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âdonât take it personallyâ how would you like me to take it then? professionally? romantically? academically?

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vaseline is op for fucked up skin but its texture stat is dogshit
we aint putting that on the chart, chief
yes the fuck you are if you have any respect for its inventor
OKAY FINE JESUS
tags like this remind me that this is the only social media site where I'll ever truly belong
The other name for Vaseline is evil tho. Petroleum jelly đ
yeah omg some people were calling me out for using a "brand" but i am NOT calling it that. SORRY.
listen here, smart ass...
Do Eridians know they are different colours. I bet Grace's alien kids love finding out what colour they are. It means absolutely nothing to them but they're like :O :O
Some of them think he's making this whole 'colour' thing up to mess with them and try to catch him out by asking again on a different day to prove he's just saying random noises but he's like you are still blue buddy and they're like :O :O
Like if we met an alien species who had extra senses & they said that some humans felt spingly and some humans felt spoingly I bet we'd all want to know if we were spingly or spoingly humans

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âbits to use in everyday conversationsâ
âGhosts are realâ I can see how you could believe that
âGhosts arenât realâ itâs very fair and rational that you believe that
âGhosts arenât real anymoreâ Iâm about to hear a poem or very sad story
âGhosts arenât real yetâ the fuck are you going to do
Can I just go on an unhinged rant about how GREAT Yamcha is?
Even on his first entrance to fight Goku, he just radiates pure badassery. He's not just an incredible martial artist, he's also a skilled swordsman, with an awesome looking sword to boot! Move over Trunks, your sword has nothing on this blade!
He was so skilled and strong that not only did he manage to hold his own against Goku and his Power Pole...
He actually kinda kicked his ass! He was able to smash him through a bunch of columns and keep him down for a good while. The only thing that kept him from winning was Bulma triggering his crippling fear of girls.
He's shown capable of learning Kaioken (at least in the games), it takes a lot of intense training to be able to use it, let alone without it wrecking your body, so the fact he was able to use it at all is impressive!
He's one of the only other pure humans, aside from Krillin and Master Roshi, to be able to use the Kamehameha Wave at a young age, let alone on his first try! I know this doesn't sound very impressive considering how often we see it, but remember, Master Roshi was lucky enough to use it after practicing for 50 YEARS! Yamcha did it on his first try!
He doesn't only copy moves, he makes up his own as well! His Spirit Ball is especially impressive, a attack made of pure Spirit Energy, not Ki. He's able to move and fling it around in whatever direction he wants, even if it's through the ground! It literally will not stop until it hits it's target. In fact it's one of, if not the only, attack to ever consistently hit it's target or fulfill it's intended purpose!
Look at him destroying all these gigantic pieces of rubble with ease! Nothing but a cake walk for our man.
He's also tough as hell, he was able to survive 300x the Earth's gravity, which by all means should've squashed him like a bug. But he pushed through it like a champ!
This massive blast that Goku made was from when he played Baseball with literal GODS. And he SURVIVED. I mean he wasn't directly hit by it, but considering how he wasn't within the Angels' protective barrier, and how this blast is way, way bigger than a baseball field, there's no way he wasn't affected by it. He was in the middle of all of this and lived! Stuck in a bush, but alive!
Hell he was complimented and even flirted with by Frieza, not once, but twice! You know, Frieza, the murderous tyrant that pops planets like pimples? How many characters do you know who can say that?
Even the DBS manga he's proven his value, not only did mop the floor with Moro's men, but he also held his own against Zauyogi, one of Moro's top dogs. You know, Moro, the guy who cored Super Saiyan God Goku like a fucking apple?
He did all of this, and remember, he's just a human. He's not some mutant with special powers, or an android designed to kill, or the child of a demon king, or an alien species that are just biologically overpowered. He's just a human, as human as you or me.
Yamcha is not weak by ANY means. It's a shame that an unfunny meme about him dying completely ruined a once skilled and competent character. Man was killed, lost his girlfriend to the guy who killed him, and is treated as a pathetic joke by the fanbase and even his own creators.
My man deserves some respect on his name.
using violence to liberate people from sweatshops, unsafe mines, and grinding poverty isn't the same as using violence to impose those things on people. the idea that violence is morally repugnant regardless of context is a belief that every oppressor throughout history would love for the oppressed to hold
sometimes thereâs videos that make me happy to exist on this planet
iâd reblog this even if it was a still image
I know itâs a sesame street clip but seriously, who is the target audience for this?
Parents watching it with their kids, I guess?
literally everyone
Everyone. No, really⌠everyone.
For adults, the appeal is Sir Patrick Stewart doing a kidâs educational bit in full Shakespearean dress and style; thereâs a delightful cognitive dissonance between the very serious presentation and the very simple content.
For very small children, itâs educational: this is the letter âBâ; hereâs how itâs shaped; hereâs some words you know that start with it. Oh, and hereâs a word you may not be familiar with that starts with it, so you can recognize that itâs the sound that matters, and not whatever other connection you made between the other two words.
For older kids: youâve probably heard that âto be or not to be?â speech, or at least part of it, so you can enjoy some of the parody the adults are watching. Also, hereâs how to describe how a letter is made - how to teach young siblings who donât read yet, how to explain both the shape and the sound.
For kids with dyslexia: hereâs how you differentiate a âBâ from a P or D or E. You may have to go slowly and look carefully at the exact shapes that make up the whole, but there are differences and you can learn to recognize them.Â
For teens or young college students: In addition to whichever parts of those are relevant to you, hereâs what Shakespearean acting sounds like. Hereâs how to enunciate clearly and slowly, so your audience can understand terms they may not recognize and still follow the gist of what youâre saying. If youâre reading Shakespeare in school, try sounding it out like this and see if that helps it make sense.
For new RenFaire workers: Hereâs how to pronounce âzounds.âÂ
One of the most glorious things in the world is Shakespearean actors doing stuff like this.
Heâs taking this performance as seriously as he does when heâs doing actual Shakespeare đĽş
This is how I learned to pronounce âzoundsâ

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Im enjoying the longevity of tumblrs recontextualization style of humor. a seemingly innocuous post followed by like "posts that a gnome would make" or like "are you a phone"
More from the notes:
I love this post
The horse thinks as it scratches an itch
âExplain yourselfâ followed by âstop making excusesâ has always baffled me because the fuck you think explaining myself is????
Mulan AU where she does get caught by the other fresh recruits while she's bathing but Mushu helps her spin it like the lake is cursed by an evil lizard demon and will turn men into women if they stay in it for too long.
From there it's not actually difficult to get the other soldiers onboard with covering up the fact that poor Ping took one for the team and got afflicted by the vagina curse, especially since it would have been all of them if they hadn't gotten the warning ahead of time. So they agree to help him cover it up, because obviously the army's not going to understand.
Shang is... tentatively glad that the men are bonding and getting along, even if they continue to be deeply weird about it.
Ling: Hey man, what's upâ you've got boobs?!?!
Mulan: Uh, what boobs? Huh? Where did these come from?
Mushu: *facepalms and thinks quickly* (speaks from the shadows) I AM THE SPIRIT OF THE LAKE! BEWARE MY CURSED WATERS FOR THEY WILL TURN MEN INTO WOMEN!
Ling, Yao, and Chien Po: Oh no! The spirit of the cursed waters!
Chi-Fu: SHE'S A WOMAN LI SHANG!
Mulan: Look-
Ling, Yao, and Chien Po: WE CAN EXPLAIN!!
[One convoluted, chaotic explanation later]
Shang: ...is this why you've all been insisting we don't camp anywhere that doesn't have a lake.
Shang: and then none of you actually swim in it.
Shang: and you all keep jumping at shadows.
Shang: wait a second Ping did this happen before or after you became insanely good at fighting?
Shang: did you get better at fighting after you became a woman.
Shang: are women better at fighting than us.
Mulan: ....uh. well. maybe? no one's ever tried to find out.
Yao: [thinking very fast] y'know Captain it's just so hard to find recruits these days.
Chien Po: Real shortage of men.
Ling: Lots of women, though.
Mulan: [catching on] Without marriage prospects.
Shang: You're right, men. The spirits must have done this in order to show us that we should be recruiting women as fighters.
Mushu [from the shadows, seeing an opportunity to do the funniest thing]: EXACTLY, LI SHANG. I HAVE TRANSFORMED PING INTO A WOMAN BECAUSE YOU HAVE TOO LONG OVERLOOKED THE TRUE WAY TO WIN THE WAR.
Mulan [seeing an opportunity to get all the stories straight]: O Great Spirit, is it reversible?
Mushu: WHY WOULD YOU WISH TO REJECT MY GIFT? I HAVE SEEN YOUR HEART, CHILD, AND HAVE ALREADY ALTERED THE MEMORIES OF EVERYONE WHO KNEW YOU BEFORE YOU LEFT FOR THE ARMY. YOU HAVE ALWAYS BEEN THEIR DAUGHTER.
Li Shang: Welp, the spirits have spoken. Ping - wait is your name still Ping if you're a woman now?
Mulan: Uh. Actually, I was thinking of renaming myself. How do you feel about Mulan?
BONUS:
Mulan [climbing out of the eleventh lake the men have arranged for her to swim in]: Yeah no, it didn't work. Still got boobs. [tries to appear dejected].
Chien Po: If it makes you feel better, they're very nice boobs.
Mulan: Thanks, Chien Po.
Mulan and Mushu, somehow opperating on the same wavelength: oh haven't you heard?

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doubly funny that I saw a compilation of all the corporate accounts like "aw thanks elmo, we're doing well" meanwhile all the flesh and blood real human people are extremely not okay
Okay but Elmo had actually the best and sweetest response to all this trauma dumping:
And then all the other Sesame Street character accounts joined in:
And now Iâm thinking maybe weâre gonna be okay⌠đ
(Comment compilation from this Twitter)
I kinda feel for the poor person running Elmo's Twitter.
"So, boss... I may have messed up."
"What did you do, Ray?"
"Well, I made a post for Elmo saying 'Hi, how's everybody doing?'"
"I mean, that's kind of what we pay you for."
"Yeah, but.... <sigh> it turns out pretty much everyone is hanging on by a thread, badly enough that they needed to tell Elmo."
"Oh."
"God help me, boss, I think Elmo needs to be there for them."
"Get the others."
this is the energy that jim henson would be proud of.
and important addition
Source: instagram
Always reblog this. Elmo and his friends will be there in your times of trial and doubt, to help you through your torment
Something I find incredibly cool is that theyâve found neandertal bone tools made from polished rib bones, and they couldnât figure out what they were for for the life of them.Â
Until, of course, they showed it to a traditional leatherworker and she took one look at it and said âOh yeah sure thatâs a leather burnisher, you use it to close the pores of leather and work oil into the hide to make it waterproof. Mine looks just the same.âÂ
âWait youâre still using the exact same fucking thing 50,000 years later???â
âWell, yeah. Weâve tried other things. Metal scratches up and damages the hide. Wood splinters and wears out. Bone lasts forever and gives the best polish. There are new, cheaper plastic ones, but they crack and break after a couple years. A bone polisher is nearly indestructible, and only gets better with age. The more you use a bone polisher the better it works.â
Itâs just.Â
50,000 years. 50,000. And over that huge arc of time, weâve been quietly using the exact same thing, unchanged, because we simply havenât found anything better to do the job.Â
i also like that this is a âask craftspeopleâ thing, it reminds me of when art historians were all âthe fuckâ about someoneâs ear âdeformityâ in a portrait and couldnât work out what the symbolism was until someone whoâd also worked as a piercer was like âuhm, heâs fucked up a piercing thereâ. interdisciplinary shit also needs to include non-academic approaches because crafts & trades people know shit ok
One of my professors often tells us about a time he, as and Egyptian Archaeologist, came down upon a ring of bricks one brick high. In the middle of a house. He and his fellow researchers could not fpr the life of them figure out what tf it could possibly have been for. Until he decided to as a laborer, who doesnt even speak English, what it was. The guy gestures for my prof to follow him, and shows him the same ring of bricks in a nearby modern house. Said ring is filled with baby chicks, while momma hen is out in the yard having a snack. The chicks canât get over the single brick, but mom can step right over. Over 2000 years and their still corraling chicks with brick circles. If it aint broke, dont fix it and always ask the locals.
I read something a while back about how pre-columbian Americans had obsidian blades they stored in the rafters of their houses. The archaeologists who discovered them came to the conclusion that the primitive civilizations believed keeping them closer to the sun would keep the blades sharper.
Then a mother looked at their findings and said âyeah, they stored their knives in the rafters to keep them out of reach of the children.â
Omg the ancient child proofing add on tho lol
I remember years ago on a forum (email list, thatâs how old) a woman talking about going to a museum, and seeing among the womenâs household objects a number of fired clay items referred to as âprayer objectsâ. (Apparently this sort of labeling is not uncommon when you have something that every house has and appears to be important, but no-one knows what it is.) She found a docent and said, âExcuse me, but I think those are drop spindles.â  âWhy would you think that, maâam?â  âBecause they look just like the ones my husband makes for me. See?â They got all excited, took tons of pictures and video of her spinning with her spindle. When she was back in the area a few years later, they were still on display, but labeled as drop spindles.
So ancient Roman statues have some really weird hairstyles. Archaeologists just couldnât figure them out. They didnât have hairspray or modern hair bands, or elastic at all, but some of these things defied gravity better than Marge Simpsonâs beehive.
Eventually they decided, wigs. Must be wigs. Or maybe hats. Definitely not real hair.
A hairdresser comes a long, looks at a few and is like, âYeah, theyâre sewn.â
âDonât be silly!â the archaeologists cry. âHow foolish, sewn hair indeed! LOL!â
So she went away and recreated them on real people using a needle and thread and the mystery of Roman hairstyles was solved.
She now works as a hair archaeologist and I believe she has a YouTube channel now where she recreates forgotten hairstyles, using only what they had available at the time.
Okay, I greatly appreciate the discussion here about the need for interdisciplinary work in academia, and the need to reach outside of academia and talk to specialists when looking at the uses of tools, but somehow people always have to turn this into a âgotcha!â where the stuffy academics get shown up (even though this very thread shows some archeologists reaching out to craftspeople to ask about how tools are used because they recognize the need for that knowledge and expertise).
âA hairdresser comes a long, looks at a few and is like, âYeah, theyâre sewn.â
âDonât be silly!â the archaeologists cry. âHow foolish, sewn hair indeed! LOL!â
So she went away and recreated them on real people using a needle and thread and the mystery of Roman hairstyles was solved.â
Did they? Did they really? The archeologists all laughed at the plucky hairdresser and then she proved her theory by simply recreating the styles?
See, what actually happened is that Janet Stephens (the hairdresser/hair archeologist in this post), who published an article about her theory in The Journal of Roman Archeology in 2008, spent about 6 years of research pursuing her idea that perhaps Roman hairstyles were sewn hair and not wigs. She did both hands-on experimentation sewing the actual hair, and more traditional research reading through a ton of sources. This is coming from an interview done with Stephens herself:
âLots and lots of reading, poring over exhibition catalogs, back searching the footnotes to the reading and reading some more! It helped that I am fluent in Italian and, in 2006, I took a German for reading class. Working in my spare time, the research took 6 years.â
âI am an independent researcher, but my husband is a professor of Italian at the Johns Hopkins University, so I have library privileges there. We are friendly with colleagues in the Classics/Archaeology department and at the Walters Art Museum. They were kind enough to send me articles and clippings, read drafts and help with some picky Latin, though I try not to impose.â
(Source: http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/14729)
Wow, so people in the Classics/Archeology department and at the art museum sent her articles and clippings and HELPED her with her research as opposed to laughing at her in their gentlemanâs club! Itâs almost like people working the archeology/art history these days arenât all stuffy old white guys from the 1950âs!
Stephens also presented her work at the Archeological Institute of America Conference, and according to the interview I cited above, it was apparently well received: âIt seemed to create a a lot of buzz and people said they enjoyed it. Itâs not every conference where you go to the poster session and see âheads on pikestaffsâ!â
Like, thereâs plenty to be said about the ivory tower and the need for interdisciplinary work, and the racism/sexism etc. that newer researchers are working against, but framing this story as âhairdresser totally shows up the archeologists with her common sense!â is needlessly shitting on the academics involved here (and the humanities in general have been struggling to maintain funding at many universities in the US, they donât need to be further attacked), as well as greatly over-simplifying and downplaying Janet Stephensâ achievement. I think itâs more respectful to acknowledge the six years of work that she put into the project than to tell the story like she just sewed some hair and then all the archeologistsâ monocles popped out.
I want to point out that the original post actually fundamentally misunderstands the original article. This was not a case of the archaeologists not recognising the artefact type and a leather worker identifying them, this was a case of the artefact being so unexpected in this context, that it was almost missed. Here is a direct quote from the article:
âThe first three found were fragments less than a few centimeters long and might not have been recognized without experience working with later period bone tools. It is not something normally looked for in this time period.â
The archaeological team almost missed them because these bone fragments were both tiny and unexpected as â[the] technology [was] previously associated only with modern humansâ. As in, Neanderthals had not been shown to have even been capable to make these artefacts before that point. I donât think people quite understand how big of a deal this is - this is about the equivalent of finding pottery in a modern human group about 20 000 years ago (they havenât but thatâs the level of *that shouldnât be there*)
This was identified *by the archaeologists working on the project* because theyâd found them before. They fully knew what these artefacts were in the first place, they just didnât expect to find them there.
Then to prove it, they replicated the use-wear by buying a modern tool off the Internet and doing microscopic analysis. There was not a single modern leather worker mentioned in either the article linked or the actual paper put out. That is absolutely something that would have been acknowledged in both of the papers.
This paper was revolutionary in our understanding of Neanderthal crafting capabilities, recognisied by brilliant and diligent archaeologists and this entire narrative of incapable stuck up archaeologists is an insult to their work.
The women who recognised that the blades were being stored out of reach of children were also archaeologists. Janet Stephensâ research is part of a legitimate branch of archaeological research called Experimental Archaeology. Experimental archaeology has been practiced academically/professionally since the 80s. Iâm a hobbiest in a lot of historical crafts and have been the person that a colleague turned to when struggling to identify an artefact. We were able to figure out what it probably was because I knew what use-wear to look for and how to find parallels.
The narrative that archaeologists are opposed to interdisciplinary work is very frustrating as so many of us, including myself, are strong proponents for it. We are very happy to talk to any and all professionals who will talk to us and highly value modern parallels (sometimes a bit too much, actually)