Hope is the thing with feathers

So instead of getting to Heaven, at last - I'm going, all along. // Insta: northxnorth_ // Michael, they/them

[relucant]

pretty sure at this point i’ve seen gifs and meta about every single heart-melting moment between crowley and aziraphale but the complete and utter lack of fear or anger when crowley grabs him and shoves him against the wall just hits me like a fuckin’ brick every time

[deputychairman]

Aziraphale knows Constructing Elaborate Rituals when he sees them, and as he’s the first person to be too scared to do anything about his feelings, he appreciates them for what they are

[wholesome-revelry]

#he’s just like #‘ah how nice #i’ve annoyed him just the right amount and now we can touch #i’ll just relax and enjoy being pushed up against this wall #by the person i love most in all the universe’ (via @deputychairman)

[mellebellemethod]

It happens this year folks…

[gattomeows]

[super-metroid]

[mjalti]

[fade-intothe-veil]

Me, the bitch from the 1300s

[iwonderifthatisart]

[anarchapella]

So, with the death of another BLM activist, I think it’s really important to stop photographing and videotaping people doing activism. Like I know it feels really good for morale to watch a comrade snatch a confederate flag or punch a Nazi, but this documentation actively puts these people in danger, especially if they aren’t masked up and their names are everywhere.

there at multiple BLM (and other) activists that had to go into hiding after Cville because videos of them have gone viral, to the point of even their families not being able to get in contact with them. Even if you’re on the same side and you’re doing it for the “good guys”, just don’t. Don’t video faces, don’t ask for names at actions, don’t say names out loud to your friends. You don’t know who is listening.

Our morale building propaganda, is their evidence. These videos are the reason charges are brought against folks in Cville and these videos are why people are getting killed. Learn to use the word “unidentified” when talking about someone doing anything action related in any sort of media. I know a lot of us want to give credit where credit is due, but in these cases it puts these brave people at risk.

[psy-rituality]

A couple of bees napping in a flower.

The bees sleep 5 - 6 hours in 24 hours period and many bees hold each other’s legs as they sleep. Some native bees sleep in the flowers. Photo: Joe Neely

[nakedinasnowsuit]

WHAT

[kleeberkley]

[hypokeimena]

#this man just woke up and has forgotten what class he’s teaching

[svrssnp]

Michael Sheen being a literal angel

[pdlcomics]

Mysteries

[fka-feminish]

[striderepiphany]

[wholesome-revelry]

listen, it is all fun and good to imagine a demon being sinuous and seductive and even vaguely cool

but please imagine: one time aziraphale took off his coat and rolled up his sleeves, and just catching that glimpse of wrist and forearm nearly gave crowley the fucking vapors like a heroine in a gothic novel

[wholesome-revelry]

hastur: so anyway, that’s our deeply sinister plan for tempting the humans off the path of righteous to a lifetime of lust. crowley?

crowley: *involuntarily flashing back to one humid evening 20 years ago when aziraphale absent-mindedly loosened his bowtie and crowley got the tiniest peek of the soft dip of aziraphale’s throat, which haunts him to this day* 

beezlebub: …crowley?

crowley: uh,,,TRAFFIC

[bananapanncakes]

disney songs on repeat.

[omghotmemes]

This one’s for those who haven’t seen it before!

[true-king-of-monsters]

MOTHER FUCKER!

[kitty]

[largishcat]

[swqadie]

Every one: You have to make time for yourself! me: *stays up until 1 am every night crying* Me time 😍💆

[kermit-the-frogster-deactivated]

[oksothatsafirmno]

consider

[unpretty]

god i’m not even through one episode of paranormal home inspectors and it rules, this lady thought she was being haunted by the wails of the restless dead but she was just listening to raccoons fuck in her attic

[unpretty]

psychic: these are hieroglyphics… the spirits are trying to communicate…

home inspector: you put new paint over old paint and now the old paint is bleeding through, that’s why you’re not supposed to do that

[unpretty]

homeowner: my daughter’s room is always cold… cold like the dead…

home inspector: you put furniture on top of her heating vent

[unpretty]

business owner: i got locked in the bathroom even though the door has no lock

home inspector: it has a lock. the lock is right there. on the knob.

[nevercure]

Fun fact a scientist who is very not spiritual or superstitious began seeing corner eye hallucinations and feeling intense fear and a presence in his lab around the same time that everyone else in the building was suddenly reporting it haunted.

Determined, he found that the “hauntings” stopped when the industrial air conditioning unit, that had just recently been installed, was turned off. We’ve found that measurable micro vibrations in a structure cause immense fear, and a feeling of a presence and corner eye hallucinations – just like when you watch a scary movie alone at night and you see things move in the corner of your eye or are afraid to go in the cellar because you’re convinced someone’s in there.

Why?

Because many members of our species built homes in and around cliffs and caves for tens of thousands of years. And it’s likely that these certain shaky vibrations give us intense fear and a need to move far away because that would have saved our lives if the cave were collapsing or unstable.

You’ll notice it’s always falling apart, dilapidated homes that are “haunted” - or very very old restored homes. These places might just be slightly structurally unsound. That’s all.

[rosetintmyworld84]

That’s infrasound, sounds that are below 20hz, or the limit of normal human hearing. Things that produce infrasound in nature include severe weather, earthquakes, volcanoes, tigers, alligators, rhinoceros; also known as things that can kill people. We developed an evolutionary sense of dread when our brains perceive sounds we cannot hear. The vibrations from infrasound can also vibrate the eye causing visual hallucinations. 

You know what also causes infrasound? A LOT of machines, especially large industrial ones. There’s a reason haunted house stories started popping up in post industrialization. That scientist was Vic Tandy and he wrote about it in a the paper Ghosts in the Machines

“Vic Tandy, experimental officer and part-time lecturer in the school of international studies and law at Coventry University, along with Dr. Tony Lawrence of the University’s psychology department, wrote in 1998 a paper called “Ghosts in the Machine” for the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research. Their research suggested that an infrasonic signal of 19 Hz might be responsible for some ghost sightings. Tandy was working late one night alone in a supposedly haunted laboratory at Warwick, when he felt very anxious and could detect a grey blob out of the corner of his eye. When Tandy turned to face the grey blob, there was nothing.The following day, Tandy was working on his fencing foil, with the handle held in a vice. Although there was nothing touching it, the blade started to vibrate wildly. Further investigation led Tandy to discover that the extractor fan in the lab was emitting a frequency of 18.98 Hz, very close to the resonant frequency of the eye given as 18 Hz by NASA. This, Tandy conjectured, was why he had seen a ghostly figure—it was, he believed, an optical illusion caused by his eyeballs resonating. The room was exactly half a wavelength in length, and the desk was in the centre, thus causing a standing wave which caused the vibration of the foil.“

[belleevangeline]

People on production of the original Little Mermaid were initially insistent that she be blonde because that’s just what mermaids were supposed to look like.

Funny how things change.