lolita-chiquita:

nerdnag:

alienducky:

sewickedthread:

planeoftheeclectic:

personalprofundity:

redcabbageparty:

mzminola:

tanoraqui:

bladeoffenris:

amiseeingyourcolourormine:

raserus:

LIL BABBY

U CANT SCARE THE OCEAN

GO LAY DOWN

IT LOOKS LIKE TOOTHLESS

I like to believe that all the dragons in the world were magically cursed and turned into cats. But cats have never forgotten where they come from, hence the attitude.

I nearly didn’t reblog this but the above comment makes more sense than anything I’ve ever heard.

…that’s…that’s actually a story my mom used to tell me when I was little? That a dragon showed up at someone’s cottage so they gave it milk. And the dragon enjoyed the milk, so it kept coming back and got smaller and softer and purry-er until eventually it wasn’t a dragon anymore, it was a cat, and that’s where cats came from and why we keep giving them milk.

She might have gotten the story from Ursula K. Le Guin, or I have confused it with a different dragon story.

That’s also why cats tend to hoard their toys behind the couch!

Actually the story is even older. Written by a woman named Edith Nesbit, first published in 1899, it is called “The Dragon Tamers”. It predates Leguin and other fantasy biggies like Lewis and Tolkien.

Nesbit actually can be credited with being one of the first authors that began to shift myths and legends to more fantasy-like stories (fantasy as a genre how we know it, wasn’t around then because it was just part of literature, especially British literature). In fact, many scholars who study fantasy literature and children’s literature believe that, since her children’s stories were so popular with children in England, the stories and their content prompted Tolkien (the first to coin fantasy as its own genre in his essay “On Fairy Stories”) to take up the stories of dragons and elves and fairies as they’d have been children when she was writing.

Tolkien was born in 1892. He would have been 7 when “The Dragon Tamers” was first published. Edith Nesbit did a LOT for modernizing myths, legends, and lore as a children’s author, maybe more than we will ever know.

http://www.online-literature.com/edith-nesbit/book-of-dragons/6/

Let’s hear it for Edith Nesbit.

@nerdnag dragons are cats!!!

I’ve been saying for so long that cats originate from dragons!!!

@spiritspodcast

endless-endeavours:

catalinakachie:

crowleyraejepsen:

spindletrees:

batcii:

hyrude:

futurakid:

bongfullofblood:

oozingwounds:

fairycosmos:

actualnymph:

difficulttounthinkit:

bexsaint:

devynvsworld:

hotknifetheory:

chamomillles:

softpunk:

donnatarttsbitch:

gentlepeople:

bestrevolt:

fuckyeahryanmcginley-blog:

RYAN (HEAD-BUTT), 1999
“That’s not my blood. I was making out with my main squeeze on a stoop in the East Village and some macho jock dickhead walked by and called us fags. I don’t think he expected me to get up in his face. We scrapped a bit and then I head-butted him and could feel his nose break on my forehead. We ran for blocks, laughing at the top of our lungs, and then jumped into bed, where my boyfriend took this picture of me.”

rarecultcinema:

The Return of the Living Dead (1985)

egypt-museum:

Statue of Senusret I

This statue is one of ten, made out of white limestone, depicting King Senusret I seated on his throne wearing the Nemes headdress decorated with the frontal cobra uraeus.

The statues differ slightly from one another and bear the harmonious features of a young man with a serene expression. The most remarkable thing about these statues is the decoration on the sides of the thrones showing the theme of the unification of the Two Lands, which was associated with the Nile god, Hapi. On five of the statues, Hapi was replaced by Horus and Seth.

Furthermore, we have here one of the rare cases in which the image of Seth, god of confusion, power and desert, was not destroyed through the superstition of later generations.

Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty, reign of Senusret I, ca. 1971-1926 BC. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 31139

workingclasshistory:

On this day, 30 January 1968, the North Vietnamese military and the National Liberation Front in the South launched the Tet offensive – a major operation against US and ARVN (pro-US South Vietnamese) forces to coincide with Vietnamese New Year.
While the offensive was a tactical failure and they suffered massive casualties, it did show the public in the US that military propaganda that the war was nearly over and that the Vietcong had almost been defeated was a lie.
And this helped swing public sentiment, including amongst US troops, against their involvement in the region.
This is our podcast episode about the anti-war movement amongst US service personnel: https://workingclasshistory.com/2018/08/06/e10-the-gi-resistance-in-vietnam-part-1/ https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1337832243068589/?type=3

carry-on-my-wayward-butt:

carry-on-my-wayward-butt:

YALL

workingclasshistory:

On this day, 28 January 1918, hundreds of thousands of workers went on a general strike against war in Berlin, and across the country in the next few days up to 4,000,000 or more took to the streets. The government declared a state of siege three days later and arrested strike ringleaders, imprisoned 150 and drafted 50,000 more men who were sent to the front. But this failed to dampen the unrest for long, as later that year revolution broke out and ended the war.
This is a great short account of how the First World War actually ended, with mass mutinies and revolutions: https://libcom.org/history/how-did-first-world-war-actually-end-paul-mason https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1335656896619457/?type=3