#fucked** up

[o-craven-canto]

Well...

First, we calculate the volume of ocean sampled, which we get from the size of the net opening, the speed of the ship, and the length of time it was in the water. To that, we combine the number of bristlemouths collected from the volume sampled to arrive at an estimate of roughly 1-12 fish per cubic meter, a volume of water about the size of a washing machine. But now multiply that by a factor to get the number of bristlemouths within the total estimated volume of the mesopelagic zone (20% of the ocean’s total volume). You arrive at a very large number, in the quadrillions.

its crazy how the world is so big you can go your whole life not knowing there’s a creature that exists and it turns out there’s a fuckton of them 

[stanfiction-withsoos]

i should not be given adult money. why do i want a custom necklace that says stancest

[tumblezwei]

Good morning everyone

I turn 25 today

[hoejangles20]

[pooltoypuppydog]

directed at like half my oomfies/mutuals -🎀🐩 and -⛓️❄️

shout out to evil and fucked up transgenders i want you

[fishgills]

the 5g mcdonald’s DS waves attacking jirachi

[theotherpacman]

OH AND ANOTHER THING ABOUT THE ATLA REBOOT

the sexism thing??? we all know it's fucking stupid and purely performative to take out sokka's feminism arc, but can we talk about the fact that He Is Still Sexist????? he still thinks that what he does (running the village's defenses, which they've never needed) is vastly more important than what she does (wash the clothes, cook, etc). and yk what?? the live action reboot AGREES with him. it doesn't show or even mention katara doing any work around the village. all we see katara doing is practice waterbending - the only interesting thing that original episode 1 sokka seems to think katara ever does.

the live action show depicts sokka "doing all the work", fulfilling his traditionally masculine role of warrior/protector, and COMPLETELY DISMISSES whatever "women's work" katara does, as if she does nothing. seems pretty clear to me that the showrunners would love to absolve themselves of sexism by not talking about sexism, while in actuality being pretty sexist themselves

and don't even get me started on sokka not wearing the dress/makeup of the kyoshi warriors' uniform

[brittandbiscuits]

Opened Tumblr and immediately took a punch to the kidney.

More expression practice, this time it’s Fives being a menace to compliment a very tired Rex.

[sch0omp]

[m-oaning-myrtle]

[charlesoberonn]

[o-craven-canto]

The problem, of course, is that if one designs a trap, one can oneself fall into it. Eurasian history is full of examples of royal figures who ended up sequestered in much the same way as their womenfolk. probably the most famous example are the Ottoman sultans of the late sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, notorious in Orientalist fantasy for being, as historian Peter Baer once put it, “hidden in the palace like a pearl in an oyster, aloof, secluded, and sublime, hermetically sealed from the world, confined and condemned to a wilted life in the harem”(2008: 20). As it turns out, the stereotype in this case was not too far off the mark. During this period, sultans—not unlike the Byzantine monarchs who had come before them—were surrounded by such rigid protocol that ordinary subjects were not even allowed to converse with them: [They] withdrew from subjects and servants and from public view. Because ordinary speech was considered undignified for sultans to use, they communicated by sign language. Unable even to speak, the sultan became out of touch, and was visible only on rare, carefully staged processions through the capital. The sultan had become a showpiece and sat silently on his throne in a three-foot turban, like an icon, immobile. (Baer 2008: 141; see also Necipoğlu 1991: 102–6)

-- (D. Graeber & M. Sahlins 2007, On Kings, quoting M. D. Baer, 2008, Honored by the glory of Islam: Conversion and conquest in Ottoman Europe)

The Ottoman succession system is really up there in the list of historical phenomena that I would absolutely call bullshit if you included in a fantasy novel if it didn't actually work for hundreds of years in one of the most powerful states on earth.

[letsventstuff]

Pathetic, isn't it? To be spending my night crying after you as if you care. Lmfaoo!!

[o-craven-canto]

Humans are derived fishes. The skeleton of a human (A) compared with the skeleton of a derived tetrapodomorph fish (B), with the fish skeleton scaled to the size of the human’s and oriented in a humanlike pose (and with a humanlike skull). Red shading indicates dermal bone and, in fishes, the dermal fin rays. (From Long 2011 © John A. Long.)

-- F. H. Pough & C. M. Janis, Vertebrate Life (10th ed., 2019; p. 165)

[what-shitfuckery-is-this-ew]

Do people not realise how horrible it is that Palestinians are forced to stitch popular videos, play into trends and make their videos shorter so that people will actually engage? They have to be our entertainment to fucking live