Johann159

Invasive plants need to be understood as part of a much larger cycle of incredible violence against the land.

For context: erosion on that scale occurred as a result of our clear-cutting entire states. The land east of the Mississippi used to be covered in old-growth forest to an extent that we literally can’t imagine anymore, because most of us have never seen a forest over 100 years old. It turns out if you remove all vegetation from a landscape, you end up with a bunch of loose soil ready to move downstream. A fast-growing plant that covers everything in dense vegetation sounds like salvation when you’re surrounded by 40-foot deep gullies that get wider with every rainstorm.

podcasts could have been so good but they decided to make the main genres True Crime and Men Talking. shut up shut up the public yearns for audio dramas

i do appreciate how tumblr LOVES podcasts that aren't what most people think of when they think "podcast." you people love strange and terrible things happening to queer & confused characters, and i respect that

@bookoramaenderteeth a niche to consider?

dreaming of an arthurian movie where it’s like. at least four hours long following the events of the entire vulgate cycle in excruciating detail. everything is done with hyper attention to the source material and is super accurate and but inexplicably all the fight scenes are set to abba. this is never acknowledged by anyone but lancelot kind of seems to be aware of it

my reasoning for all of this btw is that all of abba sounds to me like the soundtrack to a near-death induced hallucinatory experience. much like arthurian literature feels

angel eyes playing as lancelot goes on one of his yearly bouts of insanity raving through the woods like some kind of animal

So, there are two Civil War songs from the Union side, John Brown's Body and The Battle Hymn of the Republic, that use the same tune. I had always been under the impression that the Battle Hymn of the Republic was first and that the tune was subsequently used for John Brown's Body, but apparently it was the other way around, John Brown's Body came first and then the tune was used for the Battle Hymn of the Republic

Oooh I know this one, let me refresh my memory via wikipedia really fast. Okay, so the tune itself is predates both songs by a good deal, it seems to be an old folk hymn called "Say, Brothers will you Meet Us" that was pretty widespread by the 1850s via oral tradition and revivalist camp meetings. At some point it's chorus which had the line "We'll shout and give him Glory" mutated into "Glory, Glory Hallelujah". Anecdotally, "John Brown's Body" version came about from a group of union soldiers having fun with the fact that they had a Sergeant also named John Brown (No relation). To quote an account From George Kimball in 1890 "We had a jovial Scotchman in the battalion, named John Brown … and as he happened to bear the identical name of the old hero of Harper's Ferry, he became at once the butt of his comrades. If he made his appearance a few minutes late among the working squad, or was a little tardy in falling into the company line, he was sure to be greeted with such expressions as "Come, old fellow, you ought to be at it if you are going to help us free the slaves"; or, "This can't be John Brown—why, John Brown is dead." And then some wag would add, in a solemn, drawling tone, as if it were his purpose to give particular emphasis to the fact that John Brown was really, actually dead: "Yes, yes, poor old John Brown is dead; his body lies mouldering in the grave." These jokes were eventually set to the tune of "Say Brothers", producing the song "John Brown's Body", which spread through union ranks, but was considered somewhat course and unseemly. During the war, a woman named Julia Ward Howe heard soldiers singing the tune and decided to write new words to create a more dignified soldier's anthem, which became the Battle Hymn of the Republic.

"Blorbo from my shows" this, "blorbo from my videogames" that. What about "blorbo from my DnD game" that only three other people know. Do you ever think about that-

The older i get the more i understand why some people become obsessed with privacy, not because they’re hiding something, but because being constantly perceived starts to feel spiritually exhausting.

every time you make art of any kind, a stat that is not visible to the player goes up. also, this is the most important stat in the game

does singing in the shower count as art

does a strong as fuck ice mummy have ice powers

ID / TL;DW: young Black man explains the history of voodoo dolls: they originated in England, where Black people where prohibited from learning to read or write, to help witches keep track of what ailed their patients. Eg., person goes to witch and laments headache, they treat their headache and make a small doll (called "poppet"), trying to represent them as good as possible, stick a needle in its head and put it up a shelf. When they return next week, the witch takes their poppet and asks about their headache. If it's gone, they remove the needle, otherwise they know they have to treat a rather persistent headache.

2006 was 13 years ago =(

2006 was 20 years ago =(

a lot of people dont care about insect biomass collapse bc when they hear we are losing 2.5% of the insect biomass per year they just imagine the cockroach and housefly population decreasing by that much. they dont realize those are among the only ones that will remain unbothered

June 15 is the anniversary of both the Night Vale and Gravity Falls pilots, as well as Vanessa Doofenshmirtz’s birthday and “give it up for day 15” day

happy birthday to the only things ever

And love händel reunion day and Linda and Lawrence’s anniversary

The most day ever