odie, like the dog from garfield?

like the idea that the first ever incarnation of Any Magic resulted from Merlin drinking from the Holy Grail, and it just so happened to be light magic bc Merlin was a fundamentally good person. And that’s all that there was! for hundreds of years! And then dark magic was literally created because Merlin’s lover craved immortality and vengeance and betrayed him for it! And how light magic spread throughout their world naturally but dark magic was confined to one person! And how light magic is something inherent that you’re born with the ability to do while dark magic has to be consciously learned!

Not to even mention the fairies and their magic system and their seeming dependence on fairy dust (which is a mineral found underground, not something natural to them!) Or to mention the mermaids and their varying levels of civilization and humanity (the mermaids in neverland appear to be more mystical and inhuman, while the fairytale mermaids such as Ursula and Ariel seem to be very close to human)

Or the portal system, and how nearly all of the realms except for our own are seemingly connected and easily traversable by multiple means. Magic beans operate on willpower and wishes but only work once, while the hat doesn’t really need to do anything at all except grow but seems to operate on a finite loop of power. And how the sea apparently connects every realm (including our own) but the sky only leads to neverland. Not to mention that storms carrying portals aren’t all that uncommon, and it seems that any average object (e.g. the silver slippers) can become a portal if it’s imbedded with enough magic.

Or how magic literally changes a person’s appearance. In the case of dark magic it often makes you green or scaly or more animal looking, while with light magic it can freeze you in time entirely, keeping you young forever.

And don’t even get me started on how the different types of magic are used. How dark magic is more refined because it’s a practiced art where certain spells achieve certain things, while because light magic is an inherent skill it’s often a shapeless, aimless blast of energy. How even with training light magic appears to be more limited than dark magic, despite the fact that it’s more powerful.

And ripping out hearts??? That the staple move of dark magic was literally to take someone’s heart from them and either control it or crush it??? That the embodiment of evil was literally just someone else holding your heart in their hands, and you have no clue what they plan to do with it??

And then on the opposite side of it there was true love’s kiss?? That the most powerful, pure type of magic was sharing a heart instead of taking one?? That displays of love were literally the most powerful things to exist??

Take a moment and ask yourself, a project like this requires a lot of time, money and dedication of resources, why would scientists dedicate that time to something that could just be done by a tree?

The answer is they wouldn't. So that means this claim requires further investigation!

This project is called LIQUID 3, and it's not meant for cities with wide open spaces, it's meant for cities like Belgrade in Serbia. These cities are densely populated and heavily polluted, to the point where pollution actually chokes out current trees and makes creating green spaces difficult.

Liquid 3 was a PhD scientists answer to these problems. The microalgae tank is intended for spaces where you either:

Don't have enough space to plant full trees, or

Don't have enough time to plant trees and wait for them to grow up.

The tank is extremely efficient when you consider the amount of space needed compared to the amount of CO2 turned into oxygen. The tank can operate throughout the winter. And most importantly, it can be quickly set up in areas that desperately need relief from air pollution NOW not in 10 years when trees are done growing. Children currently suffocating on polluted air can't wait for trees to grow, they need to be taken care of now, and Liquid 3 is one of the ways to take care of them. Depending on the species of microalgea used, a number have shown a pretty amazing capacity to pull heavy metals out of the air which is something trees can get choked up by.

The tanks aren't just tanks either! Liquid 3 have solar panels placed on top, they have lighting and mobile phone charging, and they work as public benches. The designers of it want to encourage green spaces where there's room, but where there isn't room or time, Liquid 3 can step in. Realistically, this isn't a replacement for trees. It's replacing boring metal city benches with new, cooler benches that also clean the air (and have at least some heating during the winter).

Not only that, but the microalgea that grows is native to Serbia and all that microalgea has a ton of great uses! It makes for great fertilizer, compost, wastewater treatment, cleaner biofuels and even for helping create new tanks for further air purification. They only require a quick algae divide once a month, and the produced algae can be carted off to where ever it's needed. This makes them effective solutions for areas that can't sustain complex installations.

You try to pull the blanket off of yourself, and you realize that, it too, is made of chocolate. You try to shake it off, and step out of bed. Your carpet feels strangely spongy. You look down, only to realize it’s actually cake. Lovingly baked, and smelling of sweet fruit. You grab a piece, and cautiously take a bite. It is one of the most delicious cakes you have ever eaten.

You get up, confused, and exit your room to see if the rest of your house is like this. The door handle melts in your hand as you hold onto it, and covers it with dark chocolate carefully painted gold. The rest of the carpet on the floor is still cake, the guardrails on the stairs leading down are tempered chocolate, the tiles on the floor are the same, the windows are sugar glass, everything is edible.

You run outside, knocking over the lovingly crafted chocolate front door in a panic.

You realize, in horror, that your house was not an exception. The bushes, the grass, the asphalt on the road, the trees, birds, the world itself, is chocolate.

European glasses and sunglasses are made in the same Italian factories that make the luxury ones, they have the same quality control and warranty. You are paying €100 for a logo.

Penny Rose: Babbles in Baby

All of tumblr collectively at my husband:

Husband: you don’t even have to understand taxes yet! I can explain them but you’ve got several years before that’s relevant!

Penny Rose: wide eyes, staring at her father, almost intrigued

THE MAN THE MYTH THE LEGEND

Husband: Now Penny there is a lot of misinformation out there in the world and I hate to tell you this but the moon is in fact not made of cheese. That is a conspiracy theory pushed by Big Dairy.

1) Did you participate in baby talk to make up for your husband's deficit, or did you also opt to speak to the Deals Warlock like a very tiny adult from babyhood?

Something funny that has happened is that while she formally calls me Mama when she's answering me in passing she does call me "My Darling Love" and I don't know for sure but I think it's because I call her and her father "my loves" and her father calls me and her "darlings" and she's created a mash up 😂

Penny Rose is now 5 years old and she

1. Starts talking the moment she opens her eyes to the moment she passes out at night

2. Asks, and I am not exaggerating I counted, an average of 892 questions a day

3. Does not accept "I don't know" as an answer to said questions, will usually have a follow up question as to why you don't know OR a suggestion on how we can find out together