hgk477:

1. Only move at dusk and dawn. 
   
2. Cover yourself. The sun is an old and angry thing. 
   
3. Try not to leave tracks. 
   
4. Not all that is visible is real. 
   
5. Not all that is real is visible. 
   
6. When you start hearing the voices of the dead, settle down and do not move. They will pass you by. 
   
7. Do not approach caravans. 
   
8. Dreams had in the desert are either prophetic or real. Decide wisely which to believe. 
   
9. There are no wolves here. You will hear them anyway. 
   
10. Never rest in the bottom of a dune valley. 
    
11. Do not speak to anything that has not proven itself to be human. 
    
12. When the sand shakes, run. 
    
13. Cover your mouth. The sand will coat your lungs. 
    
14. Seeing things in the day is not a problem. Seeing things at night should be.  
    
15. Never play the flute. 
    
16. Always carry a sack of sugar for hungry things. 
    
17. You are meat. Do not forget this fact. 
    
18. If there is something in your periphery, do not look at it. It wants you to. 
    
19. Dig yourself into the ground in a sandstorm. The wind will take you away. 
    
20. The flames are not real. 
    
21. The shadows are not real. 
    
22. Never close your tent flap all the way. It is impolite. 
    
23. Never let your lantern go out. 
    
24. The ancient have no love for the young. 
    
25. Do not drink water offered to you. 
    
26. Do not watch the dancers. They will trick you. 
    
27. There should be no clouds. If there are, move until they disappear. 
    
28. Travel alone. You will invariably lose your companions. 
    
29. Someone will cry out for help. Do not follow the voice. 
    
30. The murmurs of veiled ones are to be disregarded.

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zooophagous:

bogleech:

I succumbed to clicking this clickbait article and succumbed to looking at the comments fully believing they were going to be terrible and instead I saw what lawful good is

I’m so glad clickbait spider got rescued

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whatevercomestomymind:

stuff-n-n0nsense:

assasue:

saxifraga-x-urbium:

systlin:

Something I find incredibly cool is that they’ve found neandertal bone tools made from polished rib bones, and they couldn’t figure out what they were for for the life of them. 

Until, of course, they showed it to a traditional leatherworker and she took one look at it and said “Oh yeah sure that’s a leather burnisher, you use it to close the pores of leather and work oil into the hide to make it waterproof. Mine looks just the same.” 

“Wait you’re still using the exact same fucking thing 50,000 years later???”

“Well, yeah. We’ve tried other things. Metal scratches up and damages the hide. Wood splinters and wears out. Bone lasts forever and gives the best polish. There are new, cheaper plastic ones, but they crack and break after a couple years. A bone polisher is nearly indestructible, and only gets better with age. The more you use a bone polisher the better it works.”

It’s just. 

50,000 years. 50,000. And over that huge arc of time, we’ve been quietly using the exact same thing, unchanged, because we simply haven’t found anything better to do the job. 

i also like that this is a “ask craftspeople” thing, it reminds me of when art historians were all “the fuck” about someone’s ear “deformity” in a portrait and couldn’t work out what the symbolism was until someone who’d also worked as a piercer was like “uhm, he’s fucked up a piercing there”. interdisciplinary shit also needs to include non-academic approaches because crafts & trades people know shit ok

One of my professors often tells us about a time he, as and Egyptian Archaeologist, came down upon a ring of bricks one brick high. In the middle of a house. He and his fellow researchers could not fpr the life of them figure out what tf it could possibly have been for. Until he decided to as a laborer, who doesnt even speak English, what it was. The guy gestures for my prof to follow him, and shows him the same ring of bricks in a nearby modern house. Said ring is filled with baby chicks, while momma hen is out in the yard having a snack. The chicks can’t get over the single brick, but mom can step right over. Over 2000 years and their still corraling chicks with brick circles. If it aint broke, dont fix it and always ask the locals.

I read something a while back about how pre-columbian Americans had obsidian blades they stored in the rafters of their houses. The archaeologists who discovered them came to the conclusion that the primitive civilizations believed keeping them closer to the sun would keep the blades sharper.

Then a mother looked at their findings and said “yeah, they stored their knives in the rafters to keep them out of reach of the children.”

Omg the ancient child proofing add on tho lol

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jediqueer:

spidey-world:

Peter Parker < Peter B Parker

I absolutely love the subtle differences in their face-structure. Firstly - Peter’s hair is better kempt in the first picture because he’s pulled it back to sit under his mask more smoothly while Peter B. has it hanging lose and just pulls his mask on however. Their eyebrows are subtly different - Peter’s are thinner than Peter B’s. Their eyes are a big one too - Peter B. has brown eyes, while his counterparts are blue. But the biggest one (pun kind of intended?) is the nose - you probably wouldn’t notice without a side-by-side like this, but Peter B’s has been broken at some point in the past.

What’s amazing about this is that all these differences are really small but they tell us so much about how these characters just in their appearance. Even the expressions on their faces tell us immediately where they’re at in relation to each other. Peter Parker LOVES being Spiderman, there’s that casual, soft but determined little smile on his face - he’s clearly enjoying himself or excited to go be Spider-Man. Peter B. Parker however seems like he’s more in it because he feels he needs to, rather than he wants to. He still has kind of a look of determination on his face, even though he seems a bit less happy - but he’s not about to quit, either.

Just from these stills we get a lot of things the movie tells us later, and that it doesn’t tell us but implies. For one - Peter Parker is more of a success as Spider-Man than Peter B Parker. Is. He enjoys it, he doesn’t see saving the city as something he has to do, he sees it something he WANTS to do. He loves being Spider-Man, the movie shows and tells us this. Peter B. looks tired. He’s continuing because he has to but you get the sense he’s lost a lot more fights than Peter Parker has. But - he gets back up in spite of it.

Fucking lord I love this movie.

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kiaranator:

sheriff-haught-sauce:

Greek dude: But…but I brought you a bouquet of olives to win over your heart!

Sappho, lounging on a couch with her girlfriend on her lap, popping grapes into her mouth: Oh muse, singeth to us Despacito.

i let my little sapphic hands do all the work

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pithya:

This is the humanities version of that spoof about scientists reminding the world that clean energy is ready to go whenever.

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nitro-nova:

himeshirayuki:

this meme is funny and all but i think we all need to pay attention to the fact that its not some kinda vague classical art or whatever but is instead a modern piece stolen and uncredited with the artist’s watermark removed. heres the original 

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ishipeverthinglance:

i-fear-what-lies-in-2019:

writing-prompt-s:

So… You wanna explore the Universe.

If you are reading this guide, then you and any potential peers want to leave the comfort and security of your warm mother star and expand into the cold, dark, and unforgivable void. A mistake, really, but I am not here to stop you; I am here to lay out some basic rules that you puny mortals must abide by.

1. Don’t ask questions you are not prepared to know the answer to.
2. There’s always bigger.
3. Never cross the Elder Gods.
4. Always remember rule 1.
5. Fusion based energy is your best friend. If you are still using fossil fuels then your species sucks. Period.
6. Speaking of fossil fuels, chemical based rockets suck. Try using space bending warp drives or quantum bridges. Light speed sucks, too.
7. It’s not a bad idea for your species to be genocidal xenophobic maniacs to everything but yourselves. Just make sure you have the firepower to back it up.
8. I highly recommend total unity within your species. If you are too busy fighting amongst yourselves, what are you going to do when Needledorp arrives?
9. Fear Needledorp.
10. Always remember rule 9.
11. If you find a desolate, rocky planet with the only inhabitant named “Frank”, avoid that planet at all costs. I don’t care if it’s rich in resources, just avoid it.
12. Some black holes are alive. They are aggressive. Do not pet the black holes.
13. It’s just like that, sometimes.
14. Make sure nothing is following you.
15. If you have an individual with psychic powers, expect them to go insane once they leave the confines of your mother star. Lock them up in a closet with a few markers and check up on them every once in a while. If they star my screaming about an entity named “Carol”, shoot them out the airlock. They will be the distraction.
16. Remember rule 1.
17. You are immortal until proven otherwise.
18. Any extraterrestrial rocks may have anomalous properties. Proceed with caution, or you may get space zombies or something.
19. Remember rule 13.
20. Make sure nothing is following you.
21. Violence may be an answer to a dispute with an extraterrestrial entity. Copulation is a last resort (control your thirst).
22. If bullets don’t work, punches will.
23. Remember rule 17.
24. Your objective: survive.
25. Babies are not food, they are weapons.
26. There are cheat codes.
27. Don’t ask about the cheat codes. Remember rule 1.
28. If the void is staring at you. Make it uncomfortable.
29. Avoid Frank. The anomalous one.
30. Remember rules 1, 2, and 3.

idk man I like this one

I really like this one

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sayitwithsarcophilus:

moonlight-at-dawn:

Why did “be critical of your media” turn into “find all its flaws and hate it” why did people become allergic to FUN

Because people confuse “critical as in critical thinking” with “critical as in criticizing something,” so they think that “look for something bad, no matter how far-fetched” is what “being critical” means.

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