This is relevant once again. I apologize if you are a real human getting blocked/reported.

Hestia bust for @callisteios

During my research for this I realised she just doesn't get enough love. She doesn't even have enough myths, like, forget all the other gods, here's one I would really like to see someone make more stories about.

The plague doctor covering me in leeches

When Mary Shelly wrote "I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other" god I really felt that

we were the liminal kids. alive before the internet, just long enough we remember when things really were different.

when i work in preschools, the hand signal kids make for phone is a flat palm, their fingers like brackets. i still make the pinky-and-thumb octave stretch when i "pick up" to respond to them.

the symbol to save a file is a floppy disc. the other day while cleaning out my parents' house, i found a collection of over a hundred CDs, my mom's handwriting on each of them. first day of kindergarten. playlist for beach trip '94. i don't have a device that can play any of these anymore - none of my electronics are compatible. there are pieces of my childhood buried under these, and i cannot access them. but they do exist, which feels special.

my siblings and i recently spent hours digitizing our family's photos as a present for my mom's birthday. there's a year where the pictures just. stop. cameras on phones got to be too good. it didn't make sense to keep getting them developed. and there are a quite a few years that are lost to us. when we were younger, mementos were lost to floods. and again, while i was in middle school, google drive wasn't "a thing". somewhere out there, there are lost memories on dead laptops. which is to say - i lost it to the flood twice, kind of.

when i teach undergrad, i always feel kind of slapped-in-the-face. they're over 18, and they don't remember a classroom without laptops. i remember when my school put in the first smartboard, and how it was a huge privilege. i used the word walkman once, and had to explain myself. we are only separated by a decade. it feels like we are separated by so much more than that.

and something about ... being half-in half-out of the world after. it marks you. i don't know why. but "real adults" see us as lost children, even though many of us are old enough to have a mortgage. my little sister grew up with more access to the internet than i did - and she's only got 4 years of difference. i know how to write cursive, and i actually think it's good practice for kids to learn too - it helps their motor development. but i also know they have to be able to touch-type way faster than was ever required from me.

in between, i guess. i still like to hand-write most things, even though typing is way faster and more accessible for me. i still wear a pj shirt from when i was like 18. i don't really understand how to operate my parents' smart tv. the other day when i got seriously injured, i used hey siri to call my brother. but if you asked me - honestly, i prefer calling to texting. a life in anachronisms. in being a little out-of-phase. never quite in synchronicity.

I imagine that the last generation to really feel this way, to really feel a before-and-after kind of world, was at the last turn of the century, which had 3 huge, life-changing inventions happen all at once.

In 1890, everybody rode horses, used candles to see at night, and communicated through letters.

By the 1920s (only 30 years later!), everybody had automobiles (or access to another form of 'self-driving' transportation like busses or trams) and nobody had horses. Nearly everyone had electricity in their houses. Nearly everyone had a telephone, or access to one.

Can you imagine? Can you imagine growing up, being taught by your parents all about how to ride horses and care for them and hitch them to a wagon, only to...not ever use that knowledge as an adult, because you have a car? Can you imagine learning how to make candles, finally getting good enough at it to be useful to your family as a teenager, only to flick a switch to turn on a light bulb as an adult?

I feel like that last huge change in technology is the same thing we are going through. I know how to read a paper map. I will never need to use this knowledge. But it's still in there; including the many patient hours my mother spent teaching me, and a lot of fond memories I have of her doing it. I know how to research a topic in a paper library, with actual books. Pretty sure I will never do that again. I memorize phone numbers, 'just in case'. In case what? The automobile (smartphone) gets un-invented? But I hold that knowledge in my head. It's there. It's part of me.

I wish I could speak to my great-great-grandmother, who had her first baby in 1900. To ask her, if what Millennials now are going through is what it was like for her Centennial generation. The absolute whiplash, from one way of life to another.

Kids born in 1890 knew how to make candles, and kids born in 1920 could not fathom why you would need to know this.

Stevie and Eddie 💕

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jon wakes up from his cute little six month nap and he’s like i’m fine! :D and everyones like YOU SHOULD NOT FEEL FINE AFTER A COMA THATS BAD THATS A BAD SIGN and hes just like. did nobody miss me in the whole world? :’(

^ jon sims in season 4

[ID: a wet black kitten wrapped in a towel. it looks straight at the camera with a haunted expression in its eyes. end ID]

one thing to miss about porn on tumblr is how ridiculous people acted like. there was this one catfish on here who would steal other people’s dick pics and pretend they were all him. he’d post circumcised one day and uncut the next like… sir.

you know that one clip of ryan and shane going in for a handshake and then simultaneously pulling away. that gets me every fucking time

my description didn't do it justice this is so fucking good for some reason

everythinf can be explained by love actually

the sun is warm!! its so you can enjoy it with someone else!! its cold outside!! its so you csb hold someones hand!! its rainfinf!! you get to jump in the puddles!! you have big fingers so little kids can grab them when crissinf the street!! your viuce us deep so youre better at telling bed time stories!! freckles were made to be kissed!! laughs are better when its with simeirn else!!

did u guys know that lizards can be pollinators

Studies show that in island regions, which are known for generating unique animal characteristics and behavior, lizards can be effective pollinators and seed dispersers. Some species are reported to be capable of collecting and carrying pollen loads, while others disperse droppings containing germinable seeds.

This dietary compensation of nectar and plant matter is hypothesized as being due to a lack of adequate arthropod populations, which typically serve as major pollinators for plants and a food source for lizards on the mainland. That is not to say that this is a uniquely insular phenomenon as similar herbivorous behavior is seen in deserts with low arthropod populations.

anyway we dont talk enough about jon baa-ing like a sheep in mag125. cause he was literally just sitting in his office recording a statement and he baa’d exactly like a sheep. and he sounded REAL AS HELL. archivist voice powers must make you insane at making farm animal sounds for like teaching babies like you just know he would tear it up at daycare. this is all right in the middle of everyone thinking he’s turned into an evil monster too but my god did the man commit.

okay one thing that has WILD implications in this episode is that we the audience hear bagpipes during the statement. this isnt season 5 where we’re just hearing domain sounds, jon is literally still just in his office. sometimes in tma we hear sounds as part of the soundscape that arent actually there in story but it is usually extremely subtle as to be almost unnoticeable if you’re not listening with good headphones, but the bagpipes come through so clear. i can think of two in-story explanations:

may i present a third option: melanie was blasting bagpipe music as a form of rebellion whenever she was in the archives and that’s just what we’re hearing

yknow actually considering she was still being poisoned by the slaughter bullet i could absolutely get into that

season 1 jon sitting in his office still fully pretending he doesnt even believe in anything supernatural but hes got a bowl of noodles next to the tape recorder and he puts his hands in them to make sound effects while he reads worm statements. timsashamartin listening on the other side of the door like yup hes got the noodles out again.

so i have a cat now

5 years ago today this little angel changed my life for the better

we’ve both come so far

Happy 5 years, Baby Socks

*benoit blanc voice* bah gawd that kitten transed your gendah

Pride 2023 Day 26: Lilith Clawthorne Image description: digital art of Lilith from The Owl House. She appears in her late Season 2 design with glasses and curly black hair, and she grins as she makes finger guns towards the viewer. Hooty holds up the asexual and aromantic pride flags behind her by draping them over his tube body, and he has an excited expression. End description.

the best songs ever are the ones that are like. really fucking clever. like clever to the point where the brain activates as it hears it. maybe it doesn't even have to be clever maybe it just has to scratch the brain. Stupendium makes really fucking clever songs and the wordplay is stellar it activates monkey brain all the time. 'just the two of us, in this classroom in the sky, crimes of passion are just fine, when enacted on ai' 'just the two of us, quite a drastic pick up line leaving characters to die just to guarantee you're mine' idk man it's the way the lyrics communicate and also are really simple while getting the point across. I need to start making a list of songs/songs lyrics that activate my brain whenever i hear them and why

TIL Many haunted houses have been investigated and found to contain high levels of carbon monoxide or other poisons, which can cause hallucinations. The carbon monoxide theory explains why haunted houses are mostly older houses, which are more likely to contain aging and defective appliances.

via reddit.com

correlation is not causation, ghosts are drawn to poison and weakened minds

Lying to children is fun when they know you are being ridiculous. When you hold up a carrot like “guys look at this huge Cheeto” and they all scream “NOOOOOOOOO that’s a CARE-OTT!”

“What? No, it’s my giant Cheeto.”

“NOOOOOOO!”

When I was a camp counselor a fellow counselor claimed that any silly camp song we sang was “his next hit single” and we should all follow him on SoundCloud and he stuck by this daily and it never ceased to amuse both the adults and the children.

When children are small and learning to count and you say the numbers out of order? Peak comedy.

“How many toys are there? Let’s see… oneeee, twooo, six!”

“NO! One two three!”

“What? Are you sure? Let me try again. One, two… six?”

“Noooooo!”

Once reduced a toddler into a fit of giggles by singing “A B C D E F Q.”

Hopping in to add: this also works for teens and adults when they're learning a new language.

I taught English as foreign language to adults for around 15 years. With beginners, once I was sure they knew the basic vocabulary (table, chair, desk, wall, floor, ceiling, door, window, pen, pencil, eraser, lights), I would go around the room like:

Me [pointing at the wall]: it's a table.

Adults: Noooo, it's a wall!

Me [looking confused, pointing more vehemently at the wall]: Table!

Adults: NOOOOO, wall!!!

Like, I had literal company executives, who went to class in full suits, giggling like school children with what has to be the silliest game ever.

We're all children when we're learning a new language XD.

Retirement Home Rumble: Round 1

Why they would crush the other geezers under the cut:

WARNING: There may be spoilers