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How the media depicts the Apollo 11 mission:

Actual quotes from the Apollo 11 mission:

I swear to god, between this and all the middle ages monks writing about their hangovers in the borders of their illuminated manuscripts, and ancient Roman graffiti about bread and fucking, and the ancient Nordic child drawings we found, I’m beginning to suspect that people have always been people and it kind of rules

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Once again its 3am and this washing machine wizard haunts me

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My parents continuously tell me that my generation’s humour makes no sense and I still refuse to ever explain it to them

gifsboom

Baby armadillo.

cosmictuesdays

Humans will pet anything.

toffeecape

How wonderful, then, to live on a planet full of creatures that like to be petted!

iii-was-stumblin

But when I say I love her, I mean it.

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OK but she still looks like a model? What about the rest of us who don’t have the “right” body? Easy for her to say don’t worry about it.

ruffboi-mags

Because she’s fucking survived an eating disorder? Because beauty standards in the western world - especially in modelling and hollywood - say she’s less attractive because she’s not white? Because being beautiful doesn’t mean you FEEL beautiful, and because she puts her money where her mouth is and is a FIERCE advocate for doing away with the shit that means she theoretically has it “easier” bc of her appearance, because no woman should be considered better than another based on their appearance?

Don’t be a DICK, maybe.

taphephobic

Not to mention Jameela also lives with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, which is hell on your joints and makes acting—a highly physical job—even more difficult. And yet, she’s thriving. She’s amazing, and just because she’s thinner than average doesn’t mean her body is perfectly abled.

vaspider

Imagine showing that much of your ass about a disabled WOC who survived an eating disorder speaking up about unrealistic body standards.

Hell, even if she hadn’t dealt with all that shit, using her platform to talk about unrealistic body standards is what we expect everyone to do if they’re being a good ally. She’s not even an ally – she lives in the trenches.

ugh.

aimmyarrowshigh

She was also hit by a car in her teens (iirc?) and was told that she would never independently walk again, so she used a walker for a period of time. She’s spoken pretty openly about the way being visibly disabled (as opposed to less visible/invisible disability) affects mental health because of how able-bodied people don’t see disabled bodies as fully human. She looks how she looks now – admittedly so stunningly gorgeous that it’s the running joke on TGP how hot she is – but she’s not just an ally talking out of her ass.

threegoblinsinatrenchcoat

She also demands in any promotional material she does that she not be photoshopped, no covering up her stretch marks or skin bulges over the sides of her dress and stuff. She’s out here living up to her word and I applaud her for it

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I don’t know how to explain to people that you don’t actually have to hate every bit of positivity?

So many people on this website tear literally everything to shit and then wonder why we all have horrendous mental health.

viostormcaller

THAT ^^^^^^

missdanielleclick

Disney Princesses In Accurate Period Costume.

wizzardhat

sheltymops:

SLEEPING BEAUTY (1485).

POCAHONTAS (17TH CENTURY POWAHTAN).

CINDERELLA (MID 1860’S)

JASMINE (PRE-ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST)

SNOW WHITE (16TH CENTURY GERMANY).

ARIEL (1890’S)

BELLE (1770’S FRENCH COURT FASHION).

CLARIE HUMMEL

Megara (Ancient Greece)

Mulan (Ancient China)

Tiana (1920’s)

Rapunzel (18th Century)

yunagyaru-deactivated20211230

I’ve reblogged this 6 times probably

toxicphox

You all always forget her excellent Maid Marian

gehayi

Hey, you forgot Shoomlah’s updated version of Pocahontas:

Shoomlah said: Finally updated Pocahontas! I don’t think this is what people were expecting as the next entry in the series, but some of the criticisms of my first design have been eating away at me for years now and I needed to get off my ass and address them. So hey! Spunky age-appropriate Pocahontas/Matoaka, sans feathers in the hair/European imagery/other superfluous details. This is closer to accounts and illustrations of Powhatan dress from the period, and I kinda think it’s closer to the Disney design anyway. WIN/WIN. Thanks to everyone who’s educated my ass over the past couple of years, including moniquill, apihtawikosisan, this-is-not-native, and numerous others. You’ve made me a way more thoughtful artist in the process.

dragonsrequiem

Reblogging bc I loveloveloveloveloveloveLOVE the updated Pocahontas. Too many people sexualize her. Major props for taking the time and care to fix this!

reeshahasha

I love these so much. ❤

noirfos

These are awesome! And major props to the artist for taking constructive criticism to heart and improving on her original design.

everythingfox

“Fish rarely get love from people in the way that dogs or dolphins do when they should.”

(Source)

awed-frog

When STEM people have fun.

a-book-of-creatures

Honestly the biggest disappointment I had researching ABC was that medieval authors did not, in fact, see the creatures they were describing and were trying their best to describe them with their limited knowledge while going “what the fuck… what the fuck…”

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Instead all those creatures you know came about from transcription and translation errors from copying Greco-Roman sources (who themselves got them from travelers’ tales from Persia and India - rhino -> unicorn, tiger -> manticore, python -> dragon, and so on).

downinmybeastheart

So unicorns are real

a-book-of-creatures

behold… a unicorn

gallusrostromegalus

I always thought animals in medieval manuscripts looked like the result of having to draw say. A Tree Kangaroo, but your only source for what it looked like was your friend who heard it from a fellow who knows a man who swears he saw one once, whilst very drunk and lost, and I am SO PLEASED to find out this is, in fact, the case.

glamourweaver

Questing Beast

- Neck of a snake

- body of a leopard

- haunches of a lion

- feet off a hart (deer)

So is it

Or….

tastefullyoffensive

kaible-deactivated20181205

This is one of my favorite posts because that cat’s fucking name is fucking meatloaf

Let us just appreciate that this person’s dad didn’t know when they would be home and so he couldn’t plan for them to be able to join the family for dinner, but he knew with no doubts that dear sweet Meatloaf staying in that exact position for hours was an absolute in this scenario. Truly, that cat was named well.

pizzacatsandboobs

one of my favorite posts on tumblr over the course of 5 fucking years.. clearly i need a life

sameoldsin

people should just embrace jewel tones already if I see one more house entirely decorated in washed out neutral colours I’m gonna sue someone

sameoldsin

hell is not a fiery demon pit its a never ending white and cream minimalist apartment, every time someone paints a room entirely white and adds a pale blue throw cushion for “a splash of colour” they are carrying out the work of the devil

kyraneko

#fuck resale values my mental health comes first

Writing one’s home-nesting tendencies around resale value is itself playing into the Devil’s hands.

Paint your walls. Install catwalks for your kitties. Transform your home into a hobbit-hole or the innermost chambers of a D&D dungeon owned by a particularly campy lich. Grow a rainforest of plants in your southern-exposure window rooms or strangle your house in vines.

Horrify the Petunia Dursleys of the world by your mere existence, and be happy.

archaeo-geek

A while ago Facebook kept trying to advertise some kind of design magazine/website to me with an article “The Most Colour-Soaked Home We’ve Ever Seen” and I finally clicked the link and all the pictures were a bunch of white and off-white rooms with a couple of vases and books in bright colours scattered around. Like bitch you’re advertising this to me in Atlantic Canada we don’t do “splashes of colour” we let the floodgates open. Your lame-ass pallid designs have no power here.

ardatli

When it’s foggy 350 days of the year, you’ve got to be able to pick out your own house from a distance.

punknerdmusings

,,,,Fuck

I almost started crying because?????? They’re so pretty??????????????

showtimechamaco

safitheartist

Power move.

newtgeiszler

one of the most aesthetically beautiful displays of protest i’ve seen

bogmonsters

yo stop what ur doin rn and wish my man godzilla a happy birthday

bogmonsters

HAPPY BIRTHDAY U FUNKY LITTLE LIZARD

prozdvoices

Visit Original Link

Anonymous said:

Could you please do a clip of Team Rocket using insults that are a lot heavier than “twerp”?

meowth, control yourself

the-pursuit-of-sappiness

I HAVE NA EEVER LAGUHED SO HA RD IN MY ENTRE L IF E

circuitrydemon

james sounds so fuckin offended like omf

seafoodmomma-deactivated2021121

So long twerp! Pikachu belongs to us now!

YEAH YOU FUCKHEAD!

woah meowth that’s going a little overboar-

EAT SHIT AND D I E

meowth.

ruckis-kingstarr

@cacklebat Popple is back, he’s FUKN BACK

6clawdy6

POPPLE DOES A RAGE

illuminati-bitch-queen

My phone was connected to Bluetooth speakers in another room and I tried to play this several times before I realised why my housemates were laughing downstairs

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When you learned of the god of war, you thought he’d be tall and muscular and angry. When you were about to meet him, you braced yourself for the worst.

You weren’t quite expecting the short, scrawny, shy kid you ended up getting instead.

thestuffedalligator

Olive skin, black hair, skinny, dirty face with pale lines where tears had sliced through the ash and dust. A white chiton dress and a threadbare shawl draped over her shoulders.

A pair of wings - huge, black vulture wings, far too large on her tiny body - were the only things that suggested she was divine.

The general shifted his weight from foot to foot. Obviously respect had to be given to gods, but… “Er - I’m sorry, I was invoking Ares? The god of war?”

The child god shrunk in on herself, and pulled the shawl over her shoulders. She muttered something. “Sorry?” the general asked.

“Ares is the god of slaughter,” the child god said in a slightly louder voice. “Not war.”

The general looked at the priest. The priest shrugged, clearly lost at sea. “Well,” the general said, “then maybe Athena? Goddess of tactics in war?”

“Tactics,” the child god repeated. “Not war.”

There was a long, ugly silence, as the huge vulture wings shifted with the whisper of brushing feathers. “My name is - was - Iphigenia. Daughter of Agamemnon, king of Mycenae, commander of the Greeks who stormed the walls of Troy. When my father disgraced Artemis, and the winds of Greece would not blow her battleships to Troy, I was brought to Aulis. For my wedding, I was told. I was-”

She sobbed. Teardrops dribbled off her chin and fell to the temple floor. “I was fourteen. And then I was brought to the highest altar in Aulis, and - and then - and-”

Another sob. “I was fourteen,” she said.

The vulture wings draped over her, and she disappeared under the cloak of black feathers. When they parted, and when the child god looked up at the general, he fell backwards. Those eyes. Eyes he’d seen a thousand times in battle -

“I am the true spirit of war, general,” the child god said. “I am the goddess of bloodshed, of sacrifice, of the slaughter of innocents. I am invoked when men ravage, burn and pillage. I am invoked when mothers cry out, when sons die, when daughters are stolen. I hear it all, general. I have heard it all since the fall of Troy.”

The terrible wings opened up. The child god loomed over the fallen man, twenty, thirty feet tall. Somewhere, the priest was screaming. “How dare you call upon my name.”