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the u.s. women’s hockey team should get to throw rocks at the u.s. men’s hockey team and also beat them with hammers and baseball bats i am so serious rn

kingwizardandthelizardgizza-blog

Douglas Adams is the best when it comes to describe characters

quasarkisses

they need to teach classes on Douglas Adams analogies okay

“He leant tensely against the corridor wall and frowned like a man trying to unbend a corkscrew by telekinesis.”

“Stones, then rocks, then boulders which pranced past him like clumsy puppies, only much, much bigger, much, much harder and heavier, and almost infinitely more likely to kill you if they fell on you.”

“He gazed keenly into the distance and looked as if he would quite like the wind to blow his hair back dramatically at that point, but the wind was busy fooling around with some leaves a little way off.”

“It looked only partly like a spaceship with guidance fins, rocket engines and escape hatches and so on, and a great deal like a small upended Italian bistro.”

“If it was an emotion, it was a totally emotionless one. It was hatred, implacable hatred. It was cold, not like ice is cold, but like a wall is cold. It was impersonal, not as a randomly flung fist in a crowd is impersonal, but like a computer-issued parking summons is impersonal. And it was deadly - again, not like a bullet or a knife is deadly, but like a brick wall across a motorway is deadly.”

nudityandnerdery

And, of course: “The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.”

assassinregrets

the one that will always stay with me is “Arthur Dent was grappling with his consciousness the way one grapples with a lost bar of soap in the bath,” i feel like that was the first time i really understood what you could do with words.

jr0se-x-deactivated20160923

grav3yardgirl

i actually think about this very tumblr post at least once a week

itssjanedoe

s-h-a-s-e

catinnoodlez

the concept of michael wheeler witnessing chappell roan perform “good luck, babe!” at the vmas in full paladin drag

waterandsilver

crazy how the printer is the only piece of tech that acts up like that almost every day of its life. and we just accept it

waterandsilver

i don't think i've ever met a printer that actually wanted to be a printer. i think most printers have dreams of being on the stage

wisehearttruther

i hate when people talk shit about mike’s season 4 look like that’s my lesbian son leave him alone

ohgoodnessidunno

LOOK AT HIS FACE. HE WAS SO HAPPY TO KNOW ANOTHER QUEER PERSON.

userfish

my ducks? in a row. the elephant? addressed. my goose? cooked. my eggs? in several baskets. the bigger fish? fried.

creez-un-compte

Your monkeys ?

thereisalesbianintheforest

those aren’t mine.

its-funnytwittertweets

ginny-lala

childhoodnostalgias

POV: it's the last day at school before winter break in the early 2000s

my-dailydreams

maykitz

i hope they never stop using floppy disk icons to indicate saving your file. doesn't matter how obsolete they are it's like honouring someone with a portrait on your currency

huffylemon

aureatearthrodire

SPEΛKING FROM EXPERIENCE: IT'S KIND OF BOTH. INHΛLE THROVGH MOVTH, EXHΛLE THROVGH GILLS.

paesthethyc

immediately that visual is so cool in my head

big-condiments-official

hey what does "from experience" mean

vangoghcore

by jonathan.mllr

victusinveritas

ned6-go-away

Here y'all go pitting two bad bitches against each other for no reason.

secundus-cinaedus

no more brother wars

yokelfelonking

why would you hide this in the tags

battlefem-deactivated20170404

you wanna see some badass shit from the early 20th century?? The Lumière brothers created the first full color photograph… in fucking 1903! So these dudes dyed potatoes (in red, blue, and green), mashed them down into just pure fuckin’ starch, and used these dyed potato starches as filters to block out/let in certain wavelengths of light. They coated one side of a glass plate with the starches and sensitized the other side with a mixture of gelatin and light sensitive materials (silver nitrate) and loaded these plates in their cameras.. This is a really simple explanation of the process and I may have missed some things A few of my favorite autochrome photos:

itsoldjohn

that last one is literally a LOOK

cassiocantdrink

yes!

but lets not forget sergei prokudin-gorskiy, who developed a similar process in 1902, published in 1903 and then toured russia to take hundreds of color photographs:

AND the guy developed color slide processing as well. as a person fairly familiar with modern b/w processing at home, but never EVER stepping into color (negatives or slides) territory, i’d say, BAMF to the highest degree.

petermorwood

Here are a few more Prokudin-Gorskiy / Gorskii shots, and a reminder once again that these aren’t recently colourised BW images but original colour photos taken about 120 years ago. Many colourised pics don’t look this good. Some modern colour pics don’t look this good (as I know all too well. “Delete image Y/N? Y!”)

This is Leo Tolstoy, author of “War and Peace” and “Anna Karenina”.