doin it my man

[transhumanist-viking-deactivate]

you mean like the coconut crab, which naturally feeds on coconuts by breaking htem open with large claws? 

[the-spoopy-ghost-of-raejin99]

Coconut crab: I sneep. I break ze coconut. I eat ze coconut.

Some dude:

[dontbeanassbutt]

K but have y’all seen what coconut crabs look like cause

Jesus Christ

[kentucky-fried-bucky]

[carnival-phantasm]

Every apex predator, looking at a capybara chilling: “…nah, I can’t eat this dude, that would be fucked up”

[slbtumblng-deactivated20221210]

[raejin99]

[leviathan-supersystem]

also like every self proclaimed “logic rationality no emotion ever” dude i’ve ever met has been transparently seething with rage, and acted completely irrational because of this

[jessekingman-deactivated2020092]

some dude: i think Logically. i Don’t React Emotionally because somehow my nervous system is, actually, very different from yours (you wouldn’t understand). my tear ducts? They Dont Exist.

same dude, angry: **punches a wall** **screams**

[alexkawaiipie-deactivated202305]

I wish all of these things were easy!

[systlin]

Anyway, if you read marriage certificates from church records, a full 85% of first marriages for young women were around 18-19 years old. The rest skewed higher, into the early twenties, with only a few being below that age and only one in a thousand was younger than 16. 

The age of puberty has declined over the centuries as girls get better nutrition, as well, so throughout the middle ages the age at which a girl could expect her first period was around 16, where modern girls often get it much younger. 

The idea that women in earlier ages were married and mothers in their early teens is a myth. Marriages of children were usually only between noble families, and made for political reasons, or creepy old bastards who wanted a child-wife and could get away with it because they were rich and powerful. They often would point to the fact that the Roman elite did the same thing as justification. The Romans, of course, would point to the Greeks doing the same thing as justification, the Greeks pointed at the Assyrians, and so on back through the ages. 

It was considered disgusting by normal people then and still is. 

This myth is still brought out and touted by sick fuckers. Know it for what it is; a falsehood. 

[mistresstrevelyan]

And EVEN among the nobility marriages at such a young age were a much rarer occasion than those apologists would make you believe.

Let’s look an an egregious example, Henry the bloody VIII:

First marriage:

He was 18, Katharine of Aragon was 23.

Second marriage:

He was 40/41, Anne Boleyn, depending on which theory you believe, was anywhere between 24 to 32.

Third marriage:

He was 44, Jane Seymour was 28.

Fourth marriage:

He was 48, Anne of Cleves was 25

Fifth marriage:

He was 48, Catherine Howard, depending on which source you believe, was between 17-22. And yes, people at the time actually were squicked out by this age difference. And rightly so.

Sixth marriage:

He was 51, Catherine Parr was 31. 

Even the most notorious LECHER and WIFE MURDERER in history did not marry teenagers in at least 5 if not 6 out of 6 marriages. 

And here’s another Tudor tidbit, both Henry VII and VIII knew how traumatic and damaging it is for women marrying/having children too young. Henry VII’s mother was married at 12 and gave birth to Henry VII at 13. It caused so much damage and trauma that she never had another child after him despite being married three times.

So yes CUT THAT SHIT OUT. Teenage girls are NOT adults and anyone preying on them is pure evil.

[systlin]

YOU 

I LIKE YOU

And as for the marriage of Elizabeth Woodville to King Edward IV, she was 27 at the time. He? Was 22. 

She had been married before, and did marry young…at the age of sixteen or seventeen, to Sir John Gray, who was about five years her senior. 

[ghiraheeheeheem]

@systlin This is good information, but do you have a source for the information about how most marriages back in the day were not actually usually from a younger age? I tried Googling it but I can only find things talking about modern day issues.

[systlin]

Well, if you don’t want to spend months crawling through digitized copies of marriage records preserved in church archives from the 12th through 18th centuries from England, Italy, Germany, France, ect (which you can do, and it will show you I’m right) you can go read  “ Medieval Households” by David Herlihy, Harvard University Press, 1985. He did the archive crawling for you. 

Also  Peter Laslett’s book “The World We Have Lost”, where he details over a thousand marriage certificates, and he dug through many more in the writing of the work. 

[im-defalut]

Wait. I am spanish. Do they actually think henry/enrique VII married fucking katherin/catalina de Aragón as a teenager?

You know we see films about this in school and every one is pretty much adult there, both fisically and in the story.

[systlin]

There’s this…really weird trend in a lot of pseudo-European fantasy/ ‘historical’ books to have girls marry like…really young, to vastly older dudes. Like at about 13, getting married off to like 30 year olds. And then say “Well that’s what it was like back then.” 

(Sideyes G.R.R.M)

And…no. No it wasn’t. That’s gross. England was creeped TF out when Henry VIII married Catherine Howard when she was between 17 and 22 and he was 48 as stated above, and rightly so. 

[prismatic-bell]

All of this is excellent, and there is one thing I would add:

When you DID have these super-young marriages between nobility, it was more or less the same thing we do today when we scream “DIBS!” over who gets the TV remote. You might have a 13-year-old lord marrying a 14-year-old girl, but they weren’t expected to actually act as husband and wife, not yet. He had schooling to finish, she had to learn how to run a household. The union was purely political and not to be consummated until later–you know, at a point when they were 18 or 19 and she could carry a child without dying of it and he could actually support a wife.

[bloodasredlipstick-deactivated2]

I think one of the major causes of many misconceptions like this is because people have been basing their preceptions on life in the past off of works of FICTION written in the past. When I was studying Early Modern literature in undergrad, this topic was brought up regarding the presence of sexual abuse. There were many plays and what not that implied things such as this, however the scene in the play WAS CONSIDERED SHOCKING to people back then too. It would be like someone 500 years from now watching some grimdark noire mopey antihero cop drama in a city of sin, and then thinking that it demonstrates what the everyday life of today’s world is. No one in this thread is saying things like that NEVER happened back then, it was just… not as common as historical fiction and fiction written 500 years ago might have you believe. As OP mentioned, historical documents from the time have far fewer child marriages and sexual abuse than literary works from the time do.

[norseminuteman]

Rebloging for A+ history. 

[beifongkendo]

Deer queuing up before a wagashi store on Itsukushima (Miyajima).

[tokyocandid]

Still raining tonight

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