From Hogwarts to Wonderland

[officialspec]

what's the tour montarvaprpawrqr or whatever french shit that word is?

ok im gonna infodump about fucked up buildings for a second so this is probably gonna be long

tour montparnasse in paris is my least favourite building in the entire world and i am slightly obsessed with it just bc of how much it sucks. its an office building and if you saw it from up close you might think ok this is a building. like its a little bland but theres nothing special about it

but then you zoom out a little 

wow!!! what the fuck. that is so ugly. it literally looks like someone jammed a tv remote into the earth and i hate it so much. also this is paris so this monstrosity is within BLOCKS of the eiffel tower and just completely destroys the view. its so evil that there is now an 8 storey building limit in the area to prevent anything this criminal from happening again

some other shitty buildings i like include marina city chicago aka the corn cob buildings, which were designed with the idea in mind of a building with no right angles since ‘right angles do not appear in nature’

and rainier tower in seattle, which honestly just makes me anxious

but my FAVOURITE shitty building is part of the sydney university of technology (uts) campus

not just because it looks like someone made a building out of wet cardboard, but because the original design sketch is a work of art and it makes me cry laughing every time i look at it

behold 

fucking impeccable. thank u for listening

[cowardlylearningtobebrave]

so, just in case anyone was wondering what “the view from eiffel tower” op was talking about looks like...

[freshstrawberryjam]

[whenispeakicrossmyfingers]

This is the only vibe ✨

[arroz-con-yolo]

I’ve probably watched this 10 times in a row and that whipcrack sends me every time

[tiktoks-repost]

[whitepeopletwitter]

[damianwaynerocks]

ok but if bruce wayne somehow came upon zuko fresh out of banishment he would lose his mind.

black hair? check. bad parent(s)? check. trauma? double check.

bruce: how’d you get your scar?

zuko: my dad got mad at me for saying that killing people is wrong so he lit my face on fire and banished me.

bruce, vibrating with excitement, already pulling adoption papers from his utilility: that’s terrible. how do you feel about capes.

[explorerrowan]

Zuko: Do you mind if I wear this blue demon mask?

Bruce: *sniff, tear in his eye* Not at all.

[kitt-the-werefox]

*Zuko fighting the Joker*

J: "wan na kno w h ow i go t thes e sc ar s"

Z: *rips off mask* i don't give a fuck

[fefeman]

I’m still stuck at the “batman has adoption papers in his utility belt”.

“Quick, it’s time to use the Bat-adoption papers!”

[silverscreenx]

Bat-option papers

[phantoms-lair]

Okay, but you’re missing the best part of this.

Alfred and Iroh complimenting each other on tea while they discuss their overly dramatic children.

[damianwaynerocks]

iroh: once, i told zuko that he needs to work on his inter turmoil. he screamed at me that he had no such inner turmoil, and then proceeded to go to a cliff during a thunderstorm to scream at God to strike him with lightning

alfred: master bruce and i have that interaction at least three times per week.

[coffeebuddha]

@absentlyabbie​

[animate-mush]

I see your "Alfred and Iroh as tea bros" and raise you "Alfred and Iroh as tea rivals"

Consider

Iroh: you too must learn patience. Boiling the water ruins the delicate flavor of the white jade

Alfred: oh I'm dreadfully sorry - for some reason I expected this tea to have TEA in it

(later)

Alfred: *aggressively laying out full tea service with milk, lemon, sugar, and, just to drive his point in, jam*

Iroh: *dying inside*

[damianwaynerocks]

excellent addition

[whetstonefires]

hey bruce spent a lot of his bat-study abroad in the far east and has kind of a weeb weapon collection so proposal, what if Bruce appreciates Iroh’s tea

while Zuko is enthusiastic about cream and sugar

further fueling their dad-figures’ passive-aggressive rivalry?

[princesscolumbia]

You had me at Zuko vs. Joker, I was crying by the Eastern vs. Western tea service

[supreme-leader-stoat]

Wait a minute. Batman and Zuko have the same arch-nemesis.

Mark Hamill

[library-seraph]

Saw the last comment and my brain would not rest until it happened

[darrenpillowscriss]

[lichrelly]

this post has everything

[jumpingjacktrash]

this was an enjoyable ride. i liked the scenery very much. smooth suspension, nice height, several fascinating loops. 10/10 would go again.

[poochcrew]

Amarillo lizard looks like a tiny dragon

[thebroccoligoblin]

IS IT REAL????? 🥺

[thebroccoligoblin]

SOO REAL & SO ADORABLE !!!

[babyfoxcollectionthings]

[pandariousgooch]

i never realized cuneiform was made with the corner of a cuboid tool, i thought the wedge shapes were carved such that you would press straight down with the tool at a 90° angle to the clay

[kitchenwitchupinthisbitch]

Wow! My mind is super into this new information

[ferret-on-pancakes]

[appraisedtiktoks]

[dajo42]

[goldensunset]

some of y’all still can’t recognize the differences between platonic, romantic, sexual, mentor-student, and familial relationships, both in fiction and reality, and it really shows

[goldensunset]

some of y’all still think there’s only one type of love and it really shows

[writersblockandapotoftea]

Didn’t the greeks have five words for love? 

[scottishhellhound]

They actually had 7

Eros: sexual love

Philia: deep friendship

Storge: love between parents and children

Ludus: playful love

Agape: love for everyone/selfless love

Pragma: longstanding love

Philautia: love of self

Here’s a link that goes more in depth into what each one meant.

[orion-the-gatherer]

In honor of Valentine’s Day

[bonbonlanguage]

You know what I think is really cool about language (English in this case)? It’s the way you can express “I don’t know” without opening your mouth. All you have to do is hum a low note, a high note, then another lower note. The same goes for yes and no. Does anyone know what this is called?

[rk8con]

[suspendnodisbelief]

These are called vocables, a form of non-lexical utterance - that is, wordlike sounds that aren’t strictly words, have flexible meaning depending on context, and reflect the speakers emotional reaction to the context rather than stating something specific. They also include uh-oh! (that’s not good!), uh-huh and mm-hmm (yes), uhn-uhn (no), huh? (what?), huh… (oh, I see…), hmmn… (I wonder… / maybe…), awww! (that’s cute!), aww… (darn it…), um? (excuse me; that doesn’t seem right?), ugh and guh (expressions of alarm, disgust, or sympathy toward somebody else’s displeasure or distress), etc.

Every natural human language has at least a few vocables in it, and filler words like “um” and “erm” are also part of this overall class of utterances. Technically “vocable” itself refers to a wider category of utterances, but these types of sounds are the ones most frequently being referred to, when the word is used.

[classicfern]

Reblog if u just hummed all of these out loud as you read them

[oneofthosecrazycatladies]

[athenadark]

Liam Neeson apparently was a danger on set because the jedi have like four basic moves but he was trained for swordfighting for Rob Roy so he would wave his plastic sword in new and interesting ways that would not be choreographed but were traditional actual ways to fight with a sword

[shadowblade217]

To be fair, that does sound like something Qui-Gon would do.

[tygermama]

between Liam actually knowing what he was doing and Ewan not being able to stop himself from making lightsaber noises it’s a wonder the Phantom Menace got made at all

[perpetual-allegory]

I kind of wish that the idea that you can just be was a little more mainstream.

Like, having drive and ambition is great. But it gets drilled in kids’ heads that there is some pressure to constantly be looking for the next move up, to be bigger than life. It wears you down to never be satisfied.

Not everyone is destined for greatness. It just doesn’t suit some people.

There’s nothing wrong with having a quiet life, making enough to get by, having a small apartment where you’re comfortable, and just living. You don’t have to constantly be looking to go onward and upwards. Sometimes the best thing you can do for yourself is to just be.

[caffeinatedcatholic]

“It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life.” -J.R.R. Tolkien

[slushyseals]

Georgia Aquarium

Wow, sea lion Neptune can really dance.

[apardonablemonomania-deactivate]

[everythingfox]

I thought this was an animatronic at first but apparently it’s real lol

[todaysbird]

this is a shoebill and they are living muppets

[godtechturninheads]

He did a little jig for us I trust him

[shouldabeentwins]

they may be living muppets, but let me just tell you that they are HUGE birds. Like, reminds you they’re descendants of dinosaurs huge. And when you’re in the jungle and four of them stop and look at you, you suddenly remember that nature doesn’t care how goofy something looks, it’s still going to murder you without hesitation.

[bluedelliquanti]

summer party small talk 

[strictlygamee-deactivated201407]

Charlie Day doppelganger: NBA player Josh McRoberts

[proletariangf]

I refuse to believe that isn’t charlie day

[hotbully-deactivated20170419]

The gang infiltrates the nba.

[gaymaul-archive]

dear god charlie is 5′7″ and this man is 6′10″. this is uncomfortably stretched out charlie, and i am straight up TERRIFIED by that concept

[airframeextender]