copper my beloved

rose gold, brass, bronze, what cant she do

beautiful base colour, beautiful patina, and it mixes to make beautiful alloys. 10/10 best metal.

she also makes up so much of your wiring, she’s a working gal too.

what CANT she do

Don’t forget about the most beautiful blue made by copper sulfate!!

my absolute FAVOURITE comments on this post are ones like this.

where they just add on something ELSE that copper does. it’s great.

When you need to work in an atmosphere where a stray spark could cause an explosion, you switch out your steel tools for copper alloys since it conducts heat much better and thus won’t spark easy.

So when Tumblr user @mono-red-menace​ hypes up copper, it’s a 60k-note banger, but when I, Ea-nasir,

this video does more in 10 seconds than your fave’s entire filmography

For everyone who’s confused

I feel like im watching a wedding ceremony from a country i didnt know existed. Like, I have no idea how all this stuff is important but good for you?????

This is hella interesting.

btw she gave him a single which can be made in a matter of minute depending on pattern and size but he gave her a giant cuff which can take hours or even more than a day to complete based on just how complex the design and materials are. she wanted to trade something small and simple and he gave her a massive token of his love and respect for her as a fellow raver (and possibly his junior in the scene)

disney concept art: the most beautiful dynamic original thing i have ever seen

disney finished project: rubber same face minimalism regurgitated plots 

concept art:

final version:

What makes me so mad is that snow queen is such a lovely tale and there was an evil mirror that shattered and froze the queen’s heart. So the first thing the newly evil queen does is PLUNGE THE KINGDOM INTO ETERNAL WINTER.

And the kid Anna is based off of is actually this sweet peasant girl who is rescuing her best friend whom everyone else thought drowned and whom no one cared for because mirror shards got in his eyes and he only saw beauty in snowflakes while everything else was just disgustingly foul to him. Except he didn’t drown because he was whisked away by the snow queen.

Like this girl gives her shoes to the river to find out he didn’t drown. Her hair ribbons to the birds to find out who took him. Works her hands raw to get to him and has to suffer a mental breakdown because she got SO FUCKING CLOSE to saving him and he won’t even look at her because he wants to solve this puzzle the snow queen gave him.

And then her sobbing wakes him up and he cries and washes the shards from his eyes and the fact that she saved him is enough to melt the snow queens heart and she brings spring back to the kingdom.

Wow Frozen really is some weak shit

Let’s not forget Gerda’s journey takes her along a long road that includes meetings with multiple women, many of them old, most of whom are not evil witches but wise women who aid her in her quest. She’s also at one point held captive by a bandit princess who swaps clothes with her and insists on sleeping in the same bed and routinely threatens her with a knife, but she eventually lets Gerda go with a magic talking reindeer she was also holding captive. The bandit princess cries because goddamn Gerda you’re so NICE and PRETTY and BRAVE and you clearly care about this stupid guy I GUESS and I can’t bear it just GO ok just GO and also you better fucking take care of her reindeer or I will CUT YOU.

The story is full of interesting complex women of many ages and magical talking animals and it’s a real shame we didn’t get an adaptation closer to the original ‘cause it’s really cool. 

hey good news about the adaption:

There was a Soviet animated movie from 1957, that doesn’t brush over any of the things you just listed.

You get Gerda on her journey, meeting all of those people that both hinder her quest and help her, with older women from different regions of northern europe, as well as several princesses who aid her

also the art style and animation is absolutely gorgeous and I always feel like it’s a shame that older Soviet animation is barely recognized around the world 

you can see the entire thing with english subtitles here

There is probably ONE thing Soviet Russia did right and ARGUABLY BETTER than anyone else in the entire world in the past 100 years of human history: ANIMATION.

And this is something that unfortunately is literally a case of “dumping the baby with water”. The art, the vision, the designs, the storytelling and the approach to olden tales, fairytale, folk tales, children’s books and poems etc, is beyond FAR BEYOND than you may imagine.

Some notable moments of Soviet Russian Animation include (not in any particular order but my own brains spitting images):

The Hedgehof In The Fog (1975)

Which is considered revolutionary and is still a staple of Russian speaking cultures and is regarded as an important piece of Animation in freaking Japan (aka the nation of Animation). If you want to deep dive into the unique stop motion art and the importance of this piece, Google away.

Another animation I love is “Fedora’s Grief” (1974).

A short animation about how objects left unattended and uncared for will not serve you, the human. It’s such an essential part of the Soviet Experience of the common person, which is hard to describe to people who were born to abundance.

I would also love to cite The Cat Leopold (1975-1987), which, for me, forever describes the naiveté of the simple, common soviet person, as we today love citing, “People Are Not Their Governments”.

This one is the antithesis to Tom & Jerry, for all it’s worth: there are tow mice forever taunting the cat, and in each episode the cat asks them, “let’s live in friendship”.

YouTube had a whole archive of the old Soviet animations. If you are looking for beauty and design, and art - these were all state sponsored, and thus - had funds for their visions. No, not all of soviet animation and film was any kind of USSR propoganda (looking at you, US cinema, 30s Batman in black and white), and to some very confusing extent, you see many animations honoring source material or being innovative in their own right, regardless of authority.

Some beautiful animations I would love people to know about:

This series, named “Kitten Named Gav” (1976-1982)

“Gav” is literally “how” as in barking sound. So it’s about a Kitten named “bark” and his little cat adventures with his friend, a puppy.

Sleeping Beauty (and 7 princes) (1951)

The Frog Queen (1954)

The Cat, That Wanders By Itself (1964)

[Yes, cats feature often, and in positive context]

“The Flower with Seven Colours” (1948)

Ugly Duckling (1956)

And you know what, this one, is just. It’s about a polar bear cub, ok? Looking for his polar bear mother.

Umka (1969)

This Wikipedia Article openjng paragraph kind of encapsulates the bleak acknowledgment of the art, stating:

All in all. Yes, the Soviet Animation, in context of today, is the baby thrown out of the window of history with the muddy water, and I, for one, will not stand for it.

I wish more people knew about those beautiful artworks.

I wish people knew that techniques that were tried out and pioneered in those animations way back in the 40s inspired Walt Disney works. I wish people made more art and less war.

*sobs*

This. :/

Bela Lugosi about his female fans 

#i can’t even imagine how much pussy he probably got

forgot to post this here! i’ve been gone for a while but i’m back!! and with background studies too. 

expect more of these in the future!!

Me on my dash thinking “wow my mutual are really going crazy over this post” but it’s just the same homie and I’m here for it

ITS A COOL ASS PAINTING DONT @ ME

PAINTING??????

[ID: Image one is a very realistic painting of puffy white clouds glowing in the sun as they pass over a building. The angle is low looking up. Image two is a tag in all caps that reads: “#this doesn’t have enough notes so I’m reblogging it 7 times.” End ID]

the primal urge to devour forbidden potato fruit

yes, potato plants produce berries!

yes those berries are fucking toxic!

yes i should be allowed to use them as a cherry tomato substitute! mind your business

Fun reminder that you can graft a tomato plant on top of a potato plant, and have potatoes underground and tomatoes on top :3

this is true! just another one of those beautiful man-made abomination through which we keep the gods locked away in their celestial prison

"There's no such thing as a fish because you can't define it phylogenetically without also including things that aren't fish"

Man I have bad news for you about lizards. And reptiles in general. And wasps, but I guess that depends on your opinion on wasps. And I don't think you're ready for trees.

I'm defineiely not prepared for trees but if you want an excuse to make tumblr suffer i will be the sacrifice

Trees aren't a phylum or an order or anything like that, being a tree is just a thing some plants do

It's been described as a biological strategy - you want light, an efficient way to do that is put all the bits of you that want light (that is, leaves) high up so they're not in the shadow of other things, spread out both to cover a wide area and so they're not in their own shade, because that would be a waste of leaf

So the same shape of doing this has evolved independently dozens of times - crabs have nothing on trees. But this also leads to disagreement as to what a tree even is

For example, is a palm a tree? They don't have branches, but they do have a canopy - what about how a lot of conifers don't have a canopy? Just a cone of green that comes down to the ground! If that's a tree, what's the difference between a tree and a bush?

But we can agree they're centred around a single woody trunk right, so there's a starting point - except no, in comes the quaking aspen, which is one huge organism below the surface that shoots up trunks wherever the hell it feels like it, each of which is by any casual observer's reckoning obviously a tree.

The last thing we want to do is answer any of these questions, because that's how we end up with the whole berry situation, where a tomato is a berry but a strawberry is a "fleshy receptacle"

The most common definition i've seen is something like "large perennial plant with a woody stem, which expands outward over time by growing a new layer of vascular tissue every year."

This is a pretty good strict definition of a tree, though it excludes tree ferns and palm trees. The problem is woody vines. Grape vines and poison ivy are trees now. It also includes a lot of plants usually considered bushes or shrubs. No one agrees on the difference between a tree and a shrub. It's a mess.

But does it include bamboo? Because any definition of tree that excludes bamboo I reject. And why does that exclude palm and fern trees? Is it the "new layers of vascular tissue" bit? Why is that there? Is it to exclude something else that definitely isn't trees? And what happens if we include a "freestanding" clause? That shouldn't exclude figs, right? Are there any other trees that would eliminate?

Tree ferns, palm trees, and bamboo, despite having some form of secondary growth, don't have the same structure to the vascular tissue of the stem and don't form "wood" in the same sense. Which IMO shouldn't really matter for defining a tree, so i'm with you that bamboo counts as a tree. Though that's kind of cursed since bamboo is grass, taxonomically.

As far as i'm personally concerned, a tree is a plant big/tall enough to have a perennial, "woody" stem that grows over time, whether or not it's considered "true" secondary growth that forms rings. Since tree-ness is convergently evolved anyway, it makes no sense to exclude a plant with tree-like characteristics.

I feel like the "freestanding" clause would definitely exclude some Definitely Trees, but I can't think what...

There is, of course, a problem

This is Salix herbacea, the Dwarf Willow. It has wood, but it only grows up to the height of your ankles.

Is this a tree?

Dammit, I accidentally give the wrong name! It's SALIX, not Smilax!

It did not evolve convergently in the true sense of the word! The ancestors of all seed plants were woody and tree-like. So all plants have those genes, some just discovered how to turn them off because they don’t need them, and sometimes can turn them back on again:

These are both species from the genus Sonchus. It's usually herbaceous, but as it spread to Macaronesian islands, it found no competition in the tree niche, so it became a tree!

From:

Wait

EVERYTHING IS TREE

"All seed plants are trees" is the worse way this could have been resolved

WAIT

TREE FERNS STILL AREN'T TREES

NOOOOOOOOOO

If you’re a monster fucker, reblog this.

i am the ceo of extremely niche memes

hall of shame

To be fair: Imagine Dragons is really putting it on you. That’s a command. Please, imagine dragons while listening.

Okay imagine dragons can stay but you’re on thin fucking ice

I have a weirdly specific anti-matter counter-example to this phenomenon: Dragon magazine the periodical dedicated to support of the Dungeons & Dragons game had a time where they put a dragon on every cover and had a regular column by Ed Greenwood about the habits, history, and personality of dragons in the Forgotten Realms.

This may be about the most dragons per Dragon possible.

Got his ass together in three words

The Addams Family // New Neighbors Meet the Addams Family

IS SHE VAPING WITH HER PUSSY?!?!

(via @they-bite)

Official Pussy Post

“Why are non-human characters always your favourites?”

The Perfect Explanation of Privilege – In One Powerful Punchline

“The Pencilsword” is a comic strip by Toby Morris, an illustrator from New Zealand. His most recent comic, “On a Plate” hits hard at the heart of the issues of concerning wealth and privilege.

How many times have you heard the “I’ve never been handed anything on a platter” argument in regard to social security and other social benefits?

Toby wrecks this argument by showing how two children can grow up, be loved and supported, and yet still have two very different outcomes.

Make sure to follow all the way to the end for the powerful punchline. This comic is an increasingly sad reality for far too many of this nation’s children and families.

Teen Titans/ Teen Titans Go! parallels  | Robstar closing the door.

Nailed it.

can we just discuss how the colorists forgot to color starfire’s top purple in the second gif

So that means starfire stood infront of robins door with her tits out and robin was like “hmm i got to do this thing first” and closes the door on her

Truly he is Batman’s disciple.

My cats have this meow that means "please come with me to fix this" after which they'll lead me to the problem in question, usually a empty (or 'empty') food bowl or a closed door they want open. They look at the 'problem', they look back at me, clear message.

What fascinates me is how this illustrates what they percieve as being in the realm of my 'power.' I control the food, I control the door, sure, but my cats love to sit on the balcony in the sun, and it has happened plenty of times that on a rainy day they come get me, go to the balcony and show me... the rain. "Please fix this" they say. "Please get rid of the wet"

"Silly kitty," I say, "I can't control the rain." I then walk into the shower and turn on the rain.

My cat absolutely does this. What’s more, she has learned that she can demand that one human fix the behavior of another human.

I was in the bathroom one day. The door was closed, which is of course a Crime Against Felinity. The cat had been complaining about this for several minutes. I told her I would be out in a few.

I then heard the “follow me” meow from down the hall, and my husband saying “what?”

The next thing I heard was my husband’s voice at the bathroom door. “The cat just led me right here, and now she’s looking at me like, ‘Here. You talk to her. She seems to listen to you.’”

Yes. My cat has learned to speak to the manager.

No one:

Absolutely no one:

Dick Grayson:

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