"And, hast thou slain the Jabberwock?"

Title and URL credit are due to the great Lewis Carroll and are from his poem, Jabberwocky.

[swan-bones]

Lily of the Valley Field

gouache on paper, 2018

by Kelly Louise Judd

[ifuckinglovestvincent]

st_vincent: Tweakin.

[aurorae]

[archaeologicalnews]

Battle-Scarred Viking Shield-Maiden Gets Facial Reconstruction for First Time

When the sword came down upon her head, the blade cut her to the bone. Scientists studying the Viking woman’s fractured skull 1,000 years later still aren’t sure whether the blow actually killed her — however, the trove of weapons buried with her make it clear that she died a warrior nonetheless.

That Viking, who lived and died around the year 900, was first excavated from a farm in Solør, Norway, in 1900. Her head rested on a shield, a bridled horse skeleton lay curled at her feet, and her body was boxed in by a sword, spear, battle-ax and arrows. When a quick analysis revealed the skeleton to be female, it was immediately interpreted as the first physical example of a shield-maiden — a mythical female warrior only referenced in medieval texts before then.

Now, for the first time, researchers at the University of Dundee in Scotland have used facial reconstruction technology to re-create that maiden’s appearance — including the wound that may have ended her career. Read more.

[oxidi]

Terror of the Broken Mirrors John Thornton

[knifeforsale]

SAY IT WITH FLOWERS VINTAGE POCKET KNIFE | LISTING

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[armadilhamusical]

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Personal Jesus - Depeche Mode

[theclawsthatcatch]

Can I get a personal Jesus but not in a religious way?

[dylanefinger]

Fiona Apple - When the Pawn Hits the Conflict He Thinks Like A King… Not official - just for fun! I love Fiona so feel free to use for personal use. 

[lsleofskye]

Burg Eltz | stefan.schwittek

[leepacey]

not to be sappy on main BUT one thing that i really loved when studying linguistics was that the more important a word is, the earlier the concept of this thing was given a word. for example, the word water is similar in many similar languages (aqua, agua, água). so, the more important a word is, the more languages it’ll be similar across and the older this word will be, theoretically and generally speaking (many other things also affect this)

AND SO in my years studying linguistics, there was one word that was nearly identical across so many regionally different languages (though there are outliers of course), from europe to most of asia to subsaharan africa to indigenous languages. across nearly all languages this is the first word people learn how to say and maybe the first word humans in general officially named and defined:

mamãe - portuguese 

妈妈 (māmā) - chinese

ਮੰਮੀ (mamī) - punjabi

mamah - mayan (yucatec)

мама - bulgarian, russian, ukrainian

ماں (mäm) - urdu

মা (mā) - bengali

mẹ (may) - vietnamese

ママ (mama) - japanese

అమ్మ (am'ma) - telugu

mama - quechua

મમ્મી (mam'mī) - gujarati

അമ്മ (am'ma) - malayalam

amá - navajo

엄마 (omma) - korean

eme - native hawaiian

onam - uzbek

aana - yupik

mema - tagish

μαμά (mamá) - greek

mama - swahili

أمي (umi) - arabic

mayi - chichewa

माँ (ma) - hindi

mam - dutch

ម៉ាក់ (ma) - khmer

แม่ (mæ̀) - thai

அம்மா (am'mā) - tamil

අම්මා (ammā) - sinhala

amai - zulu

ama - basque

आमा (āmā) - nepali

အမေ (amay) - myanmar (burmese)

mamá - spanish

mom/mum- english

this isn’t actually the first word because we teach babies this word (most likely), but because the “mama” or “ama” sounds are the easiest things for babies to say, and it’s nearly always the only thing they can say at first, and adults across all languages defined their language around that.

babies all over the world for thousands and thousands of years all started out blabbering sounds like “mama” and mothers everywhere were all like Oh Shit That’s Me! I’m Mama!

[theclawsthatcatch]

So grateful I’m going to be mama soon. ❤️

[loversonamission]

Fiona Apple + When The Pawn Music Videos

[theclawsthatcatch]

I thought he was a man but he was just a little boy.

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the faery realm

[vegaschapters]

i just googled my symptoms and it turns out what i need is a good defense cause im feeling like a criminal 

[blueeyes910]

[life]

From an unpublished 1946 story on the Eureka, Illinois Pumpkin Festival - the Queen of Pumpkins. (Wallace Kirkland—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #pumpkin #LIFEmagazine #1940s

[queen-mayhem]

the intensity of the rage men direct at harmless girls doing harmless things would be hysterical if it wasn't so terrifying

[queen-mayhem]

seriously, search "VSCO girl" on any search engine or social media site. at best, it's cruel mockery. it rapidly devolves into threats of violence against teenage girls for... wearing scrunchies and putting stickers on their water bottles.

i have a theory that "VSCO girls" are hated in particular because there's nothing sexy about it. it's almost deliberately unsexy, with the crocs and the oversized t-shirts and no makeup. it's childlike without appealing to a pedophilic gaze. it prioritizes female friendship.

it's also cute as heck. you go girls. drink your water. be environmentally conscious. have strong, close friendships with other women. wear comfy clothes. take care of your skin and hair. make your life beautiful, celebrate (nonsexual) beauty.

[theclawsthatcatch]

Teenage girls have always been trend-setters. I think this is one of the reasons jaded, grown ass men resent them so much.