that atlas kind of love

me: plip plop plip plop

me: plip plop plip plop

me and the girls getting our fertile crescent ate:

He was king and Black Panther to everyone. But to me… He was everything. My T'Challa.

T'Challa ❤️ Nakia in Black Panther (2018).

LUPITA NYONG'O on the most emotional part of filming Black Panther: Wakanda Forever | ELLE (November 14, 2022)

Icelandic folklore requires you avoid saying the names of evil whales, otherwise you’ll draw their attention.

Yall have evil whales?

Iceland does! They are the illhveli, literally “evil whales”, and they live to kill you. They love nothing more than killing and eating humans and sinking their ships. Their greatest enemy is the steypireydur (that’s blue whale to you), which is the greatest of the good whales and the protector of sailors.

All evil whales are, well, evil. So evil that if you speak their name at sea, they will hear it and home in on you. So instead you use all sorts of euphemisms for their names. Also if you try to cook their meat it literally disappears from the pot. That’s right, they’re so evil, you can’t even eat them.

They include such types as the hrosshvalur (horsewhale), with big eyes and a red mane and tail. This is probably the best known and most feared of the lot.

The raudkembingur (redcomb) is especially cruel and bloodthirsty even by illhveli standards. If you manage to escape it, it will die of frustration.

Good luck escaping the mushveli (mousewhale) though, it has legs! And will clamber onto the beach in pursuit!

Or what about death from above? The stökkull (jumper) leaps high into the air and pile-drives boats to pieces.

Meanwhile the skeljungur (shellwhale) sits in the path of boats and lets them get wrecked on its shelly hide…

… while the sverdhvalur (swordwhale) slices through boats with its dorsal fin.

The katthveli (catwhale) is relatively harmless though. It meows.

The same can’t be said of the lyngbakur (heatherback), a classic island fish that lets sailors get on its back and then dives, taking them to a watery grave.

The nauthveli (oxwhale) on the other hand specially targets cattle, attracting them into the sea with its bellow before tearing them apart.

How can you avoid all these murderous whales, like the taumafiskur (bridlefish) here? Any of a number of ways, including getting a steypireydur to help. There are substances, ranging from angelica to sheep dung and chopped fox testicles, that they find abhorrent. And you can distract them with loud noises and barrels.

For more, I assure you this link will answer all your questions.

https://abookofcreatures.com/category/illhveli/

This is also why fairies were referred to as the ‘Good Neighbors’ and why there are so many nicknames for Satan.

The concept of avoidance speech is endlessly fascinating and rife with plot points for writing, but honestly I’m just thrilled about the EVIL WHALES.

Even the word Satan itself just means “Adversary” or “Accuser” and is used in the Bible to refer to human enemies as well as supernatural ones. Better yet, the word “devil” comes from the Greek word Diabolos, which means Slanderer and appears to just be a Greek translation of the word Satan.

We don’t actually know the Devil’s name at all.

Yep exactly, it’s not Lucifer either.

I need 31 people to send me a word (just one word, not a phrase) and I'll write a poem for each day in August 💌

Tysm everyone 💜

GASP. I CAN NOT BELIEVE I WAS NOT OFFERED THIS OPPORTUNITY

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOHN BOYEGA │ March 17, 1992

the photos of prince philip leaving the hospital have my fucking yelling

that’s a corpse just walking around

god i love christian memes im so sorry

compilation

Weird thing just happened

Artist's rendition made very shakily as Tyler drove down the highway:

Being 4’11 is so hard sometimes, for real. 

Damn, this so true. I remember in 4th grade I couldn’t reach nothing

cant believe nessie is rly a 34 yr old accountant from akron, ohio