No, but that’s exactly something that should be put in a museum.

Imagine seeing this two, three, eight hundred years after the fact. Imagine this little girl through centuries of time holding up her hand to show you her most precious rock. It’s potent enough now, this intimate knowledge of a complete stranger, this tiny insight into what was explained to her and what she thought was important and who listened to her long enough to let you see it, but imagine centuries in the future. Imagine this little bit of rock that looks like every other bit of rock, with no context and no explanation to it. And then imagine finding/seeing this little sign, and realising that it was Bethan’s rock. That it was a rock that a little girl loved the look of , and picked up, and carried around with her, and when it was explained to her that museums were places where precious things were shown so that other people could see and enjoy them, the precious thing she wanted them to show, that she wanted to show you, was this rock.

This is what material history is. These windows through time into a person’s life and beliefs and mundane treasures, these bridges across centuries where a child a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand years ago can show you her favourite rock.

That is, in so many ways, what museums are for. And well done them for following through.

can't just leave that in the tags

people act like Pluto was dealt a bad hand bc they thought it was a planet but later classified it as a dwarf but consider this: there are 4 other dwarf planets in the solar system that most people don’t even know the names of so Think Again before you think Pluto is underrepresented

look. look at these precious forgotten siblings

Good news there are more now and one of them is called gonggong

NON-BINARY SLAY

the non-binary stray

Don’t play with me now, this better be for real-

Oh, shit. If you know about the timeline, this avatar is going to be in that’s world’s version of the modern day. Or close to it.

Aang was around an industrial revolution, with steam being the newest tech.

Korra was pretty synonymous for around the 1900-1920s

If she lived a long life, and she probably did…

Let me think. She’s in her twenties in the 20s… if she lived to be eighty or even ninty, probably more…

If the avatar we follow in this new series is in his late teens, that would put them equal to the early 2000s!

I hope the new Avatar causes 9/11

HOT TIP: if you need enrichment to stave off diseases of the mind but don't have any puzzles you can just eat a bunch of pistachios and then sort thru the shell pile to find matching halves and superglue them back together

this is awful. try it

hey man quick question. you okay?

that's none of my business

more people should have cambrian era animals as fursonas. especially if they design them the same way sparkledogs look. i just want to see art of a rainbow anomalocaris holding hands with an edgy hallucigenia

is this too much to ask for

Behold! Cambrian gfs

Judge magazine, July 1926

Ito Junji’s Cat Diary (2009)

I love that one of the most terrifying horror writers also makes comics about his cats.

… Clockodiles? Is that pun very bad?

CLOCKODILES.

somewhere captain hook is shitting himself

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So the really fabulous thing about this is that while there’s two basic theories about how the seals get an eel up their nose, there are also problems with both of them. The first is that the seal is shoving its head in holes in the rocks and the eel panics and goes for what looks like a hole—ie a seal nostril. And that would be a great theory, except that seals have what are described as “extremely muscular nostrils” because they gotta slam them closed when diving to keep water out.

Which, okay, fine, except that there’s often like two, three feet of eel INSIDE THE SEAL. The stuff hanging out is just the end of the tail. And eels are astonishingly powerful for their size, true, but so are seal nostrils. (Why am I typing these words? How did my life come to this?)

The other theory, of course, is that they barfed up an eel and it came out their nose instead, but we’re talking a fairly impressive feat that the eel lined up just right to come out the nostrils, and also those are BIG eels. It’d be kinda like a human puking a spear of asparagus out of their nose. (Why am I typing THESE words, too? Why?)

The remaining theory, which is actually the one ascribed to by the lead scientist on the endangered monk seal project, is that dumb teenage seals are snorting eels at each other for fun. And y’know…I just…sure. We live in a world where that wouldn’t even be the tenth strangest thing I’ve heard about mammals.

In conclusion, if any young monk seals are following me, Just Say No To Eel.

EXACTLY LIKE THAT probably

It's come to my attention that a good portion of the younger generation has not been made aware of one of the greatest and most hated PILLARS of millennial society.

So I apologize, but I must take on this task. A new hand must touch the beacon. The knowledge must be passed on. The chain can not be broken.

So.

The Game.

The following are the rules of The Game:

A "reset period" of roughly an hour or two before loss announcements is common in colloquial rules to allow yourself and those around you to properly temporarily "forget" about The Game, however that is not an official rule.

Go forth, you next generation, and I am sorry.

What have you done

Randomly skim reading posts like this and then seeing

The Game

does actually give me an entire rush of aggression and anger tho.

Hey everyone I lost the game

I like thinking that OP loses The Game every time they get a notification for this post.

So while this whole “who is worst Chris? Chris Pratt” stuff is going on. I think it’s also important to talk about Best Chris. And it’s Chris Eccleston.

Reblogging and adding these tags because I didn't know that and it makes the "lots of planets have a north" scene hit different!

Today, we have a drink and think of the best Chris.