His yucky face is my favourite thing ever

this was the best week in C&H history

You guys just have to trust me on this one and click here okay?

OH MY GOD I NEEDED THIS

For the chronically anxious and/or otherwise mentally ill:

This is not a screamer, jumpscare, or any other kind of horror link I don’t know the name of. It will not cause you to question reality and as far as I’m aware, there is no reason it should cause any kind of hallucinations or psychosis. I don’t want to spoil the surprise because it’s DELIGHTFUL but I am happy to tell you it’s very sweet and gentle and also great lowkey stress relief. This is a cinnamon roll link appropriate for all ages (yes, all the way down to babies) and you will enjoy it if you click it. ❤️

This makes me so happy

St. Hildegardis Chapel, Düsseldorf, Germany, designed by Gottfried Böhm, photo by Stefano Perego.

Pangur fanart is always so fun to receive, but I do giggle sometimes at the yassification

her stink is also important! I should have added little wiggly lines to indicate that.

Pangur's favourite place to lie is on a sheepskin rug in front a heating vent, and she is nearly always damp with her own saliva, so her wet fur soaks in the lanolin from the rug, and the vent bakes it in, resulting in the overpowering stench of sheep. like I can smell her coming in the dark

reblog if you hate the current interior design trend of painting everything white with hints of grey or black. ignore if you have no taste

at the funeral my 85 year old great-aunt asked to see a photo of my cat, and so I said “sure” and showed her this, and she just said “oh”, visibly struggled to follow that up with anything, and then walked away.

this is legitimately my favorite photo of Pangur I've ever seen. she is by far the most beautiful cat thing in the entire world.

so what you're gonna do is you're gonna trim the top off a bulb of garlic, using the knife's edge to take off the tip of every individual clove, that's important. you're gonna place the garlic face-up in a square of tinfoil, drizzle with olive oil, wrap completely in foil, place in baking tray, repeat with a copious amount of garlic bulbs. you're gonna put that baking tray in an oven set to 375-400°F, for 30-50 minutes, until soft and browned. you're gonna toast some good bread, slather generously with butter and honey, maybe a tiny lil bit o' salt. and then. you're gonna SQUEEZE. OUT. THAT. ROASTED GARLIC. onto the butter honey toast. and you're gonna eat it. food stolen directly from the plate of the gods. that's what you're gonna do.

this post was a hit w/ the garlic fandom

Fuck YEAH, I can’t wait to try this!!

This is so important. I cannot reblog this enough. Not every year has to be "Give it 110%!" Some years are meant to just get through.

I salute your courage and your resilience if you're in the second camp.

scientist voice: today i will be a dick to this cricket 

The phrase “exposed to this spider torment” will haunt me

People in the notes have entirely misunderstood the point of this experiment and what it entails.

It’s not “proving that crickets can be traumatized”. It’s proving that *animals can genetically pass on the stress that a dangerous situation causes, and the offspring will instinctually respond to the same situation without ever having personally experienced it.*

And that’s a big deal for many things, including human psychology.

When Nazis invaded The Netherlands, local Dutch peoples were under extreme emotional and physical duress. The Nazi army took their food for the soldiers, starving the population. They patrolled the streets and harshly reinforced their new laws. Existence was horrible and some parents had to give their children away to wealthier families because they couldn’t feed them anymore. This event is known as the Hongerwinter, or Dutch Famine.

One generation later, the children of mothers who were pregnant at the time of the famine have been proven to exhibit intense reactions to stress, and heightened fight or flight responses. They also experience more obesity because their bodies are prepared for starvation.

Some of these children were never personally exposed to the famine. Their mothers gave birth after conditions had improved, or even after moving to another country. But the effects are there, and those people are now adults who can recognize this and attest that they didn’t experience something else traumatic during childhood. It was passed on in the womb.

You can read about it here: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2018/01/31/science/dutch-famine-genes.amp.html

This is called epigenetics. It’s essential to understanding how the human brain and body works. That our responses to stress can be passed on genetically. That it can show up in how we look physically, our physical health, our mental responses, our instinctual reactions. It’s especially important for people who are in therapy and need to understand *why* they act a certain way before they can actually work on it.

So no, this experiment wasn’t “haha let’s torment a cricket”. I’m not going to argue the potential cruelty of the experiment with people. I just want you to understand what it actually all MEANS.

Reblogging for that last comment!

🤣🤣🤣🤣 I just snort-laughed so loud, oh man!

I've Always Dreamt of You (Unknown Soulmate AU) 

Part One: Blue

Pairing: Bucky Barnes x Fem!Reader 

Word Count: 3365

Rating: T

Warnings: Drinking, Swearing, mention of Blood, mention of Vomit, Mention of Character Death.

-- To be continued. I hope you enjoy! Let me know if you want to be added to the tag list :) --

Disclaimer: I do not own Bucky Barnes, or anything related to Marvel within this piece. Not Proof Read or BETA'd. All mistakes are my own.

I do not consent for my work to be edited, reposted, or translated.

You are responsible for your own media consumption. This is a work of fiction that may contain mature themes. If you are sensitive to those subjects, please do not read.

Ahhhhhh, I love this so much!! The writing is phenomenal, the descriptions are top-notch, and I can’t wait for the next part! 😍😍

Late medieval magic was largely characterized by two things: renewed interest in neoplatonism, and fringe theologians getting their hands on second or even third-hand kabbalistic ideas, specifically the ones that were useful to Catholic theologians.

These (largely catholic) occultists were trying to find the bridge between ontology and semiotics. Meaning; they were trying to figure out what the exact metaphysical relationship was between a dog, a picture of a dog, and the concept of a dog in the mind of God.

To vastly over-summarize; Jewish philosophers of the era basically said "language, specifically Hebrew, is what unites semiotics and ontology" and the neoplatonists said "they're already unified, we just don't know how, it's probably geometry."

What Agrippa is trying to do here is make the argument that all languages must descend from the original language of divinity -the one spoken by Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden- and that therefore all language shares some fragment of the divine will. So what we have to do is look for linguistic similarities between the oldest languages we know, and try to figure out how they might fit together. Then we might uncover that hidden magical unity between Hebrew/Latin/Greek/etc.

For his historical context, this was pretty damn groundbreaking. Which is only made funnier by the fact that his Hebrew, and to a lesser extent his classical Greek, are just complete garbage, can't speak em to save his life. It's why this is one of my favorite images in all of occult history.

This could save your life.

BOOST.

Absolutely vital information to have if you live where the waters freeze over.

I especially appreciate this guy's commitment to actually showing the steps himself. That cold-shock response is a bitch and willingly subjecting himself to it couldn't have been fun.

Tiny unit

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Sound on. 😭