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Still yet to get the hang of this... It gets better soon, promise.

[notjusthespongenextdoor]

I'm coming to realize how vital it is to keep a running list of shit you did in the past few weeks so that you can participate in small talk. It's literally not anything to do with them being interesting at all it's just having Something to say to give people even the barest thing to hold on to. It's so you don't get into the "what have you been up to" "nothing much what about you" "yeah same" trap. Literally just say something.

What have you been up to? Um well it's getting warmer so I've been having to brush my cat every day.

Like no it's not that interesting of a thing to say. But now they can respond to it. They could say, man yeah it really is heating up, I've been trying to think of things to do inside more often. Or, oh you have a cat? What's their name?

Like. It's Something. All you need is Something. And if you're like me and your brain immediately goes blank upon entering small talk then keeping a list will help you remember things to say.

[vinceaddams]

It's nice that loud noises don't stick to clothes like smells do. That would be really bad if they did.

[girlwithwhitebeltinmoshpit]

[frustratedasatruar]

Sticking this on the outside of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.

[catasters]

[moonlightredfern]

Sound on

[girlwithwhitebeltinmoshpit]

[snekysonjr]

Dad nobody hurt me (Poseidon design by the great @neal-illustrator)

[mumblesplash]

it’s so magical and beautiful that there are sprawling interconnected cave systems carved deep into the earth by various geological forces and you don’t have to go in them. there are miles and miles of stone passageways in total darkness that require you to exhale all the air out of your lungs to squeeze through parts of them and you don’t have to be there. some of these squeezes are underwater and require cave divers to take off their oxygen tanks and push them through ahead of them and me i am above ground looking at the sky as we speak. there are untold subterranean wonders no human has ever seen and i will not be the one to discover them #grateful #blessed

[mumblesplash]

cave divers when they are happily married with kids and beloved by their community but theres a crack in the bottom of a lake called The Devil’s Rotting Esophagus where 57 people have died

[elaulora]

A drawing I did some time ago for the Frieren collab I was a part of I decided to draw Frieren with her teacher, Flamme, and later on with her apprentice, Fern. Having the passage of time as a central focus of the series, I depicted different phases in Frieren's life through the four seasons, each season reflecting a different stage of life 🌻🍂❄️🌷

[dearparentheses]

Tokuhiro Kawai

[no-where-new-hero]

“I’m sure good pussy cats go to heaven.”

Emily of New Moon, LM Montgomery

[orpheuslament]

more men should be on their knees begging desperately. like in general

[bnq]

Truth Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind

[ceekari]

unmute for the unfathomable sounds of mankind being shamed

[anythings-a-sweet-if-you-eat-it]

boring take from real 21st century idiots: bdsm is bad because it's basically torture

interesting take from a fictional 14th century monk: torture is bad because it's basically sex

[midnights-dragon]

In case anyone is having a bad night

(The best of this post and its reblogs, but with links that work)

Here is a website where you can scroll down to all the different levels of the ocean 

Here is a website where you can see the future of the universe

Here is a website where you can press a ‘make everything okay’ button, over and over, until things really are okay

Here is a website that you can read if you feel like a burden

Here is a website where you can look at strobe illusions (TW strobe/flashing)

Here is a website where you can cut stuff up (TW blood/sh)

Here and here are websites where you can play with sand

Here is a website where you can draw with macaroni and other fun foods

Here is a website where you can paint someone’s nails

Here is a website where you can grow a garden with emojis

Here is a website with hundreds of videos of people hugging you (rightfully dubbed ‘the nicest place on the internet’ because it really is, y’all, it made me cry)

Here is a website that will take you to other useless websites

Here is a website where you can make a tiny cat play bongo drums (and other instruments!)

Here is a website to help give you gentle reminders <3

Here is a website where you can grow a tiny farm

Here is a website where you can take a bunch of scientific personality tests

Here is a website of calm rain noise

Take a breath. It’s going to be okay, I promise.

[blazeofgold-deactivated20190921]

i know this isn’t really original but im obsessed with how english words that refer to the bodily, the tangible, the elemental etc are so often of anglo-saxon/germanic origin e.g. (heart, blood, jaw, flesh) or observable phenomena, like adjectives describing light (glisten, gloaming, glitter, gleam, gloom, glow, dark, fire) or places (hearth, hall, hill), and the most stark, primal emotions or states (hate, love, life, lust, death) and of course fuck, shit, bitch, cunt etc– these often monosyllabic, consonant heavy words…and then you have the lilting, limpid romance/latinate, words like acquiesce and exacerbate and agrarian and pellucid and clemency and lucidity…and how maybe the secret of all great english language poetry is a textural balancing of the push-pull of the germanic and the romantic/latinate, a balancing of these two energies. like some of the most powerful moments in shakespeare are where the verbosity falls away and you have these plain utterances (“to be or not to be” or lear’s dying “look there look there”– all anglo saxon words) that are so powerful precisely because the language is so ornate elsewhere. i once came up with an elaborate wildly incoherent theory about this in the pub with some drunk american masters student who was dressed like harry styles

[a-screeching-dragon]

Pull thyself together. The voice was sharp, contemptuous—the voice he thought of as Setheris, but Setheris would be exulting in his downfall. Perhaps, he thought in half-hysterical whimsy, it was the Emperor Edrehasivar VII, rebuking Maia Hobgoblin as a steward would a scullery boy.

individual images without text bubble under the cut :] please look at them i spent way too much time rendering these

[svandendragon]

Mirnatius from the Spinning Silver The devil himbo of the story. ~

Mirnatius, le beau gosse inquiétant de l'histoire.

Dessiner des gars n'est toujours pas dans ma zone de confort, mais je fais des efforts.

[mysharona1987]

[ghost-mantis]

There’s actually a few things here that majorly dropped childhood mortality. In no particular order these include…

Vaccines (yay!)

Pasteurization

Implementing and enforcing food quality and sanitation standards. Did you know White Castle was called as such because their gimmic was that they continually cleaned and bleached their stores inside and out to prevent food poisoning.

The invention of antibiotics! The first sulfa drugs dropped in the 1930s-40s

Widespread access and distribution of enriched food products! Enriched flour did a lot to prevent malnutrition, and it’s how Wonderbread got its name!

We got a hell of a lot better with medical care for sick and premature infants. The first incubators for premature babies were actually used as something of a sideshow attraction at Coney Island! It was the only way the doctor who invented them could get funding to keep them running because no one thought it would work. It showed a lot of people that really premature babies could survive with the right treatment and eventually was adopted by hospitals.

The green revolution in agriculture that prevented around a billion people from starving to death

More recently it’s been widespread access to mosquito nets and medication to poorer and rural areas

[elodieunderglass]

Prenatal care has absolutely improved around the world, but please also note something else:

Stone-carved gravestones in Christian churchyards and sprawling municipal cemeteries are by no means a universal death ritual, and demonstrate most significantly “the ability to spend money on a stone-carved gravestone” combined with “cheap enough local real estate that people haven’t dug it up (yet).”For example, in the United Kingdom, a gravestone and a private grave are only allotted temporarily, especially in very urban areas; leases on graves are often 99 years but can be as low as 25 years (for a cheaper burial, when your mourners might not be expected to need 25 whole rent-paying years to memorialise you.) particularly old or interesting gravestones may remain in situ because they are old or interesting, not because every single person who’s ever been buried remains buried forever.

They are a remarkably poor record of modern population, as well, because…

People don’t want to be buried any more. They especially don’t like the idea of burying children. Burial rates in the UK have crashed, with only 17% of people saying they want to be buried themselves. The vast majority of that 2016 survey preferred cremation for themselves, and would like to have their ashes scattered or placed somewhere meaningful.

That’s absolutely not to nitpick the premise of the post, but to gently remind others that the idea of “death” - as recorded forever by a solemn gravestone with flowers in eternally preserved real estate - in this tweet’s vision from around the 1900s to now was always quite invisibly American, Christian, middle-class and frankly odd; it is increasingly unfashionable; and that the reason you do not commonly see child gravestones is not because children are not dying, but because children are not buried.