as strange as the thing I know not

“Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.” ― Neil Gaiman

[fluffygif]

You asked for the “seal bounce” so here it is!

[aquaristlifeforme]

I worked here in 2018. My profile pic is that seal. 🥰

[icewolf27]

@skiplo-wave

[theoniongirl]

Me: I’m 90% sure I’ve seen this seal before

After digging into the TikTok account- yes, there is my kinda-sister-in-law, I HAVE seen this seal before in her pictures.

[aplpaca]

i love how basically everyone i know all independently came to the conclusion that vasher is aizawa but dark skinned

[tiensrocks]

here u go op

[aplpaca]

there he is

vasher stormlightarchive

[kaladinar]

Ok, but where is the lie?

[assbaka]

[theoniongirl]

One day my two-year-old discovered that she could climb on her toy chest and reach the light switch.

That day I discovered that I still remembered this video word-for-word. 

[vikingpoteto]

not to be dramatic, but Okoye telling her bitch ass husband she would end him without hesitation when he tried to manipulate her changed me as a person and cured my depression. 

[inquisitale-deactivated20211217]

“would you kill me my love?”

“for wakanda? No question.”

a woman in my theater: “oH I HEARD THAT!!!!”

[knitmeapony]

Listen.  LISTEN.  *cups your face in my hands*  Listen to me.  I have never so perfectly and purely seen a Paladin depicted in a movie as I saw in Okoye.  Lawful good to her core.  Pure, unvarnished loyalty to Wakanda and her people evident in every goddamned motion.  Dignified, graceful, reverent respect for the rules of her country and its greater good.

There is something so beautiful about faith, something that just burns through with a beautiful glow that lights up someone’s eyes and every expression.  There is a confidence and a peace that is both palpable and enviable when faith has been tested and come through intact. You could so hear it in her voice.

Personal shit is great, and I’m glad she was seen in a loving relationship.  The Lone Woman Warrior trope is worn thin, and I’m sure even thinner for black women who are often not allowed to be lovable people on screen.  But the core of the Paladin is ‘there is something greater than I, and I will sacrifice everything for it’, and it was beautiful to not only see that happen on screen but see her proved right, see her win, in one case by not even raising her weapon.  She stood firm in her faith and the narrative said yes, it said this is just, it said your very faith will protect you from harm.  And she’s not seen as hard or cold edged weapon for that.  The imagery around her in that moment is more like a saint or an angel, glowing and reaching out a peaceful hand to a symbol of one of the tribes of her country.  Her country loves her back.

Okoye doesn’t just love her country.  She doesn’t just serve her country.  She doesn’t just believe in her country.  She has unshakable faith in an absolute truth: Wakanda Forever.   She is elevated for her faith as much as her skill.  

It’s fucking breathtaking.  

[beeftea78-deactivated20200113]

What did the dog and crow frefer to?? Please, don't do this suspense thing.

OH RIGHT I FORGOT TO FINISH THAT 

so in Much Ado About Nothing Beatrice snarks at Benedick 

“I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me” 

which has always been one of my favourite lines, but, fool that I am, I took it at face value and thought it was just Beatrice saying that she finds a man’s love so undesirable and inconsequential she’d prefer to hear a dog yelling at a bird

BUT NO

IT FINALLY DAWNED ON ME WHAT THE BARD WAS SAYING WITH THAT LINE

the choice of a dog barking at a crow has a very specific connotation in context

There is a legend you may know, that of the Wild Hunt - people believed that when tempests blew, ghostly hunters and spectral hounds rode across the earth. Dogs would howl and bark in response to this spectral pack, and this was seen as a death omen. It’s tied up with hell hound legends from Germany, the Cŵn Annwn in Welsh, and our modern myths of hell hounds springing out of the underworld to kill or collect souls. 

The crow was also a bad omen, but there was also a legendary bird variously called the “night-crow” or “night-raven” - also called nycticorax. This “night-raven” is a common literary device that is said to bode evil. Later on in Much Ado, in fact, we hear Benedick say of a man’s singing:

An he had been a dog that should have howled thus,they would have hanged him: and I pray God his badvoice bode no mischief. I had as lief have heard thenight-raven, come what plague could have come afterit.

Once again, dog and raven/crow imagery. Another example of the lovers unconsciously mirroring each other, BUT IMPORTANTLY FOR US Benedick specifically prays a howling dog “bode no mischief” and that he’d rather listen to the night-raven cry - even if it means calamity - than hear any more of this singing.

There is a theory that this legendary bird, the night-crow or night-raven which augurs death, is a misidentified owl or bittern; but there is another theory that the legend of the night-crow sprang up through the legend of the Hunt. There are folk tales which tell of two ravens following the Hunt (Odin’s two ravens, no doubt), and in Danish folklore the night raven precedes the Hunt. Basically, this idea of a nocturnal black corvid which presages death may come from the Wild Hunt and the death omens of tempests and clamouring dogs, all of which were adopted into literary symbolism. The night-crow/night-raven recurs a lot in Shakespeare and contemporary plays.

Thus, in Henry VI Part 3, it is said that at Gloucester/Richard III’s birth:

The night-crow cried, aboding luckless time; Dogs howl’d, and hideous tempest shook down trees;

Storm, crow, dog. The Wild Hunt, in other words, and the worst omen of all, presaging death, evil and destruction.

So, to get back to the point, what Beatrice is saying when she declares “I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me” is that she would rather listen to the most bone-chilling omen an Elizabethan could encounter, the sound of crows and dogs clamouring which presages imminent death and great evil rather than suffer for one instant a simpering confession of love from a man.

And to give Benedick his due, he makes a similar declaration that a man’s singing is so fucking atrocious he’d rather hear the same horrific omen than listen to one more verse of an insipid love song

#made for each other, amirite?

[rakiah]

Little giveaway for the 777 followers ! Thank you so SO much ! You give me strength and motivation <3

Rules are always simple :

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Giveaway ends on March 28th 2018

Good luck everyone !

[songofsaraneth]

Evolution of the new Sabriel cover art. Book by Garth Nix, illustration by Sebastian Ciaffaglione (Lirael | Clariel)

[rakiah]

Came back from The Last Jedi.

I have too many feels I cant handle. Don’t know if my evening will the same I had planed.

[theoniongirl]

I see it on Saturday and I am bringing a full box of tissues!

[rakiah]

HERE GOES ! Patreon and Tipeee Lauch ! (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

Choose your team and become my bunbun ! (▰˘◡˘▰)

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And still Ko-fi !

[rakiah]

GIVEAWAY TIME ! （╯°□°）╯︵( .o.)

Almost 500 followers so first, thank you ! And now, let’s do some giveaway ~

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Giveaway ends on October 23th 2017

Please have some visual reference ready ! It will be awesome !

Good luck ! ♪~ ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ

[oweshimnothing-deactivated20190]

I check it once, then I C H E C K I T T W I C E.

[oberynmartell]

[thcrin]

#plot fucking twist

[wilwheaton]

[micdotcom]

A Holocaust survivor on seeing the violent rally in Charlottesville: “It really hurts”

Alfred Munzer survived the Holocaust by hiding, living with a Dutch-Indonesian family who risked everything to take him in. 

His parents and two sisters all wound up in Nazi concentration camps — only his mother survived.

For Munzer, seeing white supremacists and neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday carried a particular kind of pain.

“To see people carrying Nazi flags, it’s frightening. It’s also saddening,” Munzer said in a phone call with Mic on Tuesday. “Because it really means that the terrible lessons of the Holocaust haven’t been learned.” Read more (8/15/17)

[wingedcorgi]

[sophiaelainehansonbooks-deactiv]

@wingedcorgi

[mnemehoshiko]

A Wrinkle in Time Official US Teaser Trailer

*SCREAMS*