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[oldhollywood]

From Katharine Hepburn’s 1981 interview with Barbara Walters: 

Hepburn: “I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man…I’ve just done what I damn well wanted to and I made enough money to support myself. And I ain’t afraid of being alone.”

Walters: “Is that why also you wear pants?”

Hepburn: “No, I just wore pants because they’re comfortable.”

Walters: “Do you ever wear a skirt, by the way?”

Hepburn: “I have one.”

Walters: “You have one.”

Hepburn: “I’ll wear it to your funeral.”

(via/photo via)

[unreconstructedfangirl]

Go, girl.

[moth-bug]

Sunday the 21st

So I was re-reading the first chapter of Good Omens, as you do, and realized that hey. We’re mighty close to the Earths birthday. And guess what, this Sunday is the 21st too! If anyone needed another reason to celebrate Good Omens, there you go.

[consultingfujoshi]

happy 6022nd birthday earth!!!!

[clouds-of-wings]

Gandalf the Black by Benco42

If Gandalf took the ring…

[questionablemotivations]

There are a lot of times I feel like just…flipping the vegan script.

It’s not ‘polyester’ it’s plastic

It’s not ‘vegan leather’ it’s plastic

Its not ‘faux fur’ it’s plastic

Plastic is a pollutant and causes far more damage to the environment both now and in the future than leather or wool.

Please stop telling me that the Plastic Lyfe is the only life, it is not. My leather shoes will last a decade where pleather is lucky to last 12 months. Leather (and wool) decompose and are renewable. Plastic is neither of those.

[house-of-crows]

THANK YOUUUUUUU~

[dandiliiontea-deactivated202105]

Artemisia Gentileschi

Judith Slaying Holofernes

[finnglas]

Mood for the foreseeable future

[teesadutta]

9.29.18

[olivesaverin]

What do we owe each other?

[leatherwingsinc-deactivated2015]

[caluummhood-deactivated20140506]

HOLY SHIT, IT WAS THE ORIGINAL ONE

MAKE A WISH

[jamesjoeboyleeeee-deactivated20]

the first post ever on tumblr

[powerpuffsposts-deactivated2025]

I WAS EXPECTING IT TO BE A REMAKE OF SOME SORT HOLY FUCK

[kpopdotexe-blog]

WHO THE FUCK KEEPS BRINGING THIS BACK

[teenyweenynotepad]

reblog this because it shows up every blue moon

[picdescbot]

a brown and white cow standing on top of a grass covered field

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[noaasanctuaries]

We’re maximizing our baby cephalopod time today with this baby octopus! This larval octopus was caught during ocean monitoring efforts with the Applied California Current Ecosystem Studies program in Cordell Bank and Greater Farallones national marine sanctuaries. Have you ever seen something so adorable?

Look closely and you can see small spots. Those are cells called chromatophores, which will help the octopus change color and camouflage itself as an adult! [Video description: A small translucent spotted octopus swims in a tray of water.]

[odlnsonss]

I know a lot of you guys don’t want to reblog those posts about the wildfires in Greece because they’re too long, so I figured I would make a shorter post for y’all. 

Here is a link on how to help and what the current situations are, and here is a direct link to the fundraiser.

As someone who has personally been affected by fire, I would really appreciate if y’all could sb this??

[archatlas]

Lunar eclipse: ‘Blood moon’ dazzles skywatchers around the world

Friday’s total lunar eclipse is the longest of the 21st century.

[pripecias]

i never talk about these things but i can’t remain silent.

i know tumblr doesn’t give a SHIT when things happen in countries outside the “most popular ones” (such as the usa & england). it’s true, don’t lie to me. y’all don’t give A FUCK. not every issue and problem in said countries gets the appropriate exposure but in general shit shows up on the news WORLD FREAKING  WIDE. you set up donations, you help out, your spread the word, you say “pray for x”……

southern europe is burning. 

my country is burning.

people are dying - at home, on the road, trying to run away, in their cars.

yesterday my country had 300 active fires.

people are losing EVERYTHING they own.

i have a friend that is on a train right now passing through places that have been burnt to the ground and she says the smoke is so intense it’s getting inside the train and she can barely breathe.

and yet, even though several people (myself included) have been trying to bring awareness to what has been happening in southern europe… what we get from most of you, those not part of the countries suffering, is silence. we don’t ask for money, we don’t ask for shit other than a reblog to spread awareness… something you can delete in 24/48hrs if you wish. 

i don’t know what to tell you. i’m angry. i’m frustrated. i’m disappointed. i feel like i’m screaming into the void. “a reblog does nothing” - you know that’s a damn lie, you know exposure always helps, you know people start paying attention when posts on social media become popular. my country in particular is a small one, we get ZERO exposure. y’all are only starting to figure out we even fucking exist bc of the shit we’ve been winning lately. 

but hell, if the EU doesn’t give a shit, why should some user on tumblr dot com?

again, i don’t know what to tell you so i’ll let the images speak for themselves: 

An image captured by a Nasa satellite shows a thick plume of smoke blowing southward from the Greek island of Chios over the island of Crete

Torneros de Jamuz, Spain

Duca, Croatia

A helicopter from Italy’s civil protection service drops water on a fire near the railway between Venice and Trieste

Residents take refuge on the beach as a wildfire burns on the mountain next to the village of Lithi, on the Greek island of Chios

Men gather cattle during a forest fire in Vieira de Leiria, Marinha Grande, Portugal.

Charred trees are seen on the hills above the Cloister of Thivaidas on Mount Athos, a World Heritage Site in Greece

Portugal

[tinacroat-deactivated20180821]

This is fucking important. I am glad someone fucking spoke about this and said what they had to say. The damage is terrible, and all the evergreen, stone, even the ground is black. I was fucking terrified when Croatia was burning. The fire was near a village where I like and I thought it will burn down. I thought the church will burn down. I thought the cemetery where my grandpa is buried will burn. I still remember the smell of smoke, and when I went to check how bad is fire, my clothes and hair and skin all stunk of smoke. It didn’t go away for weeks.

This is NASA’s picture of Croatia and Montenegro burning. My fucking country was burning. Fucking reblog this. I don’t care that it isn’t UK or US, or that it doesn’t go with your blog, fucking. Reblog. It.

[arafagzhzjxxkd]

Not my blog type, I dont care.

[silversmith-91]

God please stay safe everyone, take care

[pheita]

A perfect example what is wrong with the media. I can’t recall hearing about it in the German news.

[mastreworld]

I had nightmares like this when I was little.

[malicemismanager]

Dear gods this is horrible!

[iamhisgloriouspurpose]

The world is on fire, literally and metaphorically.

[slumberinggirl-deactivated20210]

Holy shit

[neurodivergent-crow]

Hello please don’t blame individuals for their country’s news outlets refusing to cover things. This is awful and we do care, we just need to be told it’s happening.

[never---knows---best]

This shit is happening and our “news” outlets deign to report on such inconsequential things as the shenanigans of celebrities instead, and it is INFURIATING.

[simblrz]

Too close to home to not reblog. Take care guys. Whenever you go somewhere ALWAYS make sure you can evacuate, that you can run towards all directions and that it doesn’t involve jumping off a cliff. Around 80 people burned a few days ago in Greece and more than 700 were rescued from the see. That’s not a joke, that’s real numbers. And that was mostly because they didn’t have a way out.

Every day in southern Europe fires break out because people are careless or, worse, because they start them to turn forests into lots where they can build vacation homes. The heat and wind turn these fires into unstoppable infernos.

If you hear about a fire close to you (could be a few miles away, still is close, especially in a forest), be ready to leave, not to your car, but to the nearest open space, preferably somewhere with water and away from anything that can burn. Staying inside a house (not made of woods obvs) might also be safer than leaving. Don’t underestimate how quickly a fire spreads.

Stay safe.

[daisydezem]

This is horrible! We saw it on the news. So please be careful. And not only the fire is dangerous… The smoke as well. If your close to a fire get away. Call emergency services. 

[simpathysims]

I didn’t even know! Praying for you guys! I might donate something too.

[isignedupforbenedict]

Growing up, I thought only Australia had bad bushfires. Then later I learned America gets them too. It wasn’t until fairly recently in my life that I learned Europe also suffers from heat waves and forest fires. Because we just didn’t see images like this on the news!

I hope Europe feels relief soon.

[hpswl-cumbercookie]

I can’t believe this. I wish I had known but I didn’t. Nobody in my family knows and they watch the news RELIGIOUSLY. This needs more publicity, the people NEED to know abiut this horrible tragedy and I wish I could do more to spread the word and offer support. I am sharing this on all of my social media and hopefully the word is soread. Thank you for taking a stand.

@isgksjtdlhcfuxlhdjts @danceislife992 @zigster-ao3 @alexxphoenix42 @twomenofnote @busybiscute @johnlockficclub @lediona25 @yorkiepug @johnlocklover221

[gnossienne]

The blood moon is framed by the statues of Hera and Apollo in Athens, 27 July 2018 (x)

[noahadler]

“Fiona had always been shot as a waif – tendrils of hair blowing (dressed in lingerie), out in some sort of lily field. She told me she wanted to chuck that scene and be a warrior woman in a suit of armor.”

– Joe McNally, The Moment It Clicks

[direct-action-faction]

Most people get fucked by companies on a daily basis.  At least sex workers have the decency to look their customer in the face while they fuck them. 

[im-just-a-reaction]

🤔

[nutsacktorturer]

[just--space]

If Earth had Saturn’s Rings

From an excellent post by Jason Davis

From Washington, D.C., the rings would only fill a portion of the sky, but appear striking nonetheless. Here, we see them at sunrise.

From Guatemala, only 14 degrees above the equator, the rings would begin to stretch across the horizon. Their reflected light would make the moon much brighter.

From Earth’s equator, Saturn’s rings would be viewed edge-on, appearing as a thin, bright line bisecting the sky.

At the March and September equinoxes, the Sun would be positioned directly over the rings, casting a dramatic shadow at the equator.

At midnight at the Tropic of Capricorn, which sits at 23 degrees south latitude, the Earth casts a shadow over the middle of the rings, while the outer portions remain lit.

via x

[justbehappydamnit]

I didn’t know I wanted earth to have rings but now I know and am sad

[appropriately-inappropriate]

If it’s any consolation, there is a non-zero chance of that occurring at some point in Earth’s future.

Rings are essentially pieces of debris locked in orbit around an object in space, held in place by gravity and forward momentum.

The orbital velocity of earth is 17,500 miles per hour, so that’s how fast the rings would be travelling, incidentally. It also makes our network of geosynchronous satellites absolutely toast, but I’ll get to that in a second.

Earth could acquire rings by a situation that places a large volume of debris into the air. It could happen, for example, if we blew up an incoming asteroid.

Or if an asteroid larger than the one that killed the dinosaurs hit us and exploded the Earth’s crust into space and subsequently into orbit.

It would be cataclysmic, might cause a mass extinction, but undoubtedly some microbes in deep sea vents would survive to multiply and evolve. Whatever came from that and rose to the surface to look at the sky, would see an Earth with rings.

It’s grim, but we would have rings!