My Own Little Echo Chamber

What is going on with the world??

Jesus…

In a move that has sparked outcry from archaeologists, historians and locals, the Peruvian government has approved a multi-billion international airport near the famed site of Machu Picchu, Peru’s single most important tourist destination. Bulldozers have begun to clear millions of tons of earth for the project, which will be located in Chinchero, a picturesque Inca town.

Building the airport in this location will destroy an ancient landscape, one shaped by the Incan people with terraces and routes.

Critics also suggest that planes flying low over the nearby village of Ollantaytambo and its archaeological park filled with ruins and a massive Inca fortress with large stone terraces, would cause incalculable damage to fragile Inca ruins there and destroy the peace and beauty of the area.

The new airport will make access to the site much easier, and thus encourage greater numbers than ever before to visit.

But Machu Picchu is already overwhelmed by almost double the limit of tourists as recommended by UNESCO. [see also India’s Taj Mahal - an incredible site simply reeling under a relentless, ineffectively managed tourist, both domestic and international, onslaught]

It’s the constant battle between protecting the past and profiteering from it.

Sb: why are you wearing all black

Me: I’m in mourning

Sb: for what?

Me: years of wasted character development

SO YOU FOOLS WANT US TO BELIEVE ARYA “I CAN BE YOUR FAMILY” STARK AND JAIME “IT WILL ALWAYS BE YOURS” LANNISTER DIDN’T LOVE GENDRY AND BRIENNE HAHAHAHAHAHA.

*Maisie Williams voice* Audience is too smart to believe that.

SO,

- jon being revealed as a targaryen? POINTLESS

- the night king being hyped up as the biggest threat for 8 seasons? POINTLESS

- cersei being the original mad queen and being hyped up as the biggest human threat? POINTLESS

- jaime’s character development and 8-year long redemption arc? POINTLESS

- bran becoming the three-eyed raven? POINTLESS

- jon being brought back from the dead for a higher purpose? POINTLESS

- arya leaving braavos and instead choosing her family and home? POINTLESS

- the starks going through hell for years and years waiting to be reunited? POINTLESS because they were reunited for like 5 minutes before being separated again

- daenerys overcoming all the terrible things that happened to her, bringing magic back to the world, going from nothing to becoming one of the most powerful people on earth, pledging to break the wheel, learning the moral difficulties of ruling, trying hard not to be like her father? POINTLESS

BUT HEY AT LEAST BRONN GOT HIS CASTLE SO IT’S ALL GOOD

I came to the spot we arranged to meet, not long after you left. I sat down and waited… and waited. I must have fallen asleep at some point…

The four seasons

I am not a religious man so when I beseech the heavenly father to bless these precious precocious children and always keep them pure of heart and safe from harm you know I mean business.

I don’t know what this is from but it’s the gayest start to a fight I’ve ever seen

The film is titled My Lucky Stars.  it’s the second of a trilogy starring Jackie Chan, Yuen Biao and Samo Hung.

That gorgeous lady is Michiko Nishiwaki.  She’s an actress, a fight choreographer, a stunt woman, a martial artist and a former bodybuilder.

She doubled for Lucy Liu in Charlie’s Angels.

And, yes, i will add this information to this post every time it crosses my dash (this is the third time now) because I think this woman deserves a lot more recognition that she gets.  She was Japan’s first female bodybuilding champion and first female powerlifting champion.

And also because this is one of my favourite martial arts movies. :-)

what if the teenage mutant ninja turtles exist in the mcu but they’re just really good at staying under the radar and criminals are too embarrassed to admit they got beat up by some guys in “turtle costumes” so they blame daredevil. peter parker worked as a pizza delivery boy for a while and brought like eight pizzas to a man hole cover but thought nothing of it bc nyc

peter parker: i once was one minute late delivering pizza and the dude was like “forgiveness is divine, but never pay full price for late pizza” 

clint barton: oh cool u met one of the tmnt 

literally everyone: who 

clint: am i the only one in this goddamn city who knows about the crimefighting turtles that live in the sewers 

(they all think clint is playing an elaborate prank on them, especially when he shows them a photo of four guys wearing what are ‘very obviously halloween costumes’)

fun fact: it’s TMNT canon that the chemical container that hit Matt Murdock across the face and gave him his Daredevil abilities is the same canister that landed on the baby turtles and mutated them, so…..y’all aren’t far off

i’m sorry it’s WHAT

TMNT started as a Daredevil parody.

Matt’s teacher is Stick. The turtle’s is Splinter.

Matt’s enemy is the Hand. The turtle’s is the Foot Clan.

It was originally a dark, edgy, turtle themed parody of Daredevil.

Ooo ahh hot hot

finally an actual fucking shower thought

@flyingfootlocker @chopstax

What don’t have what now

Bees don’t have lungs

you can’t just not have lungs

Evidently you can, provided you’re a bee

Insects don’t have lungs tho

They’re small enough that oxygen can just diffuse into their tissues. And that’s why insects got so huge when oxygen was more rich in the atmosphere; their size is limited by oxygen diffusion

Mugshot of a 2-year-old Francois Bertillon, arrested for eating a basket of pears

Follow for more 1800s nostalgia

#who the fuck arrested a two year old #what police officer was like YOU’RE COMING WITH ME SON #was it javert #i bet it was javert (x)

So actually these photos were taken by the kid’s uncle, Alphonse Bertillon, who was a French police officer and inventor of the mug shot. These photos were just taken as a joke, probably when Bertillon was developing his mugshot technique and needed someone to practice on.

No actual two-year-olds were arrested in the creation of these photos!

greek mythology | goddesses | adrestia | Ἀδρήστεια

I was walking in the forest during winter, and saw a wendigo sitting under a tree. I asked it if it was going to kill me. It said, “No, this is just a dream.” So I sat next to it in the snow for a bit and then he said, “The anger in your heart warms you now, but will leave you cold in your grave.” And then I woke up.

Well SOMEONE’S third eye is wide fucking open

I love this post so I made a thing.

Cécile Berrubé (@cecile_illustrations)

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

There were once three brothers who were travelling along a lonely, winding road at twilight…