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@sheepofice
Sneak 100
I mean, the little bugger's basically invisible until like ten feet away...
I’ve seen coyotes do this in real life. Just like in predator, I was just watching some kind of weird shimmer going through the sagebrush. Even though I knew what it was I couldn’t make myself see the dog.
May I present to you Wheel Running In the Wild, a published research paper that delights me to no end:
This paper intended to test whether would mice would run on a wheel if they found one, to try and determine if this was a natural behavior or a stress response in captivity. They put a wheel in a protected little box with a camera that took pictures any time the wheel turned, and tallied up how often it was used by what.
Mice were, happily, the most common users of the wheel, and their patterns of use indicated they were doing so voluntarily once they figured it out.
But the second most common users.
Those were slugs.
I would not have guessed this in a thousand years. I am delighted.
This just made me unreasonably happy.
My therapist just told me my problem is that I need to write more fanfiction.
This sounds fake but the logic behind it is actually really interesting? She said obsession with a new fandom triggers quick dopamine release when we consume all this related content--it's easy and addictive.
What we're NOT getting is that 'slow dopamine' that's more sustainable and engaging. That's the kind we get from DOING things that take effort but are ultimately rewarding.
So like, she suggested that writing fic and making fanart are ways to balance the quick dopamine of watching a show/reading fic with the slow dopamine of working at something that takes effort.
Moral of the story is you should engage in the process of creation around your favorite things. You'll feel better for it.
Oh.
OH.
Let's all go do fandom.
FOR SCIENCE!
:)
can you draw kettricken and fool being besties. also i love you
they are besties. and i love you too
Gods, I miss them!
hey do you remember how FITZ AND KETTRICKEN SLEPT IN THE SAME BED and then THE NEXT MORNING THEY KISSED ON THE BROW AND THE CHEEK AND THE MOUTH and then fitz just went on his merry way like "yeah that was a normal platonic makeout session"
BECAUSE I REMEMBER
WHAT THE FUCk
I just finished the series.
I WAS MAD AT FITZ THERE! He's not just Captain Obvious, he's the King. Yeah, yeah, I know he's ridiculously depressed and has absolutely no self esteem, but I'm pretty sure Kettricken thought to herself that NOW he got it. NOW he'd realise what she felt for him
Nope.
I got so overjoyed and excited when I noticed several people started following me, so I followed them right back.
Aaand they're all sexy bots.
Dammit.
Interesting. I just got a fancy Amazon ad on my Tumblr feed, the first I remember seeing. Advertisers spending money on real not-scam actually advertising on this site is a very healthy sign. Unless you like it being a doomed out of the way webspot in which case it's a very bad sign indeed. But either way something is changing.
This is the Magic Money Van.
Reblog this and you will gain large amounts of cash in unexpected ways.
Always double check for cameras before committing crimes.
Take the cameras too
Color has been disappearing from the world.
A new research group used machine learning to track color changes in common materials and items, below is their findings for all color changes over time, they used 7000+ items from the 1800s to now to determine color changes in the most common items.
Below are the colors of cars by year, notice how the majority of cars are grey, white, or black compared to twenty years ago.
These aren't data points, but they are comparisons between the 'modern' homes of the 70s and 80s compared to the modern homes of today.
Carpets have equally had the same treatment of grey added to them! The most common color of carpet is now grey or beige.
Even locations that used to scream with color for decades have now modernized to becoming boring minimalist (and I love minimalism) personality-less locations.
The world is becoming colorless, why?
source paper
tag yourself. I’m B minor
“Kissing Doesn’t Kill“ (Black and white postcard) from 1980’s ACT UP campaign for HIV/AIDS awareness.
This is the banner that was put up on buses to create awareness! a lot of companies cropped out the bottom so I thought it would be cool to share the full version
Regardless of what you think of this tree… this comment was my favourite out of the collection of people who didn’t know deer shed their antlers every spring
it’s been years but they’re absolutely insane for having reeve and eva, orpheus and eurydice, sing winter song for the hadestown christmas album.Â
There... THERE'S A CHRISTMAS ALBUM?! HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS ASDÆLÞKJFAÆSLDKJF!
the other thing that took me by surprise is the belief that having friends outside your of your class structure is harmful.
Mycah did not die because Arya thought of him as a playmate. Mycah died brcause Joffrey thought he as the crown prince could get away with his twisted sense of cruelty (which he did). Mycah died not because he was Arya's friend- Mycah died because in a feudal society his identity ended at being a butcher's boy. There was no one out there- (no one except for Arya)- to scream to the crown for justice. no one like the highborn Oberyn Martell who would confront the Lannisters about the deaths of two highborn children. There only ever was Arya. Arya who realized that Mycah never mattered to her father's men. Who blamed herself for the tragedy. Who kept a tight hold onto Mycah's name. Who despaired at forgetting what he looked like.
Yes Arya was privileged. Yes she had her rose tinted glasses on. Yes, yes, a thousand times yes! To the fact that Arya would have never realized the extent of tragedy a common man can experience had she not lived as a commoner. But that is the thing. The narrative did not let Arya stay the rich friend unaware of the grassroots. She had her reversal of fortune and was shown what she has to work against if she wants the Mycahs of the world to survive.
Whenever the debate arouses regarding one's capability to lead- Arya is sometimes dismissed for not sticking to the status quo. I find it so terribly surprising because then the rhetoric comes down to what kind of ending does this fandom want if not a revolutionary change? When the impending apocalypse itself paves the way to factory reset the world order, how is the reader still in favour of the status quo?
Yep, and Arya’s narrative of experiencing what life looks like without the privileges she started out with is only going to increase her strong sense of justice and her sense that she has a duty, especially as someone in a position of privilege, to speak up and protect others.
Arya has never forgotten this. Like when she said that the slave masters should have died and not the slaves.
Arya has always had a strong sense of how the world should be and while that often is shown in her childlike view of right and wrong, that doesn’t mean she should become cynical or apathetic or stop trying to fight for others. She doesn’t understand why slaves would ask for death or why granting it to them is considered a kindness, similar to how she thought Ashara Dayne was stupid for jumping off a tower, because she’s young and doesn’t have the full comprehension of what life is like for people who can’t escape their situation. But that should NOT build to a conclusion of “well, I guess I shouldn’t get involved.” It should build to a realization that the people with the most power are the ones who should be enacting radical change, and I absolutely believe that is part of Arya’s narrative. That’s why she’s contrasted with the Hound, whose response to injustice is hardened apathy, and why the Hound is changed by her as well. This little girl and her dogged sense of justice reduces him to tears.
The fact that people don’t understand the purpose of Arya’s narrative will forever surprise me. There is a reason why Arya has to pretend to be smallfolk and why she is subjected to the life and experiences of the smallfolk when she escapes the Red Keep. There is a reason why Arya witnesses the injustices done against the smallfolk by the noble class she was born to. There is a reason why she is repeatedly hit in the head time and time again that even her brother’s army and even her family have done horrible things that brought suffering to the smallfolk.
She looked about to see that no guards were near, and spat three times. "There's for the Tullys and there's for the Lannisters and there's for the Starks." (Arya VI ACOK)
"They put eight people to the sword at Tumbler's Falls," he said. "They wanted the Kingslayer, but he wasn't there so they did some rape and murder." He jerked a thumb toward the corpse with maggots where his manhood ought to be. "That one there did the raping. Now move along."
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She looked at their filthy hair and scraggly beards and reddened eyes, at their dry, cracked, bleeding lips. Wolves, she thought again. Like me. Was this her pack? How could they be Robb's men? She wanted to hit them. She wanted to hurt them. She wanted to cry. They all seemed to be looking at her, the living and the dead alike. (Arya V ASOS)
"Who did it, then?" asked Gendry.
"Hoster Tully." Notch was a stooped thin grey-haired man, born in these parts. "This was Lord Goodbrook's village. When Riverrun declared for Robert, Goodbrook stayed loyal to the king, so Lord Tully came down on him with fire and sword. After the Trident, Goodbrook's son made his peace with Robert and Lord Hoster, but that didn't help the dead none."
A silence fell. Gendry gave Arya a queer look, then turned away to brush his horse. Outside the rain came down and down. (Arya VIII ASOS)
And that reason is because Arya will now truly understand what it was like for the smallfolk once she comes out of hiding and reclaims her name and title. And that knowledge is going to affect how she does and what she does in the future as a leader/politician of some sort. Arya is going to be the one that will caution against needless conflicts and wars because she knows what that does to the smallfolk and regardless of what some people think, she does care about them, deeply. A huge part of Arya’s narrative themes are justice, humility, and mercy, and these aspects are essential for a good leader/politician to have. Â
And I find it hard to believe that so many in this fandom are so obtuse or willfully blind about Arya’s narrative purpose and endgame. From the very beginning GRRM set Arya up to be an activist and revolutionary. She has always been open minded when it comes to class, culture, race, and religion, and she has always been angered by the injustices of her society. Hell, GRRM blatantly said in interviews that he modeled Arya from 60s and 70s feminist activists and revolutionaries. And Arya named her direwolf, Nymeria, after a powerful woman who brought great social change to Dorne. In Arya’s very first chapter she proclaims that “the woman is important too!” and Nymeria brought more rights for women to Dorne. The direwolves are supposed to be this great foreshadowing tool for the accompanying Stark’s, but people love to ignore the implications when it comes to Arya’s direwolf being named after a powerful woman who brought positive change to the people she ruled over. And they love ignoring how Arya’s direwolf leads a pack of hundreds. But they really love not making any of these connections in Arya’s arc, and that connection is that Arya in the future is going to use her privilege as a leader/politician is going to bring about positive change for women and smallfolk and that is solely due to her open mindedness and acceptance of people from all walks of life and because she personally knows what it’s like to live as a smallfolk. And yeah, Arya still had a certain level of privilege by being a secret lady/princess and she could have revealed it at any time, but that wouldn’t have made her safe. Imagine if she had told Bolton who she was. Do you all really think she would have been safe from Ramsay? No, they would have just forcibly married her to Ramsay instead of Jeyne pretending to be her. So it’s dumb thinking that Arya brought her suffering on by “ignoring her privilege”.
I don’t know how people can read the books and read GRRM’s interviews and come to the conclusion that GRRM isn’t going for a more progressive and revolutionary ending. It’s why all of his key five characters are more progressive than the other characters and that’s because they are going to be the rulers in the end. And it’s not even just his key five characters, the other characters he is setting up to rule their regions in the end are also generally more progressive than the average noble in these books. Asha and Edmure for instance are great examples. Edmure actually cares about protecting his people and Asha wants peace with the North rather than war and more prosperity for her people. Â
I don’t know how to tell you all this, but generally in times of great upheaval there is change. After the Black Death during the reign of King Richard II, there was the Peasant’s Revolt, where the peasants demanded higher ranges when they realized that after so much death, their time and skills were in higher demand than they’ve ever seen. And guess what? After the revolts rural wages continued to increase. By the end of ASOIAF we are going to see a shortage of people which means that more women will inherit, more bastards will be legitimized and will inherit, and more common people will be titled and made into nobility. This for example will likely change some things about their society in general when it comes to gender equality and classism from there on out. And yes, there is going to be a lot less people which means that farming and all manner of peasant trades are going to be in increasing demand which will likely lead to higher wages for those people and more women joining the workforce. Now the books aren’t going to end with the end of feudalism/monarchy and it’s not going to be a democracy, but it is going to be more progressive regardless due to these circumstances alone. But then you add in people like Arya and Dany and Jon and Bran and Tyrion and Asha and Edmure and Arianne and Brienne and Samwell and it’s hard to believe that it won’t become increasingly better for the women and the smallfolk throughout the coming years after the War for the Dawn.
And yeah, Arya still had a certain level of privilege by being a secret lady/princess and she could have revealed it at any time, but that wouldn’t have made her safe.  Imagine if she had told Bolton who she was.  Do you all really think she would have been safe from Ramsay?  No, they would have just forcibly married her to Ramsay instead of Jeyne pretending to be her.  So it’s dumb thinking that Arya brought her suffering on by “ignoring her privilege”.
What amazes me is that the same people who paint Arya as “privileged” for being a secret lady seem to get that it’s a double-edged sword when it comes to Sansa, that being a lady opens her up to other kinds of abuse, but suddenly can’t remember any feminism to speak of when it comes to Arya. The fact that Arya is in danger as a highborn girl is the reason she has to disguise herself in the first place. And then these same people act like Arya is privileged for being able to pass as smallfolk, too. Arya is in danger even when she’s able to pass as a boy because there’s the constant threat of being found out, but she’s especially vulnerable when she appears to be a common girl. The reality is that Arya is abused no matter what she does, because being a girl in Westeros sucks all around, and Arya is in a unique position because there are unique dangers for her no matter what she does and she keeps having to hide part of who she is because of those dangers. Even when she’s passing as a boy, she’s both terrified of being found out and longing to reveal herself as a girl. How can you read about her thinking that there will be knights in Harrenhal who will protect her - and then meeting with the harsh reality, because her society lies to girls - and NOT see that?
Was looking for a book today when I saw these various animal books all on the same shelf and noticed their titles made a nice little impromptu poem about veterinary medicine
Nobody has mentioned this but I am so glad you did! I’ve never heard of spine poetry and I love the concept. I found these titles at a used bookstore that stacks books pretty freely so I will most definitely be scanning the spines for poetry every time I go
we stole america just to pave it over and abandon it
when im walking surrounded by empty cracked parking lots choked full of trash. every building empty, furniture piled high in the windows, yet homeless huddling outside them. rows of small businesses dark and vacant inside, homes collapsed for years and never moved. roadkill left to rot in the street. when im surrounded by this, im wondering how this spot looked under the last caretakers. and im wondering what was ever the goddamn point beyond money to the wealthy
