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Hey there I'm trying to sort out my fav (with gridllr.com). Sometimes it goes cray cray and posts with the previous tags. Heaven knows why, most of the time I can't fix the posts and I get an error on mobile, so I have to do it on the desktop version.

I'm not taken over by a malicious robot or something XD

ladyofmisfortune

It has been almost 2 years, and I've still got only 7153 likes to sort

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ladyofmisfortune

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thoughtportal

this is my favorite tweet of all time

#snort

beautiful-songbird

How the new Odyssey movie sounds to me based off of what I’ve seen on tumblr

#omg #There's no bed???#nolan odyssey #wtf #spoilers

fandomsandfeminism

Humans are a communal species that have banded together and cared for their sick, disabled, and elderly since before we were ever modern man. Resources were shared even as skills specialized.

Capitalism isn’t natural. A community should not have members dying of starvation or exposure while there is an abundance of resources. That isn’t how it works. That isn’t how it’s supposed to work.

g-taire

ok so my roommates are anthropology students and their favorite example for debunking the ‘survival of the fittest’ bs is shanidar 1. (x, x, x)

shanidar 1 is a neanderthal who, at a pretty young age, was hit in the head hard enough to blind him. this also led to that side of his brain shutting down and withering his right arm, and possibly crippling his entire right side. not only that but his skeleton also shows that at some point, he broke a bone in his foot and, in addition to the other factors, resulted in a noticeable limp. there are some sources which say he likely had degenerative diseases. (arthritis was really common in neanderthals)

going off of widespread ideas of “”primitive”” (no longer the word used in anthropology/academia to describe early-modern humans) societies, shanidar probably died really young, deliberately abandoned or killed. i mean, he was severely crippled, blind, etc., he couldn’t contribute anything, he would have been a “”burden to society””, right?

except he lived to be between 40 and 50 years old. (about ~80 in human years)

this means that his social group had to have taken care of him for a minimum of two or three decades without his ‘contributing’ anything significant to the group. this discovery (and Shanidar III’s) was huge because it basically proves that early humans had a concept of hospice. early modern humans cared for the sick and the elderly, greatly extending their lifespan, simply because they cared.

tl;dr: the concept of someone needing to be ‘’useful’’ or ‘’’productive’’’ in society in order to be valued and cared for is a very modern concept and our quasi-predecessors would be ashamed

ekjohnston

Also, Shanidar I was buried with flowers. They cared about him after he was dead, too.

quotesinstars

TRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU -your neighborhood anthro

#archeology #anthropology

just-shower-thoughts

It was kind of a dick move to create animals that require air, then confine them to the freaking ocean

water-based-introspection

If you are talking about dolphins they used to be wolf like creatures that due to scarcity of food they had to hunt in water so they slowly evolved into water mammals, dolphins still have claw bones but they are unnecessary and dolphins will get rid of them with time and will develop abilities to breath under water

(This also partially applies to whales)

actuallyjuststealingmemes

They were what now?

oppa-homeless-style

island-delver-go

thedevilsofficialblog

Mother Nature, come out here I just want to talk

defydamage

columbojumpscare

Whales are actually Ungulates, more so hippos, entelodons, etc…

Meaning they were somewhat related to big celebrities such as Daedon (the “hell pig”) and Andrewsarchus.

The appearence of the first ancestors of whales probably looked like a small hoofed thing called Indohyus.

(Illustration by julio lacerda)

(illustration by Tiffany Turill)

Basically they went from tiny hoofed herbivore to bigger hoofed carnivore to crocodile-like thing to seal-like things to big sea predators.

bogleech

It’s important to mention that we now know dolphins will probably never need to develop true water breathing, because the fact that they breathe air from the surface is actually an ADVANTAGE for them. They get more oxygen at once than an animal with gills and it permits a much higher, more energized activity level for longer periods of time. They are murderous monsters empowered by their access to the forbidden air

hairenya

@ evolution turn on your location I just wanna talk

literallymechanical

Hey fun fact so this might be (kind of) happening again-ish! There’s a genetically distinct sub-population of gray wolves in Canada that are slowly becoming aquatic, and evolving physical characteristics and behaviors to match! They’re not a new species… yet. But they’re on the way!

@pangur-and-grim made an extremely thorough and entertaining video about this, linked above! It’s a fascinating subject, check it out!

#evolution #animals

awed-frog

This is both amazing and profoundly irritating - the exact writing equivalent of that thing artists do - you know, how they’ll mess up anything that’s on expensive paper and planned in every single detail but get them doodling during a boring lesson and suddenly they’re Michel-bloody-angelo.

#poetry #werewolf

did-you-know

Scientists invented fabric that makes electricity from motion and sunlight. To create the fabric, researchers at Georgia Tech wove together solar cell fibers with materials that generate power from movement. It could be used in “tents, curtains, or wearable garments,” meaning we’d virtually never be without power. Source

fridjitzu

#science

muirin007

Gaston Leroux was a journalist. He claims that the story of the Phantom of the Opera actually happened, and has claimed that he has changed names in his work to avoid complications. I've even read that on his deathbed, he reiterated the fact that it was a true story. Do you believe that the story is real? I'm inclined to believe that the event itself did happen, however the year and circumstances behind it were very different, and Leroux added recent events (i.e. chandelier) for the audience.

We know Leroux certainly took real events and people and used them as inspiration for the story–Christine Daae is based on Christina Nilsson, the Persian is based on a real theater-goer, Carlotta may be a mix of Adelina Patti and a few other popular opera singers of the day, etc.

Like you said, the chandelier really did fall during a performance and kill and audience member in the 1890s, I believe.

I think I remember reading that workers did find skeletons under the opera and they were later determined to be victims of the Paris Commune during the Franco-Prussian War.

And there is absolutely a lake under the Garnier!

And it gets pretty deep!

It wouldn’t surprise me if there was a series of events similar to the plot of Phantom (i.e. a singer is abducted, extortion abounds), but I also feel like there would have been massive media coverage in the papers at the time if something like Phantom really did happen. As a journalist, Leroux would know better than anyone that the press ran RAMPANT (just like it does today), especially for gossip-fodder like an abducted singer, a masked kidnapper, and a vicomte. Paris would have gone WILD for that if it had actually happened, and there aren’t any news stories about anything like that happening to the best of my knowledge.

I mean, that’s not to say it DIDN’T; maybe Leroux was privy to something we’re not. But I find it hard to believe that something of that scale in one of the largest metropolitan areas in the world happened if it has no factual basis in contemporary police reports/papers.

My guess is Leroux knew exactly what he was doing–he was a well-known journalist and author and used his clout to add an air of mystery to Phantom. He WANTED people to wonder if it was real, and by asserting it was, it just added to the mystique and buzz around the story. I sincerely doubt it was a true story, though–but there absolutely are real-life elements to it, like characters inspired by popular figures of the day.

I think Leroux was heavily steeped in a culture obsessed with the monstrous. Something about France and French literature in particular inspires a fascination with redeeming the grotesque. And living in a city on top of a network of catacombs literally bursting with bodies, I’m sure Leroux’s creative gears started spinning,

Granted, I have no idea what his creative process looked like. I’m just saying while I’ve never been fortunate enough to visit Paris, it’s a city that seems alive with inspiration, especially for the gothically-inclined. ;)

#phantom of the opera #gaston leroux #literature

holespoles

The penguins depicted in Hisui Sugiura’s collection of designs, Hisui’s Collection of Flower and Bird Designs

杉浦非水の図案集『非水花鳥図案集』に描かれたペンギンたちの姿

#japanese #penguin

fuckyeahchinesefashion

weave ramie into summer cloth/xiabu夏布 by 许潇潇xu xiaoxiao

#china #video #xiaohongshu

cineemaa

movies + letterboxd reviews

#it's a wonderful life #12 angry men #2001 a space odyssey #seven samurai #singin in the rain #red shoes #vertigo #double indemnity #Star Wars #daisies #modern times #blade runner

elmrealm

He's really going through it...

#wizard #frog #animation #frog wizard

juliansdevorak

“When I came back to Vesuvia I was lost. A wreck of a man, stumbling from one disaster to the next. I was weak. And washed up, and a failure. Then I met you, MC. When I saw you on the aqueduct, I thought, ah, here’s another unfortunate soul. I didn’t understand why I was so drawn to you. Or why you saw something good in me, even then. I tried so many times to drive you away. ‘For your own good’. When really… Really, I was afraid. I didn’t trust myself, and I didn’t trust you. All the futures I could imagine… ended in pain. MC, you helped me see a way that I could be happy again. A path forwards. I want to walk that path with you, to the very end. It’s not always going to be easy. But now I think… no, I know I can make it. When I stumble, you’ll be there for me, just like I’ll be there for you. Because we’re stronger together. Strong enough to face the future, come what may. No matter what happens. I want you to know… I love you.”

— Julian’s love confession, Book XIX The Sun

#julian devorak #the arcana #the arcana game