Don't chase the quaffle if you can see the snitch~

I am... a PotterHead, a Whovian, a Shadowhunter, a Hobbit, a Hunter, I've been Sherlocked, I've been to Camelot, Neverland and back, I've met the Avengers, gone through the Wardrobe and have sailed the seas with Captain Hook. All without leaving my room,...

[jacindaelena]

Ireland by Eva/lightmeup

[sebastians-stan]

Bucky Barnes + 👋✌️

[pr1nceshawn]

How Food Looks Before It’s Harvested.

Sesame Seeds

Cranberry

Pineapple

Peanut

Cashew

Pistachio

Brussel Sprouts

Cacao

Vanilla

Saffron

Kiwi

Pomegranate

[biochromium]

exactly 1 minute ago i had absolutely no idea what the plants sesame seeds and peanuts came from look like and i am shocked and surprised

[elodieunderglass]

for some reason every time I see pineapples growing I laugh out loud. Like, the punchline is it’s a pineapple!!!!!!!!! it’s a pineapple

[kawuli]

An Interesting Fact About Peanuts, while we’re on the topic of food-plants:

Peanuts-you-eat grow underground, but they are NOT part of the peanut plant’s roots. Peanut plants are ambitious little fuckers and plant their seeds themselves. They flower like any perfectly reasonable legume, but once the flowers have been pollinated the plants do something called “pegging” (no really), in which they drill the stems where the flowers used to be into the ground. And that’s where the peanuts you eat form. Like so:

(src)

[elodieunderglass]

I’m going to pull myself together to endorse this Extremely Interesting Fact, but it’s going to be a real struggle

[gallusrostromegalus]

Ain’t botany fun?

[henry-cavill]

To build a really better world sometimes means having to tear the old one down.

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER 2014 | dir. Anthony & Joe Russo

[silverhawk]

sometimes the ocean just brings you. big trees.

just massive pieces of driftwood. and thats okay. its normal.

[starkeaton]

“hey i think you guys dropped this”

[viral-inflection]

Playing fetch with the Deep Ones.

[rainbowkarolina]

YELENA BELOVA + widow uniform

[sweetoothgirl]

Oreo Cookie Rolls

[nicola-coughlan]

Florence Pugh as Yelena Belova BLACK WIDOW (2021), dir. Cate Shortland

[yvvaine]

everything asoiaf ♕ random scenes

“ Gilly, he called me. For the gillyflower.” “That’s pretty.” He remembered Sansa telling him once that he should say that whenever a lady told him her name. He could not help the girl, but perhaps the courtesy would please her. ” — Jon Snow, A Clash of Kings

[estherruth-jonsatrash]

There’s something so precious about Jon remembering this and using it.

Jon’s like: *yes, this at most eleven year old Sansa is a good authority on ladies and what they like and how I should talk to them.*

I don’t know, it’s really sweet.

[fromtheboundlesssea]

I just really want to know:

Did Jon ask Sansa how to talk to girls, or did Sansa see him make a massive blunder and decided it was up to her to teach her brother how to compliment a girl?

[highsymbiote]

[flusendieb]

#if we put Tom Hardy and Ryan Reynolds in a room and throw money at them#what kind of crazy Venom/Deadpool RomCom would we get? (@lovecanbesostrange)

[theedorksinlove]

911 fox | 4x14 ‘you act like you’re expendable, but you’re wrong’

[theoraeken]

[systlin]

Something I find incredibly cool is that they’ve found neandertal bone tools made from polished rib bones, and they couldn’t figure out what they were for for the life of them. 

Until, of course, they showed it to a traditional leatherworker and she took one look at it and said “Oh yeah sure that’s a leather burnisher, you use it to close the pores of leather and work oil into the hide to make it waterproof. Mine looks just the same.” 

“Wait you’re still using the exact same fucking thing 50,000 years later???”

“Well, yeah. We’ve tried other things. Metal scratches up and damages the hide. Wood splinters and wears out. Bone lasts forever and gives the best polish. There are new, cheaper plastic ones, but they crack and break after a couple years. A bone polisher is nearly indestructible, and only gets better with age. The more you use a bone polisher the better it works.”

It’s just. 

50,000 years. 50,000. And over that huge arc of time, we’ve been quietly using the exact same thing, unchanged, because we simply haven’t found anything better to do the job. 

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

i also like that this is a “ask craftspeople” thing, it reminds me of when art historians were all “the fuck” about someone’s ear “deformity” in a portrait and couldn’t work out what the symbolism was until someone who’d also worked as a piercer was like “uhm, he’s fucked up a piercing there”. interdisciplinary shit also needs to include non-academic approaches because crafts & trades people know shit ok

[assasue]

One of my professors often tells us about a time he, as and Egyptian Archaeologist, came down upon a ring of bricks one brick high. In the middle of a house. He and his fellow researchers could not fpr the life of them figure out what tf it could possibly have been for. Until he decided to as a laborer, who doesnt even speak English, what it was. The guy gestures for my prof to follow him, and shows him the same ring of bricks in a nearby modern house. Said ring is filled with baby chicks, while momma hen is out in the yard having a snack. The chicks can’t get over the single brick, but mom can step right over. Over 2000 years and their still corraling chicks with brick circles. If it aint broke, dont fix it and always ask the locals.

[anx1ous-op0ssum]

I read something a while back about how pre-columbian Americans had obsidian blades they stored in the rafters of their houses. The archaeologists who discovered them came to the conclusion that the primitive civilizations believed keeping them closer to the sun would keep the blades sharper.

Then a mother looked at their findings and said “yeah, they stored their knives in the rafters to keep them out of reach of the children.”

[whatevercomestomymind]

Omg the ancient child proofing add on tho lol

[pbrim]

I remember years ago on a forum (email list, that’s how old) a woman talking about going to a museum, and seeing among the women’s household objects a number of fired clay items referred to as “prayer objects”.  (Apparently this sort of labeling is not uncommon when you have something that every house has and appears to be important, but no-one knows what it is.)  She found a docent and said, “Excuse me, but I think those are drop spindles.”  “Why would you think that, ma’am?”  “Because they look just like the ones my husband makes for me.  See?”  They got all excited, took tons of pictures and video of her spinning with her spindle.  When she was back in the area a few years later, they were still on display, but labeled as drop spindles.

[catchester]

So ancient Roman statues have some really weird hairstyles. Archaeologists just couldn’t figure them out. They didn’t have hairspray or modern hair bands, or elastic at all, but some of these things defied gravity better than Marge Simpson’s beehive.

Eventually they decided, wigs. Must be wigs. Or maybe hats. Definitely not real hair.

A hairdresser comes a long, looks at a few and is like, “Yeah, they’re sewn.”

“Don’t be silly!” the archaeologists cry. “How foolish, sewn hair indeed! LOL!”

So she went away and recreated them on real people using a needle and thread and the mystery of Roman hairstyles was solved.

She now works as a hair archaeologist and I believe she has a YouTube channel now where she recreates forgotten hairstyles, using only what they had available at the time.

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[prollyaghost]

my favorite scene in the hobbit is when bilbo has to save the dwarves from the spiders and the only thing he can think of to do is to shout very rude things at them to distract them because 1. it shows that bilbo, having been raised in upper-class suburbia, thinks that the spiders will be super offended by his lack of manners enough to chase him 2. it shows that spiders are super offended by his lack of manners and 3. in modern day, it’s the equivalent of shouting ‘FUCKFACE’ at man-eating monsters

[enchantzz]

I've been looking for the footage of this gif of intense looking Aidan and Dean. I knew that I had seen it before. I found it in my (almost as big as the Lonely Mountain) mountain of The Hobbit videos. It's from Tauriel - Daughter of the forest - behind the scenes video.

Peter: what do we think about this kiss moment

Evangeline: Have we earned the kiss. I don't know if we earned the kiss

Aidan: I think I earned it

LOL

[d3-iseefire]

@laurfilijames​

[redpandarascal]

I just wanted to share the Instagram announcement, because of the bit at the end.

Eric Carle’s Instagram is full of art, if you want to check that out. Here’s one I thought was nice.