Diary of a Journey to Earth from Pluto

Hi, So this is mainly a fandom blog. Main fandoms include; Stargate, Star Trek, MARVEL, Doctor Who and other stuff! 

[babyanimalgifs]

Omg I need you

[jeanqrey]

Reckless, aggressive, and undisciplined.

[tastefullyoffensive]

Babylonian era problems. (photo via tbc34)

[dama3-deactivated20210619]

old school hate mail

[jakovu]

Imagine how pissed you have to be to engrave a rock

[thesparkofrevolution]

Ok but there was this guy called Ea-nasir who was a total crook and would actually cheat people ought of good copper and sell them shit instead. The amount of correspondences complaining to and about this guy are HILARIOUS.

[skeletonrex-deactivated20151101]

Are you telling me we know about a specific guy who lived 5000 years ago, by name, because he was a huge asshole

[thesparkofrevolution]

More like 4000 years ago but yes. Ea-nasir and his dodgy business deals.

[prokopetz]

And we haven’t even touched on the true hilarity of the situation yet. Consider two additional facts:

He wasn’t just into copper trading. There are letters complaining about Ea-nasir’s business practices with respect to everything from kitchenwares to real estate speculation to second-hand clothing. The guy was everywhere.

The majority of the surviving correspondences regarding Ea-nasir were recovered from one particular room in a building that is believed to have been Ea-nasir’s own house.

Like, these are clay tablets. They’re bulky, fragile, and difficult to store. They typically weren’t kept long-term unless they contained financial records or other vital information (which is why we have huge reams of financial data about ancient Babylon in spite of how little we know about the actual culture: most of the surviving tablets are commercial inventories, bills of sale, etc.).

But this guy, this Ea-nasir, he kept all of his angry letters - hundreds of them - and meticulously filed and preserved them in a dedicated room in his house. What kind of guy does that?

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[sumerianlanguage]

every time this post comes across my dash (which is often) it has even more cool info attached to it

[cricketcat9]

Well, Ea-nasir! SHAME ON YOU!!!

[mayastormborn]

@xcvntnvggetx HOLY SHIT I just had a thought Ea-Nasir is basically Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler

[dwnsy]

galaxy sweets

[lolawashere-deactivated20240904]

WOW!!!!

[sweetsigyn]

@samantha-shakespeare @svenyves @yatzuaka @meleedamage @allison221b @whyndancer @mayphenix @siochan-leat @lettalady @darkthestars @freudensteins-monster

Let me know if anyone wants on or off my space tags

[siochan-leat]

SPACE TREETS!!!!! 😍😍😍😍😍😍

[cedarwaxwingsandberries]

Been working on some tiny portraits. 

[sansarya]

“Now there’s absolutely nothing for you to worry about.” ”Tell me, has anyone ever believed you when you told them not to worry?”

[itsfiveoh]

[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. 

[systlin]

I also want to point out that this is a tradition that has been handed down, practitioner to practitioner, master to apprentice, for fifty thousand years. 

It’s not really written down, except of course in more modern times. But for the vast, vast majority of that time, this knowledge has been handed down orally, from one leatherworker to another, from one generation to the next, in an unbroken line reaching clear back to the fucking stone age. 

And when a new technology arose, of course the new generation would experiment with it as is human nature, only to determine that it wasn’t as good, and go back to the same old tool that had been serving faithfully for tens of thousands of years. 

Fuck. I’ve got one that I made from a deer rib bone that I got from a deer a hunter friend of mine killed. (I got some venison too and it was delicious.) I’m using it to waterproof leather to make myself some moccasins to wear while hiking (which are another example of an old, old thing still being the best thing).

And I’m holding it now, reading this article and watching this documentary, and it’s kind of humbling and exhilarating all at once, to have something in your hand that so viscerally ties you to a thousand generations of your ancestors, people you’ll never know the names of but lived and worked and died using this same fucking thing. 

I just. 

Incredible. 

[thehornedwitch-deactivated20211]

@simonalkenmayer look, useful old thing, a useful old thing!

[did-you-know]

There’s an alarm clock app called ‘I Can’t Wake Up’ that makes you solve memory, word, or number puzzles to turn it off, and you can make it as evil as you like by choosing the tasks and levels of difficulty you want to wake up to. The alarm music quiets if you’re solving- but once you stop, it gets loud again. You can also set it to lock you out of your phone, and you can even have it make you get up and scan the barcode of a specific product in your house to turn it off. Source

UPDATE: 

Immediately after writing this yesterday, I downloaded the app, set it up, and used it this morning- and it’s kind of amazing. Still made a conscious decision to snooze once, but I was woke af. Contemplating using that barcode feature… maybe pre-set it to scan my shampoo or something and get my ass straight in the shower

[matialonsorphoto]

2014 in stars

by matialonsor

[nemhaine42]

i’m starting to hate the frequency of pinterest as a google result more than i hate pinterest itself. listen, google, googly-mate, pinterest isn’t a fuckign source. I want the sites those pictures came from because those are the ones with information such as dates, which is the entire point of the thing I am googling.   

[camwyn]

Damn right. How the hell am I supposed to find tutorials on how to do wire work or bead weaving when the first howevermany pages of Google results are some idiot’s cluster of Pinterest collections of those tutorials?

[ceruleancynic]

SOMEONE ELSE HATES PINTEREST AS MUCH AS I DO

not only does it fuck with sourcing images, but you can’t even SEE the images unless you have a ~pinterest account~ which I have zero interest in acquiring; it does this so completely adorable coy little thing where it shows you half the page and then when you scroll down it goes *complicated tiresome flower emoji face* JOIN PINTEREST 2 SEE MORE! *complicated tiresome flower emoji face* and my systolic reading spikes. 

[jumpingjacktrash]

and google lists individual pinterest pages as separate results, so if a picture is popular, there can be HUNDREDS of pinterest listings before you find anything you could possibly trace back to a source.

listen, all my art bros who are mad about people not sourcing art, i dig that, i agree that sourcing is important, but maybe stop saying reverse image search is easy or ‘30 seconds’ or whatever. sometimes it’s just straight up impossible because fucking pinterest ruins everything.

[gostaks]

SUPER EASY WAY TO AVOID PINTEREST: type your query and then -pinterest

7 of the first 12 results are from pinterest

zero items from pinterest not a single one I’m free

[lakritzwolf]

Reblog to save a set of nerves.

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[jumpingpuddles]

Stargate Atlantis: The Lost Boys

[theprincessleia-deactivated2021]

Princess Leia + sass

[awwww-cute]

Kitty is bamboozled by magic trick (Source: http://ift.tt/1rbmJKZ)

[chop-stuff]

My headcanon is that Korra would be a little shit and tell her parents to deal with it instead of apologizing. That is basically what I’m doodling now, if you want context for this random doodle :’D

[bethanyactually]

straygodess:

brooklyn nine nine is really good to us when it comes to friendships, because every character has such unique friendships and bonding scenes with the others but i dont think we talk about rosas and charles friendship enough because damn:

- we start the show with charles being heads over heels for rosa, who is clearly not interested

- rosa tells him, very clearly, that she thinks hes sweet and really likes him as a friend but shes not interested in dating him

- it takes charles some time to get over her, but he does!! apologizes for being weird and making her uncomfortable!! and they go on having an incredibly strong and close friendship!!

- at one point charles even takes a bullet for her, which could have led to the whole “just give him a chance” trope but nope b99 doesnt do that bs, they talk it out and they never end up together

- they are so close that charles even helps rosas bf to plan for her birthday because he knows her so well!! she loves it!!

- rosa asks charles to be her bridesmaid because they are so close and she knows charles would love that!! he does!!

- charles plans her the best bachelorette party and rosa absolutely loves it!! she gets so excited she literally lifts charles up from the floor??

- sometimes between working cases they go to have foot massages together?? that was so cute??

- charles helps rosa text her boyfriend?? because shes not that great at pickup lines?? how cute??

- the writers could have easily opted to go with the “less attractive man falls for his way hotter coworker whos not interested but ends up giving him a chance because he is nice (and wont stop pestering her)” trope but instead we got this beautiful beautiful brotp

(THIS. IS. THE. BEST. via @smolsamberg​)

thank you nine nine