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Hilda by Duane Bryers

More Hilda!!

in this family we love and support Hilda.

Yes! Hilda!

What i love about this artist’s depictions of women is even the sexualized ones the woman is always genuinely happy and enjoying herself. Frolicking or making funny faces, she’s living her life and looking sexy while doing it, not sitting in a sexual pose for the audience’s view.

I always forget about Hilda and am so pleased when she randomly shows up on my dash. Always makes my day

I love Hilda so much and I want her to be happy

more Hilda!

I freaking love Hilda, there’s needs to be more art like this.

I will never not reblog Hilda

People need to know big girls are pretty too

@destinytomoon

She looks so happy

Love being reminded she existed

Imagine that someone bought this and uses it as their one and only crock pot

imagine receiving this as a completely unironic gift from someone 

Okay but if you ignore the fact that friends is a tv show and just pretend this is all about friendship it's actually really nice

imagine receiving this as a completely unironic gift from someone who doesn’t know it’s from a TV show and just intends it as a symbol of loving friendship

gifted kid burnout things that no one seems to talk about:

Me, coming home at 9am after working all night for 12 hours and buying an 8ft whip at 4am: Hey dad, can I open carry a bull whip for social distancing purposes? Or does it count as a weapon that needs a permit?

Dad, who just woke up: what did you do?

…but what was the answer?

If it is on my hip in a holster or something of the like, it should be okay as long as it stays there. He advised including a sign or tag that says "social distance enforcer" to state that it's a joke if I DO actually go out in public with it. But as long as it's not actively in my hand with the intent of being used in public, I should be fine.

Way too many parents need to learn the difference between “a child being disrespectful” and “a human person expressing an opinion that differs from theirs”

my mom had a nice technique for this. when i’d give her sass, she’d say, “i don’t speak rude, what’s that in polite-person-ese?”

basically, she’d encourage me to rephrase my opinion without the attitude. so “UGH, you NEVER let me do ANYTHING!” would (often after quite a bit of bitching and grumbling) turn into “it feels like every time i have a fun idea, you say no, and i just end up sitting around the house.”

and at that point we could troubleshoot like civilized people. she could explain that she didn’t want me to go to jimmy’s sleepover because jimmy’s dad creeps her out, and i could suggest maybe i could have andy over instead, and she could say sure, why not call peter and stacy and brianna and have your own party, i’ll pop some popcorn and rent a movie, and i could add what if we put up tents in the back yard and have a bonfire and roast marshmallows, and she could laugh and say don’t push it.

I really like this technique because it addresses the OPs comment but recognizes that the two can coexist. The problem is often the child is expressing their opinion in a rude or disrespectful way. And as humans we automatically become adverse to opinions we feel are aggressive toward us.

This is good parenting.

me, when I see a dog:

Rare Kitten Born With ‘Two Faces’ Grows Up Into The Most Beautiful Cat Ever

here's a vid of a cat falling asleep to classical music to brighten up your day

Pets With Royal Portraits They Deserve Made By Crown & Paw.

Olympos, Pieria, Greece by Maria Valsamidou

I only just realised I’ve never seen an image of the Olympos… That’s where the gods are hanging… And I’ve never seen it, only a mental image in my mind. Now I understand why the Greeks chose that mountain as the home of their gods.

I am happy you like the pic! Tbh, Olympos is no different from the thousands of mountains we have in the country - just a little taller! People live on its foot or on it (they certainly live around it). If you look on the left, there is a village called Vrodou! (“She-Thunder”!) People often go hiking and climbing on Olympos. There are cute doggos up there 😊

@nocturnal-diary​ you may also want to see the “Throne of Zeus” (or “Mitikas” = “he-point”, I guess) on the mountain. It’s the mountain’s higher point.

I think “Throne of Zeus”, aka the pictured peak and the generally most photographed one, is Stefani which is the third highest peak. Mytikas, the true summit of the mountain, is hidden behind Stefani in all these pictures and is also known as “Pantheon”. Mytikas is actually a bit easier to climb than Stefani which is one of the hardest peaks to climb in Greece.

Really?? 😱 *Mind blown*

ooooh!! amazing!!

Am I the only one that always imagined Olympos as looking like a cross between Everest and Fuji? Like, some impossible to surmount, cloud covered mountain that no one’s ever seen the top of? Because I would never have guessed that was Olympos.

Maybe it’s just because of Disney’s Hercules fucking up my perception idk

I mean, if it was like Everest you would have seen it multiple times included in lists with the highest peaks or toughest peaks in the world. You haven’t, right?

Distance and giving something cultural the dimension of mythical / fairytale / fantastical certainly makes people imagine things more than they are. Greeks chose this mountain as the home of their gods simply because it was the tallest in their own territory, not overall.

Having said that, the mountain is bigger than it looks in these photos. It is also very massive, it has more than 55 peaks. It has a bigger prominence than many taller mountains do, including several mountains in the Alps for instance. And all these peak photos are taken in the middle of summer, in other seasons people are actively discouraged to climb up to the peaks - unless it’s a very experienced climber who takes up all responsibility - winter is out of the question. We unfortunately have around 1-2 deaths annually. For its height, mountaineering in Olympus is challenging. Not the most, but like in the top 5 probably in Greece. Sadly Greece does not have mountains over 3000 meters (Olympus almost makes it there) but it has the largest number of ultra peaks (2000+ m) in Europe along with Italy and scores extremely high in terms of prominence.

Theres actually a reason for this! I have a friend who follows everything in the Torah to a T but also follows the new testament and according to her jewish peoples days start the moment the sun goes down, so instead of it being like 12am the begging of the day its more around 6pm the day starts, so 7pm thursday is actually friday for them, and i believe he was buried in the evening making it in modern terms thursday friday and saturday he was dead (but only like an hour or two on thursday) and then popped up sunday morn (didnt steal this i just accidently posted to my old blog that i never use any more and am reposting here)

I cannot believe I’ve been accidentally educated on my own post

“Bran our Ravens idea of having fun this morning, he holds on just enough to keep hold without hurting me.”

Video/caption by Lloyd & Rose Buck Bird Specialists & Handlers

Please turn on audio it’s adorable

thedragonwoodconservancy on ig

laser gun gator boys

oh my god i didn’t realize this video had audio

Okay as adorable as this looks, I’m pretty sure that’s a distress sound?  A “mommy help me I’m scared come save me!” sound?

@why-animals-do-the-thing

This video is from Dragonwood Wildlife Conservancy, and they are yearling (last year’s babies) Cuban crocodiles. Good news for you, this isn’t actually a distress call! According to @kaijutegu​ (and her giant bookshelf full of reptile resources), the laser sounds are an affiliative social call that young Cuban crocodiles use to communicate with their parents. They normally stop making the noise at around two years old, which is approximately when they start dispersing from the family group.

See, Cuban crocodiles are a super social species - and one of the few where the fathers stick around and provide paternal care for the babies! In the wild, babies would regularly interact with both parents, including when they provide food. This call is basically the type of vocalization that the babies use to communicated with their parents.

These crocodiles are being hand-raised as part of a private-sector breeding and reintroduction program (because the parents are so protective of their offspring that if you left them the babies to raise, you’d never be able to safely get close to them), and so they’re responding to the guy in the video the same way because he’s constant known safe individual and also the provider of food. He’s not a threat - his presence is a good thing, and he’s worth interacting with because it normally means food. You can also tell from their behavior and body language that they’re not stressed: some of the crocodiles are actively climbing on him and interaction of their own volition, but the ones that aren’t don’t show any indicators of hyper-vigilance. If that were a distress call, every crocodile that heard it would be alert and on edge looking for the threat. Distress calls tend to only happen once or twice, because in the wild continuing to make noise makes a baby more vulnerable: so these crocodiles wouldn’t be continually vocalizing if they felt threatened. There’s no snapping or gaping or freezing, all of which would be behavioral indicators of distress or discomfort. (Here’s a video of a baby nile crocodile being harassed by photographers which will give you a visual reference for both freezing and gaping.)

So, hey, this is certifiably cute - and good for conservation!

ETHICALLY SOURCED LASER NOISES

could really do w/ some plague doctor romance right about now

Oh~?

*heavy breathing* oh doctor, wouldst thou please balance my humours? i do believe i have a preponderance of phlegm…

I think a few rounds of self-flagellation will do you quite nicely~

i have spent the last several nights in bouts of ceaseless whippings and prayer, and upon grabbing the lash today i was blessed with a divine calling to capture your visage… dear doctor, accept my humble offering for balancing my humours…

@afriendtokilltime

Though i’m a bit lost in the joke, Plague Doctors were not flagellants. 

Self-flagellation to atone for one’s sins was a common treatment for the plague

Other “cures” included bloodletting (sometimes via leeches), drinking mercury, and strapping a shaved live chicken to the sick person’s lymph nodes.

Many plague doctors did not have medical experience prior to being plague doctors.

Desperate peasants: “Seems legit”

Overwhelmed Royals: “Seems legit”

The plague doctors themselves: “SEEMS LEGIT”

Me: “So now that Phaedra has finished with her puppy shots, should I come back soon for Lyme and leptospirosis vaccines?”

Vet: “Oh, you know, those probably aren’t necessary if you’re keeping her around the house and yard. I wouldn’t worry about those just yet unless you’re going to be taking her out hiking or swimming in rivers—”

Me: “I live in the woods.”

Vet: “Oh. Yeah. Then you should definitely get those.”