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I will never get tired of reblogging this

I don’t think we’re meant to be exposed to so many random strangers opinions on literally anything and everything on a constant, daily basis

me as an ancient greek walking through the agora and past the lyceum trying to mind my own business

Tumblr: Don’t scroll past this! Don’t ignore this! No one’s talking about this!

I’m an adult who reads three different newspapers. This is Tumblr, where I go to get away from the news. If I don’t want to read something on Tumblr, I don’t have to. If I don’t reblog something, that doesn’t mean I’m ignoring it. I’m not talking about it here because I’m talking about it to people in my real life.

Tumblr is not where I come to get news, and quite frankly, it shouldn’t be.

Ocean Ramsey and her team encountered this 20 ft Great White Shark near the island of Oahu, Hawaii. It is believed to be the biggest ever recorded

She’s so beautiful!! 💙💙💙

SO lovely!

LORGE PAL :D

FRIENDS HOLD HANDS

God, I’m obsessed with this video. The way you can see all the scars and craters on her skin, the way the gill slits wave in the current, the sense of just how massive she is compared to that diver… it’s incredible. Just this enormous animal lazily swimming by the camera.

When 99% of the time you only see sharks in sped-up footage accompanied by threatening orchestral music and some narrator dude ominously intoning that it is “the most perfect killing machine the world has ever seen”, you tend to forget sharks are such beautiful creatures. This video doesn’t show a “monster shark” or a “killing machine”. It shows an animal - and a fucking beautiful one at that.

@pragnificent

She’s so beautiful I’m going to cry. 

I lose my shit with absolute unfettered delight every single time I see this video. It makes me speechless every time, and I watch it at least 3 times in a row, and there’s a 50/50 chance that I’ll cry, because fuck. Look at her. She’s beautiful. And she’s just,,,, SO peaceful. There’s three swimmers in the water around her, swimming along beside her, and she’s not even a little bit phased. The peace and beauty in this video just. Gets me every time.

Hoooooo boy this video sparked a lot of controversy in the marine bio world. Many people argue that sharks should not be engaged with physically unless redirecting them, especially if they are in the area to feed (like, for example, on a dead whale) since they may get scared off and lose a prime opportunity to eat. Ocean Ramsey got a lot of heat for touching Deep Blue, especially for “riding” on her pec fin. However, I have never seen such massive positive public engagement towards a shark, /especially/ a notoriously slandered species like the great white. In Ramsey’s defence, she is also clearly keeping pace with DB when she touches her pec fin, not hanging on by it. Ramsey is a huge shark and ocean advocate, and with this video she began a huge conversation about how we perceive sharks. With shark cullings still happening periodically in places like Australia and finning still a thriving industry, sharks need all the good PR they can get.

even when i had nothing, i had bucky

that 2020 mood

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I used to think it was important to have common interests with the person that you are in a relationship with but now I think it is more important to be similar in other aspects. like how kind you are. how you treat the people you care about, how you treat strangers. how you deal with anger. how you deal with pain. and not necessarily dealing with all these things the same way but being perseptive enough to understand what action each situation calls for. it’s important for both people to be on the same page about what that action should be. it’s important to me to have that kind of synchrony.

Victor Frankenstein: I’ve created life but I refuse to put any effort into helping that life develop. I won’t teach him, love him, or defend him even though I forced him into existence with a fully operational adult brain lol. Peace, bitch.

The Monster: Am Eloquent Baby

Boomers: He’S NOt thE ViCtIM, HE’s tHe MOnsTEr

An ironic parallel considering the idea of “tough love” parenting that plenty of boomers like to use. If they buy into the idea that their kids just have to toughen up and face the real world without guidance or emotional support, I’m sure it does scare them to read a story where someone who wasn’t given any support began to resent their creator and turn on them.

it’s like that post that’s like ‘knowledge is knowing that frankenstein is the doctor; wisdom is knowing that frankenstein is the monster’. like the whole point of the post is that frankenstein’s monster is a victim of viktor frankenstein’s own monstrosity.

mary shelley did not lose her virginity on her mother’s grave just for people to misunderstand her best known work over a century later.

this is the funniest fucking thing to me

but sir, that’s my emotional support unachievable dream scenario that I came up with in my head

the lesbians when they finally become miserable idk ive never read les misérables

Congrats, Ryan and Shane, on hitting 100 episodes of Buzzfeed Unsolved!

Y’all I don’t remember the title