Let's live in fiction.

This blog is my attempt to escape reality.

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Art by Roman Pankov

[konoko]

sorry i'm being an absent friend i'm being an absent self too

[nocturnal-stims]

Japanese Snow Fairy (shima enaga), a subspecies of the long-tailed tit only found only in Hokkaido.

❄️ Isobo in IG

[biceptisaurus]

The planet’s famous red colour is from iron oxide coating everything. So it’s not just a desert. It’s a desert so old it’s literally rusting.

[themoonandmyman]

what’s one thing you’re doing today that’s good for you mentally and/or physically :)

[dailymanners]

"We aren't raising kids; we're raising adults. If you want a kind 16-year-old, teach a 6-year-old kindness and give them 10 years of practice. If you want a __ adult, teach a kid how to be __ and give them __ years of practice." - Jon Acuff

[mckitterick]

also I think it's important to listen closely to kids of subsequent generations, because everything in the world is changing so much faster - change itself is changing faster every day - and because kids bring such fresh perspectives to see things differently and better and more humanely than we could have learned growing up when we did, and because young people today are literally living in such a different and interconnected world that they - who are growing up in the rushing flow of change - can see patterns to the human experience invisible to us amid those raging alien waters

what I'm saying is that each new generation growing up in this ever-changing world can teach us so much about how to be better people

so we aren't just raising kids; they're raising adults as well, if we listen closely

[dear-ao3]

adult hood is just

*buys a half gallon of milk* *uses it all within a few days* *decided to buy a gallon of milk to not run out before next shopping trip* *uses a teaspoon of milk that week and it goes bad somehow* *buys a quart of milk instead so it won’t go bad* *uses it in one day* *buys a quart and a half gallon of milk because the gallon was too much but the half gallon was not enough* *only uses the half gallon* *gives up on milk for a few days in general* *buys a gallon of milk again just to tempt fate* *somehow uses all of it without realizing and then has to eat sad cereal with like the 5 drops of remaining milk*

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

In their defence, a lot of it is sand.

[its-time-to-be-silly]

I'm starting to think that maybe Europe just isn't that big

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

[yanzinator]

no but because australia is close to the bottom of the map and the flat map is distorted to fit a square map shape, australia on the flat map is significantly smaller compared to places closer to the equator.

[crazy-pages]

Thank you for being the one single person in the notes who understands map projections. Australia is big, but still significantly smaller than the US.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Australia is not significantly smaller than the mainland US, no. These are the real sizes, not a Mercator projection. I think you're misunderstanding what yanzinator said. The US does have significantly larger island territories than Australia, though.

[antikate]

The continuous US (so, not counting the islands and Alaska) and Australia are roughly the same size:

US: 2,959,064.44 square miles (7,663,941.7 km2)

Australia: 2,969,907 sq mi (7,692,024 km2)

And the person above has the impact of the Mercator projection completely backwards: North America and Europe appear much larger than they actually are due to their latitudes. Most notably Greenland looks like it is bigger than Africa! (It isn’t.)

In the picture below, the pale blue is Mercator and the dark blue is actual size:

And here is Africa vs Greenland:

[ineffectualdemon]

There is a website where you can drag and drop countries on top of each other to see the actual size comparison taking into account projection

Compare Countries With This Simple Tool

Drag and drop countries around the map to compare their relative size. Is Greenland really as big as all of Africa? You may be surprised at

It's pretty cool and also Japan is a lot bigger than I thought it was

[invisibletripwire]

Broken link above. Here is the current link.

Very good website. Use it in school to show the kids the true size of countries, and they are always surprised.

[tomatotext]

and, look, I’m not complaining, not at all, but this is why it’s very important to be abundantly clear and specific with your Etsy witch.

[genderhugger]

80s movies are rly good. because of all the coke and cigs and disco

[oneheadtoanother]

idk anything about this but I love it

[strawberry-crocodile]

for real tho it feels exhausting that ive seen this whole "woman should be allowed to abstain from X beauty standard" -> "i perform X beauty standard, am i evil? do you think im evil? please forgive me i came up with a dozen excuses 🥺" since like 2015 (and i know its been going on longer than that) like girl thats not the poiiiiint

[strawberry-crocodile]

look me in the eyes. repeat after me. "i face societal pressure to perform this beauty standard. i should not face that pressure. i conform to this standard. i am rewarded for performing to this standard. i need to respect women who do not perform this standard. this is not about whether or not i am a sinner for wearing makeup."

[malcolm-f-tucker]

I wish people would stop saying “It’s July. Well done for wasting half a year.” Did you make someone smile in the past six months? Did you stroke a cat or throw a stick for a dog? Did you learn a new fact or teach someone a new joke? Did you laugh, cry, scream or sing in the past six months? Because if so, congratulations for not wasting your time at all.

[malcolm-f-tucker]

Happy 10th birthday to this, my post of all time. Glad to have spent the last 10+ years wasting my time on tumblr with you all 💖

[1sz]

Are you ok?

No but I’m funny

[zzaphotoaday]

[wuntrum]

utility pole paintings for april / may / june !

[biodegrade]

I’d love to relax but it’s just not realistic