How come the prices of the stuff in the Duolingo store went up?? Is the fake bird’s fake money subject to fake inflation???????
hello fellow non-Black tumblr users. welcome to my saw trap. if you'd like to leave, please name one (1) Black woman author who is not Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, bell hooks, Octavia Butler, or N.K. Jemisin. bonus points if she's published a book in the last five years.
For my own future reference, and for anyone else who wants it, a list of authors mentioned in the notes. (I cannot promise this is comprehensive, there are a lot of reblogs and I might have missed some.) I've included a link for each author, where possible I've tried to find one that leads you to their books, prioritising own websites/publishers, falling back on wikipedia otherwise.
If you find any mistakes in the links let me know and I'll edit. This post will be in two parts, because I literally broke tumblr with how many authors there were. I think it's about a hundred and fifty.
And here's part two:
Anonymous asked:
You know, "human for scale" when showing the sizes of animals living or extinct is kind of vague. We should use a specific famous person with a well-known height for scale. Like Sigourney Weaver
bunjywunjy answered:
we must replace all “human for scale” figures in scientific literature with mr shaquille o'neal IMMEDIATELY
Quetzalcoatlus (with Benedict Cumberbatch for scale)
and our time warp trek back to 2013-era tumblr continues to pick up speed
Holmes calling Watson “John” in The Devil’s Foot 🤝 Jack calling Miss Fisher “Phryne” in Death by Miss Adventure
seriously though, something i love about the sarah jane adventures is just how poorly sarah jane manages to be a functional adult. start of the series, she has no friends except an alien computer and a robot dog. she’s fumbling her way through parenting every step of the way. she cannot interact with maria’s dad normally in any way. she takes this bunch of kids and goes, “yeah, you’re about as qualified as i was to start dealing with aliens, how do you feel about being in mortal danger?” the minute she feels like she’s about to lose anyone, she shuts down emotionally and pushes them away. she’s in her late 50s and she’s still figuring her shit out, and i love that for her.
honestly kudos to Elementary for gender swapping John Watson in what we all thought was an attempt to make johnlock palatable to the masses and then proceeding to not only make them entirely platonic but also become the ONLY modern adaptation where i actually feel like them being platonic makes complete sense
i love characters who do the “i worship the myth i make of you” and in turn dehumanize and get wrong the object of their devotion and love. yes project a thing that does not exist onto a pedestal and kneel at it like it is your altar. this will surely not blow up in both of your faces eventually
Reblog if there’s an everlasting bond between you and the species of animal you did a school project on
Two animals people need to shut the fuck up about and be normal are pandas and dolphins
mosquitos and wasps also
Gröning proposed the idea for the film to the monks in 1984, but the Carthusians said they wanted time to think about it. They responded to him 16 years later to say they were willing to permit him to shoot the movie if he was still interested.
ALTi love antique stores you go to check out & theyre like “where the hell did you get this”
But there’s also the curses
I've been looking through the tags and I'm cracking up.
Common themes:
-antique store worker confirming they REALLY don't know how something got there
-other retail employee (especially Barnes and Noble????) saying this isn't antique store specific
-guy who is definitely going to have to call a priest
-tales of excellent thrifting experiences that I'm going to share in this and subsequent reblogs
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i love antique stores you go to check out & theyre like “where the hell did you get this”
But there’s also the curses
I’ve been looking through the tags and I’m cracking up.
Common themes:
-antique store worker confirming they REALLY don’t know how something got there
-other retail employee (especially Barnes and Noble????) saying this isn’t antique store specific
-guy who is definitely going to have to call a priest
-tales of excellent thrifting experiences that I’m going to share in this and subsequent reblogs
