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Mon, 25 Jun 2018 20:11:03 +0200

useless ancient roman law facts

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 15:50:17 +0200

if you call someone to witness and they refused to show up, you are legally entitled to stand outside their house and scream, but only every third day

you can sell your son into slavery once or twice, but after the third time he doesn’t have to put up with that shit anymore

no wailing allowed at funerals

also you can only have ONE funeral per person, don’t get greedy

if your neighbor’s tree has a branch hanging into your yard, you can legally cut down the entire fucking tree

however, if some of your neighbor’s fruit from his dumb tree falls into your yard, he can legally come into your yard to ~~snoop around~~ get it

if you call someone to witness and they’re too sick or old to get to court themselves, you have to provide a cart for them to come in, but it doesn’t have to be, like, a nice cart if you don’t want it to

If your SO can't make a decision about where to eat, play the 5-2-1 game. You give them 5 restaurants, they pick two, and you pick from those.

Sat, 23 Jun 2018 21:32:41 +0200

periegesisvoid:

lifepro-tips:

My gf of 3 years is the queen of “wherever” and “I don’t care” when it comes to this. This little game fixed our problem immediately. It takes the pressure off of her, but still gives her a choice about where to eat.

(this can also work with kids and indecisive friends)

How to hack executive dysfunction

thishereanakinguy: itsybitsyhobbit: Antman: Do you, like, control spiders? Peter Parker chuckles...

Fri, 22 Jun 2018 17:36:58 +0200

thishereanakinguy:

itsybitsyhobbit:

Antman: Do you, like, control spiders?

Peter Parker chuckles and decides to reply with a snarky comeback: Do you, like, control Ants?

Antman: Yes

Peter Parker is now caught off guard.

Ant-Man has now thrown him off his rhythm.

STREET SMARTS!

buy-gold-bye: miss-azura: meet-the-mod: miss-azura: buy-gold-b...

Fri, 22 Jun 2018 17:34:20 +0200

buy-gold-bye:

miss-azura:

meet-the-mod:

miss-azura:

buy-gold-bye:

what if bills legs actually were proportional to his body but he just wore some very ill fitting jeans

i’m sorry but are you implying that without the jeans he’d have

what about his arms??

maybe he wear bad gloves too

now you’re asking the right questions

theres a reason he doesnt look like that

johnfreakinpage: geekandmisandry: londoncallingsigh: “Why did I...

Fri, 22 Jun 2018 17:33:15 +0200

johnfreakinpage:

geekandmisandry:

londoncallingsigh:

“Why did I make this film? For kudos and followers on Twitter.” - Taika Waititi (x)

My prince.

He is a fucking gift

shakespork: regretrograde: hate2breakittoya: girls dont mature faster than boys, girls are punished...

Wed, 20 Jun 2018 01:26:46 +0200

shakespork:

regretrograde:

hate2breakittoya:

girls dont mature faster than boys, girls are punished from an early age for the same behaviour that boys are allowed to indulge in well into adulthood

i actually talked about this with a psych professor and she believes that women/young girls have been pushed into responsibility from young ages for so long that its actually triggered an evolutionary effect where young girls are literally developing mentally early in order to cope with the stress.

Local Girls Literally Evolve To Deal With Patriarchal Bullshit

germanshitposting: meme overload (credit to @moami)

Tue, 19 Jun 2018 12:21:30 +0200

germanshitposting:

meme overload
(credit to @moami)

call-me-ish: ASOUE + cards against humanity

Tue, 19 Jun 2018 09:52:40 +0200

call-me-ish:

ASOUE + cards against humanity

mushi-and-junior: hogwarts mystery characters: Penny...

Mon, 18 Jun 2018 21:42:28 +0200

mushi-and-junior:

hogwarts mystery characters: Penny Haywood
Everyone invites me to parties, but no one ever asks me to join them on death-defying adventures!

darkpineappleaesthetic:mood

Mon, 18 Jun 2018 08:07:16 +0200

darkpineappleaesthetic:

mood

lachantefleurie: “Your voice sounds completely different in different languages. It alters your...

Wed, 13 Jun 2018 09:46:12 +0200

lachantefleurie:

“Your voice sounds completely different in different languages. It alters your personality somehow. I don’t think people get the same feeling from you. The rhythm changes. Because the rhythm of the language is different, it changes your inner rhythm and that changes how you process everything.When I hear myself speak French, I look at myself differently. Certain aspects will feel closer to the way I feel or the way I am and others won’t. I like that—to tour different sides of yourself. I often find when looking at people who are comfortable in many languages, they’re more comfortable talking about emotional stuff in a certain language or political stuff in another and that’s really interesting, how people relate to those languages.”

– François Arnaud, for Interview Magazine

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Tue, 12 Jun 2018 23:42:57 +0200

bisexual-magician: Die Wilden Hühner: Wilma Ich krieg nunmal...

Tue, 12 Jun 2018 11:36:04 +0200

bisexual-magician:

Die Wilden Hühner: Wilma
Ich krieg nunmal kein Herzklopfen bei Leonardo DiCaprio.

veryfalsedocuments:“Fate is like a strange, unpopular...

Thu, 07 Jun 2018 09:55:01 +0200

veryfalsedocuments:

“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant, filled with odd waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don’t always like.”

My A Series of Unfortunate Events card assignment was Lemony Snicket as the Wheel of Fortune! As a traditional artist I tried to emulate one of my favorite styles: the cross-hatching/etching work seen in Punch magazines, a satirical publication established in the 1840s. I painted in color with coffee and…man…I need y’all to understand how small all those news clippings are.

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Wed, 06 Jun 2018 19:06:45 +0200

Freya Was Jacked

Wed, 06 Jun 2018 18:54:00 +0200

jumpingjacktrash:

crazy-pages:

So there’s this story in Norse mythology, Þrymskviða. Compressed down, it goes like this: A Jotun steal Thor’s hammer Mjolnir and says he’ll only give it back if he’s given Freyja to marry, as she is the most beautiful goddess in all of existence. The gods argue over what to do for a while before Heimdall suggests they stick a bridal veil on Thor, says he’s Freyja, and pretend they’re giving Freyja (Thor) to the Jotun to marry so Thor can get close enough to the Jotun to steal Mjolnir back.

Now typically when people talk about this story, it’s with an element of disbelieving comedy. “Oh my god, who would believe Thor was a woman, let alone Freyja, the most beautiful goddess in the world?”

But I propose a different way to look at the story.

See, different cultures have different beauty standards. Modern western beauty standards may be a delicate hourglass supermodel, but that’s not always been the case. Greece, for instance, depicted Aphrodite like this:

Yeah. A Greek sculptor was told “sculpt the goddess of beauty” and they thought “alright, fat rolls, that’s where beauty is at, let’s do this”. And everybody else apparently agreed with them, because up went the statue. Beauty is a malleable concept is what I’m getting at.

Now this is where it becomes relevant that Freyja is not just the goddess of love, sex, and beauty. She’s also the goddess of war. And the righteous dead. Goddess of war in the same Viking warrior culture that gave us shield maidens, women who wielded seven fucking kilogram (15 lbs) shields in combat.

Sooooo … when the Norse storytellers said, “This is Freyja, goddess of war and the righteous dead, who rode giant murder cats into battle, she is the most beautiful goddess in the world”, I’m guessing they weren’t thinking of her as some willowy waif. No, I’m guessing they probably thought more along the lines of:

190 cm (6′3″), broad shoulders, built like a brick shithouse, with a jawline like whoa, and fully capable of murdering everything in her path.

Put in that context, the story of Thor dressing up as Freyja sounds less like a punchline about “how could anyone ever mistake Thor in a veil for Freyja?” and becomes more a case of “ohhhhhhhhhhh, no wonder all the gods thought this plan would work”.

It did, by the way. The plan totally worked.

it wasn’t thor’s figure that almost gave him away, it was his bad manners. he was snarfing down all the food and drink, and the jotun was like “hey i thought freyja was a LADY” and they had to explain it like well she was so psyched about the wedding that she hasn’t eaten for days.

at no point did the jotun add “also she’s fucking ripped wtf?” because yeah. of course she was. she was a war goddess.

demonicae: bilesandthesourwolf: missredherring: agent-absinthe...

Wed, 06 Jun 2018 18:39:40 +0200

demonicae:

bilesandthesourwolf:

missredherring:

agent-absinthe:

polyhorde:

brucioboy:

it’s been 3 days and i can’t stop thinking abt these

You missed the best part, my friend. These are just two photos from a whole book.

Please, enjoy this smattering of beauty and wonder.

These make me so happy

I love all of these, but I am SCREAMING over the last one.

Those boys are perfect.

if i might add:

This entire book looks like someone’s fever dream brought to life through some dark pact with an eldritch being… and I love it.

philliplight: 2nd batch of my Season 8 of Rupaul’s Drag Race...

Wed, 06 Jun 2018 18:34:15 +0200

philliplight:

2nd batch of my Season 8 of Rupaul’s Drag Race sketches that I’ve been doing for each episode of the show so far! Can’t wait for the finale!

If you want to see the first batch of sketches you can go here

Follow me over on instagram for more sketches and everyday life posts if you’re into that: @PhillipLight

Wait, why did my school teach me that Poe was like a creepy pedophile who was obsessed with his cousin if they were actually just friends and he married her to provide for her family?

Tue, 05 Jun 2018 23:01:27 +0200

For the same reason the safe money says your school, like mine, taught you he was probably a drug addict who hated everybody and had no friends and drank himself to death.

Because by some wacky mix-up, somehow the right to legally execute Poe’s literary estate and therefore the public image he carried following his death was transferred to a dude who openly and without shame hated Edgar Allan Poe.

Due to some legal mumbo-jumbo and trickery, this dude Rufus Wilmot Griswold somehow managed to get the rights of literary executor to Poe’s estate from his aunt (which she didn’t technically have the power to give, that power remained with Poe’s sister), and he and Edgar Allan Poe hated each other SO MUCH in life, that after he died, this asshole published a memoir of Poe’s life in which he was totally demonized.

Rufus Wilmot Griswold is one of the most successful character assassins of all time. Because of him, schoolchildren are taught that Poe was a depraved misanthropic lecher who lusted after his underage cousin, was never sober, and died of drinking too much even though all of those “facts” have been discredited. Poe was a shy and reserved, though generally personable, man who married his cousin so to establish legal guardianship and provide for her financially.

He was also apparently a total lightweight who got tipsy after a few sips of wine, but occasionally drank socially or when feeling particularly down. His doctor insisted there were never traces of opium in his system. Poe’s friends insisted that he was not an alcoholic. At the time of his death, he had quit drinking, and the idea that he was one was heavily promoted by other members of the Temperance movement who claimed his death was a relapse as a cautionary tale. The most commonly accepted theory as to Poe’s death is that he was abducted, drugged, and beaten by political agents who forced him to vote for their candidate, changed his clothes, and then forced him to vote again and again to stuff the ballots.

Anyhow. This is why you should evaluate the validity and agendas of your sources.