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Just a heads up right now: on the day when Trump dies, I’m going to be extremely tasteless about it. It’s going to get ugly. You are going to see a side of me I am not proud of. I don’t want any call-outs in my inbox, I’m stating right now that lines will be crossed.

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How disgusting can someone be

I wouldn’t even say this about my worst enemy

Forget the fact that its trump. If you agree with this youre fucking evil. Evil literally lives inside you. Wow.

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Anyways all of y’all AND the evil that literally lives inside of you are invited to the sick ass house party I’m throwing when lord dampnut kicks the bucket

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I feel like all you Americans need to take a look at what happened here in the UK after Maggie Thatcher died. Because when it comes to tasteless celebrations fuelled by anger and the death of a hated political leader, we REALLY pushed the boat out. We had street parties. We had burning effigies. We pushed “Ding Dong the Witch is Dead” to the top of the charts out of sheer hatred. Bone up kiddos, and I really hope you manage to do that truly American thing, of dramatically outdoing us with your celebrations.

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Reblogging for last comment.

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Traces of coca and nicotine found in Egyptian mummies - WTF fun facts

jillyaintfromphilly

well DUH. a lot of historians are still trying to process the fact that ancient egyptians knew how to build boats, which is ridiculous. why would they not be seafarers and explorers?

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this is not new or surprising information at all. it pretty much day one of any african-american studies course.

the egyptians knew that if they put their boats in front of the summer storm winds it’d blow them right across the sea to the Americas and they shared that with the greeks.

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It’s really hard for people to understand that everyone had boats, exploration, and trade interactions without the same level of murder, colonization, and violence that the Europeans did. It’s really hard for people to get that.

cantyousayanythingnew

Well, no people find hard to understand that one of the earliest civilizations could build a boat sturdy enough and reliable enough to cross a 8,766 mile stretch that gave people thousands of years of technological progress later great difficulty.

prokopetz

The notion that technology is a steady upward climb of “progress” is, itself, part of a Eurocentric historical narrative revolving around the tacit teleological assertion that Western European civilisation represents the culmination and endpoint of history.

In reality, technologies are frequently discovered, lost and rediscovered, often multiple times, and frequently in parallel. A Dark Age in one region may be a time of rapid technological development in another region, and it’s not uncommon to encounter evidence of ancient civlisations using technologies a thousand years out of whack with the “proper” order of discovery… where “proper” is defined in terms of the order in which those technologies were discovered in Western Europe - there’s that Eurocentrism again.

I mean, just to give you an idea of how flexible the order in which technologies are developed can be and how ultimately wrong-headed the notion of linear technological progress is, there are Central American civilisations that had indoor plumbing, central heating and hot and cold running water before inventing the wheel. Some of the First Nations in what is now Eastern Canada had sophisticated climate models and reliable weather prediction - including functioning barometers and other simple meteorological instruments - before they figured out metallurgy.

So no, it’s not particularly incredible that the ancient Egyptians had boats far more advanced than they “should” have given their overall level of technology. That stuff happens all the time.

theonlyleftydesk

The Korean people have had heated floors, called ondol, since the 15th century. African physicians in what is now Egypt had perfected cataract removal surgery hundreds of years before the rise of ANY western civilization with surgical knowledge. The Aztecs had sophisticated enough technology to perform cranial surgery to do everything from reducing swelling of the brain to removing foreign objects.

We still aren’t 100% sure how the Romans made their (damn-near-everlasting) cement, or the exact composition of original Damascus steel, iirc. And often Roman houses belonging to the wealthy would have heated floors, as well. Plus, there was that…whole little thing with the Roman Aqueducts, when they just…decided to move several hundred thousand tons of water, several hundred miles, over valleys and mountains. You know. Like you do.

The Romans had heated public baths! Everyone loved soap and perfume! The soap was apparently fantastic! You could go anywhere there was a market and buy body oil and even food from vending machines–in ancient Greece!

Your average European house in the 1900s, supposedly at the “peak” of their ‘exploratory’ (imperialism) boom, were cold and drafty, with no plumbing, and no heating. Sanitation amounted to literally shitting in a fancy pot and then throwing it out into the yard, or the street.

There were no sewers, so when this happened, the shit would just…chill there, until it rained, and then things got ugly.

The Minoans, hundreds and hundreds of years before, had complex city-wide plumbing systems, and flushing toilets.

The River Thames was so polluted with literal, actual human fecal matter that in the 1800s, the English government had to pass a law banning people from dumping shit directly into the river.

Eurocentrism is such a weird idea, especially when you lay out a timeline of what other people were doing in the rest of the world, before and during the rise of the various European countries.

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I mean the whole damn point of the Nativity story is that the supposed son of God (interpret Jesus how you fucking want, of course) was born to a couple of poor, exhausted peasants in the stable for the inn, and his first bed was a feeding trough for animals. That would nowadays be like a poor couple where the mother gives birth in a parking garage behind the motel because they couldn’t find a better place and nobody else would take them in. It’s a pretty gritty setting, and the idea is that God was reborn in some of the rock-bottom lowest circumstances. The only thing majestic was all the angels and shit, and of course motherly love

I get that a lot of the art portraying Madonna and Child as fabulously wealthy europeans in splendid robes and golden light was meant to glorify God + whichever nobility was sponsoring the artist, and while of course it’s genuinely beautiful art, it just always struck me as horribly missing the point, which is that the supposed son of God started in incredibly humble circumstances, among the kind of people that everyone else looks down on

babettesfeastables

‘Massacre des Innocents’ by Leon Cogniét, 1824. Although the Feast of the Holy Innocents is in a couple of days time, this painting is still really relevant in that it portrays Mary as how She really was: a scared refugee mum, so fearful that Her son was going to be one of the Innocents killed by King Herod.

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My new favorite mordern interpretation is this work, José y Maria by Everett Patterson (http://www.everettpatterson.com)

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I had to look at this like FIVE TIMES to register all the layers of symbolism going into the piece by Patterson.

The hoodie as a veil.

Weisman cigarettes

Each of them is haloed by an advertisement sticker.

No Vacancy sign on the motel.

Dove sticker over Maria’s head.

Neon sign with a star symbol also over Maria’s head.

The crown over the ‘Dave’s City Motel’ sign. “New Manger.”

The sign behind Jose’s elbow likely says ‘Herod.’

The wee little plant growing through the cracks at their feet.

It’s like a New Testament ‘I Spy.’ I love it!

Ugh.

New favorite interpretation of the nativity.

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The paper at José’s feet has an advert for Shepard Watches Maria’s hoodie says Nazareth High School The sign above José’s head proclaims ‘Good News!’

naamahdarling

This is incredible and lovely.

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“January faded imperceptibly into February, with no change in the bitterly cold weather”

J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban

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Relatable

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🤔

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When I was younger, I wish someone had told me straight-up that not all adults experience “a calling”. That many of them never find particular purpose in a career. That sometimes, their job is just what pays the bills and they have to seek satisfaction and fulfillment elsewhere.

Because as an adult, this pervasive notion that there exists a perfect path for everyone, that people should love what they do, and that work is meant to function as a vehicle for fulfilling a person’s grand life destiny is not only inaccurate for many of us, it can be toxic.

The ideal is so ingrained that I have to remind myself constantly I’m not a failure because I don’t adore my job, and because I’m not rocking the world with my work. That is okay.

Sometimes, work is just work. There isn’t always a perfect career path, magically waiting to be discovered. There might not be this THING you were born to do. Sometimes, you discover that what you really want to be when you grow up is “paid”.

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REMEMBER SKIP-IT FROM THE 90’S

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my weapon of choice during school yard fights

almostvivian

DnD campaign but the only weapons are 90′s toys @riskpig

allisquish

Distance weapon: those sky dancer propeller toys.

riskpig

I’ll allow it.

sensitive-inferno

I have but two words:

durnesque-esque

Are those a weapon or piece of armor?

kaleymonster

Party walks into the inn to rest and the pub looks like

riskpig

Perfection.

medinaquirin

@anotherspecter

biglawbear

I ride into battle on one of these

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Animal Companions

techcat

Fresh combat

themetaisawesome

Monks have to use these

ariassong

Wizard’s Spell book

ariassong

Warlock Patrons

Archfey

Fiend

Celestial

Great Old One

The undying

kalkris

THE B A R D

bardicknowledgeblogger

It got better since I last saw it

unfortunatelyimaginary

This is so weird bc being born in 1997 I saw all these toys… old, dirty, and faded by the sun

it’s so weird to think of them as new and current toys rather than the relics of a bygone age

thegirlinthebyakko

Currency

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I ALWAYS THOUGHT I DREAMT HITCLIPS UP

my best friend at 5 had one and as an adult i’ve always been like what the fuck were those turn of the millenium ipod things

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i love laughing about the friend zone because it’s so dumb like you know most of those dudes aren’t even IN the “friend zone” they’re in the “ugh god not this dude again” zone

jinxfmrl

I unno what meme this is, but I’m here for this.

ogg-weatherwax

It’s called the Millennial Falcon

supernovafirefly

Rebloggin’ the Millennial Falcon

breelandwalker

I will always reblog the Millennial Falcon

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You took our peoples as slaves but aren’t taking refugees.

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harrysbroadshoulders

i will never get over the fact that harry got a naked ass mermaid with a very distinct vagina tattooed on his forearm like

harry’s first pic holding his newborn child? mermaid pu$$y !

all the future family christmas cards? mermaid pu$$y !

no matter where he goes or what he does there will always be a mermaid snatch right there out in the open what an incredible concept

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I did the thing where I thought this was talking about Harry Potter and my first thought was “I don’t remember that happening in that task in the triwizard tournament”

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TBC since tumblr’s posting methods changed

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Linked article URLs, in order of appearance:

1. Exploiting harassment claims

2. Bob Livingston admits claim is true

3. Truth about false allegations

4. Coming forward is traumatic

5. Accusational statistics

6. Assault victims’ memory reliability

7. Truck stop killer

8. Not worth the book deal

9. Percentage of women who have experienced sexual harassment.

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i just read a washington post article on romcoms aging poorly due to the pushiness (and oft-stalkery conduct) of the male characters therein, and it got me thinking about pride and prejudice, and specifically darcy saying, “one word from you will silence me on this subject forever.”

because, like, that’s the seldom-portrayed romantic dream in the patriarchal hellscape that is our world, isn’t it?

a dude being willing to say, “i understand if you don’t feel the same way about me, and i’ll leave you alone forever about this if my attention is unwanted.”

so simple, yet so wonderful in its basic human decency

adulthoodisokay

and dudes to this day wonder why women still swoon over darcy

thathealeygirl

Note also: Elizabeth turns down Darcy’s first proposal, and in the process, accuses him of doing some stuff he did not do (and also some stuff he totally did).

The next day, he surprises her on her walk. He hands her a letter, asks that she read it, and then takes off.

When this happened to me after I had turned someone down IN REAL LIFE, the letter contained a passionate argument to the tune of “actually you’re wrong and you do like me and you should go out with me” and it was creepy af.

Darcy’s letter to Elizabeth starts with: “Be not alarmed, Madam, on receiving this letter, by the apprehension of its containing any repetition of those sentiments, or renewal of those offers, which were last night so disgusting to you”. He goes on to set the record straight about the stuff he didn’t do (as well as the stuff he did) which is *actually relevant* to Elizabeth. And he, as promised, doesn’t romance her further.

It’s totally bizarre that even now, this can be considered unusually great dude behaviour.

pluckyredhead

Darcy’s first proposal: “You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”

Darcy’s second proposal: “One word from you will silence me on this subject forever.”

His whole arc in the book is about learning to consider other people’s feelings and not just his own, but the fact that it’s expressed via who gets to talk and who is told to shut up is so, so telling. The first time around, he imposes his voice on her whether she wants it or not. The second time, he asks how she feels, and in exchange, offers her the gift of his silence.

And yeah, the fact that dudes still! have! not! learned! this! lesson! is exhausting.

ghost-of-bambi

How surprising is it that Pride and Prejudice was written by a woman, when many romantic comedies are produced and directed by men?

Answer: not at all

drsarcasticraspberry

200 years later and the world is still full of guys who think they’re a Mr Darcy when they’re actually a Mr Collins.

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tackminyard

harry can’t duel

harry cannot duel

he only uses expelliarmus and he cannot duel

even if he’s dueling the FUCKING DARK LORD

quillsand

Imagine the conversation ministry officials must be having when they see his auror application:

“He’s Harry Potter!”

“I know but that doesn’t change the fact-”

“Harry! Freaking! Potter!”

“We still need him to attend extra duelling lessons-”

“We can’t put Harry Potter in extra duelling lessons!”

“He only ever uses one spell-”

“Yeah, but he’s really good at it.”

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I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times. - Bruce Lee

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Harry Potter, the boy who dared to ask, “why study all these other spells if I can get really good at yeeting everyone’s wands out of their hands”

wigglyflippingout

is this what growing up is like

me at 14: wow, protagonists in media my age! how relateable!

me at 28: WHY ARE THERE SO MANY CHILD SOLDIERS? WHERE ARE ALL THE ADULTS? WHO LET THIS HAPPEN AND WHY ARE THEY NOT BEING PROSECUTED BY LAW WITHIN THESE FICTIONAL UNIVERSES