A Seeker's Delight

[trilllizard666]

i don’t wanna sound like a trad or anything but uhhhhhhhhh

that “drag kid” ain’t fuckin normal bro

children don’t belong in nightclubs or bars or strip clubs in generally and they ESPECIALLY don’t belong on the stage and it’s also like

dude why is this kid also promoting sex stuff?

that’s really creepy

and just take one look at the expression on that kid, looks like he’s seen some shit

but if you talk about how creepy that is you get called a homophobe like

the fuck?

[trilllizard666]

actually I’ve changed my mind, I’ve read some pretty impassioned and reasoned defenses as to why it’s okay that adult men are throwing dollar bills at a child in makeup on stage at a strip club. just normal kid stuff. absolutely wholesome. nothing wrong there.

[trilllizard666]

nah actually if i can be serious again this is disgusting, makes shit sound like an actual pedophile ring and it reflects very poorly on gay and bisexual men that have had, from the start, fight the social stigma and innuendo that people like myself are pedophiles that are grooming and preying on minor boys like get the fuck out with that shit

that’s fuckin creepy and it reflects really badly on lgbt people

[radbeing]

[unclefather]

[botanyshitposts]

lads i was really just going about my life today and i came into my genetics lecture and my professor put both hands on the podium and explained to our suddenly silent 200+ person lecture hall that a chinese scientist has just created the world’s first GMO babies by taking human embryos and modifying them to be resistant to HIV. there are two of them and they’re twins. apparently we don’t know yet if it’s successful but it was at a conference where a ton of GMO researchers were discussing if genetic modification of humans should be allowed and if so to what extent and apparently this dude got the microphone and said ‘ive already done it’ and showed some data (apparently not a lot though) and there’s a ton of drama happening right now because ‘what the FUCK do you MEAN you already did it????? what the FUCK dude?????’. my professor kept saying to us with complete sincerity ‘this is important, this is really, really important’ and anyway i just…….what a time to be alive, you know?

[botanyshitposts]

like i dont feel comfortable taking a stance on any of this without more information but i do know for certain that god, i wish i could have witnessed that room of GMO researchers when this dude got the mic and was really like ‘i have modified human embryos’ 

[botanyshitposts]

more info provided to me by @sunsetsovercitylights: 

Hey! I’m a scientist who works with gene editing and can def give you more context on the gmo babies! tldr it’s unethical and Not Great, but basically there’s been an (unenforceable) international moratorium on gene editing humans since 2015. It’s maybe illegal, maybe just advised against in China. The university, hospital, and government are all denying knowledge of it tho, which makes this super shady. (1/?)

Here’s the thing: gene editing has been used in therapy in humans, but 1. patients give full consent and 2. cells are removed from the body, CHECKED, double-checked, then put back in, because gene editing can have off-target effects and we want to avoid those, and 3. only cells that can’t be inherited are edited, so that an individual is only giving consent to alter their own body, not their children and/or the general gene population. NONE OF THOSE THREE HAPPENED IN THIS CASE. (2/?)

It’s extremely unclear if the parents knew what was happening, other than that the dad was HIV+ and the research was supposed to prevent the kids from getting HIV. (There are a LOT of cheaper and more accessible ways to do this than gene editing). So far, the scientist hasn’t proven that he checked for (or prevented) off target effects - but we do know one of the kids is a mosaic, meaning only SOME of her cells were altered. This could be really bad for her health, we literally don’t know (3/?)

This guy waited until he had produced human beings to make his announcement, didn’t consult the public, other scientists, or regulatory boards, and sprung the announcement RIGHT before the human gene editing conference - which signals that he did this for his own sake, not for science. He’s set a dangerous precedent and potentially damaged the public perception of gene editing, not to mention endangering those children (the edit made them more susceptible to West Nile). So. Fuck that guy. (4/4)

……👀

this is…quite literally the wildest shit like i understand the incredible temptation to try something just to see if it could be done, every scientist understands that, but holy shit dude what the fuck? 

idk this has a LOT happening and im not gonna be able to address all of it but my thoughts right off the bat: current gene editing (see: modifying someone’s existing genome. different from this case because in gene editing, the person is born and is displaying symptoms of a genetic disease, where here the embryos are being modified before birth) is pretty life changing and very safe and effective from my understanding of it and what i’ve been taught, and it makes me angrier knowing that this might set back that kind of science that’s more ethical in terms of consent. i also don’t like that the lives of these kids are gonna be inherently controversial. i also don’t like……………uh…..almost all of this, actually. like this is A Lot, holy shit. 

[obstinaterixatrix]

https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2018/11/26/gene-edit-claim-alarms-scientists/k05eDIwu10UMWwQqtV1i1O/story.html

[tween-daze]

[nexya]

I love how humans have literally not changed throughout history like the graffiti from Pompeii has people from hundreds of years ago writing stuff like “Marcus is gay” “I fucked a girl here” “Julius your mum wishes she was with me” and leonardo da vinci’s assistants drew dicks in their notebooks just for the banter and mozart created a piece called “kiss my ass” so when people wish for ‘today’s generation’ to be like ‘how people used to’ then we’re already there buddy we’ve always been

[charlesoberonn]

The Hagia Sophia has inscriptions that were considered sacred for centuries until they were deciphered in the 70s to be Nordic runes saying “Halfdan wrote this”

[terminallydepraved]

my old english prof told us that theres a cave in Scandinavia where a viking gratified some runes like 14 feet up on the wall and when they finally reached it all it translated into was “this is very high”

[loremerchant]

Ancient Shitposting

Now on the History Channel

[self-critical-automaton]

‘People have literally just always been people’ is genuinely my favorite fact about the world

[skaletal-deactivated20190721]

“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.” - Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106 BC - 43 BC

[super-star-destroyer]

Common dog names have literally not changed in 3,000 years.

[ash-soka]

so not nearly as old but, this is a 12th century stave church in lom, norway (one of less than 40 left in the world)

it’s hard to see, but in the top left corner of this photo where the light comes in from the window, there’s a runic inscription

these photos show it more clearly, it’s easier to see in person. so of course one of the people i was travelling with asked what it said, and we were told it basically translates to:

“on this day, I climbed to this point, in the corner of the church”

people really have always been people

[thatfunnymeme]

[kateordie]

[memesandfunshit]

The greatest ending in film history

[toastbutteregg]

MICROSOFT EXCEL

[tr3velyan]

only 90′s kids will remember

[chickenissiriat]

what the fuck is e.

[eurydixe]

I am horrified that I recognise all of this how long have I been on this hell site

[priceofliberty]

A deleted scene from Sacha Baron Cohen’s ‘Who Is America?’ may have pointed to an elite pedophile sex ring

Even more shocking than Dick Cheney or guns for kindergartners was a scene from “Who Is America?” so dark Sacha Baron Cohen didn’t include it in the show.

“We wanted to investigate how does someone like Harvey Weinstein gets away with doing what…get away with criminality, essentially. And the network that surrounds him. We decided that Gio would interview a concierge in Las Vegas,” Baron Cohen describes.

Baron Cohen’s most shocking encounter came when, in character as Italian playboy Gio Monaldo, he convinced a concierge to help him find an underaged boy to molest.

During the interview, believing the admission would drive the concierge from the room, Baron Cohen, as Gio, reveals that he’s molested an eight-year-old boy.

“This guy starts advising Gio how to get rid of this issue. We even at one point talk about murdering the boy, and the concierge is just saying, ‘well, listen, I’m really sorry. In this country, we can’t just drown the boy. This is America we don’t do that,’” Baron Cohen describes.

After the concierge offers to put Gio in touch with a lawyer who can help “silence the boy,” Baron Cohen asked for his help securing a date for the night.

“He says, ‘what do you mean, a date?’ I go, you know, like a young man. He says, ‘well, what kind of age?’ I say, lower than Bar Mitzvah but older than eight. And he says, ‘yeah, I can put you in touch with somebody who can get you some boys like that.’”

Rather than airing the segment, Baron Cohen and his production team turned the footage over to the FBI, “because we thought, perhaps there’s a pedophile ring in Las Vegas that’s operating for these very wealthy men. And this concierge had said that he’d worked for politicians and various billionaires.”

According to Baron Cohen, the FBI decided against pursuing the tip.

[einsteinofcats-deactivated20140]

i used to think that a foot of parchment was a lot and feel bad when harry potter characters were assigned to write that much

but then i realized the paper i write on is 8.5 by 11 inches.

so a foot of parchment is the equivalent of like, a page and a half of paper.

they complained SO MUCH about essays that were like

a page and a half

wtf guys

get your shit together

[sweetwineandroses]

No wonder Hermione always got onto the boys for not doing their homework.

[cosmic-aria]

it’s honestly not even a foot and a half it’s just one sheet of paper. a foot is 12 inches. like dang if i had to only write one page long essays in school about cool magic shit then i would have been ecstatic.

[roachpatrol]

also 12pt times new roman— the standard assigned size and font for a lot of essay assignments— produces significantly smaller text than a muggleborn teenageer with a pen and ink quill would be able to manage on the regular, no matter how dedicated she was. ron and harry are frequently noted to be using large handwriting on unlined paper. their homework would have been about three short paragraphs if they were feeling studious. 

no wonder hermione was so fucking exasperated! muggle students their age would have strangled them. 

[space-fey]

Oh

[protect-and-love-animals]

I Photograph The Special Bond Between My Dog And My Duck To Show How Sensitive Animals Can Be

My name is Natacha and I am a 18 years old amateur photographer living in a farm in the Southern France. I love to combine my two main passions - animals and photography - in one.

My newest photography series is about the friendship between my dog and my duck. Vendetta, the dog, is an old German Shepherd female. And Lemony is an Indian Runner Duck.

Vendetta is such a sweet and friendly dog with everyone and every animal that when Lemony arrived in our home as a duckling in June 2018, I hadn’t any apprehension of putting them together. To my surprise, Lemony was absolutely not afraid and started to follow Vendetta everywhere.

Vendetta is completely in love with water so naturally I began to take Lemony together with us to the lake, and then even to the woods and the city.

It’s really important for me to show this special bond because I truly hope that this will help people to see ducks in a different way - not only as “foie gras” or something, but as the sensitive animals they are.

Still, I’ve got a lot of projects and shooting ideas with them but here are some shots that I wish you to show. I hope you will enjoy them!

Photographer

[sosuperawesome]

Resin Leaf Hair Pins

Fairy Meadow Flowers on Etsy

See our #Etsy or #Hair Accessories tags

[anthropologyarda]

Jewelry for Mirkwood

[mightymargaretofanjou]

Y'all can keep at it with that “Romeo and Juliet fell in love in five days how immature” shiz but Macbeth went from no murder to yes murder in like one afternoon and I feel like one of those is a significantly bigger problem than the other

[frankie-steins-leg]

In his defense his wife triple dog dared him and called him a pussy

[nemfrog]

Toads. Exploring nature with your child. 1952. 

[ilustrariane]

The Violinist’s Daughter

Another warmup sketch of Christine Daaé, based on a lovely photo of Amy Manford as Christine. i love her so much <3

[whitelinesandversace]