Hic Sunt Dracones

Writer, photographer, graphic designer, historian, fan-girl, and mother

[calicoshadowcat]

[firelxdykatara]

ok but rick fucking crying, sobbing, “what do i do, evy? what do i do?” she’s dying and he just BREAKS, he loves this woman so much and she completed him in all the best ways–not because they were incomplete without each other but they were better together and he loved and respected her and she was strong in areas he wasn’t and he was ok with that, and i just

your faves could NEVER. name me one action-adventure movie that does a het romance this well GO AHEAD I’LL FUCKING WAIT

[peashooter85]

-Be Belgium weapons designer

-Spend lots of money to invent a totally new firearm concept

-Sleek futuristic design

-Smol and compact

-Ambidextrous

-800-1,100 round per minute

-Fires new high velocity smol cartridge that with a smol caliber bullet which can pierce body armor

-Market to militaries around the world.

-Only significant sales are to the SciFi Channel in USA

[necronoverlord1994]

[armsnotsigns]

[anarcho-gunman]

Why would they buy all the live ammunition? Were they unloading it to make blank rounds? Is that more cost effective than just hiring a company that specializes is blank firing weapons to work some magic?

[fentakneeeeeeeeel]

>he thinks Stargate was fictional

[wetwareproblem]

To actually answer the question, since 5.7 was a new caliber, no blank manufacturers were making it. So yes, it was cheaper and more feasible to unload the live rounds to make blanks.

[kactusnz]

bwahahaha

[backinblack-80]

This is one of my favorite BTS SG-1 stories! I choose to believe it's true 🤣

[princesonic]

I dunno, stop apologizing for your art. This includes not posting enough, too much, changing style, inconsistent style, repetition, subject. Its your art its your expression. Have fun.

[cherryhatter-deactivated2015072]

KICK THE CAN!

Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.

To kick the can, reblog it. I wanna see how long this can go on for.

[visibun]

the oldest reblogs for this post that i can find are from january 2nd of 2013. this can has been getting kicked around tumblr for almost 13½ years now

[drtanner]

And yet somehow this is my first time kicking it!

[copperbadge]

On Saturday I said to my partner, as I have said for months, "A ten thousand dollar a year raise would solve so many of my problems."

As of this morning I was reluctantly looking for jobs because I love my job and don't want to leave it, but see: $10k raise problem solver.

As of noon today this was no longer an issue, because my boss called me with the news that I was getting a $10K merit raise.

I feel like a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders. This is roughly $200 extra per paycheck. Enough to pay off debt faster, rebuild my savings, and spend a weekend a month in Milwaukee getting obscenely laid. The sex I'm going to have on $200 extra per paycheck. You can't even.

May all of you get the $10K raise your soul has yearned for. And whatever level of sex you can be satisfied with for $200.

[vergess]

hey bestie i think ur post might be charmed 'cause you aren't gonna fuckin believe what happened today

[penstab]

i have a horrible misogynist rooster who only likes blonde hens so i always have to make sure i have 2-3 yellow hens around so he doesn't run anyone ragged. i didn't know this was a problem someone could have but i've had macklemore for eight slutty, slutty years and he's been overly obsessed with the blondness level of his lady friends for the entire time with no sign of slowing down so, like. props to him for sticking to his guns.

SIR, PLEASE,

[penstab]

YOU CANT JUST CASUALLY LEAVE THIS IN THE REPLIES AS IF THIS ISNT A CRUCIAL ELEMENT OF THIS HARROWING STORY

SIR!!!!!!

[papayagas]

mostly she regards him with a certain genteel confusion- no matter how many grand overtures he makes, juno’s never really figured out that he’s not just a really weird plant? since the birds mostly stay in my garden wrecking all my vegetables. 

[brodudepants]

God even the tags are gold

[world-heritage-posts]

world heritage post

[theinturnetexplorer]

Being a nature photographer seems great, maybe I should try…

[hareofhrair-in-a-funny-hat]

[thehmn]

In Copenhagen you can visit The Round Tower. It used to be an astronomical observatory until light pollution and the vibrations from increased traffic in the streets made it useless for its original purpose.

Today it’s mostly famous for what it looks like on the inside.

It has an equestrian staircase though it’s so smooth it’s really just a gentle slope more than a staircase. It was build like that so our lazy bum king could ride his horse all the way to the top (king not in photo)

And naturally people have also driven cars up the tower

And held a bike race

For a while it was just sort of abandoned by the authorities and became a sloping marketplace

But today it has been restored and become a tourist spot as well as a popular destination for school trips. And yes, you can still watch the cosmos at the top.

[macrolit]

Marilyn Monroe’s apartment was full of books

[invinciblerodent]

[invinciblerodent]

you guys are so right, I should have added the best part

[askrobouteguilliman40k]

This meme ages like a fine wine every year that passes.

[anxietyproblem]

[freedominthedarkmp3]

One time this man approached me in a bar talking in Spanish. So I assumed he was Spanish and we started speaking, we had a whole ass conversation and at some point he was like. So what part of Spain are you from? And I said well I’m Italian actually. What part of Spain are you from? And he was like. I’m Greek.

[pastelpinkcheeks]

One time I was in Argentina and I was so tired of trying to speak Spanish because I’m not very good at it lmao so I broke into exasperated English and the retail seller girl quickly understood me and engaged me in conversation. We talked for a while, she introduced me to a makeup brand, and then I decided to buy it. While she was packaging the purchase, she asked me if I were from the US or perhaps the UK and I just said “oh no I’m Brazilian hahah” and she looked me straight in the eyes and said, in clear Portuguese, “I’m Brazilian too”

[ex-evil-genius-deactivated20220]

When my dad went to China on a work trip, his Mandarin speaking wasn’t great but his listening was fine (his first language is Cantonese) and he encountered a German guy who had moved to China to work. My dad knew how to speak German because he studied it in university (but wasn’t great when it came to listening to new vocab he hadn’t studied before), and the German guy knew Mandarin because he lived and worked in China, so they had a conversation where my dad spoke to the German guy in German and the guy responded in Mandarin. I’m sure it confused a lot of their coworkers who just saw the Asian guy speaking German and the white guy speaking Mandarin.

[theriversdaughter]

Some years ago, I worked for a manufacturing company that had a service depot in China.  One of the engineers from the main office here in the US spent most of his time at the depot.  The problem was that he didn’t speak *any* of the various Chinese languages, and no one at the depot spoke any English. They all, however, spoke Spanish.

[1stsana]

I love the world

[summertydes]

I love you. I love you more than I love myself. I know it doesn’t say a lot but you’re the only thing I love this much.

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[calicoshadowcat]

Ya know, I was ok being female until recently. I have started the era of my life that I am calling "Period Roulette". Will it be one day early, will it be two weeks late? No one knows.

[thatscarletflycatcher]

[theprofessional-amateur]

Gloves are for jazz hands, not paper.

Signed, an Archivist 💜

[conservethis]

[shredsandpatches]

Currently driving myself nuts trying to figure out what manuscript he's looking at. I thought Federico da Montefeltro Bible (BAV MSS Urb. lat. 1-2) at first but I don't think it has that much border decoration...

[thatscarletflycatcher]

The Borso D'Este Bible!

Borso d'Este Bible - Wikipedia

[jordisstigander]

I (female, protestant, married) have never before felt a desire to be pope. But if that means I get to handle the Vatican texts...I might have to change carrier paths

(Becoming pope works like the Sims, right?)

[creekfiend]

a friend's coworker was just diagnosed with immune itp bc he showed up at the ER with bruises and they took his blood and the platelet count was zero. as in none. white blood cells normal. platelets Zero. and apparently his immune system just ate them

as always the human immune system is not beating the "overactive HOA that explodes the whole subdivision bc someone put up a basketball hoop in their driveway" allegations

I really hate that it can just be looking around and go "hmmm I don't like the cut of this guy's jib" and the guy is YOUR OWN BLOOD

I was also reminded recently about the eyes having "immune privilege" meaning your immune system isn't really supposed to Go There bc your eyeball tissue is so delicate that inflammation and higher temperatures would destroy the tissue. so your body is just like. "don't look over there. nothing to be concerned about. nothing to see here" about. your eyes. to prevent your immune system from EXPLODING THE SUBDIVISION

human immune system fascinating (derogatory)

[creekfiend]

the recent thing where they think that maybe the rise in autoimmune disorders in ""developed"" countries may be due to the fact that our immune systems evolved to deal with a constant parasite load and we don't really have that. so they're just sort of attacking other stuff instead. and then the idea to try and solve this using WORM IMMUNE PROTEINS. is very delightful to me. it's like pretending to throw a ball for your dog. LOOK BOY! WORMS! GO GET IT!!!

[fittingoutjane]

True about the worms. Unfortunately, this fact has drifted into the popular understanding of science in a dangerously distorted way: People think it's just "germs" rather than specifically parasites. They think that minor viral infections help keep the immune system tuned correctly.

In fact, that's completely wrong. Our bodies did NOT evolve to endure anything remotely like the constant onslaught of viral pathogens that modern humans endure. It's the combination of few to no parasitic infections and far too many viral infections that increases the incidence of allergies and autoimmune conditions.

But over and over again I hear, "Oh, all these allergies are because we're too clean nowadays, let the kids get colds." Which is like trying to put out a fire by pouring gasoline on it.

[creekfiend]

oh yes absolutely, people don't understand the difference between 1. parasite load (thing you actually probably don't want your kid to have) 2. exposure to everyday bacteria and fungi present in our environment (good!) 3. exposure to potential food or environmenttal allergens like peanuts etc (also good!) and 4. exposure to viruses (NOT GOOD ACTUALLY)

[fittingoutjane]

Oh, yes! Your child should be exposed to as many different foods as possible before the age of 8 months. Yes, 8 months.

Unfortunately, the crunchy moms and even to some extent health authorities keep pushing exclusive breastfeeding for unrealistic periods of time, 6 months or even longer. Babies should be introduced to non-milk foods at 4 months. If they seem disinterested and shove the food back out (tongue thrust reflex) try again in a couple weeks.

Delaying to 6 months is dangerous, especially in exclusively breastfed babies. By 6 months, most babies have outgrown the milk supply, and delaying the introduction of complementary foods will slow growth. Breast milk has very little iron, and the deposits stored in baby's liver before birth will run out after a few months, resulting in anemia. Deficiencies in zinc and Vitamin D are also possible.

Also? Babies need to learn how to eat. There's a window in which their instincts will drive them to at least taste anything they see their older family members eat, but that window closes before age 2, so you really need to take advantage of it.

So, promoting exclusive breastfeeding for six months increases the risk of calorie deficiency, micronutrient deficiency, food allergies and feeding difficulties. But people still promote it because one study 40 years ago in Latin America found that in families without access to clean water and sanitation, delaying complementary foods reduced the risk of dangerous diarrhea. In first-world settings, no benefits have ever been demonstrated.

Yes, I'm still angry about this. I'm going to stay angry until they change the fucking policies.

[hempseeeeds]

the POINT of "exclusive" breastfeeding beyond six months is supposed to be to avoid diarrhea WHILE introducing solid foods from four months on. Because being newly introduced to milk-substitute or juice at the same time as being newly introduced to vegetable-mush and cereal, is harder on a baby's digestive system than breastfeeding while also eating small quantities of new solid foods, which means that If it is feasible for the parent to breastfeed beyond six months, they should do that, but in the Sense of "Baby gets most of its calories from breastmilk" rather than an elimination-diet.