I Tend to Ramble

the OG squad + swearing

bonus:

George Francis Atkinson - Botany for High Schools (1910):

all bio science majors have to take gen bio courses in colleges, one of those courses was plant biology...all of these are reason I hated it so much...everything we know is a bunch of LIES and I’m supposed to identify a bunch of crap from various plant genus and I don’t fucking know!! 

A raspberry isn’t a berry but an avocado is...nothing makes sense

hot take: moms need to learn how to listen to and comfort their daughters without making everything about their own traumas

a classic example

daughter: hey this thing you do bothers me very much and i wish you wouldn’t do it

mom: well my parents abused me and im not even as bad as they were and i had to sit through it so you gotta sit through whatever i do to you too

a common variant

mom: well i’m having a really hard time right now and you know that i’m doing my best and that i didn’t mean to hurt you ergo you are in fact the asshole for asking me to consider your feelings and change my behavior during this hard hard time i’m having

least favorite

mom: fine. you’re right and i’m wrong and i’m a horrible person. there. are you happy now?

see also

mom: you can’t be mad at me. you’re not allowed to be mad at me. i can’t stand it.

daughter: There’s this thing that bothers me about school/life

mom: well I’m so sorry that I’m a terrible mother and that I can’t fix every problem

Sharing this because:

It’s a great time to be a teacher right now....

I’m a high school math teacher and we just fought to start the school year as remote learning - the amount of hate we have gotten from parents is horrible. Just, horrible. The worst part in all of this is that this is exactly what we expected. This is not new. The disregard of teacher life is not new. The things we have to adjust to on a regular basis to make whatever fuck up situation we are being forced into is not new. 

The Old Guard: A Comedy

LUCA MARINELLI as Nicolo Di Genova (Nicky) in The Old Guard

Shules in Psych 2: Lassie Come Home (2020)

Bonus:

HENRY CAVILL via IGTV — July 16, 2020

Oded Fehr posted this on his instagram 😂

This was something I didn’t know I needed until right now. 

This is the real third Mummy movie.

“People keep asking me if I’m a rapper” aksjdahskdjads

Psych 2: Lassie Come Home Character Posters

(via PsychBR)

hannah gadsy roasting the shit out of men in douglas (2020)

Wow wtf HIV/AIDS was discovered by Flossie Wong-Staal, an Chinese-American woman, and she’s the reason the HIV test even exists. AND THEN she invented the molecular knife that lead to treatments for HIV/AIDS. And she’s STILL ALIVE. We don’t hear about the contributions of Women of Color enough, my word. Madness.

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flossie_Wong-Staal

you can always tell a major breakthrough is made by a woman, a woc or any poc because it’s either completely ignored or never credited like it just happened by itself

I know I don’t really post about the order anymore but DID THEY JUST CONFIRM THE KNIGHTS AS BISEXUAL

this is the most innocent yak i have ever seen. this lifted my spirits a little.

One time my brother tried to yank away my “towel hat”, and was promptly horrified when I yelled in pain.

“I didn’t know your hair was IN there!!” he cried.

Boys.

WAIT YOURE HAIR IS IN THE TWISTY PART?!

Oh dear

I’ve seen this post several times and never actually seen anyone actually explain how to do the hair twist that long haired people can do, so I drew a tutorial. berrykoolaid

reblogging for demonstration because you learn something new every day

My brother seemed like he discovered a new universe when I showed him this

Do you ever lie awake wondering how the heck Gimli knows what a nervous system is

Clearly dwarves have medical knowledge far more advanced than that of the other races.

His Majesty Dr. Gimli, son of Gloin, Neurosurgeon, M.D.

gimli trying to explain his studies to legolas, a flat-earther

#*scroll down* #*remember that middle earth is canonically flat for elves and round for everyone else* #*scroll back up & smash that reblog button"

tired: legolas took gimli to valinor with him because they were bffs/in love/etc. 

wired: legolas took gimli to valinor to prove the world was flat after arguing with him about it for decades

Sorry it’s what to elves

So, in Tolkein lore, the world was originally flat, with most of the land in the middle (hence Middle Earth).  But the Numenorians (men who were rewarded with their own Atlantis-equivalent island for service in the first big war against Melkor, but eventually Power Corrupts etc) tried to invade the uttermost west which was basically Elf Heaven.  To put an end to that sort of thing, the creator of the world Bent The World and made it a sphere…but left elves able to treat it like a flat disk.  So elves can sail west and reach Elf Heaven, but a man or dwarf or hobbit who sails west will eventually wrap around to the east coast of Middle Earth.

This is why Legolas can see for such great, almost impossible distances. The Earth does not curve for him.

Legolas said fuck the horizon

I’m having a crisis around this LotR knowledge I didn’t have until now, in the year of chaos, 2020

…dafuq