Every Interest in its Place

The more I write, the less I watch '16 and Pregnant'.

[marandart-deactivated20201102]

This is my new favorite hangout spot. I walked here from home with a cup of tea and my watercolor supplies. A floating dock out of the reach of sun or rain floats underneath the marina. And it has friends. 😍

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[ted]

[gogomrbrown]

I learned in a Latin Studies class (with a chill white dude professor) that when the Europeans first saw Aztec cities they were stunned by the grid. The Aztecs had city planning and that there was no rational lay out to European cities at the time. No organization.

[punkrockradio]

When the Spanish first arrived in Tenochtitlan (now downtown mexico city) they thought they were dreaming. They had arrived from incredibly unsanitary medieval Europe to a city five times the size of that century’s london with a working sewage system, artificial “floating gardens” (chinampas), a grid system, and aqueducts providing fresh water. Which wasn’t even for drinking! Water from the aqueducts was used for washing and bathing- they preferred using nearby mountain springs for drinking. Hygiene was a huge part if their culture, most people bathed twice a day while the king bathed at least four times a day. Located on an island in the middle of a lake, they used advanced causeways to allow access to the mainland that could be cut off to let canoes through or to defend the city. The Spanish saw their buildings and towers and thought they were rising out of the water. The city was one of the most advanced societies at the time.

Anyone who thinks that Native Americans were the savages instead of the filthy, disease ridden colonizers who appeared on their land is a damn fool.

[robotsandfrippary]

They’ve also recently discovered a lost Native American city in Kansas called Etzanoa It rivals the size of Cahokia, which was very large as well.

[tastefullyoffensive]

(via jgrear13)

[jemaine]

When I won the great ovarian egg search of 1975, I never thought I’d amount to much. But in a piddly four decades, I’ve achieved some pretty incredible things. Par exemple..

[laureljupiter]

Wes Anderson: Who are you???

Taika Waititi: I’m you but stronger

[mainstreetliz-deactivated201710]

[enjolrarses]

grantaire: I ask politely for the national guards not to hurt enjolras

DM: roll persuasion

grantaire: …critical miss

DM: not only do you not ask that, but you declare yourself his ally and pretty much ASK for them to shoot you both

[pigeonstalking]

[rabbithugs-blog]

i love how vague this is because it implies that what the pigeons do is too scary to write down

“we cannot bear to tell you what horrors the pigeons have wrought”

[olles-ferkel-deactivated2018031]

@thatdoodlebug

[swedeleesie]

Must admit I immediately thought of @copperbadge when I saw this.

Just anything pigeon related I guess.

[copperbadge]

They do things

[jason-todds]

The hammer of the gods Will drive our ships to new lands To fight the horde, sing and cry Valhalla, I am coming.

Thor: Ragnarok (2017) dir. Taika Waititi

[madamemolamola]

I let millie display her creative side last night. Truly one of the greatest artists of our generation.

Medium: bird foot in canvas, non-toxic watercolor

[heroes-get-made-deactivated2022]

HGM’s List of Men Who Actually Deserve “Sexiest Man of the Year”

[dicapito]

This is a list. A proper list

[knitmeapony]

I hope everyone at People Magazine sees this and they are ASHAMED.

[xxerlflynn]

Queen Hatshepsut of Ancient Egypt. She has a lovely smile for someone who’s been dead for thousands of years.

[jillyaintfromphilly]

she wasn’t a queen. she was a pharaoh and wanted to be referred to as such. she even had her statues modeled after the male pharaoh’s statues to state her dominance and authority. she was actually one of the most successful pharaohs in all of ancient egyptian history and she reigned longer than any other woman in power in egypt.

[cumleak-deactivated20210627]

damn no wonder she died and smiled for a trillion years afterwards

[inspect-hergadget]

The fact that we know about her is marvelous.

the next Pharaoh after her Tuthmosis III  tried to erase Hatshepsut out of history ,chiseled her name off her monuments ,covered the text on her obelisks with stone,knocked down and defaced her statues .

she was even left off the list of pharaohs ..talk about some patriarchy bullshit

her name was lost for a couple of millennia, her body was found in a unmarked grave  in early twentieth century

sad part is in Egyptian belief is  if your are forgotten in the living world you don’t exist in the afterlife,so he was trying to kill her even in death 

[trustno---1]

My best friend throwing down some herstory. A+ commentary

[mothensidhe-deactivated20151028]

She wore a fake beard, you guys. She was the fucking boss.

[ruthlessdilettante]

If we remember her now does that save her from an awful afterlife?

[awenyddogamulosx-blog]

I’m just picturing the Kemetic afterlife. All the Pharaohs are hanging out in some kind of swanky club, drinking and congratulating each other on being bros. 

The doors slam open and Hatshepsut strides in, glorious, robes swirling, rocking the fake beard and the insane amounts of wealth and power. “Miss me, bitches?” 

[airdramon]

Then she punches Tuthmosis III straight in the dick.

[mof-is-a-dragon]

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[mockwa]

🐯 🐯 🐯

[bunjywunjy]

good morning everyone have an absolutely furious mongoose

[sharkprncess]

i like how

1. that first lion who i believe is an adolescent male, gets the shit scared out of him when the mongoose initially screams

2. his moms immediately look around at the scream

3. one of his moms comes running over to see if he is ok bc hes startled

4. when she gets to him he leans on her for comfort

5. he kinda almost gets inbetween her and the mongoose like “no mom it’s angry don’t get near it!!” and shes like “let me handle this >:(”

6. shes just as confused by the mongoose as her son is

7. the mongoose screams at her upside-down for a second before it turns around

8. as lion mom #1 starts to get chased off by the mongoose, lion mom #2 starts walking over in the bg like “goddamnit wtf is going on”

9. this fucking mongoose is SO ANGRY that it doesn’t care that, at multiple points in the video, it is surrounded by animals more than twice its size that could easily kill it with a hard enough paw swipe

[starwarsolo]

⪧  vulptex (pl. vulptices)

“The idea is that these wonderful sort of feral creatures had lived on this planet (Crait) and had consumed the planet’s surface, and as such had become crystalline. They live within the burrows and within the tunnels beneath the planet,” Neal Scanlan, head of the Star Wars creature shop, says. “So there is a time where their ability to shine within the darkness, should provide a guiding light to our heroes.”

The creatures were designed by Aaron McBride and Pablo Hidalgo came up with their name from the Latin word for fox, and the name of the fox genus, vulpes and vertices (singular: vertex), or the corners of any polyhedron, a shape assimilated with crystals.

[artsy-cupid]

Jim Henson would be fucking proud

[debbie-sketch]

Hogwarts Houses common rooms in Halloween season