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The Scripps Institution of Oceanography's stunningly aesthetic collection of seaweeds contains over 4,000 specimens, all digitalized.

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mizu's origin story in ep5 can have multiple interpretations

mama and mikio betrayed her - this is the one that the writers are pushing, and it's honestly already great. mizu's turmoil is grounded in internal chaos and her immediate connections. her onryo is fueled by self hatred and the reality of the world that she will never be accepted, not even by the only two people closest to her that know her as her full self. she has no paths left here. her only path is violent revenge and self annhilation.

mama betrayed her and mikio is innocent - this one fuels her onryo via external influences. mama's only M.O. is her opium addiction, which was introduced by the white men that poisoned the country with their opium imports. it shows that even here, in the countryside, away from everything and everyone that would hate her as a half breed, bridled next to her first love whose relationship is only just beginning, even here she cannot escape the white man's influence. her onryo is fueled by hatred of the white men that ruined her life so thoroughly and completely, even when all odds were in her favor.

mikio betrayed her and mama is innocent - this one fuels her onryo via self hatred. mikio, her first true love and guardian of her trust, tosses her aside and means to kill her after seeing the last facet of her identity as a warrior. here, she has failed so astronomically as a woman that it brings her life to ruin, shattering her heart into pieces and leaving nothing left of her. she hates herself, hates that she was born this way, and embarks on a grandiose suicide mission to end the white men that created her, but the underlying motive is simply self destruction (but make it fashion)

bonus interpretation:

mama and mikio are both innocent, but both are useless in her time of need - maybe a passing messenger saw her and took the opportunity to turn her in for a quick buck. the experience is traumatic, but no one is helping her. mikio runs because he is a coward, mama can only think of herself because she is narcissistic and can't spare any empathy. they are both squabble among themselves but no one is raising a hand to hold her, love her, care for her in the way she needs to be cared for. her onryo is fueled by nihilism and silent betrayal. what's the point of living when this is as good as it gets? why play into the charade of society when there is simply nothing left for her? might as well exercise her artistic capability to its highest form of expression (fighting, killing, exacting revenge) and call it here.

every interpretation is sad, there's no respite anywhere for our mizu send post

doeofdevotion

today at the bookstore i asked the lady working if she had any lgbtq books that i could check out and her eyes magnified in what i mistook as horror and i thought i had offended her and then she said “i have a bag of lesbian fiction in the basement i’ve been waiting for someone to finally ask” and she all but burst down the stairs to get them for me

bless

thesylverlining

“I have a bag of lesbian fiction in the basement” is my new go-to pickup line

lovvedaggers

Someone I don’t know on tumblr: YOU CAN’T SHIP THAT!!!

Me:

best-of-memes

Rich people showers

officialkeikoandgilly

Originally posted by weegems

labyrinth-runner

reblogging for that gif

immenseheadaches

i’m sorry i couldn’t help myself

naamahdarling

This really helped to make me less angry.

It got better

bury your gays

four bros, chillin in a sandpit, one foot apart cause they’re all gay

sandandglass

thistherapylife

I will almost always reblog this

algrenion

think my mum just sent me a whole buncha weed butter in the mail??

algrenion

this is almost certainly weed butter

algrenion

so it’s still technically unconfirmed that this is actually weed butter so im doing a science experiment - i made crepes with it and ate 6

lets wait an hour and see what happens

algrenion

i asked my mum if it was weed butter hours ago and just after i made the last post she sent me this

maybe i shouldnt have ate six

zaxal

algrenion

ive never seen a more appropriate usage of this reference

buffylives

How did you even know I was in trouble?

harocat

Sayo talks about Victor and Yuuri’s relationship being all encompassing, beyond a simple definition, and it’s not a no homo thing, because she literally lists lovers as one of the aspects of the relationship (in fact much of Japanese fandom took this statement as a confirmation of their romantic relationship; that is, confirmation beyond the definitive relationship we see in the series of course).

It’s one aspect though. They’re also family, they’re best friends, they’re soulmates. They’re peers and competitors, they’re equal, even when Victor is coaching. Their relationship is all encompassing because they fill that many niches in each other’s lives, and they’re that important and supportive to each other. If Yuuri needs a friend, Victor is there. If Victor needs a family member, Yuuri is there. If they need each other as romantic partners, they’re there. It’s good and healthy and lovely.

ineffectualdemon

*applauds this post because that’s it exactly.* That’s what makes their relationship one of the best across all media straight or gay. You just don’t get to see couples that support each other fully like that.

That’s what makes YOI so fucking special

I mean to take it a step further they not only fill all those roles for the other but they are also the one saying “see all these other people? They also love you. Let them” which! Yes! That’s what couples should do for each other

the real mottos of the hogwarts houses

hufflepuff: you fuck with my mates, you fuck with me

slytherin: i can buy you and your entire family

ravenclaw: *downs red bull* i can figure this out

gryffindor: hold my beer and watch this

museum-of-idiots

I have never identified with anyone as much as I do with this man

manticoreimaginary

New Zealand’s new water safety mascot is amazing and his instagram is a gift

lesstalkmoreillustration

Anežka (Agnes) Kašpárková

(via 90-Year-Old Czech Grandma Turns Small Village Into Her Art Gallery By Hand-Painting Flowers On Its Houses | Bored Panda)

thomasfinchmackee

chyeah-yeah

Gaston really is the most terrifying Disney villain because he could be anyone in the world.

justplainsomething

Later he convinces the whole town to set up his wedding with the knowledge that the would-be bride would be thrown into it. Everyone finds his creepy-ass tactics as cute and “boys will be boys” esque. So yeah, he is terrifying.

beeftony

Yeah, the truly scary thing about Beauty and the Beast isn’t that Gaston exists, but that society fucking loves him. People who deride the movie by saying it’s about Stockholm Syndrome are ignoring that it’s actually about the various ways that truly decent people get othered by society. People don’t trust the Beast because of the way he looks, which only feeds his anger issues and pushes him further away. Gaston isn’t the only one who criticizes Belle for being bookish, either; the whole town says there must be something wrong with her. And her father gets carted off to a mental asylum for being just a little eccentric.

Howard Ashman, who collaborated on the film’s score and had a huge influence on the movie’s story and themes, was a gay man who died of AIDS shortly after work on the film was completed. If you watch the film with that in mind, the message of it becomes clear. Gaston demonstrates that bullies are rewarded and beloved by society as long as they possess a certain set of characteristics, while nice people who don’t are ostracized. The love story between Belle and the Beast is about them finding solace in each other after society rejects them both.

Notice how the Beast reacts when the whole town comes for him. He’s not angry, he’s sad. He’s tired. And he almost gives up because he has nothing to live for. But then he sees that Belle has come back for him, and suddenly he does. In the original fairy tale, the Beast asks Belle to marry him every night, and the spell is broken when she accepts. In the Disney movie, he waits for her to love him, because he cannot love himself. That’s how badly being ostracized from society and told that you’re a monster all your life can fuck with your head and make you stop seeing yourself as human.

Society rewards the bullies because we’ve been brought up to believe that their victims don’t belong. That if someone doesn’t fit in, then they have to be put in their place, or destroyed. And this movie demonstrates that this line of thinking is wrong. It’s so much deeper than a standard “be yourself” message, and that’s why it’s one of my favorite Disney movies.