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YOU ARE THE REASON
祝日 / Permanent Vacation
Alisa U Zemlji Chuda
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noise dept.
Sade Olutola
Discoholic 🪩
wallacepolsom
$LAYYYTER
i don't do bad sauce passes
Aqua Utopia｜海の底で記憶を紡ぐ
we're not kids anymore.
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KIROKAZE
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@louhidreams
Arabialta tulee taas uusia muumimukeja kohta puoliin joten kysyn
Rebel club
Pakko kerätä kaikki
Saatan tehdä poikkeuksen näiden kohalla ja napata muutaman kotio :D
Saatan tehdä poikkeuksen näiden kohalla ja ei varmana meijän taloon >:(
Tässä talossa ei ole koskaan ollut muumimukia ja ei tule olemaankaan
Taas on se aika kun sorrun ostamaan asioita koska niissä on söpöjä sateenkaarikuvituksia. Puistelen päätäni koko ajan, jotta muut ihmiset kaupassa ei ajattele, että kannatan sateenkaarikapitalismia (ihmiset luulee etten löytäny sateenkaaretonta kasvorasvaa, ja että puistelen päätäni queer-oikeuksille)
So as you're pretty good with thematic connections in ASOIAF Houses here's a question that might seem a bit odd. Which House do you think would work as producing Argella Durrandon's mother? A Stormlander House would be most likely. Penrose considering her refusal to give up Storm's End? Tarth, considering that produced a strong Stormlander woman in the present day, though that seems a stretch? Caron, considering Rolland Storm? Someone else?
Lady Stark Durrandon. She died.
I don't mean to sound flip (at least at the ask itself), but my inability to speculate on her identity is a reflection of GRRM's lack of interest not just in this figure specifically, but in (some) maternal figures more generally. GRRM had no greater interest in naming or expanding upon Argella's mother than he did, say, naming Alicent Hightower's mother or providing any detail on Ned Stark's mother. Given how deeply problematic the Argella story is itself, and indeed how Argella herself falls off the face of Westeros immediately after being compelled to marry Orys Baratheon, it probably should not surprise me that Argella is given no maternal dynastic background in the already-thin information provided on her. Likewise, given GRRM's own acknowledgement that he has never bothered to name the Unnamed Princess of Dorne, and his rather dismissive reply when asked again about Lyarra Stark, I would anticipate that he has never thought of an identity for Argella's mother in the aftermath of F&B.
can't believe ppl think being gay is a new thing when the epic of gilgamesh is literally right there
happy pride month gilgamesh and enkidu
A once-in-a-lifetime shot — the moon perfectly framed by a rainbow. Caught at just the right time. 🌈 🌕
Sourcing the photos as taken by Mark Ham on Instagram, according to one of the replies.
Happy Pride month to the moon
I heard it was that time of year again.
“Musk talks about Mars as a lifeboat for humanity, which is among the very stupidest things that someone could say,” says Adam Becker, an astrophysicist and author of the book More Everything Forever, which outlines the messianic, sci-fi fantasies of the tech oligarchs. “There are so many reasons why it’s such a bad idea, and this is not about, ‘Oh, we’ll never have the technology to live on Mars.’ That’s not what I’m saying. What I’m saying is that Earth is always going to be a better option no matter what happens to Earth. Like, we could get hit with an asteroid the size of the one that killed off the dinosaurs, and Earth would still be more habitable. We could explode every single nuclear weapon, and Earth would still be more habitable. We could have the worst-case scenario for climate change, and Earth would still be more habitable. Any cursory examination of any of the facts about Mars makes it very clear.”
What You’ve Suspected Is True: Billionaires Are Not Like Us
I really like sci-fi stories where people have to go off and terraform a planet, or figure out how to rebuild civilization after some disaster, or ideally both. "The last ark-ship leaving Earth right before it becomes uninhabitable" sort of deal. But lately I've been coming around to this same idea, that it will always be more practical to try to save Earth than to try to start over elsewhere.
I was reading one story where the apocalypse was impossibly-rising oceans. Like, water is appearing from *waves hand* the Earth's crust or something, and literally all dry surface land on Earth is going to become underwater in X years. Part of the story was about a giant research project to invent FTL to send a few hundred humans to a nearby star which might have a habitable planet. You know what they were hoping to find? A planet with liquid water. Their plan was to descend from their starship and restart civilization using just the tools they brought with them, on a world with no life and no breathable air and the wrong gravity and the wrong temperate and the wrong sunlight and the wrong day-night cycle, just because it had liquid water. You know where else has liquid water? The flooded Earth you just abandoned. Instead of researching starship technology, you could have spent that time loading up all the same civilization-restarter tools into boats.
And this is really true of any futuristic apocalypse scenario. If you can terraform Mars to have a thick oxygen atmosphere, why not just do that to Earth? Even if you smash an ice comet into Earth and destroy basically everything, Earth will still be more habitable than Mars! It'll still have roughly the right atmospheric pressure, and magnetic field, and heat balance, and it'll still have whatever life the comet didn't kill... Same with a starshade to cool Venus. Same with excavating asteroids into city-stations. Same with abandoning Sol System entirely and heading to another star. If an ark-ship arrived in a new star system and found Earth-but-choked-by-climate-change, the crew would be ecstatic. They would never have thought to get that lucky. So why bother with the trip? Just stay and fix the damn Earth.
RIP to the legend
This goose fucking rocks and had a crazy life!
I really just have to summarize Thomas's entire life:
He was in a committed relationship with a male swan named Henry for 18-24 years before a female swan named Henrietta showed up and mated with Henry.
Thomas was initially jealous of the pair and attacked them, breaking 2 of the 5 eggs Henrietta had laid. However, once the remaining eggs hatched, Thomas warmed up to them and helped raise them.
Henry couldn't fly because of an injured wing, so Thomas taught the cygnets how to fly.
When they needed to reduce the goose population in the pond where Thomas and the swans lived, they dyed Thomas's feathers red so he wouldn't be separated from Henry.
Henry, Henrietta, and Thomas remained in their happy throuple for years and raised 68 cygnets before Henry died in 2009. After Henry's death, Henrietta found another swan and flew away, leaving Thomas alone.
Thomas finally met and mated with a female goose in 2011 and had his own babies. However, another goose named George stole them and raised them himself.
As Thomas grew elderly and blind, he was relocated to a wildlife center where he raised orphaned cygnets.
His caretaker at the center described him as "pretty high maintenance."
Thomas died in 2018 at the age of around 40. He had a funeral that included a small coffin and a procession that was led by a bagpiper. He was buried under the stone where Henry was buried, the two finally reunited in death.
Before and after his death, Thomas has been celebrated as an icon of the LGBTQ+ community for obvious reasons.
when a stone comes through your seat 😳
Hidden danger
More fun with lights. If you look closely, you'll see Baxia on the shelf behind him. If you look even closer, you might spot Nie Mingjue's shadow reaching for it...
The flowers on the fan are begonia. Mostly meaning love, harmony, etc, but in some flower languages, they are a warning (probably not in Chinese symbolism, but I couldn't actually confirm because the Internet is now all slop).
Jiang Cheng | Nie Huaisang | Wei Wuxian | Jin Guangyao
is jake gyllenhaal gay??
why would you ask us, a narnia blog, this
@quartzquake this is the one I was talking about! 🤣😂🤣😂
as a chemist i would like to say BWAHAHAHAHAHA
image description at explainXKCD:
explain xkcd is a wiki dedicated to explaining the webcomic xkcd. Go figure.
its a bit easier for astronomers
NO! Where’s the non-metals and metaloids?!
are they hydrogen or helium
oxygen, carbon, sulfur, xenon, iodine, neon, etc etc.
ooo okay i see the confusion. you're listing off a bunch of metals there
…. You’re breaking my chemistry nerd brain. Hhhuuuhhhh???
im an astrophysicist
but but, science is science?!
and different fields of science have different conventions and definitions for their unique contexts
congratulations piracy
Ad agency: Please don't steal the King's potatoes, no matter how easy it is.
Regular people: Wait, the King has easily stolen potatoes? How do I get in on this?
Internet users who have been stealing potatoes for years: We made a machine that picks so many potatoes and also that machine is free. Enjoy!
Ad agency: you wouldn't steal a movie?
10 year old me with 0 income and no movie: YOU CAN STEAL MOVIES????
[Image ID: Headline from IFLScience reading: "You Wouldn't Steal a Movie" Advert May Have Led To More People Stealing Movies /End ID]
Fun fact! Both the music and the font in that ad were incorrectly sourced and did not provide compensation to the creators
I know Fingon isn’t everyone’s blorbo, some of you don't know him, and not all of you eat lembas, but please accept it anyway, because he is offering you a plate of fresh, toasted lembas bread that he baked himself.
They're besties
