What Is Happening

Used to be an rp blog, now it's just stuff I like

[puniper]

PLEASE YA’LL GOTTA WATCH THIS PART OF THE YOUKAI WATCH ANIME

[diditmarketing]

Awesome infographic on ideal social media posting times from Sumall & LinkedIn. 

[willthisgoviral]

While these times are typically the most engaging windows for each platform, don’t forget to pay attention to when your fans and followers are online and active. Test and learn what times work best for your brand, and build your schedule from those insights.

[thisisnotsocialwork]

For those of us trying to build presence on the social media

[pixelatedpixie]

planning out my selfie release times like

[majordepreciationdisorder]

Twitter - College kids finally out of class for the day Facebook - Everyone’s getting bored at work Tumblr - Night blogging Instagram - Home from work, time to upload today’s pictures Pinterest - Need a last minute pasta salad recipe Google+ - Google employees arrive at work

[amidalis]

BEY AND BRUNO MAKING THIS THEIR SHOW!!!!!

[autohaste]

#SOLIDARITY 

[taumoeba]

my favorite page from the 10th anniversary edition of the Lightning Thief

[micdotcom]

Watch: Bernie Sanders dropped in on SNL with Larry David — to mock Trump and his own heritage.

[teh-ray]

[did-you-know]

Momentary Ink prints your tattoo designs as custom temporary tattoos that last 3-10 days so you can try your ideas before you commit to one. 

Source

[justanothergreyface]

@styliferous among others

[styliferous]

What a good idea though!!!

[ethereal-business-cabaret]

Another useful idea: cosplay.

[roachpatrol]

!!!

[nijuukoo]

REALLY USEFUL FOR MY COMMISSIONERS!!

[spyrale-deactivated20181121]

Ceasar Ian Muyuela

[dangerbooze]

This post brings me great joy

[perfectdisarray]

My only qualm is that Link is actually left handed.

[chubbyfury6]

This is pretty cool

[sunsetofdoom]

Ok I love all the Kylo Ren jokes (human trashbag, complete monster, Emo Teen) but like

According to the novel Ben was ten years old when he left home to train with Luke, and fifteen when he destroyed Luke’s Jedi temple

So that means Snoke tempting him to the Dark Side would have involved a lot less offering untold cosmic power; and a lot more child-grooming, and subsequently absconding with a preteen boy

Idk about you but that skeeves me out

[cattusumbra-deactivated20160530]

Oh noooooo

[anghraine]

for bonus:

He had trouble believing what he was hearing. “So Snoke was watching our son.”

“Always,” she told him. “From the shadows, in the beginning, even before I realized what was happening, he was manipulating everything, pulling our son toward the dark side.”

We don’t know the details for sure, but if the movies go with this, Snoke was definitely grooming Ben from … infancy, pretty much.

There’s also that scene where Snoke tells Ben that he’s trained other people, but nobody like Ben because he’s special. D: D: D:

[ohtze]

On a completely serious note, it actually 100% explains the tantrums. When you’re groomed from a really young age (and are hurt at a young age), your maturity in dealing with stressors can be developmentally delayed, and your ability to deal (in general) becomes extremely… fragile. You don’t develop proper coping mechanisms at a critical stage in your development, and even if you’re removed from the stressor your inability cope with them can affect you all throughout your adulthood. A lot of people lash out in anger, because lashing out in anger is what children do. They never really developed past that (mentally), which is kind of why Kylo/Ben acts like he’s 16 when he’s closer to 30. Honestly its pretty tragic.

[verysharpteeth]

I’ve pointed this out too and this is why his back story that we know of is so disturbing to me. Especially when you take into account that Kylo seems very telepathically Force sensitive and Leia took precautions to keep him away from Snoke, which means about the only way he really could have influenced him that much was he was LITERALLY rattling around inside his head. You get the impression Kylo had next to no peace and even though the people he loved were telling him one thing, he also couldn’t get away from what was going on in his head. It’s no wonder he keeps saying he’s torn apart and shows a lot of conflict. It wasn’t a case like Anakin where Palpatine used his own flaws on him to pretty much manipulate a headstrong young man. Snoke’s influence was much more aggressive and much younger on Ben.

[dontblinkmothafucka]

Oh

[mindblowingscience]

This is a real life, alive Giant Squid found off the coast of Japan. This video was recorded on December 24th, 2015. 

This Giant Squid is 3.7 metres long (12 feet), but specimens have been found that are more than 12 metres long.

Watch the video and read more about this encounter below:

Giant Squid, Elusive Creature of the Deep, Gets a Vivid Close-Up

[badgerofshambles]

Aaaah!!! I always pictured them as being solid in color?! This one is so pretty !

[speciesofleastconcern]

I’ve assumed every time I see this on my dash that this is a sick and dying individual, and that the mottled skin is a symptom. Who’s good with megacephalopods?

[lirio-dendron]

@thesmileoctopus? 

[thesmileoctopus-deactivated2019]

Cephalopods all have color-changing skin, so they’re pretty much never a solid color for very long :) This squid does have stripes along its arms, but it looks to me like a lot of the “mottle” is scraped-off skin. I agree with @speciesofleastconcern that it seems sick. Deep-sea animals aren’t really built to survive at the surface, and this one was really sluggish and looks to be injured. Why it swam up instead of down, I don’t know. I wouldn’t have gotten in the water with it, though–six foot long Humboldt squid have been known to drown divers, and this one was twice that size!

[thesmileoctopus-deactivated2019]

UPDATE: Clyde Roper, actual giant squid expert, says this squid is just fine but kinda lost.

[decertatio]

oh my god thats adorable. its a big lost squid. help it back home.

[slyclay]

It was helped back home! A diver led it to deeper water, and it kept trying to nom/wrap him up with its arms. So, risky, but a good ending; it dived.

[supplehearts-archive]

Planets i learned about via youtube while procrastinating my english essay

Planet 55 Cancri e is basically a giant diamond. like the planet is a diamond. and it would be worth $26.9 nonillion

Planet Gliese 436 b is an ice planet that is constantly on fire do to its close proximity to its parent star. the ice doesn’t melt bc the planet’s gravity is so strong it physically prevents the ice from melting

Planet HD 189733b rains sideways glass…. constantly

Planet J1407-B has planetary rings that are 200x the size of saturn. if saturn’s ring were as big as J1407-B’s we’d be able to see them with our naked eye from earth AND they would dominate our sky and look larger than a full moon

Planet Wasp-12b rotates so close to its parent star that its slowly being consumed by the it

Planet Gliese 581c is one of the candidates for a planet that can support life however it orbits a tiny dwarf star and is tidally locked so one side is constantly subject to immense sunlight while the other is constantly in darkness. there’s a small area of the planet however, that is just the right temp to support life. u just can’t step out of said area. the skies are red and the plants would have be a black color instead of a green bc they would use infrared light for photosynthesis. (a message was actually sent to the planet in 2008 in hopes that there’s life on the planet but the message wont reach the planet until 2029).

Planet GJ 1214b is a water planet nicknamed “water world” is has no land at all and the water is so deep it goes down miles all the way to the planet’s core.

Planet Wasp-17b is the largest planet discovered thus far. its so large its existence contradicts our understanding of how planets are formed. and it has a retrograde orbit, so it orbits in the opposite direction of its parent star.

Planet HD 188753 has 3 suns you should have triple shadows and there would be almost daily eclipses. and no matter which direction u face on the planet u would always see a sunset

Planet HD106906b is the loneliest planet discovered thus far. its known as “super jupiter” bc its 11x bigger than jupiter. it orbits its parent star at a distance of 60 billion miles (which is v strange) hence why its the loneliest planet.

Planet Tres 2b is the darkest planet known. it reflects less than 1% of light (it reflects less light than coal and black acrylic paint). the tiny part of the planet that does reflect light is red making the planet glow a dim red.

[shrimpheaven-now]

ok but where’s the link I wanna avoid my math homework

[duskenpath]

Rest stops on highways are liminal spaces where the veil is thin and nobody can tell me differently

[oli-via]

Explain

[duskenpath]

The explanation is that liminal spaces are in between places that bridge Here with There, so in fairy tales we often have the Fairy Ring, the Forest Clearing, the Sudden Misty Foggy Forest, the Bridge, the River, graveyards, in some cases

We also have a ton of american urban mythology around famous roadways and sites off the sides of roads

Archetypes like these occur to mark the places in the world where the veil goes thin and humans can have extra-worldly experiences, out of the ordinary way of living

So why wouldn’t transient spaces like rest stops where everyone is just passing through from one place to the next, never stopping for too long, not be a liminal space where spirits frequent, too

Especially since nobody would know if they were real or not

[pardonmewhileipanic]

Ok but this speaks to me

I always feel like something isn’t quite right at rest stops

[confusingteen]

I once slept though three gas stations on a road trip, and the second the car started to slow to turn into a rest stop, I was basically wide awake.

[prismatic-bell]

My mom and I were on I-90 in a blizzard once and pulled off at the first exit we could find. Turns out that if we’d gone even a mile further, we would have happened on a 49-and-counting car pileup, and that 90 was closed for MILES. How we found an unblocked ramp was a matter of great debate, but where this gets weirder still is that at the bottom of the ramp was a closed truck stop and an open church full of teenagers–they went for youth group, the blizzard started, and they were stuck until the snow stopped. They fed us leftovers from their potluck dinner, prayed with us for safe travel, and when the snow let up they saw us on our way.

Three days later–Sunday–we were traveling back and decided to stop at that church to thank them. We found it thanks to the truck stop, but this time it was the truck stop that was open and the church that was closed. Neither of us remembered it looking so decrepit on the trip down, and granted we saw it first at night in a snowstorm, but you’d think we’d have noticed the boarded-up windows. So we asked in at the truck stop.

The church had been abandoned for ten years. And yet I still had one of their youth group programs under my sun visor, very clearly labeled for the previous week.

To this day I’m sure we crossed dimensions somewhere on I-90, and that’s how we stayed safe. You could tell me it’s because the truck stop was a liminal space and I’d 100% believe you.

[duskenpath]

I don’t mind when this post goes around again because sometimes I get stories like this

[exeggcute]

satire is “I’m going to take this concept to an extreme or absurd level in order to demonstrate how bizarre/nonsensical/illogical it is” and not “I said something bigoted but just kidding I didn’t really mean it hahaha”

[bogleech]

Dang it I’ve written like 5000 words trying to explain this and I only needed this post to reblog

[apfelgranate]

#i always remember that thing terry pratchett said #about how satire is meant to ridicule power #if you’re laughing at people who are hurting it’s not satire it’s bullying (tags via @vrabia)

[jessehimself]

Punching up

[chescaleigh]

if a self proclaimed bigot watched your satirical piece, would they enjoy it or would it make them uncomfortable because they’re the punchline?

[nerdyfacts]

Nerdy Fact #1434: Wonder Woman was originally based on two women: the wife of creator William Marston and one of his former students that both he and his wife had sexual encounters with. 

(Source.)

[themyskira]

How about you actually name ‘em?

Elizabeth Holloway Marston and Olive Byrne were among a number of women who contributed to the original Wonder Woman, and they’re fascinating people in their own right.

Elizabeth Holloway Marston was a brilliant woman. She earned three university degrees in psychology and law at a time when few women received any tertiary education. She was a successful career woman who assisted her husband with his work and was frequently the breadwinner of the family.

The main reason she was able to continue working after having children? Olive Byrne, who was not simply a casual “sexual encounter”, but the Marstons’ lover and life partner. To enable Elizabeth to work, Olive stayed at home and raised both her and Elizabeth’s children. She also wrote for Family Circle and contributed to Marston’s research.

Elizabeth is credited with pushing her husband to create a female superhero, and after his death she worked hard to preserve his vision for the character, urging DC to employ her as the comic’s editor (she was ignored).

Wonder Woman’s bracelet’s are Olive’s bracelets: Olive was known for wearing a pair of wide silver bracelets, and Marston had these in mind when he envisioned Diana’s bullet-deflecting accessories.

Marston died in 1947, but Elizabeth and Olive continued to live together until the end of their lives.

[hells-will-88]

Wait. Clarification please. Are you telling me that the creator of Wonder WOMAN WAS IN A POLY-AMOROUS RELATIONSHIP?

[themyskira]

Yep! They were in a poly relationship and had four children together, two by Elizabeth and two by Olive.

(And for those who’ve asked about sources, the Marstons’ story is covered in detail in The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore and Wonder Woman: The Complete History by Les Daniels)

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

Wonder Woman was inspired and shaped by not only a man who was incredibly progressive and awesome by todays standards let alone the standards of the day he lived in but also by a fierce, intelligent and awesome bisexual woman

This is one of the many reasons why the ways DC has ruined Wonder Woman in their pursuit of making the book as backwards and heteronormative as possible pisses me off…

[scots-dragon]

Not a fierce and intelligent and awesome bisexual woman.

Two fierce and intelligent and awesome bisexual women. 

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

You are correct :D

[themetaisawesome]

Imagine growing up in that house

“Mom wants to see you.”

“Psychology mom or bracelet mom?”

“Bracelet mom.”

[sizvideos]

Sentri is a waterproof and windproof hoodie that mix comfort and function. Check out the Kickstarter page!

[pleatedjeans]

22 of the Greatest Ideas of All Time

[wolchaos]

@kittenblade

[the-future-now-deactivated20170]

Gravitational waves are real — and that’s a huge f***ing deal!

A century ago, Albert Einstein theorized there was such a thing as a fabric of space and time — that the universe was malleable, and that large objects and events would cause it to bend.

He was right. From studying the signals emanating from the merging of two black holes — have separate masses equal to 36 and 29 suns — scientists with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory were able to observe gravitational waves. Their measurements matched expectations of what Einstein predicted in his General Theory of Relativity.

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