The Red Bumble Bee

she/her // 23 // já nem sei

[rinkrats]

19-year old yuzuru hanyu finding out he had won an olympic gold medal - making him the youngest male skater since 1948 to win the title - vs him at 27 finding out his 4A was certified

[aidashakur]

[joanatheskammer]

“Do you want to fill in yours yourself? We all make ourselves one so that everyone’s pronouns are clear and nobody has to ask.“

[printempsdessens]

MONTAG 7:55

[archaeologicalnews]

The world's first professional acrobats were flipping through the Middle East 4,000 years ago

Inhabitants of the ancient city-states of the Middle East enjoyed a vibrant social and economic life centered on palace and temple institutions, supported by surrounding agricultural and pastoralist communities. People, goods and ideas flowed between these cities generating a cultural sphere within which strong local identities and customs were preserved.

One such custom that arose in the area of Syria was the professional acrobat, or huppû, attached to the royal court.

The first known mention of the huppû is in administrative documents from the ancient city of Ebla (Tell Mardikh) in Syria dated as early as 2320 BCE. Details of the profession can be further pieced together from snippets of information in a royal archive (1771–1764 BCE) of about 20,000 tablets preserved at the neighboring city of Mari (Tell Hariri) on the Euphrates River. Read more.

[polyg-lotte]

je pense que les americains et les anglais savent pas combien de l’internet est accommode pour ils. presque tous des messages sont en anglais. si ils sont pas, il y a une translation beaucoup de temps. il y a des enfants qui parlent en anglais et c’est pas leur premiere langue, mais ils doivent le faire parce que quand ils le font pas il y a personne qui parlent avec leurs. et c’est pas de probleme de parler en une autre langue, mais le probleme c’est que on s’adapte pour les anglais TOUT le temps et quand on veut faire une post en sa propre langue, les anglais sont la pour dire ‘WHY CANT YOU JUST TALK ENGLISH’. on parle en anglais tout le temps, donne nous cet moment.

[ousia-poetica]

One cannot judge where one chooses to rest.

[lastvalyrian]

me: hey, there’s a documentary about a topic I am already interested in! let’s watch it!

me watching: already knew that. already knew that. wrong. already knew that. true but misleading. already knew that. already knew that. leaves out the important part. already knew that

[redrosewhiterose]

Thinking about how INSANE Henry VII's rise to power was, imagine if someone tried to make a fictional book or tv series with a character that had his story, everybody would have said that it's too unrealistic "oh so the guy always escapes everytime he almost get caught and somehow ends up becoming king even though he was no near the line of succesion? Too forced". And yet that's exactly what happened. Absolutely iconic.

[richmond-rex]

Add all this to the fact that he effectively fulfilled a Welsh prophecy (y mab darogan) and it's even more surreal.

[raskolni-kin]

may i present you

penguin pingu classics

[fusdoq]

I recently learned that the vulgar verb "nek نيك" (and all the words that stem from this root) that means "to fuck" is actually very old! I know that this word is used all across Arab countries in spite of the different dialects (unity over being vulgar lmao) but it was actually for hundreds of years if not thousands of years! it's also found in Assyrian and Akkadian "nâkum" =to have sex with. but in these languages it is not vulgar. It is even found in Ancient Egyptian!!

this is so fascinating to me, all the people in this region (MENA) have been using the same word for thousands of years to talk about fucking. it's so.. poetic

[lizzibennet]

color stories and class distinctions in the costumes of emma.

[archaeologicalnews]

Michelangelo's fingerprint possibly found on butt of wax statue

A 500-year-old wax sculpture attributed to Michelangelo might hold the famed Renaissance artist’s fingerprint, a new analysis finds.

Michelangelo reportedly created the wax sculpture as a study for a larger sculpture he planned for St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican, according to a statement from BBC Two, which just released the new season of “Secrets of the Museum” featuring the figurine. However, the larger sculpture was never completed, and now the model belongs to the Victoria and Albert Museum, or the V&A, in London.

Called “A Slave,” the wax figurine had been on display, but curators moved it from an upper-level gallery during the unusually warm spring in 2020 to a cooler storage area when the museum temporarily closed during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to The Times. Five months later, curators checked up on the figurine in storage, and they noticed a never-before-seen fingerprint or thumbprint on the sculpture’s derrière.

Read more.

[giotanner]

"Nessuno si prende gioco di me e rimane vivo" -Luca Marinelli as Diabolik

*Goose bumps*

[angelofthemornings-deactivated2]

English speakers: did you know that when you learn English, you get a FREE bonus language? Due to mutual intelligibility (when two languages are closely related enough that you can understand one if you know the other), if you are fluent in English, you can read literature in Scots. Because of the colonization and disenfranchisement of the Scottish people, it isn't very popular to write in Scots and authors get told nobody will read their books, so I HIGHLY suggest you do. Support colonized people writing in their own language! Support Scots!

Suggested Scots lit:

Trainspotting (cult classic about the life and times of heroin addicts, mostly known for the movie adaptation, but it was a book first. Probably the easiest to read on the list for people who know English but don't know Scots.)

Be Guid Tae Yer Mammy (a darkly comic family drama, involves interesting topics like invisible disability, is in fact very funny)

But'n'Ben A Go-Go (Scots cyberpunk! Suggest you start with one of the other books above and get used to Scots before tackling this one though. This is written in "What if Scots, but it's the future so it evolved some?" so reading it is definitely hard mode. But if you're up for the challenge, it's some solid SF.)

These are just three. Please add on with other books in Scots if you have any recommendations.

Lastly: Here is an online Scots-English dictionary to help you out, should you need it. Happy reading!

[nicolodigenovas]

Italy is really having its undeserved main character moment this year huh

[nicolodigenovas]

the only way Italy will prove to be a main character is by accomplishing impossible feats (eurovision, euro 2020) while avoiding any character development whatsoever (see: not allowing the new version of an anti-discrimination law that would protect lgbtq people to pass, refusing to recognise our deep rooted racism and ignoring the way refugees are being treated)

[eelizabit]

More exquisite paintings by Stuart Dunkel

[eelizabit]

2021 addition :-)