Crash
The fact that im getting raw dogged by life everyday. Don’t have any medication to take the edge off. Nor any addiction, I don’t even got a religion or spirituality to fall back on. Im facing this life stone cold sober every goddamn day??? Why???
Me when im awake, alert, unmedicated, sober and not religious
Olivia Jaimes’ Nancy continues to amaze and delight.
This is how the occult works
I keep hate-reading plague literature from the medieval era, but as depressed as it makes me there is always one historical tidbit that makes me feel a little bittersweet and I like to revisit it. That’s the story of the village of Eyam.
Eyam today is a teeny tiny town of less than a thousand people. It has barely grown since 1665 when its population was around 800.
Where the story starts with Eyam is that in August 1665 the village tailor and his assistant discovered that a bolt of cloth that they had bought from London was infested with rat fleas. A few days later on September 7th the tailor’s assistant George Viccars died from plague.
Back then people didn’t fully understand how disease spread, but they knew in a basic sense that it did spread and that the spread had something to do with the movement of people.
So two religios leaders in the town, Thomas Stanley and William Mompesson, got together and came up with a plan. They would put the entire village of Eyam under quarantine. And they did. For over a year nobody went in and nobody went out.
They put up signs on the edge of town as warning and left money in vinegar filled basins that people from out of town would leave food and supplies by.
Over the 14 months that Eyam was in quarantine 260 out of the 800 residents died of plague. The death toll was high, the cost was great.
However, they did successfully prevent the disease from spreading to the nearby town of Sheffield, even then a much bigger town, and likely saved the lives of thousands of people in the north of England through their sacrifice.
So I really like this story, because it’s a sad story, because it’s also a beautiful story. Instead of fleeing everyone in this one place agreed that they would stay, and they saved thousands of people. They stayed just to save others and I guess it’s one of those good stories about how people have always been people, for better or worse.
It gets better.
Here’s the thing. One third of the residents of Eyam died during their quarantine, but the Black Plague was known to have a NINETY PERCENT death rate. As high as the toll was, it wasn’t as high as it should have been. And a few hundred years later, some historians and doctors got to wondering why.
Fortunately, Eyam is one of those wonderful places that really hasn’t changed much in hundreds of years. Researchers, going to visit, found that many of the current residents were direct descendants of the plague survivors from the 1600s. By doing genetic testing, they learned that a high number of Eyam residents carried a gene that made them immune to the plague. And still do.
And it gets even better than that, because the gene that blocks the Black Plague? Also turns out to block AIDS, and was instrumental in helping to find effective medication for people who have HIV and AIDS in the 21st century.
Here is a lovely, well-produced documentary about Eyam and its disease resistance. It’s a little under an hour. Trigger warning for general disease and epidemic-type stuff, but also, maybe it will help you have some hope in these alarmly uncertain times.
the way my jaw dropped at this bit
Toby: So I wrote a bunch of music for the computer to play. Its going to be epic since the computer can handle so many crazy parts. Orcistra: We’re going to play this. Toby: Ummm...
Every band member ever: Music that was clearly composed by someone who doesn’t know how human fingers work? yeah alright, let me warm up.
I need this
Like the full concert or a copy of the audio I can download
new favourite thing to listen to: literally exactly what i’ve been looking for my entire life
bruh
everything about this… this statue, the choppy waves, the cliffs behind her, the echo, the drumming….. aesthetic
Lyrics in Faroese:
Trøllabundin eri eg eri eg Galdramaður festi meg festi meg Trøllabundin djúpt í míni sál í míni sál Í hjartanum logar brennandi bál brennandi bál
Trøllabundin eri eg eri eg Galdramaður festi meg festi meg Trøllabundin inn í hjartarót í hjartarót Eyga mítt festist har ið galdramaður stóð
English translation:
Spellbound am I, am I The wizard has enchanted me, enchanted me Spellbound deep in my soul, in my soul In my heart burns a smouldering fire, smouldering fire
Spellbound am I, am I The wizard has enchanted me, enchanted me Spellbound in my heart’s root, my heart’s root
poplitealqueen
Did anyone else just get the shivers? Cuz I’m definitely getting the shivers.
Btdubs, the singer is Eivør Pálsdóttir.
Reblogging again for the haunting wizard lyrics
otto-mandias
shoutout to the faroe island for being the only real viking island left
smatter
I know the islands are owned by Denmark but this reminds me so much of Iceland
Fun fact this woman is trying to single handedly preserve this kind of singing in her culture by performing and making people aware of it because it’s been fading with time and she’s afraid if she doesn’t spread it it will disappear and be lost to future generations
working in retail
I have NEVER seen a more accurate representation of this satanic industry
theycallmedev
I’d drop this bitch. Fuck her
I want a constitutional amendment that every politician has to have had a job as a front line customer service or civil service employee for at least one year. If you can’t turn on a customer service smile and find a compromise even when everyone that wants things from you is an absolute moron, you can’t represent me.
me when i get my student loan
this is the money cat. reblog in 30 seconds and you will find yourself with more wealth
#this is the only money cat i will reblog because it’s actually doing the manekineko pose151,646 notes (via lolwhutninja)
OMG YOU’RE RIGHT
nonespark
and it has its right paw up! the correct paw for this. and from the markings on its ears, it looks like it might be a calico cat. which is the luckiest kind!
raisehelia
extremely lucky cat
I don’t even care if it actually works, I’m mostly reblogging because it’s freaking adorable.
sweet-cherry-fairy
cute cat and need money, good post, 10/10
in case anyones interested in the other versions
m-muscle-chan
Y’know I reblogged this a bit ago and was saved from financial probation and getting kicked out of school because of it, just mere months from graduation. Got a call from the financial aid advisor telling me that they made a mistake with filing my account (or some other sort of clerical error) and said that, basically, they owe me money. Welp.
Last time I reblogged the money cat, I won two $100 gift cards at work.
Source: blindbee
it’s like
aang, katara, zuko: violence isn’t the answer <3
sokka, toph, suki: u sure about that?
Addition (based on intuition, I have no receipts)
Katara and Zuko: I immediately want to Violence but I Must Not because it is Bad To Hurt People.
Sokka and Suki: I Have No Natural Instinct Towards Violent Responses But I Also Have No Qualms About Beating The Shit Out Of You
Aang and Toph: Follow your heart <3 (Toph’s heart says “murder”)
yeah this is right. additionally:
- katara and zuko are both guided primarily by their emotions & sensitivity. this is both their greatest strength and their greatest weakness. since they need to find a way to channel their anger without actually hurting people, maybe they could start a punk band together?
- suki’s entire mode of fighting is about using her opponent’s strength against them. she’s an incredibly skilled warrior, but her fighting is primarily rooted in the defensive. she wants to protect people.
- sokka sees violence as a means to an end. he has no aversion to it, but no propensity for it either. unlike katara, toph, or zuko, he never goes looking for trouble without good reason. even when he provoked zuko in the first episode, it was because he made the logical assumption that zuko was going to attack his village. like suki, he sees violence as a necessary defense and mode of protection.
- aang sees violence as being uniformly destructive, and he often feels intense shame whenever he lets his anger get the better of him and he enters the avatar state. he refuses to firebend unti he realizes that firebending is just as life-affirming as it is life-destroying. aang does not think murder is ever justified. he believes that there is always another way, and he is ultimately proven right.
- toph straight-up loves violence. to her, violence is a mode of self-expression. she loves being able to exert her incredible power over others. she has spent so long being repressed by her family & the cultural expectations placed upon her that violence is a form of freedom. she loves earthbending and the craft of it, but she also just really loves fighting people.
- like toph, jet loves violence and associates violence with freedom. unlike toph, jet is a fucking idiot.
- to azula—to the fire nation—violence is a currency. azula is all about precision over sheer power, but she will showboat to prove herself and get what she wants. when she refuses to fight zuko this is just as important as when she exerts her physical power over someone because she is taunting him by claiming that he is not even worth it. azula values a combination of physical and emotional violence to achieve her ends.
- mai likes violence for the sole reason that it’s more fun than non-violence. mai craves constant (generally destructive) stimulation because she is looking to fill a void. that said, this doesn’t mean her violence is mindless. her knife-throwing is so precise she never even grazes skin. mai likes action, but she does not ever actually want to hurt someone, for she easily could have, but never did.
- ty lee is an incredibly skilled fighter, and a very prominent threat, and this is because she takes suki’s technique one step further and subdues her opponents entirely. ty lee does not like resolving conflicts with violence, but develops chi-blocking as a skill because she fundamentally feels unsafe in her environment and needs a way to defend herself. she could easily find a way to hurt people if she wanted to, but she considers violence a last resort.
- iroh is not, in fact, a pacifist. he is against the war, but only because he comes to realize that it is wrong. but just because he has spent years redeeming himself, reevaluating his morals, and righting his wrongs, don’t get it twisted: if need be, the dragon of the west will fucking destroy you.
i literally dont talk to anyone unless they talk to me first
viewtiful-kim
NPC Energy
wish customer service jobs operated w video game standards, so a customer would come up to me and i’d say “greetings traveler! looking to trade?” and they’d only had 4 options for their response
i’d just stand there wiping down the same part of the counter for 8 hours until my shift ended and then id drop everything and walk away and if you tried to interact with me i’d just keep running into you silently until you moved
