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major divinity and primordial element of heat, elyon!

Shout out to Black women in folk music! Gotta be one of my favorite genres.

From left to right, top to down: Sunny War, Joy Oladokun, Lilli Lewis, Rhiannon Giddens, Kaia Kater, Amethyst Kiah, Alison Russell, Leyla McCalla

scramratz

“If men could get pregnant, abortion would be free” men CAN get pregnant and they’re treated worse than women who can get pregnant

scramratz

oh folks really don't like being asked to consider trans men

soldier-of-death

im only attracted to worthy opponents

sioltach

this website lets you listen to the sounds of all different forests around the world

riven-wanders

Reblogging again cause I tried this site last night and if you need background noise to focus this is perfect for that, I was locked the fuck in on a task. And it’s also just gorgeous to listen to

hartsnkises

Alan Turing and Ada of Lovelace did not invent computer science for the girls and the gays to claim they can't do math

catcrumb

leonardcohenofficial

On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass was invited to address the citizens of his hometown, Rochester, New York. Whatever the expectations of h

yearly required reading

velartis

Franz Kafka, 1912

aroace-ryland-grace

the sewing machine is like if a horse and an inkjet printer had a child

donniehaspronouns

if y’all hated the last tapestry I made I got something even better. happy pride!

also didn’t block this one so don’t even ask

(link to the chart)

thebelfry

I just learned that the Russian word for “ladybug” translates to “God’s Little Cow”

vampireapologist-archive-deacti

It’s the same in Irish! bóín Dé!

peniswizard69

in hebrew it’s “our rabbi moses’s cow”

vampireapologist-archive-deacti

Oh I love this news!!!!

pulmonary-poultry

Multiple cultures upon seeing a ladybug for the first time: “Who’s cow is this????”

thejonymyster

postilionstruckbylightning

It feels like some early humans were naming things and one of them ran out of ideas.

Human 1: (points at animal) What’s that?

Human 2: Cow.

Human 1: (points at bug) What’s that?

Human 2: … little cow.

Human 1: But it’s so much smaller. Who would have use for such a small cow?

Human 2: (panicking but in too deep to stop now) God.

derinthescarletpescatarian

The “Lady” in the name “ladybug” is the virgin Mary. People just cannot stop giving religious names to this bug.

The reason for this was that if you lived in an agrarian society then your survival was a throw of the dice every year, depending on the success of the crops. A failed crop year is a very hard year where deaths are expected. And if you grew a cereal like wheat, there were several things that could cause your crops to fail, but one of the big ones was if you happened to get a fuckton of aphids. You know what eats aphids? Ladybugs! If there are lots and lots of ladybugs around, there was a good chance that it’d be a good crop year! They were little crop protectors! When your family lives or dies on the success of that crop, of course they’d be seen as a blessing and given an appropriate name!

magical-bear-dubin

That is such an interesting etymology!!!!

And entomology too i guess

asparklethatisblue

in German they’re Marienkäfer which also pretty much means “Mary’s Beetle”

istadris

In French it’s “Good Lord’s Beast”

Not even a cow, it’s just a little Creature but we know for sure God loves it.

dent-de-l1on

In Dutch it’s “Lieveheersbeestje”, the Good Lord’s Little Beast

A liddol creeture

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reblogging a funny low note count textpost on your dash made by your mutual's mutual kinda feels like walking up to two strangers on the street and laughing loudly at their joke