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you can like both humanities and STEM.
you donât have to âpick a sideâ and completely discard the other field after choosing your major.
you can like both science and art, and none is better than the other.
You can like both art and science and become a medical or scientific illustrator.
Most science programs - especially pre-med are literally BEGGING for humanities majors.
There is an ART and SCIENCE to every field. Become well rounded versus solely focused. Better people-making is the result.
How And Why To Keep A âCommonplace Bookâ
-Actually writing the stuff down is crucial. I know itâs easier to keep a Google Doc or an Evernote project of your favorite quotesâŠbut easy has got nothing to do with this. As Raymond Chandler put it, âWhen you have to use your energy to put those words down, you are more apt to make them count.â (Disclosure: for really long pieces, Iâll type it up and print it out). -Donât let it pile up. A lot of people mark down passages or fold pages of stuff they like. Then they put of doing anything with it. Iâll tell you, nothing will make your procrastinate like seeing a giant pile of books you have to go through and take notes on it. You can avoid this by not letting it pile up. Donât go months or weeks without going through the ritual. You have to stay on top of it.
tfw you realize that your really challenging class that was making you doubt your abilities is just full of a bunch of kids that need somebody to look them in the eye and say, âiâm not going anywhere.â
this job is HARD, but also, itâs so important.Â
I hope I can find this in myself again
School was supposed to prepare me for life, but never once was I ever shown how to pay a bill.
The real sign of a failed education system is people being so coddled they think they need to be explicitly shown how to mail a fucking check
Nope. Thought i was done. Iâm not done. Most if not ALL the bills I receive have plainly-stated directions on how to take advantage of many different payment options â they tell you how to pay online, they tell you you can mail a check, some bills can be paid by going to the appropriate local store. The directions are ON THE FUCKING BILL.
So I agree, you not knowing how to pay your bills IS a failure of the education system. Because clearly nobody told you how to read fucking directions.
Still not done.
ALL day. EVERY DAY. ALL THE TIME in life there are directions on things. If you can make a frozen pizza, mac n cheese, put together ikea furniture, YOU NAME IT- but canât pay your bills? thatâs your own problem.
say it louder
Gomez gives out better relationship advice than like 90% of dudes.
Gomez Addams is a suave motherfucker who loves his wife more than his own life.
Everyone should want a Gomez. Heâs p cool.
Gomez and Morticia Addams actually have a very loving and extremely healthy relationship, both in the old TV show and in the more recent movies. They were also one of the first television couples to be shown to have an active (albeit offscreen) sex life. Their frank attitude towards sexuality was shocking in itsâ time, but their relationship and their family dynamic is actually more functional and moreâŠdare I say itâŠsane than most families portrayed on TV.
The comedy in the show came from the familyâs âoddâ lifestyle, rather than from infighting and petty bickering, or worse, as was common on other shows of the time, thinly veiled references to spousal abuse. They didnât make fun of each other or act like their children were creatures from another world. Were they strange and outside of social norms? Yes. Were they united in creating a loving home and being good, supportive parents? Absolutely.
These two support and adore their children, care for an aging mother and an estranged brother, put family before everything, and they love each other, wholly, fiercely, without reserve. They are every bit as much in love after at least a decade of marriage as they were the day they met.
Relationship goals. LIFE goals.
Just remembered in the second movie when their third child became ânormalâ for a period and although they were shocked and didnât know how to handle it, they didnât mistreat the child or love it any less. They accepted the difference, even though it was hard for them.Â
Reblogged for truth.
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Posts about Gomez and Morticia Addams are almost always uplifting and Iâm happy to have them on my dash, but I think my favorite bit about this conversation is what Gomez is actually saying to Fester.
Itâs nobodyâs surprise that many of the aesthetic and thematic elements of The Addams Family in its various incarnations are influenced by Gothic tradition (not goth, that mostly came later. And not Goth, that was much much much too early), and I think Gomezâs words are a dead bullseye in terms of Gothic mentality.
âMake her feel like sheâs the most sublime creature on earthâ
The sublime is a recurring theme throughout Gothic literature. Although the word (like âawesomeâ) has lost a lot of itâs original luster over the intervening decades, sublime doesnât really mean elevated and lofty (or even heavenly) as itâs often used today, but rather something possessing the power and grandeur to induce awe and veneration in the mind of the beholder. Although less than divine, something sublime possessed a wildness and power that transcended human ability to controlâŠor even to comprehend.
Sublime is standing at the edge of the Grand Canyon leaning as far as you dare over the railing and still not being able to see the canyon floor below. Sublime is warrior-queen Galadriel being tempted by the One Ring. Sublime is waking up in the middle of the night in the heart of a wild thunderstorm.
âMake her feel like sheâs the most sublime creature on earthâ
Gomez isnât advising Fester to treat a woman he fancies like a princess, or even elevate her to pedestal of angelic nature (whoâs idea was it to equate femininity with purity anyway? What a laughable and historically damaging idea. Shame on whatever dead (probably) white dudes promoted that!)
Gomez is advising Fester that if he truly loves a woman he must do everything he can to remind her of how sheâs an untameable force of nature whoâs grandeur brings him to his knees in awe and terror. Just like Morticia, for Gomez.
Iâll sign off with one of my most favorite quotes of all time, because it feels suddenly very relevant:
âWhen I find myself surrounded by so much beauty, I feel as if I am the eye of a hurricane.â
- -Sanjay Kulkarni
During the Bubonic Plague, doctors wore these bird-like masks to avoid becoming sick. They would fill the beaks with spices and rose petals, so they wouldnât have to smell the rotting bodies.
A theory during the Bubonic Plague was that the plague was caused by evil spirits. To scare the spirits away, the masks were intentionally designed to be creepy.
Mission fucking accomplished
Okay so I love this but it doesnât cover the half of why the design is awesome and actually borders on making sense.
It wasnât just that they didnât want to smell the infected and dead, they thought it was crucial to protecting themselves. They had no way of knowing about what actually caused the plague, and so one of the other theories was that the smell of the infected all by itself was evil and could transmit the plague. So not only would they fill their masks with aromatic herbs and flowers, they would also burn fires in public areas, so that the smell of the smoke would âclear the airâ. This all related to the miasma theory of contagion, which was one of the major theories out there until the 19th century. And it makes sense, in a way. Plague victims smelled awful, and thereâs a general correlation between horrible septic smells and getting horribly sick if youâre around what causes them for too long.
You can see now that weâve got two different theories as to what caused the plague that were worked into the design. Thatâs because the whole thing was an attempt by the doctors to cover as many bases as they could think of, and weâre still not done.
The glass eyepieces. They were either darkened or red, not something you generally want to have to contend with when examining patients. But the plague might be spread by eye contact via the evil eye, so best to ward that off too.
The illustration shows a doctor holding a stick. This was an examination tool, that helped the doctors keep some distance between themselves and the infected. They already had gloves on, but the extra level of separation was apparently deemed necessary. You could even take a pulse with it. Or keep people the fuck away from you, which was apparently a documented use.
Finally, the robe. Itâs not just to look fancy, the cloth was waxed, as were all of the rest of their clothes. Whatâs one of the properties of wax? Water-based fluids arenât absorbed by it. This was the closest you could get to a sterile, fully protecting garment back then. Because at least one person along the line was smart enough to think âGee, Iâd really rather not have the stuff coming out of those weeping sores anywhere on my personâ.
So between all of these thereâs a real sense that a lot of real thought was put into making sure the doctors were protected, even if they couldnât exactly be sure from what. They worked with what information they had. And frankly, itâs a great design given what was available! You limit exposure to aspirated liquids, limit exposure to contaminated liquids already present, you limit contact with the infected. You also donât give fleas any really good place to hop onto. Thatâs actually useful.
Beyond that, there were contracts the doctors would sign before they even got near a patient. They were to be under quarantine themselves, they wouldnât treat patients without a custodian monitoring them and helping when something had to be physically contacted, and they would not treat non-plague patients for the duration. There was an actual system in place by the time the plague doctors really became a thing to make sure they didnât infect anyone either.
These guys were the product of the scientific process at work, and the scientific process made a bitchinâ proto-hazmat suit. And containment protocols!
reblogging for the sweet history lesson
Reblogging because of the History lesson and because the masks, the masks are cool
Humans, you all know historical medicine ainât my Thangâą, but if any of you have any interest about plague times or just want to understand these bitchinâ get ups, this post is for you!
More info.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_doctor_costume
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_doctor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_doctor_contract
Also apparently Nostradamus worked as a plague doctor for a time.Yes that one.
@cybermax wasnât he actually one of the few doctors who washed his hands, greatly reducing his chances of contracting the plague? I think it was on an old History channel thing, but I might be wrong.
Gregory Peck on set of Beloved Infidel directed by Henry King, 1959
I. Love this.Â
Love it.
Oh my god
yes.
This is it, I found it, the funniest post on this entire godsforsaken website
omfg that is just too adorable
Hot Take: If youâre going to be a teacher, you have to like kids or teens.
You have to like kids WHEN THEYâRE BEING KIDS. You have enjoy the weird little moments and the big angry moments and the need for attention. You have to like swimming in the hormone ocean and the 12 personalities a day. You have to like being anywhere from a tiny, insignificant blip on a few studentsâ radars to the most important person other students see.
You canât just like kids when theyâre nice to you, or cooperative, or paying attention. You are working with tiny mammals who are learning to be people. Kids who come from many backgrounds, many situations. Kids are not worse than when you were growing up, our society is not more evil and crumbling around us. âKids werenât like this when I was growing up,â yes, they absolutely were.Â
The things I see on Facebook about âkids these daysâ are responses to the systems being built around them. The minimum wage stagnation and the rising costs of goods and services mean families have to choose between food or pencils. âBut they have those new Jordans!!!!! Checkmate!!!!â Iâm sorry, do restaurants have signs that say âno pencils, no shirt, no service?â Do you need pencils to walk your little brother to school? Give the kid a damn pencil!Â
In conclusion, @boredteachers can shove it. @teachermisery can shove it. Those âYour kid is the reason I drinkâ glasses can shove it. If your problem is the paperwork, then say so. If your problem is your administration, then say so. But donât take those issues out on the kids. If the actions of your kids truly shock, annoy, and horrify you, then leave the profession. âKids these daysâ need âteachers these days,â not âback in my dayâ educators.
yknow if romeo had just Cried on juliets corpse for a couple hours instead of drinking poison Right Then they would have been Fine
The moral of the story is: always take time to cry for a few hours before making important decisions.
So Iâm more or less being facetious here, but this is actually a thing.
Hamlet is genre savvy. Hamlet knows how Tragedies work, and heâs not going to rush in and get stabby without making absolutely certain heâs got all the facts.
Except once he thinks he has all the facts â once heâs certain that it really is the ghost of his father and Claudius really did kill him, he rushes in and stabs the wrong guy, which starts a domino line of deaths and gets Laertes embroiled in his own revenge tragedy and ultimately results in the deaths of nearly every character other than Horatio.
Thatâs the irony and the tragedy of the story. Hamlet knows his tropes and actively tries to avoid them, and the tropes get him anyway. Itâs inevitable, the tropes are hungry.
I want a sticker that says the tropes are hungry so I can put it on my laptop
i met a scholar once who said that tragedies arenât about a silly âflawâ or anything, itâs about having a hero whoâs just in the wrong goddamn story
if hamlet swapped places with othello he wouldnât be duped by any of iagoâs shit, heâd sit down & have a good think & actually examine the facts before taking action. meanwhile in denmark, othello would have killed claudius before act 2 could even start. but instead nope, theyâre both in situations where their greatest strengths are totally useless and now weâve got all these bodies to bury.
The tropes are hungry and the hero is in the wrong goddamn story.
I love this post.
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I believe the artist is Katy Doughty. Â
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Goals.
Patriots
My students quickly figured out that our 2017 knee jerk definition of a patriot is way different than a 1770 patriot. But we had a good discussion about how being on the right side of history often means being on the wrong side of public opinion.Â
This is a statue to commemorate a brave little dog by the name of Leo, who died while saving a little 10-year-old girl who was being attacked by a much larger dog. Leo witnessed the little girl being pinned to the ground by the dog who began biting her. Leo immediately ran to the rescue and began biting the bigger dog on the leg who turned on Leo and let the girl go free. Sadly, Leo was killed.
The statue is located in a park in Serbia so he can watch over all of the children playing. There is a quote underneath that reads âTo all small heroes with big hearts,â which is a true testament to the courageous nature of little Leo.
I want a story about a king whose son is prophesied to kill him so the king is like âwhatever what am I supposed to do, kill my own kid wtf is wrong with youâ so he just raises him as normal, doesnât even tell him about the prophecy, and instead of some convoluted twist of events that leads to the kingâs murder the son grows up and when the king is very old and dying and in excruciating pain the kid is just like alright I'mma put him out of his misery.
The kingâs son becomes the new king, and is prophesied to defeat evil and bring an age of prosperity. His generals and knights all crack their knuckles but he pretty much ignores them and focuses on strengthening the infrastructure of his kingdom. Forty years later he is old and sick but still hearing his subjectsâ grievances, and a generalâs like âhow will you defeat the prophesied evil now? Youâre old and weak.â Another visitor, a teenager fresh out of the kingdomâs public education system, looks at the general like he is an ignoramus. The king eradicated poverty, housed the homeless, taught the ignorant, ended class exploitation by abolishing the nobility and imprisoning the corrupt, and established a highly respected guild of doctors that recently figured out how to cure the plague. There are no brigands because there is enough wealth for everyone to live comfortably; hiding in the woods and taking trinkets from people simply doesnât make any sense for anyone but the desperate, and the people are not desperate. Evil is a weed, explains the teenager. It grows in cracked roads and crumbling houses and forgotten corners, rooted in indifference and watered by suffering. But the king demands that broken things be mended and suffering people be made well.
No evil lives in this kingdom, says the teenager. It starved to death before I was born.
Jimmy Fallon On The School Of âSNLâ And His Tendency To Smile 'Too Muchâ
Itâs not uncommon for comics to be influenced by depression, anxiety or troubled childhoods, but Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon insists his comedy doesnât come from a dark place.
âI was always a happy kid,â Fallon says. âI remember there was a report card from kindergarten and the comment from the teacher was, 'Jimmy smiles too much,â which was very interesting. ⊠I think I would smile even when I was getting yelled at.â
That tendency to smile has stayed with Fallon. On The Tonight Show, his brand of humor is decidedly upbeat â even during tragic news cycles.
âWe follow the news on most channels ⊠and then itâs our job to make fun of whatever we can make fun of, and just make you laugh as you doze off,â Fallon says. âThatâs kind of my goal: My goal is that you have sweet dreams.â
Fallon also has a new childrenâs book, Everything is MAMA, which is a follow-up to his 2015 book, Your Babyâs First Word Will Be DADA. The father of two says he loves being a dad and especially enjoys reading with his young daughters: âItâs really interesting. Iâm literally watching someone learn how to read in front of me.â
Photo: Theo Wargo/Getty Images for NBC
PS. In case you missed it, Terry was on the Tonight Show this summer.Â
I have had at least two students who always made me think of Jimmy Fallon. And, it's because of their "smiles too much" and insatiable desire to make others laugh, regardless of the situation. And I have always counseled these kids to follow their path and seek out a career in comedy.