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@smallandscared
i never see positivity for us so: if you had bad grades, dropped out, or cheated your way through school i love you so much and you deserve the world <3
did yall know you can reblog this without tagging it with "i was a gifted kid but-"/"i was in honors and never cheated but-"/etc.?
did you know you can just reblog positivity for people who did shitty in school without mentioning how you did well in school?
“What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless : well educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.”
-Sylvia Plath, the unabridged journals
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@hopepunk-humanity
Billy: When I first joined the League I was terrified they were gonna find out that I’m just pretending to be an adult. But then as time went on, I discovered that they were all also pretending.
Billy: They aren’t also all kids that can transform into adults, they just don’t know what they’re doing either.
Billy: So now I’m even more terrified because apparently grown ups are just as lost and confused as everyone else and no one understands anything.
thinking of when vincent van gogh said that “poverty stops the best minds in their tracks” and how art would see a new era if we funded struggling independent artists instead of hiring talentless nepotism babies.
MARVEL (½) PHASE 4: FINALISED DATES OF RELEASE
Batfamily Illustration Gallery
I finally have enough drawings for a little gallery! IDK why I’m excited about that, but I am. These were so much work, hours and hours of art, and now I get to kick back with my pot of coffee and be like ‘yeah…I can f*%$’in draw’
Honestly the biggest disappointment I had researching ABC was that medieval authors did not, in fact, see the creatures they were describing and were trying their best to describe them with their limited knowledge while going “what the fuck… what the fuck…”
Instead all those creatures you know came about from transcription and translation errors from copying Greco-Roman sources (who themselves got them from travelers’ tales from Persia and India - rhino -> unicorn, tiger -> manticore, python -> dragon, and so on).
So unicorns are real
behold… a unicorn
I always thought animals in medieval manuscripts looked like the result of having to draw say. A Tree Kangaroo, but your only source for what it looked like was your friend who heard it from a fellow who knows a man who swears he saw one once, whilst very drunk and lost, and I am SO PLEASED to find out this is, in fact, the case.
Questing Beast
- Neck of a snake
- body of a leopard
- haunches of a lion
- feet off a hart (deer)
So is it
Or….
don’t forget that some of the legendary creatures they were describing were from other people’s mythos which were passed down in the oral tradition for gods know how long. You know what existed in Eurasia right around the time we were domesticating wolves into dogs?
these beasties. For a long time, science had them down as going extinct 200 thousand years ago, but then we found some bones from 36 thousand years ago. Which, y’know, is quite a difference. Since you can bet that any skeleton we find is not literally the last one of its kind to live, many creatures have date ranges unknowably far outside the evidence.
In South Asia there were cultures that described a man-beast/troll forrest giant who’s knuckles dragged the ground, and everybody from the west was sure it was superstitious mumbo jumbo, but you know what used to live there?
And did you know that some of the earliest white colonizers of the Americas heard accounts that there were natives still alive who had seen and hunted and eaten a great hairy beast, shaggy like the buffalo but much bigger, with a long thin nose like a snake and two giant fangs… so, like, mammoths, you know? but they were totally discounted because europeans of the time were like, elephants live in Africa and aren’t hairy, you can’t fool us, pranksters!
Anyway, the point is between the early writing game of telephone description thing talked about by OP, and the discounting of native cultural accuracy, I’m pretty sure most legendary creatures are in fact real animals one way or another
It can’t explain every single legendary creature, but yes, this is super important. Because History relies on written sources, it tends to sweep oral tradition under the rug, even if there’s a lot of interesting informations in it.
And it’s not just living animals that were badly described, or which descriptions got exaggerated over the course of centuries or through translation errors. Sometimes, people finding fossil bones of extinct animals might have also influenced some myths!
By now this is pretty well-known but it has been theorised that the Greek myth of the cyclops was started when people found Deinotherium skulls. Now you might say, uh, how is it possible to think a cousin of the elephant is a huge human dude with one eye?
Well-
- the big nasal opening kinda looks like an eye if you have no idea what kind of animal had this kind of skull (you can read more about this theory in this old National Geographic article if you like).
Here’s a less well-known one; the griffin is a mythological hybrid with the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle. The earliest traces of this myth come from ancient Iranian and ancient Egyptian art, from more than 3000 BC. In Iranian mythology, it’s called شیردال (shirdal, “lion eagle”). Now, it’s been the subject of some debate and it’s not confirmed, but there’s a theory that people might have seen some Protoceratops and Psittacosaurus fossils in Asia and might have interpreted it as “a lion with an eagle’s head”:
Check the “origin” part of the wikipedia page for “griffin” if you want to find more sources for this theory and for the arguments against it! Again, it’s just a theory, but I think it’s super cool.
This is a pretty well accepted theory for why dragons (or animals we group as like dragons, eg wyverns and drakes) are seen in mythos almost worldwide - because people found dinosaur bones, looked at them, and went “oh fuck what’s that? some big…. lizardy thing?” and then created dragons.
This is so cool!
#ooof yes i would get stabbed in the thigh for you without hesitation but will i answer to your text? probably not (x)
sorry guys…
So I finally got my sister to watch the umbrella academy and her favourite characters are Allison, Klaus, Reginald .....like wtf child why do you like fuckinf REGINALD ?!?!?
Writer friends, I discovered a fun website today. It’s called “I Write Like” and here’s the description: Check which famous writer you write like with this statistical analysis tool, which analyzes your word choice and writing style and compares them with those of the famous writers. Let me know which autor you got!
…I guess that’s it then 😂
Oh my god
I tried this with five different pieces to see if it was consistent and got Agatha Christie for four of them and Anne Rice for one. Also tested it on some of my older stuff and still got Agatha Christie so… hurrah for consistency?
(The Anne Rice one was by far my most pretentious piece - stylistically speaking - so the difference isn’t that surprising)
Huh cool.
“I just want to be remembered as a good guy, because it’s what’s most important.” - Cameron Boyce Rest in peace, Cameron.
hey so uhhh here’s an important update on what’s apparently happening at the border, especially with the use of the old japanese internment camps
all i can say is i’m sickened by this mess, by the atrocities committed against innocent people. and now there will be no surveillance. no one will be able to see what happens to these people. the UN, the media, and any other human rights organizations cannot get into these facilities, either, in order to stop what’s happening. by the way, coast guard members were apparently aiding in this process as well. so now it’s only a matter of time before it becomes a military movement.
no one gets in. no one gets out.
so when are we going to call this what it is? it’s fascism. it’s genocide. and if we don’t stop it now, it’s going to be disastrous.
contact your senators, your representatives, anyone that’s in office that can get off their lazy ass and do something.
can y’all please reblog this i’m begging
Life is beautiful sometimes, if you look closely enough
so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god
okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post
Do you know where I could watch Voltrons season 1 episode 1?
Assuming you don’t have/use a Netflix account, I personally use Watch Cartoon Online* for all my animation needs. I use it to rewatch all my favorite childhood cartoons.
*the link will take you to Voltron: Legendary Defender’s page. Seasons 1 - 5 are up.
Enjoy! ♥
- Mod Shiro
*Avengers End Game trailer summed up for those who haven’t seen it yet*
Tony: *dying*
Steve: *crying*
Natasha: *worried*
Bruce: *hurting*
Thor: *mad*
Nebula: *sad*
Clint: *depressed*
The Fandom: *stressed*
Scott fucking Lang: LETS GET THIS BREAD FOLKS!!!!
