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the trick to a good insult is sort of talking around it and making them think so that it hits harder when they realize what you’re talking about
“you look like the minotaur” -> whatever
“you look like you have a bull’s head” -> slightly funnier
“you look like you should be imprisoned in an underground labyrinth for the safety of crete” -> there we go
August 22, 2020 2:20 AM
Meanwhile, in the notes: “Which Tarot [card] is this?” :)
Hey, don't cry. A single thread in a tapestry, though its color brightly shines, can never see its purpose in the pattern of the grand design, ok?
new favorite type of ancient artifact: ancient greek skyphoi decorated with owls who look like they've seen unspeakable horrors
Ancient owls are the best.
"There's millions of Tumblr users" to you. To me There's only about 12 and we all reblog the same five posts from each other
I know I put this on the tags of that "horses will eat meat and eggs" post but like if that's all it takes for people to get freaked out and think horses are deranged then they should also be aware that almost all other herbivores do the exact same thing. It's actually seems to be way less common for herbivores to eat 100% only plants than it is for them to eat meat occasionally (koalas are one of the suspected few strict herbivores bc their diet and digestive system is so specialized). They don't go out searching/hunting for it like carnivores and omnivores, but if they stumble across some carrion or some eggs (or some particularly easy live meat), that's fair game, even moreso if other food is scarce.
Like,,,,Deer will eat dead fish and rabbits, and have been recorded eating dead deer also. They've also been recorded eating live hatchlings from bird nests. Rabbits will scavenge birds a lot, and also do scavenging cannibalism. Snowshoe hares have been recorded scavenging a lynx, which is ironically their main predator when alive. Elephants will eat fish. Cows will eat live birds just right of the ground, along with eggs they may find.
Horses aren't deranged bc they'll eat meat, they're deranged bc theyre like if you put the ghost of a psychically-sensitive victorian child into the body of a 1500 pound mammal.
I'm sorry to inform you that horses will hunt when given the chance OP. They're quite happy to snatch birds out of the air and run down squirrels, mice, and anything else unfortunate enough to land in their pasture.
It’s somehow more jarring to see Elton in black than Johnny in pink.
My favorite part is how Johhny can't stop swooshing the cape and playing with it, that's adorable XDDD
am i insane or should masks be mandated for hospitals as a permanent installation. a forever institution. always. covid is an irrelevant factor when hospitals are always full of both very sick and very immunocompromised people..?
I'm trying to write a post about tick safety and avoiding tick bites, but a lot of the info on websites is like "Avoid going in the woods, in plants, and where there are wild animals" and "Activities like hiking and gardening can put you at risk" and I'm like thanks! This is worthless!
As ticks and tick borne illnesses are expanding their range, I think it's important for people to be educated about these things, and I think it's especially important to give people actual advice on how to protect themselves instead of telling them to just...avoid the natural world
Rough draft version of Tick Advice:
The above is useful for figuring out whether an area is likely to have lots of ticks, and how vigilant you have to be in that area.
If you're careful, you can usually catch ticks before they bite you, but if one does bite you, it's not the end of the world. Since tickborne diseases are different regionally i suspect this advice will differ based on where you are, but the important thing is remove the tick with tweezers (DON'T use butter, a lit match, or anything that kills the tick while it's still attached, please) and contact a doctor to see what to watch for. Most illnesses you can catch from ticks are easily treatable if you recognize them when symptoms first appear
apparently no one was paying attention in middle school language arts when we learned what a fucking protagonist was
now THIS one louder at the back
if you are marcus tullius cicero and you find yourself thinking 'maybe this time this bright young man will do as i say' you might want to think again. please
aagh. ooof. ough.
This old man. He played four
He man door hand hook car door
With a knick knack paddywhack, give a dog a bone
My dad’s dead then who was phone
