riisinaakka

31 | Finland | Still very excited about Black Sails as you may have noticed... This is my primary blog for things I find fascinating, hilarious or otherwise relevant to my interests. See "about" & "art blog" for more information.

[plumstreet]

WHERE is that poem about that person learning all about their partners hyperfixation before getting dumped the last line is like “love is a stack of books on my nightstand with a bookmark near the end” I need it to feel whole help me please

[cielosky]

NYT Tiny Love Stories, 2/11/2020

A Bookmark Near the End

He loves history. He wanted to write a biography of John Quincy Adams. I, shamefully, knew almost nothing about John Quincy Adams, so I went online and bought every biography of him I could find. One day, he called me, claiming that we wouldn’t work out long term. He said he loved me but that we had different interests. “What does love mean to you?” I said. “That’s an impossible question,” he replied. I, however, find love to be quite simple. Love is the stack of biographies on my nightstand with a bookmark near the end. — Julia Nicole Camp 

[thevictoriafoxfun]

[noknowshame]

Sometimes when I’m bored I like to play the “what’s Silver’s real name wrong answers only” game in my head. Favorites include:

- still John Silver but spelled a different way

- its actually Juan de la Plata because he’s Spanish by birth

- they never gave him one (this one’s canon)

- his real name is completely coincidentally also James McGraw and he didn’t want there to be any confusion

- its [insert name of other popular fictional character] and that would also be too confusing

- John Smith, but he didn’t think anyone would believe him

- he got hit on the head with a big rock right before the first episode and just sincerely does not remember

[the-haiku-bot]

- its actually

Juan de la Plata because

he’s Spanish by birth

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[noknowshame]

HAIKU BOT???!!

[totallyfubar]

The reason the work you’ve done on how you feel doesn’t seem like it’s working is because you need to do it until it works. It’s never been “this strategy will pull you up” it’s always been “here’s something you can do that will END with you getting out of that hole” the climbing still hurts and the being underground still hurts but that doesn’t mean it’s not working

[totallyfubar]

*doing laundry* “this doesn’t feel better

*cooking meals* this doesn’t feel better

*exercising* this doesn’t feel better

*making art* this doesn’t feel better

*cleaning the apartment* this doesn’t feel better

*somewhere months or years down the line*

holy shit

[totallyfubar]

tl;dr

[tikkety-tok]

good cromch

[thundergrace]

This was very lovely to wake up to. It's completely legit, in the replies people posted videos and pictures of the 'walk for El Vaquita', the fake protest to get El Vaquita desperately needed medical attention.

The comments in the tweet lead to celebration of a another Chilean comrade doggo named Negro Matapacos. And this is exactly the kind of education I want this month.

The Cop-Attacking Chilean Dog Who Became a Worldwide Symbol of Protest

The recent uprising in Chile is full of references to the beloved Negro Matapacos, who accompanied protesters for many years. As his legend

[transwarlock]

I love him. also

same energy

[jaubaius]

Love this professor Potato🥔🤓

[sophiliated]

“alright let’s get serious” *sits back on an office chair as a potato*

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[academicssay]

[catradoraism]

[softlypause]

Haha looks like that relationship didn’t work out… didn’t work out et al.

[10987654321-archive]

my favourite thing that I learned about the voyager spacecraft today is that two days before Ann Druyan had her brain waves and heartbeat recorded to send into the universe Carl Sagan and her had confessed their love for each other and gotten engaged and so all of those feelings of being in love are out there recorded on voyager right now 

[10987654321-archive]

“On June 1, 1977, Carl and I shared a wonderfully important phone call,” she recalls. Without the aid of a date or even a romantic moment alone, the two had fallen in love during the mad rush to complete the Golden Record. “We decided to get married. It was a Eureka! moment for both of us—the idea that we could find the perfect match. It was a discovery that has been reaffirmed in countless ways since.”

Echoes of that moment reverberated through her mind during the recording session. Her conscious mind may have been reciting culture and philosophy, but her subconscious was buzzing with the euphoria of the Great Idea of True Love. The hour was electronically compressed to a single minute that sounds, appropriately, like a string of exploding firecrackers.

“My feelings as a 27 year old woman, madly fallen in love, they’re on that record,” says Druyan. “It’s forever. It’ll be true 100 million years from now. For me Voyager is a kind of joy so powerful, it robs you of your fear of death.” (link)

[riisinaakka]

..

[soracities]

the way ivan aivazovsky looks at the sea…i think…i think that’s what love looks like.

[soracities]

love is surrounding yourself with people who see you this clearly

[ataehone]

Still the freakiest fact about him is that despite being as tall as a person or more, he banged out these beauties in a day or two at most (and smaller ones ina matter of hours). The longest he spent on a painting, at age 81, to make his largest ever painting, was TEN DAYS:

It is 2.9×4.3 meters large. That’s 9'4"×14'1" for people in other measurement systems. It’s HUGE. There are artists out there that spend years on paintings much smaller than this. He was not one of them.

He also didn’t only paint the sea, but he MOSTLY painted the sea. Very few people could draw light filtering through waves the way this guy did and apparently it was tied into his layering technique that allowed him to paint so goddamn fast.

He is obviously my most favorite painter ever.

[soracities]

!!!

[marinella-ela]

[riisinaakka]

I’m so exhausted! (please do not reblog or repost, this is a personal post).

tl;dr: I moved into a new apartment (physically laborious task) and spent the holidays with my family (mentally heavy and sad).

This will probably be my last post for this year, so have a nice New Year’s Eve tomorrow and we’ll see around next year! <3

In case you were wondering where I have been for the holidays etc, I have been moving into a new apartment (yessss! finally. no more new flat mates and more space for meeeee alone). I had to carry almost everything by myself because none of my friends were able to help and my sister and father could only help occasionally and I couldn’t afford a moving firm etc. Luckily I have been able to drive my parents’ old car (so glad I have that license now! :D) Unfortunately it’s also the middle of the winter so -  dark af all the time, lots of snow (and lots of cleaning the car every time u wanna use it... and it’s been -4...-20C temperature during everything so a bit chilly ahahahaha x)

But, almost there! Tomorrow I’ll fetch the last of my stuff and finish cleaning the old apartment so I can return the keys and finally rest a bit. Then I have the arduous work ahead (at some point, lol) of putting things in their proper places in the new one and finding where I have put all my important stuff... gotta do some KonMari cleaning while at it because I have apparently hoarded so much useless stuff for years that I didn’t have the time to properly sort previously ^^; ooops

aaaand the Christmas time was tiring as well, mostly mentally. Not sure if I should put a trigger warning, but just in case: tw dementia. I spent the christmas with my family and my mother has the early onset alzheimer’s and yeah... it’s gotten quite bad now. This Christmas was not a merry one. No, I’m not going to talk much about it but thought it might be a good idea to mention it at some point. There’s grief and a painful process of letting go, lots of hurt and anger and confusion and hellish loops of time for her (and to us near her, ngl) and it has been going on slowly for a few years already and will be worse in the future too. My father is her caregiver and it hurts to see him suffer and it hurts that my mother is not truly “here” anymore ;_; and how much she cannot do (or speak) anymore. My grandmother (my mother’s mother, both were well under 60 when they first started showing symptoms) had it too, so it hurts to see it happening again (I remember my grandma and what was left of her in the end and it hurts so see my mother go the same way) and yeah, I worry about my own (and siblings’) future, but I try not to let it consume me too much - yet at least.

Anyway, sorry about the grim mood and rambling text with tons of spelling mistakes but I am quite exhausted at the moment ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  and even willing to admit it to myself and others, lol. Ah, too much to unpack here (also literally - how on earth did I fit so much stuff on that tiny place?? now I shall suffer in my own mess - again!)

And despite everything piling up a bit atm, I’m quite optimistic and content about many things in my life (so don’t take this too much into your own heart). Thanks for reading <3

[glumshoe]

I’ll never understand why anthropomorphic animal cartoons like Robin Hood and Zootopia will go to the trouble of creating character designs that are meant to be understood as “attractive” or even “sexy” to the human audience but explicitly avoid showing interspecies romances between anthropomorphic animals. Why is THAT weird but, like, trying to make rabbits recognizably sexy-coded to humans isn’t?

[glumshoe]

Sometimes, sure, but why was Maid Marian a fox in Robin Hood? There wasn’t anything particularly “foxlike” about her personality, and it would make more sense for her to be a lion. They made her a fox only because Robin was a fox and making her something else would be “weird”, but I don’t think the wolf cop or the chicken maid or the lion prince were actually meant to represent race.

[countesspetofi]

The best inter species couple is Kermit and Miss Piggy as the Cratchits in A Muppet Christmas Carol, because all their sons are frogs and all their daughters are pigs, as God clearly intended.

[glumshoe]

there are only two genders: frog and pig

[forestdwellingrat]

I’ve pointed out to my friends that the fact that Kermit and Miss Piggy’s kids are like that means either

1) they reproduce asexually and the children are clones of each parent OR

2) Kermit and Miss Piggy are members of the same sexually dimorphic species, hence the split between their male and female children

yes I have spent too long running about potential muppet biology

[glumshoe]

oh god

[sailor-lady]

Third option, when they want kids they get some fabric and make one, and hope a Hand inhabits it

[glumshoe]

Do you think there’s a ritual for inviting An Inhabiting Hand to possess the empty husk of your muppet baby?

[jenivi]

[aflowerthatbloomsinadversity]

Just wanted to show u guys that in Muppets Most Wanted, Piggy fantasizes about her and Kermit having babies and this is what they look like

So do with that what you will

[fremedon]

Recall that in The Great Muppet Caper, Kermit and Fozzie are brothers. And this was their dad (right):

[capitalism-and-analytics]

Thank you for specifying, which one of the two individuals in the picture was the dad haha

[la-pou-belle]

I, for one, think Shrek handled interspecies coupling the best. By this I am of course talking about the Dronkeys.

[kestrelsparverius]

[adrnired]

In season 3 of BoJack Horseman, we learn Diane (middle) has been impregnated by Mr. Peanutbutter (left). The fetuses are confirmed to be puppies.

[autisticexpression]

This is the worst addition to this post

[araku-validrava]

I am reminded of Treasure Planet.

In which Captain Amelia (left), an extra terrestrial anthropomorphic cat, had hybrid babies with Doctor Doppler (middle), an extra terrestrial anthropomorphic dog, whom also gave birth to the babies

[wizardlizardinhislair]

I always thought that in muppet movies like muppet Christmas Carol the characters are played by the muppets (so kermit is acting and playing the role of Bob rather than being him) so the kids in that film would just be other acting muppets right?

Or is that just something my brain made up?

[ridiculouslyphotogenicsinosauru]

[kingscrown666]

Last time I saw this post (YESTERDAY) it stopped at the second Eggman

[the-haiku-bot]

Last time I saw this

post (YESTERDAY) it stopped at

the second Eggman

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[astronomical-bagel]

anyone in this thread smoke weed

[susiron]

In Leo the Lion (2005) a lion and elephant have the most cursed hybrid children and I think yall should see them

(also Matt Mercer voices the villain, Maximus Elefante and I think that’s very important)

[spaceinvaydr]

[deus-ex-moshina]

No no but Geralt is absolutely the ONLY person on this entire continent (the Netflix Witcher Universe) that’s unaware of Jaskier’s celebrity status because he 1) met him when he was a nobody and just hasn’t been paying attention since 2) doesn’t talk to anyone but his horse. So whenever someone around them recognizes Jaskier and go “ITS HIM!!!!” Geralt just assumes it’s an angry spouse Jaskier cuckolded and immediately starts doing his banquet shtick. As a result there are now at least 50 different stories out there about how the famous bard Jaskier broke his dick in a terrible accident when he was 5. The fangirls are devastated. Jaskier is absolutely FURIOUS

[andrearrrrr]

How traditional pitchforks were made.

It took 6 years starting from orienting branches

[cactusqueensouthwestscene]

I love this so much

[thehoneyedmoon]

I would very much like to have one of these.

[jeanjauthor]

Writers?

If you have a chance, help preserve this nearly forgotten knowledge in your stories somewhere!

Wooden pitchforks are a bit safer than metal ones (little fear of rust causing lockjaw/death if you get poked), and when they’re grown like this, they’re far sturdier in many ways than anything assembled that isn’t metal...and they’re often lighter / better balanced than metal, too!

[robotsandfrippary]

Looks like he’s all ready for Dr. Frankenstein’s winter crafting results.