why do all the littlest pet shop hamsters look like people

this isn’t a hampster this is just some guy

reminder that full suits of armor...weren’t actually the norm for medieval warfare. like, at all.

full plate armor was only widely used for less than a century, at the end of the Middle Ages. it was soon outdated by the growing use of firearms, and was more common in performative jousting than in actual warfare.

and knights in shining armor? they probably barely existed. shining suits of armor were the sorts of things kings wore in parades–the medieval equivalent of a fashion photoshoot. in reality, polishing armor to a shine was horribly expensive and difficult to maintain on grimy battlefields–painted armor was much more practical. 

knights in shining armor existed in medieval times the same way hardboiled detectives existed in the 20th century–as a trope for contemporary & future audiences to romanticize. in that regard, they were very successful!

shut up nerd

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Besides the yearly application of linseed oil paint, they also russeted the armor, or even left the blackened forge scale on it.

The latter two might be the reason behind the term Black Knight which may be an insult to lesser Nobles.

@biggest-gaudiest-patronuses

Damn those victorians!! They scrubbed off the finish to look more rich!

Painted

Russeted

Blackened

I’m a frog scientist and I approve this meme-age! . Also, this is the first scientist #meme I’ve ever made. Did I do good?!

Source: @myfrogcroaked

excuse me while i go google the frog pandemic hopefully their frog government is doing a better job than ours

damn i’ve been reading about The Frog Apocolypse for aproximately two minutes and i am feeling an overwhelming urge to hug All The Frogs poor babies that’s awful :(  ps don’t actually hug frogs ur human skin has oils they don’t like it

stayed up til 4am to put in the winning bid on a ceramic frog bell from japan

head empty,, only frog

HES HERE

HIMHIMHIMHIM

Aphrodite is the goddess of love and not the goddess of sexual attraction and looking like a 1970s barbie

The Greeks even categorized love into four different types, it wasn't all sexual.

i made a uquiz

i present to you ‘which star wars guy would look at you and say ‘get me some of that’

if you take it, lemme know what u get! 

p.s i am not responsible for any offense caused by the results

Not gonna lye, it was exactly the outcome I hoped for.

omg he was just so excited when he heard it fall over

In honor of Lord Byron’s birthday I would like to remind you all of the time that Shelley and Keats, having not heard from him for some time, became concerned for his safety and it was determined that Shelley would go looking for him. Keats received a letter some time later that Shelley had found him in Venice, where he’d been having so much sex that he’d nearly died from malnourishment and dehydration. Keats’ entire response amounted to essentially, “You should probably have let him.”

“I found him, he’s in a gutter.” “Well go put him back”

My favourite thing ever written on Byron was something Shelley wrote: “Lord Byron doesn’t have a life plan. He doesn’t have a day plan. I once found a note that he wrote to himself that said: ‘put on pants.’” 

Gouyen (c.1857-1903): Wise Woman of the Apache

Footnotes and citations available in the footnotes on the main site: click here.

Thanks to the Mescalero Apache Tribe for looking over the entry and okaying it for online publication. 

If you’re interested in the book, I put up a ton of details about it here, and you can preorder online here. 

Next entry, something less grim and gritty. More details behind the cut.

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Thought I’d add some reference pictures used in the creation of this entry (this is the only reblog I’ll do for the full thing). First, we have Gouyen in later life, after she remarried and had a family:

Next, what I based her ceremonial outfit on:

And her regular wear:

Chief Quanah Parker, visual reference for the Comanche chief:

The Comanche knife:

And the dancers:

i cant believe this is a real photo

Cool!  I missed getting to see it tonight...er...last night.

Went to the SpaceWeather site and here’s a few from their gallery:

me reading the same post 5 times in a row because everyone has the same mutuals

me still joining my mutuals in reblogging the same post

this is exactly the sort of information we the public needed to know 🥺

not letting you hide this in the tags

in case you were wondering, “owning human remains” discourse is happening on twitter right now

Today’s hotly-contested spot is The Vine!

Gumby has claimed victory with Persistence!