Cleaning with ADHD all about momentum. Its like being a shark, if you stop moving you just straight up die.
children lying on the floor in public areas have such a powerful aura, and i don’t mean like mid-tantrum or something i mean like one time i saw this toddler lying blank-faced, starfish-style in the entrance of a sunglass hut and she still haunts me to this day
once at a theme park i got concerned cause this small child was lying right smack in the middle of the walkway but then i heard his mother saying “i’m sorry…i’m so sorry…he’s pretending to be a melted snowman”
and i just thought yes…….buddy………….you get it little dude
The Chinese people stuck in their homes are currently engaged in the absolute highest tier of posting
I feel like you need to know that the username for this account translates as "dad please stop running away"
love that every starfleet ship has like 5000 people but there are only 7 we see & those 7 do everything
Captain: our chief engineer has been abducted! How will we repair our ship to working order now?!
500+ engineers who are trained and qualified to handle this exact situation:
Honestly the biggest disappointment I had researching ABC was that medieval authors did not, in fact, see the creatures they were describing and were trying their best to describe them with their limited knowledge while going “what the fuck… what the fuck…”
Instead all those creatures you know came about from transcription and translation errors from copying Greco-Roman sources (who themselves got them from travelers’ tales from Persia and India - rhino -> unicorn, tiger -> manticore, python -> dragon, and so on).
I always thought animals in medieval manuscripts looked like the result of having to draw say. A Tree Kangaroo, but your only source for what it looked like was your friend who heard it from a fellow who knows a man who swears he saw one once, whilst very drunk and lost, and I am SO PLEASED to find out this is, in fact, the case.
Questing Beast
- Neck of a snake
- body of a leopard
- haunches of a lion
- feet off a hart (deer)
So is it
Or….
don’t forget that some of the legendary creatures they were describing were from other people’s mythos which were passed down in the oral tradition for gods know how long. You know what existed in Eurasia right around the time we were domesticating wolves into dogs?
these beasties. For a long time, science had them down as going extinct 200 thousand years ago, but then we found some bones from 36 thousand years ago. Which, y’know, is quite a difference. Since you can bet that any skeleton we find is not literally the last one of its kind to live, many creatures have date ranges unknowably far outside the evidence.
In South Asia there were cultures that described a man-beast/troll forrest giant who’s knuckles dragged the ground, and everybody from the west was sure it was superstitious mumbo jumbo, but you know what used to live there?
And did you know that some of the earliest white colonizers of the Americas heard accounts that there were natives still alive who had seen and hunted and eaten a great hairy beast, shaggy like the buffalo but much bigger, with a long thin nose like a snake and two giant fangs… so, like, mammoths, you know? but they were totally discounted because europeans of the time were like, elephants live in Africa and aren’t hairy, you can’t fool us, pranksters!
Anyway, the point is between the early writing game of telephone description thing talked about by OP, and the discounting of native cultural accuracy, I’m pretty sure most legendary creatures are in fact real animals one way or another
POV: It’s 2004, the school day is almost over, and it’s raining. You’re daydreaming and staring out the window during Debate Class while a prep and a stoner have a spirited argument at the front.
Shout out to the bad bitches who powered through the zone-out-inducing white noise and listened to the insane conversation going on in the background
I zoned out but then I vaguely heard “There’s no communists in Antarctica” and my brain immediately logged the FUCK back on
家主が…なんかくれたです
My landlady gives me something...
これは…
What's this...?
オレのです！もうオレのですから！
It's mine! It's already mine! I never return!