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[maxiemaxxx]

Plush

[ikimaru]

can I go where you go?

[alannahablar]

[214b]

preview for @ephemelody‘s sunflower zine

[maxiemaxxx]

Did someone actually write that glbk fic? Cause I'm dying for that au

Uuuuunfortinately noooo but its fine and im sory i havent been on tumblr lately

[eggpuffs]

a cloak made from wool 蓬松柔软的羊羔毛，织一件斗篷便不怕寒冬的风雪

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

Li Ziqi is a legend. She lives in countryside of Mianyang 绵阳, Sichuan Province.

[indigenousandangry]

it is an absolute privilege to watch these. 

[honeycranes]

I’VE BEEN OBSESSED WITH 李子柒 FOR THE PAST COUPLE MONTHS EVER SINCE MY FRIEND SHOWED ME HER VIDEOS AND I ADMIRE HER SO FUCKING MUCH

SHE’S SO INDEPENDENT AND STRONG AND HANDY AND BEAUTIFUL AND INTELLIGENT AND I FUCKING LOVE HER

But her backstory makes me love her EVEN more

李子柒 (Li Ziqi) was born in Sichuan in the countryside to a poor family. Her mom left the family when she was very young, and she was abused by her stepmom when her dad wasn’t around. After her father passed away, she ended up orphaned and living with her grandparents

She dropped out of middle school and moved to the city to look for work because her family was in such poverty. There, she worked as a waitress and a DJ for 8yr, making barely enough to get by — at one point, before she had found steady work, she was homeless and was forced to seek shelter under a bridge

Her grandfather was a professional chef, and after he passed away, she decided to try her hand at the culinary arts and to share her cooking skills on social media — she started making YouTube videos (entirely independently!!)

She initially received an incredible amount of backlash… people left hurtful comments and really just shat on her for no good reason

But she persevered and continued making videos, and now, she has 3.8 million followers (as of May 4th, 2019) and gets the bulk of her income from her YouTube channel

She isn’t completely alone in making her videos anymore (she has a cameraman and an assistant), but she still does the majority of the work — the actual cooking/farming/handiwork being filmed, arranging the scenes, and video editing

She is an absolute BADASS and carries on so many Chinese traditions that are being forgotten

Most of her videos are of her cooking, but she shows you more than just the cooking process — you see her pulling vegetables and herbs and mushrooms out of the fucking ground and slicing fruits and flowers and shit off of trees with a machete in the beginning of the video, and by the end, it’s a finished, beautiful, mouth-watering dish

She also does way more than work with food — there’s a video of her building her clay oven (which you see her cooking with in a lot of videos) from SCRATCH just with some bricks and a mud mixture she made herself

There’s also a video of her making paper from scratch and then using it for calligraphy, and LET ME TELL YOU, LI ZIQI IS AS ARTISTICALLY GIFTED AS SHE IS CULINARILY

Li Ziqi is a fucking boss and I love her and please watch her videos

[dig-dug]

when u know somebody is lyin

[mangomangoj]

I guess I didn’t post it here yet. Happy pride month!

[brainscrewz]

me: *is sad*

some random shiny thing with no function or monetary value half buried in the dirt at the bus stop:

me: oh ho HOOO

[woodle-dee-doodle-deactivated20]

we’re all just crows with rights and anxiety

[theleafriday]

Rights?!

[catgirl-crimes]

[ameliareadsandcurses]

Excuse the bad quality and quick drawings advjaehf

[eve-eleidan]

new commisions

[ranmagender]

This is honestly the only way I can accurately describe watching this movie as an adult pokemon fan.

[maxiemaxxx]

Do you still have charms available?

Yes I do actually!! Theyre 3inches and are 5 usd each! Please dm me if youd like to buy them!

[sunfwr]

▪️Keith uses ‘surprise kiss’.

▪️It’s super effective!

[amesscott]

“Too little, too late! Which is my second favorite Love Sentence song, by the way!”

[argumate]

The Titanic Was On Fire For Days Before The Iceberg Hit

“From the day we sailed the Titanic was on fire” — John Dilley, fireman aboard the Titanic

what in the heck

[wirehead-wannabe]

“The obvious question you might come up with at this point is, “why can’t you just put out the fire?” That’s because of the incendiary nature of coal. In general, a coal fire is extremely difficult to deal with under the best circumstances. If you had all the resources in the world and a good deal of space to work, they can be impossible to put out. Aboard a ship in tight quarters, it gets even more difficult.

An example of the difficulties with a coal fire would be the coal fire in Centralia, Pennsylvania. This fire broke out in a mine in the Northeast United States and has proven impossible to put out. How impossible you ask? It’s been burning since May 27, 1962.”

Holy shit

“Another issue that has always caused confusion was the Titanic’s speed. It was running at full speed when crossing the Atlantic Ocean, even when there were warnings of icebergs in the area. There were rumors that the ship was trying to break some kind of speed record, but the Titanic was not built for speed. This mammoth ship was a luxury liner. Molony indicates that this could have been caused by the fire-fighting activities.

In order to fight the fire, the stokers had been shoveling the burning coal into furnaces to burn the fire away. If the stokers had been shoveling as much coal as possible that could be the reason for the speed of the ship. As excess coal was burnt, the engines would work harder, generating speed. The stokers had been shoveling coal into the furnaces nonstop for 3 days fighting the fire during the maiden voyage. Molony thinks this is the reason why the ship was going at full speed when it hit the iceberg.”

Wow that makes *so much sense.*

[tuesdayisfordancing]

I saw this article and just assumed it was political satire. What the fuck.

[isaacsapphire]

Ditto. What the fuck.

[alexanderrm]

( DuPage County Register, 26 Apr 1912, Fri, Page 7 - I found this in the Snopes article on the subject)

Dilleys’ report was in newspapers in 1912; how did this not get into the massive cultural memory of the Titanic? I’ve heard accounts of how it sunk at least 10 times and never about this.

[superawesomesassmaster]

YES HI HELLO I WOULD LIKE TO ADD A FEW FACTS ABOUT THIS THEORY.

AND I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO EMPHASIZE THAT THE COAL FIRE DID NOT SINK THE TITANIC. Some publications might have you thinking that the coal fire weakened the steel plating and made it easier for the berg to rupture the ship and sink it. Very very wrong.

If you guys would look up explanations by actual Titanic and maritime historians regarding the “Fire and Ice Theory” you’d conclude that:

1) coal bunker fires were pretty common among steamships of that era.

2) they weren’t actual roaring fires as these publications might have you believe (they do it as clickbait), but were instead just smoldering embers.

3) thermal analysis on sheets of steel similar in composition to Titanic’s hull plates showed that they could withstand temperatures above those exhibited by coal bunker “fires” and that such prolonged exposure to heat would not have significntly weakened them beyond nominal parameters.

4) in the photograph that appears to show the smudged section on the ship where the supposed “raging fire” had damaged the hull plating, the area in question DOES NOT match the ACTUAL location of the bunker where the fire had been burning. In fact, it’s off by about 70 feet back and 10 feet lower than the smudged area. That smudge is nothing more than photographic damage.

5) the iceberg collision was much more violent than one might think. While the Titanic did strike the berg at a glancing blow and 99% of her passengers didn’t feel a thing, below the water was a different story. The kinetic energy of the moving ship along with the rigidity of the ice created enormous pressure on the steel plates that they simply bent or buckled, causing rivets to pop. Such pressures were high enough to damage even the best quality of steel on any ship, let alone the most technologically advanced ship in the world at the time.

6) Finally, here’s the REMARKABLE thing about the coal fire: since the stokers and firemen had been shoveling the burning embers out from the affected bunker and into the boilers in an attempt to keep the fire under control, one side of the ship became lighter than the other. So, during her voyage, the Titanic actually had a 2 degree list to port (right). Now, when she struck the berg on the starboard side (left) and started taking on water, the transverse compartments of the ship caused an uneven flooding, which resulted in a heavy list to starboard initially, which reached up to 6 degrees. HERE’S THE WTF PART: Modern forensic analysis determined that had it not been for that 2 degree counter balancing list to the opposite side caused by the coal fire, the Titanic might have actually rolled on its starboard side within an hour of the collision, thus killing MORE people, since the lifeboats on the elevated port side would have been rendered inoperable. IN SHORT: THE COAL FIRE MIGHT HAVE HELPED SAVE LIVES DURING THE SINKING.

In conclusion, DO YOUR RESEARCH and always keep an open mind and be critical when reading articles written by mainstream publications.

[char--star]

I would walk to the ends of every universe for you