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[s1ck0]

Vorace by Pauline Mauvière & Charles Ouvrard

[2manypdfs]

happy There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury day

[danielkanhai]

it would suck being a new immortal. like it’d be 2109 and people would go, “what was it like seeing ancient civilizations rise and fall like that? seeing the pyramids being built? watching the expansion and growth of the new world?” and i’d just be like, “no…no i was born in 1991. so like, wow i’m gonna see some cool stuff, but, i mean i’m not that much older than just a really, really old person, you know? phones were big back then. so big. but only for like ten years, then they got like, as good as they are now. uh. rhinos existed. don’t think i ever saw one in person. cool, good talk.”

[ayellowbirds]

even worse, imagine being an immortal who keeps missing stuff. “What was it like seeing the pyramids being built?” “Fuck if I know, I was in Madagascar.” “Oh, okay. Well, how was the Renaissance?” “I fell down a hole in Scotland and people thought I was an enchanted well for four hundred years, it was over by the time I convinced someone to get me out.”

[erkhyan]

And now, a lesson in biases:

We barely know anything about Madagascar pre-500CE. We don’t even know whether the island had a permanent population before then, despite finding a bunch of much older signs of temporary human presence.

Malagasy mythology makes mention of the vazimba, a “precursor” ethnic group that might or might not be distinct from Madagascar’s current population.

The point is, we do not know.

So you were in Madagascar when the pyramids were being built in Egypt, i.e. during one of the most obscure, most undocumented parts of Madagascar’s human history?

Oh, buddy, you better go and make a bunch of anthropologists and archeologists really happy RIGHT NOW instead of feeling bad about missing everyone else’s pet Major Event.

[ayellowbirds]

It’s been a decade since we left that comment and you have the best reply anyone’s left to it.

[artandmayhem]

We get what we deserve.

[echolivesintanis]

YO WHAT THE FUCK THIS IS COOL AS HELL!

I’m making this my phone wallpaper

[sagefield]

Seeking TANIS. Runner needed.

[rivertothesea]

Reblog if you HATE amanormatovity and LOVE urban planning

[rivertothesea]

Why are the avengers trending I thought nature was healing

[rivertothesea]

Hmmm interesting how so many podcast protagonists have serious eye imagery going one when podcasts are one of the few mediums without a visual component ……

[rivertothesea]

Going back to my roots (relistening to the penumbra podcast)

[rivertothesea]

Extremely fascinated by the way you never truly see Agamemnon’s face in The Odyssey movie. He is always either shot from behind or wearing his helmet or his face is otherwise obscured

[rivertothesea]

Saw the odyssey w my brother today. Hate to admit it but I think Travis Scott was the best actor in the movie

[inthetags]

Reblog and put in the tags what your blog title (not URL!) is a reference to.

[rivertothesea]

One of my favorite things to do is ask people a questions about something I know they know a lot about because they just start talking and it’s so amazing and my friends all hate it they say “That doesn’t work on me lol” and I say “Dude I just got you talking about wood screws for five minutes I think it works on you”

[rivertothesea]

One thing I’ve noticed is that I tread water differently from a lot of other people

[rivertothesea]

GUESS WHOS A CERTIFIED LIFEGUARD AGAIN BITCH

[official-kircheis]

Paraguay implies the existence of Orthoguay

[sigmaleph]

you mean to tell me you've never been to orthoguay?

[rivertothesea]

Oh you know what I might just be in an extremely romantic friendship