Where I keep up appearances

I'm Max... and I feel like I need to stop changing my description when I'm... into floral backgrounds.

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From Wikipedia:

Nuestra Señora de la Santa Muerte (Spanish for Our Lady of Holy Death), often shortened to Santa Muerte, is a female deity or folk saint in Mexican and Mexican-American folk Catholicism. A personification of death, she is associated with healing, protection, and safe delivery to the afterlife by her devotees. Despite condemnation by the Catholic Church, her cult has become increasingly prominent since the 2000s.

The worship of Santa Muerte is condemned by the Catholic Church in Mexico as invalid, but it is increasingly firmly entrenched in Mexican culture.

Santa Muerte is also seen as a protector of homosexual, bisexual, and transgender communities in Mexico, since many are considered to be outcast from society. Many LGBT people ask her for protection from violence, hatred, disease, and to help them in their search for love.

Her intercession is commonly invoked in same-sex marriage ceremonies performed in Mexico. The Iglesia Católica Tradicional México-Estados Unidos, also known as the Church of Santa Muerte, recognizes gay marriage and performs religious wedding ceremonies for homosexual couples.

Man how did I not know about this magical gay skeleton queen until today?

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Very cool looking Field of Wheat next to Lavender 

[vivairi-deactivated20190813]

Southern Gothic vs. English Gothic

[archiveofidentityconstellations]

opinion piece: Over The Garden Wall has achieved what many writers have been trying to do since the conception of America–successfully pull off an American fairytale

[personalgremlin]

this makes me want to cry

[aqueerkettleofish]

First of all, “…they were surrounded on all sides by echoes and images of themselves, in a world where image and object had not yet torn themselves apart” is one of the most poetic phrasings I’ve ever heard.

Second, here’s the original source, “What the caves are trying to tell us” by Sam Kriss.

Third, the original opens with:  “Every so often, I get the urge to drag someone into a cave, and show them something unspeakable.”

I had another point, but it got lost in the artful prose of this article.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

I feel like “every so often, I get the urge to drag someone into a cave and show them something unspeakable” is something that’s okay for a paleolithic cave art expert to say, but like, absolutely no one else

[ultrafacts]

Source: [x]

Click HERE for more facts

[legovasavouchi]

Okay so I went to the source article and here’s the paragraph where the guy tells his secret:

First, there was their daily diet: on top of dry commercial cat food, a home-cooked breakfast of eggs, turkey bacon, broccoli, coffee with cream, and—every two days—about an eyedropper full of red wine to “circulate the arteries.” Then there was his effort to ensure the cats were sufficiently stimulated: a garage he’d converted into a home movie theater, with a working reel-to-reel projector and actual movie theater seats, where Perry screens nature documentaries exclusively for the cats (with previews, he added). Last, and perhaps most important, he swore that love and close, personal relationships helped his cats live longer. Perry adored his cats so much, he remembered each of their birthdays.

[ratguzzler-deactivated20181213]

i love this man

[flavorcountry]

Dr. Mae Jemison, MD, the first black woman in space and first actual astronaut to appear on a Star Trek show, one of the very few people on this planet of whom two pictures can be posted depicting them doing their job on a spaceship with entirely different contexts.

[simpleescapism]

Holy shit this is a serious contender for the best post I’ve ever seen on tumblr.

[marsish]

still dying over this

[lescretia]

[ginocchie]

as a child i was always amazed by how fast adults could chop onions and then before you know it you’re chopping onions very fast and that’s it that’s life

[turnfreebaby]

when i get to ride my chocobo all day

[enrique262]

Fidèle (May 2003–January 2016), a Belgian yellow Labrador Retriever, made famous due to his habit of sleeping on a windowsill facing the Groenerei canal in in Bruges, Belgium.

[cupcakes-and-lithium-deactivate]

So beautiful.

[marsish]

@maxwhale

[seanorr]

[my-slideshow-wmv]

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[lazerdoesfeminism]

kids shouldn’t feel the need to befriend people just to avoid being murdered, that’s not how we solve this

[profeminist]

Tweet 1 source | Tweet 2 source

[tanoraqui]

I am genuinely unclear on why a school shooting victim would relevant to the business of the Centers for Disease Control

[returnofismasm]

@tanoraqui There is a law that prevents the CDC from studying gun violence.  It’s the NRA’s fault, like so many things, they keep blocking attempts to get the law repealed.  

[tanoraqui]

Oh! Thank you.

[theonion]

MILWAUKEE, WI—Concluding that his culinary efforts should “do the trick,” area man Charlie Frye was reportedly just going to assume Wednesday that what he had just done to two cloves of garlic counted as “minced.” “I think I cut it up pretty good—It seems like these pieces are small enough,” said Frye, who had been chopping garlic for the past two minutes as the recipe instructed, first attempting to methodically slice the cloves into tiny cubes before deciding to quickly run his knife through the pile of garlic bits at random just to make sure. “I think this is probably done, right? I’m sure it’s fine as long as there aren’t any, like, huge chunks.” At press time, Frye was running his chopping knife under hot water and deciding it was probably pretty much clean.

[kny111]

Black Beekeepers Are Transforming Detroit’s Vacant Lots Into Bee Farms

"Work hard, stay bumble" is their nonprofit motto.

A pair of Detroit natives have decided to combat neighborhood blight in a pretty sweet way — by transforming abandoned vacant lots in their city into honeybee farms.

Detroit Hives, a nonprofit organization founded by Timothy Paule and Nicole Lindsey in 2017, purchases vacant properties and remodels them into fully functioning bee farms.

“These properties are left abandoned and serve as a dumping ground in most cases,”. “The area can be a breeding ground for environmental hazards, which creates a stigma around the city.”