#*unusually* bizarre

[natureisthegreatestartist]

What's this? A white humpback whale, photographed off the coast of Australia.

[asyayordanova]

I am my prison, I am my hell

[wonder-worker]

"[Elizabeth Woodville] was the only member of [Crown Prince Edward of Westminster's] original 1471 council not already on the king’s council and her name headed the list of those appointed as administrators in Wales during Edward’s minority. [She remained on the council after it was expanded in 1473 and granted significant new governing and judicial powers]."

"In 1478 Prince Richard [of Shrewsbury] married the Mowbray heiress. Like his elder brother he had a chancellor, seal, household and council to manage his estates. His council, like that of Prince Edward, comprised the queen [Elizabeth Woodville] and a group of magnates and bishops, few of whom were Woodville supporters [...] It was Elizabeth who mattered, for Richard resided with her and Rivers treated his affairs as their own."

-J.L. Laynesmith, The Last Medieval Queens: English Queenship 1445-1503 / Michael Hicks, Richard III and his Rivals: Magnates and their Motives in the Wars of the Roses

[in-tenebris-et-in-solitudine]

[robbiefishing]

I've caught some strange things in my time, but never a massive goldfish.

[jeweledviolets]

and a few beetlejuice versions for @loverboybreakdowns

please interact or credit if using!

[voca-song-a-day]

Today's featured song is: "Kikkai Kettai" by Meddmia feat. Hatsune Miku & KAFU! (cw: death, and video contains flashing imagery)

[liesonthefloordramatically]

resurrecting my darling eldritch child (Hierophant Yeast, my sourdough starter)--let's see what horrors it provides this time

[nebulaad]

sometimes it's fair that someone doesn't notice that their favourite anti capitalist farming sim is actually explicitly capitalist if only because there's a lack of suffering in town as you slowly accumulate all the money in the world and by and large nothing for you to do with that money besides enrich your own experience. but sometimes it's like. coral island is explicitly about environmentalism and culture. it actually has nothing to say about capitalism except that you get rewarded at huge money milestones and silly, ostentatious things to buy to indicate that you hit said milestone. it's not anti capitalist just because you don't like the woman in a business suit who's creatively named Karen. that actually has literally no bearing on how much money you accumulate or what you spend it on, and in a fifty person town where everyone knows each other (except Mark and Wakuu apparently) they still charge each other rent. multiple LIs own and operate small businesses with nameless, faceless employees. if the general store only accepts currency then it implies...the existence of currency, unfortunately.

[artdepo]

Markus Åkesson

[jitteryjive]

also because i finished schmigadoon! the other day. it left me thinking like… now that josh and melissa know schmigadoon stops existing and changes and basically erases the previous schmigadoon to be a different musical with different people. do you think they just left without thinking about the mortality of that. they showed no delay in schmicago being there and completely replacing the previous characters. i didn’t think a dumbass musical show would wrack me

[natureisthegreatestartist]

What's this? A male Cabot's tragopan, a type of pheasant from China. Bizarre and beautiful, right?

[wishesofeternity]

"Stratonike evidently retained the Akkadian royal title used for her even after [her husband] Antiochos’ death, since the astronomical diary entry identifies her as šarratu, in logograms GAŠAN, which means “queen.” In earlier centuries under previous regimes this title could not be used of a royal woman unless she also ruled. As suggestive as this is, there is no direct corroborating evidence for Stratonike exercising rulership, unless we credit her influence with her children as a form of political dominance. The trope of the domineering dowager queen mother should be familiar enough from interpretations of other royal families throughout history. But the diary, normally fairly precise in noting royal family connections, does not call her “mother [or widow] of the king,” meaning that at least some people remembered Stratonike as a queenly figure on her own, without reference to male relatives. This is an interesting hint at how these royal women could carry out their duties so as to be regarded as individual rulers in their own right."

-Gillian Ramsey, "Apama and Stratonike: The first Seleukid basilissai," "The Routledge Companion to Women and Monarchy in the Ancient Mediterranean World" (edited by Elizabeth D. Carney and Sabine Müller)

[cypric-rat-hyperfixation]

As my following grows and as I meet more and more people who have rats, had rats, know someone who has/had rats, and love rats...

increasingly I wonder if/when a day will come... a day that I'll express rat enjoyment to someone and they'll enthusiastically ask me if I've heard of This Funnie Little Rodent Blog they like, figuring I may already know it or will enjoy it if not...

and it's.. my blog... and then I have to come out as popular Rat Tumblr blogger that they follow and now know IRL.......

[here-there-were-dragons]

as a general rule, on average, if americans consistently complain about a food being conceptually weird, gross, and scary, then it probably tastes amazing. or at least inoffensive.

this is because in my experience americans for the most part (give or take a few exceptions by region) think eating literally anything other than beef, chicken, bread, eggs, peanut butter jelly sandwitches, ketchup, and disgusting cloyingly artificial brown sludge soda is insurmountably weird, gross, and scary.

[houseofcatwic]

Rare Two-Headed Troll Dolls c 1965