nalkhûna

Home is where the heart is is what they say. And if that is so then my home is with you, just as is my heart. The heart is the key to the soul. The next, the brain. Knowledge is more worthy of fear than that of power. Yet power is what most men crave. Only the wise will know that the booty rules all. All hail the booty. The booty will set us free. The booty. The booty. Booty. Booty. Booty. Female/Canada/20s.

[bob-belcher]

Happy International Women’s Day!

[relatablepicturesofhomersimpson]

[philhollywood-was-here]

I always wondered about this room. Where is it?

[relatablepicturesofhomersimpson]

Whenever you notice something like that, a wizard did it.

[nutsacktorturer]

behind the garage

[relatablepicturesofhomersimpson]

And that’s the end of that mystery

[dietmountainmadewka-deactivated]

why the simpsons got a bigger house than my parents

[rainy-days-will-never-end-deact]

Homer is a nuclear engineer

[chamiryokuroi]

This post made me realize that Homer is in fact a Nuclear engineer…

[tolkienillustrations]

Ná alya i vinya loa!

[whitepeopletwitter]

[blueandbluer]

…oh fuck

[kayvsworld]

my body, tearfully: when sleep???

me: my dude we just woke up!! It’s time for wakefulness and doing things and Productivity

my body, weeping: but???? when sleep?????

[lone-brother-deactivated2019070]

[wornobject-deactivated20201021]

u left out the best part?

[a-waste-of-time]

LMFAO

[pinkfaerie]

[srsfunny]

Everyone liked that.

[wiisagi-maiingan]

I was worried that this was more clickbait but it’s 100% true.

The auction went ahead as scheduled on Saturday, with the pipe expected to fetch $15,000 to $20,000, according to the auction catalog. But when the hammer fell on the bidding, the pipe was sold to an anonymous bidder for $39,975.

Shortly after the auction ended, the tribe learned that the winning bidder intended to return the pipe to the tribe.

[…]

The Prairie Island Tribal Historic Preservation Office, along with tribal spiritual leaders, will receive the pipe and handle it “through ceremony and community,” Buck said.

That would be a fitting fate for the pipe, which the tribe would see as having a life of its own, Doerfler explained.

“In English, objects are generally inanimate,” she said. “But in a lot of native cultures, that pipe has its own being, its own entity, and it has to be cared for.“So with items like a pipe or a drum, items of cultural significance, the person who is the holder or the keeper of that object has a responsibility to care for it and to utilize it properly.”

Please note the anonymous part. This wasn’t some rich white settler trying to get recognition, praise, or a reward. It was someone who recognized that this situation was wrong and that they were in a position to make it right and so they did.

[goldilockscauldron-deactivated2]

Samhain Outdoor Altar

[myfrogcroaked]

These Pics Are Composed Of As Many Pixels As There Are Animals Still Alive In These Species

A brilliant 2008 campaign by World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has been resurfacing thanks to a recent reddit post going viral. The campaign, called WWF Japan – Population by pixel, was created by the agency Hakuhodo C&D / Tokyo.

[mousathe14]

Oh no…

[aviandakota]

Y'all this is BAD

[lyinginbedmon]

Wow this is a really elegant way of describing why falling populations result in a narrow and incomplete picture of the actual species

[wodneswynn-deactivated-deactiva]

Archaeologists: “Uhhhh, there’s still a lot of debate about how effective leather armor really could have been on a battlefield. Alas, we shall never know.”

Punks: “Hey, fresh cut, the boneheads carry knives sometimes so make sure and lift a good leather jacket. It’ll save your life.”

[equality-is-anarchy]

Layers layers layers! Slashes won’t do shit even to most t shirts but a stab will ignore the shit outa your leathers. Layers will keep the blade from getting as deep as it otherwise would and gives more for it to snag on if it serrated.

Armour has always been about layers.

Example 1200s minor noble: linen shirt, gambeson (layered and quilted linen with wool insulation), chain mail, surcoat, arming cap, helmet, coif, bigger helmet.

Another example Alexander era Macedonian hoplite: linen tunic, greaves, 1" of tightly pressed and laminated linen, helmet (probably with some sort of arming cap/padding inside), big ass shield.

Layers save lives.

[jackironsides]

Yes! Cloth is hard work to cut with a knife. When they were trying to ban (sword) duelling in Europe, they banned people from carrying around shields/bucklers, so your defensive tool was a cloak wrapped around your non-sword fist, with plenty of loose fabric to catch your opponent’s blade. You might get your cloak torn, but you’re less likely to get your skin sliced up, and that’s the important thing.

[jenniferrpovey]

You know what is a surprisingly amazing material for armor?

Silk.

Silk.

The Mongolians used silk vests because silk isn’t broken by an arrow, and you can use the silk to gently pull the arrow back out, even if it’s barbed. They also often used silk as the backing for leather armor.

The first bulletproof vests were made in Japan and Korea. Out of, yup, silk. Silk could stop black powder bullets, but was rendered obsolete by higher powered modern firearms. A combination of silk and metal was experimented with, but dropped because of the expense of silk.

Franz Ferdinand was wearing one such vest when he was assassinated, but it didn’t help because of where he was hit.

The US military is now looking into something called Dragon Silk, which is spider silk made by GMO silkworms, to make body armor that might be more comfortable than the current kevlar vests.

Silk, people.

[deliriumcrow]

You want proof about silk being able to stop an arrow? Try sewing it with the wrong machine needle in place. I have shattered – literally shattered – needles that were too thick. They just will not pass between the tightly woven fibers, even when in a machine that can go through your actual fingers. And that was just a lightweight taffeta, not something woven to be intentionally impenatrable.

It is horrible at stopping slashes, though. Whether by the blade of scissors, roller cutter, or well honed dagger or sword, it just falls to pieces like it never meant to be whole in the first place. This is, again, where your layers come in – a nice heavy leather for slash damage, a dense silk for piercing. You probably want to put something under it though, silk against sweaty skin is unpleasantly sticky. It *clings*. Eww.

[drpathetique]

Useful things elementary school neglected to teach me, exhibit #5839

[nettlewildfairy]

Not to get political but my philosophy is fundamentally that all people should suffer less. That it’s everyone’s responsibility to try to make the world a little better for everyone else. And anyone trying to do the opposite is an asshole who needs to stop.

[ffahey]

i’m a fan of freddie mercury and queen. i’m a fan of chamomile tee. i’m a fan of handwritten letters. i’m a fan of classic movies. i’m a fan of random encounters. i’m a fan of travelling by train. i’m a fan of mischief.

[witchinghour]

Practical Magic (1998) dir. Griffin Dunne

[girlsingreenfields]

Song Jia photographed by Leslie Zhang for T Magazine China June 2019.

[anhslondon]

I repeat girls don’t want man, they want Zendaya

[theconcealedweapon]

[bimbocracy]

This is a manipulation tactic that men use to make it such a pain in the ass to set a boundary with them that you don’t attempt it again

[themanicnami]

I’ve been told this before and my response was “Sounds great. Glad we agree.” they always look immediately shaken and surprised.

[uneventfulness]