Raindrop In A Bucket

Hi, I'm Emily. I am starting off on a research degree which I very much hope doesn't drive me insane.

[raisel-the-riveter]

so I’ve been meaning to put this on tumblr and keep forgetting but, in the campaign I’m running my sister is playing an orc fighter, and one of the options you can pick for a fighter’s signature weapon is that it “glows in the presence of [fill in the blank].”

I was like, “oh, that’s funny because it’s a reference to that sword in The Hobbit that glows in the presence of orcs. Your weapon probably doesn’t glow in the presence of orcs.”

to which she responded, “FUCK YEAH it does.”

So now we have in the party an orc fighter with a club that glows in the presence of orcs. Or, as far as the character is concerned, a club that glows. It’s been in her family for generations since some ancestor won it in a battle, and it’s just always glowed. She has a sack to put it in when she’s trying to be stealthy.

[batneko]

#orcs in LotR don’t know that Sting doesn’t glow#that is crazy#they think elves and hobbits just carry glowing swords#for the Aesthetic#and if you know enough elves that probably makes sense to you!#sparkly drama queens would probably make their hair glow if they could

[justslowdown]

“We can make the world better for dogs by making dogs who fit into the world better. I would love to see dog owners draw a line in the sand and insist on dogs with muzzles long enough to let them breathe normally, or dogs who are not born with a 60% chance of developing cancer at some point in their lives due to their breed, or dogs whose heads are too big for them to be born without a C-section. I’d love to see more breeders taking matters into their own hands and starting to experiment with how we breed dogs instead of continuing to use dogs from within breeds lacking in genetic diversity. I’d love to see more breed clubs supporting outcrossing projects to bring an influx of genetic diversity and healthy alleles into their breed. I’d love more dog lovers to become aware of the problems with how we breed dogs — how even the most responsible breeders breed dogs!”

—

Jessica Hekman, DVM PhD

What a Dog Geneticist Wants You to Know about Dog Genetics

(via justslowdown)

[fandomlife-confessions]

[theartofangirling]

some memes I made to express my current frustrations with academia feel free to add your own

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[alliekitaguchi]

THEY DID IT AGAIN

[lexhokage]

IS MOM EVER COMING HOME?

[yanderechild-archive]

THEY’RE PLAYING DARUDE- SANDSTORM AJSHSSL

[winterswake]

#cape  #tag yourself

[rejectedprincesses]

God Bless Veneida Smith.

So this whole thing started with this tweet by Twitter user Katie Henry (KT_NRE). I started plowing through newspapers to find every mention of her - and found most that were out there, but a man named Todd Sanders, who had access to Pennsylvania libraries, found quite a few more. All of this takes place in October and November of 1922, before timeskipping to September 1923 (her third escape), October 1923 (her guilty verdict), and March 1924 (her escape attempt with Roxie Starcher).

I have been unable to find her obituary or anything else out there about my new hero.

[rejectedprincesses]

Holy shit they found out more.

So a woman named Francine Thompson saw the original tweet from Katie Henry and realized that Veneida Smith was actually her old neighbor Verneida – the newspapers had gotten her name wrong – which explains why nobody could find her obituary. She’d died in 1988, and had a difficult life.

Here’s the Twitter thread with additional info, and anecdotes from Thompson herself.

[nightingem]

Justin McElroy is one of the kindest and most genuine people I have ever seen and his words are so incredibly powerful. I’m crying right now.

[cryptiboy]

McElroy’s know how to make you cry within five seconds confirmed yet again

[obviousplant]

I made some fake frozen dinners for lazy people

[coolsaddad-blog]

Roses are red, that much is true, but violets are purple, not fucking blue.

[feels-for-the-fictional]

I have been waiting for this post all my life.

[marzipanandminutiae]

They are indeed purple, But one thing you’ve missed: The concept of “purple” Didn’t always exist.

Some cultures lack names For a color, you see. Hence good old Homer And his “wine-dark sea.”

A usage so quaint, A phrasing so old, For verses of romance Is sheer fucking gold.

So roses are red. Violets once were called blue. I’m hugely pedantic But what else is new?

[ineptshieldmaid]

My friend you’re not wrong About Homer’s wine-ey sea! Colours are a matter Of cultural contingency;

Words are in flux And meanings they drift But the word purple You’ve given short shrift.

The concept of purple, My friends, is old And refers to a pigment once precious as gold.

By crushing up molluscs From the wine-dark sea You make a dye: Imperial decree

Meant that in Rome, to wear purpura was a privilege reserved

For only the emperor!

The word ‘purple’, for clothes so fancy, Entered English By the ninth century

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Why then are voilets Not purple in song? The dye from this mollusc, known for so long

Is almost magenta; More red than blue. The concept of purple is old, and yet new.

The dye is red, So this might be true: Roses are purple And violets are blue

.

[squeeful]

While this song makes me merry, Tyrian purple dyes many a hue From magenta to berry And a true purple too.

But fun as it is to watch this poetic race The answer is staring you right in the face: Roses are red and violets are blue Because nothing fucking rhymes with purple.

[cryoverkiltmilk]

[young-il-long-kiyoshi]

IT GOT SO MUCH BETTER.

[farrentalon]

My reaction, only with coffee.

[thetiredpianist]

Hang on, need to send this to my literature prof

[the-mighty-upside-down-pyramid]

I will continue to call The Creature “Frankenstein” and no force in Heaven or Earth will impede that.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

I also laughed at him totally deliberately calling attention to the fact Victor isn’t a real doctor because he dropped out of college and built a guy out of corpses

[neonthebright]

He punched the lycanthropy right out of wolfman

[wackd-archive]

did he just throw ygor out a window

[pleatedjeans]

via

[thyme-sweetened-honey]

Also one time he was supposed to write a violin and piano duet, and he wrote the violin part, but he didn’t really feel like writing the piano part, or was too lazy etc. When the concert came up (he played the piano while a fiend played the violin) he set up a blank piece of paper (so people would think he was reading music) and improvised. After the concert he wrote it down so it could be published

[vault11overseer]

okay i’ve reblogged this before but can we just give a shoutout to the orchestra that had to sightread the overture to an audience at the premiere of an opera

[wenchyfloozymoo]

[theartofangirling]

incorrect lotr quotes: (5/?)

[insp.]

[coolkidsofhistory]

A 17-year old Frida Kahlo poses for a family photo wearing a traditional gentleman’s 3-piece suit, 1924

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leaked set photo from the last jedi

[ssadfghmhtyrtjdhgrsf-deactivate]

THANK YOU FOR DOING THE LORD’S WORK AND LEAKING THIS TO US. 

[screaming-towards-apotheosis]

day 1348 the birds still think I am one of them

[hulking-godless-child-beast]

#no you don’t understand#i went to skellig island years and years ago#long before it was ever in these movies#and the second i saw the island in the force awakens#i thought ‘what did they do to the puffins?’#because friends let me tell you#when i visited this island way back when#the entire fucking thing was covered tip to toe in puffins#nests of puffins in the rocks#puffins shitting from the sky#puffins swimming in the sea#it was a true island of the birds and not a damn person could hope to get a panorama without approximately 10000+ birds photobombing#how did disney edit out all the puffins#who was the puffin intern#important questions that need answers 

I’m stealing @humming-fly ‘s tags because I’m not original

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