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Stardust-traveller - Not All Who Wander Are Lost - Tumblr Blog
shoutout to slow growers, late bloomers, people whose plans got derailed by circumstances beyond their control or their own choices, people who never had a plan to begin with, people who have had to start over when theyre too old to feel like theyre supposed to be where they are, people who cant pretend theyre built for the environment theyre in, and everyone who's not living the life they thought they would. im proud of you for making it this far and i hope you keep going until youre happy ♡
girls be like “he’s my baby” and it’s literally a grown man who's commit several felonies
i should've known my love life was never gonna be normal considering my first crush ever was the phantom of the opera
So true bestie
what studying literature feels like
Paintings made by Georges Clairin (1843-1919)
Undine painted by John William Waterhouse (1849 - 1917)
History humor
Painted by Auguste Toulmouche (1829 - 1890)
A tweet from @WGAWest that says “Ahem.
"The WGA appears to have won more than analysts initially believed possible."
An 80-year-old Ukrainian woman bakes Paska for her grandchildren.
Paska is traditional Ukrainian sweet Easter bread.
The tradition exists in many parts of Central Eastern Europe, but each type of bread is slightly different.
Don't listen to them! They want you to believe it's fake.
What was the point in animal planet airing those incredibly convincing fake documentaries about dragons and mermaids
i love shakespeare academics. i fucking love them. there’s this one guy who wrote an essay about how claudius is actually possibly innocent, or at least didn’t kill the king by putting poison in his ear, and the ghost was in part a hallucination (it’s a really interesting essay with many good points and i’m using it in my final synthesis for this class) but. BUT. some guy read it on a train. and he lost it.
this guy literally said this essay drove him to “insanity”. he went off the fucking rails about it so much so that he wrote a book over the course of EIGHTEEN YEARS about what ACTUALLY happened in hamlet and dedicated it to the guy who wrote the essay as a big “fuck you”. and that exchange between them is literally inescapable when reading about the play today. here’s an excerpt from the beginning:
this is like. the equivalent of someone making a well-thought out discourse post and then out of nowehere someone reblogging it with thousands of words of pure furious rambling about why op is wrong YEARS LATER. this bullshit started a hundred years ago, literally in the middle of the first world fucking war, and i STILL cannot escape it while reading a book on hamlet published in fucking 2000 because it’s so iconic. and i love it.
Mariupol
After the words about Azovstal, russian occupants write on their rockets this 👇
So cruel and clinical.Pure evil that's who russians are.
Earlier,Mariupol was really beautiful place.
Now this is a City of massgraves.
This is a marvelous document! Especially for writers. Thank you from the bottom of my heart ❤️
VICTORIAN SLANG MASTERLIST
I've compiled a list of all the Victorian Slang I could find to help have stored neatly for writing use. The more I learn about the more I will find and add into the doc, so if you know any, do let me know!
Organised to the best of my ability to find the kind of slang you may need easier, with hopefully clear enough definitions! (Descriptors, verbs, etc.)
I love history.
This is the Great Pyramid of King Khufu. Everybody knows the Great Pyramid of King Khufu, but you probably don’t know about the Shit Pyramids of his father, King Sneferu. This is a shame, because they are amazing.
When King Sneferu came to the throne of Egypt, the cool thing that all the pharaohs had was a Step Pyramid, like the original one built by King Djoser and designed by Imhotep (not the mummy). King Sneferu could easily have had one one because his predecessor King Huni had died before his could be finished. All Sneferu had to do was step in and put the last few blocks on.
But King Sneferu had a vision. He didn’t want any old Step Pyramid. He was going to build Egypt’s first smooth-sided pyramid, and make King Huni’s pyramid way taller in the bargain. It didn’t work. The core of Huni’s pyramid couldn’t handle the modifications and nowadays the Step Pyramid at Meidum looks like this:
It’s not on a hill - that’s the outer layers of the pyramid that have fallen down all around it. The name of the structure in Arabic is Heram el-Kaddaab, which means something like The Sort-Of Pyramid.
Anyway, King Sneferu was understandably disappointed and made his pyramid-builders start over from scratch at a different site. Apparently having learned nothing about the Big Fat Nowhere that hubristic pyramid ambition was going to get him, this pyramid was designed to be even taller and pointier than the last effort! Too tall and pointy, in fact - the bedrock proved to be less stable than he might have hoped, and by the time the pyramid was half-finished stuff was already moving and cracking inside of it. There are ceilings in this pyramid that are to this day partially held up by wooden beams.
The builders seem to have panicked and decided that the only way to finish the pyramid without another disaster was to make the top half lighter than the bottom half. They did this by changing the angle of the slope, ending up with a pyramid that looks like this:
Egyptologists call this one the Bent Pyramid for fairly obvious reasons. Uniquely among Egyptian Pyramids, it has most of its smooth outer blocks intact, rather than having them all stolen to build other stuff (most of medieval Cairo is built from the skin of the Giza pyramids). I’m guessing this is because nobody dared touch the thing for fear the whole structure would come down like a giant limestone game of Jenga.
I’m sure the pyramid-builders were very proud of this solution. Sneferu appears to have been less so. He had them move over about half a mile and start over. Again. Why only half a mile when he had them move 34 miles between the Sort-of Pyramid and the Bent Pyramid is a mystery. I think he wanted to keep them in sight of the Bent Pyramid so they could look at it and feel ashamed every once in a while.
And there they built Sneferu’s third pyramid, which is called the Red Pyramid. As pyramids go, it’s a very cautious one - it’s got the shallowest slope rise of any Egyptian pyramid, and while it’s the same height as the Bent Pyramid it spreads its weight over a much greater base area, making it far more stable. Sneferu seems to have been happy with this one, because he was buried in it. Either that, or after a forty-eight-year reign he just finally died and that was the pyramid they used because it was the nicest of the three.
These three pyramids together actually contain substantially more stone than the Great Pyramid of Sneferu’s son Khufu. By the time Sneferu died, his workforce had honed themselves into a lean, mean pyramid-building machine. They had already made every possible pyramid mistake. So when Khufu announced that he didn’t just want a great pyramid, but The Great Pyramid, these guys built him a pyramid so fucking great that we now think aliens must have done it.
It was as true in Ancient Egypt as it is now.
When life gives you angry elephants be smarter and create dinosaurs!
jurassic park but it's tiny elephants and nothing goes wrong 🥺
Person A: Yeah, so ever since I moved to this old house many strange things happened. Sounds at night, weird fluids on the walls. But I'm no idiot to believe in ghosts. Maybe there are some mushrooms in there or wild animals live in the foundation. Anyway, are you enjoying your tea?
Person B watching as dishes float around the room: I don't think it's mushrooms.....
I mean they've done a successful heist on my heart so.....
why are vampires so common in romance genres when they
don't show up on camera
are immune to bullets
my point being vampires are the ideal heist protagonists. give us VAMPIRE BANK ROBBERS