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xixsem

I DID THIS IM VERY PROUD OF IT YOU KNOW WHY

BECAUSE

WAIT FOR IT

LORDE OF THE RINGS

vixyish

But every day’s like

Gold ring, greybeard, trippin’ on the mushrooms

Blood-mad Nazgul trashin’ the hotel room

We don’t care

We got to Rivendell across the stream

And everybody’s like

Mountains, dwarf mines, presents from the Elf Queen

Rowboats, rock paths, Gollum on a rope leash

We don’t care

Yeah we’re simply gonna walk in there

breewolfstuff

Cuz we’re going to Moooooordor

(Moooooordor)

zhenya-grey

I finally found the original. I will now put it on my blog, bless this legendary post that ended up a meme

were--ralph

kjscottwrites

consolecadet

These remind me of this drawing by Franz Kafka from the 1900s. We've been feeling this way for a long time.

smol-civet

prev, i'm sure you mean my guy Leonid Pasternak

hamletthedane

9th century illustration of a miserable saint (probably Matthew) trying to write

Pottery art from 450 BCE Rhodes, Greece, showing a very stressed out woman (probably Sappho) trying to write

Fragments from ancient New Kingdom Egyptian tomb circa 1350-1333 BCE showing several scribes in the depths of writing hell

transgenderer

employment is wire mother, grad school is cloth mother. how did i not realize this before

tepkunset

when you ask a knowledge keeper something and they say "good question"

imoriginalvisual

Luke Skywalker in The Mandalorian but it’s Toxic by Britney Spears

gallusrostromegalus

I’m gonna propose something: if your combat/ass-kicking sequence can’t fit to a top 40 female-vocalist Banger like “Toxic” or “Mama Mia” or “I Need a Hero” you’re not Doing It Right.

fatsexybitch

At this point its starting to feel like Editors are using 140-150bpm as a standard for action sequences, and I cant say I hate it.

homestuckphobia

I agree wholeheartedly with every point above but I watched this first with the sound off because I forgot that was an option and what struck me most is how efficient Luke's lightsaber style is. Almost every flourish he makes and all of what, 2 entire spins?, is defensive to better parry blaster fire while nearly every offensive swing he makes is basically a head or chest level kill shot. If I had to make a guess about his character I'd say this vintage twink has probably Seen Some Shit and maybe comes from a background where resources are scarce and help is far away so if you get in a fight you have to end it before it starts or you're dead meat

screamting

deeply want a time travel fic where Luke visits the old republic and the Jedi are like “that’s not a dueling style” and luke is like “yea am not doing much dueling tbh”

ode-on-a-grecian-butt

art by Curtis Lanaghan

deathcomequickly

Andrea Spencer Glassworks

Whoa.

maimonideznuts

Good news everyone... We finally know why Cassowaries have the Casque (horn like protrusion on the head)

It fluresces in a UV spectrum that they can see, and every Cassowary has a unique pattern like a fingerprint. Shiny dinosaurs!

Cassowaries possess prominent keratinous and bony cranial ornaments, called casques, which have been suggested to function in visual signali

that-dinopunk-guy

I feel like taking a UV light to the Mesozoic would be very educational.

maimonideznuts

I feel like Dilophosaurus would just be a big carnivorous Cassowary

canadianwheatpirates

My favourite commentary on this so far was "can museum curators go and throw a blacklight rave in the bird collection to see how many of the others do this?" 🤣

grison-in-space

Worth noting that the authors have confirmed that the fluorescence is within the range of cassowary visibility, which is a bit of the puzzle that often gets missed in viral stories like this. Really neat work!

headspace-hotel

It's incredible to think about how our range of perception limits what we can understand about the world just with our senses.

When animals have bright colors we can see, we think to ourselves, "Oh, there is a reason for the color." But the world is full of colors we cannot see. Songs we cannot hear. Smells we cannot detect. A world of meaning, if only we could look with the right sight to unlock it.

weltenwellen

Joy Sullivan, from “Culpable”, Instructions for Traveling West

uhanekahiko

Polynesians did also rely on a form of a physical map called a stick chart, illustrating the specific wave and swell patterns surrounding different island chains. These were particularly helpful during cloudy conditions when the sun and stars were less useful. To navigate the Marshall Islands, the Marshallese represented ocean swell patterns using parts of coconut fronds and shells as islands. Like a subway map, they don’t so much represent distances as they do relationships. The complex and decorative stick charts were often only understood by the person who made them. They were memorised before a voyage by the pilot who would lie on the floor of a canoe to get a sense of swell movement and often lead a squadron of 15 or more boats.

baddestvenus-in-virgo

sometimes I am just amazed at how my ancestors managed to navigate the entire Pacific Ocean with these. knowledge that was nearly lost and is being re-learned.

gamebird

AH! I'd heard of these, but this is the first time I've come across pictures.

nasa

One last look at Earth before we reach the Moon. This view of the Earth was captured on April 5, the fourth day of the Artemis II mission, from inside the Orion spacecraft. The four astronauts will reach their closest approach of the Moon tomorrow, April 6.

botherbug

mantis mouthparts source

bogleech

I've reblogged this before but I'm realizing a LOT of people think insect mouths are as simple as just a pair of mandibles. As you can see, it is actually a whole device. A complete doohickey. There's a lot of bits to it.

sugar-pink-poison

That's a whole machine right there

crabussy

thinking about diatoms again

crabussy

microscopic living stars made of glass that eat the sun. and they're all around us. in every body of water. glass sun-eating stars.

crabussy

I like them a lot. they produce up to half of all earth's oxygen. the air you breathe is thanks to sun-eating stars made of glass. and that's pretty cool.

crabussy

and you know. like oblongs and triangles and some other bullshit