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Not sure how universal this experience is, but Tolkien’s concept of sea-longing resonated with me because I grew up in a coastal town and every time I have to live for an extended period of time away from the coast, I get this almost claustrophobic feeling that only goes away when I return to the seashore
There was a famous Norwegian author who described the ocean as “the last healthy thing in a sick world” and I feel that
genuinely upset that the Graceling series isn't popular because it's prime Tumblr fandom material like genuinely the world building is fantastic and the whole graceling thing AND seven kingdoms thing makes it perfect for OC creation, the stories are fascinating and entertaining and the leading characters in all 4 books are women, written in an interesting and stereotype defying way, there's explicit poc, queer, disabled representation (both main and side characters!) , discussion of class disparity, a great analysis of how a world would work when a section of the population has randomly assigned magical abilities, THERE'S AN ENTIRE NEW ALPHABET, and most importantly the writing is genuinely entertaining and fun and capturing. if I could change one thing about Tumblr it would be to make this fandom more popular Kristin Cashore deserves the world
Story time:
In middle school biology, we did an experiment. We were given yams, which we would sprout in cups of water. We then had to make hypotheses about how the yams would grow, based on descriptions of yam plants in our books, and make notes of our observations as they grew.
Here’s what was supposed to happen: we were supposed to see that the actual growth of the plant did not resemble our hypotheses. We were then supposed to figure out that these were, in fact, sweet potatoes.
What actually happened was that every single student in every single class lied in their notes so that their observations perfectly matched their hypotheses. See, everyone assumed the mismatch meant they had done something wrong in the process of growing the plant or that they had misunderstood the dichotomous key or the plant identification terminology. And, thanks to the wonders of a public school education, everyone assumed the wrong results would get us a failing grade. We were trying to pass. We didn’t want to get bitched out by the teacher. Curiosity, learning, science - that had nothing to do with why we were sitting in that classroom. So we all lied.
The teacher was furious. She tried to fail every student, but the administration stepped in and told her she wasn’t allowed to because a 100% fail rate is recognized as a failure of the teacher, not the class. It wasn’t even her fault, really, though her being a notorious hard-ass didn’t help. It was a failure of the entire educational system.
So whenever I see crap like Elizabeth Holmes’s blood test scam or pharmaceutical trials which are unable to be replicated or industry-funded research that reaches wildly unscientific conclusions, I just remember those fucking sweet potatoes. I remember that curiosity dies when people are just trying to give their superiors the “right” answers, so they can get the grade, get the job, get the paycheck. It’s not about truth when it’s about paying rent. There’s no scientific integrity if you can’t control for human desperation.
“There’s no scientific integrity if you can’t control for human desperation.”
Yo @gallusrostromegalus we got another one for the “Raw Quotes” series!
the fundamental difference between instagram and tumblr
straight comic fanboys with Fight Club Syndrome™️: they RUINED venom 🤬 venom is supposed to be DARK and BROODING and INTIMIDATING like all male antiheroes
actual venom comics:
Venom: you are the dancing queeeen... young and sssweeeet...
Eddie: babe I love you but it's 3am, PLEASE shut the fuck up
Tara Jane Art on Instagram
6) I still have my braces through December. 😖
7) I don’t know or trust most of you. 😂😂
8. I actually like the whole mask thing because I can smile to myself & I don't have to be anxious about making a weird face when I'm trying to disassociate in peace on the fucking bus.
9. I don't know or trust most of you.
10. I have a pimple on my chin and masks are perfect to hide the lower half of the face.
11. I don't know or trust most of you.
12. I can lipsing songs without anyone seeing.
13. I don't know or trust most of you.
i dont get offended at white people jokes even though im white because:
i can recognize white people as a whole have systemically oppressed POC in america, which is where i live
most people when they make white people jokes only mean the shitty white people and i am not a shitty white person
im not a pissbaby
my white friends that have reblogged this give me life
4. Sometimes I am a shitty white person and the jokes remind me to FUCKIN STOP
If ur white and like this post I fux with u
^absolutely
5. It’s hard to be offended when white people jokes involve bland food/tourist dads in socks and sandals/white girls in yoga pants obsessed with pumpkin spice/suburban PTA moms and other harmless and mostly true stereotypes while jokes about POC involve them being called thugs/criminals/slurs/uneducated/illegal immigrants.
i fucks with u heavy if ur white and you reblog this
6. They’re usually really fucking funny and don’t perpetuate stereotypes that will ever affect me economically, politically, or cause me any true harm, let alone create risks that “justify” my murder and/or death
Waits for my white mutuals to reblog😌
yesyesyesyes
7. I still don’t know how to season chicken
8. they’re actually really funny and spot on i mean what’s not to like? yeah i go nuts over cheese bc i’m a white people and we love our cheese, that is accurate and funny
9. I love the one about the awkward white person smile because I actually do that 🤣!
babe wake up new US state just dropped
I'm gonna look this up. And if the US got a new state today, and I found out on tumblr, I'm gonna go outside and scream.
HOLY FUCK Washington DC is gonna be a state. Imma go outside and scream now.
it's not passed through in the senate yet (as of 4/22/21), but the house passed a bill to make it a state. the importance of this is huge, both because it's super blue, but also because it deserves representation for it's nearly 700,000 residents
source from washington post
If. You live. IN WEST VIRGINIA. YOU NEED TO BE LIGHTING UP JOE MANCHINS PHONE. IF YOU LIVE IN UTAH YOU NEED TO BE LIGHTING MITT ROMENY'S PHONE. IF YOU LIVE IN MAINE YOU NEED TO BE LIGHTING UP SUE COLLIN'S PHONE. IF YOU LIVE IN ALASKA YOU NEED TO BE LIGHTING UP LISA MURKOWSKI'S PHONE. We need 2 things to make this happen: 1) we need to abolish the philibuster 2)we need midline democrats and moderate republicans on board. Listen to me: Party line Democrats are going to go with the flow on this. THE ONLY POSSIBLE FUCKING CHANCE IS IF SCHUMER AND BIDEN GET RID OF THE FILIBUSTER AND PEOPLE IN STATES WITH SWINGABLE SENATORS SHOW UP AND PUSH HARD. ARE WE CLEAR? We need this. It's so fucking important. Because if we get DC? Puerto Rico and Guam and American Samoa are next and my god. Do you understand how fucking important is that these places have a voice in our laws? LOOK AT THE DEATH IN PUERTO RICO AND ENLISTMENT TO SERVICES RATE IN AM SAMOA THE TELL ME THAT ISN'T WORTH FIGHTING FOR.
They may not be bringing it to the Senate floor until after the 2022 elections, because as it stands, they don’t even have all the democratic senators they need backing it, let alone the additional ten republican ones it would currently require for it to pass. There’s a strong chance we’re going to have to flip more seats in the senate before we have a shot at seeing this pass into law, so now’s a good time to start looking at which seats are considered possible to turn blue and what you can do (besides donate) to help see that happen.
I've made this post like six times but it still fucks me up the China's mountains just look like that. Like I spent decades thinking it was stylistic but no, they just have different mountains over there.
For reference, here's what my local mountains look like:
Here's the general art style Chinese mountains are drawn in:
And here's how some of them actually look:
What the FUCK
I’m specifically reblogging this here because I know there is a geological reason for this and I know at least one of you has to know it.
thank you
So it was a white woman who killed Botham Jean, and a white woman who killed Dante Wright, and it’s been white women at the center of almost every video of someone unjustly calling the police on black people, and it’s white women who have been directly or indirectly responsible for many horrific massacres of black peoples across the US like the one in Wilmington and the famous Tulsa massacre, and it’s white women who have a deep history of weaponizing their white womanhood by falsely accusing black men of rape even so much as to accuse black children like emmet till which resulted in the entire civil rights movement, and white women who constructed the idea of preserving the confederacy, and it’s white women who have gained freedom by steeping on the backs of black women, and white women who have fought to preserve the racist ideals of the 50s Nuclear family, and the list goes on and on and on and on.
So are we ready to talk about how white women are not incidental participants in white supremacy but rather the architectures and safe-guards of it?
the more ghibli films i watch the more i’m convinced hayao miyazaki is the only man alive who understands what love is
no one will ever really Get™ true love and romance like the people who make studio ghibli films do
If you haven’t ditched the Amazon-owned Goodreads in favor of the independent, Black-owned StoryGraph, what are you waiting for?
You can import your Goodreads data (so you won’t lose years of book tracking)!
You can get personal recommendations based on your current preferences!
It’s sleek af!
IT’S NOT OWNED BY AMAZON
Users can apply content warnings so you can avoid triggers before ever opening a specific book
The same applies for ‘mood’! Wanna read something sad? Find books tagged as ‘sad’, that’s literally it
IT’S NOT OWNED BY JEFF BEZOS
Addressing some comments in the tags: It’s true that the database isn’t as vast as Goodreads’ - yet. The site is much, much newer than Goodreads. But you can actually help them expand!
When you search for a title, you may not find what you need. Then all you have to do is click the handy “Can’t find the book you’re looking for?” link, and you’ll be taken straight to this page, where you will be able to help them find books to add to their database! If you can’t find that non-English book you’re looking for, help them out!
Y’all I am cackling
Hold on, I'm not American I gotta search this...
OK this is freaking hilarious
Okay Han was just like vibing and then these two hot twins were like. Can u help me overthrow the government. And he was like damn I guess
Yes🤍
“Baikal Zen”: Rocks that have fallen on the ice of Lake Baikal are heated by sunlight and emit infrared rays that melt the ice below. Once the sun is gone, the ice becomes solid again, creating a small support for the rock above.
scrolling down I was like “oh what a cool idea! someone skipped stones on a lake and took high speed photographs to get these pictures where it looks like the water is holding up the stone which is kinda was does happen a-oh, no. nope. it’s just Fucking Lake Baikal up to its god defying nonsense again”
everyday I wake up and I miss Dark.
