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scurvy has got to have one of the biggest disease/treatment coolness gaps of all time. like yeah too much time at sea will afflict you with a curse where your body starts unraveling and old wounds come back to haunt you like vengeful ghosts. unless☝️you eat a lemon

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One of my favorite things is modern adaptations that leave people with the same careers they had in the original material, because unless you’re a cop or a doctor that practically never happens.

Irene Adler’s an opera singer. We still have those! They don’t have the same subtext exactly, but nothing is going to because we aren’t the Victorians. She could continue to be an opera singer. I have never seen this happen.

Jonathan Harker can still be in real estate. That’s a job people have. A modern story that still involves Dracula contacting his firm to help him purchase property sounds amazing actually.

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I tend to think of Lacrimosa as goth/goth metal but know they also crossover to symphonic. Also Saltatio Mortis are Folk Metal/Medieval style metal.

#edited to add better sound quality version of the Lacrimosa song.

Trying to start a new chain/game kinda thing because I'm looking for some new music.

If you see this and you like power metal, folk metal and/or symphonic metal, please reblog this with a song you want me to listen to

(other (sub)genres are okay too, but I'm mostly into power, folk and symphonic metal these days)

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My dad has bees. Today, I went to his house and he showed me all the honey he had gotten from the hives. He took the lid off a 5-gallon bucket full of honey and on top of the honey there were 3 little bees, struggling. They were covered in sticky honey and drowning. I asked him if we could help them and he said he was sure they wouldn't survive. Casualties of honey collection I suppose.

I asked him again if we could at least get them out and kill them quickly, after all he was the one who taught me to put a suffering animal (or bug) out of its misery. He finally conceded and scooped the bees out of the bucket. He put them in an empty Chobani yogurt container and put the plastic container outside.

Because he had disrupted the hive with the earlier honey collection, there were bees flying all over outside.

We put the 3 little bees in the container on a bench and left them to their fate. My dad called me out a little while later to show me what was happening. These three little bees were surrounded by all their sisters (all of the bees are females) and they were cleaning the sticky nearly dead bees, helping them to get all of the honey off of their bodies. We came back a short time later and there was only one little bee left in the container. She was still being tended to by her sisters.

When it was time for me to leave, we checked one last time and all three of the bees had been cleaned off enough to fly away and the container was empty.

Those three little bees lived because they were surrounded by family and friends who would not give up on them, family and friends who refused to let them drown in their own stickiness and resolved to help until the last little bee could be set free.

Bee Sisters. Bee Peers. Bee Teammates.

We could all learn a thing or two from these bees.

Bee kind always.

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I am heartbroken to learn that Atsushi Sakurai, vocalist of BUCK-TICK, has passed away. Thank you for using the time you had on this earth to share your wonderful music with us. May you live on through your songs. You'll be missed terribly. Rest in peace🕊️

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Public indecency

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people make fun of people with ADHD for saying that everything is a symptom of ADHD. and that's fair. it's annoying. but please understand. having ADHD is an endless conga line of realizations that some shit you thought had nothing to do with your ADHD is actually a symptom of ADHD. so eventually you're just like "probably that too, yeah, fuck it" whenever basically anything happens

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I have released three new prints. This is one of them.

They are all available now: tomgauld.com/shop

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My latest cartoon for Guardian Books.

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Actually cannot stop watching this

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They treat each other right

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An early Halloween cartoon for New Scientist

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Was gonna have a sad time of it this evening, but then this got thrown at me by yt and now I can't 😂

I love that the guys are just like "....k." and Imai is trying SO HARD to hold a straight face because it wouldn't be cool to laugh or something because this fuckin weirdo is going on about cats again 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

i can't breathe 😂😂😂

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just sittin' and thinkin'