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Software Creations: *in the middle of development for Solstice* Okay so we need an intro theme to set the mood. Something folky, like medieval times. Think you can try your hand at that?

Tim Fucking Follin: Yeah I got ya, check this out.

Software Creations: *barely seconds in* Ohhh yes finally, something that isn’t an overwhelming banger. You done good, Mr. Follin.

Tim Fucking Follin: *waits for it*

Software Creations: *ten seconds later*

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“You can’t ignore the rat” (1948).  Courtesy of the Provincial Archives of Alberta.

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so many gifs of ostriches doing their mating dance for humans but did u know

they actually did a study on this

and ostriches repeatedly found humans more attractive than other ostriches

yes

ostrich farmers have trouble setting up their ostriches with each other because they’re just not interested, they want their farmers instead

it’s incredible

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i prefer guys who make small dick jokes about themselves over guys who make big dick jokes about themselves

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ppl managing to live where they grew up is really bizarre to me

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what crime did this tree commit to be put in tree jail

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one of my favorite lotr facts is that gondorians speak sindarin as a first language and yet when faramir was talking to frodo and sam about cirith ungol he was like “we don’t know what’s in there.” like faramir. cirith ungol is sindarin for “pass of the spider.” do the math

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Character vs Player. Married edition.

Fjord *feeling as usual responsible about keeping everyone safe*: Sorry, Jester

Jester *hellbent on protecting Fjord*: No, I’m sorry that you weren’t protected earlier. 

Fjord: *is shooked*

Fjord: *heart eyes*

Travis: *realizes his wife is doing it again*

Travis: *stares into the camera like he’s in The Office*

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The Philadelphia Inquirer, Pennsylvania, April 25, 1894

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Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (Cassandra Peterson)

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Concept: You walk outside one night and notice that there are two full moons. A few hours go by and they don’t seem to move.

You stare up at them.

They blink.

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reminder that sixpence condones child slavery 

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Greatest article I’ve ever read.

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What I think is really interesting about the papyrus account of the workers building the tomb of Rameses III going on strike to demand better wages is really fascinating to me because if you look at the description given by the royal scribe you see that there was an attempt to satisfy the workers by bringing a large amount of food at once but that was rebuffed by the workers who declared that it wasn’t just that they were hungry at the moment but had serious charges to bring that “something bad had been done in this place of Pharoah” (is poor wages and mistreatment). They understood themselves as having long term economic interests as a -class- and organized together knowing that by doing so they could put forward their demands collectively. It so strongly flies in the face of narratives that are like “in this Time and Place people were happy to be serve because they believed in the God-King and maybe you get some intellectual outliers but certainly no common person questioned that”. If historical sources might paint that sorta picture of cultural homogeneity it is because those sources sought not to describe something true but invent a myth for the stability of a regime.

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Danny Devito and Jeff Goldblum both give off chaotic energies, but in opposite directions. One is the yin to the other’s yang. However, both are everyone’s uncle