Oasis of Cool

Touch the fucking frog

[kuvaton]

[sorryfortheraybans-deactivated2]

*thinks about gandalf the grey*

[sorryfortheraybans-deactivated2]

*thinks about gandalf the white*

[sorryfortheraybans-deactivated2]

*thinks about monty python and the holy grail’s black knight*

[roxilalonde-deactivated20251105]

like! people always reference pride & prejudice as the archetypal “normal girl falls for mysterious brooding antihero” story but they overlook the part where lizzy drags darcy so fucking hard he leaves town and then apologizes for talking to her the next time they meet even though they’re at his literal house

[avvocarlo]

three guesses what these are for

[crap-userrname16]

[khazad-dumbs]

i’m pretty sure the real reason hobbits rarely leave the shire is because they only ever see the other races from that horrific lower angle you catch when yr phone cam comes on

[robins-deactivated20191226]

[captcreate-deactivated20251226]

Do it.

[pyreo]

You grow up and you realise A Bug’s Life was the revolutionary Leftist masterpiece of our childhoods

[pyreo]

I’m not even slightly kidding

Ants are the workforce doing the labour needed to survive, and they have to do it twice over to provide for both themselves and for a group of parasites who do nothing but consume the labour of others

The ants work themselves near to death trying to stay afloat

The grasshoppers don’t even need any food. They have tons to spare but still insist on taking the food the ants worked for because they ‘deserve’ it, despite actually contributing nothing of value. The only reason this works is by threatening ants with force and degrading them so they feel weak and worthless, and insisting that the grasshoppers deserve a cut for some vague service they claim to provide to society

In reality Hopper is desperate to stop the ants from thinking for themselves, keeping them ignorant of the fact that he has subjugated ants through threats of power while the ants actually overpower the grasshoppers through sheer numbers.

And should the ants ever realise that the grasshoppers take from them while providing nothing and that revolution is possible, the class system they’ve installed will be finished.

tl;dr feed the 1% to birds

[wodneswynn-deactivated-deactiva]

Favorite Things:

One of the leaders of the Grand Heathen Army that fucked up the Anglo-Saxon heptarchy was a dude called Ivar the Boneless.  There’s all kinds of theories about why he was called that–he was double-jointed, had erectile dysfunction, had osteoporosis, so on and so forth.  Some have even postulated that he was given the Latin title “Exosus,” and this was misrendered as “ex os,” literally, “Without Bones.”  But of course nobody knows for sure and we probably never will.

The greatest and best explanation, of course, comes from Ragnar Lodbrok’s Saga, where it just straight-up says, “Ragnar’s son Ivar was called ‘the Boneless’ because he had no bones.”

[haarute]

[little-lackadaisical]

This is by far the best piece of Star Wars literature ever made

[catscenter]

[shiftythrifting]

[nevver]

[enbundad]

Found on FB

*******PLEASE DON’T LEAVE DISHES OF SUGAR WATER OUT*******

Post from a beekeeper

Oh dear - I keep hearing tips about leaving bowls of sugar water out to “help” keep bees hydrated. Please, please, please DON’T. Bees are really good at finding what they need and there are so many reasons not to do this. The MOST IMPORTANT reason is that if you within 3 miles of some hives (and most people are) if the bees find the sugar water they’re going to think its a great source of easy food, go back to the hive and recruit more bees to come and collect the “food” and before you know it you’ll have 1.000s and 1,000s of bees descending on your garden/balcony - a very scary sight. This is known as robbing and as beekeeper I’ve seen this a couple of times - once started it is impossible to stop until the source of the “food” has gone.

Other reasons not to do this are - sugar water is essentially “junk” food for bees. Its full of carbohydrates which will give them an energy burst, but has no other nutritional value unlike the food they should be having i.e. nectar.

Honey bees will store this as honey in the hive. The beekeeper unknowingly may end up extracting and selling this as honey later in the year. You don’t want to buy sugar syrup and the beekeeper doesn’t want to be prosecuted for selling a product which isn’t honey.

This is also an easy food source for social wasps.

By all means give a tired bee a drink of sugar water on a spoon, but please don’t leave it out for them.

If you want to help bees there are lots of ways you can do this from planting nectar rich plants or leaving out bowls of water with gravel/small pebbles in so they can access the water which they would be very grateful for.

PLEASE SHARE THIS AND TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS

Edited - It appears that a lot of the advice I have seen about leaving out sugar water stems from advice from DAVID ATTENBOROUGH. He was absolutely right in his advice, but his advice was if you see a struggling bee to put some sugar water where the bee could reach it - not to leave out bowls of sugar water. Unfortunately it seems like, as usual, media publications have misquoted advice and not done their research

Also please don’t feed bees honey. Surprisingly they don’t eat honey - they eat nectar. Honey bees make honey for their own use during the winter months, but bumble bees collect and use nectar as and when they need it.

Feeding honey can spread disease between bees.

[itd-be-gay-if-you-didnt]

Reblog for a tired bee

[luxlightly]

I find it ridiculous that we still use “Horsepower” as a unit of measurement in this day and age. It means nothing to me. I have no idea of how much power a horse has and I’m frankly terrified to even contemplate it. 

[robbstark-archive-deactivated20]

just once i wanna put the blade of my sword under a pretty boy’s chin and tilt their head up so i can see both fear and arousal in their eyes is that too much to ask

[carlottagiudicellivevo]

[dollargenesis]

this is horrifying because op just assumes that this is relatable enough for everyone and then person 2 somehow has a kermit meme to match that