Oh, darling,

casualremindersaboutjeanvaljean: casual reminder that jean valjean learned how to read and write in...

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:03:37 -0300

casual reminder that jean valjean learned how to read and write in prison so that he could gain more of an edge in seeking revenge against the people who caused him to waste 19 years of his life but what he actually ended up doing with this skill was bringing the economy of a seaside town back to life and teaching a little girl the alphabet

chasseurseul: favorite artists: Joseph Mallord William Turner,...

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:47:16 -0300

chasseurseul:

favorite artists: Joseph Mallord William Turner, “The painter of light” (1775-1851)

“You should tell them that indistinctiveness is my forte” — Turner’s reply when hearing that collector James Lenox who purchased one of his paintings complained about it and called it indistinct

#also known as the great pyrotechnist #bc his paintings are like #BOOM #also known as the #precursor of impressionism #good will good #and his paintings are glowing #the way he handled light wasimpressive #wow i’m not even trying to sound smart #can’t say that much #just that i love his art #and the way the colors run together #the compositoin #the perspectives #guess i have a thing for sunsets

The problems of writing

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:51:39 -0300

agent257:

pitchblack-the-nightmare-king:

Having a Beginning

Having an Ending

But WHERE’S THE MIDDLE?!?

HOW DO I GET TO THE ENDING

WHAT IS A PLOT

WHAT ARE PLOT DETAILS

WHAT IS WRITING

And most importantly:

HOW DO I TITLE

muse: ok so let's do an album warning about the environmental crisis and condemning human greed and lust for power

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:40:52 -0300

muse: ok so let's do an album warning about the environmental crisis and condemning human greed and lust for power
muse: BUILD THE BIGGEST FUCKING STAGE EVER, WITH SMOKESTACKS THAT SPEW FIRE, LOTS OF CONFETTI, A GIANT ROBOT, AND BLAST HUGE AMOUNTS OF CO2

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Thu, 23 May 2013 12:35:27 -0300

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Thu, 23 May 2013 12:32:55 -0300

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myfangirlhaven: Tom Hiddleston looking at camera. Tom...

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:30:55 -0300

myfangirlhaven:

Tom Hiddleston looking at camera.

Tom Hiddleston looking at YOU

those-wordless-moments: How did these two even win the hunger...

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:19:50 -0300

those-wordless-moments:

How did these two even win the hunger games?

TUMBLR I'VE FINISHED COPY-EDITING MY BOOK!!!

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:58:19 -0300

I might have raised the angst by 150%.

Totally not sorry.

yeahwriters: erinbowman: Michael Hauge’s Six Stage Plot...

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:02:09 -0300

yeahwriters:

erinbowman:

Michael Hauge’s Six Stage Plot Structure. (Or: infographics I want to hug.)

Graphic by Eduardo L. Lozano

Ugh so pretty

"I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, but now I want a Russian novel, a 50-page description of..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:56:56 -0300

“I was satisfied with haiku until I met you,
but now I want a Russian novel,
a 50-page description of you sleeping.”

- D. Young (via lanternsonlakes)

jesus-san: today i learned it took a team of 11 people to write fergalicious It’s almost...

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:08:39 -0300

jesus-san:

today i learned it took a team of 11 people to write fergalicious

It’s almost one person per letter.

shannananan: mercimonamie: i fell in love with him like ketchup falls out of a bottle: slowly, and...

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:41:47 -0300

shannananan:

mercimonamie:

i fell in love with him like ketchup falls out of a bottle: slowly, and then all at once.

oh my god you managed to one up john green.

ancientpeoples: Roman Bathroom Habits The Romans were not shy...

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:02:30 -0300

ancientpeoples:

Roman Bathroom Habits

The Romans were not shy when it came to doing their “business”. Something that we today regard as an act that demands a certain level of privacy, in ancient Rome, bathroom habits were much more open and, to a great extent, totally lacking in privacy. In a city of over one-million people, ninety-five percent of them did not have access to a private bathroom. Only wealthy Romans could afford the luxury of having a private bathroom by tapping directly into the public aqueducts, which brought running water into their homes. However, for the majority of Romans lacking their own bathroom, there were two options available.

The first option was to go in any ordinary pot that you kept in your home or place of business; moreover, in the city of Rome itself, large urinal pots stood at several street corners. These “piss pots” actually had a very significant role in everyday life. The pots were collected by fullers because the urine functioned as an ancient form of bleach. Stale urine, known as wash, was a source of ammonium salts and assisted in cleansing and whitening cloth; urine made your whites white! In addition, tanners soaked animal skins in urine in order to remove hair fibers before tanning. Oddly enough these pots were eventually taxed by the emperor Vespasian which resulted in the piss pots being nicknamed after him. Flying waste was also a very common problem in Ancient Rome. Ancient writers mention anecdotes involving citizens emptying their pots from third or fourth-story windows on to whoever was walking in the street. There were laws enacted solely for the purpose of protecting those who had been hit by flying waste, “Damages to be paid by throwers of waste into the street if the person hit was injured, no damages paid for clothing or if hit outside of daylight hours.” Nevertheless, the simplest way of disposing of your waste was to throw it into the street, because the streets of Rome were naturally angled towards the center allowing waste to roll into the gutters. Some Insulae,(multi-story apartment buildings), however, could be linked by gravity-fed pipes that led to a main cesspit. Farmers would collect “night-soil” from these cesspits in order to fertilize their fields.

The second option available to the inhabitants of Rome was to head to a public bathroom. Ancient Roman public bathrooms were made out of long rows of massive stone with a hole cut into the stone every few feet. Located in front of the seating area is a channel or elongated basin where your sponge sticks are located. Sponge sticks you say, what the devil for? The Romans obviously did not use toilet paper, but used sponges soaked in water. You would grab a sponge attached to a stick and clean yourself, if you need more cleaning you could plunge the sponge stick back into the little stream and clean some more. Once you are finished with the sponge stick, you scrape the sponge against the side of the stone hole you are seated on and let it fall into the flowing water; quite a logical system reminiscent of modern day bidets. Underneath those Roman derrières flowed a system of plumbing that rivaled modern day cities like New York City. Constant running water flushes away the waste into an enormous sewage systems that runs under the streets of Rome, the Cloaca Maxima (Great Drain). This system is made possible by several aqueducts that flow into the city keeping it supplied with fresh flowing water. The Roman’s effective sewage system was not in place in order to combat the possibility of disease, but more so to combat smell; the role of impure water in causing disease seemed to be little understood by the Romans.

In some ancient bathrooms there is space for one-hundred people at a time. The bathrooms are open to all genders and all ages, so imagine men, women, and children all standing or sitting, doing their business next to one another in an open space. People are discussing business or gossiping to one another while going to the bathroom. Since for most Romans privacy is a unheard of aspect of life, why would it be different in this situation? However, the public bathrooms are not only visited by the common citizen, the wealthy also frequent them. Every location in ancient Rome where large crowds gather is an opportunity for wealthy Romans to pander to their constituents. Most upper-class Romans were running for some sort of political office, so the public bathrooms were a great location for mingling with the Roman people. Therefore, if you wished to hear the local gossip, chat with a friend or stranger, or simply do your business, the public bathrooms are always a good choice. Roman bathroom habits were communal, lacking in privacy, and surprisingly efficient, and they also allowed one to say, “I had a lovely conversation with a few people while sitting on the toilet the other day.”

"Under the current ‘tyranny of slenderness’ women are forbidden to become large or massive; they must..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 11:57:42 -0300

“Under the current ‘tyranny of slenderness’ women are forbidden to become large or massive; they must take up as little space as possible. The very contours of a woman’s body takes on as she matures - the fuller breasts and rounded hips - have become distateful. The body by which a woman feels herself judged and which by rigorous discipline she must try to assume is the body of early adolescence, slight and unformed, a body lacking flesh or substance, a body in whose very contours the image of immaturity has been inscribed. The requirement that a woman maintain a smooth and hairless skin carries further the theme of inexperience, for an infantilized face must accompany her infantilized body, a face that never ages or furrows its brow in thought. The face of the ideally feminine woman must never display the marks of character, wisdom, and experience that we so admire in men.”

- Sandra Lee Bartky, Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power (via sociophilia)

notyouraveragepornblog: dan-and-phil-are-amazing: randomrumiel...

Wed, 22 May 2013 11:15:19 -0300

notyouraveragepornblog:

dan-and-phil-are-amazing:

randomrumiel:

niknak79:

I thought we were supposed to have grown up in university.

They have warned their fellow students that the ground is lava to prevent any injuries I think that is very mature of them

reblogging again

IT GOT BETTER

Capricorn: wow you pissed me off so I'm going to sulk in silence and snap if spoken to

Wed, 22 May 2013 11:11:37 -0300

Capricorn: wow you pissed me off so I'm going to sulk in silence and snap if spoken to
Aquarius: YOU MADE ME UPSET IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD /melts into a dramatic heap
Pisces: I'M GONNA FUCKING THROW THINGS. LIKE THE BIGGEST TANTRUM. YOU HAVE -EVER- SEEN.
Aries: WOW I'M SO MAD for like a second. What's for dinner?
Taurus: BRB SMASHING HEADLONG THROUGH A WALL TO KILL YOU
Gemini: Oh, I'm not mad. Wait. YES I FUCKING AM. Okay maybe not. BUT THEN AGAIN--
Cancer: ...oh. I'm angry. But you'll never know. Tillit'stoolate. Cookie?
Leo: /INDISCERNIBLE NOISES OF RAGE
Virgo: how could you do this to me. how. HOW??? Get out of my life. No wait baby come back...
Libra: Passively plotting your demise.
Scorpio: This'll only sting for a second. Unlike my wounds which'll bleed FOREVER and you'll never hear the end of it. WHIIIINE
Sagittarius: I have to leave before I kill someone. Bye!

Game of Thrones S03: My Understanding so Far

Wed, 22 May 2013 11:09:49 -0300

Game of Thrones S03: My Understanding so Far

partybarackisinthehousetonight: show a man tumblr and he will laugh for a second. teach a man to...

Wed, 22 May 2013 11:07:44 -0300

partybarackisinthehousetonight:

show a man tumblr and he will laugh for a second. teach a man to use tumblr and watch him spiral into insanity