I’m so sorry for this but I had alot of time on my hands so I just..

I would just like to say Netflix outdid themselves with animation this year.

Callum, trying to sneak Rayla out of the castle: Sir, that’s my emotional support elf.

*Horde Army charging at the castle*

Adora: This is like my childhood

Glimmer: ?

Adora: not good

Yes

Absolutely

I feel so much better after seeing this picture so yes you must be

@thebibliosphere

Beyond all doubt.

straight girls after watching drag race once

collection of spiderverse tweets i made after seeing the movie uwu

so here’s a thing

Alexander McQueen Altier Spring 2018

some of you have never spent 100 years frozen in an iceberg while the world you were responsible for protecting fell to war and it shows

some of you have never been painfully disfigured by your own father at the tender age of 14 in response to an simple misstep and it shows

some of you were never forced to invent metalbending as your only escape from a hostage situation and it shows 

some of you have never lost your first love when she gave up her physical form to become the spirit of the moon and it shows

some of you have never confronted the man that murdered your mother by turning the rain above him into ice daggers only to give up your pursuit for vengeance out of pity and self-love and it shows

some of you have never been raised to believe that you are an unloveable monster and that your enemy is your own brother rather your evil father who carefully groomed you to be his greatest weapon and it shows

some of you have never lost your entire livelihood due to a group of rowdy teenagers’ recklessness and complete disregard for the value of cabbages and it shows

Shit, just give her the money. She’ll need it for therapy, if nothing else. 

She’s living with her aunt now in the same town that she grew up in (since her kidnapper murdered her parents), ….but we all know that therapy for something so traumatizing ain’t cheap. 

SHE needs the money. She rescued herself and she needs it the most. It is a no-brainer. 

Radical agriculture - Murray Bookchin 

Literally no one who follows me is going to know what this means, but HBomberguy, a Youtuber known for Video Essays about pop culture and gaming made a promise that he would live stream himself playing Donkey Kong 64, in its entirety (including picking up every single banana) and all money would go to a UK charity for trans youth (Mermaids) and his initial goal was $3,000 and now it’s been 26 hours into the stream and he’s already over $51k. I just need people to know about this https://m.twitch.tv/hbomberguy

Also, he’s doing it to spite Graham Lineman, a transphobic prick who did some work in some good shows, and helped get Mermaids’ funding by the National Lottery suspended, so because of his temper tantrum, as of the writing of this reblog, he’s raised almost $130k!

i joined and everyone’s talking about OllyTube’s cum what happened

Some other highlights:

-The game keeps breaking up from the seams because the emulator just BARELY can handle the game’s code hacks. The chat has to constantly remind him to save the game in case it crashes entirely.

- Harris took 6 hours off camera to sleep and in the meantime the chat devolved into shitposting about feet and teeth (or FEETH).

- Meanwhile on twitter: Glinneham is throwing a pissy transphobic tantrum on twitter due to the stream while #ThanksGraham has started trending in Europe, U.S. and Australia. 

-Insane amount of guest streamers including Chelsea Manning, Jim Sterling, Ollie Thorn and the game’s composer and DK’s voice actor, Grant Kirkhope

- Kirkhope saying TRANS RIGHTS in his DK voice.

They’re just short of $250k right now and also

- John Romero said trans rights

- Alexandria Occasio Cortez was on talking about trans policy in the US, also said trans rights, admits she does not know anything about donkey kong 64, tweets the stream twice to her 2 million whole fucking followers

- Matt Mercer, Neil Gaiman, Egoraptor, Cher, Swery65, have all shared the stream on their twitters

- they had one trans person on who talked about needing funds for their wheelchair (£4500) and it was funded IMMEDIATELY with an extra  £1k over the needed amount 

QUICK EDIT: MARA WILSON NOW

Waking Up Is Hard to Do: Reversing Deep Unconsciousness

Philosophers have pondered the nature of consciousness for thousands of years. In the 21st century, the debate over how the brain gives rise to our everyday experience continues to puzzle scientists.

To help, researchers in the University of Michigan Medical School Center for Consciousness Science are working to identify areas of the brain that help us wake up, a basic building block of everyday consciousness.

In the search for what controls our overall level of consciousness, researchers have traditionally focused on structures in the lower part of the brain. These structures include the brain stem, which regulates vital functions like breathing, blood pressure and heartbeat; the hypothalamus, which is involved in sleep and controlling bodily functions; and the thalamus, which relays information from the senses. George Mashour, M.D., Ph.D., professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and director of the center, decided to look at areas of the cortex, the upper part of the brain, for its ability to control the level of consciousness.

Recent research in nonhuman primates provides evidence that the prefrontal cortex has a switchboardlike relationship with other areas of the brain, helping to ignite awareness of visual information.

“There has been a debate that has recently intensified as to whether or not the prefrontal cortex — versus areas farther back — plays a role in generating conscious experience. We thought that we’d target some of these different areas in the front and back of the brain to see which ones had the ability to control the level of consciousness,” he says.

The key to ignition?

Because anesthesia is used to temporarily eliminate conscious experience during medical procedures, it provides the perfect opportunity to test hypotheses about consciousness.

First author Mashour and lead author Dinesh Pal, Ph.D., also of the Department of Anesthesiology, anesthetized rats with a common drug used in humans. “We wanted to see what had the causal power to take an unconscious brain receiving ongoing anesthesia and wake it up,” says Pal. To test this, they targeted two neurotransmitters that are associated with wakefulness: acetylcholine and norepinephrine.

The team exposed the anesthetized rats’ prefrontal and parietal cortex to drugs that ramped up the effect of the neurotransmitters and measured their brain activity and behavior. When exposed to an acetylcholine-receptor activator, their brain waves, normally slow during sleep and anesthesia, sped up. But rats were able to start behaving as though they were awake only with prefrontal cortex stimulation, all while continuing to receive the same level of anesthesia that is used clinically for surgery in humans. These findings were published in the journal Current Biology.

In a recent commentary in Science, Mashour discussed how the prefrontal cortex helps us access relevant information coming into the brain for consciousness and cognition. Importantly, this area of the brain seems to be functionally “offline” during a variety of anesthetic states. Mashour says their study in Current Biology “suggests that the prefrontal cortex also has the potential to play a role in coordinating the level of consciousness, possibly through the cholinergic system.”

Clinically, these results could be explored for applications in people with disorders of consciousness, such as coma or vegetative states.

“Let’s say you have a patient in a coma: Could the prefrontal cortex be a site that is modulated to help coordinate events to help improve level of consciousness?” Mashour asks. The implications of this possibility are significant because of the relative accessibility of the prefrontal cortex.

“It’s very difficult and dangerous to directly intervene at the level of arousal centers in the brain stem because of its location, small size and nearby vital functions. Maybe the prefrontal cortex is an accessible gateway to some of those other arousal systems that could be leveraged in a clinical setting outside of anesthesia,” he says.

A wolf goes for a walk in the woods and meets a dog for the first time

REMEMBER SKIP-IT FROM THE 90’S

my weapon of choice during school yard fights 

DnD campaign but the only weapons are 90′s toys @riskpig

Distance weapon: those sky dancer propeller toys.

I’ll allow it.

I have but two words:

Are those a weapon or piece of armor?

Party walks into the inn to rest and the pub looks like

Perfection.

@anotherspecter

I ride into battle on one of these

Animal Companions

Fresh combat

Monks have to use these

Wizard’s Spell book

Warlock Patrons

Archfey

Fiend

Celestial

Great Old One

The undying

THE B A R D

It got better since I last saw it

This is so weird bc being born in 1997 I saw all these toys… old, dirty, and faded by the sun

it’s so weird to think of them as new and current toys rather than the relics of a bygone age

Currency

I ALWAYS THOUGHT I DREAMT HITCLIPS UP

my best friend at 5 had one and as an adult i’ve always been like what the fuck were those turn of the millenium ipod things

Demon summoning

From the 1970s I give you clackers - sort to the childhood version of a mace or something.