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sassysaidie

someone caption this

glob-bob

Winged eyeliner

nixpunk

i love you. you made a mistake? i dont care i love you. you made a wrong choice? love you. you don’t think you’re good for anything? guess what you’re good for loving i love you

nixpunk

i was 15 when i made this post and i’m 25 now, and still seeing people reblog and tag this with things about their lovers or their friends or characters or themselves or that they really needed this today. i dunno it just feels really special to me. thank you, keep loving each other, i still love you.

my0clonic-jerk

cardassiangoodreads

Genuinely, one of the measures that's stopped book banning the most when districts implement it, is having the would-be banners fill out a form that demonstrates if they've read the book or not. Like where they have the summarize the plot and characters and do a mini book report and give a review. It stops them in their tracks. This is why in my high school, every time someone wanted to ban a book it ended up going nowhere. There was one where a conservative student wanted to ban the manga "Legal Drug" for having a marijuana leaf on the cover, then got the form that required them to actually read and either balked, or read it and realized it was not pro-drug at all. (The other one that reduces book bans even further is "requiring the would-be banner to be affiliated with this actual school in some way, either by being a student, faculty/staff or a parent of a child at the school" because the vast majority of bans are "activists" with no affiliation with the school who just travel around trying to do this in districts all over the U.S. IIRC a few years ago someone crunched the numbers and just 51 parents were responsible for all the book bans that year nationally. 51! In a country with 50 states, with over 300 million people total!)

tjalexandernyc

Laws like this indeed do a lot to stop fascist book censorship. They can also help legally protect librarians from getting fired or harassed for keeping books on the shelves! Some states like Rhode Island have already passed these laws. If you're in a blue state, look up whether you have laws like this on the books. MAYBE your state is trying to get one passed right now, like New York's Freedom to Read bill. call your state elected officials to voice support for it.

heckyeahponyscans

The fact that “dolls having a tea party” has stuck around in the public consciousness is fascinating to me.

Like, back in the Old Days that would be a way that women would actually socialize. So if a girl had a doll tea party, she was imitating her mom / other contemporary women.

But these days contemporary women don’t have tea parties. So now, the idea of “dolls having a tea party” is an echo of an extinct behavior, only repeated and referenced because it used to be so prevalent.

So a Barbie in a big hat themed for a tea party is a bit like if they made Transformers that turned into stagecoaches and horse-drawn buggies.

mysticsybil

Like I wouldn’t buy the fuck out of stagecoach transformers

kradeiz

Prime and Prejudice

felix

whenever i complete chores i get an achievement banner pop up in my head dark souls style

felix

courtofthevampireking

killer-arcade

courtofthevampireking

dogpuppy

Yeah you guys can send me yourgrocery lists I’d love that

14-opossums-in-a-trenchcoat

Reblog if people can use your dms to leave their grocery lists

autisticjar

yes please!

the-regular-news

Let's just see what happens when I say yes

officially-bbc-news

On it. grocery list incoming o7

hylianane

functionally suicidal character saying “I would die for you” to their significant other and its like. I get the sentiment, honey, but if a hot dog vendor told me he’d sell hot dogs for me, I wouldn’t feel very moved now would I

maseratus

Now a functionally suicidal character saying “I will live for you”. Now that’s a dynamic I can sink my teeth into.

mousidy

now how about a functionally suicidal character saying "I will sell hot dogs for you"

mousidy

bisthefairy

Hotdog vender lays down their life to protect their suicidal partner, who then takes over the hotdog stand to carry on their memory...

I love this website

reblog this to remind the person you reblogged it from that theyre loved

whattheforkdude

please unmute this

failbag

I’ve never seen high school musical and now I never need to

beccar

Basketball basketball we love basketball

freakwiththeknifecollection

Here’s the full video

misselaney

Natural Black Hair Tutorial! Usually Black hair is excluded in the hair tutorials which I have seen so I have gone through it in depth because it’s really not enough to tell someone simply, “Black hair is really curly, draw it really curly.”

The next part of Black Hair In Depth will feature styles and ideas for designing characters and I will release it around February. If you would like to see certain styles, please shoot me a message!

smallrevolutionary

YES! BOOSTINGGGG FOR MY FOLKS WHO WANNA/NEED TO KNOW HOW

kwarrtz

I always assumed pencil lead was so called because it did in fact used to be made of elemental lead, which was replaced by graphite in more recent times, possibly because of lead’s toxicity. Turns out that assumption was dead wrong. Lead has been used for writing at various points in history, yes, but never as part of any implement we would recognize as a pencil. I’m fact, prior to the early 1500s, the closest things to a pencil that existed were the tools used for metalpoint drawing, which consisted of a wire of some metal, often jeweler’s silver but never, as far as I know, lead, inserted into a wooden rod. What changed in the early 1500s you ask? Well, that was when a large deposit of strikingly pure graphite was discovered in northern England. People quickly began cutting sticks of the stuff and using it to write, but because of its softness it had to be encased to handle. Initially rope and sheepskin were used, but eventually the transition was made to wood and the modern pencil was born.

In other words, pencil lead has always been made of graphite. The thing is, for centuries people assumed that the stuff in this deposit was just some weird kind of lead ore (this is why graphite was archaically referred to as plumbago), a belief which becomes more understandable when you realize that to this day, this is the only large deposit of pure, solid graphite ever discovered. As there was no means of artificially producing solid graphite back then they had no way of knowing of its existence as a unique substance, and lead was the material whose properties most closely resembled those of the stuff in the new deposit. Or to cast it in a completely different light, today we would say it’s wrong to call graphite lead because lead is the 86th element whereas graphite is a form of carbon, but if, prior to this chemical definition, lead was just a colloquial term for any soft, dark gray metallic substance, were they even wrong? Would they have understood if we tried to correct them? Maybe it’s more accurate to just say that the definition of the word has changed.

(As a fun aside, one of the other early uses for graphite was as a lining for cannonball molds, making for rounder and thus more effective cannonballs, and so the deposit was quickly put under the strict control of the crown. This meant that for years graphite for pencils actually had to be smuggled out of the mine.)

facelessoldgargoyle

Wow!! That’s so interesting. If you know, what does being assumed to be a lead ore have to do with the name plumbago?

ofthefog-deactivated20220221

plumbum is the technical name for lead, coming from latin.

headspace-hotel

Wait tell us more about the forbidden smuggled pencil lead

magiclilybean

Wait tell us more about how and when they starting making synthetic graphite

magiclilybean

Wait tell us about how that deposit of graphite came into existence

kwarrtz

I was curious about this too. The origin of natural graphite deposits is apparently a bit of a contentious issue, but I found this paper which looks at the Borrowdale deposit in particular (which is the one I was referring to in my original post). I’m not a geologist so the details are over my head, but the gist of what they’re suggesting seems to be that volcanism in the area brought relatively carbon-rich rocks from deep in the crust up closer to the surface where that carbon ended up saturating hydrothermal fluids. As that water circulated through the hills in the region the conditions were right for that carbon to then crystallize out as graphite.

I should also clarify that graphite in general isn’t rare in the Earth’s crust, it just isn’t usually in a particularly usable form to begin with, being either very impure or consisting of tiny flakes. What makes the Borrowdale deposit unique is that it contains relatively pure graphite chunks large enough to hold in your hand, or to, say, cut into lead for pencils. Over the years though we’ve discovered ways to purify and make use of graphite even in its more commonly found forms. Modern pencil lead, for instance, is made by mixing graphite powder with clay and then baking it, so it isn’t actually pure graphite at all. This is why pencil lead comes in different softnesses (HB vs B4, etc.)--the higher the ratio of clay to graphite, the harder the resulting lead. According to Wikipedia this process was invented by Nicolas-Jacques Conté in 1795 while France was cut off from England’s natural graphite supply because of the Napoleonic Wars, so there’s yet another way the histories of pencil lead and British military affairs are oddly linked.

There are apparently other ways of synthesizing graphite, including ways of producing high-quality graphite crystals for scientific and industrial uses, but you’ll have to look into that yourself if you want to know the details of how they work.

blankpointdankmemes

matt-ruins-your-shit

spaceshipoftheseus

Look, this is my litmus test: I pretend I am the original Earl of Sandwich. I have asked for non-bread foods to be brought to me inside bread, that I might more easily consume them one-handed while gambling.

This does not enable my wretched regency habits. This is not what I asked for. I do not deign to grace it with the name of my house.

dirkbolero

This is the most important addition to the sandwich discourse I have ever read.

chokedqwerty

that au wehere ilyukhina and yao dont die and everyone is a bit more happymaybe? a bit sillier?

chokedqwerty

everyone saying they would starve if the crew didnt die BE QUIET taumeoba soup 4 everyone 5ever

cannibalchicken

icedoatmilkmatcha-deactivated20

also

yeahokayillreblogthat

Yeah okay Ill reblog that!

aggressivelybicaptainamerica

Not a scholar at first, but the guy who wrote Jaws hated that people used it to justify hating sharks so much he dedicated the rest of his life to shark research and advocacy.

ruffboi-mags

The woman who popularized gender reveals wishes she hadn't, afaik.

fall1ngfeather

(afaik- the woman who popularized gender reveals did so because she had a long history of miscarriages. The reveal was a celebration of the fact that one of her pregnancies had gotten far enough that there WAS a physical sex to reveal. It was never intended to be like... *gestures at modern gender reveals* all that. That same kid later came out as trans and yes, the family had a second gender reveal for that lol.)

p00pym00py

This whole thread is so beautiful to me that I can explain it

my-random-fandoms

pouncequick

The man who invented the K-Cup coffee pod almost 20 years ago says he regrets doing so and can't understand the popularity of the products t

jackironsides

L. David Mech, who popularised the idea that there were 'alpha' and 'beta' wolves in his 1970 book The Wolf, has spent the rest of his career trying to debunk this. (The original studies were done on captive wolves, and thus didn't simulate an accurate model of wolf pack dynamics.)

The idea that wolf packs are led by a merciless dictator, or alpha wolf, comes from old studies of captive wolves. In the wild, wolf packs a

In the wild, researchers have found that most wolf packs are simply families, led by a breeding pair, and bloody duels for supremacy are rare.

“What would be the value of calling a human father the alpha male?” says L. David Mech, a senior research scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey, who has studied wolf packs in the wild for decades. “He’s just the father of the family. And that’s exactly the way it is with wolves.”