A Magical Menagerie

British; Christian; Physicist; Female. I like a lot of stuff. Bees are my favourite.

[cardiamachina]

“Love, Time stops, doesn’t it? Are we not testaments to this? Two old, misplaced souls, Asleep for seventy years? So close your eyes, love. Maybe seconds can be minutes and minutes can be hours and hours can be unending eternities Where I don’t have to open my eyes To a reality without you. So, let’s sleep. Let the world go to hell. For we deserve a soft epilogue, my love. We are good people, and we’ve suffered enough.”

— We Sleep, and Maybe We’ll Wake Up. Listen. Seventy Years of Sleep, nikka ursula, others, support my work by helping me grow my IG following here!

[cardiamachina]

“I always miss my youth until I remember the many eyes that met my eyes and how strong my gaze is now. How worked my fingers are; and how my spine does not bend for anyone or anything until the moment I want it to. I always miss my youth Until I remember how much I cherish my growth.”

— I see what I was and what I have become. nikka ursula on IG; others

[mallpretzles]

Yes.

[totallyjustabunchofhocuspocus]

It's basically like therapy

[piebingo]

I don’t think I’ll ever be able to say it in better words than this.

Link

[funnytwittertweets]

[simonalkenmayer]

This is true. The frontal lobe uses as much as 30% of your daily caloric intake. Imagine if every day, you had to max out on frontal lobe usage just to cope with reality. It puts the nervous system into a stress situation and this further affects the body’s ability to use calories efficiently.

Being neurodivergent or disabled means masking, and masking is incredibly difficult for the body. It’s also very demanding on the brain.

Also “you don’t look autistic” is fucking stupid and ableist to say.

[charlesoberonn]

I would’ve liked the Fantastic Beasts series better if it didn’t try to be Harry Potter. I don’t want another overarching story about defeating an evil wizard and stopping a massive wizard war. I’ve already seen this story.

I’d much rather have episodic adventures about Newt Scamander, his baker sidekick, and their respective girlfriends travelling around the world looking for and dealing with dangerous and fantastic beasts.

No Grindlewad, no Dumbledore cameos, no Hogwarts fanservice.

Just a globe-trotting adventure with magic animals.

You know? Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.

[samspurpletoothbrush]

WHEN CHARACTERS WAKE UP IN A HOSPITAL BED AND THEN PROCEED TO RIP OUT THEIR IVS

[cloverslime]

Visit Original Link

[peppermint-bones]

What the ever living fuck

[bugpicnic-deactivated20170417]

The day I don’t reblog this is the day I have lost my sense of humor completely

[hussyknee]

“Not all men” you’re right. Sir Samuel Vimes, Duke of Ankh-Morpork, Commander of the City Watch would never do this, and he’d arrest every single bastard who would.

[brittany]

You brought us back to life. You did something I thought no one could do.

The Secret Garden (1993), dir. Agnieszka Holland

[kineticpianox]

Did you know that modern C sections were invented by African women— centuries before they were standard elsewhere?

Midwives and surgeons living around Lake Tanganyika and Lake Victoria perfected the procedure hundreds of years ago. When a baby couldn’t be delivered vaginally, these healers sedated the laboring mother using large amounts of banana wine. They tied the mother to the bed for safety, sterilized a knife using heat, and made the incision, acting quickly as a team to prevent excessive blood loss or the accidental cutting of other organs. The combination of sterile, sharp equipment and sedation made the procedure surprisingly calm and comfortable for the mother.

After the baby was delivered, antiseptic tinctures and salves were used to clean the area and stitches were applied. Women rarely developed infections, shock, or excessive blood loss after a cesarean section and the most common problem reported was that it took longer for the mother’s milk to come in (an issue that was solved with friends and relatives who would nurse the baby instead).

In Uganda, C sections were normally performed by a team of male healers, but in Tanzania and DRC, they were typically done by female midwives.

The majority of women and babies survived this, and when questioned about it by European colonists in the mid-1800s, many people in Uganda and Tanzania indicated that the procedure had been performed routinely since time immemorial.

This was at a time when Europeans had only barely started to figure out that they should wash their hands before performing surgery, when nearly half of European and US women died in childbirth, and when nearly 100% of European women died if a C section was performed.

Detailed explanations of Ugandan C-sections were published globally in scholarly journals by the 1880s and helped the rest of the world learn how to save mothers and babies with minimal complications.

So if you’re one of the people who wouldn’t be alive today without a C-section, you have Ugandan surgeons and Tanzanian and Congolese midwives to thank for their contributions to medical science.

[trekmemes-deactivated20220205]

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/cesarean/part2.html

[playfulpanthress]

Thank you, my sisters.

[sharratum-deactivated20240320]

Wow. I wish they would teach things like this is school.

[jenniferrpovey]

America in particular (Europe’s slightly better, but not much) only seems to remember Africa exists when it’s being visited by one of the four horsemen. Which is really sad. It’s an entire continent with a rich history, people.

And we all know why, too…

[trashcanbees-deactivated2019120]

You ever eat something you should NOT have and immediately beg for God’s forgiveness?

[such-justice-wow]

This post screams lactose intolerance

[trashcanbees-deactivated2019120]

[woppy42]

honestly adding a dog pic to a post about eating things you shouldn’t have is incredibly fitting

[abcsofadhd]

If your ADHD is causing you to fuck up more, it doesn’t necessarily mean that the ADHD is getting worse.. you could just be doing more things which gives you more opportunity to fuck up.

This is one of the reasons, ADHD can get ‘worse’ as an adult. A child has very few responsibilities. An adult on the other hand, has all kinds of opportunities to fuck up on. 

[redshiftsinger]

Goes for other disabilities too. Sometimes it seems like it’s “getting worse” when what’s really happening is that circumstances have changed in a way that makes the symptoms more obvious and detrimental. 

[spoonie-living]

VERY important advice. Don’t beat yourself up. Adulting is HARD.

[notyoujamie]

You can wipe out the odd civilisation, enslave the occasional culture, but it still won’t detract from the basic fundamental truth of your own impotence!

[mametupa]

[vagabonds-and-troubadours]

Arabian Little Red Riding Hood with a red hijab

A Japanese Snow White with her coveted pale skin and shiny black hair

Mexican Cinderella with colorful Mexican glass blown slippers

Greek Beauty and the Beast where Beast is a minotaur

Culture-bent fairy tales that keep key canonical characteristics

[kristoffs-sunflowermoved-blog]

GIVE ME THESE I M M E D I A T E L Y

[moonlightdiva-deactivated201512]

Afro-Caribbean Rapunzel with 75-ft-long dreads.

[charminglyantiquated]

so i uh

I really liked this idea

(separate art post here)

[itsover09-deactivated20200721]

Imma praising this

[thesaltofcarthage]

I feel like I’ve reblogged this before BUT IMMA REBLOG IT AGAIN BECAUSE IT’S FUCKING AMAZING

[peridot-gladioli]

@theladyragnell you have seen these, right?

[steveholtiscool]

REMINDER THAT LAIKA’S FIRST FILM SOLELY PRODUCED BY THEIR STUDIO HAD TWO FEMALE CHARACTERS AS THEIR ANTAGONIST AND PROTAGONIST WHO, BY SOME FORM OF DEVIL MAGIC, HAVE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT FACES

REMINDER THAT LAIKA’S SECOND FILM NOT ONLY CONSISTED OF A CAST WITH FOUR CENTRAL FEMALE CHARACTERS BUT INCLUDED AN ENTIRE TOWN OF DIVERSE CITIZENS OF VARYING RACE, GENDER, AND AGE. LIKE A NORMAL TOWN HAS.

REMINDER THAT LAIKA’S THIRD FILM FEATURED SAME SEX COUPLES IN THEIR TEASER TRAILER

REMINDER THAT THIS IS ALL STOP-MOTION SO EVERY CHARACTER WAS DESIGNED, MODELED, SCULPTED, RIGGED, AND EVEN HAD TINY CLOTHES SEWED FOR THEM.

also reminder that they make chump change compared to disney who whines and cries that in all their years of experience they can’t handle the prospect of animating a girl with a face different than the rest and that it’s “too hard” because only females can express such a wide range of emotions that it makes them difficult to animate

if a studio with 20-30 years of experience can manage this then SURELY an established studio with NEAR 100 YEARS of experience can maybe, just maybe, include a female that ISN’T a part of their formula

[sailormilk-blog]

LAIKA !

[beetlejuicesgf]

Also paranormal had a canonically gay guy in it just saying

[grandmawitch]

Listen.

I’d die for Laika.