sleep well with your bad decisions

Dez | 22 | Mostly CritRole and dumb memes at this point | No sideblogs we die like dumbasses | I do art and write sometimes

[froglegsz]

i hope im not just a blog to you, but the reason you filtered a tag because i wouldnt shut up about it

[sapper-in-the-wire-old]

In the same vein of cave paintings having children’s handprints higher than their height suggesting them being lifted up or sitting on the shoulders of adults, there’s footprints in Australia dating to the Ice Age showing a group of adults and children walking to a body a water, and one child breaking away from the group to seemingly skip in a wavy path until rejoining the group

This is like 20 thousand years ago! And the joy and happiness of going to water made this child playfully skip along! It’s universal! Dancing their way back to their family!

In a language we will never hear, a culture we’ll never know, with thoughts and ideas we can only imagine! There are millennia of untold moments of happiness, of human connection and warmth that are gone forever. But they still happened! Did that family even notice the tracks they left? How could they have known that that one day their impossibly distant descendants would be able to see the imprints they made?

Another set of tracks in the same area shows three men hunting a giant kangaroo, running at incredible speeds, but one of them had only one foot! They jumped along on one foot, every so often an imprint from a stick appearing. How did they lose their limb? An accident? A fight? A predator? Was it completely gone or maimed? Was it from birth? Either way this person was cared for by their family and was able to heal and participate fully in life! They most likely felt grief when their family member lost the use of their limb! Who cared for them? Who gave them the stick to help them walk? What kind of joy did their family feel when they made a recovery? Did someone shape and carve the stick? They certainly worked all of their other wooden tools, something as essential that would have been too.

This was during the ice age when Australia became a brutally cold, dry desert. Their entire food system had to change. By all indications it should have been a stark and difficult life of little resources. But no! They worked together! They looked after their wounded and sick! The speed that these hunters were running at was incredible and means they were well fed and healthy! A millennia of helping one another and caring for one another and all we can get are tiny glimpses of these moments did they catch the kangaroo did they laugh and congratulate each other when they did how happy were they to bring it back to their families I just

[truffledmadness]

There were people who survived trephination long enough for bone to regrow over the hole. Can you even imagine the care that must have required, in prehistoric times with no sanitation or tech or medicine? We have proof, in the form of human remains, that disabled people who couldn’t have walked or fed themselves survived for years in the Stone Age. We have cave paintings that were clearly made by an adult and a child together, one teaching the other.

The past was brutal, but that doesn’t mean everyone who lived in it was.

[acreaturecalledgreed]

sorta related but i dont like that tumblr has made “unhealthy relationship” mean “one person is an abuser and the other is a victim”

unhealthy relationship means just that. a relationship that is unhealthy. whether because a party is uninterested, both parties bring out the worst in eachother, theres just no more spark, etc

just stop using “unhealthy relationship” as if its perfectly synonymous with “abusive relationship”

abusive relationships are DEFINITELY unhealthy relationships but not all unhealthy relationships are abusive, ya dig?

[carnotaurus-sassytrei]

Important post.

Not everyone you don’t get along with is an abuser.

[teravidi]

[ryebreadgf]

[asimovsideburns]

peasant au

stopping a heist

stone age au

fake enemies/rivals

mutually uninterested in a romantic/sexual relationship

they’re both unemployed

civilians in a world with superheroes au

listen I know the prompt is “book tropes” but that didn’t stop anybody else and I’m not gonna let it stop me

[asimovsideburns]

BURY YOUR STRAIGHTS

[catchymemes]

[derpyanimatesstuff]

Not saying we should hit people but like clearly this is working

[sinweichen]

Oh my god it’s the same guy each time! Hero probably notes maskless folks, gets in front of them, and gets beaten up where they can see it.

Good prank, good message

[captain-vimes]

My favorite is the guy who walks up the down escalator while he puts on his mask

[theunsubtleknife]

The Cyrillic says “our actor” in case anyone was worried

[literaphobe]

ok but im actually angry that??? this is happening???? montero is NUMBER ONE p much everywhere but it’s getting. fucking taken down. this isn’t fair i swear to god

[bottomvalerius]

He didn’t just make this up out of no where; he’s responding to fans tweeting him saying they cannot access it.

I’m not saying to panic, but to imply he’s lying for streams is uncalled for. This so far seems to be a region based occurrence, and I think it’s fair to assume/prep for something happening in the U.S (though things get blocked outside the U.S all the time); it seems like Nas wasn’t involved in any discussions around it getting removed, so he’s just playing it safe lmao If you are outside the U.S, I would try screen recording the song if you like bopping to it✨

[deanwasalwaysbi]

best part

[wonderlandmoonrose7]

It’s true; my family has an Apple Music subscription, and I just tried to listen to it. This is what I got–

Corporations will always prioritize their homophobic, racist consumer bases. There are so many songs that have much worse content, yet I can listen to them without issue. If it’s about the sexual content, why can I still listen to Dead Girl Walking, a song centered entirely around high schoolers having sex? If it’s about the swearing, why can I still listen to all those other songs tagged as explicit? This is purely because Lil Nas X is a black, gay man who made some conservatives complain.

[filmnoirsbian]

Actually if you're an asshole to kids and then use mental illness as an excuse, i am ethically obligated to rob you at knife point

[filmnoirsbian]

"I'm allowed to hate kids bc im mentally ill and saying otherwise is ableist! >:(" ok well im able to beat your ass

[filmnoirsbian]

[arospacecase-moved]

[ID: a tag reading, “#beating your ass is my hyperfixation and brother.... i’m about to start infodumping” /END ID]

[seerya]

The Mummy Reboot but Jack Black plays the clutzy and enchanting librarian and Charlize Theron is the gun wielding adventurer they have to break out of jail in the beginning and who will kick your ass and scream at random things.

[saint-batrick]

oh holy SHIT.

[allgreenisgoodgreen]

just sharing this for anyone who needs it rn

[possessive-suggestions]

…They did what… to you? No. I will make them pay. You’re fucking mine. And nobody, nobody, lays a goddamn finger on you.

[trainthief]

Me when I get my car back from the mechanics and the adjustment on my seat is all wrong

[primeemeraldheiress]

This is the funniest fucking addition

[ranger-truth]

Guys, guys, let’s get back into Animorphs!!!

They are all free to read with Applegate’s permission on the animorphs website!

Oh yeah babey

[radicalclownfriend-deactivated2]

[gravityofstars]

She has also written some absolutely amazing books recently.

These are just a few of them. I read The One and Only Ivan to my students every year (and there’s a sequel coming out in May!).

Every one of her books I’ve read has been beautifully written. Yes, they’re written for children, but you won’t regret reading a single one of them. Applegate is hands-down my favorite middle grades author.

Read. Her. Books.

[gravityofstars]

Also this

[ophidahlia]

Animorphs says trans rights

[theweirdwideweb]

[orchidvioletindigo]

[sycamoretree]

trinity 

[yawning-caverns]

An Actual Real Person my Dad knew. Pretty sure he worked as a bush guide. When someone asked the time he’d pull off his hat - some kind of broad brim - and use to take a few measurements of the sun’s position relative to the horizon. Then he’d declare the time.

He was accurate to the minute.

[elodieunderglass]

Fvvdvddsfdssdhnvfh you get back here and say this to the rest of the crew

[hotgrrlbummer]

[catjacket-scribbles]

when you just can’t seem to shake the weight of living

[mr-dalliard-ive-gone-peculiar]

[piratedykes]

It will forever haunt me that I cannot share this joke with everyone I meet

[macaedh]

what the fuck ethan

[kvothbloodless]

I wish i had a context for this. But I really dont.

[pervocracy]

I was all ready to “um, actually” this, but, um, actually there’s about 3-4 grams of iron in a person, which x400 is 1.2-1.6kg, which is a smallish but not unreasonable sword. So. Math checks out.

[maxknightley]

How would you extract the iron, though? The more practical solution would be to kill a mere hundred men, then mix 1 part blood with 3 parts standard molten iron, imo. Cheaper and faster, while still retaining the edge that only evil magic can give you.

[bemusedlybespectacled]

Or, you could just make the sword of iron, and then use the blood to temper the blade.

[squeeful]

1.2 to 1.6 kilograms is a perfectly reasonable large sword.  Your average longsword was 1.1–1.8 kg and I don’t even remember if that’s including the weight of the hilt, guard, and pommel or just the blade.  Your more classic “knight sword” was a mere 1.1 kilograms on average; the blood of 400 men is more than enough.

This is using the comparatively crappy metallurgy of medieval Europe and their meh iron swords.  Move east to, say, contemporary Iran and make a scimitar using high carbon steel (~2%) for a .75 kilogram blade and you only need the blood of about 225 men.

[optimysticals]

So putting my thoughts in on this… because how could I not.

So you’ve exsanguinated your 400 guys to get the iron for your sword. Cool. But now you have 400 bodies lying around.

Why not put those to good use and cremate them. Use the carbon from those 400 bodies (you won’t need all of them) and now you can make a nice mid-high carbon steel sword.

Now you have a sword forged with the blood of your enemies AND strengthened with their bones.

[hedwig-dordt]

“high fantasy math” - the tag I should have expected to write some day.

[themarysue]

I’m so proud of everyone in this post

[saltyfortunes]

thanks forging weapons from dead bodies side of tumblr