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The Welsh Viking is pretty cool! 

He’s going to run 5 kilometres in his viking armour on May 9th to raise money for Stonewall!

Oh my goodness this is getting a lot of notes! Since I see posts on tumblr about how a lot of people seem to think all historians and archaeologists are crusty old bigots I’d just like to add that this guy is an archaeologist. A very vocally anti-racist archaeologist who goes out of his way to be as inclusive as possible to queer people.

Reblogging to watch later!

Always get your historical facts from anti-racist archeologists.

Wait, how’d the run go!?

Oh gosh I forgot to update on that! It went well, he was sore and tired but no injuries, and he raised over 1700 pounds! 

Not to completely derail this post, but I’d also like to recommend Miniminuteman to anyone interested in history and archeology from a non bigoted source. He’s absolutely fantastic, his tiktok is essentially him just debunking bs conspiracy videos and he recently started making a youtube series called Awful Archaeology and there are only three episodes so far but they own my entire heart, it’s great.

Also Bernadette Banner, who is a edwardian/victorian fashion historian who does everything from reconstruction work, educational videos and debunking historical fashion myths, to more fun stuff like rating historical drama costumes or recreating Wheel of Time outfits.

And these are just the two I’m most familiar with right now, there are SO many great historians and archeologists and anthropologists out there who have a passion for their field and want to share that knowledge while ALSO being great, humble people who stand up against bigotry, racism, and all the historical lies that come with. I’m falling deeper and deeper into the rabbit hole of historical content every week, and I’m loving every minute of it.

This post got me to watch Jimmy’s channel, and I ADORE it AND him, and I’m very thankful. 

I also want to recommend Tasting History with Max Miller, who is a food historian and excellent at pointing out when things in the past were racist or classist. He even had a recent Da Vinci video talking about checking sources and the importance of acknowledging when you get information wrong.

Also the Townsends, are reenactors that talk about food and culture and lifestyle of the 16-1700s of the colonial USA. They make a point of bringing in women and people of color regularly to talk about what those days were like for more than just white guys!

Someone in the notes might have added her but also check out NotYourMommasHistory aka Cheyney McKnight. She’s a Black reenactor who has made a few videos on what a day was like in the lives of enslaved people or free black people, as well as historical racism in general. She also has a website where you can book her for a lecture!

Oh…. Well, it’s over for Crunchyroll I guess

it gets worse: funi had an option to buy anime outright. but, it was bought digitally, and now CR has said that they're not going to honor that, so if you bought anything from funi digitally, CR are taking that away from you

This is absolutely insane but the part that I find funny is that there isn't a community on earth more dedicated to piracy than western anime fans. For ages the only way to even get your hands on anime and manga in the west was piracy. I literally don't think Crunchyroll could have picked a worse group to try the "we're a monopoly so we can charge you whatever we want" play on. I doubt there's a person over the age of 25 who saw that and thought anything other than "welp, okay, piracy it is then!" like honestly the Crunchyroll executives are out of their fucking minds with this one.

A couple pages of "Der Katzenprinz", the Zemnian children’s illustrated book Caleb read to Jester in the last episode of CriticalRole. A beautiful story by Liam O'Brien. Thanks to Miguel Romero for the translation to German.

Here is a bit more accurate version of the Zemnian translation. Thanks to Yaki (@itsyakisoba on Twitter) for reaching out to help with this.

I'm sure it was confusing to have the overtly anti-right wing song off the anti-right wing album altered to target maga. I cannot imagine how shocking it was to find out that the avowedly socialist and openly bisexual punk rock kid who's written songs about distrusting the government since he was four, is an anti-fascist.

Also, notice the figurative mountain of gravel under the heads, that's left over from the construction.

They ran out of money, left the "monument" half finished, and didn't even bother to clean up after themselves.

Colonialism, mistreatment of indigenous people for the sake of a tourist trap, idolization of politicians, mismanagement and industrial-scale littering.

It truly is a monument to the spirit of the USA...

It truly is a

monument to the spirit

of the USA…

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

I can't be the first to make this connection

y'all slept on the first chart but I will make the world see my vision

I will reblog this every Christmas season I’m on tumblr.

It’s beginning to look a lot like shit scram

Oh my god

not to be autistic but i wish i could purr because conveying the fact that i feel positive takes so much energy. i could just make Chest Sound

Fellas is it gay to perceive oneself?

Sounds pretty gay to me

good for her

good for her

i think the world would be a happier place if we were all permanently stoned

the lottery by shirley jackson

hold on i have to read something real quick

dude

wanted to share my favorite tiktok

this has a very Vine energy and I like it

[Video ID:

There is a poster on a store wall that says ‘Halloween is here,’ but there is a line break separating ‘Halloween’ to ‘Hallo’ and ‘Ween.’

Man behind camera: Hallo! Ween is here!

The camera pans to another man who strums a small string instrument.

Other man: I am Ween

End ID]

What’s the description leaves out is that “Hallo! Ween is here!” Is said in a very silly, perky German accent.

I’ve been waiting a year to post this

The Eyes of God. Prohodna Cave, Bulgaria

Here it is at night.

Pretty sure the first picture is also at night, but super cool regardless.

one fun thing about being a teacher in march 2023 is that chess is a literal epidemic among teens. we are starting to have meetings about how we can STOP teenagers from playing too much chess which is like if we were trying to figure out how to stop them from reading for fun. When i was in high school five years ago chess was nerd shit only but now it is transcending every social and language barrier and is absolutely rampant. kids aren’t on their phone texting in class anymore it’s ONLY chess.com. kids are playing chess on their phones while playing chess in real life. this is still better than tiktok because at least the kids are developing an attention span from this

This is.... Absurdly cute. What the fuck.

It's worth noting that the reason the beaver wants the water to be deeper in the first place is that the Beaver is using the deep water as a pantry:

All summer and fall, beavers gather up branches with the leaves they actually eat, and store it in the deep end of the Pond, where the cold water and limited oxygen keep the leaves fresh all winter, so when it's negative 20 outside, a beaver can take a dip out of it's lodge, grab some refrigerated leaves in the (relatively) warmer water and go back to it's cozy little nap hole while everything else is out there suffering and eating bark or the like.

So it's less "there's a leak in my house" and more "OH SHIT THE FRIDGE!!"