girls go to college to get more knowledge. men go to svalbard to die in the polar night.

wait fr

oh my god

men when they die in svalbard

and waste fresh meat???

I didn't think that it would be more wild, but it is. Terrifying.

Oh yes. The graveyard is quarantined.

Longyearbyen has some other nice laws, such as it being illegal to lock the doors of houses and cars (so that people can escape polar bears), or it being illegal to leave the town without firearms (so that people can defend themselves from polar bears.)

Is a pretty cool place.

yes, but it's the coolness, if not downright coldness, that makes it fucked up.

"HOT VIKING GUYS ARE WAITING TO MEET CHASTE ENGLISH LADIES IN YOUR AREA"

dude seeing these Mega high quality images of the surface of mars that we now have has me fucked up. Like. Mars is a place. mars is a real actual place where one could hypothetically stand. It is a physical place in the universe. ITS JUST OUT THERE LOOKING LIKE UH IDK A REGULAR OLD DESERT WITH LOTS OF ROCKS BUT ITS A WHOLE OTHER PLANET? 

LIKE THIS JUST LOOKS LIKE IT COULD BE A PERSON’S BACKYARD. LIKE YEA A LITTLE DUSTY MAYBE THERE WAS A SANDSTORM BUT THAT’S COOL I’M JUST GONNA WALK DOWN TO THE STORE P S Y C H YOU’RE ON MARS BICH!

i hate to be rude and intrude on this post but we have decent pictures of the surface Venus too! 

#venus has a low render distance

See also below Saturn’s moon, Titan. Mars has a blue horizon at sunset so it looks even more Earth-like in this image:

Source

Also: Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko

So it’s not quite snowing on Churyumov–Gerasimenko, unfortunately; the white specks are artifacts of cosmic rays impinging on the CCDs in the camera, as well as a rotating starfield in the background (since the comet is spinning). A few specks could be dust. But, holy shit, that’s the surface of a comet. That’s a spot you could in theory cling to for dear life sit down on. The Cliffs of Comet 76p are a place. 

If that isn’t the neatest shit I don’t know what is.

Astarion isn't yknow, a /good/ person

Like, at all

He's a fun little guy tho

I mean just look at his hair. Delightful. And his shivering, thrice-returned animal shelter chihuahua energy? Effervescent

Astarion is the video game equivalent of that cat at the shelter that’s so beautiful he makes everyone coo and sigh, but then when you get close he hisses, spits and growls. You know why. It’s because he’s been hurt. He’s terrified. There’s a certain kind of person who loves this kind of cat, who wants to adopt this cat despite the potential danger, who wants to take him home and teach him how to love, how to be soft, remind him that not everyone will give him fear and pain.

Astarion. The man that you are.

Someone in facebook also posted this too

Omg

Mediglyphics

This shit’s infuriating

Oh, this is a type of shorthand!

There are 3 main types, but from my research, this looks to be American Gregg Shorthand.

As you can see, there are set symbols for every letter.

Let’s break one of the words down:

Using the Gregg Alphabet as reference, we can see most of the letters in “atrophied” are present. But why no “o” vowel, and why is “ph” written as “f”?

Simple. In shorthand, you cut out all vowels in a word when writing it down, with the exception of words that BEGIN or END with a vowel (hence the “a” at the start being present), or like in the “i” in “atrophied”, to make it more readable when the sound could be harder to distinguish if it isn’t written. In “atrophied” if the the “i” isn’t written, it could be hard to tell if the writer meant a “fud”, “fad”, “fod” or “fid” sound, for example.

Also, since Shorthand is a phonetic writing system, you are encouraged to write down the phonetic sounds of words rather than the actual letter blends - in this case, write an “f” instead of a “ph”.

So in actuality, these aren’t just meaningless scribbles - it’s Gregg Shorthand, a writing system developed to take down notes more quickly than when written out in full, which is very useful in a medical or journalistic environment.

Some people can even write over 100 words in a minute! And, it’s been in use since John Robert Gregg invented it in 1888! Wow! So old!

Isn’t language amazing~?

im gonna getcha! im gonna getcha!!!

omg stoppp!!! hehe ^_^ !!!!

The funniest thing I have read tonight

after years of trying to learn chinese for political reasons i can't believe it's yaoi that's going to finally make me commit. anyway, just like mao said, the voice of the fujoshi is the voice of the people

Mississippi’s first interracial marriage, August 1970.

Adding @bethanyactually 's informative tags!

This was three years before my parents married, in case you think civil rights was "so long ago"

Do not cite the deep magics to me, witch. I was there when it was written.

This isn’t old this is fucking XP

Wasn’t this like one or two generations ago

What generation are we on now

windows XP came out in 2001 (2001 was twenty two years ago) and its last update was put out in 2008 (2008 was fifteen years ago), since XP windowls has released Vista, 7, 8, 10, and finally the most curent windows version windows 11. so no XP wasnt one or two generations ago…. it was five generations ago…. and that is…. wow

That can’t possibly be right.

WHERE MY WINDOWS 3.1 HOMIES AT

HOLLA FROM THE DOS PROMPT

we love Karlach

WHAT!!!!

No

They can leap 36 feet

As in leap forward 36 feet

They don’t jump 36 feet into the fucking sky do you know how terrifying that would be the human race wouldn’t have survived because we’d have all had heart attacks while still in Africa

#death from above

this post makes me cry every single damn time

This is one of those legendary posts that’s been around since I first made a Tumblr. When I didn’t have access to my Tumblr for a few years I would sometimes reference this post. Iconic lol

if you’re reading this, please be nice to yourself today because you do matter

As much as I love the idea of bard Wyll or paladin Wyll post pact, I’m really surprised at the lack of fics depicting him becoming a ranger. I think it fits his story the most logically seeing how both hunter and monster slayer are subclasses of ranger and fit his archetype almost exactly. He’s basically been living the lifestyle of a ranger too seeing how he’s been surviving on his own in nature unwillingly for the past 7 years. Dude would be hella knowledgeable in survival and the wilderness after all that time. Also as the son of the marshal of the flaming fist, I assume lore wise he has some pretty adequate melee training. This dancer would definitely lean more towards finesse weapons too and guess what class specializes in those? Rangers. He really is just a ranger at this point, he just doesn’t know it yet.

And while Wyll definitely has the same level of devotion to justice as a Paladin does, i really don’t think he would take any life committing oaths after he just broke one. Paladins are known to adhere to a strict code of law as well and though Wyll has a strong moral compass he has a flexible view of good and evil. He’s able to make compromises that a paladin probably wouldn’t because he’s experienced first hand just how justice can’t always be served neatly with a bow. I mean I find it hard to imagine a lawfully good aligned paladin letting Durge killing Alfira slide as easily as Wyll did. Or getting on with a sharran and vampire as well as he does.

But alternatively I absolutely live for aus where Wyll becomes Ansur’s chosen and gets granted with draconic powers. Would that make him a warlock still? Or would that promote him to sorcerer? Anyways, he deserves it seeing how his storyline emphasizes that he is the heart of the gate. Plus he needs rehab from his previous toxic source of power.

I tried drawing gods favorite princess

She’s not perfect, but I’m proud of myself

OMG! You are so talented why is this not at like a thousand reblogs?

The reason why I've played as Astarion 4 times

He is still a funny menace