Don't Forget Where You Came From

She doesn’t have the r a n g e.

Always reblog this classic.

Real gamers IYKYK 🫵

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Reading a book about slavery in the middle-ages, and as the author sorts through different source materials from different eras, I am starting to understand why so many completely fantastical accounts of "faraway lands" went without as much as a shrug. The world is such a weird place that you can either refuse to believe any of it or just go "yeah that might as well happen" and carry on with your day.

There was this 10th century arab traveller who wrote into an account that the fine trade furs come from a land where the night only lasts one hour in the summer and the sun doesn't rise at all in the winter, people use dogs to travel, and where children have white hair. I don't think I'd believe something like that either if I didn't live here.

I mean honestly everything that Arab traveler said lines up with the Arctic areas, except the white hair part, I don't know where that originates from, or if it's accurate

If I had to guess, maybe they had albinism? Or maybe it's one of those cases where kids sometimes start out with one hair color and develop a different one when they get older. This is all conjecture, but something to consider.

Still really cool tho

guys, the traveler just wasnt used to blondes

Also, languages develop words for colors over time so they get grouped with the closest one. That's why people with orange hair are called redheads. The word for red is generally the third color that gets a name. There wasn't always a word for the color orange, but there have almost always been people with orange hair.

And the Romans in Rome were fascinated by the Celtic slaves brought back from the British Isles because of their fair hair and skin.

For the sake of "I would not believe it either if I didn't live here" kind of context, this is a perfectly normal hair colour for children where I'm from. It darkens to a dark ash blond/sand brown when they grow up.

So what I learned from this is even in modern times, people don’t know or believe that Scandinavians are just that pale and blond without jumping to “albino” first

You wouldn’t have believed the 10th century Arab guy either.

Ursula K Le Guin AND Carrie Fisher were both born on this day (1929 and 1956, respectively), so that makes it some kind of holiday, right? Write. Stick it to the patriarchy. Take your meds. Go for that audition/job/thing you want. Read.

#friend of mine pointed out that today carrie fisher would’ve been 69 and ursula k. le guin would’ve been 96#<-prev prev tag

nice

I saw somebody be wrong on the internet and I didn’t respond (don’t want to get involved) and I’m being SO brave about it

I should never have made this post because now every time it gets a new note I’m reminded of how wrong that one person on the internet was.

reblog to remind them how wrong that one person on the internet was

THEY WERE SO WRONG. ON THE INTERNET.

What were they wrong about?

NO I AM BEING SO BRAVE ABOUT IT

It’s been a year- I do believe that the silence has been expired

THEY SAID STORIES DON’T NEED CONFLICT BECAUSE HAYAO MIYAZAKI MOVIES ARE GREAT AND DON’T HAVE CONFLICT IN THEM

THEY SAID MIYAZAKI MOVIES

DON’T HAVE

CONFLICT

op you were in fact braver then any marine what the sam hell

i feel like we don’t talk about things like this enough

Moroccan architecture (specifically, amazigh from Chefchaouen)

Post-colonial Algerian architecture (Algiers and Constantine):

Mozabite architecture (from Ghardaia, Algeria):

Susan Kare, the Artist who designed many of the fonts, icons, and images for Apple, NeXT, Microsoft, and IBM, 1980′s

#oh is it time to repost this susan kare photo again

Important addition y’all

there is an overwhelming amount of cool in the background details of these photos if you look at what she’s got at her desk, which i really really hope and believe was her actual everyday desk

Catnip high Rumi >:3

watching movies is so much more fun once your ear is trained to recognize the Wilhelm scream and the Dies Irae

You both get it

If you would like to join the fun and train your ear (aka never be able to be normal during a movie again)

Wilhelm Scream compilation

Dies Irae compilation

Another important truth

i wish someone would pet and love me unconditionally like a dog (remembers people follow me and see my posts) ive actually never cared about or wanted anything

La Palue, Bretagne, France

fabxplore

Subway kitty in Pražského povstání metro station, Prague, Czechia

I love how he's holding it back like its a huge dangerous animal

Wanted to share this quick fan art I did of Icarus from Hades 2. Hands down my favorite character in the game.

THE SNOOPY SHOW • 1.07