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A blast from the past with some of my old Disney witches for #witchtober !

Sailor Met Gala Collection ✨️

Artist: SmirkingDesigns

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#so pretty omg

respectfulmemes

mentalkillness

I feel like a mom on facebook reblogging this but I genuinely like it. I want to make this into a full size poster and put it in my 3rd grade classroom but I’m 20 yrs old and not a teacher

tsume-yuki

As a 23 year old Primary teacher, I will be slapping this up in my classroom first thing tomorrow.

systlin

Something I find incredibly cool is that they’ve found neandertal bone tools made from polished rib bones, and they couldn’t figure out what they were for for the life of them.

Until, of course, they showed it to a traditional leatherworker and she took one look at it and said “Oh yeah sure that’s a leather burnisher, you use it to close the pores of leather and work oil into the hide to make it waterproof. Mine looks just the same.”

“Wait you’re still using the exact same fucking thing 50,000 years later???”

“Well, yeah. We’ve tried other things. Metal scratches up and damages the hide. Wood splinters and wears out. Bone lasts forever and gives the best polish. There are new, cheaper plastic ones, but they crack and break after a couple years. A bone polisher is nearly indestructible, and only gets better with age. The more you use a bone polisher the better it works.”

It’s just.

50,000 years. 50,000. And over that huge arc of time, we’ve been quietly using the exact same thing, unchanged, because we simply haven’t found anything better to do the job.

saxifraga-x-urbium

i also like that this is a “ask craftspeople” thing, it reminds me of when art historians were all “the fuck” about someone’s ear “deformity” in a portrait and couldn’t work out what the symbolism was until someone who’d also worked as a piercer was like “uhm, he’s fucked up a piercing there”. interdisciplinary shit also needs to include non-academic approaches because crafts & trades people know shit ok

assasue

One of my professors often tells us about a time he, as and Egyptian Archaeologist, came down upon a ring of bricks one brick high. In the middle of a house. He and his fellow researchers could not fpr the life of them figure out what tf it could possibly have been for. Until he decided to as a laborer, who doesnt even speak English, what it was. The guy gestures for my prof to follow him, and shows him the same ring of bricks in a nearby modern house. Said ring is filled with baby chicks, while momma hen is out in the yard having a snack. The chicks can’t get over the single brick, but mom can step right over. Over 2000 years and their still corraling chicks with brick circles. If it aint broke, dont fix it and always ask the locals.

anx1ous-op0ssum

I read something a while back about how pre-columbian Americans had obsidian blades they stored in the rafters of their houses. The archaeologists who discovered them came to the conclusion that the primitive civilizations believed keeping them closer to the sun would keep the blades sharper.

Then a mother looked at their findings and said “yeah, they stored their knives in the rafters to keep them out of reach of the children.”

whatevercomestomymind

Omg the ancient child proofing add on tho lol

#neat #I love learning new things

brazenskies

Sleeping Beauty (1959)

Merryweather cleaning around the cottage

#sleeping beauty

Hello and Happy New Year!

2018 was a bit of a rollercoaster for me - it started off as one of the worst years of my life but ended on a very good and happy note. As I start off this new year, I am getting healthier and happier each and every day.

Today’s accomplishments:

Tracked my food ✅

1.0 Mile Happy Walk with Leslie Sansone on YouTube ✅

Exterior holiday lights taken down ✅

Groceries obtained and meals planned ✅

Tomorrow’s goals:

-Track my food

-yoga

- 1 mile walk

-work

#taking care of me 2019

h-arleen

Enchanted (2007) + Disney parallels

#enchanted

fankakm

“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

#how to train your dragon

strechanadi

Alice Petit

La Bayadère

Photo: Yunsik Kim

#so pretty

kindasnowhite

Belle & Adam ; The Starlit Princess Waltz. (2017)

#beauty and the beast #disney parks

princessesfanarts

Merida by Aurellien

#merida #brave #lovely art

randomslasher

Just a quick reminder

Not everyone will like your fic. Write it anyway.

Not everyone will like your art. Keep drawing.

Not everyone will like your moodboards/edits/vids. Make more.

Pursue your craft because it makes you happy, and just know that there are people out there who adore everything you create and can’t wait for more. And there are fans that haven’t found you yet, but your content will change their life.

Keep creating, okay?

I love you guys. And I support you all so hard.

ninemoons42

I needed to hear this.

And if you did, too, take and thrive and keep going.

leselfov

#ooh pretty

i-hate-chick-fil-a

His smile at the end got me

quiteliterallyhotsauce

BOOST THIS

thishumanspace

His smile is definitely worth saving. Sending love to all those who are riding this wave right now :)

scpg1989

Hope this reaches the people who need it.

#yeah exactly #trigger warning #suicide #mental health #but that’s it though - just wanting the hurt to stop #but y’all - getting help makes such a difference #talk therapy helped me so much #and finding the right medication #you don’t have to keep hurting #things do get better

likehandlingroses

“A clever plan..because if Harry here and his friend Ron hadn’t discovered this book, why–Ginny Weasley might have taken all the blame. No one would ever have been able to prove she hadn’t acted of her own free will…and imagine…what might have happened then…The Weasleys are one of our most prominent pure-blood families. Imagine the effect on Arthur Weasley and his Muggle Protection Act, if his own daughter was discovered attacking and killing Muggle-borns…”

It brings me SO MUCH joy that the plot of Chamber of Secrets basically happens because Lucius is terrified out of his mind of Arthur and Molly Weasley and their SEVeN kids who were all raised to hold the line in case anyone tried to start a genocidal regime again. They are so powerful and so dangerous to any attempted rise to power from the Death Eaters, and Lucius feels the need to try and marginalize and demonize them in order to decrease the threat they pose.

And boy was he right to be concerned, they are…unstoppable. Each and every one of them. You thought it was impressive that it took five Death Eaters to kill their uncles? Try having a couple Weasleys illegally on the airwaves, one destroying Voldemort’s Horcruxes, one protesting at Hogwarts, one running loose in the government, one housing escaped prisoners, and one getting foreign support!! More children than they can afford? Try more children than you can effectively stop!!

And then when they ALL show up to fight in the Battle of Hogwarts? What a trip for Lucius Malfoy! Hey bigots! Would you like to pick an opponent based on which Quidditch position they excel at, or do you wanna roll the dice and go with one of the brothers who got 12 OWLs? Those are your only two options because Weasleys are EVERYWHERE and the weak link is NO ONE. The fear that must have been in his heart when one or two of them was around every corner of the school taking down his DE pals…is so amazing to think about. Glorious. Iconic. Every Weasley has red hair, freckles, and a drive to destroy the concept of blood purity at all cost!!

The Weasleys are not always nice or right, but they are GOOD and they believe in standing up for what is good, and when evil is around they SHOW UP to fight it. No questions asked. And evil is so scared of them, so worried about what they can do, that it resorts to desperately weaponizing a little girl to try and stop them.

burgundydahlia

THIS IS AMAZING!!!! GO, WEASLEYS!!!

professorsparklepants

The thing I love about Arthur Weasley is his function as a foil to Lucius. The Weasleys are dirt poor and Arthur’s job is a joke, but he’s widely respected to the point that the governers mention that finding his daughter in the chamber is the last straw. Not a pureblood student. One that’s related to Arthur. He’s well connected enough to get them into the Minister’s box at the Quidditch world cup. I forget which book it is, but at one point he gets an entire fleet of enchanted cars to take the kids to King Cross station to catch the train. This is all through sheer personal influence; everything the Malfoys achieve is through bribery. Lucius should fear the Weasleys.