He says while riding away with a herd of horses, followed on his heel by very angry Temujai

Hey so I made this post about how everyone needs a fanfic buddie (og Post here https://www.tumblr.com/rosekiller-addict/730667655766409216/you-know-what-every-fanfiction-reader-needs-a ) so I thought it would be cool to have like a template so people could meet other people with similar interest as them.

if you have anything I should add, lmk!

heres the template:

name // pronouns // fandoms // favourite ships // favourite fanfic tropes // favourite ship tropes // other

my thingy:

lyric // pronounfluid/they/them // marauders, tpn, tbhk, Percy jackson // rosekiller, wolfstar, norray, mitsukou, jercy // fake relationships, the angsty stuff where characters die and you'll be crying at 3am, one-shot stuffs // best friends to lovers, right person not enough time, right person wrong time

This seemed like a fun thing to do, so I'll just throw in an addition of my own!

Oxy // she/her // way too many, but mainly HP, Pjo, BNHA, AtLA and GoT at the moment // percabeth, shindeku, wolfstar // angst, hurt/comfort, fix-it fics, fake dating, and they were Roommates, only one bed // enemies to lovers, banter, short-tempered and voice of reason // in general though, I'll read pretty much anything, even from fandoms I'm not really in. If it sounds interesting I will read it !

Good news: if you’re currently laying around and not producing anything, you are a credit to your species.

I’m an ant biologist and I’d like to point out that ants also spend a significant percentage of the time doing nothing.

Turns out sometimes the most evolutionary useful thing you can do is chill and not wear yourself to shreds, whether mammal or insect. It helps you deal with emergencies and adapt to change. Plus, you can act as living food storage!

That last part is probably more an ant thing than a human thing, but hey, live your dreams.

it’s also a bear thing, which absolutely explains me

Doing absolutely fuck-all is how antarctic sea sponges live to be over 10,000 years old, so live your best, longest, laziest life.

Remember lions? Fellow apex predators?

Yeah, they spend 16-20 hours of the day laying around, socializing, raising Cubs and napping.

The last 4-8 hours are spent hunting.

Wait wait, they’re not a primate so they don’t count.

How about Orangutans?

Well, they spend 90% of their time awake just hanging out in food-rich areas, eating fruit and leaves, socializing, raising children, and chilling.

Well, they’re not people so it doesn’t-

How about Stone Age people in Europe?

They probably worked 3-5 hours per day, every day. (Though seasonal changes in food scarcity could change that)

Laborers in ancient Egypt worked 8 hours, with an hour break at lunch. They did this for 8 days, then rested 2 days. That sounds familiar. Except… they also had regular time off for festivals and holidays, and only worked for about 18 out of every 50 days.

Artisans in imperial Rome generally worked from 6am to Noon, and then had the rest of the day off… and only worked for half the year, due to all the holidays and festivals they got off.

But that’s too easy, what about a Peasant in medieval England?

6-8 hours per day, with Sundays off, Farm workers put in longer hours at harvest time but worked shorter days in winter when there are fewer hours of daylight. Economist Juliet Schor estimates that in the period following the Plague they worked no more than 150 days a year, due to the long holidays and many festivals.

Ugh, let’s go poorer. 17th century France. Starvation was afoot for the working poor!

During the reign of King Louis XIV, the workers of France had it tough, and hunger for the poorest was a fact of life. The typical working day was as much as 12 hours long, but two hours were set aside midday for lunch and perhaps an afternoon nap. Nevertheless, the Ancient Régime is said to have also guaranteed peasants, labourers and other workers a total of 52 Sundays, 90 rest days and 38 religious holidays off per year, meaning they worked just 185 out of 365 days.

So what changed?

The industrial revolution, baybe~~

New factory owners could work their employees to the bone due to a lack of regulation and abundance of cheap labour.

The typical factory worker in mid 19th-century England toiled away for a soul-destroying 16 hours a day, six days a week, 311 days per year!

THAT nightmare became the standard by which western society began to judge “work-life balance” and anything gentler than the industrial factory’s unfettered brutality is considered “softness”

(So many people died being mangled in those machines. Hair handkerchiefs went into style during American industrialization because working women would otherwise get their hair caught in the machines, and be either scalped or be bodily pulled inside to die…. But that’s a horror for another time)

Americans in 2020 worked an average of 8.5 hours per day on weekdays, plus another 5 hours on weekends.

Taking out federal holidays and weekends, we work 262 days per year. Most of us get 5-9 sick days to take per year. (Yes, a fixed number, no matter how sick you really are), and usually either no paid vacation, or 7-15 days paid vacation, depending on seniority and the company. Unpaid vacation doesn’t have a max, but taking it often risks you getting fired.

Even comparing against the poorest laborers in ancient history the current working structure for humans is, frankly, inhumane.

We are mammals. Let us rest. Let us celebrate holidays and attend festivals. Let us attend to our homes and families.

Even the ultra wealthy folks who got their heads chopped off gave us more time off than this!!!

Someone in the comments said something like “humans are instinctively industrious and productive, as social creatures!”

Buddy, that’s a lie fed to you by capitalism.

In our default state, we attend to our families yes, but we also party like hell, lounge around, and make fantastic works of art just to be proud of ourselves. We made beautiful things for the joy of creating them.

Stone Age humans may have spent a couple hours hunting and gathering, but DEFINITELY spent loads of time painting every available surface. Time and weather washed most of it away, but some places like Arizona and Colorado still preserve a few of the endless murals made by ancient hands.

Evidence shows that the ancient world was COVERED in paintings and etchings - just saturated with images of birds and beasts and humans, sunsets and cool weather. We invented mythologies and painted about them. We did something impressive, and painted about it. We taught our children how to paint and lifted them into our shoulders so they could mark the ceiling.

In our most base state, humans will work enough to survive, but our instincts demand we use all other time to create art. We want to communicate. To make connections.

“Working” or “being productive” is not on that list.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

id: the original post shares a tweet reading, “reminder that you are an omnivore, a predator, and a pretty big one at that. You are not a bee or an ant. It is, in fact, normal for you to just want to lay around not producing anything. You’re a mammal. Stop judging yourself for not being a hive insect.” / end id

@natalunasans: here’s more of that science you were hoping for.

my ancient greek history professor is making us post memes weekly. i swear to god

heres one for you

my time has come for hyperspecific classics memes

I…I need context. I’m gonna research all this shit one day.. If I remember after work

I understand most of these!

How the hell have I not reblogged this already

As a former Latin student, I felt like I had to

History According to Tumblr

memeception

WE’VE HIT TERMINAL MEME

@caesarianconfection

I’ve said “I hate this” so many times on this website, and never actually meant it, because “I hate this” is just shorthand for ‘this is an example of a meme given a twist I wasn’t expecting with intent to surprise’. Which is, in of itself, a meme on this site. God damn it.

But this… This is something else.

The rapidity of a meme’s introduction to its zenith to its decline is so rapid that in ten years, you’ll need a damn twenty-page manual to explain this. It’ll be as unfunny and hard to explain as jokes in Shakespeare plays, except even more inexplicable because fuck, at least Shakespeare’s jokes are usually about anal or fucking your mother, good wholesome sex jokes we can all get behind.

For the love of fuck, how do you explain loss.jpg? How do you explain gun?

….I THOUGHT THIS WAS A YMCA REFERENCE

it is a YMCA reference - that’s one of the 6 memes being represented here

ok let me see if i can break this down easily. YMCA is the easiest place to start - the song itself has become a meme over time with people changing the lyrics to reference other pop cultural events. so YMCA is meme one (1)

this first lyric replacement (”take the breadsticks and run”) is a reference to the tumblr meme ‘stuffing breadsticks into my purse’. i think everyone remembers that one so i wont bother to explain it. that’s meme two (2)

“man door hand hook car door” is a meme of its own, a creepypasta from i dont remember when. it was a terrible stupid retelling of the generic ‘stuck in a car while hook handed man tries to kill us’ story so the stupid title caught on for memorability. that in and of itself is meme three (3)

‘gun’ is… yeah i dont know how to explain gun. long story short you add gun to the end of a phrase instead of what you expect the last word to be. its shock funny. its everywhere but its popular to add to “man door hand hook car door” for.. some reason? gun is meme four (4)

and the thing is, this four meme combo is something thats gone around before. meme combos are, itself, a meme. which means taking this meme combo and mixing in another meme actually becomes meme five (5)

which leaves us at loss.jpg. loss.jpg was a terrible bad comic supposed to be about some tragic event, but it was presented so poorly literally no one takes it seriously, and for some reason recreating the four-panel setup has become popular. so thats meme six (6)

(but i need to add that this is the greatest version of loss.jpg i think i’ve ever seen. the initial ‘young man’ lines up with the guy bursting through the door, and the shock meme ‘gun’ matches the shock scene of the woman in the hospital and idk if OP even thought about that but it makes this just so much better)

I wasn’t going to reblog this, but @pagesofkenna‘s comprehensive meme-by-meme annotation is a thing of beauty and should be shared.

average tumblr post contains one meme, this post, which contains six, is an outlier and should not be counted

it might also just be a coincidence due to loss.jpg’s format but the whole white minimalist four-panel setup is also suspiciously reminiscent of those early 2000’s rage comics

I was getting a political compass vibe too

tag urself im man door hand hook car gun

This works better than I thought it would.

This was in my senior project

I’m not sorry.

EIGHT MEME COMBO

FATALITY

We have officially created a new language 

I just had to do it to em

THIS FUCKING THREAD I’M GONNA CRY

I LOST IT AND MAN DOOR HAND HOOK CAR GUN AND DIDN’T EXPECT MORE I’M SOBBING

M E M E T E N

OwO?

You know I had to

I hope you know this is the most cursed addition to my post, and I love it

THIRTEEN!?

SOMEONE EDIT THIS FROM THE ORIGINAL PHOTO SAYING “this one does not spark joy” TO THIS VERSION SAYING “this one sparks joy”

well i added my contribution : )

why—

IM SCREAMING

This is the most elaborate meme I have ever seen and damn am I concerned by how it makes sense.

“You’re in your 30s, but you still understand all this meme stuff?” “Oh yeah, sure.” “Can you explain it to me?” “I absolutely fucking cannot.”

One does not simply explain this

Edit:

Another freaking layer!!!

16 motherfucking layers

In the future someone’s going to ask me to explain this and I’m going to be at a loss.jpg for words

I’m not reblogging this because I want to. I’m reblogging this because sometimes you’re a witness to history whether you want to be or not, and you have to embrace that. 

GUYS STOP!! IF WE CONTINUE ON THIS ROAD, THE MEME WILL BECOME TOO POWERFUL!

No keep going, let’s see if we can brake tumblr. If we do let’s use it to brake fb and twitter

You’re chaotic neutral I love it

What he said

Struck by inspiriation twice lads

My humble contribution

I love going through the notes of this and seeing my 16 layer version and 24 layer version circulating.

ive added my end of the chaos

Beautiful

@lowkeyjustvibing what the fuck did you just reblog?

I don’t fishing know

Has this been done yet?

had to contribute to tumblr history

Oh my god this is tumblr history

oh my god my mutuals are doing this too

Yes we are✨

my hand slipped oop

fool i posted my meme before you

oh okay then-

someone-

I dare some one to keep going.

I couldn’t scroll past this and not make an addition 😂

Thank you 😝🤣

i spent half an hour on this addition hope y’all are happy

My humble contribution

I made one

This was a journey, and I’m glad I got to experience it

I am sorry to say but the train named,“Last Remnant of my Sanity”, has officially left the station.

The sheer power of this thread has me quaking

Fuck I’m at a fencing tournament and literally a minute after I reblogged this my dad told me that he talked to the point people and I’m probably going to win a medal.

BURN BAGEL BURN

OH WHY NOT?

I need to follow up to say I reblogged this last night, and this morning I got some of the best news of my life, like, a life dream come true news thing.

Bagel what are your powers

FUCK, I though it was just another lucky meme but LISTEN. Since a week ago I was waiting a phone call to confirm me if I got a job or not in my university. I reblogged this yesterday’s night “just for fun and because I don’t want any bagel to be mad with me”, and today’s afternoon, while I was losing my time as always, the professor I was supposed to work with called me and asked me for my personal information to start working with her.

THE BAGEL POWERS ARE WAY TOO MUCH FOR THIS WORLD

I GOT A JOB THE DAY AFTER MY QUEUE POSTED THIS THE FIRST TIME AND I JUST REALIZED IT WHEN I SAW IT AGAIN HOLY GOD

The bagel hasn’t let me down yet!

I got a job offer after reblogging the bagel. Believe in the bagel!

Worth a try lol

i could use some good news or even a good girl 

Go lil bagle! Show me your power!

Okii then!

THIS IS THE FIRST THING ON MY BLOG

I GOT ASKED OUT FOR THE FIRST TIME AFTER I REBLOGGED IT

wait but whats happening with the bagel tho

It’s burning, as is everything I’ve hoped for whenever I’ve reblogged a post like this

I just kinda wanna watch something burn?

Mood

You guys didn’t listen when I said Bagels hold an ancient and wonderous power.

I need this

do it

I’m at an all time low I need this

ok sure

no loss in trying. so here wo go

i mean it doesn’t hurt to try,,,

pls

@daminettes is valid and amazing. There, I said it. I said what we’ve all been thinking.

IM GOING TO CRY ILY

I need some luck in my life

I could use some good news right about now

MOOD

The second week technically, but meh... details schmetails

Proving a point to my boyfriend.

PLEASE REBLOG if you (male or female) believe it is perfectly okay and natural for a guy of any age to cry

I’ve never hit reblog faster or harder.

hey there LGBTQ kids who are also Christian/Jewish! If you feel like you’re disobeying God, questioning your faith, or feel wrong and dirty for loving who you love, there’s this fantastic site I found today called hoperemains that accurately and thoroughly combs through scripture and its (many) mistranslations, validates your orientation, and basically let’s you know that you’re not pissing off God. It’s insanely thorough and after reading through every page on the entire site it’s super helpful. Go check it out!

No no no! Jewish LGBTQ kinderlach! Go to Keshet! 

hoperemains is completely from a Christian perspective, and not pluralistic or interfaith at all.

If you reblogged the first post from me please reblog this amendment so the Jewish peeps can access this resource too! 

Trans Jewish kids, you can go to TransTorah as well!

Muslim LGBTQ kids, you can go to iamnotharaam! It’s run by a mod squad of different genders and orientations, and they take submissions from everybody!

–BB

MAY ANYONE WHO REBLOGS THIS BE ELEVATED TO THE EQUIVALENT OF SAINTHOOD IN THEIR RELIGION BLESS ALL OF YOU OH MY GOD.

REBLOGGING THIS AGAIN BECAUSE IT’S SO FREAKING IMPORTANT TO ME AND ALL MY FOLLOWERS TO READ THAT DEAL WITH GRIEF AND GUILT WHILE BEING LGBTQ AND RELIGIOUS

http://hoperemainsonline.com/ Is the new site for hoperemains. Every other link is still active as of 1/9/2020

I'm reblogging this because I think a lot of people can benefit from it, so please people, keep reblogging this post its so so important!!!!

Reblog if you think asexuality is a legitimate sexuality.

I'm trying to prove something.

Reblog if your blog is a safe place for asexuals.

HELL YEAH

YOU KNOW IT🖤💜🤍

DAMN RIGHT IT IS

At least I don’t, but maybe you guys do??

No, no I do not

The chaos of not knowing is one of the things i love about writing

Me: I think x is going to happen

My characters: *hysterical laughing* No

Marinette: Gets some dust in her eyes. Chat Noir: “YOU MOTHER-!”

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If you have never seen this before, please go and read these comics as soon as possible, they are absolute GeNiUs!!!

Steve: Tony? It’s 4am. Why are you baking a cake? And what’s with the party decorations?  Tony: I’m celebrating the death of my sleep schedule and sanity. Do me a favor and put up those streamers.

People knew the Ranger Corps made use of dragons. It was one of the reasons they were so scared of them. Rangers appeared in times of trouble wrapped in their shifting cloaks on the backs of dragons whose wings block out the sun like a cloud. The dragons watched what was going on, the fire behind their eyes a dull smolder until the Ranger on their back leaned in close to their head and whispered something quiet. Once that quiet word was shared, the enemy was bathed in flame.

It only takes one Ranger to end any conflict. A single Ranger is smart enough to end almost anything with normal tactics. They can see the whole picture and make a plan that works almost every time.

And when they can’t, they whisper that quiet word close to their dragon’s head, and the dragon takes care of the rest.

Dragons weren’t supposed to behave the way these did. Travelers brought back tales from Picta of wild dragons dropping from the sky and eviscerating villages in a single night, untamed and virtually unstoppable. Skandian raids had been easily stopped by a Ranger swooping down from the sky, the northern giants terrified of the creatures they knew could take out an entire wolfship with one breath.

But the dragons that bear the Rangers on their backs weren’t the same wild animals those other countries knew. These dragons tilted their heads and listened intelligently to what their Rangers had to say. They didn’t attack unless that secret, quiet word was whispered to them. The Rangers didn’t seem afraid of them, even the ones that aren’t their own. In the rare case that more than one Ranger was in the same place with both dragons also present, they seemed to greet the dragons with the same respect and even friendliness that they showed to the other human.

Will had only seen Ranger Halt’s dragon twice before. When he was just out and about around Castle Redmont, he had a horse. A small horse, almost more of a pony, although it did seem to match his own height.

Once, though, Will had been in the tree in the courtyard late at night when the moon had suddenly disappeared. He’d looked up expecting to see a cloud, and instead, he’d seen massive wings, stretching out across the sky and covering the moon and stars. It was dark enough Will couldn’t even tell what color the dragon was, but he knew it had to be the Ranger’s.

Once more, during the day, Will had been just outside the castle walls, collecting water as an excuse to get away from his wardmates for even a moment, when there had been a cacophonous explosion of birds from the forest, and in their midst was a larger shape Will couldn’t quite identify, until the massive green wings unfurled and the dragon snapped up into the air. It moved quickly and with a grace completely unlike anything Will had ever seen, rising into the air faster than the birds with two flaps of its wings before turning and speeding away. Will could barely make out a tiny human figure on its back with a cloak streaming out behind it.

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This is brilliant and so much better than I anticipated it could be