This Lamp Absorbs 150 Times More CO2 Than A Tree

the thing all sherlock holmes adaptations get wrong is making the guy an irredeemable asshole who treats everyone like shit . not only is it not reflective of the original stories they miss that “nice, smart, well mannered dude who snorts coke when he needs to think” is possibly the funniest character ever devised 

if you’re having a bad day, here’s a cute little marching band

Humans Are Weird

So there has been a bit of “what if humans were the weird ones?” going around tumblr at the moment and Earth Day got me thinking. Earth is a wonky place, the axis tilts, the orbit wobbles, and the ground spews molten rock for goodness sakes. What if what makes humans weird is just our capacity to survive? What if all the other life bearing planets are these mild, Mediterranean climates with no seasons, no tectonic plates, and no intense weather? 

What if several species (including humans) land on a world and the humans are all “SCORE! Earth like world! Let’s get exploring before we get out competed!” And the planet starts offing the other aliens right and left, electric storms, hypothermia, tornadoes and the humans are just … there… counting seconds between flashes, having snowball fights, and just surviving. 

What you think of adult tododeku having kids?

You know, I thought about this super hard and a plot accidentally happened again,

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I could try to explain myself, but… would you believe I’ve never even read Naruto?

Friendly reminder that “rock paper scissors” exist in the Avatar universe

It’s made after the avatar cycle

Not which element actually beats each other in reality, cause that would depend on the bender. In the game it’s decided who wins after the order of the avatar cycle.

Water beats earth

Earth beats fire

Fire beats air

Air beats water

Who wins between water and fire? No one, they are opposite elements. They can’t beat each other.

Who wins between air and earth? No one, they are opposite elements. They can’t beat each other.

The hand gestures are either a move in the bending style or a representation of the element itself;

Water - A hand doing waves (suggestion) - no one really knows the hand gesture for water

Earth - Hand is clenched as a rock - as shown by Aang (pictured above) in the episode City of walls and secrets

Fire - Fingers are flames - as shown by Sokka (pictured above) in the episode City of walls and secrets

Air - A hand facing forward - as shown by two Airbender boys in a flashback (pictured above) in the episode The storm

That’s all the information we have about it at the moment.

(Decided to give the updated version it’s own post)

“I live in the north of England, I’m used to freezing cold temperatures”

Oh honey.  That’s what the pilgrims said.  They mostly died.

STOP COMPLAINING ABOUT WINTEAM AHHHH!!

The book uwma is based off of is a very deanpharm focused one so of course it’s going to be more deanpharm than anything else. It has a story to tell, and it’s going to tell it. Do I want more manow and winteam? Yes I do, but I’m not going to throw a fit when they don’t show up.

I get being frustrated with it, trust me the rest of the gang definitely deserve more screen time than they’re given, but you shouldn’t say that the series is terrible because of that. Uwma has actually flipped a lot of bl stereotypes and has definitely left a mark on the history of bl.

Please recognize the achievements of uwma and not just linger on how some characters aren’t shown as often as you’d like.

I’m not sure whether I should laugh or cry.

Is OP aware that oh so many books exist on this subject?

And that almost universally the ones authored by people with doctorates in classicism and mythology disagree with OP?

Including the… epic hymn that first told this story? You know what’s in that original source material… right?

Abducted, yes. Demeter mourned? Definitely. Rape, no.

So here’s some info on Ancient Greek wedding traditions which (oh my stars and garters!!) included abducting the bride. With the father’s permission, which Hades got before he took her away.

Here’s a whole book on the subject of Ancient Greek wedding custom and its conflation with funeral rites. (Which sounds a bit like Hades and Persephone to anyone who’s ever dabbled in things like explication and context)

Here’s a link to another book that talks about Persephone’s rise to power as a result of her willingly eating the pomegranate seeds.

Oh shit!!

Here’s a whole bunch of myths and hymns that talk about her Queen of the Underworld badassery!!

Holy pug tacos Batman!!

Here’s another book about the myth focusing on the seasonal religious and liminal rites. WHICH TAKE PLACE IN THE DRY SUMMER (not the fucking winter), which you know if you read a book.Way to go, OP!

All these fucking books!  What could anyone possibly do with them all?!?!?!?! Do you eat books to absorb their powers instead of read them?

A better guess would be that you got into a moral panic over the name of a certain Renaissance statue and maybe after reading three pages of Edith Hamilton or the first paragraph of a Wikipedia article. And then used that to castigate and demean not only the people who actually take their limited time to create gorgeous art but also to denigrate modern day worshippers of Persephone and Hades?

Maybe next time, you stringy piece of over-boiled okra, you might want to take your own advice and pick up a book, instead of reducing the feared and respected Queen of the Underworld who held power equal to or in many interpretations GREATER than her husband into a meaningless pastiche of female disenfranchisement that you seemingly plucked from your own ass.

this isn’t even part of the actual fanfic why did i draw this

From The Murder of the Crows by cerbykerby on ao3