this makes me want to cry
First of all, “…they were surrounded on all sides by echoes and images of themselves, in a world where image and object had not yet torn themselves apart” is one of the most poetic phrasings I’ve ever heard.
Second, here’s the original source, “What the caves are trying to tell us” by Sam Kriss.
Third, the original opens with: “Every so often, I get the urge to drag someone into a cave, and show them something unspeakable.”
I had another point, but it got lost in the artful prose of this article.
I feel like “every so often, I get the urge to drag someone into a cave and show them something unspeakable” is something that’s okay for a paleolithic cave art expert to say, but like, absolutely no one else
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lmao i lost at least 7 followers after reblogging that…. anyway if you exclude nonbinary people you’re ignoring the white stripe of the trans flag; aces and aros are not straight and thus lgbt+ because theyre literally not attracted to the opposite sex, trans women are real women, and physical dysphoria is not required to be considered trans
me watching the terfs, aphobes and transmeds disappear from my follower count
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Am I the only person who thought this was really fucking funny
A lot of the really funny moments in Lord of the Rings come from Tolkien playing with language like this, where we have relatively formal, archaic, “high” language responded to with informal, modern, “low” language.
another hilarious example:
my absolute favorite example of tolkien switching registers in this way is
Ravenclaws probably have, overall as a house, the worst grades in the school tbh.
i feel as though ravenclaws would have driven Hermione Granger up a wall they neVER DO THEIR HOMEWORK??? I though this was the smart house???? and Ravenclaws are like yeah kay but GET THIS DID YOU KNOW AN ANIMAGUS – but potions homework – who even CARES about potions right now I’m researching this COOLER THING uncouple the idea of ‘smart’ with the idea of ‘good at school’
I bet for the professors teaching Ravenclaws is like herding cats away from empty boxes.
Older Ravenclaws have finely honed the art of asking just the right argumentative questions to direct their teacher onto an entire-class-session-long tangent about something entirely irrelevant to the course material.
Can you imagine Ravenclaws trying to overhaul the entire school system with Muggle ideas. Trying to figure out how to best teach people, more concerned with how people learn than what they’re learning.
“Why do we force people to learn things they aren’t interested in, we should create our own curriculum.”
“We should figure out everyone’s learning styles.”
“We need smaller class sizes.”
“No, no, wait, guys, what if we eliminated grades entirely.”
Yeah, Ravenclaws would drive Hermione up the wall.
“Fire the whole staff and start over.”
“Present more opportunities for seventh-year independent research!”
“Why hasn’t anyone made magically modified calculators yet?”
“Why are we still using quills and parchment when pencils exist? Please explain.”
“I don’t want to enter the work force directly after school, what are my options for higher education? Is there magical university?”
“I don’t feel confident in my professor’s qualifications because she’s teaching me astrology but doesn’t know any facts about space beyond about the year 1764.”
Muggleborn Ravenclaws forming rogue study groups to teach other students chemistry and algebra and English literature, just imagine.
“They call this the astronomy tower but we’re learning about the effects of Venus when it’s in the fourth house and the professor doesn’t believe Neptune is a planet I am really concerned.”
“Okay but what’s the oxidation state of Mandrake root in pepperup potion?”
“But can you apply differential calculus to arithmancy or not?“
“The portrayal of the witches in Macbeth has some pretty troubling implications, also, I don’t think their potion would have actually done anything.”
I can’t not reblog this holy frick
the. puns.
My favorite part about Cornwall, UK is that there are no speed limit signs anywhere so u just have to guess
Ha! Dash did a thing.
thor ragnarok is literally 18x funnier when u realize the grandmaster knows what’s going on the entire time. he is telepathic and can read minds so he legit just let shit go down just for fun bc he’s such a drama hoe
loki, thinking they’ve sleezed their way out of another mess: oh ill totally bring those traitors back to you oh great powerful grandmaster
the grandmaster, knowing damn well that’s not going to happen: haha yeah
can someone write this fanfic POV grandmaster please
Oh my, the Grandmaster thought. This one is a liar, and wow, he’s good. He watched, fascinated, listening with half an ear to the easy, charming words coming out of the man’s mouth even as the man’s mind spun out the most amazing complex plans of usurping the Grandmaster’s power and taking his place. “I like this guy,” the Grandmaster announced, cutting the man off mid sentence. “What did you say your name was? Right, Loki,” he said as the man thought it. Snapping his finger at the closest waiter, the Grandmaster pointed at Loki and said, “Get this man a drink.” As he sat back in his chair, satisfied and entertained by Loki’s bemusement as he accepted the beverage, the Grandmaster thought, this is going to be fun.
thor ragnarok is literally 18x funnier when u realize the grandmaster knows what’s going on the entire time. he is telepathic and can read minds so he legit just let shit go down just for fun bc he’s such a drama hoe
loki, thinking they’ve sleezed their way out of another mess: oh ill totally bring those traitors back to you oh great powerful grandmaster
the grandmaster, knowing damn well that’s not going to happen: haha yeah
honestly the part where he was like “im a great part of the revolution because without me who would they have to revolt against” explains so much about his character and the blaze nature that comes with truly understanding what it means to be immortal.
listen i love that good omens gave god a female voice and used they/she pronouns don’t get me wrong but that’s been DONE before. you know what they did that hasn’t been done before? they gave us UNSEXY, ROTTING, FEMALE-PRESENTING DEMONS. none of that cw sexualized femme fatale bullshit! positively ODIOUS and FESTERING beelzebub and dagon, weird mutations on their faces and flies circling their heads, sitting around in hell and looking NASTIER than hell. FINALLY SOME GOOD FUСKING CHARACTER DESIGN
#also the female presenting angels!!#like michael and uriel they weren’t sexualized either#no ‘hot chick in a suit’ bullshit #i mean#i still want them to rail me because i’m dyke but what i’m saying is#the way they presented themselves was neither heteronormative NOR appealing to the straight male gaze#which is SUCH a breath of fresh air on television these days#basically demons were like “what’s your gender” “trash” while angels were like “what’s your gender” “capitalism”#and that was very sexy of neilman #very sexy indeed
@two-nipples-maybe-more these tags are BRILLIANT don’t hide them!!
the two genders of trash and capitalism I’m dying