Fandom & random things

[silver-salt-knife]

(…) We were almost to the New Hampshire state line and I'd told Dean a little about what had happened, because I was so frustrated and ashamed that I had to talk to someone. Sammy was asleep the whole time. Then Dean asked me one of those killer questions that little kids come up with. "Dad," he says. "Won't the manitou go after other people now?" That's a hard thing to face. Not that he asked the question, or that he was right, but that he had a better sense of right and wrong than I did. (…) (…) He was prowling around the edges of a Cub Scout campout in a place called Bradbury Moutain. God knows what would have happened if Dean hadn't spoken up. (…)

John Winchester's journal, 1987, July 13

Dean was eight.

He was eight and he was already his family emotional support and moral compass.

[momento-more]

@elodieunderglass - This made me think of you.

[elodieunderglass]

Thank you so much for this

[cronchy-baguette]

pink goes good (well) with green

[ryebreadgf]

my yearly struggle

[kosmogrl]

I will get there

[aropride]

[kosmogrl]

[draconym]

I think it sucks that you have to go to so many different kinds of doctor to take care of yourself. It's the 21st century. I should be able to go to a single office where they scan me with a big xerox machine and tell me what I'm allergic to and why my tummy hurts and if I have any cancer or cavities or if my glasses prescription has changed. And then I should get a sticker.

[sugarfrostedapples]

animals in armour

[viralfrog]

[friendofelphie]

It’s hard to watch other people live out your dreams

[ruinedchildhood]

[willgrahamscock]

“I would die for my kids” your children want an apology

[willgrahamscock]

your made up scenario isn’t real (shocker) and makes no difference when your kids are starving for your acknowledgment of the pain you caused them. you’re only performing the role of a good parent, without having to actually do any heavy lifting

[dragon-in-a-fez]

"I would die for my kids" okay cool. would you improve yourself for them?

[minotaurapologist]

Interesting….

[minotaurapologist]

This can’t be…

[bmure]

couldn’t stop thinking about them…

[the-real-seebs]

Ennigaldi-Nanna's museum - Wikipedia

There is so much amazing about this. It's an archeological museum in 530 BCE or so. Also, the exhibits are labeled in three languages. Also they apparently had replicas on display for some things, much like modern museums do.

Humanity has not really changed that much, and some of the ways in which we haven't changed are really good.

[starsong-dragonheart]

Y'all, I am BEGGING you to click through and read that short Wikipedia article. It's the earliest museum we've ever discovered. It was part of the state of Ur.

This is the Ur-Museum!

[vigilantsycamore]

Some of the artifacts in this museum date as far back as the 20th century BCE, which would have been as long ago to Ennigaldi-Nanna as the fall of the western roman empire is for us

[a-s-fischer]

So Tom Lehrer was Jewish, and you will see a lot of Jews, and people who know about Judaism saying, may his memory be a blessing, or z''l, which is short for the same phrase in Hebrew. and, in fact, I said may his memory be a blessing on another post. but there is another saying that is often said by Jews to mark a death, which I feel is much more appropriate. That phrase is Baruch dayan ha'emet, meaning "Blessed is the true judge." Baruch dayan ha'emet is often abbreviated as BDE.

I can't think of anyone who would more appreciate the double meaning in BDE than Tom Lehrer, or anyone who embodied the other meaning of BDE more.

[10april]

[vero-niche]

[kurganfilledwithbearbones]

Double child prodigy whose spy work was so secretive his cover story was that he was working in the nuclear program and quit music to teach undergraduate math classes on the strength of a bachelor's degree from Harvard and refused interviews for the last 20 years of his life including when he without explanation put all of his music in the public domain is such a delightful mid-century American character. Plus he invented the Jello shot. They just don't make them like that anymore. They probably can't.

[hopepunk-humanity]

[handsofred]

Okay, I was not expecting this at all and I have to admit, I have not listened to any music from Chappell Roan before, my fault and that is going to change...but this is hauntingly beautiful and it's beautiful to see so many people come together to do something for not only themselves, but for this video too.

This needs to be shared everywhere really, it really is beautiful.

[coreomajoris]

I know this song well but hadn't listened to it in a few months, and this version just made me cry and made me think about various queer regrets and frustrations I had during the era I grew up in. It means so much to see people come together to sing this.