Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man wildlife conservation and his children will be able to eat fish too.
(via bassiter)
Rules to follow when at sea
- The ship should be treated with kindness.
- Not all waters are good.
- Don’t look deeper than you absolutely have to.
- A sudden shallow means something is beneath you.
- Never sail alone at night.
- There are things best left unseen.
- Whales are wise. Do not anger them.
- You are very, very small.
- There may be eyes in the fog. Don’t make contact.
- Some ships sail under no flag. They are not real. Not anymore.
- Occasionally, you will get a distress transmission from the Atlantic. Don’t answer it.
- The sound of motors in the fog is never, ever, a good sign.
- Some lighthouses move. Don’t depend on them.
- Make as little sound as possible whenever your chest feels strange.
- It is entirely possible to lose time at sea. Do not worry. You will remember eventually.
- If the water goes murky, leave the top deck.
- There may be blood in the water. Don’t look.
- If you startle at nothing, it was not nothing.
- There are some kinds of fog your lights won’t shine through. When you encounter it, take a different route.
- Some fjords are not for human travel.
- The singing is most likely not sirens. Pray that is is not.
- Never dive and expect nothing strange to happen.
- If something feels off, check your ropes.
- If someone shouts to you in the dark, do not reply.
- Sometimes curious things knock on the hull. They will usually leave.
- Nothing is ever entirely as it seems.
- Moonlight on the ocean has a hypnotic effect. Don’t stare.
- There will always be something watching from the coast.
- When the sky turns strange colours, close your eyes. It is best not to see.
- If your compass does not work, let yourself drift on the current. Something wants you gone.
your cells are having a little party, so it’s time to be a little kinder to them
remember to get up , drink some water, and stretch
(via birb-boy)
its the last day of 2018 so i’m gonna say it: what the fuck was that
(via gil-estel)
Tony Stark was born in 1970, the same year that Queen was formed. He would have been 15, and about to go into his first year at MIT, in 1985 when Queen gave what is arguably one of the greatest live performances of all time at Live Aid. I humbly offer the idea of Tony being obsessed with Queen and Freddie Mercury during his college years.
Decades later, he takes Peter to see Bohemian Rhapsody and Rhodey finds out. Cue Rhodey gleefully digging up all his photos of Tony from MIT and ambushing them when they get home. Tony’s mortified when Rhodey hands Peter a series of photos of Tony in his surprisingly accurate Freddie Mercury cosplay from their junior year.
!!!
(via superhusbands4ever)
I cut the cake on my baby gender reveal party and the m&m’s are black. “It’s a goth!” we shout in unison. My family is sobbing. Morticia Addams is there,
(via treacle-a)
this is the most realistic queer dialogue ive ever seen
(Source: deficiencyincourtship, via asynca)
really wanna live in a peaceful seaside ghibli town with ambiguous european architecture and bakeries and maybe a field right outside of town where i can have picnics with the love of my life tbh
(via glare-gryphon)
Look, sometimes murders of crows will blacken the sky at your coming and ravening wolves are gonna follow in your wake, and you’re just gonna have to deal with that, and everybody else in the Costco is just gonna have to deal too
(via glare-gryphon)
no but how much audacity and sheer entitlement do you have to have to tell people they need to stop posting their darkfic and porn fic and any other fic you don’t like to ao3 so you can have a safe space when ao3 was literally created as a safe space for writers to post their content without fear of it being randomly wiped out by pro-censorship assholes with an agenda like what has happened to plenty of other fic archives before?
“but a lot of us see ao3 as a safe space to get away from that kind of nasty content” - lol you can see the middle of a busy interstate as a safe space all you want too but that doesn’t mean that you get to walk into the road and scream at all the cars going by that they’re the ones infringing on your safe space either
ao3 is not, has never been, and will never be a site meant for nothing but children’s stories. you can “see it” like that as much as you want but there’s a difference between fiction and reality and that view of what ao3 is like is as fictional as the stories posted on it.
AO3 is a space for all kinds of content–that’s why there’s a rating system. That’s why there are tags. Use the tools you’re given, rather than whining that it doesn’t serve up the content you want tout suite.
People that try so hard to police other people’s work aren’t poor delicate flowers that just want a safe space, they are control freaks testing how many power do they have among others’ lives. So it’s useless to try and explain how AO3 tag system works, they don’t want to learn, they don’t have a real issue, because if they did they would actually LOOK at the tags. They just want to feel important and impose themselves on others.
People that try so hard to police other people’s work aren’t poor delicate flowers that just want a safe space, they are control freaks testing how many power do they have among others’ lives.
Exactly. Fandom could create spaces where all of the ‘problematic’ fic is hidden by default, unless people go out of their way to find it. Fandom could go back to online platforms with moderated, members-only communities, where content is visible only to people who were vetted to join the communities.
It wouldn’t matter one whit to these individuals, because their problem isn’t the fact that they can see the content (that’s just a convenient smokescreen) it’s that the content is allowed to exist at all and, worse, that people are allowed to ~get off to it~ without being punished. I’ve experienced this on my own skin, as a woman with consensual nonconsent fantasies. I’ve gotten howled-at and called every rancid insult under the sun for daring to ‘get off on rape’ far more times than I could count.
(via blossomsinthemist)