(Insert something funny here) @kittirain - Tumblr Blog

So... After a few years I return to Tumblr.

What's different?

More pictures, less text posts. (Possibly because Facebook has stolen them all through screenshots)

It's weird... I was here to witness the birth of SuperWhoLock... Would doomscroll for hours... Then I just...stopped.

Trying out Victorian style photography

#victorian #style #photography #vintage #vintagefashionnotvintagevalues

winter-seance

Night at the Museum 2

maggins

shoyowo

Hey remember when US and Russia was all like “We’re the best!!! We’ve won the space race!!!!” But India sent a kick-ass space probe to Mars and the whole mission was fuel efficient, costed less and a roaring success in the first try and then they were like “…..wait no that can’t be true” and still have the audacity to call us “underdeveloped” or only view us as a ‘third world country’? :)

For anyone who needs more info, the probe was called Mangalyaan (which literally means space probe vehicle) or Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) and you can also get more information here and here

shoyowo

Remember when NYT mocked India for this very thing and an TOI (a major indian newspaper) responded with this? :)

They were being racist asf and we were till respectful literally fuck you if you think ‘third world counties’ can’t be better than you

shoyowo

white people can and should reblog this

seriesofnonsequiturs

and shout out to the women engineers integral to the launch

“Indian staff from the Indian Space Research Organisation celebrate after the Mars Orbiter Spacecraft entered Mars’s orbit.

On November 5, 2013, a rocket launched toward Mars. It was India’s first interplanetary mission, Mangalyaan, and a terrific gamble. Only 40 percent of missions sent to Mars by major space organizations—NASA, Russia’s, Japan’s, or China’s—had ever been a success. No space organization had succeeded on its first attempt. What’s more, India’s space organization, ISRO, had very little funding: while NASA’s Mars probe, Maven, cost $651 million, the budget for this mission was $74 million.

This was not the only success of the mission. An image of the scientists celebrating in the mission control room went viral. Girls in India and beyond gained new heroes: the kind that wear sarees and tie flowers in their hair, and send rockets into space.”

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ambrosiadarling

there’s a movie adaptation of this! it’s obviously more dramatized/they use different names but i really really loved the movie! it’s called mission mangal and it was the first time i had heard of this and i was so surprised that literally? no one talked about it??? what they accomplished is incredible.

lastbenchpapers

ALSO, Mangalyaan launched in 2013 and was meant to be a 6 month mission. It’s been in orbit around Mars now for more than 5 years and has enough propellant to keep going for even longer.

sunlit-cashmere

“The kind that wear sarees and tie flowers in their hair, and send rockets into space.”

FUCK YES. THIS IS THE TYPE OF REPRESENTATION I’VE BEEN HERE FOR!!

I love how the dudes at back are pure happy!!

sixpenceee

Young elephant thinks human is drowning so he rushes to save him

Source

kittirain

We dont deserve elephants

sixpenceee

Bride taking video for her wedding caught in the shock wave of the Beirut Blast

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sunnydaysinamusicalhaze

OMG

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😞💔

mrtimoon

It’s terrifying wallah! :(

kittirain

I hope she is okay

nowthisnews

‘Race and racism is a reality that so many of us grow up learning to just deal with. But if we ever hope to move past it, it can’t just be on people of color to deal with it. It’s up to all of us – Black, white, everyone – no matter how well-meaning we think we might be, to do the honest, uncomfortable work of rooting it out. It starts with self-examination and listening to those whose lives are different from our own. It ends with justice, compassion, and empathy that manifests in our lives and on our streets.’ — Michelle Obama

frogitivity

Sometimes when I feel sad I look at pics of the cows in harvest moon

frogitivity

Oh to be a friendly looking cow in a farming game

frogitivity

To be round and pixilated is the life I want

boredpanda

1800s-1900s Portraits Of Native American Teen Girls Show Their Unique Beauty And Style (15+ Pics)

tikkunolamorgtfo

I love love love seeing historical/archival photos of people who are not white Christian Europeans :)

sashayed

this is my fave from the source, tho.

titenoute

You have no fucking idea how much i love you for the sources.

modoru-mono

The caption for the smiley gal up above is “#O-o-be, The Kiowas, 1894”. Come on, if you’re gonna reblog the image, at least give her name and tribe! She’s even got her name on her blanket! Also OMG she’s wearing an elk tooth dress…Having a dad who could gather THAT MANY elk teeth was a sign of high prestige for plains natives, girl’s got bling! I love the rest of the outfit too!