Big Ball of Stuff

|| A Plethora of Interests || // College Student | Video Games | Books | Music | Art | Chunky Sweaters | And Too Many TV Shows to Count \\

[weirdlandtv]

Underwater sculpture, CHRIST OF THE ABYSS. Located at San Fruttuoso, Liguria, Italy. By Guido Galletti.

[pr1nceshawn]

Sholom Ber Solomon & His Daughter Zoe.

[samcahntent]

This is goddamn adorable

[darkshrimpemotions]

Just imagine being Zoe one day when someone asks to see her baby pictures.

[fromchaostocosmos]

based on his name I’m pretty confident in saying that he is Jewish which means that odds are at 99% this pics will be a slideshow at her Bat-Mitzvah

[buzzkillbyrne]

Hozier at Electric Picnic / Bigfoot sighting

[emperor-ing-deactivated20191108]

the idea of a clutch purse is nightmarish to me. the whole point of bags was so we could escape the torment of holding things. and now u gotta hold a bag.

[approximately12screamingcats]

see that react?

that’s our dm

[zonerbonerz]

My players: Thank you so much for DMing! This campaign seems super cool so far :)

Me, hiding the fact that I started this adventure solely to make the final boss an evil fae chef named Guy Fairy who runs a cooking empire called Flavortowne: ya no problem

[secondclassvines]

“Slippers tries”

[vonbaghager]

A faerie introduces himself. Then, holding out a hand, asks, “And your name, please?”

And, like a fool, you give it to him.

[monstersdownthepath]

I got asked for clarification on this (but can’t reblog that particular post cuz on mobile), which I’m more than happy to provide.

In this post, a faerie is asking for ‘your’ name. The way he is wording it, however, and the accompanying beckoning motion, makes it seem as though he is asking for you to physically hand your name over. Which, because of how some faeries operate, he is.

In this instance, saying your name aloud to the fae would be literally giving your name over to him, the exact consequences of which are left up to the imagination–usually, a fae even knowing your name gives it some measure of power over you, but giving something your name would likely let it completely take over your life.

In this instance, the wording you want to use is something like “I will not give you my name, but I will tell you that it’s [name].” Alternately, you can just lie to him.

[ayellowbirds]

Might i suggest the less direct yet still name-preserving “you may call me…”? It dodges the request while still giving an answer of a name, which does not even have to be yours, but any name you feel like telling the fae they can use to refer to you. I would recommend “Ainsel”.

[linkedsoul]

The first time he asks for your name is the first time you meet him. He appears as you walk by the færie ring, that you have not entered because your grandmother has repeated so many times not to do so, and, curious of your presence, watches as you jump when you notice him.

You recognize him instantly. It is the Fæ whose influence your village is under, the one the elders have told you and your friends to be wary about, for the people who have been seen walking away with him have never come back.

You don’t know what he does to them. The villagers have never dared to confront him about it, never dare to address to him at all. He is not evil: he sometimes speaks blessings upon the cattle, talks the horses to calm after a storm, ensures a good harvest for the farmers, makes the flower bloom in spring even when the weather is still too cold. He is, simply, a Fæ, whose ways humans cannot understand.

Keep reading

[paxamericana]

[f1rstperson]

Glad to see my lifelong disinterest in golf is paying off

[princekarkat]

let me tell you about golf

i grew up in a little desert valley called Tucson, Arizona, where it only rains 2 inches a year on average. the majority of the city’s water is pumped from an underground aquifer, which took millions of years to fill. one of the biggest conservation efforts in our city was for water, naturally, and i spent a lot of time learning about low flow toilets and 5 minute showers. i learned that filling your sink basin and washing your dishes in that water is less costly than running the tap. i learned that it only takes 2 days without water on the desert for someone to die

the city was sinking as the aquifer drained. neighborhoods fell into flood zones that didnt exist 10 years ago

there’s a road called Golf Links in the city and it is lined with golf courses. miles of green grass where grass doesn’t grow, in a valley where it doesn’t rain. why? because the rich white retirees who moved there to stop the aching in their joints decided they should also get to play golf. meanwhile our public schools taught small children like me that taking long showers would kill the world

let the golf industry burn

[ralfmaximus]

There are 15,500+ golf courses in the United States alone. 

Each one consumes ~312,000 gallons of water per day.

That consumption is equivalent to 55+ million humans per day in the United States… roughly 1/6 the entire population.

We simply cannot sustain this frivolity, especially for something 99% of us will never use.

[zooophagous]

Destroy golf courses and plant wild grasses and butterfly bushes in their place.

[vargonautic]

Sacrifice

Tarot card commission for @andrastini! Thank you so much for commissioning me, it was lovely working with you <3

[toodrunktofindaurl]

can’t wait to see them suck at their new job

[profeminist]

“National Geographic called me and asked me to write the feminist facts about how The Lion King gets lion pride dynamics all wrong. I happily complied. Lions are matrilineal!! 

When I contacted Craig Packer, one of the world’s leading lion researchers, to talk  about this story he was IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE. He Skyped me almost instantly from a camp in Kenya and said he’s been waiting for someone to ask him this question since the original film came out.

Anyway, if The Lion King were real, Nala would be the star, Sarabi would be holding her up saying everything the light touches is our kingdom, Simba would have left and never come back, and when Nala got old enough Sarabi would have carved out a territory for her to rule.”

- Erin Biba‏ 

In real life, Simba’s mom would be running the pride

[profeminist]

UPDATE:

“Reasons men gave for lecturing me on lion pride social structure and telling me one of the world’s leading lion researchers is wrong (I am not kidding these are real): -Watched The Lion King DVD extras -Read a textbook 25 years ago -Has been to the zoo -Everyone just knows

If you ever wondered what it’s like to be a woman that communicates science, this is what it’s like. Any expertise you or your sources may have gained over decades of hard work are null and void because someone watched a DVD extra 25 years ago.”

-  Erin Biba 

[elodieunderglass]

Hey that last one is a Mood

[pettycentral]

[iran-contrarian]

[rolodextra]

i hate this but fun fact this post cycles through colors on mobile but not on desktop because this website is completely garbage

[o-kurwa]

[voidscreamingformillenials]

There was a massive shift in how our culture understood morality when, after World War II, the general public realized “just following orders” was not an excuse for crimes against humanity. Now we need another moral shift in which we decide, as a culture, that “for the benefit of the stockholders” is not an excuse for anything.

[speciesofleastconcern]

We kind of need to relearn the “just following orders” part again

[yasmin-khan]

eleven and max in the season three trailer:)