these are so fun to make

i made two of this one because I couldn’t decide

NO FEAR.  The actors who played Long John Silver and Captain Flint in Black Sails FULLY ACKOWLEDGE that the Muppet adaptation was the best

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Remarkably Detailed Resin-and-Wire Hairpins by Sakae Mimic Elaborate Wings and Petals

A nearly complete 1st century BCE carnyx found in 2004 at Tintignac, France (the one in the left picture, with a reconstruction in the right). Fashioned as a snarling boar, the carnyx was a war horn used by the Iron Age Celts between c. 200 BCE and c. 200 CE

fun fact, the first reconstruction of the carnyx was built in Scotland in the early 90s, and John Kenny brought it to my dad's photographic studio (our house) to have publicity pictures taken. I was very very young, but I had a precocious interest in history, and Kenny showed me the detailed boar's head, which had an articulated tongue that would give the effect of a subtle ululation when it was played. He played it for us in our garden, and I can still remember the sound. It sounded like a trumpet, if a trumpet was a wild prehistoric animal capable of throwing back its head and howling. It sounded like something great and tusked and angry and brass that knew what blood was and wanted it.

I don't know how old I was when I heard it, I think it must have been after its debut at the museum, but I do remember Kenny telling us we were among a very small handful of people who had heard the carnyx in 2,000 years. I remember my nextdoor neighbour's pigeons all taking off from his loft, and the wide silence that rang out afterwards, that more often came in the wake of foghorns from the harbour. I wonder, in retrospect, what all those people packed around us in their tenements in the poor part of Leith thought they'd heard. what does an ancient celtic war horn sounds like, floating through the window while you're doing the dishes?

here’s what it sounds like. holy shit

@petermorwood

Now imagine what a whole bunch of these would sound like, played together before the start of a battle.

hmmm

As someone who has worked in a building with cramped bathrooms, I can’t understand the Hmmm on this one.  I’ve nearly hit/nearly been hit so many times in the bathroom of the last building I worked in because the only sink was situated in such a way that you blocked the door while using it.  In my current building, if I want to take a moment to use the full length mirror provided to make sure I’ve got my clothes situated, I also block the door.  These are only 2 examples of bathrooms in my life that I WISH had this sign.

If you want to make it about sex, then obviously, you’ve never been a woman who’s had to regularly use a cramped bathroom.

"Vegan Leather" PLASTIC!!! It's fucking plastic!!! Stupid!!!!

IT🔊IS🔊 PLAS🔊TIC🔊

The upside of this is that there is a lot of people experimenting with non-petroleum plastics based on things like apples.  It will biodegrade when you’re done with it.  The downside is that mostly it’s being used in high fashion luxury goods at the moment.  Which is a good way to get the 1% to start helping the planet, but doesn’t help the 99%ers who would love access to this as well.

Also, would like to point out that a lot of fashion houses have stopped using real leather, but people have not stopped eating steak.  So a lot of leather is just going to waste, because the 1%ers will eat the cow, but not wear the cow. 

If you feel ashamed of getting government provided assistance

whether that's Snap, or cash assistance or housing or insurance or WHATEVER.

I just want to say- I am a tax paying middle class person.

For the love of whatever you find holy, TAKE THE HELP. Seriously. Please. I am paying these taxes, and I am begging you to use that money to make your life better.

I find it tremendously depressing when my tax money goes to tanks for cops or subsidies for billionaires or general colonizing bullshit.

I want my tax money to improve your life. I do not give one single shit what you do with your cash assistance. I don't care if you think you maybe possibly could have gotten by without SNAP. If you can qualify TAKE IT. Eat as well as you can. Live as well as you can.

If you feel bad, picture me, cheering you on with every single choice you make that brings you comfort, stability or joy.

You are not a burden. You are my neighbor. There is enough to go around and I want us all to thrive.

why aren't there more mysteries that take place in nursing homes & retirement communities. i want to watch a group of deranged retirees-cum-amateur-detectives combine their powers of:

and solve crimes. this should be an enormous subgenre.

flattered that my tags passed peer review:

#their sidekick/Watson/pet hacker is a 15 year old grandkid who hangs out with gram gram on the weekends. her only power is that she has above average search engine skills and flexible knees--which is completely sufficient to round out the group's skill set.

#they involve her in heist style operations. on the rare occasion she gets caught housebreaking she explains her grandma locked herself out of the condo and asked for help getting in. then this sweet slightly addled old lady shows up and explains she got the address mixed up, it's so confusing when you're old & all the houses look alike and oh she's so sorry to have caused so much trouble!......and meanwhile the teenager is rolling her eyes bc she's aware gram gram was a highly successful career criminal & con artist for 50 years.

ANYway gimme a 80+-year-old con-artist-turned-amateur-sleuth who loves getting older because people are less suspicious of little old ladies (#this all takes place in florida naturally)

can someone please be proud of me like fuck I’m trying

reblog to let prev know you’re proud of them

Reblog if, no matter the size of the role, you would agree to work with the Muppets if offered the chance to do so, no questions asked

These are my only posts that do well lmao

actually one of my favourite things about the mandalorian is that like every character is at least 40. no angsty teen heroes here, just a bunch of middle aged adults becoming aunts and uncles to a baby that is also 50 years old.

@catboysienna

From a queer elder…

Being queer isn’t supposed to be palatable to non-queers.

We don’t tick little squares on a checklist of “queer enough”, we obliterate the checklist.

We defy societal norms that say our bodies, families or relationships have to look a certain way.

Queer is the insult we took away from oppressors. We’re here, we’re queer, get used to it.

The people who hate us will hate us regardless of how palatable we make ourselves.

Stop licking fascist boots by policing queers who are queer in different ways than you.

Oh, someone is bi/pan trans lesbian with he/him pronouns? So what! They’re welcome on the rainbow. Their identity doesn’t have to make sense to you, it has to make sense to them.

Our identities don’t make sense to non-queers. They see us as unnatural and disgusting, so why are you turning around and crapping that same garbage out at your own community??

Once you drive the visible queers underground, the same people who hate us all will target you next. Nobody will defend you because you drove away everybody who would have.

Enough already!

— sincerely, an old queer.

the asteroid wasn't sent to nuke dinosaurs. dinosaurs are alive and well. it was sent to nuke the pterosaurs.

Azhdarchids: Evolve

Space: That's a bit OP. I'm going to send in a rock.