Belgarion

Rhys - Don't expect anything amazing or specific. I post what I like when I like. I'm just going how I want to.

[tastefullyoffensive]

(via rudy_mustang)

[therandominmyhead]

A wild MACHAMP appeared!

Go! DUGTRIO!

[rifa]

I tried to scroll past this but its too damn clever

[angry-eevee]

adult life might be full of pain and suffering but at least we dont have to do PE anymore

[darksoulsartblog]

文アル事前登録をするのだポッター‏ @yamiwaller

[bytonight]

[nathansummers]

Gold

[wtf-fun-factss]

Traces of coca and nicotine found in Egyptian mummies - WTF fun facts

[jillyaintfromphilly]

well DUH. a lot of historians are still trying to process the fact that ancient egyptians knew how to build boats, which is ridiculous. why would they not be seafarers and explorers?

[youngbadmanbrown-deactivated201]

this is not new or surprising information at all. it pretty much day one of any african-american studies course.

the egyptians knew that if they put their boats in front of the summer storm winds it’d blow them right across the sea to the Americas and they shared that with the greeks.

[doublehamburgerjack-deactivated]

It’s really hard for people to understand that everyone had boats, exploration, and trade interactions without the same level of murder, colonization, and violence that the Europeans did. It’s really hard for people to get that.

[medievalpoc]

An 11,000 year old Iroqious boat.

A whole book about Ancient Egyptian Maritime technology and culture.

Scientists “shocked” to discover that humanity casually traveled the seas over 100,000 years ago.

The Sea-Craft of Prehistory (book; Eurocentric as heck)

Humans traveling long distances by sea and deep=sea fishing for c. 42,000 years

The Dufuna Canoe, Africa’s oldest surviving boat, is 8,000 years old (Nigeria)

A fleet of 5,000-year-old boats in Abydos, Egypt

7,000-year-old seaworthy vessels in Kuwait

7,500-year-old boat found in China’s Zhejiang Province.

Scientific Evidence for Pre-Columbian Transoceanic Voyages (273 pages-for the hardcore only!):

The only plausible explanation for these findings is that a considerable number of transoceanic voyages in both directions across both major oceans were completed between the 7th millennium BC and the European age of discovery. Our growing knowledge of early maritime technology and its accomplishments gives us confidence that vessels and nautical skills capable of these long-distance travels were developed by the times indicated. These voyages put a new complexion on the extensive Old World/New World cultural parallels that have long been controversial.

[ami-angelwings]

This is important for the knowledge/history aspect, but also because of what was said above, that exploration/seafaring/technological advancement does not automatically mean conquest, colonization, and genocide.  It’s one of those myths that an annoyingly large amount of people pass around to justify white supremacy: that everybody wants to conquer and wipe out everybody else, and that white people just got the technology and exploration level up first to do it.  They like this myth for several reasons: 1) it frames genocide, slavery, conquest, etc, as natural results of human development, SOMEBODY would have eventually done it regardless 2) it frames evil acts as “human nature”, it implies that the victims of those acts would have done them if they could, and that the people doing it were only acting on “nature” 3) it implies that because white people did these things therefore white people must have had the highest technological level and 4) because white people had the highest technological level therefore white people deserved their place in the world as conquerers and colonizers and enslavers.

Of course none of this is true, but it’s something our society likes to believe and the narrative is distributed through “common knowledge” and through our media, where non-white cultures in “historical” dramas are framed as “primitive” or warlike or both, and all the various dystopia fiction where “the oppressed become the oppressors” and what not (i.e. everybody wants to conquer everybody else, so SOMEBODY has to be on top).

[blogsouls]

better get the fuck off the plane

[mysterymanbob-deactivated201804]

sad story

friend did a crappy torrent of norton antivirus, the program successfully detected itself as a threat and deleted itself during a scan

[theawesomeadventurer]

this is my favorite sad story I am in tears

[discontinued-sorry-deactivated2]

Bloodborne, The Old Hunters.

by: http://dragonizm.tumblr.com/

[blogsouls]

[laurdlannister-kingslayer]

I need to stop getting on scottish twitter cuz i be wanting to laugh mad hard in class

[cursedandcarried-blog]

Lothric can use most spells in theory but practice is another matter. He is actually unable to use a catalyst, because his flesh conducts magic much better than a wand or staff, and like most energy it will always choose the easiest route to escape. Using certain spells, such as lightning spells, would burn him badly. He would also be harmed by any sort of Deep magic, causing intense pain and persistent numbness. Extremely powerful spells, even if they’re not of a sort of magic that can hurt him, will leave him drained and even unconscious if used persistently.

[axemurderercreighton-deactivate]

//if he miscast though 

[undeadchestnut]

“Well, what is it?”

You venture down into the Tomb of Giants, and you finally spot a friendly face in the darkness. Aren’t you glad?

[msmarvel]

[tastefullyoffensive]

Video: Spider-Man: Homecoming Trailer #2

[jawnbaeyega]

IM SCREAMING

[dustbunny105]

Gotta love Mark’s response too:

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[emeraldmercury]

Best post

[joshscorcher]

This is oddly satisfying.

[bisexualgambit]

I just realized I haven’t told you guys about how 3rd President of the United States Thomas Jefferson haunts my dorm room.

[bisexualgambit]

Okay so basically at the beginning of the year, weird shit began happening in our dorm room, me and my roommate would hear/see things, TVs and phones and computers would start on there own and do other weird things. 

We decided jokingly that the room was haunted and named the ghost Jeff and even made it a door tag. 

Me and my roommate began to notice a trend it the activity of “Jeff” He always seemed to act up most when I talked shit about Thomas Jefferson or James Madison’s personality/policies/etc. 

We began to joke that it was Thomas Jefferson or James Madison (hell we even joked it might be Dolley)

Well the other day, our ghost confirmed himself as “Thomas Jefferson.” 

After a particularly rude attack on Thomas Jefferson character (I claimed the best thing he ever did was die.) A fucking giant ass jumbo size box of Mac and Cheese fell off of the tallest shelf in our dorm room. 

I’m talking one of these babies but it’s like a 20 pack. To me it’s obviously that this is obviously proof that “inventor” of mac and cheese, 3rd President of the United States who was born and died in Virginia travelled to Upstate New York in an area he never even came close to in his life to haunt my dorm 

My roommate is not convinced though: She still thinks it could be James Madison. 

But a Madison-sized ghost couldn’t have reached the mac and cheese (We conducted an experiment to see if Madison would have been able to reach it when he was only 5′4″ and being 5′4″, I couldn’t even reach it jumping up and down.)

So yes, me and my roommate have proved undeniable that Thomas Jefferson haunts our dorm room.

Also she pointed out that we randomly named the ghost “Jeff” which is pretty fucking close to Jefferson. Coincidence? OBVIOUSLY NOT.

[hamletthedane]

“But a Madison-sized ghost couldn’t have reached the mac and cheese” 

I’m so glad I was alive to see this sentence written.

[sadisgates]

Why were you regularly shit talking founding fathers tho

[bisexualgambit]

I’m a salty U.S. History Major, that’s why

[emeraldboreas-deactivated201809]

This is the quality content I signed up for