早世勇気

name robbin age 24 gender female major psychology, japanese, education blog This space on the internets tends to consist of Harry Potter, Avatar: The Last Airbender/Korra, cupcakes, Batman, Doctor Who, sharks, tea, thoughts about Asian-Americans and society, Japanese culture, etc. Also I like clocks. Enjoy. links about me ♠ questionnaires ♠ audio posts/reblogs ♠ polyvore outfit sets ♠ doodles ♠ 30 day challenges ♠ food & me gustas a note If I post any gifs or images, they usually aren't mine unless I say so. Most of my text posts are my opinions, please respect them as best as you can, as I will do the same for you. PS I am very rarely liveblogging. EVERYTHING is on a queue for me. But I will answer asks when I can!

[whitegirlsaintshit]

The universe is testing me and BITCH I AINT STUDY

[prinnay]

Moon

[saddest-cat-hours]

[amyofthemyscira]

Bacchino Malato (Caravaggio, 1593)

[rockelope]

[thequantumqueer]

[meinaiis]

[phantomrose96]

Dog breeds are all just…. fan content that humans made of God’s ‘The Wolf’

[phantomrose96]

Chihuahuas are just…. Wolf Chibis

[phantomrose96]

Border Collies are Farm AU

[phantomrose96]

Huskies respect canon a lot but like… goofier

[phantomrose96]

Visual Shitpost

[phantomrose96]

Borzoi:

Anime Proportion

Anime style

[phantomrose96]

Curvy

Very Long Leggy

Alien Face

Very Skinny

Very Tol

Wild Hair

Tail Sometimes

[phantomrose96]

God: “Is that supposed to be a wolf?”

Human, holding a dachshund: “It’s just my style.”

[phantomrose96]

In 2037 God sues us for copyright

[memewhore]

[j0jin-deactivated20210309]

Scotland is not boring

[redpinejo]

When I say I love bagpipes, this is what I mean

[mahigxn-deactivated20200629]

Absolute banger

[rinhkitty]

WHERE’S THE SOURCE, OP??????

[thesummoningdark]

This is Clanadonia

What the video doesn’t quite capture is that when you’re this close, their drumming feels kind of like being punched in the chest. When they’re playing on the street like this, every other busker in a 500m radius just goes and has a tea break, because there’s no point in trying to be heard over Clanadonia.

[kyloren]

That day, she was amazed to discover that when he was saying As you wish, what he meant was, I love you. And even more amazed was the day she realised she truly loved him back.

THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987) dir. Rob Reiner | HOLES (2003) dir. Andrew Davis

[aubrey-plaza]

[web-wrecker2]

This is faking incredible I’m laughing so much

[anxietyproblem]

[endangered-justice-seeker]

[officerhaughtstuff]

You’ve heard of the Roaring 20s........

now get ready for the Screaming 20s - coming to a decade near you in 2020

[heterokatedison]

is it too early or can we start screaming now

[iocane]

There’s actually a fair deal of overlap between cultural decades.  So not only is it acceptable to start screaming now, we can keep screaming up to the mid 30′s.

[apolonisaphrodisia]

A few weeks ago, a young girl saw this rare Argonaut - often called a Paper Nautilus - washed onto the beach at East Cape Conran. She told locals about it and Myke Mollard went and picked up the little dude then released her back into deeper water. Hopefully survived; such a classic ‘animal’ of nature. Enjoy! Photo and words by Andrew Barnes. 

[bogleech]

Wow there are so many comments claiming this is just “an octopus hiding in a shell” and “not real.” No, this really is an animal called an Argonaut or paper nautilus. It is a type of octopus, but the female, who is MUCH larger than the male, secretes a nautilus-like shell from a papery substance. Why it looks so much like a nautilus shell is a subject of debate, since it is not produced by the same mechanisms at all.

This is a cg model by David Bodenstein, but it’s the clearest depiction around of the two specialized, fan-like tentacles that actually secrete the “paper” and form the shell.

She can leave the shell if she needs to, but those same two tentacles are usually gripping it tightly. Not only does it offer protection, but it serves as her egg case after she finds a mate. Like most octopuses, she dies after her babies hatch, so she does carry the shell around for the remainder of her life.

She typically swims with her mouth and suckers facing outward, the tips of her tentacles folded behind her into the shell so the whole animal looks like a weird ball of cephalopod.

The male has a tiny baby-like (neotenous?) form, but since octopuses deliver sperm through a single specialized arm, his has to be MUCH longer and larger than all his other arms in order to mate, and it’s usually kept in a weird little bag of skin.

All argonauts of any sex have a wild habit of grabbing on to the top of a jellyfish and either dragging it around with them or riding it, depending on how much bigger the jellyfish is. This not only protects the cephalopod with the jelly’s stinging tentacles, but helps it catch more food; there’s evidence that they use their beak to chew a tiny hole through the jelly’s cap and suck out their stomach contents. It’s kind of like being able to shift into a “parasitic” mode as they please, and kind of like using another animal as both a vehicle and eating utencil.

Here’s a little male with a jellyfish of his own!!!

[vardasvapors]

why isn’t there a short film based on the thing where diana wynne jones refused to drop out of tolkien’s college class even though he was intentionally making it as boring and dense and unintelligible as possible so that everyone would drop out and he could get out of teaching it and write lotr instead. just imagine the potential of a 1940s Female College Student sitting in an empty classroom with Secretly Furious professor resentfully lecturing a meandering incomprehensible stream-of-consciousness inner monologue about The Structure of Narrative to this kid determined to get her money’s worth out of this chump. and them both getting way more personal and intellectual development out of this song-and-dance than they thought they would. hey guys why isn’t there a

[neil-gaiman]

I love this idea. In our world Diana (1950s, Tolkien was working on The Return Of the King) went every week. In the end it was just her and one other man. Tolkien wanted them both to quit because if nobody turned up for one lecture he got the rest of the term off to write. So his lectures were not actually student friendly, delivered as they were inaudibly to the blackboard. (She said it wasn’t the denseness so much as the pipe in his teeth, that you couldn’t see his mouth or hear exactly what he was saying, and he seemed to be talking to himself. The bits she could make out were fascinating but they were few and far between.)

Meanwhile, Diana told me, CS Lewis was a rock star, delivering his lectures in the biggest hall at Oxford, with students hanging from the rafters.

In the story world, Diana would be the only student. And she’d do a deal with Tolkien, to learn Story Things out of class, in exchange for not coming any more.

Except... I like that Diana became the best writer of magic, possibly the best children’s author ever, all on her own. She didn’t need Tolkien magic or CS Lewis magic. She just needed to be irritated by the books she was reading her children, and determined to write better. And it took her a couple of books until she got there. But she did.

[iconuk01]

With all respect to Tolkein, whose work IS brilliant, if I have to choose between one of his books, and one of Diana Wynne Jones book’s it’s not even a close contest. 

The range of her imagination; Parallel worlds with a magical guardian best knwon for his magnificent waistcoat (Probably a Time Lord... Oh God, David Tennant as Chrestomanci!!!), Norse deities! Beings who “farm” the abstract elements of  urban life! Howls Moving Castle, Children getting hold of an Alchemistry set! And the accessibility of her prose was a wonderful thing to find as a child..

[kayas-wife]

Somehow it didnt occur to me that British authors are as chummy as British actors, and I had to Take a Moment to process that Neil Gaiman *met* Dianna Wynne Jones!!!!!!!!

[neil-gaiman]

More than met. We were good friends for 25 years. She grew me from a bean. I still miss her.

This is what I wrote when she died. (The Doctor Who episode I wouldn't tell them the name of was The Doctor's Wife.)

Being Alive. Mostly about Diana.

I'm in the UK right now, in the middle of nowhere, working on Monkey, about to go offline for a few days. I came over to do three things: t

[pencilscratchins]

he left for an hour to get them bagels and came back to this

[justiceleague]

Wonder Woman (2017) dir. Patty Jenkins

[glblctzn]

World Water Day hero 🚰 Autumn Peltier started educating the public on why many Indigenous people living in Canada lack access to clean water at just 8 years old. Since then, she has been nominated for the International Children’s Peace Prize, and she hopes to continue her water rights and environmental advocacy for years to come. Read about more young women fighting for water access around the world. ⁣ (📷: Manuel Elias/UN Photo)