see i think what people get caught up in is going "oh this and that are fetish art......hey did you know x thing is a fetish...pretty crazy right.....this piece of art is actually a fetish for the artist........" and like. see the problem is thinking that devalues the art. i don't think something being a fetish or sexual in nature or whatever actually detracts from any meaning or emotional weight something could have. i don't think "horny" is a worthless or meaningless emotion and i don't see why exploring it in art is any different from "sadness" or "happiness" or "anger". does that make sense? im just sayin we should examine why we view sexuality as inherently detracting/meaning less in art than other things

this blew up so lightning round:

"as long as they're not posting it publicly"/"well its not always horny dont assume its horny": you're missing the point, this is a post about how horny is an emotion of equal artistic value to any other and if people want to post their fetish art i think that's fine

"i was raised christian/came from a christian background and this was a hard thing i had to learn but so important"/"the idea of sexual feelings being less worthy of showing is christian": i'm proud of you you're doing great. also that's true

"it's more interesting actually"/"fetish art ends up being better bc people put a lot more focus into their work when they're obsessed with it": you're right

"stop it with the horny jail thing": you're also right

Average color of US states based on satellite imaging.

fireflies lighting up a rural Pennsylvania field at dusk

As a european i sometimes forget furefkied are actually real and not american folklore/cryptids. Like you’ve got friendly little bugs that glow in the dark….. b r uh

in case europeans were worried: we love them very much! even tho they’re clumsy and slow and sometimes bump into you, no one swats fireflies here, or takes them for granted. even grownups sometimes reach out in the summer and gently catch a firefly for a minute before letting it go.

By “reach out” that’s meant quite literally–you just kinda. Stick your hand in their flight path and they land on you and will sit on your hand for a bit. Sometimes if you’re just walking or standing outside while they’re active you have to shoo them off you because they’ll just. Sit on you.

They’re harmless and very pretty and it’s always a treat to see because they’re out for a relatively short time each year.

if I was matt murdock and I found out the same chemical spill that blinded me and lit the world on “fire” turned a bunch of turtles into pizza loving ninjas I would lose it actually

I’m not going lie the thought of matt finding out he’s radioactive ooze brothers with this particular version of the tmnt has me in tears

matt, trying to recount his childhood and ignore the smell of turtle, three day old pizza, and sewer: …..so yah, after my dad died I was basically on my own.

the turtles, already planning on buying their radioactive waste brother a shirt that says “I fell in radioactive waste and all I got was these glasses”: cowabummer dude. our dad’s a rat

Cowabanger of a post

I know its a old point but it is really striking just how much of world history is reconceived in technological terms. Colonialism is often read as, as they put it in Civ 5, the triumph of “muskets over spears”, when really this was not how any of the involved generals perceived it at the time. Colonial wars were hard won, the natives were not crushed. During the invasion of (what we now call) South America, Cortez himself wrote about his fear and bewilderment at the Aztec’s weapons (which were made out of stone, despite their advanced metallurgy) for being remarkably effective against their cavalry. In 1899 John Ardagh, a British colonial administrator conducting a campaign in the Phillipines, turned up to the Hague on the day they ruled the use of expanding bullets a war crime to make a breathless argument that (get this) regular bullets don’t work on Phillipinos! (He was laughed out of the trial, nach.)

But people also extend it to the succession of the bronze age over the stone age, and the iron age over the bronze age - the bronze weapons just couldn’t compete with the iron ones, we tend to think. This is not true in any case, as far as I know. It would actually be quite late in the iron age that iron weapons would surpass bronze ones in terms of quality. The reasoning was a little more like the succession of LCD screens over CRT ones - ease of use and distribution, etc. In particular, bronze was greatly restricted by access to the ‘tin belt’, a slim region in South East asia which was the only part of the world where tin was available outside of the Americas. Countries closer to the tin belt were the first to enter the bronze age and typically the last to leave it.

Early iron weapons kinda sucked, actually. Soft iron is bendy, hard cast iron is brittle as glass. Some soft iron could be on par with bronze, but mostly on small blades like axes and spearheads. Sword blades were relatively long, so you could get enough leverage to really bend them badly.

Bronze offered the best combination of hardness and durability until some clever smiths in a couple locations figured out how to make iron into steel, which is basically perfect.

Steel is hard and tough and springy, but most of all, it’s controllable. Changing a few additives, or slightly altering the heat treatment, can give you the exact performance you ask for. Modern high-alloy supersteels are like magic.

Aluminum is good for stage props, but an aluminum sword has few benefits over bronze except light weight, and that only useful for some types of blade that depend on velocity to cut.

Titanium blades actually kinda suck. It’s extremely tough and durable, but that makes it extremely difficult to forge, or even grind. Ask any knifemmaker, titanium fucking eats abrasives.

Flint and obsidian are actually superb for making blades. The edge can be astoundingly thin and smooth at a microscopic level, and even good steel looks like a saw at that level. They make great surgical scalpels, they even cause less scarring.

That’s why the macuahuitl, a sort of wooden sword edged with obsidian, allegedly decapitated Spanish horses with a single blow. It was made with a special flaking method called prismatic flaking, which produced long, consistent, replaceable razor blades.

Cortez had a good reason to be afraid.

headcanon: Sam gets so frustrated with the lack of organization in the night watch’s libraries after coming back from the citadel, that he creates the Westerosi version of the dewey decimal system. The tarly decimal system

BELLY UP TO TH BAR, PARDNER, WHAT'LL IT BE

if someone edits some shelves in the background and a little bar towel and beer glass and bowl of pine nuts onto the table I'll be your best friend

would you tip him

rarepairs but platonic. why has nobody else thought about how fun it would be for these two to interact

Take a break, this cute tardigrade needs time to cross your dash:

theon greyjoy is the pinnacle of all human suffering because imagine being tortured by yuckysgusting gay westerosi jigsaw AND being nineteen. at the same time.

you’re laughing. they’re horrifically misinterpreting my favorite character’s personality and you’re laughing

Making friends with ducks

the ducks, constantly wiggling with Questions: what is this thing? can we eat it?

the capybara, at one with the universe: i am all things, and my footsies are wet

love how theon and joncon actually proved to be some of the most successful military tacticians in the series solely because they decided that maybe they should just... sneak up on people? it's never occurred to anyone in westeros before that maybe marching across half the kingdom for ten days with your 30,000-strong army while blasting warhorns and banging drums isn't the most efficient way of fighting. but theon and joncon come onto the scene with like twenty guys and a dream and decide to invent proto-guerrilla warfare. taking the seat of a great house in a day? tywin lannister WISHES. mace tyrell hears that storm's end was taken without a years-long siege and cries. randyll tarly caught dead. guess it pays off being delusional and gay

ID: "it's so fucking hot outside all my genderfluid friends are about to turn into gender vapor"

According to Know Your Meme, on August 18th, 2005, Erwin Beekveld brought forth this work into the world. HAPPY TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY, THEY’RE TAKING THE HOBBITS TO ISENGARD.

sheds a single tear

every august 18th my notifications break and i go, fuck, tumblr has failed me once again, but it hasn’t. it hasn’t failed me. it’s just the taking the hobbits to isengard-iversary. happy 12 years

Happy 18th birthday, this meme is legally allowed to go drinking with me tonight

someone smarter than me needs to write a full breakdown of how a lot of modern "feminism" is actually just christian complementarianism wearing a pink trenchcoat

#so much of it is just propaganda to encourage women to embrace “our natural role”#including the idea that women are uniquely virtuous/intuitive/nurturing/vulnerable/special/etc#divine feminine and all that you're literally just regurgitating the stuff that's supposed to make us content to be subordinate#it's not even a shiny new coat half the time it's the exact same stuff regressive churches explicitly teach (@thatdiabolicalfeminist)