etherialantagonist

24, apparently I post about knights now

[pinkblanc]

[unicorn-elvis]

@ominous-signs somehow this seems in your wheelhouse

[ominous-signs]

Official ominous sign

[bbnotumbl]

[megafaunaknight]

[dailycatsblog]

[argumate]

look as funny as this story may be I don't think minor landscaping projects are really the core problem in the US right now, this is like when the wind blows over a Chinese general's banner before battle and it symbolises losing the mandate of heaven, but losing the actual battle is still what matters.

[collapsedsquid]

But really what could be a better symbol?

[argumate]

should have gone to Four Seasons Landscaping to complete the circle

[argumate]

collapsedsquid said: You see what the company was named?

lol whoops

[ominous-signs]

I could be your mutual. any one of you. out there.

[pastelrambles]

[ominous-signs]

but i Do.

[lake-erie]

girl: come over me: i can’t, i’m using my sensitive barbels scour the riverbed for morsels of food girl: i hollowed out a nesting cavity under a flat stone me:

[electronicmail]

btw with email u dont have to lick the envelope. i know a lot of people have been doing that and its fine and all but you dont acrtually have to do that with email.

[mellosdrawings]

Maybe -- just MAYBE -- don't spit on other characters and ships and works when the artist you congratulate and reblog from also draws those?

[comedydoctor18]

FANDOM ETIQUETTE NEEDS A RETURN SOOOO STRONGLY

[anarchautistic]

Nervously, I pull from the tarot deck. It's the Nine of Clocks. My fate is revealed to me: It's my bedtime, and I gotta go to sleeps

[syncarida]

saw the image thumbnail and was like awww so cutes. but alas it appears this animal is not thriving

[an-ambient-girl]

[matobawataru]

omg it’s dr. roberta bobby, author of one of my favorite tweets ever written

[marxistlesbianist]

Omg she wrote one of my favorites also

[syncarida]

[cryptotheism]

If alchemists had isolated MSG what do you think they would've called it? China salt? Essence of flavor?

That's an interesting question because it would depend on how they managed to isolate it. A lot of alchemical naming schemes refer to how a material is produced, like "calx of copper" refers to calcined copper, or "spirit of silver" referring to silver that has been distilled in a soxhelet extractor.

It would probably be named for the food it was extracted from. Iirc tomatoes are naturally high in MSG, so it would probably be something along the lines of "X of tomato"

[bigscaryd]

Fun fact, they wouldn't need to extract or isolate it -- some seaweeds (I don't know if any Mediterranean ones) are so high in glutamates that when you dry them, MSG crystals form on them, making them look dusty.

[cryptotheism]

Oh interesting. If that's true western alchemists would probably have an easier time. It would be "salt of seaweed"

[notbecauseofvictories]

good morning exclusively to the atlantic’s science editor, or whoever it is that titles their animal biology articles

[notbecauseofvictories]

fellas, they’ve done it again

[notbecauseofvictories]

me, weeping openly: potato

[notbecauseofvictories]

DEFECTOR HAS TAKEN UP THE MANTLE

[marine-gifs]

Pilot whales socialising. Filmed in the Atlantic Ocean. From Blue Planet - Open Ocean (2001).

[firebatvillain]

One fun thing about learning new languages is reconsidering the structure of words and language in your mother tongue. It seems with each new language I study, I get more little insights into English, either in how it's similar or how it's different.

For example, a couple years ago, while learning Spanish, I encountered the word for a store, "la tienda." I thought "huh, that's a lot like tener (tiene) - the word for store in Spanish literally corresponds to 'to have/keep'. How interesting!"

Then I stopped for a moment, and for the first time in my life, thought about seriously about the meaning of English word for the place where you buy things, "a store."