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Carla. 24. Vagabond. I am a: Follower of Christ; ENFP; Aspiring Anthropologist; Slytherin; Thunderbird; Waterbender. Patronus: brown owl. I am being reintroduced to the person God made me to be, and it turns out that person can draw, likes to lay in the grass and watch leaves fall, enjoys kickboxing, loves Latino music, is quite a journal-keeper, and isn't at all shy about talking to strangers. So please, let's talk life, adventure, the universe, anything! Caught in a place that is in between Who I once was and what I want to be Trying to find what I need that will set me free

[thorned-owl]

Yay, last week of Summer A! #icandothis #postbacc #carlatheanthropologist #journal

[thorned-owl]

See you again soon, London. Cheers 🇬🇧 #carlaandjuliaadventures #london

[thorned-owl]

Big Ben & London Eye at dusk. A pretty good last-day scenery. #carlaandjuliaadventures #london #bigben (at Big Ben)

[thorned-owl]

It's from 1685. It's a 1st edition. It has all Shakespeare's works (and then some). And it's £85,000. (That's about $127,000, in case you're considering.) #blackwell #blackwellsbookshop #oxford (at Blackwell's Bookshop)

[thorned-owl]

The things I've seen in the wardrobe... I'm changed forever. #queencarlathevaliant #thelionthewitchthewardrobe #cslewis #thekilns (at The Kilns)

[thorned-owl]

C.S. Lewis' Study, at his house in Oxford, the Kilns. Pressing pen to paper in the same spot that I know he did was like brushing fingertips with a ghost. It was humbling to be there. #cslewis #thekilns #oxford (at The Kilns)

[thorned-owl]

I am a lost boy, from Never Land, usually hanging out with Peter Pan... #hydepark #peterpanstatue (at Hyde Park)

[thorned-owl]

I found the gem of London: Hyde Park. #carlaandjuliaadventures #hydepark #wearingyellowforvangogh (at Hyde Park)

[thorned-owl]

When you get to meet the cast portraying 5 characters who have meant so much to you since childhood... their performances moved me, but more than anything they transported me back to the place where as a child I felt safe, felt like I had a place to belong. "And though it's nowhere I have been, I'll keep on smiling from the times I've had with them..." Thanks for bringing me back home to Hogwarts, guys. ⚡ #harrypotterandthecursedchild #potterhead #canyouguesswhoplayedwho? (at Palace Theatre, London)

[thorned-owl]

hey all - i moved

hey everyone,

just wanted to let you guys know that i moved to a new blog

i’m now at jaded-stars for my personal blog and carla-theanthropologist is my studyblr for my anthropology degree(s) (: hit me up over at those two!

love,

thorn

[dsxsbx]

[thishandsomefemme-deactivated20]

my diary entry from July 23, 1998

[fitblrholics]

If you look at the ingredients list and it’s a bunch of words you don’t even know… neither does your body (x)

[the-exercist]

Just like if you break apples and grapefruit down into their chemical components, I’m willing to bet that most people wouldn’t recognize the “ingredients” either. It’s a bunch of words you don’t even know:

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Don’t use these scare tactics - Chemicals aren’t inherently bad. Literally everything is made up chemicals. Trust me, your body knows what niacin is. It knows how to digest fructose and calcium sulfate. Even if you only consume the most basic and “real” foods that are pulled directly off the vine, you’re still ingesting a series of chemical compounds that you probably can’t pronounce. That’s okay. 

[ohnofixit]

thanks to drhoz for submitting!

[terrible-tentacle-theatre]

“If you can’t pronounce it, it’s bad for you” is literally the worst pseudo-scientific scaremongering bullshit tactic. I hate it so much.

I’m pretty sure you can pronounce “arsenic”, but that doesn’t change the fact that arsenic is highly toxic. On the other hand, you couldn’t pronounce “cycloadenosine monophosphate” or “nicotine-amide-dinucleotide-phosphate”, though both of them serve vital roles in human biochemistry and you would die if your body wouldn’t produce them.

[dr-archeville]

Cyanide: Easy to pronounce, very bad for you.

Eicosapentaenoic acid: Difficult to pronounce, very good for you.

It’s more important to know what the chemicals are and why they’re in there.  Anti-intellectualism helps no one.

[probablyasocialecologist]

– James Kennedy, ‘Chemophobia’ is irrational, harmful – and hard to break

[nicolekidmansgrinchhands]

I’m gonna keep reblogging this until my knuckles fall off.

[zooophagous]

This is especially hilarious because grapefruit is well known for being dangerous for some people because of how it can interact with certain medications. Do fruit loops do that?

[writingbiologi]

“Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.” - Paracelsus

[nuretmen]

Curiosity

© Nur Uretmen

[thorned-owl]

Me, severely depressed: I drink champagne out of a wine glass because I live to celebrate

[jyasjwrose]

[thorned-owl]

goblin and angel.

goblin: what do you fear losing the most?

my sisters. definitely my sisters. i genuinely don’t know how i would survive losing either of them.

angel: what are three things you love about one of your close friends? (you can name them or not)

just one? but i dont wanna do just one. 

i love that jules (you) doesn’t question any of my interests or dreams, she just supports them without question and usually learns about them herself so we can share in them. i love that she loves me and my family with ferocity, that she feels the need to protect me and the people i love. i have not often felt protected in my life and she reminds me that i am loved enough to be worthy of protection. and i love that she’s my big sister, because i’ve never had one and usually when you jokingly start calling your older friend your sibling it ends up fading or it’s just for fun. but no, she really has taken on that role for me, she teaches me how to do my hair and makeup and is ALWAYS there on the dark nights when i’m alone and gives me her hand-me-downs and can sit beside me for hours without needing to do anything but change the movie. i am so grateful for that. 

i love that hannah speaks to my soul. it feels like we have our own language of emotions sometimes and because of that she wakes up the earth goddess in me who is full of feelings and life and dreams. i love her vulnerability, the way she cannot help but to wear her heart on her sleeve. and i love that i can just be unapologetically real with her, even if i’m just mad at her or if i hate her decisions or i’m tired and bitter and angry or over the moon and way too excited and happy, it doesn’t matter. she lets me be me and i never feel like i have to say sorry for it.

i love michele because she’s such a mother. i realized that whenever i have a problem, i want to ask michele how to handle it. because she was my roommate, is my roommate, and she helped me unclog my toilet and kill cockroaches and beat heartaches. i love michele for how wild she is, that she is adventure itself and isn’t afraid of freedom. she makes me less afraid of my freedom. and God, i am so endlessly grateful for the way You made her with the least judgmental heart possible. i can tell michele anything, ANYTHING, and she does not impose her opinions, she does not make a sound, she just hears and breathes and is there with me. that is a gift and i am so blessed to have a friend who possesses it.