'Capulet'? More like 'Crapulet', amirite?

Teacher and father from Sweden. Reads a lot. Posts stupid and clever shit alike.

[last-picture-show]

Koho Shoda, Canal Under the Moonlight, 1871

[benepla-deactivated20180521]

1918 friends episode

Phoebe and Monica get arrested at a suffragette rally. Rachel goes on a date with H.P. Lovecraft and is not familiar with his work. Ross dies of influenza. Joey and Chandler make love in a World War I foxhole.

[danoriddler]

tom and greg - succession 02×04 // mr. darcy and lizzie - pride and prejudice (2005)

[armoredlovecat]

I'VE BEEN PAINTING AND IT TURNED OUT SO BEAUTIFUL

[nevver]

The squared circle, Reuben Wu

[elucubrare]

i read the phrase “heist movie set in the first century CE” on twitter and, like, please:

they’re plotting to steal a million sesterces from the imperial treasury. Vespasian is emperor. there’s at least one wrist sundial. anachronistic and silly gadgets abound. everyone goes by Marcus. there’s a high-speed chariot chase scene.

[elucubrare]

this is going around again so people are tagging it with references to various Astérix-related media & i realize that’s my fault for not saying exactly how i want it to be shot. I want it to be shot exactly like a modern heist movie - quick cuts, lens flares, the edges of things weirdly sharply defined, etc. there’s a scene where everyone gets fancy new clothes and obviously it’s expensive togas, which don’t look that different to modern eyes, but the movie treats it exactly like you would the scene where people get sharp new suits. none of the incongruities are ever addressed.

[meesoohl]

Jay DeFeo is best known for this monumental painting, entitled The Rose, which she started in 1958 and completed over the course of eight years. The piece consists of white and gray paints layered so thickly onto the canvas that, in some ares, the paints are almost eight inches thick. She used so much oil paint that she called it “a marriage between painting and sculpture.“

The Rose measures 7.5 x 11 feet and weighs 2,300 pounds,

[rslashrats]

i keep thinking all the mars rovers are the size of a medium dog but i am wrong every single time

[rslashrats]

[icantwritegood]

[doggirlpaws]

I read that capsaicin makes your mouth feel like it's burning because it increases your nerve sensitivity to heat, and menthol works by doing the same thing to cold

So if I eat a habanero pepper and then chew a bunch of breath mints they'll each other out and I'll be fine

[doggirlpaws]

Hey guess what hellfire tastes like

[nudibranchparty]

Fun fact! The nerve endings for "ouch too hot" and "ouch too cold" are different! Which means that they can both be activated at once, without cancelling out. Rip OP.

[injuries-in-dust]

Didn't know I needed to hear this version until now.

[pancakemoney]

calcifer: sophie form an extremely suspicious contract with me

sophie: uh idk man. you’re a demon?

calcifer: but i’m being exploited :c

sophie, her instinct as a low/no-wage worker instantly overriding all sensibilities as a self-aware fantasy character: i guess we have no choice but to unionize

[ceaselessbasher]

I was reading up on Ceasar’s last words (as one does) and I came upon this one that has the Biggest Miette Energy

[the-busy-ghost]

#you STAB ceasar???#you STAB him like the SALAD???#oh jail for the conspirators! jail for a thousand years!!!#Julius Caesar#tragedies - @ardenrosegarden

[turbofanatic]

Usually photographs are not allowed on-site, but nobody has ever stopped me from sketching, so here’s the refined result of a series of pen sketches I took of a preserved 737 skull. Please forgive any inaccuracies, I am not the greatest aerobiologist.

I got a good view of the enormous radar melons (those big concavities in the nose). Like an electric eel the plane can generate a large voltage, but it does so across modified nerves that act as wires, focusing the resulting EM waves using bones shaped like a parabolic dish. This is partly used for signaling but supposedly they can detect bad weather with it.

Those little holes on either side are the angle of attack sensors, basically just whiskers that detect local airflow.

All that bone looks really heavy, but it’s mostly hollow, really weird for a mammal! I put the grey around it to show where the outllne of the plane is with all its skin and blubber.

Someday I’d love to sketch an Airbus skull, but they’re more common in Europe and I’m in the states. Maybe someday I’ll get a chance.

[formaldehydedoesstuff]

Oh hey, I just sketched out this a380 airbus last week, when they were taking it apart after it had been decommissioned (by natural cause).

Convergent evolution is amazing.

[saint-batrick]

magnificent.

[akuasucc]

same with sista, brotha, motha, etc etc

[unrealunearths]

2021 > 2017/2007

[sisterofiris]

Hey students, here’s a pro tip: do not write an email to your prof while you’re seriously sick.

Signed, a person who somehow came up with “dear hello, I am sick and not sure if I’ll be alive to come tomorrow and I’m sorry, best slutantions, [name]”.

[yay855]

I mean, if someone wrote that to me, I’d probably believe they were sick.

[rox-and-prose]

“Slutantions” has me crying laughing

[watermite]

i once emailed my professor with a migraine. a mistake.

“I amsick will not to choir because i have a heache. i Hope its very and i am so sorry

love,

blue”

the subject line was “OW”

[xakumi]

THE SUBJECT LINE IS THE BEST PART JSJFJSJDJS JUST IMAGINE GETTING AN EMAIL WITH NO CONTEXT OTHER THAN “OW”

[themodernsouthernpolytheist]

As someone who has taught college, please send those emails because 1) We WILL believe that; no one would write that on purpose and 2) we need a laugh sometimes.

[asortoflight]

On the other side of this, once after getting taken to the ER by ambulance, I got an email from the professor whose class I’d passed out in, and the message had no text, just the subject line “you good?”

[whisky-gerblin]

Reblogging for the last addition

[astriiformes]

Forever obsessed with the fact that even the in-universe annotation in the appendices talking about how Legolas brought Gimli along to Valinor with him is like “We don’t actually know how they managed this. By all accounts, it doesn’t make any sense”

[astriiformes]

Gimli: So you know I’m on board with this, obviously, but like. If the world is flat for you, and it’s NOT flat for me, and the boat is only supposed to be able to get there the flat way…

Legolas: ?

Gimli: What happens if we’re both on the boat?

Legolas: I don’t know, but we’re gonna find out

[Insert title card reading MYTHBUSTERS: ARDA EDITION]