very soft

[actualfeminism]

shut up brain, i’m trying to watch russian doll

[draeneis]

[ranger52enroute-deactivated2023]

The alphabetized files at my ranger station lead to some interesting mental pictures

[nellyben]

I like how everybody is paired off haha

[larssonadam]

#this looks more like an awkward sixth grade slow dance than it does hockey

[itsacpsideblog]

I FINALLY FOUND OUT WHY THIS HAPPENS. You see this all the time when there’s a fight or a scrum and suddenly everyone pairs up with a member of the opposite team and they just sort of …hold each other.

Someone on reddit asked about it. And it turns out there’s a logical-ish reason:

all of the other players pair off with their man to prevent anyone else entering into the fight … so it’s a form of self policing. 

[…] The players basically want to prevent 2 on 1, etc. fights and by finding a “hugging” partner so there’s no ganging up on one guy, even on accident. They do it because it’s fair. And it’s kind of cute sometimes.

so now we know! it’s fair…and cute.

[animentality]

Aw best part is no ones left out at this dance

[castiel--for--king]

[legotheeggo]

[arrghigiveup]

#hockey hugs #more or less #:)))))))) #where’s that one of Karlsson and Mike Green #that one’s priceless

=DDD

[thatsawrap-yall-deactivated2018]

#pure

[goaliesarethebest]

NHL: You need to prevent other player’s from joining in the fight, make sure to hold them back

Hockey players, hugging: Got it.

[books0977]

Visit to a Library (c.1760). Pietro Longhi (Italian, 1702-1785). Oil on canvas. Worchester Art Museum.

Here, portraying elegantly dressed visitors to a library as somewhat frivolous, Longhi ably captured the graceful decay of the Venetian republic. A gently ironic portrait of fashionable aristocracy, the painting is executed in subtle tones of yellow, silver, and pink against a neutral background.

[terpsikeraunos]

you’re not really engaging with classical literature unless you want to fight it

[finrays]

This is the humanities version of that spoof about scientists reminding the world that clean energy is ready to go whenever.

[yesterdaysprint]

Feather River Bulletin, Quincy, California, March 20, 1924

[gablehood]

[memewhore]

[bob-belcher]

[souratgar-deactivated20190925]

the award for “Most Creative Chapter Titles” goes to medieval Arabian writers

[kayleefabulous]

my roommate’s on jstor and she just whispered “oh fuck yeah” so that’s the mood

[scienceshenanigans]

When you find The Paper™

[soft-kisss]

I’ve never physically related to a post like this

[leitharstjarna]

[lesbianshepard]

my fave greek history story to tell is that of agnodice. like she noticed that women were dying a lot during childbirth so she went to egypt to study medicine in alexandria and was really fucking good but b/c it was illegal for women to be doctors in athens she had to pretend to be a man. and then the other doctors noticed that she was 10x better than them and accused her of seducing and sleeping with the women patients. like they brought her to court for this. and she just looked at them and these charges and stripped in front of everyone like “yeah. im not fucking your wives” and then they got so mad that a woman was better at their jobs then them that they tried to execute her but all her patients came to court and were like “are you fucking serious? she is the reason you have living children and a wife.” so they were shamed into changing the law and that is how women were given the right to practice medicine in athens

[autieblesam-deactivated20190506]

Yeah, this isn’t some Greek myth story about a hero or demigod or something, Agnodice was a real person who actually did this.

[nineprotons]

“Got the morbs” should be a thing.

[breelandwalker]

Victorian slang is AMAZING, and select phrases really need to make a comeback.

“Bitch the pot” - Pour the tea (HOW RELEVANT IS THIS!?)

“Bang up the elephant” - Absolutely perfect; super stylish

“Well, that’s shot the bale” - Something that has missed the mark entirely

“Church-bell” - A woman prone to gossip

“Chuckaboo” - A dear friend, a bosom chum

“Beer and skittles” - A great time (see also: Irish Gaelic “craic”)

“Butter on bacon” - Something overdone or too extravagant

“Cupid’s kettle drums” - Breasts, particularly large ones

“Gigglemug” - A cheerful smiling face

[thecuriousviolet-deactivated201]

All of these??? Make me smile??? They’re so weird and wonderful I love them??? Especially bitch the pot because that’s something I could totally hear myself saying…that and chuckaboo

[thebibliosphere]

I worked in a Victorian tea house in my youth and I’m telling you, you haven’t lived till you hear a the 98 year old lady (this was some 15 years ago) utter the words “bitch the pot” because it was what they used to say when the tea house first opened and it just sort of stuck through all the generations.

[cramulus]

[untillion-deactivated20180801]

Some young child: *screaming outside* Me with no context: Girl me too