secretly a space toad

this page is reflection of my life: a mess // very ace / intp

[moongloss]

Ballet rotoscope by Masahiko Sato & EUPHRATES

[aspecnb]

☾ planetary space ace moodboard ☽

[nudityandnerdery]

If you play John Cage’s 4′33″ at exactly 11:57:32 pm on New Year’s Eve, you’ll reach the part where it goes “           “ precisely at midnight.

[setheverman]

uuhhhh when you try all the sounds and beats on your synth while only playing toto - africa

[ratimus-prime]

if anyone ever tells you that english isn’t ridiculous remember that the reason why we have a silent b in debt is because a group of guys got together to standardise english spelling and got to the word debt, which at the time was primarily spelled either ‘dett’ or ‘det’. so they basically went:

‘everyone speaks latin, right? so let’s put a silent b in debt. like debitum, which is latin for debt. problem solved.’

also the reason why there is a h in ghost is because when the printing press first came to england the only people trained to operate it were flemmish speaking, and they put a h after g because that’s what you do in flemmish. they put shit like ghirl and ghoose, but the only reason why ghost stuck is because people saw ‘the holy ghost’ in the bible and were like ‘well, that MUST be right’.

so yeah english is a really stupid language with some of the most ridiculous spelling

[beka-tiddalik]

Anyone telling you that English isn’t a bullshit Frankenstein language is lying.

[avatar-dacia]

English mugs other languages in dark alleys and rifles through their pockets for spare vocabulary.  Pass it on.

[switch]

you know those lawn mower robots? vegetarian roombas.

[emergencycocktail]

the implication in this post that regular roombas consume meat is frankly kind of terrifying

[mrclussy]

In case u didn’t see these gems on buzzfeed

[miqueerla]

Icarus: Hey can I fly up close to the sun?

Daedalus:

Icarus: Why?

Daedalus:

[unclelink]

Icarus:

[riverlarking]

i want to share with you some of my favourite graffiti from Pompeii

“Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men’s behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity!“ 

“Amplicatus, I know that Icarus is buggering you. Salvius wrote this.“ 

“We two dear men, friends forever, were here. If you want to know our names, they are Gaius and Aulus.“

“Floronius, privileged soldier of the 7th legion, was here. The women did not know of his presence. Only six women came to know, too few for such a stallion.“

“On April 19th, I made bread.“

“ I have buggered men.“

“If anyone does not believe in Venus, they should gaze at my girlfriend.“

“It took 640 paces to walk back and forth between here and there ten times.“

“Chie, I hope your hemorrhoids rub together so much that they hurt worse than when they every have before!“

“Epaphra is not good at ball games.”

“Two friends were here.  While they were, they had bad service in every way from a guy named Epaphroditus.  They threw him out and spent 105 and half sestertii most agreeably on whores.“

“Secundus likes to screw boys.“

[archivedbarfblog]

I’ve always loved these. Humanity has never fucking changed.

[acheiropoietos]

tag yourself, im “If anyone does not believe in Venus, they should gaze at my girlfriend.“

[ilovesmoothjazz1998]

i love bread and i dont care what happens to me because of it

[lesbianfatale-archive-deactivat]

[defiant-trombone-blog]

@voiletski

bread =dead

[trombone-holy-spirit]

blue juice: forbidden drink

[trainedchimpanzee]

omg why do white ppl love cheese so mu-

[100-manslayer]

I actually didnt know that

[grifalinas]

The answer is apparently “because we’re actually able to eat it”

[bemusedlybespectacled]

Fun fact: white people (specifically Northern European white people) have a genetic mutation that allows them to digest lactose even after weaning, which is abnormal for all mammals and also most humans. It’s theorized that because Northern Europe doesn’t get a lot of sun, an alternative source of vitamin D (like milk) would be a useful trait. It’s a very recent mutation that would only have happened after humans started domesticating animals like cows and goats.

[kanirou-crosshack]

oh no, my bizarre moment has come, cause lactose tolerance is actually A Thing I Know About because it’s played a fascinating role in human evolution for thousands of years. This chart displays some of the broad trends, but it’s giving near continental averages, which doesn’t showcase how this kind of thing really breaks down and some of the surprising exceptions. 

Lactose tolerance is the majority trait for only a very few population groups: North Europeans (and therefore populations that draw heavily from that stock, such as America,) nomadic central Eurasians, and sub-Saharan pastoralist Africans, but that latter group is often overlooked. The vast majority of Africans cannot process lactose, but certain people groups whose lifestyles have revolved around cattle for thousands of years will have 80% and even approaching 100% lactose tolerance rates. They’d be spots of dark green amidst a sea of orange and burgundy on the above chart. 

Our hunter-gatherer ancestors were almost entirely lactose intolerant, that is definitely the biological norm (and people groups who maintained that lifestyle, such as Native Americans, remained as such – along with groups who transitioned to sedentary agricultural lifestyles, but I’ll get into that). As such, lactose tolerance is an adaptive trait that only became prevalent in environments that exerted strong selective pressure for it. So, cows were domesticated some 10,000 odd years ago in the Middle East (and some have contended for an independent domestication event in Africa as well). In either case, cattle quickly spread across the continent and we know there was milking and cheese production at least 6,000 years ago in both the Nile and Mesopotamia. While cow meat would have been enjoyed by all, in agricultural societies milk and cheese would have been options, but hardly staples as there were plenty of other things to eat as well, and therefore there would have been no selective pressure for processing lactose. Also, sedentary societies had ways of processing milk and cheese that allowed lactose intolerant people to drink/eat dairy products. Fermenting milk or aging cheese breaks down lactose, making it a non issue once ingested. This is why fermented milk may seem utterly foul to many Westerners, but is extremely common in other parts of the world. But, fermentation and aging requires time, and the ability to store things in a single location for weeks or even months. Sedentary societies adapted the milk to fit their biology, but nomadic societies did the reverse.

There are still mobile pastoralist societies in Africa today, and there have been for thousands and thousands of years. For many of them, cows are not one of many dietary options, they are the single dietary staple around which their lifestyle revolves. Biologically, this means you gotta get with the program if you wanna survive. For most mobile tribes, fermentation and aging weren’t options, so there would have been strong selective pressure favoring those who could drink milk straight outta the cow, as they would have had an additional, highly nutritious food source available to them. Milk also allowed for a marked shortening of the weaning process, transitioning children from breastmilk to cow’s milk, which would again be advantageous for groups where both the men and women work and are always on the move. Over generations these populations specialized into essentially cow-based lifestyles, creating a survival niche highly advantageous to them, and fast forward thousands of years and there are groups in Africa with near ubiquitous lactose tolerance, while the rest of the continent (and the world really) is nearly entirely intolerant. 

Many of these same factors would have influenced the central Eurasian populations, which is why Mongolians and other descendants of nomadic steppe peoples are largely lactose tolerant, as mare’s milk would have been a dietary staple (though they also developed efficient ways to ferment it). 

North Europeans developed lactose tolerance in response to deficiencies in certain nutrients. The northern climate limited Vitamin D production, and the agricultural products available to them were often low on calcium and protein, and so dairy farming developed alongside agriculture to create a more rounded diet (and this was limited to Northern Europeans, as Mediterranean peoples such as the Romans wrote about their great confusion at the northern barbarians’ ability to drink fresh milk)

And I promise all of this is fascinating because the ability to process lactose evolved independently in several different population groups and in response to different factors: lifestyles revolving around cows, lifestyles revolving around horses, deficiencies in climate and agriculture. Besides providing insight into human history and biology, lactose tolerance is also a great example of convergent evolution, where different genetic populations in different environments produce similar results. 

And uh, that’s my rant about the role of milk and lactose tolerance in human evolution. 

[speculative-evolution]

Beautifully written, very concise and informative. Good stuff. Interesting stuff. Thanks for your input.

[w3-4r3-th3-f1r3-deactivated2019]

This explains a lot about my family, actually.

[neurodivergent-crow]

@kanirou-crosshack what an amazing info dump, thank you

[zaniadracaenia-deactivated20230]

vld// highschool sports

• shiro is a coach who teaches track and athletics

• “here let me demonstrate how to do high jump” he does it but instead of facing up he faces down, landing on his face and falling asleep instantly

• has a clipboard but the only thing he keeps on it are scraps of paper which say “something smart. sports. running. athletic sports.” from when he needed to look like he was writing something down

• when he catches some kids bunking pe he sits down next to them without a word and starts chugging their wine straight from the bottle

• one time when demonstrating the relay instead of passing the baton he accidentally passed his prosthetic

• this other time it was really cold out so he went inside and facetimed his students who had to keep doing drills outside

• lance is on the swim team (obviously)

• he’s one of the best swimmers there but he will wear arm floaties at any opportunity he gets

• coach: ok so today we’re gonna be taking it easy- mr mcclain what are you doing

• lance: [already decked out in arm bands, pool noodle and a duck ring float

• he tried to bedazzzle his speedo with “LANCE MCCLAIN” in stick on gems but they came off in the water and he cried

• his legs are so long he got one stuck in the rungs of the diving board so he was dangling there for like twenty minutes

• he played basketball but the coach kicked him off the team bc he wouldn’t stop singing “get your head in the game”

• hunk plays volleyball and american football.

• he’s a quarterback but he doesn’t know what that means. all he does in games is run around and tackle people and hope for the best

• hunk playing volleyball is like hunk shooting his bayard. the ball goes in every fucking direction accuracy who

• he mostly sticks to defence

• he can do the oikawa jump serve

• pidge is on the tennis squad

• the table tennis squad

• you laugh, but she and matt were the table tennis masters at their school.

• they would fucking obliterate you

• they’re like fitness junkies but it’s on a really small scale bc table tennis isn’t exactly strenuous

• they have the intenseness of sports anime protagonists

• gotta get to NATIONALS

• keith boxes

• the first time he sparred it was his first session- he was pulled to the side, someone’s mouthguard was shoved in his mouth and a head guard was slapped on and he got thrown in the ring. coach coran thinks the element of surprise helps with keeping the adrenaline going

• he’s so graceful in the ring but literally as soon as he steps out he falls flat on his face

• he has a wiggly owen wilson nose bc he’s been punched so many times

• keith: [war cries] DONT FUCKIN TEST ME MALCOLM [sits on him and steadily punches him

• coran: [wiping tears] they grow up so fast

• one time keith was doing that thing with a tiny punch bag suspended where you hit it really fast over and over, but then lance walked in and he got distracted and it hit him in the face

• allura boxes as well

• she can never fit her hair in the headguard so she wears two stacked on top of each other. keith cried when he saw

• her girlfriend nyma always gives her a good luck kiss before she spars

• nyma: good luck baby!!! i know you’ll do well

• nyma: top ten photos taken before a tragedy

[extrapiano]

SNARKY PUPPY!! 

Searched tumblr and found no snarky puppy gifs. thought snarky puppy was very good as gif. made snarky puppy gifs.

RB if you, like me, are obsessed with them.

[yesterdaysprint]

Barnard Bulletin, New York, December 20, 1935

[moosefeels]

i’d just like to add that the barnard bulletin is the paper at barnard, a women’s college. 

[itsaviolathing]

Musical Valentines - Part 2: Composer Edition 

(Part 1) 

[lovelylinesonapage-deactivated2]

Aces and Aros: THE DISCOURSE IS ONLY ON TUMBLR. YOU'RE ALREADY IN THE LGBT+ COMMUNITY!

You have been accepted community members since at least the 1990s - at the time I write this, that’s over twenty years. Most LGBT+ organizations recognize you as members and include you. Stonewall flies the ace flag. Studies find that most LGBT+ members think aces and aros belong. Not everyone knows about asexuality and aromanticism, nor does everyone completely understand it, but they know you’re here and queer.

The discourse is mainly on Tumblr. It gets shut down on other websites, or argued with to the point those voices excluding you are in the minority. For every ten posts you see excluding you and being aphobic on Tumblr, there’s fifty more arguing for you elsewhere.

Don’t be fooled into thinking you don’t belong. Stop making posts wondering if you’re truly allowed or welcomed. You’re already here, accepted, and loved. It doesn’t matter if you also fit under the L G B T Q P I or N letters or just the A. You’re not cishet, you’re LGBT+. You’re part of the community. Aphobes are fucking liars with nothing but hatred and ignorance in their hearts. Don’t listen to the bigots.