The gang were chowing down on culinary delights like prune, date and veal quiches in the Middle Ages. Nicky will look you dead in the eye while he pours ranch on a slice of curried banana pizza.

Abstention from voting does not and cannot make you, an American, less a “co-signer” of America nor less complicit in its crimes. By virtue of your American existence, you’re already a co-signer, already complicit, already a beneficiary of your “colonial fascist nation state.” You exist as a constituent and as an agent—not as an absolute subject—of empire. The government is not a corporation; you are not a consumer of its products. You are a citizen. You are a participant in America. The pretend renunciation of power that is refusing to vote doesn’t change shit.

Nile walks into the kitchen at Joe and Nicky’s house and sees this shit on the daily, and no one can convince me otherwise:

Cuddling with their tails intertwined! 😍 

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Type of mother I aspire to be.

^

so many useless bastard moron men talk about how they’re scared of getting screwed over by gold diggers… what they mean is they’re afraid they’ll buy a girl a mcchicken and she decides not to fuck them. this is true facts

Dudes with $16 in their bank account be like… what if she’s using me for my money :(

woman in a victorian novel: *develops a fever from worrying too much*

me, shivering and sweating with stress-induced anxiety: wtf that’s so unrealistic lol

Any time someone tells me birds aren’t descended from dinosaurs, I show them this.

where did you find a fucking Skeksis ?

Posts that make you go HhmmmMMmmm

GOD MADE TRANS PEOPLE FOR THE SAME REASON HE MADE GRAPES BUT NOT WINE WHO ARE WE TO DENY THIS DIVINE ALCHEMY OF THE SELF?

daniel lavery, “something that may shock and discredit you”

This is what hozier meant when he says he falls a little bit in love everyday with someone new

I once watched a girl in the produce aisle pick up a bushel of bananas that were precariously perched on the edge and move them farther back and under her breath she said “there you go sweeties - that will be more comfortable” before shuffling off and… I think about her often.

« Silent lovers » is such a sweet way to put it.

Ship’s wheel

The ship wheel was one of the most significant mechanical improvements to ship design during the 18th century, and a great advance on the whip staff that preceded it. The whip staff was connected to the tiller, and that with the rudder, that moved the rudder when the whip was moved by the coxswain.

A whipstaff is a device used in 16th/17th century Europe to control the movement of a large sailing ship, Illustration from Ship & Ways of Other Days by Edward Keble Chatterton, 1913

The invention of the ship’s wheel is credited to the Royal Navy but there is no hard evidence to support this. What is clear is that the ship’s wheel did not become commonplace until around 1715. Early wheels were placed behind the mizzenmast, which obstucted the coxswain’s (helmsman) view. They were designed to have two men operating them during heavy weather, although the small amount of space around the wheel caused the sailors to get in each other’s way.

Wheel of HMS Surprise, by David Valenzuela 2011

It wasn’t until 1740 that ships were fitted with two wheels on a single spindle at either end of a drum winch, which allowed four men to steer when conditions were bad. These first wheel systems suffered from a lack of equal amounts of tension when the ropes were at their extremity, making steering something of an imprecise art. This flaw remained for 70 years until a man named Pollard, master shipwright at the Portmouth Dockyard, introduced sweeps and rowles into the system. This new system was tested by Captain Bentinck in 1771 and proved such a success that it became the standard on all Royal Navy ships by 1775.

The Operation of a wheel, by shipmodelersassociation

A ship’s wheel is composed of eight cylindrical wooden spokes shaped like balusters, each joined with a barrel, which houses the axle, so the tiller rope or chain (sometimes called the steering rope or chain) was wrapped in five or six loops arround it and led below deck and from there to a pair of pulleys before coming back together and connecting to the rudder. As the wheels moved, the rudder swung in the desired direction. This means that if the coxswain turned the wheel to the left (port),the tiller would go to the right (starboard) but the rudder would also turn to the left and steer the ship in that direction. 

when an author sets up a narrative choice where all the options are scary and bad and the protagonist chooses kindness and it changes everything because it opens doors that shouldn’t be possible and every single time i go FERAL

what?

Bonus: since y’all agree with me that he’s still the handsomest prince around.

GOOD ADDITION OP

BEST ADDITION

The McDonald’s french fry is unbelievable. When you bite into it, you think: It’s so tasty, it can’t be real. As soon as it gets cold, it turns to lard and flubble. I mean, have you ever tried to eat a McDonald’s french fry that’s gone cold? That’s one of the circles of hell. The gulf between the warm, fresh, lightly salted McDonald’s french fry and the cold McDonald’s french fry is as great a gulf as any I know. - Viggo Mortensen, Esquire magazine (x)

#this quote gets progressively more interesting all the way until the quote source #it’s just a rollercoaster ride

oral tradition requires telling and retelling stories to remember them, and using the collective memory of one’s social group to correct any mistakes in retelling a tale. Without her people to tell stories with, Andy would probably start to forget them. Then again, she lived with her people for multiple lifetimes- that’s well long enough to cement something permanently in your memory 

oh man now I’m imagining Andy goes years without thinking about it much and then, sometimes, under the right circumstances, a windy night, a campfire, her family around her, a little bit buzzed, the poetry just starts spilling out, great long stanzas of it. She can’t stop to translate it because if she stops she loses the thread; everybody else sits there and listens, spellbound. 

Not going to lie, it’s genuinely upsetting to think about the new “fans” who are going to judge Legend of Korra, without knowing about all of the horrible things that Nickelodeon did to Bryke.

Two things I always remind fans of/tell new fans:

1) they had to FIGHT the network to make the next avatar a girl in this series

2) they could not overtly develop the Korrasami romance. They had to get permission just for that last scene with them holding hands and going into the spirit world and the strong implications the moment had. It really makes me upset when people credit Nickelodeon for “giving is Korrasami”. They didn’t want it.

What people always remind ME about:

1) the last two seasons didn’t even air on television, only online.

3) Nickelodeon originally only bought one season and lead everyone to believe it would be a one and done type deal. Partway through production of the first season (the latter half if I’m remembering correctly) Nickelodeon suddenly changed their minds and ordered three additional seasons so the writers had to scramble and change things last minute when a good chunk of season 1 was finished and/or had started airing.

This is why season 1 seems like its own thing, has a different tone, and speeds through the plot. It’s also why season 2′s beginning is particularly rough and it takes a while for the show to get back on its feet.

4) Partway through production of season 4, Nickelodeon slashed their budget by no small amount out of the blue. The reason why the recap episode exists and reuses previous footage while AtLA got the Ember Island Players episode was because that was the only way they could deal with the sudden lack of money without sacrificing their vision for the finale.

5) The finale was pulled from it’s air block/location with less than a week’s notice and put on Nickelodeon’s website’s streaming option which sucked at the best of times and could not handle that many people trying to watch at the same time. If they were able to watch at all.

One of the creators also had to take to his block shortly after the finale aired to clarify that Korra and Asami were dating and were bi because they could only get away with the handholding scene and there were a ton of fans at the time saying that it was unclear and they were just very good friends. Yes, in 2014 people were still saying that anything short of tongues down throats or sex scenes meant that they were just gals being good pals.

Also it wasn’t just that Korra was a woman Nickelodeon had an issue with, it was that she was a woman of colour. A white female avatar they would have grumbled about but eventually came around to, but they fought the creators to make Korra anything other than a woman of colour and they hated that one of their most popular shows with the older demographic starred someone who was neither male nor white.

And for that they did everything in their power to fuck over production so that they could cancel the show and point to the numbers as a reason why they did it, not because they’re racist, sexist, and homophobic.