Ponder Pants

Blogging about crafts, TV shows (BtVS, AtS, SPN, TW, OitNB & others), film (sci-fi, horror, expressionist and 80s coming of age themed), art, design, architecture, sociology AND especialy cross-sections of all of the above! Most things are reblogged but the odd post is my own. :)

[gahdamnpunk]

This is scary and smells of child trafficking…Reblog the hell out of this please! They must be saved

[goawfma]

BOOOOST

[elsinore-snores]

some really beautiful african architecture because honestly this site is so western-centric

mako

unknown

cameroon

burkina faso

mali

Ndebele

burkina faso

please add more if you can!

[ayeshapoptropica]

these are SO BEAUTIFUL

[musinvenusian]

MALI IS MY FAVORITE. I LOVE THE COLORS 😍😍😍😍😍

[misshoneywheeler]

The rock-hewn churches of Lalibela, Ethiopia

The Great Temple of Ramesses II at Abu Simbel, Egypt

The Nubian Pyramids at Meroe, Sudan

Stone Town, Zanzibar, Tanzania

Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt, a commemoration of the destroyed Library at Alexandria

Bosjes Chapel, South Africa

The Gando School by Diébédo Francis Kéré, Gando, Burkina Faso

The Dyeji Building, Luanda, Angola

[maaarine]

[dracofidus-deactivated20200523]

Needless to say, I am HORRIFIED.

[thecottageinthedark]

‘All that you need to know about boars can be summed up in the fact that if you wish to hunt them, you must have a specially made boar spear. This spear has a crosspiece on it to prevent the boar from charging the length of the spear, driving it all the way through his own body, to savage the human holding the other end.’

-Boar and Apples, T. Kingfisher

[dracofidus-deactivated20200523]

fuck OFF

[palindromordnilap-deactivated20]

Note that pigs are also HUGE. So, yes, they ARE slightly larger pigs.

[dracofidus-deactivated20200523]

So I grew up in the city and have never seen a pig in real life and I just googled it and WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS

I thought they were like labrador sized, like, fat labradors, not mini-cows.

[tokensouthernbelle]

every time I see this post there are more people discovering how fuck off huge pigs actually are and I love it I thought this was a thing everyone knew but clearly not and I’m laughing 

[stillwaterseas]

This is me with our Tamworth boar, a heritage breed closer to their wild cousins than the Yorkshire above. I am a fully grown, average sized human. He was a gentle sweetie who, sadly, is no longer with us. His name was Mr. Big. 

[dracofidus-deactivated20200523]

FUCK OFF

[coelasquid]

Forever laffin’ at people who don’t understand how enormous, terrifying, and tenacious wild boar are. 

They’re like if bears had knives protruding from their closed mouths and Didn’t Know When To Quit. Their survival instincts when they’re wounded aren’t “run away and minimize injury” it’s “take the thing that hurt you down with you” They also make sounds like someone crossed a pig with an alligator.

Their head and neck alone can be like the size of an entire human torso.

Also forever laffin’ at people who think pigs are tiny, ‘cause we designed those things can get in the neighbourhood of a thousand pounds in ideal circumstances. 

It’s like when people assume Tuna must be small because they’ve only ever experienced them in hockey puck form.

[obstinate-nocturna]

Like seriously why the fuck y'all think everyone FREAKED THE HELL OUT when Dorothy fell into the pig pen in Wizard of Oz? It’s because pigs are HUGE and weigh a shitton and would crush her in an instant.

[proserpine-in-phases]

also dont they eat like, basically anything?

[justabrowncoatedwench]

YUP. Pigs will eat people, if given the chance. They dgaf.

[wolverinequeen]

That’s why boar hunters use a team of very tenacious dogs to hold the boar so they can be speared without fucking you up. The dogs wear body armour. 

I’ve heard stories of people shooting boars, and if it didn’t kill them, it just pissed them off. 

[andthentheywilleatthestars]

how the hell did we ever domesticate these things?

[petermorwood]

…“how the hell did we ever domesticate these things?”

Very carefully, I would imagine.

WIld boar babies are rather cute, like living humbugs…

…but the adults and their ferocity have been associated with warriors for thousands of years, from Mycenaean Greece (a helmet made from sections of boar tusk)…

…through Celtic Europe (reconstructed carnyx war-horns and standards)…

…Ancient Rome (the crest of Legion 20 “Valeria Victrix”). A couple more legions also used a boar as their crest - I wonder did they squabble over which was the “right” one the way a couple of Swiss cantons had a little war over whose bear was best…?

…then Anglo-Saxon and pre-Viking helmet crests…

…right up to the late Middle Ages (here the white boar badge of Richard Duke of Gloucester, later Richard III of England)…

…and the blue boar badge of the Earl of Oxford, more usually represented by the De Vere arms, quarterly gules and or, in the first a molet argent.

After Richard was defeated at Bosworth in 1485, there was a run on blue paint as inn-signs were changed to reflect new loyalties since Oxford was on the winning side…

And pigs will definitely eat people.

It gets mentioned in the movie “Snatch”, the book/movie “Hannibal” and the webcomic “Lackadaisy Cats”, among numerous other fictional sources, and IRL it’s suspected to be the reason why numerous missing persons have stayed missing.

More here (another comment to this same OP) and here (slightly different).

Here’s some boar-hunting armour for dogs, ancient…

…and modern…

…and the modern one looks very like a simple style of ancient…

[dduane]

So when Odysseus’s old nurse recognizes him by the scar he got from the boar-tusk slash that almost killed him… now you get the resonance.

[bookoisseur]

This post…it just really went places on me.

[wilwheaton]

I hope you read this entire post, and that it made your entire day so much better, even if just for a few moments, like it did mine.

[wednesday-friday]

“We cannot break bread with you.” “Huh? Becky, what’s going on?”

Happy Thanksgiving! 

[negativecapability]

[curliestofcrowns]

old-fashioned guy

[atheistj]

me: *sees Harrison Ford trending on twitter*

me:

[ponderpants-blog]

In 2016 we worried trending celebs were dead. In 2017 we worry they’ve done bad things.

[silmapaintion]

god damn it isildur!!!

[jemaine]

When I won the great ovarian egg search of 1975, I never thought I’d amount to much. But in a piddly four decades, I’ve achieved some pretty incredible things. Par exemple..

[laureljupiter]

Wes Anderson: Who are you???

Taika Waititi: I’m you but stronger

[supagirl]

#😂😂😂

[elsaspants]

this show is called Superior Donuts!

[unicornspwnall]

[terpsikeraunos]

anyone else read a paragraph of academic prose and then stare at it blankly with no idea what you just read because it’s so clogged with jargon

[variste]

[villainous-queer-deactivated202]

this is an academia call out post and i’m here for it

[welcometotwinpeaks]

Who is the dreamer?

Prints: http://twin.pk/whoisthedreamerot

Twin Peaks art by Ori Toor. http://ift.tt/2xUU3tp via http://ift.tt/OF8QRD

[little-bear-heart]

What movie can you watch over and over again and never get bored?

[possit-de-tenebris]

[mrsrussellsworld]

[my-sea-of-time-deactivated20190]

[deebr33ze-deactivated20231114]

[queenofthetrashcanpandas]

[imightbebrilliant]

[ohhelloholly]

[cattyfantastic]

[untitledtidal]

I’ve seen it 1,000 times and I’ve cried at this part 1,000 times.

[aimee-b-loved]

[receiver]

[lobsterhug]

[parentheticalaside]

[cleoselene-deactivated20260315]

[telesilla]

[meansgirlwrites]

[lizinprogress]

[dontbefanci]

[anndie1326]

[xcziel]

[hardcore-evil-regal]

[dr-robby-robinavitch]

[valanthaliadon]

[crazymaryt]

[paraphrasedkulchar]

[sortaryan]

[notjustanyboggs]

[runwithskizzers]

[wonderali]

[wonderali]

[kateordie]

[theunstuffedpepper]

I just found out that botanically, bananas are berries.

I don’t know what to do with this information.

🍌🍓🤔

[fit-physicist]

IT’S TIME FOR MY FAVORITE COMIC

@theunstuffedpepper

[queen-haiz]

i love Legally Blonde so much. all of the women are so supportive of each other im??

when Elle was supposed to get engaged, none of the girls were jealous, they were genuinely happy for her n helped her get ready for the big dinner

when her bf broke up with her they were supportive

when Elle says she wants to go to harvard the counselor lady is like but ur major is fashion, do u have any backup plan? n elle is like nope im going to harvard n the lady is like okay then here’s what u gotta do.

her friends didnt get why she wanted to go to law school but supported her anyway, and helped her study

when she got 179 on her exam (more than her goal), they treated her like a queen

and that’s only in the first 18 minutes of the movie

[deviousdiggy]

Legally Blonde is a “girl power” movie with killer inspirational and positive attitude disguised as a stereotypical blonde movie.

[kaneshiro-takeshi]

Romeo + Juliet (1996) dir. Baz Luhrmann ↳ Soundtrack