He doesn’t have a lot going on right now

Legendarium by  Puk - Puk

1.  Tom Bombadil

2.  Thorin Oakenshield King under the Mountain

3.  Arkenstone

4.  Eowyn and Merry

5.  Thranduil, the Elvenking

6.  Nazgûl

7.  Old Bilbo Baggins

8.  The Oathbreakers

9.  Gandalf in Rivendell

“What is Tom Bombadil?” What a silly question, we already KNOW what he is! Unbothered. In his lane. Thriving. Moisturized. Flourishing. What else could you possibly want to know?? “Tom Bombadil” is the only box he fits into and we’re all overthinking this. Iconic

Tom Bombadil’s home - Turkey

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im very grateful for the lessons in photography i was taught in stop motion class because just now they made it possible to photograph the stars with my phone in spite of the camera usually not detecting the light of stars because theyre so dim,,,, enjoy these shiny motherfuckers

ok so if everythings normal, your phone camera should have a manual mode (sometimes called pro mode). in it, change the settings of the shutter lag to 20 seconds, then put the phone down on some stable, plane surface and press the photo button (usually when using your camera, the volume buttons can be used as photo button) and let the phone still for the whole 20 seconds. 

(basically the problem with most cameras is that they dont have a very good light sensitivity in the dark, however that doesnt mean they cant detect it at all. the longer the shutter is open, the more light your camera takes in and the more burnt/light your pic will be, so in (literally) dark situations, make the shutter lag longer to get all that light you need! also i said 20 seconds but really you can make it shorter or longer depending on what kinda stuff you want for your stars)

Yes this!

Additionally, adjust your ISO to the highest number (mimics the film used for very low light and low speed images)

And set your shutter speed to the longest time possible (on my phone it’s 10 seconds).

Leave your focus settings on Auto, and if your phone camera has a timer option, turn that on (five seconds is generally enough).

Plan your shot first, then find a place to set your phone down so you can get the image you want. The less light pollution, the better; you’ll pick up FAR more stars in your picture.

Once you know what you want to shoot, tap your screen to “focus” it, then hit the button to take the picture, set your phone down, and back away from the “tripod”. Don’t touch your phone for a good 15 seconds, just to be sure.

You will not be disappointed in the results, let me assure you.

Not even a little bit.

@tamberland

THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING I’VE EVER LEARNED

never stop collecting little things that make you happy! rocks! buttons! feathers! flowers! sticks! bugs! bones! never stop!

how did a crow get a tumblr

The Kraken

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By his body’s clock, there’s been less than five years from the beginning until now, from knit top to body armor, from showgirl to warrior of legend, from Steve Rogers (aka Captain America) to Captain America (aka Steve Rogers). He’s barely thirty, which nobody seems to realize or remember. It’s just as well because sometimes he feels all of the ninety-six years the calendar gives him. Never more so than when he looks at the photos and rare scraps of video from before, when he can see how much the transition has cost him and how much of it he paid even before Bucky fell. He never meant for war to become his life, let alone the only thing he understood. And yet it has.

#Fandom always talks about how much Bucky has changed#and how Steve will have to deal with a possibly darker Bucky#but I wonder how heartbroken Bucky will be when he realizes that STEVE has changed too#That Steve hardly smiles and always looks so tired.#That his once idealistic and optimistic friend can barely remember why he fights#and is always battle-ready because he no longer sees an end to the war.#The world has changed Steve and hardened him even more.#but Captain America is still keeping up appearances  (via assetandmission)

Yes I like it when fics show Bucky really upset at what happened to Steve.

there is no way to hate myself into becoming a person i like.

there is no way to shame myself into a better life.

i can’t motivate myself to heal in the same ways i encouraged my own destruction.

Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74

Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74

Had a dream that there was a furry subculture revolving entirely around popular cryptids where nobody knew exactly what anybody else's fursona actually looked like because they exclusively drew themselves blurry and out of focus and/or really far away.

@mxmollusca

You can't prove that I'm not mothman

it's another one of those evenings where I'm really mad about the fact that society tells little kids "Being uncomfortable is good because it means you're growing! You have to face your fears in order to overcome them! Life is going to continuously get harder so you have to learn to deal with scary and uncomfortable stuff!" and at no point does it occur to them to screen the little kids for relentless extreme terror disease they just say that shit to 6 year olds and fuck them up for life

In the popular view, anxiety is one of the most basic, well-understood, treatable, and non-disabling mental illnesses, but in reality it's like, you turn 21 and your brain is 90% stuff that you can't consciously think about or you start spiraling, so you focus really intensely on working and staying busy but stimuli that are tangentially related to something that triggers you give you intrusive thoughts that feel like they're brutally prying open your brain cells, and you feel intense horrible paralyzing guilt about the fact that your body is screaming with distress constantly because you've never had a legitimately "traumatic" experience even though every memory of your childhood is tainted by the background radiation of sick, horrible knowledge that the universe is an evil place and something awful is about to happen to you

A BEAR ATE MY BEST HUMMINGBIRD FEEDER.

Rude.

Someone tell that bear he's not supposed to eat that with the skin on.

I live in South Africa. And if you live in South Africa and you have any contact with people from the US or Canada you might have run into a question about wildlife like lions and elephants roaming our streets. Most South Africans get pretty offended by questions like this. We are a civilized country, our large and dangerous wildlife gets contained in properly fenced parks. 

I use to get offended by this until I visited a few places in Canada and realized that the reason why you ask is that some of your large and dangerous wildlife does simply roam the countryside and sometimes make excursions into town.

This honestly blew my mind. What do you mean, you have bears just walking around? What the hell? 

north americans don't all encounter deadly megafauna on our porches and front lawns but it happens often enough that we all think this is a reasonable amount of gigantic animal to happen to your house. so when we think of africa we kinda imagine it like this:

like. if we had elephants here. this is what we would be putting up with on the regular. what do you mean you guys are more sensible than us.

Few weeks ago there was a black bear casually roaming the suburbs with local news casually reporting on it, while surrounding cities were like "Hang on, there's bears that close to DC?" Bear was caught and relocated. Casually.

The ones that really freak me out isn’t listed above: alligators and crocodiles.

There’s tons of them along significant stretches of the US and they just kinda... wander around sometimes.  And I mean, what are you going to do to stop them?  Put up a fence?

Good luck!

Meanwhile, over in Austraila...

This.

I've got hiccups which is incredibly annoying but it does mean that every 4 seconds or so I'm reminded to think about fish evolution which is pretty cool.

Please talk about fish evolution and how it relates to hiccups I am SO curious

Okay so the thing about hiccups is that you have them by default. There's a special region in the brain that suppresses hiccups. "Yes hiccups" is the default. "No hiccups" was an ad-hoc addition.

Why?! Why would your body want to hiccup by default? what purpose does that serve? Well, none, for you. But it was very, very important for your ancestors.

Hiccups are a fish reflex. They're a remnant of the convulsion that fish automatically perform to pull water over their gills. When this system was repurposed for lungs, we eventually evolved a workaround that tells the gill twitch not to fire any more. When this fails, boom. Hiccups.

It's just your fish nervous system trying to be a fucking fish again.

Is... Is that why I've had people telling me I just need to say "I am not a fish" out loud to cure my hiccups??

Also. I am so curious as to what other evolutionary workarounds we have that just?? Break sometimes??

Your entire body is a mountain of code built my many generations of coders who do not in fact know how to code and you don't want to know how much of it is random hacked-in gotos between functions that once did something very different, or how much is simply commented out entirely and just sitting there in your genome. Your ear bones used to be part of the support structure for gills. Your vocal cords are part of a valve that's supposed to close off your lungs when you go into water and it's just good enough to do that while also being shitty enough to relax and push air through because it turned out that being able to Breathe Noisy was also incredibly useful.

That's why drinking water stop hiccups? :O

You can stop hiccups by temporarily dramatically changing your blood chemistry. This is why most cures involve something that gives you a surge of adrenaline or carbon dioxide or something.

stg I learn more from @derinthescarletpescatarian in a day than I learned in 2 years of biology

Another remidy for iccups that works :

Inhaling 3 times consecutively then exaling ,

It just works for some reasons i don't quite recall ...

Also i wonder how long it took for that brain area that suppresses hiccups to evolve , like did early amphibians just hiccup all the times ?

I'm given to understand it's working against the spasms coming from the diaphragm, which is what now spasms during hiccups and is part of your whole swallowing thing.

My mother used to say take 7 small and separate consecutive sips of water. She said b/c it keeps the whole swallowing apparatus busy with "OMG don't choke" and distracts it from the glitch in the Gill Matrix.

It typically works for me.