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Budapest Mark Mervai

From the artist:

I took these photos through the last five years when I was searching for the perfect moment and the perfect lights over Budapest, Hungary. For me, the most beautiful moment is when the sun comes up the horizon and the day begins with a couple of colorful minutes. Also the last lights of the day for me symbolize a special moment, a “thank you” from nature for a beautiful day. To search for such amazing moments for me is a great challenge and experience, sharing it with friends and later with other people. The beauty of nature and the lights is a great gift for us from mother Earth. It doesn’t need more words, I’ll just let the pictures speak.

Images and text via

Ziad Nakad - Haute Couture S/S 2014 (Part 1)

Not Evil #notevil #promise

seems legit

BEHOLD THE HORRID GLORY OF CRAW-BOB THE LAWN CRAYFISH HE LIVES HE HUNGERS HE IS ABOUT THREE AND A HALF INCHES LONG THEY SAID I WAS MAD WHEN I SPOKE OF LAWN CRAYFISH BUT WHO IS LAUGHING NOW!?

(ahem)

Hound went out in a rainstorm and poked something, which poked her back, and this sequence ended in me balancing a phone and a flashlight. I took a gazillion photos, of which two came out.

Lawn Crayfish are a known phenomenon throughout the south and up through the Midwest to Ohio and Indiana and nobody knows they exist because nobody who knows thinks to mention it with the end result that a lot of people encounter one and start screaming hysterically because why is there a lobster in the flowerbed!?

He is named Craw-Bob and I have met one like him before and tried to get him out of a hole with a piece of salami on a string and he took the salami away from me but I couldn’t get a photo and basically I’m very happy.

Babylonian era problems. (photo via tbc34)

old school hate mail

Imagine how pissed you have to be to engrave a rock

Ok but there was this guy called Ea-nasir who was a total crook and would actually cheat people ought of good copper and sell them shit instead. The amount of correspondences complaining to and about this guy are HILARIOUS.

Are you telling me we know about a specific guy who lived 5000 years ago, by name, because he was a huge asshole

More like 4000 years ago but yes. Ea-nasir and his dodgy business deals.

And we haven’t even touched on the true hilarity of the situation yet. Consider two additional facts:

Like, these are clay tablets. They’re bulky, fragile, and difficult to store. They typically weren’t kept long-term unless they contained financial records or other vital information (which is why we have huge reams of financial data about ancient Babylon in spite of how little we know about the actual culture: most of the surviving tablets are commercial inventories, bills of sale, etc.).

But this guy, this Ea-nasir, he kept all of his angry letters - hundreds of them - and meticulously filed and preserved them in a dedicated room in his house. What kind of guy does that?

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SOME LEGENDS ARE TOLD I MIGHT SELL DUST OR FAKE GOLD

BUT YOU WILL REMEMBER ME FOR CENTURIES

Does anyone else have a sneaking suspicion that Ea-nasir was someone’s OC and this is some form of Babylonian comedy?

“Ea-nasir, you have sold me a mansion in which to house my aging mother, but lo, upon arrival I see the mansion is but a crumbling shack, and my mother resides still within my own home, where she makes my husband and children unhappy with her loud snoring.” 

*helpless babylonian laughter*

Does anyone know what this instrument is called? Its like a Marimba but it is very large and made out of huge stones. Listen to that tone! haha Love it!

It’s a type of Vietnamese lithophone (literally rock sound instrument) called a đàn đá. Some ethnomusicologists think that these are likely the oldest type of man made instrument.

that was incredible

MUSIC WITH ROCKS IN!

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Everytime I see one of those facetious apocalyptic Homestuck media prediction posts like “the year is 2XXX Homestuck is famous and everyone is in pain and it’s still not over yet and SBAHJ is critically acclaimed” I think of Alpha Dave and Rose and their absurdist horrible media empires. Is this Hussie’s endgame? Is he going to start manufacturing real life jpeg artifacts full-time now that the comic is done? When can we expect to see the shitty Statues of Liberty scattered across the planet’s surface? Is the juggalo presidency just around the corner? I laugh, but I also fear.

This post got a boost of 300+ notes in the last hour and a half, and I can only assume it’s because you guys noticed that Ted Cruz dropped out of the race, and now it’s only a matter of months before Donald Trump tears off his face orange skin to reveal that he is actually both members of ICP bundled into a trenchcoat.

now that donald trump is the actual GOP nominee this is your reminder that voting for a Democrat You Hate is still a useful harm reduction procedure that will cancel out a vote for Trump. please practice harm reduction. please, even more importantly in small/red states, vote all the way down in your local races where the margins of victory can be 100 votes or 10 votes, so your state legislature/governor/etc will be strong, if/when everything on the national level goes to hell

believe what you want about your vote not having the intended or ideal level of power, believe what you want about the electoral college or the modern role of voting in a democratic society, believe what you want about american centrism or flawed systems, but don’t let anyone tell you there’s “no difference” in the general election, please don’t let anyone tell you voting does nothing. your vote CAN and WILL protect vulnerable people and help you stand in for people whose votes are being taken away by a gutted VRA and gerrymandering 

please. please vote tuesday november 8th. please.

tumblr mobile doesn’t discriminate

between the sinners and the saints

it breaks and it breaks and it breaks

but we keep using it anyway

every picture it paints

it paints as a square filled with grey

and if there’s a reason i’m still online

when my phone’s almost died

it’s that i’m willing to wait for it

i’m willing to wait for it

So there’s a post going around about how Homestuck is the modern Shakespeare because of how many new things it introduced to the storytelling sphere and the self-references. And because of the dick jokes.

IDK if I think that’s a perfect comparison (dick jokes excepted, of course), but this is totally a thing I did anyway.

The “ATTENTION WORTHLESS HUMAN” speech in iambic pentameter, with incorporations of Shakespearean language, for all your weird context crossover needs.

Karkat: TO YOU, O HUMAN, DOWN BENEATH I SEND THE GREETINGS THAT YOUR GOD HAS DEIGNED TO GIVE. MY WRATH SURPASSES ALL THAT YOU HAVE FEARED. HAVE I NOT WATCHED YOUR LIFE FOR SIX DAMN SWEEPS? I SAW YOU KNEEL BEFORE THE GODS THAT YOU HAVE SCRIBBLED ON YOUR SLEEPING BLOCK’S FOUR WALLS. ASHAMED OF WHAT YOU ARE, AS YOU SHOULD BE. A FUCKING FAILURE, WRETCHED BEYOND WORDS, YOU FALL BEFORE THE FALSE GODS YOU HAVE MADE. YOUR PLANET WORSHIPS WRETCHED DEITIES, WHO WILL NOT HEAR NOR ANSWER YOUR DAMN PRAYERS. NO MIRACLES YOUR PUNGENT ASS WILL SAVE. ONLY MY HATE; YOU CANNOT CONTEMPLATE WITH JUST YOUR SHITTY ASS HUMAN THINK PAN. FOR YOU HAVE NEVER HEARD MY HATRED SHRIEKED BY SPHINCTERS ON THE UNDERBELLY OF A GOD MOST TRUCULENT AND DIREFUL FROM FURTHEST RING BORN, MUSTERED, AND SUMMONED. MY HATE HAS FUCKING GIVEN YOU YOUR LIFE. MY HATE WILL SURELY FUCKING END IT TOO. MY HATE CREATED YOUR DAMN UNIVERSE. MY HATE PUMPS THROUGH ITS VEINS AND GIVES IT LIFE. MY HATE IS WHAT I HAVE TO GIVE TO YOU. AND WITH IT I SEND MY REGARDS; FUCK YOU. YOU UNGRATEFUL PIECE OF FUCKING SHIT.

John: good morrow, karkat!

based on this post: http://cosmic-rumpus.tumblr.com/post/133373727831/what-if-john-and-jake-have-competitions-where-they

‘ what if john and jake have competitions where they scarf down a handful of peanuts (of which they are deathly allergic to) to see who can die and revive the fastest and everybody just cheers them on and places their bets and are just screaming at these dying boys “DIE FASTER” ‘

omf

a new law is about to be passed in Saudi Arabia that will allow the government to execute people for coming out or being openly gay online.

ignoring the fact that this is literally something out of some kind of dystopian novel, in the interests of safety i’ve emptied out my face tag and may temporarily deactivate or password protect this blog.

please reblog this and get the word out, and if you pray, please pray for me and my fellow Saudi LGBTQ+/MOGAI family.

ALSO, for those who need it [x]. its a post on erasing all traces of yourself from the interwebs. 

this is not something to read and keep to yourself. please spread this around. may Allah keep everyone safe.

10+ Galaxy Sweets That Are Out Of This World

Really nice recipes. Every hour.

Show me what you cooked!

ok, i want all of these for every future event in my life that calls for cake