amemoryofwot:

Forsaken 5D chess, Lanfear trying to align them against Moghedien but secretly she’s sending Sammael after Rand while trying to sniff out Rahvin’s infiltrator in her cabal. Rahvin trying to remind them that they fought amongst themselves more than they fought the Dragon but he’s also playing them against Graendal and Semirhage. Moghedien was listening all along and had what seemed like an alliance with Rahvin but actually she was just using him and his contact to figure out what Lanfear was doing. And all they got for this was dead Black Ajah, Sammael crushed under rubble, and Moghedien’s fixation on Nynaeve. Absolute clown behaviour 10/10 no notes.

zingaplanet:

Yes but life is too short to not stare at J.M.W. Turner’s colours:

paint-lady:

brainscrems:

I’m curious, so here’s a poll for queer jews. Non-jews don’t vote, but reblog for sample size and visibility please. Note that this is talking about average, it is expected some would be worse/better in various contexts, but try and think of this in terms of how they affect your life and in terms of which you are more concerned by and make a judgement call.

Queer Jews, on the whole, do you feel more threatened by queerphobia or antisemitism?

I’m a queer jew and I feel more threatened by queerphobia

I’m a queer jew and I feel more threatened by antisemitism

I’m a queer jew and I feel comparably threatened by them both

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theblackqueen-ofmyheart:

brighteyedjill:

anomaliewrites:

ssoftblackboy:

alwaysbewoke:

awesome story. black doctors and nurses are the best.

We need more of this

I’m not a PoC but this is just incredible, *exceptional*, culturally sensitive patient care, period. Absolutely should be shared with every healthcare professional I know.

We should always keep in mind that we are treating an entire person, not simply their condition, and the effects seemingly minor kindnesses can have on them long after they leave our care.

If you want to support black doctors who are just starting out, Farrah-Amoy Fullerton, a fourth-year med student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham just set up a way for people to help black fourth year med students transition to their residencie. This often means moving to a new city where they won’t get a paycheck for weeks. Black students are also less likely to have access to generational wealth to keep them afloat during school. So if you have a few bucks and want to buy a graduation gift for a future black doctor, check out this article or search #medgradwishlist on twitter.

We need more black doctors to because doctors are often untrained on how to diagnose conditions in black peoples vs white people and are taught black have a higher pain tolerance and just a whole bunch of other ridiculous things…….. black people need black doctors

smallcloisville:

These type scenes are everything 😂😂

Clark is so adorable 😍😍

brennacedria:

brennacedria:

Y'all. Brian found the original Star wars a new hope on some random Roku app today. Like the ORIGINAL ORIGINAL, greedo doesn’t shoot AT ALL

He doesn’t remember the name of it, so when I get home I’ll find it and let you guys know more

Okay so the app he found is Cinema Box, and it has the complete, uncut Star Wars (1977). The movie’s listing is for “Star Wars: Episode VI - A New Hope” but the crawl has NO MENTION of episodes or hopes of any kind! It is the oRiGiNaL. It’s also clunky as hell looking, but I still don’t think it’s a vhs copy… I feel like it should have more graininess than it does if it was vhs. Laserdisc, maybe?

I forgot that lucasfilm limited was even a thing.

anexperimentallife:

nothing-suspicious-at-all:

roach-works:

theleakypen:

superstressedspidergirl:

iwilltrytobereasonable:

wordswithkittywitch:

ceescedasticity:

jumpingjacktrash:

theelvenkingshalls:

mistergandalf:

mistergandalf:

one of my favorite lotr facts is that gondorians speak sindarin as a first language and yet when faramir was talking to frodo and sam about cirith ungol he was like “we don’t know what’s in there.” like faramir. cirith ungol is sindarin for “pass of the spider.” do the math

some of my favorite tags on this post

Don’t forget that Frodo also speaks Sindarin, which makes this even worse.

Faramir: Hey, don’t go up the Spider Stairs.

Frodo: Why? What’s up the Spider Stairs?

Faramir: We don’t know, Frodo. We just don’t know.

to be fair, you’d assume the name means “there’s a lot of spiders here,” not, “there is one spider the size of a draft horse here.” so you go up expecting to have to shoo a lot of skeeter eaters out of your tent, and instead you have to figure out how to rope and shoe godzillarantula.

Hmmm…

They do live in a world where godzillarantulas feature prominently in mythology and history (Ungoliant plunged the world into darkness, scared the crap out of Sauron’s old boss, etc) and existed within the last century in Mirkwood. Assuming they ever talk to anyone who’s been to Mirkwood. They… probably know they were giant spiders in Mirkwood pretty recently? It’s hard to figure out how much anyone in Middle-earth has been talking to anyone else when we didn’t actually see it.

On the other hand – what if it’s the giant evil spiders’ prominence in history/mythology that’s causing trouble? What if lots of evil/nasty things/places get called “spider” just to indicate how nasty and evil they are, rather than any association with literal spiders, and it’s just… overloaded? Maybe the bad part of town in Minas Tirith is the Spider District. Maybe every tavern trying to be edgy calls itself the Spiderweb.

Actually spider/Ungoliant references could be really appealing to Gondorians trying to be edgy. They’re dark and evil! Plunged the world into darkness! But they AREN’T involved in the war they’re actually fighting, they aren’t directly associated with Sauron at all, so getting too interested in them would be creepy without being potentially treasonous. Because no one’s ACTUALLY going to worship those dangerous but not epic spiders up in Mirkwood, and no one’s heard anything from any proper spawn of Ungoliant in ages and ages.

In fact, spider/Ungoliant references might be appealing to ORCS trying to express that something is nasty and creepy! Nobody likes Ungoliant.

Maybe Faramir’s been to fourteen different Spider Caves across Ithilien, and half of them he didn’t even see regular spiders in, they’re just dark and damp and may have had orcs at some point, or something, and at some point in history someone got spooked. So you know, it’s POSSIBLE Spider Pass has something to do with spiders? But really it just means people don’t like it.

(The problem with this theory is we never actually SAW anyone overusing spider references. But it’s plausible they would!)

“The average spider on Middle Earth is the size of a dinner plate” is a statistical error. The average spider on Middle Earth is smaller than a coin. Cirith Ungol (lit: Spiders Gorge), which contains a spider larger than a horse, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.

OH MY GOD

@dendritic-trees

Come for the Tolkien linguistics, stay for the Spiders Georg reference

this map, by jonathan hull, shows all the places in the USA named after the devil or hell. assuming big giant awful spiders were a common thing in middle earth, it’s likely that there were a shit ton of Spider Stairways. 

you don’t wander into Devil’s Lick assuming that satan himself is gonna give you a rimjob. you presumably also don’t head up Spider Stairs assuming an arachnid the size of a cottage is gonna try and eat your friend. 

@blackkatmagic

Also, it was named like, a gazillion years ago, so it’s not unreasonable to not be sure what lives there NOW. The sign on Winnie the Pooh’s house still says “Sanders,” even though Sanders has been gone so long no one remembers who they were.

xofemeraldstars:

THE WHEEL OF TIME REWATCH 14/∞
— 1x01 ❝ leavetaking ❞

killerqueengray:

punkitt-is-here:

RICK ASTLEY OFFICIAL COVER OF PINK PONY CLUB BY CHAPPEL ROAN???

dark-scape:

dark-scape:

If you live in the United States, what is the first digit of your zip code?

I don’t live in the US/I don’t know/other

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

See Results

rb for sample size

The map if you’re curious

wolfsteax:

hopepunk-humanity:

“Humans are inherently selfish–“ Then why do so many cultures value hospitality, to the point of dictating it in their religions? Why is it so common for hosts to offer their visitors their best food, and as much of it as they can? At some point, multiple cultures decided that they knew what it felt like to be alone and vulnerable, and promised each other to never let those who stay with them feel that way. That doesn’t sound very "inherently selfish” to me.

“humans are the plague”

No. Humans are animals as much as the fish and the bear. We are pack animals who have survived by strong bonds and community.

Do not buy the lie that humans are inherently evil. Societies can trick you into believing this, but it’s not the truth of humanity.

Humans crave being together, sharing together, and thriving together.

Capitalism just wants you to believe we’re destined for selfishness.

roseyskypeach:

This has been sitting in my head for a while and I thought it was kinda silly. Please laugh.

decrepify:

Yup returning to necromancy, I’m so back. And you’re so back, and you’re so back, and you’re so back, and you’re

sharkdogsomething-deactivated20:

teaboot:

I don’t know why this keeps happening but I keep meeting toxic heterosexual couples who experiment with polyamory and are heavily into funko pops, board games, Disney princesses and Burlesque stripping and the man is always a withdrawn bearded dude and the woman is always a passive aggressive control freak with an Etsy shop that sells lawn gnomes styled after Dr Who characters and they don’t really even seem to like each other but they’re always exactly the same. this has happened four times

@niceferatu