In The Mix

just a little bit of everything

[fade-steppin]

goodnight sweet prince

[left-reminders]

[eeeeeeeeeeek1]

[prokopetz]

One of my favourite anecdotes about the first Golden Age of Piracy is that, at one point, Captain Henry Morgan left England in one ship, and arrived in the Caribbean commanding a completely different ship, and nobody knows why. What happened to the first ship and how he acquired the second one are entirely unrecorded.

[johannesviii]

At some point in his short career (1715 until 1718), the English pirate Ben Hornigold attacked a sloop near Honduras just to steal all the hats of the crew, because his own crew had gotten drunk the night before and they had tossed every single one of their own hats overboard.

[lyinginbedmon]

Bartholomew Roberts, arguably the most successful pirate in history by ships captured (a whopping 470 in 3 years), didn’t actually want to be a pirate. His ship was captured and he was forced to join the pirate crew.

After the original pirate captain was killed, he was democratically elected captain of the pirate crew less than 6 weeks after being captured by them.

[aconissa]

Happy 221st birthday to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, author of Frankenstein, who was born on this day (August 30th) in 1797

[diamondfodder]

Happy birthday goth princess.

[arandomthot]

[beforethelobotomy]

september is coming up so here’s your yearly reminder to leave billie joe armstrong the fuck alone

[tinderboyz]

[greenwithenby-deactivated201609]

People who prefer hot weather: Snow and ice are a pain, and the cold is just kind of uncomfortable even when you wrap up, you know?

People who prefer cold weather: MY SKIN LITERALLY MELTS OFF EVERY SUMMER I AM A FUCKING HUMAN SOUP AS WE SPEAK

[greenwithenby-deactivated201609]

you wouldn’t believe how many people reblogged this to whine about hot weather in the tags.

[nucleic-friend-deactivated20171]

too cold? put on another layer!

too hot? change into thinner clothes!

still too cold? put on another layer!

still too hot? uh, get naked I guess?

still too cold? put on another layer!

still too hot? Ţ̡̜̮̗̟̯͘ͅA̛͈͎̤͙̳̦̱̜̺̪K̢̻̥̥̥̪̙̜̩̗̼̤̻̻͖͍̜͈͉͠ͅE̟͕̩͔̪͓͔̥̦͇̣͇̳͕͉͜ͅ ̠̝̥̖̭̦̼́͝O̩̦͓̠͉̲̲̱̪̹̻̼̭̯͎͈̕͢F̷̸̢̛̙͇͔̜̙̮̗̲̤͇̯͡F̧̨̱̤̲̫͕͔̼̭͙̠̙͙̹̻ͅ ҉̫̠͓̙̠͔̕͜͠Y͡҉̴̘̭̬̳́O̶̶̧͚̞̣̯̩̫̜̩͉̤͎͖̖͟ͅU̶̵̺̠̪̘̱̮̮̙̻͈̣̦̭͠͝͞R̨҉̦̺͓̩̺͖̘̪̥̺͚̱͚͔̪͓̖̰ ̷̸̺͇̳͇̖̥̻̳͚̗̥͙̪̣́S̡̞̳͖̭̯͉̻̠͔̥̹̫̣̼̹͇͜K͏̧͍̪̗̖̜̫̙̱̫͈̟̝̮͈̻̺̯̟̠̀Į̧̙͙͔̠͖̟̕͝Ǹ͖͎̳͍̪̱̞͇̺̘̩͘͜͠

[the-mighty-birdy-deactivated202]

The cold is easily shut out, the heat is inescapable hell

[dashuramode]

THE TRUTH COMES OUT.

Avoidance techniques for the cold:

-more coats, fire, hot food and drink, stay inside, fuzzy sweaters, ear muffs, become a burrito

Avoidance techniques for heat:

-die, I guess.

[isharaytaoshay-deactivated20180]

FUCK. HEAT.

[wizardsmagic]

[mtgfan]

Data is imperative in research! Help WotC make a better game for us all by leaving them some feedback.

[pinkisbitter]

Lesbians, what is your wisdom today?

[pinkisbitter]

Excellent.

Gays, what is your wisdom today?

[pinkisbitter]

Absolutely Incredible

Bi/pan/poly people, what is your wisdom today?

[pinkisbitter]

Superb.

Trans people and nonbinary folk, what is your wisdom today?

[pinkisbitter]

Terrific.

Aro/ace people, what is your wisdom today?

[pinkisbitter]

Stupendous!

Thank you lgbt+ community, for your wisdom in the coming days.

[hustleinatrap]

watch and memorize

[brutestyle]

…. iconic

[diamondfodder]

Baby Elspeth loving her tomato. She's over 4 months now :)

[ghostsandgoblins]

[lotrfansaredorcs]

One overlooked thing that really sets the Lord of the Rings films apart from other franchises is how earnest they are-

Most movies are so afraid of being “cheesy” that whenever they say something like “friendship is the most powerful force in the world” they quickly undercut it with a joke to show We Don’t Really Believe That! ;)  Even Disney films nowadays have the characters mock their own movie’s tropes (”if you start singing, I’m gonna throw up!”) It’s like winking at the camera: “See, audience? We know this is ridiculous! We’re in on the joke!”

But Lord of the Rings is just 12.5 hours of friendship and love being the most powerful forces in the world, played straight. Characters have conversations about how much their home and family and friends mean to them, how hope is eternal, how there is so much in the world that’s worth living for…. and the film doesn’t apologize for that. There’s no winking at the audience about How Cheesy and Silly All This Is; it’s just. Completely in earnest.

And when Lord of the Rings does “lean on the fourth wall” to talk about storytelling within the film, it’s never to make jokes about How Ridiculous These Storytelling Tropes are (the way most films do)…. but instead to talk about how valuable these stories can be. Like Sam’s Speech at the end of the Two Towers: the greatest stories are ones that give you something to believe in, give you hope, that help you see there are things in a bleak violent world that are worth living for

[nitrateglow]

Earnestness is so much cooler than all the hip cynicism in the world. You go LOTR

[lotrfansaredorcs]

[isnt-alice-dead]

“Your anxiety does not change your circumstances. You can get as anxious as you want, the world will stay the same.”

— Alice Isn’t Dead, S2E2, Keisha (to herself)

[sergle]

freesias / simple leaves for the series. 🌼🌼 please don’t tag as me/kin, thank you! | ko-fi

[nahiri-deleted-deactivated20191]

I’m done being a communist I’m a classic mercantilist now unfollow me if you’re not a member of a guild

[ajohnnygoldmain]

Gateless don’t interact

[nahiri-deleted-deactivated20191]

this has nothing to do with gates this is about making sure tradespeople not affiliated with the guilds are removed from the market so the real tradespeople can sell their goods freely and cause economical growth and expansion of national power

[theceaselesshunger]

Freedom to the street peddlers and the sidewalk hotdog carts and  the purveyors of magical objects that disappear when you try to return a cursed orb.

[partac-and-zuul]

As a proud non-guild affiliated pair of goblins, I Partac

AND I ZUUL

Find the proposition to remove the guildless from the marketplace not only offensive to read (only one of us can read)

BUT ALSO OFFENSIVE TASTING.

Henceforth, we call out to our fellow guildless and ask, without the proper Azorius paperwork

DO YOU GUYS WANNA START A RIOT?!?!

[askkrenko]

GATELESS RIOT!