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Fun fact! Water actually turns “blood red” when it is contaminated by sulfur creating sulfuric acid. And scientists have discovered that around the time of the plagues a volcano went off that disturbed Egypt’s environment. So the plagues are scientifically proven. The other parts of the plagues are explained by the sulfuric acid river making the animals leave the river and escaping into the human population.
WHY DIDNT ANYONE TELL ME THE PLAGUES WERE PROVEN
if anyone wants a full list heres how they happened:
basically they all stem from a massive eruption of a volcano on the island of santorini off the coast of greece. the ash then floated over to egypt which kickstarted the plagues
1) blood: the ash carried the mineral cinnabar, which has the capability of turning water red
2) frogs: the ash also had many toxic and acidic substances so naturally, all the frogs are gonna flee the river
3) lice: given what was going on insects would have burrowed into dead animals/peoples skin and laid eggs, which then hatched
4) beasts: everything is getting poisoned from the ash and toxins, causing animals to freak the fuck out/die
5) pestilence: toxins again
6) boils: the ash would have caused storms that carried acid rain which when it fell, would irritate peoples skin causing boils
7) hail: the storm again
8) locusts: again with the insects and the amount of dead bodies and such which attract more insects. a lotta insects basically.
9) darkness: the ash covered the sky, blocking out the sun
10) slaying of the first born: given that children’s bodies were found in higher numbers than others, some archeologists think they may have been sacrificed to stop all the destruction, but they aren’t 100% sure about that. this is just me but I would say another possibility is that babies/kids are a lot more susceptible to toxins and shit, so while an adult may have been fine or gotten a bit sick, it might have been very dangerous/deadly for kids or babies
the volcano would also attest for the parting of the sea weirdly enough. the red sea was in fact the ‘reed’ sea, and was very shallow, probably waist deep or so. given the amount of shit dumped into the ocean from the volcano, this wouldve caused a tsunami to head towards egypt. the water would get sucked out from the reed sea right before the tsunami hit, letting people pass it easily, then the actual tsunami would hit, fuckin up anyone who tried to follow.
another theory is that the red water was caused by algae, which would cause the frogs and stuff to jump out as well. the algae also carried substances toxic to animals so if they ingested any they’d get sick and die, so more insects. in this theory there was a sand storm coincidentally that caused the rest
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The volcano wasn’t ON Santorini - it WAS Santorini, then called Thera. It completely blew away the Minoan settlements on the island and was one of the largest eruptions in human history.
The tsunamis from the Theran eruption devastated Crete, weakening the then-powerful Minoan civilization, leaving them open to being invaded by the Mycenaeans.
The volcanic winter it created devastated crops in China leading to the fall of the Xia Dynasty.
The abrupt and catastrophic loss of the people of Thera may have also inspired the myths about Atlantis.
this is blowing my fucking mind
same.
I remember first learning that you can cry from any emotion, that emotions are chemical levels in your brain and your body is constantly trying to maintain equilibrium. so if one emotion sky rockets, that chemical becomes flagged and signals the tear duct to open as an exit to release that emotion packaged neatly within a tear. Everything made sense after learning that. That sudden stability of your emotions after crying. How crying is often accompanied by the inability to feel any other emotion in that precise moment. And it is especially beautiful knowing that it is even possible to experience so much beauty or love or happiness that your body literally can’t hold on to all of it. So what I’ve learned is that crying signifies that you are feeling as much as humanely possible and that is living to the fullest extent. So keep feeling and cry often and as much as needed
SHIT WHAT
Also let yourself cry. It really is a biochemical release valve to dump out all the chemicals that make you feel stuff.
I honestly think one reason men in western culture have so many problems is that we don’t let them cry, and literally their brains get stuffed with all this crap that doesn’t have a release valve. Men, please cry. You’ll feel better. It’s ok. You are not lesser for taking care of your health.
This is why tears from different emotions look different under an electron microscope. They’re literally made up of different things.
Happy tears are structurally different than sad tears than angry tears than overwhelmed tears etc.
I looked it up, cuz that tidbit was dope to me and..
Never would have known
Ah yes, the emotions: grief, change, onion, humor
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Tortoise skeletons are the weirdest skeletons.
I never wondered what they looked like before. Wow. I literally just gasped. How neat!
Which is another reason you shouldn’t pick them up by their top shell
Everyone knows that you shouldn’t pick up a tortoise or turtle by their shell since their backbone is fused with it, but often it’s not really an easy thing to visualize how that works. Here’s a really cool image for that…
Almost NOBODY knows this, because people don’t bother to simply show you a fucking image like this in school so before i saw this on tumblr i thought a turtle was simply a loose animal in a shell like a snail
guys lmao I went back to watch some old law and order svu episodes and there’s this one scene where a girl claims her alibi is she went to see the phantom of the opera and to confirm whether or not she’s telling the truth the detective goes, ‘oh yeah I love phantom of the opera it’s so sad when the guy goes to prison for stealing bread’ and the girl AGREES and later he’s telling his partner ‘yeah she’s lying there’s no bread in phantom’
past tense of william shakespeare? william shookspeare
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Okay, but seriously on the topic of straight people being so overly concerned about their children being exposed to homosexuality…
As some of you know, I am a makeup artist in a holistic beauty boutique in a very wealthy area of eastern New York. The week before Halloween I was offering simple costume makeup designs for both adults and children. So my last client of the evening was a 15 year old girl who came in to get her makeup done for the Halloween dance at her school. I was enjoying a conversation with both the girl and her mother when suddenly the topic of transgender came up. I got a little nervous because I have a hard time keeping my mouth shut when I hear people speaking negatively about these sorts of topics and as I mentioned, my store is in a very upscale, white, conservative area…
Anyway, the girl starts telling us that her friend prefers to be a boy now. She says it very simply and comfortably and it made me happy to see her talk about it as if it was really no big deal.
Her mother says
“How does she even know what transgender is though? She’s a little young to be making a decision like that. I really think the media is taking things too far with all this gay stuff. I’m not against it or anything, but didn’t you just tell me two boys in your class are dating too?”
The girl said that yes, two boys she knew were dating and another boy she knew was gay also. (And she also corrected the pronouns her mother used for her friend)
“I don’t mind that she knows that homosexuality is,” the mother said. “But I don’t think it should be taught at such a young age. Did you know it’s on Disney channel now?”
It took me a moment to respond, I just kept painting the girl’s face until I could figure out what I wanted to say.
“Well,” I said. “We tend to teach heterosexuality literally from the time a child is born. Most children’s books and movies are even centered around a romance of some kind like a Prince and a Princess for example. There’s rarely a children’s movie that comes out where the main male and female character don’t end up marrying each other in the end. If we don’t have a problem flooding our children’s minds with heterosexuality from the time they are able to sit up and watch a movie on their own, what is so wrong with showing them two boys or two girls being in love? We aren’t showing them sex. We aren’t showing them anything inappropriate. Since when is love inappropriate? If we show them love in all it’s forms (be it gay or straight) from an early age, they will see that it’s all perfectly normal and natural and maybe we can finally put homophobic the past…”
The woman considered this for a second and then said “I just feel like they see it and then they start to think that they might be too.”
“And maybe they are. But isn’t it better for them to know that it’s okay? They aren’t hurting anyone.”
Then the girl said. “No ones going around just thinking they are gay because they know what gay is, mom. I know what a chicken is, that doesn’t mean I’m going to wake up tomorrow and start clucking.”
I loved this kid. I hope she does well in all of her endeavors
I’m not going to wake up tomorrow and start clucking
I don’t know who made this, but this is my favorite fan art of Feyre. It really shows how fierce and badass she is. All the emotion in her eyes, wow.
Ezra Miller photographed by Ryan Pfluger for Playboy Magazine.
A-WLW-Reads Reviews Masterlist
I’ve had this blog for over a year now and I feel like a lot of great books get lost in the shuffle so I’m going to be continuously updating this list, arranged by genre, of books I’ve reviewed or recommended (and personally have read)!
Contemporary (Middle Grade)
Drum Roll, Please by Lisa Jenn Bigelow
P.S. I Miss You by Jen Petro-Roy
Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World by Ashley Herring Blake
Star-Crossed by Barbara Dee
Contemporary (Young Adult)
We Are Okay by Nina LaCour
The House You Pass on the Way by Jacqueline Woodson
Dating Sarah Cooper by Siera Maley
Girl Mans Up by M-E Girard
A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend by Emily Horner
Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit by Jaye Robin Brown
Run by Kody Keplinger
Empress of the World by Sara Ryan
Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour
Tessa Masterson Will Go to Prom by Emily Franklin and Brendan Halpin
Far From Xanadu by Julie Anne Peters
The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth
Not Otherwise Specified by Hannah Moskowitz
Good Moon Rising by Nancy Garden
Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
The Year They Burned the Books by Nancy Garden
My Best Friend, Maybe by Caela Carter
If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan
Dare Truth or Promise by Paula Boock
Ask the Passengers by A.S. King
Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde
Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann
Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel by Sara Farizan
Ship It by Britta Lundin
37 Things I Love (In No Particular Order) by Kekla Magoon
Her Name in the Sky by Kelly Quindlen
Keeping You A Secret by Julie Anne Peters
Radio Silence by Alice Oseman
Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli
What We Left Behind by Robin Talley
Our Own Private Universe by Robin Talley
Kissing Kate by Lauren Myracle
Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert
The Bermudez Triangle by Maureen Johnson
Scars by Cheryl Rainfield
The Difference Between You and Me by Madeline George
Moon at Nine by Deborah Ellis
Sister Mischief by Laura Goode
Final Draft by Riley Redgate
Being Emily by Rachel Gold
Kaleidoscope Song by Fox Benwell
The Summer of Jordi Perez (And the Best Burger in Los Angeles) by Amy Spalding
You Know Me Well by Nina LaCour and David Levithan
Contemporary
Landing by Emma Donoghue
Truth Weekend by Erin Jones
Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult
I Can’t Think Straight by Shamim Sarif
Last Words from Montmartre by Qui Miaojin
Edge of Glory by Rachel Spangler
Disobedience by Naomi Adlerman
Waiting in the Wings by Melissa Brayden
My Education by Susan Choi
Gut Symmetries by Jeanette Winterson
The Paths of Marriage by Mala Kumar
Thaw by Elyse Springer
Challah and Callaloo by La Toya Hankins
Out on Good Behavior by Dahlia Adler
Double Exposure by Chelsea M. Cameron
Roller Girl by Vanessa North
Lost and Found by Carolyn Parkhurst
Treasure by Rebekah Weatherspoon
Far From Home by Lorelie Brown
The Others by Seba Al-Herz
A Map of Home by Randa Jarrar
In the Silence by Jaimie Leigh McGovern
Bright Lines by Tanwi Nandini Islam
Marriage of a Thousand Lies by SJ Sindu
Rat Bohemia by Sarah Schulman
Tailor-Made by Yolanda Wallace
Fantasy
Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova (YA)
Ash by Malinda Lo (YA)
Robins in the Night by Dajo Jago
Love in the Time of Global Warming and The Island of Excess Love by Francesca Lia Block (YA)
About A Girl by Sarah McCarry (YA)
Huntress by Malinda Lo (YA)
Libyrinth by Pearl North (YA)
The Dark Wife by Sarah Diemer
Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust (YA)
Gretel: A Fairy Tale Retold by Niamh Murphy
The Shattering by Karen Healey (YA)
The Witch Sea by Sarah Diemer
The Second Mango by Shira Glassman
Of Fire and Stars and Inkmistress by Audrey Coulthurst (YA)
The Prince and Her Dreamer by Kayla Bashe
Cinnamon Blade: Knife in Shining Armor by Shira Glassman
Science Fiction
The Abyss Surrounds Us and The Edge of the Abyss by Emily Skrutskie (YA)
Dreadnought and Sovereign by April Daniels (YA)
Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis (YA)
The Long Way to A Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
Finding Hekate by Kellie Doherty
Not Your Sidekick by C.B. Lee (YA)
Valhalla by Ari Bach
Solitaire by Kelley Eskridge
Adaptation, Inheritance, and Natural Selection by Malinda Lo (YA)
That Inevitable Victorian Thing by E.K. Johnston (YA)
Ascension by Jacqueline Koyanagi
Warrior Woman by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Necrotech by K.C. Alexander
Ammonite by Nicola Griffith
Sappho’s Bar and Grill by Bonnie J. Morris
Historical
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Wildthorn by Jane Eagland (YA)
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flag
Honey Girl by Lisa Freeman
Frog Music by Emma Donoghue
The Necessary Hunger by Nina Revoyr (YA)
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Coffee Will Make You Black by April Sinclair
Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
The Ada Decades by Paula Martinac
Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley (YA)
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
Affinity by Sarah Waters
The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith
The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
Odd Girl Out by Ann Bannon
Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
Another Life Altogether by Elaine Beale (YA)
Hood by Emma Donoghue
The Teahouse Fire by Ellis Avery
Loving Her by Ann Allen Shockley
Hild by Nicola Griffith
Bittersweet by Nevada Barr
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
Against the Season by Jane Rule
Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Poetry
Ask Me How I Got Here by Christine Heppermann (YA)
The Monkey’s Mask by Dorothy Porter
The Black Unicorn: Poems by Audre Lorde
Coal by Audre Lorde
The Cold and the Rust: Poems by Emily Van Kley
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Sappho trans. Anne Carson
Living as a Lesbian: Poetry by Cheryl Clarke
Not Vanishing by Chrystos
Rock | Salt | Stone by Rosamond S. King
Mystery/Thriller
Jam Jars by Yonnette Anderson
Finder of Lost Objects by Susie Hara
A Line in the Dark by Malinda Lo (YA)
Far From You by Tess Sharpe (YA)
Echo After Echo by Amy Rose Capetta (YA)
Steampunk
Heart of Brass by Morven Moeller
Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear (YA)
Everfair by Nisi Shawl
The Dark Victorian: Risen, The Dark Victorian: Bones and Ice Demon by Elizabeth Watasin
Memoir
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde
Saving Alex: When I Was Fifteen I Told My Mormon Parents I Was Gay and That’s When My Nightmare Began by Alex Cooper
The Other Side of Paradise by Staceyann Chin
How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler’s Memoir by Amber Dawn
Two or Three Things I Know for Sure by Dorothy Allison
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Eating Fire: My Life as a Lesbian Avenger by Kelly Cogswell
(See also Spinning, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness, and Snapshots of a Girl under Graphic Novels)
Horror/Paranormal
Bleeding Earth by Kaitlin Ward (YA)
As I Descended by Robin Talley (YA)
Shallow Graves by Kali Wallace (YA)
Mad House: Vengeful Vampires by Bria Lin
Dread Nation by Justina Ireland (YA)
The Red Tree by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Hocus Pocus & The All-New Sequel by A.W. Jantha (YA)
The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez
Nonfiction
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in the Twentieth-Century by Lillian Faderman
To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done for America - A History by Lillian Faderman
Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolution by Linda Hirshman
Sappho Was A Right-On Woman: A Liberated View of Lesbianism by Sidney Abbott and Barbara Love
Gay L.A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, and Lipstick Lesbians by Lillian Faderman and Stuart Timmons
Tell: Love, Defiance, and the Military Trial at the Tipping Point for Gay Rights by Major Margaret Witt with Tim Connor
Sapphistries: A Global History of Love Between Women by Leila J. Rupp
Anthology/Short Stories
Queer Africa: New and Collected Fiction edited by Karen Martin and Makhosazana Xaba
Compreñeras: Latina Lesbians: An Anthology edited by Juanita Ramos
Speaking for Ourselves: Short Stories by Jewish Lesbians edited by Irene Zahava
Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins by Emma Donoghue
All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens edited by Saundra Mitchell (YA)
Bareed Mista3jil edited by Meem
Tangled Sheets: Stories & Poems of Lesbian Lust edited by Rosamund Elwin and Karen X. Tulchinsky
The Penguin Book of Lesbian Short Stories edited by Margaret Reynolds
A Safe Girl to Love by Casey Plett
The Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction edited by Naomi Holoch and Joan Nestle
Dispatches from Lesbian America edited by Xequina Maria Berber, Giovanna Capone, and Cheela Romain Smith
Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence edited by Rosemary Curb and Nancy Manahan
The Lesbian Path edited by Margaret Cruikshank
Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence edited by Marion Dane Bauer (YA)
The Dirt Chronicles by Kristyn Dunnion
Mentsh: On Being Jewish and Queer edited by Angela Brown
Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women and Witchcraft edited by Jessica Spotswood and Tess Sharpe
Graphic Novel/Comic
Skim by Mariko Tamaki
Bingo Love by Tee Franklin
Spinning by Tillie Walden
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
Motor Crush Vol. 1 and Motor Crush Vol. 2 by Brenden Fletcher
Moonstruck, Vol. 1: Magic to Brew by Grace Ellis (MG)
My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Nagata Kabi
Snapshots of a Girl by Beldan Sezen
Love Is Love: A Comic Book Anthology to Benefit the Survivors of the Orlando Pulse Shooting
Bombshells by Marguerite Bennett
Heavy Vinyl by Carly Usdin
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Why is this edited just like Unnhhh? I fucking love it!