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Tumblr Code.
If I ever see any of you in public, the code is “I like your shoelaces”
that way we know we’re from tumblr without revealing anything
I’m just going to say this to strangers until i find a tumblr person
must keep reblogering!! Im going to be so suspicious if any one tells me this now!
Remember the answer is: I stole them from the president.
always reblog tumblr identification
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something that i DO find fascinating abt both phm and interpretations of it is when folks say things along the lines of “the point of grace’s lack of attachments isn’t that he’s aroace, the point of grace’s lack of attachments is that he’s refused to open himself up enough to form ANY close bonds because he’s a coward” because like. not only is it very possible for both to be true, i think that reading both as being the case continues to enhance the story AND speaks a very honest truth about how being aroace might have affected his life?
like. imagine you are grace. you have a life you enjoy where you get to teach kids you’re fond of about a subject you love. you’ve been hanging out with your friend marissa weekly for years (!) and you have a lot of peers on project hail mary who you respect and even have fun with. but! you’re also like 40, and you know how the world works - at the end of the day, at the end of the project, all of those people will go back to their parents and families and partners. the people whose names are on their emergency contact forms and birth certificates and marriage licenses and apartment leases. no matter how much you care about them, and no matter how much they care about you, there is always someone else in their life who is Above you, and Before you, because That’s How The World Works.
so like… yeah. lmao. aroace grace not opening himself up all the way because he anticipates pain and wants to avoid that is a kind of protective hedging that i find very likely for him to engage in? even if he opens himself up to the people around him, the fact is that most of those people will only reciprocate to whatever degree they/society deem acceptable for friendship, even if they like him a lot.
which is why, imo, the very careful portrayal of grace and rocky’s friendship in the phm film reads as extremely aroace-coded. because it’s not “rocky specifically is Special and Likable in a way which fixes all of grace’s hangups and allows him to open up” - it’s “rocky has a partner to go home to, but on multiple occasions, puts grace Above and Before that in a way which grace is unused to, because grace comes from a society which culturally and legally devalues the types of relationships he wants and holds most dear.” and once rocky shows that he is willing to reciprocate friendship and care to a degree grace could never expect from anyone on earth, grace no longer needs to maintain the kind of emotional defenses he always has. grace likes rocky and wants to be friends from the moment they meet, of course, but only lets himself form SUCH a close bond after rocky demonstrates that he, too, does not place an earth-society-style limit on the strength of their friendship. and they’re both better off for it!
you're not making enough of stone fruit season. that's another thing you're fucking up. a few dozen stone fruit seasons you get your whole life. you need to take a hard look at your peach and mango consumption.
none pizza with left beef
It should be a rule of Tumblr to always reblog none pizza with left beef
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like to charge, reblog to cast.
RIP to the legend
This goose fucking rocks and had a crazy life!
I really just have to summarize Thomas's entire life:
He was in a committed relationship with a male swan named Henry for 18-24 years before a female swan named Henrietta showed up and mated with Henry.
Thomas was initially jealous of the pair and attacked them, breaking 2 of the 5 eggs Henrietta had laid. However, once the remaining eggs hatched, Thomas warmed up to them and helped raise them.
Henry couldn't fly because of an injured wing, so Thomas taught the cygnets how to fly.
When they needed to reduce the goose population in the pond where Thomas and the swans lived, they dyed Thomas's feathers red so he wouldn't be separated from Henry.
Henry, Henrietta, and Thomas remained in their happy throuple for years and raised 68 cygnets before Henry died in 2009. After Henry's death, Henrietta found another swan and flew away, leaving Thomas alone.
Thomas finally met and mated with a female goose in 2011 and had his own babies. However, another goose named George stole them and raised them himself.
As Thomas grew elderly and blind, he was relocated to a wildlife center where he raised orphaned cygnets.
His caretaker at the center described him as "pretty high maintenance."
Thomas died in 2018 at the age of around 40. He had a funeral that included a small coffin and a procession that was led by a bagpiper. He was buried under the stone where Henry was buried, the two finally reunited in death.
Before and after his death, Thomas has been celebrated as an icon of the LGBTQ+ community for obvious reasons.
I love him so much 😭😭😭
The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.
Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.
So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.
Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.
oh shit
As the OP of this post, I’m going to threaten that if this gets to one million notes by the 10 year anniversary on 1 June 2026, one year from today, I will get a lower back tattoo of the loch ness bear monster.
I know it feels like a lot but I really believe we can do it 20k notes per day isn’t that hard to do?
I’m sad because at this rate we might not make it
Come on come ooooooon
im trying to go to sleep but i cannotttttt stop thinking about this and laughing
Listen, we have to keep this thing circulating on the internet for at least another two decades, because I have to believe that one day that little girl will be grown enough to stumble upon it and She Will Explain
We’ve made it 5 years folks
We need answers!!!
very disappointing when someone says "the bird app" and for one lovely moment I think they are talking about Merlin Bird ID by Cornell Lab, the free app that allows you to identify birds by appearance or sound, make a list of birds you have seen, and explore all the birds native to your region.... and then I realize they are talking about twitter.
Official ornithology post
No but seriously what the fuck did Merlin and Arthur talk about on the way home from the Labyrinth of Gedref. Did the two of them just ride back to Camelot in dead silence waiting for the other to bring up that they're now seemingly prepared to to die for each other no questions asked ???
I would pay money to read this fanfic, especially if it's over 100k words. I am that desperate
i tried to be funny and it backfired miserably
it’s 2014 it’s time we moved on as a nation and stop reblogging this
every person who reblogs this in 2015 is gonna get their ass kicked by yours truly
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How's life treating you in 2026 Bo0zey? Still waiting?
For those who have missed it, a tourist in Hawaii decided it would be fun to chuck a rock (a BIG rock) at a monk seal. He missed, but he was captured on video, and when told it was illegal to interfere with them, said "I'm rich, I can pay the fine."
Is the best part that he got doxxed? No.
Is the best part that he got tracked down by a local and beaten? No.
Arrested on state at federal charges, looking at up to 5 years and 50K? Nope.
The best part is the local city council's reaction.
And the best part of that is the look on the attorney's face.
Morgana takes Merlin instead of Gwen to the Dark Tower AU
Part 1, Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4 , Part 5 , Part 6 (You're here) , Part 7 , Part 8 , Part 9 , Part 10 , Part 11 , Part 12 , Part 13 , Part 14 , Part 15 , Part 16 , Part 17 , Part 18 , Part 19
In Morgana’s Lair
A bird arrives. For a moment, Morgana’s stern expression softens, thinking it's a long-awaited message from Merlin. But as it lands, her brow furrows. This is not the raven she has given him.
She unties the scroll with quick, impatient fingers. It's from the Dochraid.
The King of Camelot knows your slave. He seeks the Cauldron of Arianrhod to cleanse Emrys.
Morgana: (in disbelief and fury) No!
“It is troubling to see that attitudes towards gender equality are not more positive," said Julia Gillard of King’s College London.
>Particularly among Gen Z, our data shows an interesting duality: they are both the group most likely to agree that women who have a successful career are more attractive to men but are simultaneously most likely to agree that a wife should always obey her husband and that a woman should never appear too self-sufficient or independent.
Incredibly stupid things are happening
I know these two things seem contradictory, but there’s nothing a conservative man loves more than to tear off an angel’s wings. There are plenty of women that would willingly choose the obedient SAHM lifestyle, but these kinds of men always seem to go for the opposite. Why? Because it’s a power play. There’s no need to break a horse that’s already broken, and that would do nothing to validate that man, his ego, and his place in a world he sees as designed for him.
Another factor is that these men avoid dating conservative women who already want the lives they want them to have because those women's standards are too high. Specifically, such women expect to be the obedient stay at home mum, but they also expect their men to be the masculine ideal from the other half of the equation -- they tend to look down on their men if they cry, they expect them to be able to financially provide for the household, they want them to uphold their end of the bargain. You see this again and again in groups of conservative men who go out of their way to date liberal women; there is a power play, to tame someone untamed and bring her into line with his expectations, but there's also her lack of expectations of him. They want a woman who will do all the household and keep the home but ALSO will not reject him for not being able to afford to finance the family alone. They want a woman who'll respect and obey him but ALSO be fun and relaxed and let him show whatever emotions he wants. They want the Perfect Trad Wife who won't expect him to be the Perfect Trad Husband.
You see the same thing in conservatives who complain that all their leftie friends are abandoning them, but who won't just hang out with right wing friends instead. They don't want to hang out with other righties because a group of righties quickly becomes judgy and hateful and socially competitive, and is only fun to hang out with when they want to vent, whereas their leftie friends were more relaxed and fun. They want license to be unpleasant and expect unreasonable things of others, but want the people around them to be pleasant and not expect unreasonable things of them.
We have some excellent commentary here, but I want you to keep in mind an adage that will serve you well on the modern internet.
"If something immediately makes me feel anger, repulsion, or joy, with even a simple blurb, it's probably manipulating me."
First off, Newsweek is hardly an unbiased source these days. The majority shareholder is Dev Pagrad, is exceptionally wealthy, and has been repeatedly pushing newsweek to be an arm of the right wing's propaganda machine. It is HARD LINE far-right, Anti-trans, anti-woman, anti-immigrant, anti-science To cite the Southern Poverty Law Center (by way of Wikipedia)
In November 2022, the Southern Poverty Law Center reported that Newsweek had "taken a marked radical right turn by buoying extremists and promoting authoritarian leaders" since it hired conservative political activist Josh Hammer as editor-at-large. It noted the magazine's elevation of conspiracy theorists, publication of conspiracy theories about COVID-19, views such as support for a ban on all legal immigration to the United States and denying adults access to trans-affirming medical care, and failure to disclose potential conflicts of interest in the content published on Hammer's opinion section and podcast. https://web.archive.org/web/20221106005834/https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2022/11/04/newsweek-embraces-anti-democracy-hard-right
Newsweek, when even linking to the study it cites, doesn't... actually link to the study. It just links to newsweek's "study" tab. It does MENTION the study, which allowed me to track it down. https://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/almost-third-gen-z-men-globally-agree-wife-should-obey-her-husband IPSOS is a MARKETING FIRM, whose CEO Jean Laurent Poitou, was the former head of Accenture, under whose leadership, sure did a lot of fraud, engaging in tax avoidance, and other such conservative-leaning behaviors, and who generally is affiliated with the traditional right. Let's add another one. The group "Global Institute for Women’s Leadership at King’s Business School, King’s College London" just so happens to be at the school that the Current CEO of newsweek is not just an alum of, but is a major contributor to the funding for. It's always weird when something extremely polarizing comes from, a group that's directly funded by the CEO or owner of the conservative newspaper that's publishing it, as well as from research done by a Marketing firm in the pockets of wealthy conservatives! Funny how that always seems to happen! But if we actually look at IPSOS's study, you'll see that a lot of the numbers have been gently massaged and their methodology is EXTREMELY opaque. After all, they're not a scientific institution. They're a MARKETING FIRM. The biggest conclusion if you read their own paper, is ACTUALLY, that MOST PEOPLE seem to hold progressive views on women's autonomy, but think that THEIR COUNTRY still majority holds draconian views on women's autonomy. Things their own study says:
A Majority of Gen Z believes that women shouldn't "always obey" their husbands.
A Majority of Gen Z has concerns that their society holds draconian beliefs about women.
What the results of the SPIN on this facts, as well as how many in the comments are reacting, is actually perpetuating the Traditional Right's views on Gender and Marriage. I need you to understand that it actively benefits the traditional right when you lean into gender essentialism and believe that Men Are Evil. That Men Are Monsters. It makes the default assumption of men be that they will always be predators, meaning that when they DO do something predator, nobody's surprised; well that's just how men are; when he finds the RIGHT woman who can Tame Him, then he'll behave; that's the duty of a woman after all; to put up with men abusing her until she finds one who is the Right One, who she can handle. What this article ALSO does, is scare progressive women, scares queerfolk, scares young folk, and makes conservatives feel emboldened and empowered. You need to ALWAYS, ALWAYS, remind yourself: "If something immediately makes me feel anger, repulsion, or Joy, with even a simple blurb, it's probably manipulating me." And more than that, you need to remember the follow up:
WHO BENEFITS FROM MAKING ME FEEL THIS WAY?
There was not a headsman in Camelot that would fell Merlin.
“Sir, when Gaius did his rounds in the villages, Merlin saw to my wife. It took him four days. I cannot raise an axe against such a man, magic or no.”
“He spoke to my brother on the fields after the battle. There was nought he could do, but he spoke with him. Gave me his last words. My lord.”
“He sharpened my blade last, sire. I was out for a cough and he did it himself. I can’t kill a man with the axe he sharpened.”
In fact, Arthur hadn’t asked for the headsman, just as he hadn’t asked for Merlin to be in the dungeons. He wasn’t entirely sure when his kingdom decided to plod along without him, but Arthur seemed to have blinked and everyone decided to just carry on.
If Arthur had half a mind, or even a quarter, he supposed it was because that look Merlin had given him in the dungeons still hadn’t left him. It had frozen him, stunned him more throughly than a blade. The confession he hadn’t so much as suspected. I have magic.
He’d known something was wrong for months, or at least, the two months it had been since his father died. Merlin had pulled him aside after the mourning had finished and asked him to take a day off with him in a month. Arthur had tried to get a rise out of him, the king’s manservant for two minutes and you’re asking for a break already, but it had been met somberly, with none of the matching humor.
Arthur had been like a groomer before putting down a hound. Merlin had woken him late, fetched all his favorites, and told him they were going out into the woods. He’d already gotten the horses saddled and packed, all they had to do was leave.
It was the first real breath Arthur had taken since putting on this suffocating weight of the crown. The endless meetings and decisions and people trying to test how long his patience would last.
It was a perfect day, which was why he knew something was wrong. They had chatted endlessly, about nothing. Merlin told him snippets of gossip and Arthur had the freedom to choose his words about fellow nobles carelessly. The freedom of honesty over diplomacy.
Merlin had set up a sort of camp for them by the river, pulling out all sorts of foods and a blanket. To sit and bask in the sun for a while, watching as Merlin ran his hands through the grass as he did Lamerei’s mane.
Too soon they were due back. Though they did not allow that to spoil their enjoyment.
When the horses had been returned to the stables and Merlin had brought up their dinner, tossing grapes at Arthur with the accuracy of someone who spent time in the pillory and not aiming for it, their enjoyment gentled. There was a peacefulness in the dark that wasn’t the same brightness as the noon sun on a clear day. Arthur had allowed a single glass of wine for them both, though Merlin hadn’t seemed to finish his.
It has been a soft day, a warm one. Theirs above all else.
“I have one last thing for the day, sire. Though I must apologize that it will quite ruin the mood.”
Merlin had led him out of his chambers and towards the dungeons. And still Arthur could fathom no reason why.
Not until he had walked himself into a cell, a hound putting itself down, and confessed.
I have magic.
Merlin did not look as though he would be moved, and Arthur could not divine what to say. He felt submerged beneath ice. Rigid and airless, unable to claw his was towards the surface. Towards sense.
He’s shown little courtesy, though he wasn’t sure Merlin would fault him, dazed as he was. Arthur had drifted back up into the castle, leaving Merlin to the quiet cell. Merlin hadn’t offered him anything else, but then Arthur hadn’t asked him too. It was not the sort of thing that could be settled, no score would calm that piece of himself, and he suspected for Merlin, it was the same.
His morning had begun with a sort of parade. First, the headsmen, who had made it clear none in the citadel or lower town would be bought for any price. Maybe even the whole of the kingdom. Though Arthur had not offered one.
Next, his staff. George had no prattle for him, the kitchens only scraps. The steward would not meet his eyes and the laundresses had tinted his tunics.
The guards would not acknowledge him or so much as look at him. But then, he knew it would be the knights he had to worry about. Gwaine found him in the middle of listening to all the castle staff.
“This is how you reward his loyalty?”
It could be none but Gwaine who said this, interrupting Arthur’s dawning understanding that Merlin has spent the last month putting his affairs in order. Putting Arthur’s affairs in order by speaking to almost every staff member he could about what to do in his absence. Who to have take on Merlin’s tasks, since he’d guessed that Arthur would decline all attempts at taking a new manservant. And Merlin’s own reluctance to suggest one since none could guarantee their loyalty. Oh yes, Gwaine had said something.
“What would you have me do?”
Gwaine looked like he would fight his way through the laundresses and throttle him.
“Getting him out of that blasted dungeon would be a start.”
Arthur gestured for the laundresses to leave, he didn’t want to risk Gwaine’s direct approach being too direct.
“To what end?”
Gwaine was standing before him now, before the throne, and Arthur was focused on his sword. Not drawn, but there all the same.
“The ban.”
He nodded, because of course Gwaine of all people would get to the point. Arthur looked from the sword to Gwaine’s face and no longer saw outrage.
“You didn’t put him in the dungeons.”
Arthur was tempted to laugh.
“No. He did that himself, last night. Closed the door behind him.”
Gwaine blew out a breath and muttered a few words under his breath that Arthur himself had often cursed, selfless, idiot.
“And you let him?”
At this Arthur did laugh.
“When has he ever given the impression that he listens to me?”
Gwaine seemed to be really looking at him now.
Considering him.
“So how do you plan to get him out?”
And that was the question, wasn’t it.
“Well, the headsmen won’t execute him. The staff have been trying to impress upon me that there really is no one who can take over his responsibilities. His duties to the king. My guards won’t acknowledge me and so far only one of my knights has turned up to discuss treason. Where are the others?”
Gwaine shot him a grin.
“I pulled the short straw. The rest are down with him, though I think there was a line last I checked.”
He still hadn’t thawed completely. He felt numb as one did after a blow, though he could still move his arms. Gwaine has forcing him through his range of motion, conversationally leading Arthur through his paces. Not letting him falter or quit the session altogether. Not after only a single blow.
“Could you send someone to the kitchens? Don’t say it’s for me but have it sent to the library. And ask Gaius to meet me there. I think we’ll have to have a long talk with Geoffrey.”
if u ever think ur being overly petty and bitter just remember there once was a portuguese prince whose dad assassinated the woman he loved & when he became king he literally had her body exhumed & placed upon the throne as his queen & forced the portuguese nobility (aka most of his father’s supporters) to pledge their alliance to her & kiss the hem of her clothes so that they would “render her when dead that homage which she had not received in her life” (x)
WHERE DO YOU PEOPLE EVEN GET THESE STORIES FROM???! DO YOU LIKE MAKE THEM UP OR SMTH??!
yeah… or i’m portuguese and know my history
okay so like, this is one of my favorite parts of Portuguese history
and it’s not because I have the same name as her or anything (even tho it’s definitely a factor - because how cool is that?!? - and I kinda used - and sometimes still use, let’s be real here - that as an excuse to call myself a queen because reASONS and shut up you would do the same)
but because that shit is like the stuff of legends and there is a whole myth surrounding their love story and the supposed place where she was killed - on the king’s orders near a fountain in the farm where she secretly lived with prince Pedro - because there’s a red stain there and it’s said that when she was stabbed she cried for the king’s men to spare her children (if memory serves me right) and her tears landed on the fountain and turned red because she was terribly devastated and in pain thinking only of her children and how she was going to leave them without a mother when in the last moments of her life…
and also, you know that prince? before he did that thing when he exhumed her just to make her ~officially~ his queen - and have everyone who ever opposed to them and their love kiss her clothes to pay her homage and the respect she did not have in life?? like that shit savage bro - he did another thing, even more savage than that
he searched the whole country for the two dudes who stabbed her (there was a third but I think he died or smth), even went to spain because one of them fled the country after the king died, and he fucking RIPPED their hearts out (one from the front and one from the back, because Inês was stabbed from both sides too) and tortured them in public, y'know, as you do
and that, my dear friends, is why the story of Pedro and Inês is considered one of the best love stories on our country (and I would say the world too because that shit better than anything Shakespeare or Nicholas Sparks ever wrote and it was fucking real)
my boy Pedro didn’t fuck around when you fucked with his lady, and you lyin’ if you say you don’t want you a freak like this - this Extra™, this ride or die, this savage - when it comes to love.
listen up, girls and boys, take note: follow their example and get yourselves a freak who would crown you queen after you were killed
TL;DR: basically Portuguese history has the best love story in the world and its the most savage thing you could imagine. go look it up - the story of Pedro and Inês. *mic drop*
Reblogging to add even more awesome contest to a previous reblog
People thinking this is fake is genuinely why I insist there is more history outside BBC shows about the Tudors. Yall are missing on some prime telenovela shit here on the little iberian peninsula
