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damiandominodavis: Biologists would have you call this thing an...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:26:44 -0400

Biologists would have you call this thing an Armadillo-Girdled Lizard, Cordylus cataphractus, but I won’t be fooled. This is clearly a baby dragon. They also have this adorable habit of biting their own tails for no discernible reason. Which is adorable until you remember what the ouroboros is, and inevitably conclude that these things are also dark magic.

Magical dragons. It all makes sense.

"A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be..."

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 19:55:00 -0400

“A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.”

- Albert Camus, The Invisible Summer (1958)

thefemaletyrant: Tiébélé in Burkina Faso, near the border with...

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 16:19:45 -0400

thefemaletyrant:

Tiébélé in Burkina Faso, near the border with Ghana is home to the Kassena people. The diversity and uniqueness of Africa is amplified by the fact that through millenia its ethnic groups have created their own ways of doing things that can vary widely from neighboring ethnic groups.

Source

proverbsforparanoids: pogonabarbata: foxglovetea: enchanted...

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 11:30:18 -0500

proverbsforparanoids:

pogonabarbata:

foxglovetea:

enchanted doll

it reminds of of a rhino beetle.

Give it to me.

nevver: Milky Way, We are here

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 02:08:43 -0500

nevver:

Milky Way, We are here

What You Can: Happy New Year to you. I’m glad you made it.

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 15:09:35 -0500

What You Can: Happy New Year to you. I’m glad you made it.:

goodstuffhappenedtoday:

by Hanne Blank Posted on December 31, 2012

Happy New Year to you. I’m glad you made it.

I’m glad, because I know what that means.

It means that every time you thought “I can’t,” you figured out some way that you could. Oh, not a way that you could always do the exact thing that made you stop in your tracks and go “I can’t.”

Though sometimes you did exactly that, ’cause you’re that kind of rockstar badass.

No, you figured out some way you could get close enough for jazz. Or some way you could change the conversation, or finagle things so that something to which you could say “I can” could fit where the thing that made you say “I can’t” had been.

Some days that means that you just find somewhere to sit still and keep breathing while your world falls to ashes and the minutes pass.

Some days you do that with your eyes closed. Sometimes that’s what you can.

But you do it. You did it. Every time, all year, you did it, whatever it was.

You found “I can.”

You did it while you found out that the Beatles lied to you and love isn’t all you need. You did it while you bled and while you cried.

You did it while you wondered where the money was going to come from. You did it while you learned the hard way that a loss you choose is still a loss, not just the losses you didn’t choose.

You did it in line in bureaucratic offices and medical clinics and at the post office. You did it while you made an impossible decision. You did it when you were beyond caring. You did it when you cared so much that doing anything at all was terrifying.

You did it while you did things you knew were going to hurt. You did it while you hurt yourself, on purpose.

You did it while you were exhausted, while you absorbed that news, while you listened to that diagnosis, while you waited to hear something that would change things you weren’t going to be able to ever change back. You did it while you rode the train. You did it while you drove home. You did it while you dialed that phone number that time, and waited for “hello?”

You did it in the dark and you did it by your wits and you did it alone, because all of us ultimately do. You also did it in broad daylight and with the help and love and strong backs of others helping to make it possible, because all of us ultimately do that, too.

You did it the way only you know how. You did it. You found “I can.”

You did it as many times as necessary.

We both did.

Well played, my friend.

Thank you.

Happy New Year. May the worst day of the upcoming year be only as bad as the best day of the one just past, and may you always find the way to “I can.”

sosuperawesome: Frozen Bubbles Suspended Below Abraham...

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 15:09:10 -0500

sosuperawesome:

Frozen Bubbles Suspended Below Abraham Lake

Abraham Lake has become world famous, especially amongst photographers. The artificial lake, which lies in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies, is home to a rare phenomenon where bubbles get frozen right underneath its surface. They’re often referred to as ice bubbles or frozen bubbles.

What causes this to happen? As photographer Fikret Onal explains, “The plants on the lake bed release methane gas and methane gets frozen once coming close enough to much colder lake surface and they keep stacking up below once the weather gets colder and colder during [the] winter season.”

Though a gorgeous sight, this incredible destination isn’t for the weak or the weary. “Even though I’ve walked on a frozen lake before, Abraham Lake made me feel completely uneasy since the lake was not covered with snow,” says Onal. “Even though the icy surface was around 8-9 inches thick, it still scared the hell out of me, not only because of the fact that I could see all the cracks…and the darkness of the lake bottom through the glassy surface, but also [because of] the deep boomy, cracking sounds coming from underneath the lake’s surface.”

Click through for image sources.

tatt00edpe0ple: by Lippo Tattoo …oh my god, that’s...

Sun, 30 Dec 2012 16:13:25 -0500

tatt00edpe0ple:

by Lippo Tattoo

…oh my god, that’s beautiful.

imthejesusofsuburbia: shiningchan: imthejesusofsuburbia: why is it that girl pockets are so tiny...

Sat, 29 Dec 2012 21:50:02 -0500

imthejesusofsuburbia:

shiningchan:

imthejesusofsuburbia:

why is it that girl pockets are so tiny you can’t even fit money in there and guy pockets are so big they can fit 5 calculators in there

why are you measuring in calculators

DONT TELL ME HOW TO LIVE MY LIFE

mydarkenedeyes: Spencer Finch - 366, Emily Dickinson’s...

Sat, 29 Dec 2012 21:21:43 -0500

mydarkenedeyes:

Spencer Finch - 366, Emily Dickinson’s Miraculous Year (2009)

This work is based on Emily Dickinson in 1862, when she wrote 366 poems in 365 days. It is a real-time memorial to that year, which burns for exactly one year. The sculpture is comprised of 366 individual candles arranged in a linear sequence, each of which burns for 24 hours. The colour of each candle matches a colour mentioned in the corresponding poem. For the poems in which no colour is mentioned, the candles are made out of natural paraffin.

Photo

Sat, 22 Dec 2012 21:56:47 -0500

Photo

Sat, 22 Dec 2012 21:44:29 -0500

catfoxwolf: Security comics. Chance encounter with a...

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 21:49:17 -0500

catfoxwolf:

Security comics.

Chance encounter with a stranger.

catfoxwolf: I’ve been meaning to tell you this.

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 21:42:13 -0500

catfoxwolf:

I’ve been meaning to tell you this.

inbarati: I’m such a dork. I laughed so hard at this.

Sun, 16 Dec 2012 23:20:17 -0500

inbarati:

I’m such a dork. I laughed so hard at this.

"Anything on earth that a woman is capable of doing is womanly. It is impossible for a woman to be..."

Sun, 16 Dec 2012 23:16:31 -0500

““Anything on earth that a woman is capable of doing is womanly. It is impossible for a woman to be unwomanly because a woman is a woman. Therefore, anything a woman does is womanly by default. Fighting is womanly. Winning fights is womanly. Bruises are womanly. Savagery is womanly. Unwholesomeness is womanly. Athleticism is womanly. And not giving a shit what some poor delicate flower of a newspaper columnist thinks about your womanliness is super fucking womanly.””

- Fierce Women’s Judo Competitors Offend One Man’s Delicate Sensibilities (via fuckyeahhardfemme)

women-of-stripes-and-badges: Algeria

Sun, 09 Dec 2012 22:56:30 -0500

women-of-stripes-and-badges:

Algeria

postapocalypticfashion: steampunkd: Nivi Pix Steampunk...

Sun, 09 Dec 2012 22:43:12 -0500

postapocalypticfashion:

steampunkd:

Nivi Pix Steampunk Photoshoot by houstonryan on Flickr.

she’s a bit too clean for the apocalypse, but, well, goggles. We do love goggles…

the-starlight-hotel: A man who lost an arm in a freak accident...

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 01:39:10 -0500

the-starlight-hotel:

A man who lost an arm in a freak accident has had his stump transformed by a tattoo artist into the head of a dolphin.

Heine Braeck, 33, hated his stump, caused by a childhood accident on a train track. The Norwegian realised the shape of his stump was identical to a dolphin’s head. So he asked Bulgarian artist Valio Ska to turn the stump into a 3D tattoo, with amazing results. Valio spent over three hours on the meticulous ink job.

Heine said: “When I was 13 I tried to take a shortcut across the top of a stationary train which started moving. “I lost my balance and grabbed hold of the wire that powers the train and got fried. “The first thing I saw after surgery was how much my arm was shaped like a dolphin’s head. “I finally decided to do something about it and got in touch with Valio and arranged to have the tattoo done. “My friends think it is awesome and I love it because I don’t have to look at a tired old stump anymore.”

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I’d seen the second photo around but hadn’t read the story.

genderfight: leupagus: waxjism: blurintofocus: ourlivesarewei...

Sat, 24 Nov 2012 14:31:07 -0500

genderfight:

leupagus:

waxjism:

blurintofocus:

ourlivesareweird:

A 72-year-old grandfather, Liu Xianping, has become something of an internet sensation after he began modelling for his granddaughter’s online clothing store.

Liu’s granddaughter runs Yuekou, a partnership between herself and four other recent college graduates. While Liu was helping the girls unpack, “he picked up one piece and tried to give some advice on how to mix and match. We thought it was fun so we started shooting.”

“Why unacceptable (for someone like me) to wear women’s clothes? Modelling for the store is helping my granddaughter and I have nothing to lose. We were very happy on the day of the shooting. I’m very old and all that I care about is to be happy.” — Liu Xianping

Source: Quoted directly from this article at Shanghaiist.

This is so fab.

grampa gives good face, yo. like, the pics aren’t even funny, they look so goddamn fly.

This right here is why men should never wear women’s clothes.

Because oftentimes they look radder than we ever could.

Raddest Grandpa Award Winner found.