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S H Ę !!!

That is a Suebian knot which was the most popular hairstyle for centuries for pastoral (not hunter gatherer) Germanic warriors fighting the Roman Empire.  

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(1/?)

WE TRYIN A MULTI-PART COMIC Y’ALL

how many parts exactly i do not know but watch this space, and pls practice proper snake handling technique, thank u

Some Things Your Local Librarians Would Like You To Know

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meganwhalenturner:

backofthebookshelf:

It is not a stupid question. Even if it is a stupid question, we have been thoroughly trained to answer your question without judgement or second-guessing. Besides, we’re mostly just glad you’re not asking us about the noise the printer is making again.

There are probably (at least) two desks in the library. One is where you check out books and is mostly staffed by people wearing nametags that say “Circulation Clerk.” These people can answer your questions about damaged or missing books, fines, and how many forms of identification we’ll need if you want to get a library card but your mailing address is in Taiwan. The other one is closer to the books and computers and is mostly staffed by people wearing nametags that say “Librarian.” These people can answer your questions about spider extermination, how to rent property to the United States Postal Service, and the number of tropical island nations in which you could theoretically establish the first United States Embassy. We would love to answer these questions for you. It would be a nice change from the printer.

We probably own a 3D printer by now. 3D printers, are cool, right? Please, please come use our 3D printer, it’s so lonely.

We spent a lot of money to hire this woodworker to come and teach a class at the library which you can attend for free. You will probably be the only person between the ages of ten and fifty in attendance, but your presence will fill the librarian with an unnameable joy. They will float back to their manager in a daze. “A young person came to my program,” they will say. You will have made their entire job worthwhile.

Every time you ask us for a book, movie, or music recommendation, a baby librarian gets their first cardigan.

Somewhere in the library, there is a form. If you fill out this form with your name and library card number and the details of the thing you are looking for, we will find you the thing. Sometimes the answer is “the thing is in Great Britain and they will not send it to us,” but more often the thing will just appear on hold for you, and one day you will pick up a copy of that out-of-print book you never thought you would read and maybe you will say, “Wow, the library is amazing,” and the librarian’s heart will glow. 

Please bring back book #2. The rest of its series misses it very much.

Five dollars is not a large library fine. Believe me, before I started working in libraries, I too wondered how someone could sleep at night, knowing they owed money to the library. When we laugh as you sheepishly apologize for your $2.50 in overdue fees, we are not mocking you, we are thinking of the ten people we sent to debt collection already today.

We really don’t care why you’re checking out Fifty Shades of Grey. Maybe you have a specifically-themed ironic bachelorette party to plan. Maybe you’re working on a thesis paper about mainstream media’s depiction of female sexuality. Maybe you just got curious. We will give you the benefit of the doubt. 

Whatever you’re smoking in the family restroom, please stop.

Somewhere on the library’s website, buried under “Links” or “Research” or “On-line Resources,” is a page that a librarian spent a month’s worth of work on. It contains many links to websites you thought everyone knew about, and one to a page that you could never have imagined existed that perfectly solves a problem you never expected to be resolved. 

Imagine the kind of person who would think to themselves, “Library school sounds like a thing I should do.” For the most part, you are imagining the kind of person who is now a librarian. We want very much to help you, but we’re not entirely sure how to do that unless you ask. You are not bothering us. Please, come and say hi.

Reblogging because I think it needs to be said again.

And again.

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“if you’re not angry you’re not paying attention” used to be such a powerful phrase but now it’s more accurate to say “if you’re not angry you’re probably exhausted by 5+ years of Panic Outrage Mode and are nearing the limit of your emotional range for reacting to this shit”

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blissymbolics:

Most shows with overpowered supernatural characters always try to come up with elaborate excuses to explain why the characters can’t just magic themselves out of every situation. Good Omens doesn’t really do that, but you don’t really question it because you completely buy that these morons are so unequivocally incompetent that they straight up forget that they have the powers of fucking demigods. They’re like high-level d&d characters who only use the same three moves and have completely forgotten about the 73 magic items sitting in their inventory. 

Crowley: I was totally planning on teleporting to this galaxy 4.3 light-years away but then you died and I was sad :(

Aziraphale: Oh I’m sorry. But listen, I need you to go to this village about an hour outside of London

Crowley: You Want me to GO WHere?? How the– how the FUuuck am I supposed to- I can’t Drive, it’s Rush Hour! You want me to WaLK?? In the Rain??! Please, be Realistic.

I cannot express the effect this post had on me. I read it aloud to my roommate and she burst into helpless laughter because it had never occurred to her that Crowley could do anything to get to Tadfield but drive the Bentley. It absolutely never had occurred to me, either. We both have been reading, rereading, and loving this book for about a decade now.

voordeel-ts:kylux || do it again

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kylux || do it again

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todays illustration is for claricechiarasorcha ! She wrote a very inspiring thread about greasy & tousled mechanical engineer Hux and I could not resist! ♡

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The effects of the bite of a Parnassos beetle.

So here’s the Phasma novel inspired picture, as promised. Perhaps I should’ve saved it until June 17th, but here it is. This one was a lot of fun to draw, and I’ve finished it astoundingly quickly.

No, I don’t think Armitage would’ve come to witness the scene in person, but I felt kind of obligated to include him anyway. Him and his shiny boots of leather. (Also, no flowers this time)

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“ALL REMAINING SYSTEMS WILL MEOW TO THE FIRST ORDER!!!”

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predawnchloroform:

Not to be confused with Lawful Chaotic, which is creating as much chaos as possible by following the letter of the law, usually to ridiculous extremes.

They’re best friends too

just saying…

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Herbariy - stylised heraldry by Ivan Belikov

These are pretty cool, once I realized what I was looking at!

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by  Morgan Prost

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I think the thing I really appreciate most about Kylux fanworks is that they always capitalize on the similarities between these two characters.  Whether they’re both monsters or they’re both traumatized kids who just need love, what sparks their relationship is what they have in common.  It’s such a relief in light of a canon that is so adamant about seeing them as different. 

 Kylo killed his father, who is trying to help him, but it’s forgivable because he felt conflicted about it.  Hux kills his father, who had abused him his whole life, and it only goes to show that they are the same.  Kylo’s childhood trauma is taken so seriously that it makes some characters forget about his crimes; Hux’s makes him the butt of jokes by characters the audience is meant to admire.  We can’t be certain until RoS comes out, but I worry that Hux’s main purpose will turn out to be as the villain we’re supposed to hate as a foil to the one we’re supposed to care about and forgive.  Here, as is usually the case in this trope, the difference isn’t that the “bad” villain is actually worse than the “good” villain; he’s just more marginalized.

What Kylux does is that it takes the similarities that are meant to set up the foil and takes them at face value as the basis of a relationship.  They’re both violent and destructive and are more effective together or they’re both fucked up by their childhoods and help each other heal.  Sometimes it’s neither of these things; sometimes it’s a bit of both.  Sometimes Kylo is with Hux because he’s made his peace with the dark side; sometimes he succeeds in winning Hux over to the side of goodness and light.  All of these options are more satisfying than a story that insists on pitting two abuse and trauma survivors against each other and only showing understanding and sympathy for one of them.

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petermorwood:

petermorwood:

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adzolotl:

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argumate:

spam email that starts off with “Behold!” is setting a damn high bar for itself

Broke: Starting your spam email with “Behold!”

Woke: Starting your spam email with “Hwaet!”

Muse, tell me the story of a complicated man,
the man who sold aluminium extrusion at an incredible price,

I sing of arms and the man who first from the shores of Troy, exiled by fate came to Italy and Lavinian shores, with a really unnaturally large dick, here look at these pills they’ll change your life.

Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote

The droghte of March hath perced to the roote

And bathed every veyne in swich licour,

Of which vertu engendred is the flour;

Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth

Inspired hath in every holt and heeth

The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne

Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne,

And smale foweles maken melodye,

That slepen al the nyght with open eye-

(So priketh hem Nature in hir corages);

Thanne longen folk to save up to 80% during our Easter mega-savings sale event

bbcphile bifilthatonthatseson

After a refurbishment lasting from October to March, the York Street department store of Gloucester & Bros. will open on June 1st. Advertising fliers are appearing in mailboxes everywhere…

Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York;
And all the clouds that lour’d upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.

Now are our lowest prices cut again;
Our special value items made more special yet;
And in the special sale on Thursday of next week,
Will be reductions wond’rous to behold.
Soft-furnished chairs reduced by more than half!
And now, instead of paying when they leave,
As would have happened in the older store,
Our customers may take advantage, if they wish,
Of discount cards for later charge.

There’s more! Our Children’s Section offers two for one,
And in our Pets and Livestock you will find
The cost of horses less than you expect.
Bulk purchase in our fine wine-shop is better yet,
Tower-brand Malmesey by the butt is best of all.

There are so many things that we could tout,
But why not visit us in person and find out?
Remember, shoppers, now you’ve read this post
That those who get here first will save the most!

Reblogging this at dduane‘s request…

…and restraining myself from reworking the penultimate stanza, after 9 months which doesn’t seem to scan properly any more.

(CHORTLE)

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Diving swans captured by Viktor Lyagushkin 

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Morning

bisexualcarol: inspired by (x)

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inspired by (x)

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blackfemalepresident:

the sex positivity movement should never forget asexuals, abstinent & celibate people

being comfortable with not being interested in sex is just as important as being comfortable with having sex

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So how do they make that?

This just raises more questions for me 🤦🏾‍♂️

what the FUCK

this is whats called a ‘coffer dam’, you basically build some walls, drop them in the water, tie them together, and then pump out the water from your new hole in the water so you can build while staying dryits oddly not that hard- the flippin ROMANS were able to do it with logs and mud

occasionally particularly devious people would use this to hide treasure or tombs underneath the river so its not only impossible to find but impossible to get to without an engineer division

that last part gives me ideas for campaigns

“Not that hard - the ROMANS were able to do it” - people seriously underestimate how advanced some ancient cultures were and the organized effort it takes to come up with something like this and actually implement it. The Romans had heated floors, glass windows and ceilings that could be rotated to reflect what you were eating (forests for game, sea landscapes for fish). Hell, the Greeks built cameras and moving robots. The Minoans, who lived four thousands years ago and were wiped out by a tsunami three times as powerful as the one which devasted Japan in 2011, had running water and modern toilets. And let’s not get into how China basically invented everything centuries before anyone else. 

Bottom line: just because someone was already doing it thousands of years ago, doesn’t mean it’s not very difficult and an extraordinary feat of engineering.

someone: you build how many bridges on a single military campaign…?

Caesar: what, like it’s hard?

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by  Huy Ozuno

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Found on FB

*******PLEASE DON’T LEAVE DISHES OF SUGAR WATER OUT*******

Post from a beekeeper

Oh dear - I keep hearing tips about leaving bowls of sugar water out to “help” keep bees hydrated. Please, please, please DON’T. Bees are really good at finding what they need and there are so many reasons not to do this. The MOST IMPORTANT reason is that if you within 3 miles of some hives (and most people are) if the bees find the sugar water they’re going to think its a great source of easy food, go back to the hive and recruit more bees to come and collect the “food” and before you know it you’ll have 1.000s and 1,000s of bees descending on your garden/balcony - a very scary sight. This is known as robbing and as beekeeper I’ve seen this a couple of times - once started it is impossible to stop until the source of the “food” has gone.

Other reasons not to do this are - sugar water is essentially “junk” food for bees. Its full of carbohydrates which will give them an energy burst, but has no other nutritional value unlike the food they should be having i.e. nectar.

Honey bees will store this as honey in the hive. The beekeeper unknowingly may end up extracting and selling this as honey later in the year. You don’t want to buy sugar syrup and the beekeeper doesn’t want to be prosecuted for selling a product which isn’t honey.

This is also an easy food source for social wasps.

By all means give a tired bee a drink of sugar water on a spoon, but please don’t leave it out for them.

If you want to help bees there are lots of ways you can do this from planting nectar rich plants or leaving out bowls of water with gravel/small pebbles in so they can access the water which they would be very grateful for.

PLEASE SHARE THIS AND TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS

Edited - It appears that a lot of the advice I have seen about leaving out sugar water stems from advice from DAVID ATTENBOROUGH. He was absolutely right in his advice, but his advice was if you see a struggling bee to put some sugar water where the bee could reach it - not to leave out bowls of sugar water. Unfortunately it seems like, as usual, media publications have misquoted advice and not done their research

Also please don’t feed bees honey. Surprisingly they don’t eat honey - they eat nectar. Honey bees make honey for their own use during the winter months, but bumble bees collect and use nectar as and when they need it.

Feeding honey can spread disease between bees.

Reblog for a tired bee

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E.M. Forster (1879-1970) about Mohammed el-Adl // Sappho (c. 630-c. 570 BC) // Gordon Bowsher to Gilbert Bradley (soldiers in WWII) // Richard Siken (1967-)

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by  Iga “Igson” Oliwiak

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no personal space allowed

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#i’m quietly ice fishing with my mutuals but sometimes i perceive the shadows of lovecraftian discourse monsters passing below the surface

slimegargoyle:

*steps one degree of separation outside my normal tumblr orbit* oh wow you people are all out of your minds

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When he’s a 19 year old fascist and you’re a 24 year old democratically elected politician but he has a tiny braid so you’re helpless to his charming pear floating powers

Like, not to be That Fan, but Anakin’s a former slave serving the government that flat-out refused to attempt to clean up his home world’s slavery issue (or, yannow, free his mum) and lashing out like teens do and looking for simple solutions, and she’s a politician in the hopelessly corrupt government who spends her time crusading against its corruption and can understand that Anakin was uneducated, justifiably mad, and venting.

Like, saying “I should MAKE them do something” about your mother having a bomb inside her to keep her enslaved is kinda understandable for a teenager. Or even an adult.

Tbh the thing that moved me the most about RotS, not at the time it came out but as I’ve gotten older and rewatched it a few times, is that I honestly can’t fault Anakin *too much* before he started, you know, actively engaging in evil acts like mass murdering kids. His fall may have been a dramatic plunge into ‘for the evulz’, but the getting there was not as blunderingly obvious as people think.

Between the super-corrupt bureaucratic government refusing to deal with slavery on Tatooine, the aloof and dogmatic Jedi whose response to “I got a vision of my wife dying and I need help” was “dump her and move on”, and the manipulative surrogate father figure luring him to the Dark Side, Anakin reacted about as well as a young man his age would have.

That isn’t apologizing for fascism; it’s more commentary on how fascists twist emotionally vulnerable young men into their puppets, and is imminently relevant to today’s world.

oooooo that last bit is spot on

The only way this could have been more on-point is if Anakin’s mom had died from a lack of health care.

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Star Wars Journeys Paintings Illustrations

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by  Will Murai

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Spoilers for Age of Resistance: General Hux

This entire comic was fantastic - we got a bunch of good hux and kylo antagonistic banter which was gold - but this sequence I’m about to show you is fire and I think means something for The Rise of Skywalker

Snoke’s reaction is funny af but what comes next is very telling *cough* foreshadowing for Hux’s plot in The Rise Of Skywalker

“Men like Hux are useful. Men consumed with ambition, fueled by spite. Men who can set aside their pride, who have shame burning inside them. Pups who were abused often grow to be vicious creatures. But they never forget where they came from.” — Snoke voiceover

“You see me as something you can control. Something weak. I am not weak. I am patient.” — Hux

Ok so speculation time - I don’t know about you but I feel like they have set up Hux perfectly. He might as well be talking to Kylo right there. 👀 He is about to come for the throne and stab Kylo in the back to get what he wants in The Rise of Skywalker. I just know it. He will wait for the perfect timing and stage a coupe. He has to…

thequeenofthepirates:I bought the Hux comic today, and for all that it is a fantastic look into his.

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I bought the Hux comic today, and for all that it is a fantastic look into his character both at how cruel and manipulative he is, as well as details of how he became an absolutely vile little man, the best part, and I do mean the best part is this:

Ironic coming from you, eh, Kylo?