Maddie, 27 Like the title says. I pretty much run a multi-fandom blog plus whatever else I like Had an actual theme for about two months back in 2012. Absolute chaos since then.
This place is a message and part of a system of messages: pay attention to it!
Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture.
This place is not a place of honor.
No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here.
Nothing of value is here.
What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.
The danger is in a particular location. It increases towards a center. The center of danger is here of a particular size and shape, and below us.
The danger is still present in your time, as it was in ours.
The danger is to the body, and it can kill.
The form of the danger is an emanation of energy.
The danger is unleashed only if you substantially disturb this place physically. This place is best shunned and left uninhabited.
Sadly this message will be about as useful in keeping the Twitter people out as it would be protecting future generations who don’t remember us from nuclear radiation.
I know other people have pointed this out but the line “just for stealing a mouthful of bread” in Les Mis is so fucking funny because that means either:
the loaf Valjean stole was absolutely miniscule and he could eat it in one bite
unironically, one of my favourite pieces of horror writing is victor hugo’s description of an octopus
[ID: photo of a book. Some of the text has been highlighted. It says “It is a pneumatic machine that attacks you. You are dealing with a footed void. Neither claw thrusts nor tooth bites, but an unspeakable scarification. A bit is formidable, but less so than such suction. The claw is nothing compared to the sucker. The claw, that’s the beast that enters your flesh; the sucker, that’s you yourself who enters into the beast. Your muscles swell, your fibres twist, your skin bursts beneath this unworldly force, your blood spurts and frightfully mixes with the mollusks’ lymph. The beast is superimposed upon you by its thousand vile mouths; the hydra is incorporated in the man; the man is amalgamated with the hydra. The two make one. This dream is upon you. The tiger can only devour you; the octopus, what horror, breathes you in! It draws you toward itself and into itself, and, bound, stuck, powerless, you slowly feel yourself emptied out within that horrendous sack, that monster. Beyond the terror of being eaten alive is the ineffability of being drunk alive.” End ID]
and don’t forget his drawing of one.
Octopus bearing the Initials V. H., Victor Hugo circa 1866:
#this fully rules #like victor my dude octopi absolutely dont do this but this rules supremely
I’ve reblogged this before but I forgot I wanted to add THE REST because what OP posted is only the very end!!!
To believe in the octopus, one must have seen it. Compared with it, the hydras of old are laughable.
Orpheus, Homer, and Hesiod were only able to make the Chimaera;
God made the octopus. When God wills it, he excels in the execrable. And
all ideals being admitted, if terror be the object, the octopus is a
masterpiece.
Its most terrible quality is its softness. A glutinous mass possessed of a will — what more frightful? Glue filled with hatred.
At night and in its breeding season, it is phosphorescent. This
terror has its passions. It awaits the nuptial hour. It adorns itself,
it lights up, it illuminates itself; and from the summit of a rock one
can see it beneath, in the shadowy depths, spread out in a pallid
irradiation, — a spectre sun.
It has no bones, it has no blood, it has no flesh. It is flabby.
There is nothing in it. It is a skin. One can turn the eight tentacles
wrong side out, like the fingers of a glove.
GUESS WE’RE DOING THIS EARLY THIS YEAR. (Though, honestly, we never really stopped, did we?)
So. Let’s talk evacuation bags. This is specifically in relation to wildfires, but it can translate easily to other disasters.
A great resource is the Ready for Wildfire website. But I want to expand on their list just a little bit.
For your “grab and go we need to run in the next three minutes” bag you should have:
Face masks of some sort.
Snacks that you can just open and eat. More food if you have specific allergies and such that will make it difficult to eat at a shelter. At least a couple bottles of water. (Water is probably easier to just keep in your vehicle, if you have one, due to weight.)
A PAPER map marked with multiple evacuation routes. (Drive them ahead of time to get a feel for them.) Your phone could die or lose signal at any time. You need paper, and you need to know how to read it.
Prescriptions and other medications. Things like ibuprophen, tums, etc.. Some other general first aid supplies like bandaids and wound ointments are good to have as well. I also tossed one of my free C*VID tests in there this year.
Change of clothing. Try and have two if you can, one set of day clothes and one set of comfy night clothes. Plus several days worth of socks and underwear.
Extra glasses or contacts if you wear them.
An emergency creditcard and/or some cash.
Phone chargers including wall plugs. Even if cell towers go down/get overwhelmed your phone will still provide a flashlight, music, any documents you have saved on it, etc.
A jacket. Light or heavy, depending on the season at hand. Gloves and a hat if the current season is cold.
A battery powered radio with extra batteries or a crank/solar radio.
Pads/tampons if needed. Honestly, bring some even you personally don’t need them in case anyone else does.
Shampoo, conditioner, soap.
Copies of important documents.
Pet supplies including: Medications. Carriers. Leashes/harnesses. A few baggies and/or cans of food. A travel litterbox and a couple baggies of litter. Treats. A toy or two. Anti-stress sprays. Bowls.
A deck of cards. This isn’t really REQUIRED, but it is small and easy to tuck in so you can have something to help pass the time.
You need to have a version of all these things that is JUST for your emergency kit. It can’t be something you take back out to use, it all needs to just live in the kit. I keep all my human stuff in a big backpack, and all the pet stuff (minus the carriers) is in a little backpack. The backpacks and carriers all live in my coat closet right next to my front door.
This is the stuff you grab when you have no time. If you DO have a little time, then you can grab other things like family photos, computers, small valuables, etc.. But your life is NOT worth those things. One of the two people who died in the Marshall Fire died because he stayed behind to try and rescue his family history documents. Know what you’re going to grab, who is going to grab what if there’s more than you in your household, and what the evacuation plan is.
From my personal experience, the Twitter accounts for your local fire departments and county emergency services tend to have the most up-to-date information during an active disaster. Stay safe.
Also, if you don’t have a vehicle and/or are disabled in a way that will require help evacuating, talk to your neighbors. Just a simple “hey, it’s fire season, and I don’t have a car, if something happens can I hitch a ride to the shelter with you?” and exchange numbers. Do it with a couple neighbors in case someone isn’t home. If you do end up trapped, just call 911. They will send someone to get you.
Zoltan Simon, “Ill-Starred Love / The Good in Him” | Star Wars Celebration: Chicago Art
“Star Wars has so many strong motifs and archetypes, I always find inspiration in them. The idea of this image came into my mind when I was standing in a beautiful garden at Lake Como last September, at the shooting location of the wedding scene from Attack of the Clones. The picture catches the dark and inevitable future in a beautiful and happy moment: Darth Vader’s mask building up like a cracked glass coffin around Padmé’s face. From the opposite point of view, if we try to see through Vader’s mask, we can see the love and the good in him — the good that never left him.” (via starwars.com)
hello tiny friends i keep in my pocket. tell me something I will find humorous but vaguely annoying
people have muscles behind their head that have the sole purpose to move the ears and it is complete evolutionary luck at this point if they work or not
oh I HATE this
you mean to tell me I’ve got an entire goddamn muscle group just sitting there FREELOADING???
I can’t wiggle my ears, but I CAN do that thing when you flex a muscle inside your ear and you can HEAR it flexing, like a rumbling sound. Looked it up, and apparently it’s the “tensor tympani”. muscle! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_tympani_muscle#Voluntary_control I always kind of figured it was the muscle partially closing the ear canal, but apparently tensing your muscles makes a noise that’s 10-70 Hz!
Okay the fact we had this implies there was a PURPOSE to.having it.
to reach our final evolutionary form of course!
Gaud you are a coward for hiding this in the tags
Gaud were you going to tell anyone that that’s the wikipedia mascot
;)
This was a RIDE.
her name is
Catgirl Wikipe-tan
So I looked this up and you left out the best part. She isn’t just an anime girl wikipedia mascot, she is one of three anime girl wikipedia mascots. the other two are named Quote-tan and Commons-tan.
actually the best part is how there’s apparently a Wikipe-tan visual novel app available free online, and the fact that Wikipe-tan features prominently in the illustrations on the wikipedia page for ‘visual novel’
oh and here are
Quote-tan and Commons-tan, standing next to one of Wikipedia’s co-founders
