for the sky is hollow & the earth is round

Simona. 30. Czech. ~ Awkward sappy dreamer hiding under a crusty layer of sarcasm. ~ Used to be Skam/multifandom, now is just all over the place.

[livinonaflyingcarpet]

The strongest man I've ever known. Built like a mountain, and just as immovable. Unfailingly dependable. Stubborn like an ass. Wicked sense of humor. Always joking. Always curious. Very handy. The greatest mind, even if he did not get to be a scholar. Happy tinkering away with electronics. On top of latest tech for a very long time, maybe until the last 5 years or so. He'd always complain that his home accounting software had a backup function that didn't work, I'd roll my eyes but I swear I'd always happilly help him with this again for the thousandth time, with anything with his computer or tablet or phone. I'd like to think I was his favourite granddaughter. I thought so, and I wore it like a proudest little secret.

The greatest grandpa I could've ever wished for.

He used to take me to kindergarten. Those years are my favourite of my whole childhood. It was a time when he was retired but grandma wasn't yet, and we used to do the most fun things when he babysat me. We took apart wild poppy flower buds and played that they were skirts of little fairies. We would sled down a small nearby hill. He'd take me to see his old coworkers and they would tell me to wash my eyes so they're not as dark. When I grew up we'd talk about technology and computers.

We were not a hugging family, but as he got old, oh god, he gave the most fantastic bear hugs.

Of course I did not see him enough lately. Of course I did not hug him this Tuesday, when I clumsily wished him happy 90th birthday and told him to take his time getting better so that we can celebrate with him.

He was the greatest man I knew. I'm forever grateful for him, but by god, he should've been with us at least for five more years.

[apolladay]

Fuck JK Rowling btw. Trans rights are human rights.

[thememedaddy]

[insomniac-arrest]

finding out that almost all other animals don’t have periods like we do and instead simply reabsorb the egg back into their uterine lining to reuse the nutrients is like finding out the rest of the class has been taking WILDLY easier tests than you for the whole semester

like, hey, cat why don’t you have to use your Cat Dollars to invest in tampons? And cat is just like: fuck that noise, my body is OPTIMAL for not being made of inconvenient nonsense, sucks to be you

wack.

[insomniac-arrest]

humans: hey, bleeding every month is actually really cumbersome and I lose both valuable nutrients AND fluids I need for survival? What the fuck is up?

evolution: yes, alright, but have you considered this about it? *cartoon blow horn noise* 

[what-even-is-thiss]

Human bodies suck for many reasons including but not limited to:

Periods

Bad backs

Permanent breasts that do not leave once baby is weaned

Dangerously large, unprotected, and non retractable male reproductive systems

Huge brain takes up way too much energy gotta eat more sleep less

Baby brain bigger than hips guess birth is life threatening now

Takes like 25 years for big brain to even finish maturing

[durzio]

•Teeth are critical to living, yet not designed to last more than a few years without constant intervention and upkeep, and don’t grow back if this is not accomplished. Also, losing your teeth means the bones in your ear will shift, and your hearing will worsen.

•Breathing, eating, communication all from the same pathway, major choking hazard. Give me a dolphin style breathing tube.

•Most pleasurable nerve endings on the body locating on the filthiest parts of you, guarenteed spread of bacteria.

•knees and shoulders have almost zero capability to heal correctly, once they break, they’re basically broken forever without massive outside influence.

[larariumluparum]

truer words

[hidden-but]

happy anniversary to the one czechoslovak naval battle

[krcmelound]

[garfield-comic]

[non-binary-laurie-strode]

You’ve been hit by 🔪

You’ve been struck by 🔪

A Roman Senator 🔪🔪🔪

[iamfuckingweeping]

CAESER ARE YOU OKAY

ARE YOU OKAY CEASER

[livinonaflyingcarpet]

i don’t think i truly understood cultural appropriation till i saw s5 of the vampire diaries

the season’s evil there are “the travellers” who abduct people’s bodies, are witches (or a variant of witches, idk) and are group-chanting spells in “czech”. now, fistly, for all the comprehension there is they could literally be chanting in ancient greek with zero difference. all their speeches are literally unintelligible. once a main guy dramatically screamed “viď!” to turn a guy into the bodysnatcher traveller and i was honestly impressed by his acting, this was the only time i distinguished a czech word. dude must’ve actually practiced with the google translate reading function - i refuse to believe there was more effort into their “czech” than a random google translate.

also, and this annoys me the most. the leader of the evil bunch is called markos. Markos. the czech version of the name marc is marek. THIS IS NOWHERE NEAR. NOWHERE. it only plays into my ancient greek theory.

[livinonaflyingcarpet]

I was just in this work meeting, and there was this guy with an Asian background, and while he did have a surname foreign to our close-minded Central European sensibilities he had an off-the-mill local calendar first name. And he's not the only person I've met who chose to do this. And I know it is deeper, heavier than this, but…

For a while, instead of paying attention to the meeting I kept thinking about the cusom of picking appropriate names for specific cultures, and how would world look like if we all got to pick a new, local first name in every country we stayed a while in.

I quite like Evelyn.

[hasgavlebockenburneddownyet]

You know, i never would have put the goat dies of consumption on my 2023 bingo card

i dont think that is what consumption usually means

[prismatic-bell]

Back up, what did I miss?

[captainlordauditor]

Due to weather conditions, the straw goat has more seeds in the straw than usual this year.

The goat is getting eaten. Consumed. Feasted on. By birds.

[vexinglyvague]

I can’t believe this is real:

Source: The Local

[image description: A screenshot from an online news website. Header reads: “The Local”. Text reads: Gävle's Christmas goat, Gävlebocken, has only survived until the New Year 19 times in the 57 years it has been erected in the city, with pranksters managing to set it on fire every other year.

But this year, apparently for the first time, birds are a bigger problem.

The extremely wet weather Sweden suffered in July and August have meant that an unusually large amount of grain has been left on the straw out of which the goat is made, which has now led to a flock of jackdaws pulling the goat apart, with straw tumbling to the ground as a result.]

[a-wild-haggis]

[palipunk-deactivated20260328]

I don't know how many of you know this but Gaza's population is around 2 million people and about 80% are refugees. 1.7 million refugees. These people are descendants of Nakba survivors who were forced out of their original villages in what is now ""Israeli territory"". So Israel is not only carpet bombing a strip of land they caged 2 million people in but is massacring a population that is 50% children and 80% refugees.

[gustaving]

From Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish

[gothsbian]

i hope this is alright for me to add, but this poem references a line from one of hitler's speeches ordering the genocide of polish jews. at the end of the speech, he justified the genocide by saying "who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the armenians?" in a very literal way, genocides are interconnected and used to justify one another. after all, the holocaust was partially modeled after the united states' genocide of indigenous people. this is why it is so important to remember the victims of all genocides across history, and why it is so important for oppressed peoples to stand together in solidarity.

[deathlonging]

[ID: "Who remembers the Armenians?"

I remember them/and I ride the nightmare bus with them/each night/and my coffee, this morning/I'm drinking it with them.

You, murderer--/who remembers you? /End ID]

[livinonaflyingcarpet]

Please ignore this post. I just badly need to scream into the void. But

I haven't had a husband for a full month and now we're spending the night at the ER because he lost the majority of sight in his good eye overnight and this is not what either of us signed up for, no matter how many gallows humor can we come up with.

[livinonaflyingcarpet]

i don't get why are some ppl nervous the night before their wedding like... all i've got is a raging headache from all the lack of damn sleep and water when all i did was bake and cut name tags and run around organizing people for two weeks straight

[christophernolan]

Pick a Jane Austen love confession

“The very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.”

“To love is to burn, to be on fire.”

“You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”

“If Ioved you less I might be able to talk about it more.”

“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope.”

“My heart is, and always will be, yours.”

Voting ended onJul 15, 2023

[livinonaflyingcarpet]

folks

allow me to interrupt any doomscrolling for a sec to share with u the cake topper we’ve had made by an amazing artist

it’s a water goblin and a witch.

i love them so much.

[sll26-deactivated20220619]

FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸.