Tomato Stained Genes

Creator and host of Adaptation, a book-to-movie podcast (adaptationpodcast.com), audiobook proofer and lover of all things geeky. bi/queer. she/her.

[profeminist]

Abigail Adams urges husband to “remember the ladies”

In a letter dated March 31, 1776, Abigail Adams writes to her husband, John Adams, urging him and the other members of the Continental Congress not to forget about the nation’s women when fighting for America’s independence from Great Britain.

The future First Lady wrote in part, “I long to hear that you have declared an independency. And, by the way, in the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.”

Read more: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/abigail-adams-urges-husband-to-remember-the-ladies

[bunjywunjy]

Where did the whopping huge meteor come down? I assume if there are core samples, we know where it was, and maybe there are remnants of it?

Chicxulub Puerto, Yucatan, Mexico, fucking exactly

[bunjywunjy]

also the people of Chicxulub Puerto are fully aware of this, and even created a memorial for all of dinosaurkind on their own dime!

and personally, I think this single heartfelt block of concrete is more fitting than any number of sleek expensive monoliths in the world's best museums.

at an unremarkable time in this unremarkable place, the world ended, once. it's good to remember that.

[quotent-potables]

at an unremarkable time in this unremarkable place, the world ended, once.

— bunjywunjy on tumblr

[kibumkim]

This like when the costco founder said he'd kill the cfo if he tried to raise the price of the hot dog

[holboldoart]

The Crow Beneath the Ancient Arch

Hey I should probably actually post here more, huh??

[jesncin]

A comic about Clark Kent, Lois Lane, and typos.

[lovesickpaladin]

Made a post earlier but I’m still mad, so here’s Netflix fr right now

[james-potters-glasses]

literally

[the-demons-head-drinking-game]

This game is a culmination of years of trial and error with making a drinking game to play with not only huge nerd-dorks such as myself, but casual observers as well. I wanted a pick-up-and-play version of King's Cup where you don't need to spend 10 minutes deciding the rules before you start, and that allows great variation and chance between each game. Also, I wanted to get rid of waterfall.

Link below:

The Demon's Head: A Drinking Game

This is a King's-Cup inspired drinking game with 55 unique cards, each with a different action or effect. Going around the group, each playe

[daisybrekker]

All of the Crows addressing the cancellation🥲

(Note: Currently I don't have Danielle's post as she has deactivated/deleted her insta, but if she posts something I'll edit this post and add it in)

[bisexualmindcabin]

Rewatched The Good Place for the first time since s4 dropped and. Oh my god. The Good Place said "people are a result of their environment but we always have a moral responsibility to be better" and The Good Place said "every day the world gets a little more complicated and it gets a little harder to be good" and The Good Place said "even in the face of total nihilism, when nothing you do will matter, you still have to at least try. Because trying is better than the alternative" and The Good Place said "if you have bills to pay and shit to deal with you don't have time or energy to become a better person" and then The Good Place really said "people get better when they get external love and support. How can we hold it against them when they don't " and THEN The Good Place really said "no one is irredeemable. Everyone can try to be better today than they were yesterday" AND THEN! The Good Place said "Heaven is just enough time with the people that you love" OH MY FUCKING GOD.

[incorrect-soc]

Since we're all sad, angry, screaming, crying and throwing up, here's a list of the things we'll never get a chance to see bc Netflix decided to be a cunt and cancelled the show on the biggest cliffhanger known to human kind:

"I would've come for you"

"This is Wylan Van Eck. Jan Van Eck's son"

Jesper getting Inej back

All the crows together for an entire season

Not Crow related, but Zoyalai

"Is my tie straight?"

THE. ICE. COURT. HEIST-

"My darling Inej, treasure of my heart"

Kaz finding Inej's parents and literally having to hold her up when her knees weaken at the sight of them

Jesper going frantic bc Wylan (his now bf) has changed his entire appearence

Matthias calling Kaz a Demjin every two seconds

Helnik ACTUALLY kissing

[arabellas]

Shadow and Bone (more specifically the Crows) cancelation reactions

[applecidersstuff]

You know what makes Kaz a great boss? What makes him a better boss then both Pekka Rollins and Per Haskel?

He gets to know his crew and basically any people he’s working with. I know it’s basically an opposite of what he says about barrel gangs, but hear me out.

The main reason why Kaz was able to know that Big Bolliger was a traitor is because he knew that Bol was lazy. And knowing what he did in the "Crow club" it would be hard to know if he was lazy or just relaxed while on the job. Kaz knew that he was lazy - he took time to know the guy.

And also the thing that makes Kaz's plans good is that he keeps in mind all his crew's bad habits and vulnerabilities and plots around them. Its really easy to see that if you look at Jesper.

He keeps in mind that Jesper is late and that he can accidentally give up important info. We see that clearly in the beginning of the book. During the “set the wolf free” plan he made sure to tell Jesper the “wrong” time so that he would “be late” and free the animals at the right time. He knew Jesper would(or could) give up info by accident so he took precautions(saying this again: no one arranged an extra ship just to gather in front of it)

And we also have it in the end of CK.

I think both Inej and Jesper had been told the wrong time. Kaz knew that Dunyasha would be there, so he added some time for Inej to fight her. He talks with Jesper about kergud(I have no idea how to spell that, sorry) and also adds time for that fight. He might have actually putted the wyvil it Jespers pocket(as I do not remember Jes actually putting it there, or mb he just made sure it was there).

I mean, it would have been weird if there would be just the sound of one shot fired, but after the siren it would sound better.

When Kaz told Dregs that he won't be their father, he meant it, your father doesn't know you that well, but your sneaky annoying little sibling does.

[rocksolidphantoms]

'due to the impact of the strike' NO. THIS IS NOT BECAUSE OF THE STRIKE. DO NOT TRY TO SHIFT THE BLAME ONTO THE WRITERS AND ACTORS. FOCUS ON NETFLIX- THEYRE THE ONES WHO CANCELLED THE SHOW AND IT'S NOT BECAUSE OF THE STRIKE

[rafawriter]

[supreme-leader-stoat]

"This story is a tragedy because it didn't have to end this way."

vs

"This story is a tragedy because it was always going to end this way."

[schizoprophet]

#a REALLY good tragedy is locked in quantum uncertainty between these two states

[sthuntress]

Sorry not sorry

[toastandvegemite]

do you ever wonder if your choice of blorbo is random baby chick imprinting, or in fact a deep physiological profile that reveals all the things you need therapy for