Laurathelionfish

I am a strange bean with a YouTube channel

[llleighsmith]

i told ya we’ve canceled discourse n we’ve moved on to homesteading skills

[smartmurderation]

it’s just choppin wood and harvesting vegetables and herbs from here on out

[llleighsmith]

amen!

[barbarianarchy-deactivated20200]

unironically this

[pinetreeanarchism]

[frederick-the-ii]

Please hit me with more homesteading concept drawings

[saltrat88]

[unclebeanbag]

[the-aspiring-maverick]

Good reference material here.

[flavoracle]

My brain during sane hours of the day: “I have a good job with benefits, a stable social network with supportive friends and family, and I’m a nerd who thrives on advanced technology. Also, I dislike the taste of fish.”

My brain on Tumblr at 3:30am: “Y’know, abandoning all technology and leaving civilization behind looks like a lot of fun! And I could teach the kids how to build a fish trap!”

[laurathelionfish]

Four Critically Endangered Animals Sing 'I Dreamed a Dream' From Les Misérables in a Powerful Animation

"Dream" - WCFF from Zombie Studio on Vimeo In the heartbreakingly powerful 2016 animation "Dream", created for the Wildlife Conservation Fil

This is heart-wrenching. This is why we need to take action!

[everythingfox]

This is so dramatic

[anubianpagan]

[bonkalore]

[zlukaka]

Everything movies taught me about archery is wrong. This is a complete mind-blower. 8D

If you are even remotely interested in archery or medieval combat, check this out, it’s just great!

[luffik]

OMFG EVERYONE PLEASE DROP WHAT YOU’RE DOING AND WATCH IT RIGHT NOW O_O

[secondlina]

HOLY HELL

[medievalpoc]

Not only is this fascinating, there are a lot of images from art history here. It just goes to show that what you can learn from the past isn’t limited to facts you can know, but things you can do.

My favorite part?

He learned this doing research for LARPs (Live Action Role Playing):

Lars Andersen originally started using bow and arrow to fight in pretend battles during Larps (live action role play) events, where he played a soldier in a medieval-inspired army. While Larps can be about anything – the Danish/Polish Harry Potter inspired larp College of Wizardry (cowlarp.com) recently got world-wide media attention and there wasn’t a rubber sword in sight there – many Larps take place in fantasy worlds inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. And it was at one of these Larps, that Lars started to learn to shoot fast while moving.

In 2012, Lars Andersen released his video, “Reinventing the fastest forgotten archery”, where he showed how he had learned to shoot from old archery manuscripts. Using these old, forgotten techniques, Lars demonstrated how he was now the fastest archer on the planet, and after its release, the video got 3 million hits on YouTube in two days.

Since the 2012 video was released, Lars has studied and practiced, and he is now able to fire three arrows in 0.6 seconds – a truly stunning feat making him much faster than the legendary fictional archer Legolas (played by Orlando Bloom in the Lord of the Rings movies).

The time benchmark he was trying to achieve, according to the video, was the expectation of the speed at which “Saracen“ archers were expected to shoot. In fact, most of the source material as far as I can see isn’t European.

A lot of the techniques described are also used in Mongolian Archery, which requires being able to shoot from horseback, and is traditionally practiced by men and women. You can see a video here.

[wet-monsoon]

i’m convinced that the ice age franchise won’t end until the squirrel that always chases after the nut gets an equally hideous girlfriend with Squirrel Tits™ and eyelashes

[wet-monsoon]

no….. No

NO

[claratyler]

No you don’t understand, I have this entire developed theory about the Ice Age universe which has been cooking up in my mind and has only be reinforced by the latest 5th installment. Scrat is the god of the Ice age universe. The story began with him and the story will end with him. If there weren’t hints before, in this latest installment, it becomes clear that Scrat’s actions dictate what happens on Earth and to the protagonists. Yes, maybe Scart’s only goal is to get the nut, but his actions SHAPE what happens in the film. If we needed any further proof then may I point out something Buck said in the 5th film along the lines of “we’re 6 mins early! Somebody up there likes us!” That phrase is usually used to refer to a god and in this case it’s used to refer (unknowingly) to scrat!

However, there is an ALTERNATE theory that I have been working on. What if Scart isn’t the god of the ice age universe, but rather, the NUT is? As i have already said, Scart’s actions shape the course of the story but what motivates Scart? That’s right: the nut, it is truly because of the nut that Scart does what he does that leads to the events that take place in the story. This would create an interesting metaphor here. Scrat is chasing the nut like man chases divinity. So when will the Ice Age saga end?? When Scart finally gets the nut for good. When man catches God.

[wet-monsoon]

[annabellehectorworldofweird]

[prokopetz]

To be totally fair to Willy Wonka, at least a couple of those candy factory casualties involved kids deliberately circumventing reasonable safeguards, sometimes aided and abetted by the parents who were supposed to be supervising them. What happened is at most 60% his fault.

[thecolossalennui]

oompa loompa doopity dare

the court finds you breached your duty of care

[aka-maayan]

oompa loompa doopity disk

that’s what the courts call assumption of risk

[tipofthescepter]

oompa loompa doopity do

only a partial judgment for you

[thes3nator]

Oompa loompa doopity doubt,

The rest of the class action lawsuit is hereby…

(SLAM) (SLAM)

THROWNITY OUT!

[cheese24k]

[clambistro-deactivated20161211]

Ahh, it’s back

[julierthanyou]

i have disproportionately strong feelings about this.

[party-wok]

every time i say “nah i’m not gonna watch it again.” BUT I STILL DO EVERY TIME.

[bestrooftalkever]

YEAUGH

[bedbathandbuttholes]

@pillowtrash

[venusrrvelez]

[heavy metal]

meow~

[werewolf-cuddles]

ALWAYS REBLOG COLLECTIVE SOUL CAT

[babyanimalgifs]

I didn’t know cheetahs meow I’ve always thought they roar my whole life has been a lie

[anarchapella]

Ok but the other one is purring so hard

[valgalart]

If I ever don’t reblog this assume I’m dead

[excessively-english-jd]

Fun fact: technically, because of its inability to roar and its ability to purr, the cheetah is not a ‘big cat’ (or Great Cat) - they are still classified as Lesser Cats.

Also you haven’t heard anything until you hear them cheep.

[kunaiman]

YOU CANNOT JUST SAY THAT AND NOT PROVIDE A VIDEO

[excessively-english-jd]

I HAVE REALISED MY MISTAKE AND SHALL RECTIFY IT:

Cheeps.

[thespectacularspider-girl]

Oh my god

[stimman3000]

.

[deathdaydreamm]

[wizardbreasts]

[dutchster]

[eveshka]

Chosen.

[elionking-deactivated20191020]

If this were to happen to me i would burst into tears

[8bitnatsuki-deactivated20200525]

hell year hell year hell year hell year hell year hell year hell year hell year hell year hell year

[taragrimface]

(from a 2015 interview)

i hope she’s comfortable

[hella-gay-trash]

Please don’t forget the best one so far^^^

[eiruriofidkewoeeifjjdis374738-d]

another example of Koko’s humour by Jane Goodall:

[autumngracy]

Nothing pleases me more than to learn the fact that apes also will look at a thing and go “it me”

[chimericaloutlier]

#hardsame

[pussiesaregod]

ok but why is ‘potato’ always used negatively in phrases? ‘couch potato’ and ‘he looks like a potato’……… what the hell have potatoes ever done to you? potatos are the mvps of the food world, the backbone of many dishes. they never let u down. potatoes are the real winners here and we should feel honoured to be described as one

[absurdcachinnation]

I can think of at least one time potatoes have let down a very large group of people.

[archdemonsblood]

That was not the potatoes’ faults! That, like most things, was on the British.

[bangdoot]

conductor: orchestra orchestra

orchestra: yes papa

conductor: eating rosin?

orchestra: no papa

conductor: telling lies?

orchestra: no papa

conductor: so any of you practise over the summer

orchestra: ha ha ha

[violasarekooltoo]

I’m crying

[mikkeneko]

character concept: the best trick archer in the world, the trick to which is that he’s actually not an archer at all, he’s a speedster and he can’t aim for shit, every time he takes a shot he actually just grabs the arrow, runs over to what he wants to stick, then runs back before anyone can see him move

[mikkeneko]

he’s on a team with Heat Vision Man, who actually has no heat vision and is another speedster, he just glares at people then runs over and punches them and is back before they can see him move

[mikkeneko]

(the entire team is actually just composed of speedsters who all use their speed in different ways, and they all pretend otherwise in front of their teammates)

[thatll-do]

The only speedster on their team is actually a teleporter

[metalhearted]

Puppy reacts to getting hicups!

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[jakegyllencallme]

dogs are so pure. i cant even believe this small little thing is barking at its own little stomach for creating hiccups inside of him.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

This has brightened my day like a doge shaped ray of sunshine <3

[sixpenceee]

Wait for her to come!

This massive bird is a Stellars Sea eagle. They live in Alaska, Northwestern Canada, and Japan and are the largest eagles in the world. (Source)