tsarina-anadyomene:

listening and learning

travelling-my-little-pony:

Starcatcher is visiting the Garden House to meet the fairies and also enjoy the lovely plants.

In Buckland Monachorum, in Devon, England.

This is photo 311 of 365.

greathoughtsphilosopy:

greathoughtsphilosopy:

greathoughtsphilosopy:

hello guys and today we’re going to be interviewing The Sickening Stone

LOL I asked it to reveal to me unholy knowlecge & it threstened me with 1,000 years Pocket dinension . It does NOT , have that power 😭

cold

opencommunion:

The discourse on terrorism is generally devoid of historical perspectives (‘terrorists are pure evil’ is one popular trope) and lacks any positionality because, it is assumed, terrorists simply live outside of morality and social norms. But such ahistorical and essentialist attitudes came to haunt this discourse when a former terrorist, Nelson Mandela, became a Nobel Peace Prize winner, or, more recently, when Osama bin Laden, a former American ally, ‘turned’ terrorist. The discourse on terrorism also does not account for state terrorism, whereby state institutions such as the army or police inflict violence on civilian populations, as was the case in Nicaragua and Chechnya (and by the US via the Contras). This last point is particularly missing from the discourse on the Palestinian–Israeli conflict. All attacks on Israelis, whether inside the 1967 border or outside, whether targeting soldiers or civilians, are dubbed terrorist attacks. But dropping a one-ton bomb from an Israeli airplane on a five-story Palestinian house, in which a militant may be present, knowing full well that dozens of civilians will be killed, is hardly ever described in Western media as terrorism.

Dorit Naaman, 2007

heritageposts:

I’m reading about how Israel, in the immediate aftermath of the 1948 Nakba, deliberately replaced olive trees and other indigenous flora with European plants. This ecological disaster, which is now proudly hailed under the banner of ‘making the desert bloom,’ was done to 'de-Arabize’ the landscape, and to cover up - often with fast-growing European pine trees -the ruins of Palestinian villages that were destroyed by Zionists forces.

And I just need everyone to read this passage from Pappé, because the symbolism of what happened to those European pine trees in the desert speaks for itself:

ALT

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, by Ilan Pappé (2006, p. 227-228.)

despazito:

how i sleep at night knowing i’ll never go cave diving

roskvawinther:

homofobe:

lostinhistorypics:

Marlene Dietrich is detained at a train station in Paris in 1933 for violating the ban on women wearing trousers.

As with all german actors in the 30’s, you always gotta check the World War II section of their Wikipedia page. Well im happy to report that Marlene Dietrich was in open opposition to the Nazi regime, and in 1937 donated her entire salary for a film (over 9 million dollars in todays money) to helping Jewish refugees :)

dat-soldier:

goodoldfisticuffs:

Just learned about “Pittsburgh toilets” and this one result is killing me

phaeton-flier:

onion-souls:

kineticpenguin:

kineticpenguin:

kineticpenguin:

Any setting where the elves have weaker booze than the dwarves isn’t committing to the bit

I mean, we’re talking about people whose lifespan is Yes.

“Oh, the weak wine? That is for children. I am two thousand years old, and I daresay one sip from this highball would knock you on your ass for a week.”

Look, there’s this weird thing people do with high fantasy where they want elves to be immortal/extremely long-lived snooty aristocrats and also somehow incapacitated by imagining the taste of salt too hard. “Orcs and dwarves have the hardest booze” no they don’t, they have work in the morning! In any of these settings, elves would pregame harder than hobbits party and everyone else has shit to do tomorrow.

The average high elf builds up the drug tolerance of a mid-70s Hollywood producer and then spends three centuries studying alchemy. While humans seek immortality, the Immortals seek the elusive “philosopher’s cocaine.”

Elf Fentanyl works exactly the way cops think human fentanyl does