Ten Leagues Beyond the Wide World's End

my glasses are always dirty but it's fine. i've seen enough.

“The original orgies and bizarre sex were perfectly sufficient” I am always saying this

Oh this is also extremely me

People need to draw the bats vigilanting in the snow more. They live in friggin’ New Jersey. I know their asses are frozen. I wanna see Bruce slip on black ice and break one of his old man hips.

The threead continues:

The book linked is free to read and download. See the link above.

if you’re a transfem you should read this, and if you’re not you should reblog it for your transfem friends & followers, the advice in here is extremely good and the grips breaks are not hard to practice!!

Car-pet

he's doing the passover special

"All the classics are by white men" is always the funniest take to me coming from white Americans. If you're an adult born and raised in the USA and haven't read any works of Maya Angelou or James Baldwin, then that's a personal problem that can be alleviated by going to the library. You may not have read Mrs. Spring Fragrance or No-No Boy in school, but if your perception of "classic American literature" doesn't include the only literary genre known to originate in the USA (the slave narrative) and only regards likes of Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald in the Modernist movement, then that's a personal problem that can be alleviated by expanding the scope of the literature you interact with and the philosophical and cultural categories you place art in.

does anyone else feel me. can anyone hear me in here.

do you see the issue now

Everyone wanted to be thicc but nobody wanted to be fat. Everyone wanted the dad bod but nobody wanted to be fat. Everyone wants fat mommy milkers but nobody wants mommy to be fat. Everyone wants to be a bear but not like, an actual fat bear. You get what i’m saying

Everyone wants the mistique of fatness or use the language of fatness to denote hotness without actually being fat or acknowledging that fat people or fatness can just be hot.

Research has shown that pleasure affects nutrient absorption. In a 1970s study of Swedish and Thai women, it was found that when the Thai women were eating their own (preferred) cuisine, they absorbed about 50% more iron from the meal than they did from eating the unfamiliar Swedish food. And the same was true in the reverse for the Swedish women. When both groups were split internally and one group given a paste made from the exact same meal and the other was given the meal itself, those eating the paste absorbed 70% less iron than those eating the food in its normal state.

Pleasure affects our metabolic pathways; it’s a facet of the complex gut-brain connection. If you’re eating foods you don’t like because you think it’s healthy, it’s not actually doing your body much good (it’s also unsustainable, we’re pleasure-seeking creatures). Eat food you enjoy, it’s a win-win.

what

no seriously

what?

PLEASURE IS A NECESSARY PART OF HUMAN HEALTH, BOTH PSYCHOLOGICALLY AND PHYSICALLY

this is why you should be eating your chips with salsa and guac instead of beating yourself up for not eating a salad with tomato and avocado (unless you are a salad bitch like me then enjoy both of them!)

here’s a recent systemic review of all the research done on the subject

for those of you wondering if the studies cited above are legit and if so where we can read about them, here’s a link to one of the (more than a dozen!) papers written on the topic of nutrient absorption and how you eat your food:

hey look, additional info!

“Boromir apologist” he doesn’t have anything to apologize for????? He fell victim to evil ringTM like once. and then immediately redeemed himself. Guys come on.

The evil ring, which corrupts literally anything that it comes in contact with, corrupted someone???? The whole point is nobody is better than the ring!!! It doesn’t matter if you’re an elf, dwarf, man, hobbit, Maia, etc- It will get your ass eventually!

Okay. He has one thing to apologize for.

Sweet Dreams - Rora Blue

2020.

“Sweet Dreams explores the intricacies of everyday ableism and everyday ableist comments. Some of the comments recount dialogue said to the artist. Other phrases were submitted by other disabled and/or chronically ill individuals as documentation of comments that have been said to them. Through using recognizable objects associated with disability in correlation with playful colors, Sweet Dreams aims to reclaim objects commonly associated with pain and disrupt the narrative on what it means to be disabled.”

[Image ID: A set of ten photographs. The first photo is of a gray stone stairway outdoors, with fallen leaves around it. The artist has pasted capital letters in multiple colors, in tiers down the stairs, which read "maybe you aren't trying hard enough."

The second photo is of a mattress on a lawn, with white sheets, a crumpled pink blanket, an unfolded sweater, and two pillows. Across one of the pillows in colored capital letters it reads "are you better yet?"

The third photo is of an empty wheelchair in the middle of a lawn, on a sunny day. Colored capital letters across the back of the wheelchair read "I could never live like that."

The fourth photo is of an IV stand against a deep blue wall. A row of shiny stars hang down from one side of the IV, and a bag hangs on the other side. Below the bag like a garland, colored capital letters read "you're too young to be sick." The bag and the letters pull upwards to meet the wall in an arc.

The fifth photo is of a blue blanket folded on a lawn, with a rainbow pill organizer on it and various pills scattered around it. A pillow next to the pill organizer, in colored capital letters, reads "honey, we're all tired."

The sixth photo is of a mirror in the middle of a darkened lawn, the mirror is angled so it reflects the sunset. At the base of the mirror is a pillow with colored capital letters, which reads "what's wrong with you?"

The seventh photo is of a parking spot, part of a handicap parking logo is visible in the lower corner. The photo is taken at an angle with tire tracks straight down, making the handicap logo appear skewed to the side. Colorful capital letters have been cut out and placed on the ground which read "do you really have to park there?"

The eighth photo is of the bed on the lawn, with white sheets and a crumpled blue blanket. The bed has three pillows, and one pillow has colorful capital letters on it which read "if I can do it so can you."

The ninth photo is a mirror laid flat on the lawn, which reflects a clear blue sky with small clouds. Across the mirror capital letters have been painted in white, which read "are you drinking enough water?" The letters have been painted in multiple coats that don't match up at the edges, giving the letters a distorted and unfocused appearance.

The tenth photo is a pile of six pillows on the lawn, all with letters on them. From clockwise they read "if I can do it so can you," "are you better yet?" "what's wrong with you?" it's all in your head," and "you don't look sick." The pillow in the center of the pile reads "honey, we're all tired." End ID.]

Hooters is just an extremely American take on a maid cafe if you think about it

your not wrong but you shouldnt say it

This is incorrect. Hooters was founded in 1983, and the first permanent maid cafe, Cure Maid Cafe, was established in 2001. Maid cafe’s are an extremely Japanese take on Hooters.

let's form structures with mamas

these are hyraxes! they're not rodents or canines or anything like that. they belong to their very own order known as hyracoidea. their closest relatives are elephants and manatees, and these mamas and babies have FREAKY teeth

also important to note that the

and:

EVERYONE SHUT THE FUCK UP SCIENTISTS AT THE SCHMIDT OCEAN INSTITUTE HAVE FOOTAGE OF A LIVE COLOSSAL SQUID FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

🦑‼️🦑‼️🦑‼️🦑‼️🦑‼️🦑

for context, scientists have know about these mfs for like a HUNDRED YEARS but only now have they actually seen one ALIVE !!

My personal favorite comic of 2024 ♥

detritus says fuck transphobes

black with low white spotting (this cat has vitiligo)

This cat looks like the starry night sky and none of us had big enough brains to foretell her coming. I am lost in wonder. Great cat.

@elodieunderglass is this in your realm?

What a great pattern!