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moniquill

utah-mountain-drifter-deactivat

lacefuneral

vine eleven

polyphonetic

something something bushes did 9/11

mousetrapreplica

back in the day medieval times was so big it covered all of europe. now its so small it fits in some restaurants

redstonedust

tbh shoutout to the over 40s on tumblr, sorry the internet acts like yall belong in the retirement home when ur literally just regular adults with hobbies

ordinarytalk

I was going to leave comments in the tags, but I decided this was important enough to put on main.

In college, my friend group collectively got into the SCA - Society for Creative Anachronism. They're the people who get really into medieval reenactment, the fighting and crafts and cooking, they have kings and queens and knights and events and a good percentage of them (but not all!) work or have worked at Ren Faires.

I am forever grateful my friends dragged me into that, because it was my first introduction to fandom in older adults. Middle-aged dorks. Elderly nerds. Absolutely as intense and weird and hilarious and fun as any fan in their teens or 20s. I started getting into fandom already knowing there was a road ahead for me as I got older, full of handmade costumes and late night movies and shelves of pewter dragon goblets and mixed-aged road trips to meet ups and conventions.

And it kills me that so many people don't know that sort of community even exists. On both sides, even! I went to Philcon a few years ago, which tends towards older fans, and an older woman I was talking to sadly told me that she thought fandom was dying out, because she never saw younger fans any more.

Over the past decade, there's been a really toxic movement towards keeping different ages strictly separated, both in and outside of fandom. There's this strong implication that if an older person wants to interact with a younger person, there is something inherently predatory about that.

Yeah, that attitude sucks. That drive towards separation and puritanism sucks. Declaring that younger people should have nothing to look forward to and that older people should stay separated and lonely sucks. It sucks and we are all worse for it.

Don't fear age. Don't put an age limit on having fun. Give yourself a damn future.

durnesque-esque

Beverly passed away in 2019, but she was one of many of my favorite, elder cosplayers that frequent DragonCon and remind all of us to keep playing as long as we can.

i-was-today-years-old-when

i learned that there's a Japanese beetle that when eaten by a frog will haul ass through its digestive system and escape out the back end unscathed (x)

jacobtheloofah

you eat me and i perfectly dodge all of your digestive enzymes and stomach acid and i sprint out your asshole fully intact

vurelly

"you don't have to complete this drawing right now you can always come back to it later--" i have adhd and if i stop at any given point then this project will be dead to me, there will be no coming back to it later

tributary

this slaps honestly

tributary

for everyone who wants to make this bread, i found a few recipes

A delicious whole wheat, seeded, pull-apart sourdough bread from about 2000 years ago whose characteristics have been reconstructed by food

Based on carbonized loaves found in Pompeii, archeologists have recreated the recipe for Roman bread. Now, you can make it at home as well.

2,000 Year Old Bread Recipe From Pompeii

tributary

everyone asking how they knew the eggs were hardboiled instead of just being cooked by the eruption: have you ever eaten several raw eggs

afloweroutofstone

Love this feature honestly

hedgehog-moss

I was at the coffeeshop in the village and someone asked me how my llamas are doing, and a woman overheard and told me that when she was a kid, her parents used to have a couple of llamas in their sheep farm, and every single sheep in their flock imprinted on one of the two llamas. Each sheep chose the best most charismatic llama according to mysterious sheep criteria, and never wavered in their ovine loyalty. Each of the two llamas was worshiped by a small sub-flock of devoted sheep who followed him everywhere like Jesus’s apostles and only left their field for transhumance when led by “their” llama. The funniest thing is the way this woman overheard the word “llama” and immediately came to sit next to me to tell me this, like she had waited since childhood to share her bewilderment about the two religious congregations of sheep led by rival llama prophets in her family farm.

augustdementhe

I’d have trouble keeping that in myself.

weaselle

i love how 100k of us feel the same need to tell everyone that she felt

huffylemon

ok I take back what I’ve said about contemporary art. This is amazing.

villainous-queer-deactivated202

THIS is what art is about. I bitch about modern art a lot but the problem I have is that most of it (and I've worked in a museum and been an art student) is bullshitting. It is only sometimes you get shit like this, that is 0% bullshit and 100% raw screaming emotion that is demanding you LISTEN and FEEL and CONFRONT. This is art. This is what art is about. Are you mad? Are you horrified? Are you uncomfortable? GOOD.

emi--rose

The only thing in the art institute that reliably makes me sob is the collection of AIDS related art. The pile of candy in the corner piece specifically fucks me up.