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I think the goose game is so successful because it captures a fundamental human desire to be absolutely but harmlessly bastardous

roboco-san

it's the same reason we gleefully smash pots in zelda games

roboco-san

sometimes you just need to be a moderate to severe nuisance

sugarkat

we are all poltergeists in meat suits

roboco-san

what a horrifying way to phrase this thank you

liekeland

swayer-of-dale

MIDDLE-EARTH + Scenery [Part XIX ] THE HOBBIT/THE LORD OF THE RINGS

leahberman

rose joy

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constellationsinthesky

Human vs Animals

Every year, in a small Welsh town, there is a race between riders on horseback and runners on foot. Evidently he above subject came under some discussion in a bar, and a bet was made, which resulted in a challenge people have recreated every year since. The race features dozens of horses versus a similar number of runners, and while a horse usually wins, it is always pretty close, and SOMEtimes, sometimes a human runner wins.

The race is 22 miles long. It is shorter than a standard human marathon. This is so that it is fair to the horses. A typical marathon is 26 miles long. A healthy distance for a horse to undertake in a single day for the purpose of travel is between 20 and 30 miles, but only if they walk at least part of the way. The years a human runner has won the race, the weather has been hot, as heat also favors human runners.

Interestingly, if the race is only ten to fifteen meters, 30 - 45 feet, a human can also win against a horse, which takes longer than a human to get up to full speed.

This fact of human capability for pursuit hunting and distance running is also part of why we have partnered with dogs for so much of our time on this planet. Dogs and wolves also engage in pursuit hunting, and sled dogs in particular can run miraculous distances due to some very interesting biological processes.

silly-jellyghoty

Interesting

n1rvana

rodrickheffeley

hozier singing about bones, dead bodies, preys, predators, decomposing, satanic sacrifice, oral sex:

me and the girls:

nohomo-mrfrodo

Gandalf in The Hobbit: You are Took and that makes you absolutely suited for adventure!

Gandalf in The Fellowship of the Ring: Who the FUCK let the Took come on this adventure?

maironsmaid

He learned his lesson

uldrensov

personally i don’t understand any animosity between hufflepuffs and slytherins because they both share the trait of being unconditionally loyal to their friends. just so happens that the former will stay up all night helping their friends study for an exam and the latter will procure their friends a copy of the answers

bigorangesun

#let me tell you #slytherins and hufflepuffs flock to each other

ruffboi-mags

I’ve yet to meet a hufflepuff who didn’t have at least one slytherin, and many of us appear to collect them.

jenniferrpovey

Triggered by another post I didn’t want to hijack:

Excalibur.

In the legends, Excalibur comes out of a lake (although some versions have Excalibur as the sword in the stone, those are later…the sword Arthur pulls from the stone breaks and he goes to get a better one).

From the “Lady of the Lake.”

Here’s the thing.

In northern Europe in the Iron Age all the way through to the early Medieval period, most iron came from bog iron. It was hard to smelt, because it was a rather low grade ore, but you didn’t have to mine it and it was a renewable resource (in about twenty years you could just come back and get more, because it formed constantly).

Meaning that the iron used to make a sword came…out of water.

In most fairy stories, fairies don’t like iron. So the vision of the Lady as some kind of fairy or elf? Not likely.

The idea of her as a druid? Maybe.

But what’s far more likely is this: The Lady of the Lake was a smith.

But….but…

The Celtic deity in charge of smiths and ironworking was Bridget, a goddess. The mystical associations with the Lady would fit with her being a priestess of Bridget…and thus, a smith.

IOW, Arthurian people, maybe we should not be visualizing the Lady of the Lake as a slender, graceful woman in a gown…

…but as a jacked smith in an apron.