#north of India

[herpsandbirds]

Glossy Ibis (Plegadis falcinellus), family Threskiornithidae, order Pelicaniformes, found in the Eastern U.S., Africa, Australia, and South Asia

photograph by Sanjay Lunkad

[sprites4ever]

Countries that have had soldiers hired by russia for its war against Ukraine:

North Korea

Yemen

India

Chechnya

...

But when the US allows Ukraine to use ATACMS on russian territory, it makes them involved in the conflict.

100% Kremlin bullshit.

[sajra-savera]

" तुम्हारे लिए होगा घाटों का बनारस

सांड, सीडी और संन्यासो का बनारस

इश्क, मोहब्बत, फसानों का बनारस

गली से निकलता एक बनारस

और गली से निकलना पाए बनारस

ये बनारस, वो बनारस

अड गए तो ठाठ बनारस

नाव के नीचे प्यार बनारस

सुबह सवेर चाय बनारस

अल्हड़, पागल, मस्त बनारस

नशे में डूबा जाए बनारस

स्थिर, शांत और एकांत बनारस

शामो में लस्सी भांग बनारस

हाय बनारस, हाय बनारस

जो न आए पछताएं बनारस

हम तो खैर मुसाफिर है

अगर दिल की सुनते जाए बनारस

यही पूछे कब जाए बनारस "

बोलो...कब जाए बनारस?

[ms-worldwide-miku]

Indigenous Mikus by weevildoing on Twitter!

Here is the link to Survival International.

[gwydpolls]

Time Travel Question 62: early Modern and Much Earlier

These Questions are the result of suggestions from the previous iteration.

This category may include suggestions made too late to fall into the correct grouping.

Please add new suggestions below if you have them for future consideration.

I can't remember if we did this one. It would have been late last summer. i think we did some specific species, but i can't remember if it was done in total. I am quoting the whole suggestion here: "Carboniferous forests, before Angiosperms became dominant. I want to see the lepidodendrons and the huge equisetes and all the many Araucaria and gnetophytes and ginkgos that once thrived."

It is too late to fix the typo, but the First item should read somemething like: "People, species, and landscapes of California circa 1400.

[vegan-nom-noms]

Vegan Butter Chicken

[hetaliahyperfix]

Hetalia Headcanons: Nation Physiology- Immortality

There's been a lot of interpretations of the nations' immortality over the years. Some people believe that nations will permanently die from a regular mortal wound like any human would while others believe nations cannot be harmed at all.

Canon seems to indicate that the latter is more of the case, with the Hetalia Horror Show stating that Finland was unable to drown when he fell into a freezing lake, but was instead suffocating endlessly, unable to die (which is pretty horrific, if you ask me).

I personally have my own headcanons as to how their immortality works. Some of it aligns with canon, and some of it deviates a little. I figure its fine since everyone kinda picks and chooses which parts of canon they like.

So, here are my headcanons (tw: violence, death, disease):

Nations cannot die the way humans do. At least, not permanently. Honestly, the idea is kind of absurd. It is impossible for them to have survived as long as they have if this was the case. China alone is over 4,000 years old and has fought in tens of thousands of battles, yet I am to believe he has not once sustained a mortal wound? What happens to the PRC if its nation persona dies from being hit by a car while being distracted by playing a mobile game on his phone? In my interpretation, nations cannot permanently die from fatal wounds, diseases, old age, and whatever other stuff that kills regular humans.

Nations can temporarily die. While they can't permanently die from mortal wounds, they can temporarily. For example, if they are shot in the head, it will kill them. However, they will heal and revive.

Nations have supernatural healing. This actually seems to be canon, based on the comic of Prussia lying about when he injured his hand, saying it was recent instead of the real answer which was a week ago, implying that healing tends to be faster for nations. In my headcanon, the nation's ability to heal depends on how strong their nation is economically, militarily, and through their overall cultural influence on the world. Currently, America and China heal the most rapidly, both being superpowers, being able to regenerate entire lost limbs in mere moments. On the other hand, Iceland has a very small GDP, no military, and very little cultural impact on the world, so he would take at least 20 seconds to heal a simple stab wound. Naturally, this healing fluctuates with the nation's power. When America was a colony, it would have taken him several minutes if he wanted to regenerate a limb. Better to just reattach the limb and heal it that way.

If the body cannot heal, a new one will be created. For example, let's say a nation fell into the ocean and is drowning. They keep dying and reviving in an endless cycle. Eventually, either through their own choice, or the supernatural natural nature of their existence, that body will permanently die and a new body will be reborn on their nation's soil. This process takes at least 24 hours and depends on how strong a nation is. America and China could probably revive 24 hours on the dot. Meanwhile, Monaco could take several days. Nations do all they can to avoid this type of death because it is, at best, highly inconvenient and it can, at worst, single handedly screw things over for them majorly. Imagine being a nation at war and having your body blown up by a bomb. By the time you revive and then travel back to the battlefield, it may already be over. This was especially awful when travel was not fast and it would take months to get somewhere.

Nations do not scar the way humans do. A nation's healing, no matter how weak they are, is perfect. It may take a while, but their bodies will go back to the way they were, meaning no scars. For a nation to receive scars, it would be based on injuries received during significant national events, especially if they are violent. For example, the French Revolution was very significant in French history so, when France was beheaded, he had a permanent, faint scar around his neck even after he healed. When the Romanovs were shot dead, ending Imperial Russia's rule, one of the bullets that bounced off the jewels they were wearing hit Russia and left a permanent bullet wound scar. Basically, a nation can end up with a permanent scar by receiving the wound during a significant, usually violent, event in their history.

Nations do not get sick the way humans do. Nations are immune to getting illnesses the way humans do. If they are around people with colds, they'll never catch a cold. They also never get terminal illnesses like cancer. There's only two things that can get a country sick: poor economy and epidemics. Honestly, this seems to be canon. Basically, if a nation's economy is doing poorly, like during the Great Depression, they will get cold/flu-like symptoms. The other way they get sick is through epidemics. Essentially, if enough people in their nation are sick, their own bodies will reflect this illness. However, since they didn't catch the illness naturally and got it though their nature as a nation, they can only stop being sick when the epidemic is over. When a nation is sick, they cannot be cured through ordinary means, they can only use medicine to alleviate the symptoms. During the Black Death, the European nations all had the bubonic plague to varying degrees for years. In fact, the bubonic plague made various resurgences over centuries. Many of them have scars from when the pustules burst and just about every one of them was extremely traumatized by it.

Nations can be effected by other types of "epidemics." For example, during the Red Scare when everyone in America was living in fear of their neighbors being communists, America became very paranoid. During the Opium Wars in China, his body began to crave opium like an addict before he even touched the stuff because nearly all his citizens were addicted, causing him to be addicted before even using. India went through at least three major famines killing over 10 million people each time from 1769-1793, so he was always underweight and hungry even if he ate during this time period.

Nations are resistant to poisons and chemicals. It takes far more poison to kill a nation than a human, although you can do it if you use a strong enough poison. I read a headcanon once that China would calmly drink a poisoned drink in front of the person who did it, just to freak them out. He 100% would do this, no debate.

Nations are vulnerable to radiation. One of the few things they are vulnerable to. While they can endure it better than humans, it is still not good. Radiation works by killing cells, via preventing them from dividing. This disrupts their ability to regenerate, so they heal slower with it.

Nations age based on economic and cultural development. This one is kinda canon. Regular humans age by the year. Nations seem to age based on the development of their country. For example, America's economy grew far faster than Canada's, and there is even a strip showing a nearly adult America next to a baby Canada despite both being born around the same time. On the opposite side of the spectrum, we see that North Italy did not age from infancy for over a 1,000 years. He was alive to have known Ancient Rome, which means he would have been born, at latest 476 AD. He did not begin to age until the Renaissance in the 1500s. As an aside, could you imagine being a baby/toddler for 1,000 years? That's honestly sounds horrific. And, based on England's shocked reaction to America's growth, it seems spending several hundred years as a baby is the norm.

So, with all of this being said, how do nations die? Well, that will be my next post. This one is already long enough so I am going to continue in another post. I hope you enjoyed my first major headcanon post! Let me know your own thoughts in the comments below.

Next Part

[certified-yapper-guy]

Hey! casteism doesn't exist in India!!

There's so many more cases. You savarna's still wanna yap about caste divide? You still want to question why so many dalits convert to other religions (you don't even let them do that btw) for basic respect?

All the upper caste sanghi fools, are dalits not hindu? are they not in the same danger like you proclaim yourself to be? why is it that atrocities against dalits are NEVER included in your 'hinduphobia' posts?

[thesilicontribesman]

Antler 'King' Chessman, 12th Century CE, from Habrough, North Lincolnshire Museum, Scunthorpe

Chess originated in India where the king was shown mounted on an elephant. The two steps on the front of the Habrough king represent the elephant's forehead and the howdah in which the king rode.

Kindly loaned to North Lincolnshire Museum by Habrough Parochial Church Council.

[kekeandherrpgs]

Personal headcanon:

Halsin can’t handle spicy food very well. Yes he did have stomach problems (at first, he was fine after a month) when he lived a year at Jyothika’s village and he would join her family for dinner every night (he was technically a guest of her Amma’s, her Amma asked Halsin to teach some of the villagers, who had Druid magic, and he stayed on for a year to do so)

But he loves sweet food (one of his fav things is honey after all). And he loved all the desserts that her people made

So when he joins the camp and realizes that not only can Jyothika cook now, she can also make all of her people’s desserts (especially Gulab Jamun) you better believe he starts bugging her to make it often

And yes he was a bit of a menace at the tiefling party when Jyothika was making food for everyone (in my headcanon, Jyothika makes all the food for the party because she wants the refugees to have a good meal to celebrate the fact that they survived the goblin camp) and he kept trying to eat the desserts and she had to swat him away before finally roping him and Bhavan (who kept trying to sneak pieces of the grilled meat) into helping her cook

She also gets Gale to help her cook too, since it’s a lot of food for a lot of people and it’s the one time he doesn’t fight with her about cooking

Bhavan meanwhile was on cloud nine the entire time he was eating her food during the party because, as I mentioned before, he’s from the same culture as her. He does not remember his past at this point however which means he does not remember that this is his food culture too. But he recognizes everything, once he tastes it, as something he grew up eating. And after the tenth time of commenting “oh my gosh I know this, I think I grew up eating this” Jyothika is finally like “Bhavi, I think you might be from the same culture as me”

Which is very exciting for her (even if he doesn’t remember) because it’s been ages since she last met anyone from her culture

[haveyouseenthishorrormovie]

SUMMARY: This global anthology of eight narratives explores dark folklore through a series of myths and tales that have captivated, galvanized and frightened communities throughout history.

[ahappydnp]

hello what are some of the lesser known gifts dnp have given each other please?

(hope you're good <3)

this isn't necessary lesser known but something that kills me to this day is whatever was in the 'box of dream' dan sent phil for his birthday in 2010

(the first tweet is still up but the second got deleted)

[mothmiso]

Spiti Valley (2) (3) (4) by Kandukuru Nagarjun

Via Flickr:

(1) Chorten (2) Chicham bridge     

[federer7]

Villagers looking at slides of themselves. Yumthang, North Sikkim, India. 1971

Photo: Marilyn Silverstone

[jeannepompadour]

North American, African, Indian and Chinese costumes from Thomas Jefferys' "A collection of the dresses of different nations, antient and modern", made in 1757

Habit of a Delaware Indian with his tomohawk scalping knife

Habit of woman of Africa in 1581; Habit of a lady of Indostan

Habit of a lady of Indostan; Habit of a lady of Indostan

Habit of a lady in Chinese Tartary; Another habit of a Chinese lady in 1700