Cardamom

19~F~bi bi bi

[card1m0m]

Whence all but he had fled

On the morning of the day the heir to the black dynasty Regulus Black died, the rain came in torrents, relentless and unyielding. The lake which stretched around the castle swelled beyond its edges, sending hungry, lapping waves against the stone walls of Hogwarts, as if the castle itself was mourning.

But this was the end, cold, quiet, inescapable. But before the ruin, there was the spark. Before the drowning, the first breath.

[hannanodaa]

ShroomYuan~ 🍄 🍵

[card1m0m]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Archive Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, No Archive Warnings Apply

Fandom: Voltron: Legendary Defender

Relationships: Keith/Lance (Voltron)

Additional Tags: klance, klangst, Historical AU, Alternate Universe - Historical, Forbidden Love, Inspired by Romeo and Juliet, Laith, Bisexual Lance (Voltron), Gay Keith (Voltron), Blood and Gore, Violent References, Alternate Universe - Royalty, War, Post War, 1900s, Keith (Voltron) is Bad at Feelings, Pining Keith/Lance (Voltron), Pining Lance (Voltron), Angst, Heavy Angst

‘’The waves were gentle now, as he lay on his back suspended under the stars. Leondre’s hands hovered just under the small of his back shielded under the water, keeping him safe and steady. It was hard to tell how much of the floating he was doing alone, and he was certain that if Leondre withdrew his hands he would be swallowed by the water.’‘

[kittcatastrophe]

All of the "Pro-lifers" that are celebrating right now I sincerely hope you or your daughters never have a Miscarriage that they cannot naturally pass, because a D&C is an abortion.

I hope you don't have a ectopic pregnancy, because the procedure that will save your life is an abortion.

I hope you don't have a still born baby that your body can't naturally pass because that induction is an abortion.

I hope you are never in a place where carrying a baby full term would mean your death (as mine would, my doctor looked me in the eyes and told me if I get pregnant again I WILL NOT MAKE IT, and fuck you all because my kids need a mom more than they need a sibling.)

I hope you don't find out your baby has a condition that will mean being alive for how ever long will cause them excruciating pain, that you don't have to birth your baby and watch them die a horrific, painful death in your arms.

I hope you aren't raped and forced to carry that baby to term no matter the detriment to your mental/physical health.

I hope you aren't forced to give birth to your abusers child, giving you no way out of the relationship.

I hope your 10 year old is never assaulted and have to carry a baby to term that will almost definitely will kill her.

I hope that you don't go to jail when they investigate your miscarriage and determine that something you did made it YOUR FAULT.

I hope you realize you and your daughters will die from laws you created.

I hope you realize the consequences of your actions because you may have to suffer through them.

[chillpotato]

Sylvia Plath

[lady-noir-poet-deactivated20230]

This passage is hauntingly beautiful xx

[mr-entj]

A student once asked anthropologist Margaret Mead, “What is the earliest sign of civilization?” The student expected her to say a clay pot, a grinding stone, or maybe a weapon. Margaret Mead thought for a moment, then she said, “A healed femur.” A femur is the longest bone in the body, linking hip to knee. In societies without the benefits of modern medicine, it takes about six weeks of rest for a fractured femur to heal. A healed femur shows that someone cared for the injured person, did their hunting and gathering, stayed with them, and offered physical protection and human companionship until the injury could mend. Mead explained that where the law of the jungle—the survival of the fittest—rules, no healed femurs are found. The first sign of civilization is compassion, seen in a healed femur.

— Ira Byock, The Best Care Possible: A Physician’s Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life (x)

[capstellium]

[ancientstone]

Fun fact! This is a Dmanisi skull from Georgia, another type of hominin to us. 

Notice that jaw? When we lose our teeth, over time our jawbone heals the gaps, making it smooth, so when archaeologists discover skulls centuries later they can tell whether the tooth was lost after death (as the bone didn’t grow to cover the hole) or during the individual’s life.

The majority of this jaw has healed, so this person would have lived a number of years with basically no teeth. The age of this skull, according to wiki, is 1.8 million years.

This means that millions of years ago this person had a diet with soft, easy foods, and that others in the group would have known, understood, and helped by specialising their foraging for this one individual.

Or, in the words of my lecturer when we covered this, “Someone would have had to chew up this person’s food for them. Every day. Multiple times. For years.” 

[legendarydefenderallura]

I hope they do reboot voltron and make klance canon but in a homophobic way, that destiel flavour.

[lvtheverybest]

This is how I imagine other fandoms see the Voltron fandom

[liberalsarecool]

That $1000 is taxpayer funded, BTW. Our vindictiveness as a society is unsustainable.

[theocseason4]

[loumovies]

Romeo + Juliet (1996) dir. Baz Luhrmann

[warplanerubdown]

[itbjossi]

Whatever the person behind SparkNotes' twitter is being paid it's not enough pt. who knows I lost count after all my Eurovision posting last night?

[subsequentibis]

utterly infuriating that tumblr’s porn ban just hit sex workers and queer creators and i still regularly get five pornbot followers a week whose posts are Just stolen pictures of naked women and somehow they never get flagged

[saddest-cat-hours]

[amyofthemyscira]

Bacchino Malato (Caravaggio, 1593)

[starsappho]

My favourite thing about this post is that someone saw those photos of that cat and went “ah yes, I know exactly which 15th century Baroque painting this reminds me of”

[omghotmemes]

This is amazing

[vedurnan-archive]