Cursed fact about salmon sharks please 🥺
salmon sharks are small adorable relatives of the great white!
they do occasionally beach themselves, at which point they almost always get mistaken as “baby great whites” so if you see a clickbaity news article that goes LOCAL COUPLE RESCUES BABY GREAT WHITE FROM SANDBAR, chances are it was actually a salmon shark!
they can’t help it, they’re just babey.
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2016 was so wack how did mystic messenger, voltron legendary defender, pokemon go, yuri on ice, zootopia, stranger things, and overwatch all come out in like a span of 6 months
some additions: haikyuu was going strong, homestuck ended, harambe, scary clowns, skam season 3, tt by twice, LEMONADE BY BEYONCÉ?????, here come dat boi, damn daniel, BNHA season 1 .... H*MILTON
HISTORY OF JAPAN CAME OUT????????
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Hey everybody take one for tomorrow
May everyone who meme'd or tried to profit off Breonna Taylor's name never know peace
this is what the queen and prince philip look like
Why would you leave this in the tags? 💀💀
TODAY IT’S A GREAT DAY BECAUSE IT’S MARCH 15th THE DAY WHEN DENZEL CROCKER LOST HIS HAPPINESS AND IT’S ALSO ANNOY SQUIDWARD DAY
hurgler
wow this is just a bad date in fiction
kamen-apple-kinkshaming
It’s the fucking Ides of March people. Todays the day Julius Caesar was stabbed like 23 times
angel-baez
GIVE IT UP FOR DAY 15
apparently native american tribes were in contact with the donner party and offered them food when they saw the colonists were starving and the donner party turned them down and decided to go the whole “cannibalism” route instead.
Until now the Native American perspective has been left out of the telling of the Donner tragedy, not because the wel mel ti did not remember the pioneers, but because they were never asked, or perhaps were not ready to share. Their oral tradition recalls the starving strangers who camped in an area that was unsuitable for that time of year. Taking pity on the pioneers, the northern Washoe attempted to feed them, leaving rabbit meat and wild potatoes near the camps. Another account states that they tried to bring the Donner Party a deer carcass, but were shot at as they approached. Later, some wel mel ti observed the migrants eating human remains. Fearing for their lives, the area’s native inhabitants continued to watch the strangers but avoided further contact. These stories, and the archaeological evidence that appears to support them, certainly complicated my interpretation of the Donner Party event. The migrants at Alder Creek were not surviving in the mountains alone—the northern Washoe were there, and they had tried to help. (source)
tfw a group of unprepared strangers show up, refuse the food you offer them, start fucking cannibalizing each other, and then call you the savages
The story of the Donner Party is hilarious to me because like, everybody talks about them like these brave pioneers who made the ultimate sacrifice in pursuit of their destiny or whatever the fuck, but they were just complete dumbasses.
Like, have you ever heard of the Murphy Party? Sometimes called the Stephens-Townsend-Murphy Party? They were the first wagon train of the pioneers to make it over the Sierra Nevada, two full years before the Donners tried it, first of the american pioneers to reach the shores of lake Tahoe, first licensed physician in California, etc. etc. Ten families, about fifty people, not a single casualty (they actually arrived with more people than when they left). Because when the Donners picked the most charismatic city boy as their leader, the Murphys picked a mountain man. Where the Donners decided to take a “shortcut” that was completely impassable based on a letter they got from somebody who wanted to drum up business for a trading post he was building but who had never actually driven a wagon, the Murphys scouted properly and stuck to paths their vehicles could actually traverse. Where the Donners decided to shoot at the people who were already living in the area, the Murphys asked the natives for directions. When they got snowed in, they sent a few men on ahead to bring back supplies to the rest of the party after building a sturdy cabin for shelter, instead of trying to hole up in shoddy tents and lean-tos before eating each other.
Not to mention all the idiotic in-fighting in the Donner party; they were constantly brawling or stabbing each other or exiling people or just leaving old men on the side of the path to die or “accidentally” shooting their rivals while cleaning weapons, while literally hundreds of other wagon trains somehow made it through the same trials without any murder.
So naturally, the Donners got a lake and a pass and a state park named after them and became household words, while anybody who wasn’t a complete moron got maybe a local park or a small creek.
Daaaaaaaaaamn.
It gets even better!
Donner was not the original leader of the group- the expedition started out under the leadership of a man named Reed, who did know what he was doing and had lead several groups safely to the Oregon Territory before.
When they reached the point where the new “California Trail” diverged from the Oregon Trail Donner convinced a large portion of the group to join him and travel across the Sierras.
Reed knew this was a very, very bad idea but Donner was apparently just- extremely charismatic and persuasive. Not only did the Reed Party safely make it to Oregon, as originally planned, but Reed immediately headed south as fast as he humanly could, and upon reaching Sacramento recruited a rescue party to bring emergency supplies up from the other side of the pass.
Unfortunately, it was already too late in the year and the weather forced the rescue party to turn back. Despite knowing the odds against the Donner Party surviving Reed refused to assume their deaths and stayed in Sacramento waiting for the mountain trail to clear.
So not only did Reed warn them not to, he was also the one that found the survivors afterwards.
Fuck Donner.
Ladies and gentlemen, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.
if you’re white and wanna write a poc character and feel awkward about it i implore you to ignore any twitblr stuff treating it as a massive ethical burden and instead come in more with the same mindset you’d have if you wanted to write about idk firefighters but didn’t know anything about firefighters so you do... research. Like fuck off with the weird kinda creepy calls for spiritual introspection you’re not writing about god damn space aliens you’re writing about humans and if you think you need more perspective of different life experiences just read?
Ok, but also: write a character first. Make them make sense as a person and just write them. Then make them a person of color. I guess it's good to work towards representation but if you start your character with "having a poc" as your main motivation it will almost certainly be bad representation. Write a character, specify that they're a poc and then reread and correct whatever doesn't make sense for them anymore, now that you see them as non-white. Characters of color need to be characters too.
Ummm the last person's advice is mostly awesome and spot on but like - when you learn something about a culture change your character to match that. Don't. Change. A. Culture. to- *checks notes* match your fictional character.
i’m prepared to cry
i made another blog cause i’m so good at doing that
Greek mythology re-telling books because is one of my favorite genders and no one talk about them:
(Part 1)
A thousand ships by Natalie Haynes
-Re-telling of the Iliad by the perspective of all the women who were affected for the war
-“This is the women’s war,as much as is men’s. They waited long enough for their turn... This was never the story of one woman,or two. It was the story of them all...
Helen of Troy by Margaret George
-Story of Helen of Troy by her perspective
-“Margaret has captured a timeless legend in a mesmerizing tale in a woman whose life was destinated to create strife and destroy civilizations”
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
-Story of Patroclus and his lover,Achilles,since they meet until they die
-“Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfect son Achilles. Despite their differences, the boys develop a tender friendship, a bond which blossoms into something deeper as they grow into young men”
The Silence Of The Girls by Pat Barker
-Re-telling of war of Troy by Briseis,a prize of war,perspective
-“The plot begins when Greeks led Achilles sack Lyrnessus, describing the looting and burning of the city, the massacre of its men and the abduction of its women including Briseis, the childless wife of its king Mynes. When the women are handed out to the leaders of the Greek raiders, Briseis, as a royal (and according to the Iliad, beautiful) is awarded to Achilles”
Circe by Madeline Miller
-Story of Circe
-“With unforgettably vivid characters, mesmerizing language, and page-turning suspense, Circe is a triumph of storytelling, an intoxicating epic of family rivalry, palace intrigue, love and loss, as well as a celebration of indomitable female strength in a man's world”
Helen of Troy,Goddess,Princess,Whore by Bethany Hughes
(I know,I love Helen of Troy so much,she is the best,I love her)
-Story of Helen of Troy
-“As soon as men began to write, they made Helen of Troy their subject; for nearly three thousand years she has been both the embodiment of absolute female beauty and a reminder of the terrible power that beauty can wield. Because of her double marriage to the Greek King Menelaus and the Trojan Prince Paris, Helen was held responsible for both the Trojan War and enduring enmity between East and West. For millennia she has been viewed as an exquisite agent of extermination. But who was she?”
Puppies playing together!
4yo Legosi, in a high voice, holding Barbie: “Hey Ken! I was thinking about going back to school and starting a career!”
4yo Louis, in a deep voice, holding Ken: “Nonsense, Barbie. you’re staying home and having my kids.”
Oguma: Hey sweethearts, what games are you playing?
Louis: Systemic Oppression.
Oguma:
As a graphic design please let me tell you that I aspire to think of something 1/1000th as clever and execute it even remotely as well as this logo right here
That IS good! This one is my other favorite, which I saw online ages ago and never forgot:
I know nothing about this golf club. But their logo designer is top notch.
enby-life
🟥 and 🟧⬛️ are now apparently being used by TERFs, as well as this horseshit. Supergay/superstraight/superlesbian/superbi just means “transphobe”, heads up
NOT THE HALLOWEEN COLORS
I just saw this post on reddit about this bunch, not five minutes ago.
It looks like alt right, qanon types are playing this bullshit? pretending to be anti-trans LGB people, to try to sow division?