Maggie

Oh the prophecies oh the fandoms

[drdaanvondutch]

in law school, my mom took me to this stress retreat because my family was vaguely aware i was a suicide risk. and they didnt allow phones, so i brought this huge bag of books. and one of the options for "destressing" was this fake cave grotto thing, where they'd decorated a room to make it look exactly like an underground cave and the air was like -10 degrees, but there was a like 4ft deep pool in the middle that was kept super super hot, so you would just switch between the hot and cold. and they would bring you an endless supply of this weird syrupy drink thing that was like super caffeinated and tasted like sugar and mint. and so i spent multiple days sitting half submerged in this fake grotto drinking mystery liquid and reading. and i have to be honest i really did feel less stressed

[batsandbutch]

[gothiccharmschool]

Please please please I need to go there.

[great-and-small]

I am constantly thinking about this

[great-and-small]

This mild Wikipedia sentence is like the understatement of all time

Here are some crazy grasshopper mouse facts for those who are not familiar with the most badass mouse species on the planet

- They are primarily carnivorous, and their diet is made up of not only bugs but also snakes, lizards and other mice.

- They hunt like true predators, slowly stalking and creeping up on their prey before ambushing them. They will sometimes let out a screech as they attack.

- Like wolves, they howl to establish territory and have a specially developed throat to produce louder vocalizations. They will stand up on their hind legs and throw their head back to howl- a sound that can be heard from 100 meters away!

- Grasshopper mouse behavior is linked to lunar cycles and they are more active during a full moon.

- These mice have been hunting bark scorpions and evolving alongside them for so long that they’ve evolved a mutation where scorpion venom that is lethal to other animals is converted into a painkiller in the grasshopper mouse’s body.

[noah-wyles]

she's the best of us

[rederiswrites]

Look, it's simple. If a person has to actively work to make money, they're not "the rich" and they're not the problem. A surgeon making $200k a year still stops making money if they stop showing up to do surgery, because they're still selling their labor. The radical discrepancies in how we value different skills are certainly a problem, but the guy who makes money when he doesn't even get out of bed is the one making money on the value of other people's labor.

[byjove]

Nothing makes me angrier than the “Minimum wage jobs are intended for teenagers, of course adults can’t live off the wages, they should get real jobs.” bullshit. Not only are you pro child labor but you’re pro underpaying children for their labor? Also, there are so many teenagers out there working to survive and pay rent and support themselves and their families and these jobs are fucking brutal. Pay them what they deserve.

[beemovieerotica]

[storybookprincess]

so a very long time ago, my dad worked with an arson investigator

this guy was often one of the first people on the scene following a suspected arson, once emergency services had done what they needed to do. at times, there were also civilians on the periphery. often, they were freaking out, and understandably so; their home or workplace had just, quite literally, gone up in smoke

this investigator wouldn’t try to calm them down. he wouldn’t comfort them or be a shoulder to cry on.

instead, he’d walk up to the person most visibly losing their shit, hand them a fire extinguisher, and say “hey, can you keep an eye out for any other fires, and if you see one, can you put it out with this?”

of course, there was no actual risk of another fire. he wouldn’t be on the scene investigating if there was even a chance that the fire wasn’t completely put out. but the bystander didn’t need to know that

because that person, without fail, would immediately pull it together, take the fire extinguisher, and stand guard. they were, at least temporarily, calm enough for this investigator to do this job

my dad has told me the parable of the fire extinguisher a hundred times, and i think about it a lot. i think about what it says about people and crises. i think about what it says about the grounding power of having a purpose. and i think about the importance of letting someone help me through something, even if that help is just going to be another casserole to throw into the freezer, because useless or not, that fire extinguisher might be the only thing holding them together

[chels]

[broadwaytheanimatedseries]

Daniel Craig is not fucking around

[beautifulbisexualqueen]

Absolutely love Daniel Craig going off in this!!

[what-even-is-thiss]

“Cats don’t actually love you”

A cat is a small creature in the middle of the food chain that is fully aware that you are a very large thing that could stomp its head in at any moment and yet it chooses to rest its tiny little head on your leg for a nap and spreads out on the floor near you exposing its belly and its most sensitive organs. It brings dead mice and bugs to you to share food.

Don’t you get it? This tiny thing trusts you. It wants to help you too. It licks your leg thinking that it’s helping. It kneads on you to find comfort. It shares its body warmth with you in the cold and gives you your space in the heat. It hisses at other mammals it sees outside including other cats in an effort to protect its family.

Cats love you so so much. But they will keep trying to eat plastic.

[pas-si-fleur]

one of my favourite new upcoming GL manga rn, love bullet, about girls who get reincarnated as cupids except they've modernized and now they use guns instead of bows.... silly sounding premise but the visual direction is extremely striking and its been super emotionally impactful to me so far at just 7 chapters out. check out the fan translation on mangadex/dynastyscans and if you like it please buy a copy of it for 5 dollars (guide on how to buy it below) cause the sales are struggling and if it gets cancelled ill die badly,,, thank you

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[monsieurenjlolras]

No one ever: I hate Ellen DeGeneres.

[monsieurenjlolras]

Checking in eleven years later folks and it does seem like I was hugely wrong on this one. a BIG my bad to everybody involved

[the-strangest-person]

I want Tyler to hold the “generic looks” comment over Wednesday for the rest of their lives.

Like when they are making out and he just pulls away and says “do you still think I look generic?”

And when people ask what she sees in him, he’s shrugging and saying “idk man, it can’t be my looks.”

[whentheynameyoujoy]

Wondered why I find precisely zero emotional resonance and dramatic potential in the show delving into “you’re teeeeechnically at fault for Enid alphaing out” vs “you’re teeeechnically at fault for my entire family croaking”, and then I realized it’s because the show kinda did address that already.

As many have pointed out, at the Iago tower Wednesday doesn’t first go to free her brother or even attack Isaac. No, she heads straight to Tyler, even though he poses no threat and removing him from the device doesn’t help Pugsley at all, as shown a minute later when he’s still getting his nuts fried. She fully intends to merc Tyler here. And then she sees him and he begs her for death and braces for the blow and she can’t do it. That’s after he helped kidnap Pugsley and Thing and was involved in the situation that ended up with Enid needing to wolf out to save her. She herself may not know why but Wednesday was 100% in murder mode and yet couldn’t bring herself to go there, not even in revenge for her brother and friend.

And then there’s Tyler and his, “yeah, I’m done with mothers and masters.” Season 1 introduced the Hyde-master dynamic and portrayed it as fundamentally abusive and dysfunctional, while season 2 addressed Tyler’s lack of family and permanently dismissed his relatives as a possible solution, first by showing Francoise abuse him physically and providing no emotional support whatsoever, and then dying. No matter how you slice it, she wasn’t a mum to Tyler and I get a real sense from the scene that not only is this the show closing the door on that chapter of Tyler’s life, but him freeing himself from yet another master-hyde dynamic and grieving not the actual person that was his mother but rather the possibility of having a mum who’d care for him at all.

So yeah, little more than a bit of material for an especially pedantic fic.

[portelan]

Slumber was a performance/installation: whenever it was shown, the artist lived in the gallery, weaving during the day and sleeping with an EEG machine recording her Rapid Eye Movement (REM) at night. The REM is an analogue to Antoni’s dreams, and she weaves this pattern into the blanket that covers her bed while she sleeps. In this piece, an uneasy truce exists between contemporary medical technology, ancient myths of weaving and the mysterious world of dreams.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Despite being super into Ancient Rome (normal) I’ve never looked into Pompeii much. I mean of course there’s a lot of things referenced from Pompeii in most things you read about so I already knew quite a bit about what was physically there but I never really looked into the event itself.

Well most people survived it, turns out. They evacuated. The whole event took about two days and in the first day a good majority of the population bundled together what belongings they could and got out.

So Pompeii isn’t this perfectly preserved Roman city in the middle of everyday life like how it’s always been portrayed to me. It’s a city that’s been mostly evacuated with a lot of its stuff taken it in a hurry with a few stragglers electing to stay and try to shelter rather than evacuate for whatever reason.

This is a very different picture from what most books citing something found in Pompeii.

Also the event probably didn’t happen in August despite what most people say. It probably happened in October. Which changes everything in my mind at least. Those poor people died or lost their homes during pomegranate season. The first days of sweater weather. What a downer for harvest season tbh like jeez

[stash-n]

hey dudes it's #wednesday

[tony-the-tigers-juicy-armpit]

(in the universe where capitalism never happened and we're in the sun eating fruit topless all day long) fuck i wish i had a credit score