Magnolia Fox

CURSED (2005)

"Enter freely of your own will and leave some of the happiness you bring."

I'm looking through powerpoint templates for a class presentation and was absolutely blown away by this one. I don't care what the topic is supposed to be, all of my future powerpoints have to have the Wizard

transparent gay rights wizard for all your transparent gay rights wizard needs

Justice League Dark: Apokolips War (2020)

why am i allowed to draw

It’s like, I had that one day with you, and I was going to change. I was going to do so much. Then I woke up the next morning… same old life. It’s like you were never there. And I tried, I did try. I went to Egypt. I was going to go barefoot and everything. And then it’s all bus trips and guidebooks and “don’t drink the water”, and two weeks later you’re back home. It’s nothing like being with you. I must have been mad turning down that offer. To come with you

Giveaway Contest: We’re giving away fifteen paperback classics featuring Richard Adams, Edgar Allan Poe, Simone de Beauvoir, J.R.R. Tolkien, Richard Wright, Harper Lee, and others! Won’t this collection look lovely on your shelf? :D To win these classics, you must: 1) be following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblog this post. We will choose a random winner on May 8, at which time we’ll start a new giveaway. And yes, we’ll ship to any country. Easy, right? Good luck!

I’ve never done this before, and I hope you all don’t mind. I changed the end-date of this giveaway from April 25 to May 8. 

Ireland, 1983.

y’all ever remember something extremely embarrassing and just feel horrible about it

Pro Tip: Try to think of something embarrassing some else has done. You probably can’t. Which means no one else remembers the cringe thing you did.

wait that actually helps so much

Meow

reading letters from 1818 is wild

“it’s that time of the year when I get colds for no apparent reason again” have some Clairitin hon

But also we’re not becoming allergic to everything nowadays like certain white moms fear. Allergies have always existed. They were just talked about differently

Like “oh clams always ~turn my stomach~”. Or “what a pity he was taken from us at age 5”

“Well we didn’t have all this fancy chronic illness stuff in the Olden Days, what did people do then??”

They died, Ashleigh. 

This is a picture tracking bullet holes on Allied planes that encountered Nazi anti-aircraft fire in WW2.

At first, the military wanted to reinforce those areas, because obviously that’s where the ground crews observed the most damage on returning planes. Until Hungarian-born Jewish mathematician Abraham Wald pointed out that this was the damage on the planes that made it home, and the Allies should armor the areas where there are no dots at all, because those are the places where the planes won’t survive when hit. This phenomenon is called survivorship bias, a logic error where you focus on things that survived when you should really be looking at things that didn’t.

We have higher rates of mental illness now? Maybe that’s because we’ve stopped killing people for being “possessed” or “witches.” Higher rate of allergies? Anaphylaxis kills, and does so really fast if you don’t know what’s happening. Higher claims of rape? Maybe victims are less afraid of coming forward. These problems were all happening before, but now we’ve reinforced the medical and social structures needed to help these people survive. And we still have a long way to go.

This is one of my favorite anecdotes to show how clever rewording of statistics can make them say the opposite of what they mean:

Every time a state makes riding a motorcycle without a helmet illegal, the number of ER patients seriously injured in motorcycle accidents skyrockets. Every single time.

When you phrase it just right, it makes it sound like it’s more dangerous to ride a motorcycle with a helmet than without one. Of course, the reality is that before those laws, those patients were going to the morgue, not the ER.

[insp.]

Annie Leibovitz just posted this picture I absolutely love of Emma Thompson on her instagram! 

NY, 1995. For Vanity Fair.

A lot of people are struggling, even if it isn’t obvious (especially on social media, where we tend to present the best version of ourself). This is hard! We all need a little extra support right now ♥️ Don’t be afraid to ask for help if you need it. 

This legitimately needs to be in future literature textbooks to capture the Covid-19 Pandemic.

Judas being 100% done with Jesus’ shit: A Tetralogy

Translation: “I am fucking tired of the soviet car industry” *the standard effect of touching a soviet car* *laughs in russian*

I can’t get over the sheer poetry of how the car falls apart - the perfect chain reaction escalating as it travels round.