#would be astonishing

[unclefathersantateddy]

Not to be dramatic but I'm hitting burn out again. My statistician is really pleased with my thesis and wants me to get it published but that means adding several more months to my research project and I honestly don't know if I have it in me. I'm so tired. So very tired and sad. I just want to sleep for three straight years.

[rogueolight]

wakaba and juri friendship because i tignk it would be funny

[armenelols]

Idril hearing Ulmo's warning and heading it. Idril building a secret path out of Gondolin, an escape route for the survivors. Idril making sure there would be survivors.

Eärendil, searching for Valinor when so many others have failed, the ban be damned. Eärendil reaching Valinor. Giving up the silmaril — it's just a piece of rock, after all, no matter how pretty it is. When banned from Arda, still managing to show up in time to slay fucking Ancalagon. In some versions, killing Ungoliant. Ungoliant. Guiding the lost as a star of hope.

Elros, whose life had been a mess and who still grabbed it firmly with both hands and didn't let go. Didn't waver. Elros, who knew nothing but war, leading his people to peace; Elros following his father's star and doing his goddamn best to be a good king. Building a realm, preserving lost cultures, starting new ones. The hands of the king are the hands of a healer, and Elros made sure to be that to his people.

Elrond, who keeps losing everything, but never loses kindness. Elrond, who is an unbreakable rock in the middle of a wild current, who will always be there, in good times and in bad. Elrond, standing by Gil-galad's side during his reign; Elrond, helping the refugees of Eregion, and every weary traveller who wanders to his home, Elrond making his home a place of rest and healing. Elrond, of whom everyone knows his doors are open, and he is a well of knowledge, and he will share it to make the world a better place.

What I am saying is, getting shit done runs in the family.

[cuties-in-codices]

taking a ride

in an illustrated copy of konrad von würzburgs "trojanerkrieg" (the trojan war), ca. 1441

the illustration depicts thetis and her servant riding dolphins, behind them achilles unconscious in a bag

source: Nürnberg, GNM, Hs. 998, fol. 31v

[viccharine]

kholby wardell stronger than me fr if i had to learn that many versions of rtc’s opening number i would have pulled all of my hair out and quit 

[dalloneveryday]

hi im 12 hours late but we ignore that have a dallon. day 177 :)

[pyrrhiccomedy]

Innokenti & Tomassin - The Wyld-Knight & The Sparrow Priest

Weary Innokenti, knight of the Wood, marauder, carouser, apostate faerie-thing:

Unhappy Tomassin, half-heavenly mistake, defiled, tormented, gentle beyond all measuring:

Poisoned by grief, bereft of your God and your Other, and denied the sacred order which was promised to you at the moment of your creation:

Struck silent by horror, unwanted by God, harrowed and abused and brought into this world to die:

Self-exiled from your home, to this alien place -

Chained to your flesh, in this alien place -

So hopeless, so desolate, so interminable is your existence:

So hopeless - so desolate - so interminable is your existence -

Perhaps, now, unexpectedly, like sunlight breaking through the brooding trees -

Perhaps, somehow, however undeserving you may be -

A kindness?

A mercy?

Soft footsteps have intruded upon the barren country of your heart, and around his feet the flowers grow.

Clever footfalls are heard within the empty cathedral of your heart, and it makes you wonder if it's anything like music.

He is nothing like you.

He is nothing like you: thank God.

You take his hand.

May God forgive you, as you let him take your hand.

[brobotsbro]

K SO MY BROTHER. has been talking about how he thinks it would be cool to have a transformers show where Optimus dies For Real and has kept saying it'd "Be so cool."

Started talking about the possibility of me writing transformers fic and he starts unraveling this INTRICATE STORYLINE he's constructed of this Optimus Dies FrFr storyline. ELITA BECOMES PRIME??? GRIMLOCK HAS AN ARC. CHROMIA HAS AN ARC. ARCEE HAS AN ARC. STARSCREAM IS A MOLE???? TRAGEDY LEFT AND RIGHT????

How LONG HAS HE BEEN THINKING ABOUT THIS. encouraging him to write this out bc goddamn I did not realize he had a whole TIMELINE THOUGHT OUT.

[brown-little-robin]

*frothing at the mouth* hey did you guys know that. that the stage play of mob psycho 100 is incredible. like it's not just a cheesy production it genuinely is just as carefully-thought-out as an adaptation of the manga as the show was. did you know it makes Teru even more human than he already was. did you know that the way they do Dimple is actually incredibly believable. I died laughing at the physical comedy bits about nine times. ueah. stageplay

HELLO

[doctorphagliacci]

Patrick Swayze in To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995), dir. Beeban Kidron

[bloomingsalma]

i think one of the most disappointing things is to see that your childhood friends have grown up to represent the kind of people you're disappointed in

[himejoshiangels]

I remember a few episodes ago there were posts along the lines of kristen should just go back to helio right before she pulled the whole "gifted cleric" thing. I hope yall feel stupid as fuck btw

[nateriverswife]

it just hit me how much time I lose commuting and that's probably why I feel so drained every single time. my commute is almost 5 hours and 20 minutes a day, 4 times a week this semester. imagine waking up at 5:45am for a 9am lecture or getting home at almost 10pm when you finish at 7pm

[rhatatootie]

When tumblr decides to be normal about shows like Steven Universe and RWBY is the day I’ll know peace

[aeide-thea]

06-07-23 Why Patagonia helped Samsung redesign the washing machine

Samsung is releasing a wash cycle and a new filter, which will dramatically shrink microfiber pollution.

Eight years ago, Patagonia started to study a little-known environmental problem: With every load of laundry, thousands (even millions) of microfibers, each less than 5 millimeters long, wash down the drain. Some are filtered out at water treatment plants, but others end up in the ocean, where fibers from synthetic fabric make up a surprisingly large amount of plastic pollution—35%, by one estimate. Fragments of your favorite sweatshirt might now be floating in the Arctic Ocean. In a collaboration that began two years ago, the company helped inspire Samsung to tackle the problem by rethinking its washing machines. Today, Samsung unveiled its solution: A new filter that can be added to existing washers and used along with a “Less Microfiber” cycle that Samsung also designed. The combination makes it possible to shrink microfiber pollution by as much as 98%.

[…] Patagonia’s team connected Samsung with Ocean Wise, a nonprofit that tests fiber shedding among its mission to protect and restore our oceans. Samsung shipped some of its machines to Ocean Wise’s lab in Vancouver, where researchers started to study how various parameters change the results. Cold water and less agitation helped—but both of those things can also make it harder to get clothing clean. “There are maybe two ways of increasing the performance of your washing machine,” says Moohyung Lee, executive vice president and head of R&D at Samsung, through an interpreter. “Number one is to use heated water. That will obviously increase your energy consumption, which is a problem. The second way to increase the performance of your washing machine is to basically create stronger friction between your clothes . . . and this friction and abrasion of the fibers is what results in the output of microplastics.” Samsung had already developed a technology called “EcoBubble” to improve the performance of cold-water cycles to help save energy, and it tweaked the technology to specifically tackle microfiber pollution. “It helps the detergent dissolve more easily in water so that it foams better, which means that you don’t need to heat up your water as much, and you don’t need as much mechanical friction, but you still have a high level of performance,” Lee says. The new “Less Microfiber” cycle, which anyone with a Samsung washer can download as an update for their machine, can reduce microfiber pollution by as much as 54%. To tackle the remainder, the company designed a filter that can be added to existing washers at the drain pipe, with pores tiny enough to capture fibers. They had to balance two conflicting needs: They wanted to make it as simple as possible to use, so consumers didn’t have to continually empty the filter, but it was also critical that the filter wouldn’t get clogged, potentially making water back up and the machine stop working. The final design compresses the microfibers, so it only has to be emptied once a month, and sends an alert via an app when it needs to be changed. Eventually, in theory, the fibers that are collected could potentially be recycled into new material rather than put in the trash. (Fittingly, the filter itself is also made from recycled plastic.) When OceanWise tested the cycle and filter together, they confirmed that it nearly eliminated microfiber pollution. Now, Samsung’s challenge is to get consumers to use it. The filter, which is designed to be easily installed on existing machines, is launching now in Korea and will launch in the U.S. and Europe later this year. The cost will vary by market, but will be around $150 in the U.S. The cycle, which began to roll out last year, can be automatically installed on WiFi-connected machines.

[astarion-dekarios]

Mrs. Westenra leaving all of her estate to Arthur— and when her own lawyers tell her not to, that she might leave her daughter penniless, because they AREN'T EVEN MARRIED she's just like "I'm paying you aren't I?"— is so egregiously fucked up and vastly outside the bounds of acceptable social order that the only explanation is either that she actually hates Lucy or that she is violently against the idea of her ever having even the bare minimum of independence, that she needs to be completely dependent on someone else and ideally a man.