Predicamental

"In Greek, “nostalgia” literally means “the pain from an old wound”. It’s a twinge in your heart, far..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:26:49 -0400

“In Greek, “nostalgia” literally means “the pain from an old wound”. It’s a twinge in your heart, far more powerful than memory alone. This device isn’t a spaceship, it’s a time machine. It goes backwards and forwards, it takes us to a place where we ache to go again.”

- Don Draper, “The Wheel” (via hnostalgia)

"HBO: Which character or being scares you the most. // Nikolaj Coster-Waldau: Melisandre the Red..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 06:24:01 -0400

“HBO: Which character or being scares you the most. // Nikolaj Coster-Waldau: Melisandre the Red priestess-she’s a scary woman. There’s also something about that type of power that Daenerys has. Most people believe she’s doing the right thing, but she’s burning people alive. She’s got a chip on her shoulder. I don’t want her to come across the Narrow Sea. She’s going to burn thousands and thousands and thousands of people and have that self-righteous smirk on her face the whole time.”

- http://www.hbo.com/game-of-thrones/episodes/3/27-the-bear-and-the-maiden-fair/interview/nikolaj-coster-waldau?cmpid=ABC794 (via nikolajfangirlteam)

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Fri, 17 May 2013 04:27:15 -0400

caitlincaitland: I’m really glad no one has a fit when someone gets breast implants but it’s a big...

Wed, 15 May 2013 14:44:48 -0400

caitlincaitland:

I’m really glad no one has a fit when someone gets breast implants but it’s a big motherfuckin’ deal when a preventative mastectomy happens.

strugglingtobeheard: basedempoweredethnicwoman: thevitalquietli...

Wed, 15 May 2013 13:35:41 -0400

strugglingtobeheard:

basedempoweredethnicwoman:

thevitalquietlife:

keep-calm-stay-healthy:

calliopes-bane:

atticusatticus:

sunshinekindlyhere:

I will never shop at that store ever!!!

i thought this was a joke but

no

and even if it were

it still wouldn’t matter

A COUPLE SECONDS AGO I WAS WEARING MY A&F SWEATSHIRT

NOT ANYMORE

shitty company, hope all this bad publicity makes it go down in the shitter

Spreading this like wildfire - never liked them to begin with.

They also got sued for hiring white people over people of colour.

^^^ well duh cause good looking cool people are only white

I feel like slavery was never banished

jirasol: it’s called AAVE, you FUCKTRUCK I hate how people here...

Wed, 15 May 2013 13:30:36 -0400

jirasol:

it’s called AAVE, you FUCKTRUCK

I hate how people here think that “proper general English” is the only way to speak English and all the others are considered “idiocy” like if language has anything to do with intelligence. I’m not even from the U.S. and I know this better than most of you.

Below is a list of all English dialects in North America:

American English - Standard American English is the general form

Cultural
African-American Vernacular English (AAVE)

Chicano English

New York Latino English

Pennsylvania Dutch English

Yeshivish

Yinglish

Regional
New England English
Boston accent

Boston Brahmin accent

Hudson Valley English

Lake Dialect or Lake Talk

Vermont English

Inland Northern American English (includes western and central upstate New York)
Northeast Pennsylvania English

Mid-Atlantic dialects
Baltimore dialect

Philadelphia dialect

Pittsburgh English

New York dialect

New Jersey English dialects

Inland Northern American English (Lower peninsula of Michigan, northern Ohio and Indiana, Chicago, part of eastern Wisconsin and upstate New York)

North–Central American English (primarily Minnesota, but also most of Wisconsin, the Upper peninsula of Michigan, and parts of North Dakota, South Dakota, and Iowa)
Yooper dialect (Upper Peninsula of Michigan and some neighboring areas)

Midland American English
North Midlands English (thin swath from Nebraska to Ohio)

St. Louis

South Midland (thin swath from Oklahoma to Pennsylvania)

Southern English
Appalachian English

Tidewater accent

Virginia Piedmont

Virginia Tidewater
Coastal Southeastern (Charleston, South Carolina, Savannah, Georgia area)

Cajun English

Harkers Island English (North Carolina)

Ozark English

Southern Highland English

Gullah or Geechee

Texan

Yat dialect (New Orleans)

Ocracoke

Western English
California English

Boontling

Pacific Northwest English

Hawaiian Pidgin

cigarettesofstone: awkwardsituationist: “not natashsa,” a...

Wed, 15 May 2013 13:23:30 -0400

cigarettesofstone:

awkwardsituationist:

“not natashsa,” a photographic essay on eastern european sex trafficked slaves by dana popa

(documentary, the real sex traffic; film, lilya 4-ever)

this is real

cigarettesofstone: awkwardsituationist: “not natashsa,” a...

Wed, 15 May 2013 13:22:14 -0400

cigarettesofstone:

awkwardsituationist:

“not natashsa,” a photographic essay on eastern european sex trafficked slaves by dana popa

(documentary, the real sex traffic; film, lilya 4-ever)

this is real

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Thu, 25 Apr 2013 13:52:53 -0400

Forgotten land

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 13:48:13 -0400

Ears buzzing with Music,
Mind distorted by memory
Of us on the bed, your lips on mine,
The world forgotten.
The devastating lies that we told each other,
The ones we did not.
I can still hear our beating hearts wrapped as one,
The awful agony of it all.
I go to a club, where music is loud,
Faces are distorted by darkness,
Where I can drink and dance with a stranger,
And sometimes forget what it felt like being with you.

"God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables – slaves with white collars...."

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 13:29:19 -0400

“God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables – slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars, but we won’t. We’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.”

- Fight Club (via jahanzebjz)

Kiss Goodbye

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 11:05:25 -0400

Some eyes need to be forgotten.

In the process, some lips need to be kissed.

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Sat, 20 Apr 2013 11:04:16 -0400

Storm

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 07:56:00 -0400

I heard him say ” Its over”, but I was unable to comprehend.

Those words buzzed and buzzed in my head again and again.

And then,

I looked into his eyes and saw a storm the weatherman forgot to warn me about.

It haunts your nightmares.

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 07:31:30 -0400

It haunts your nightmares.

Antidote

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 13:18:00 -0400

The heart that was filled with love, now wanders through paths of loneliness.
The sadness that lay deep within, surfaced at the sight of his face.
May be there is no cure for loneliness,
May be love is not an antidote but just another theory.

"I don’t know how much movies should entertain. I’m interested in movies that scar."

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 08:18:43 -0500

“I don’t know how much movies should entertain. I’m interested in movies that scar.””

- David Fincher (via colinfirth)

noraleah: Marina Abramovic meets Ulay “Marina Abramovic and...

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 13:45:41 -0500

noraleah:

Marina Abramovic meets Ulay

“Marina Abramovic and Ulay started an intense love story in the 70s, performing art out of the van they lived in. When they felt the relationship had run its course, they decided to walk the Great Wall of China, each from one end, meeting for one last big hug in the middle and never seeing each other again. at her 2010 MoMa retrospective Marina performed ‘The Artist Is Present’ as part of the show, a minute of silence with each stranger who sat in front of her. Ulay arrived without her knowing it and this is what happened.”

(via carlosbaila)

radicalhomo: Photographer’s girlfriend leads him around the...

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 05:56:00 -0500

radicalhomo:

Photographer’s girlfriend leads him around the world.

detenebrate: 0xymoronic: shitarianasays: theeyesinthenight: t...

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 05:34:04 -0500

detenebrate:

0xymoronic:

shitarianasays:

theeyesinthenight:

the-sonic-screw:

platinumpixels:

volpesvolpes:

unseilie:

sarahvonkrolock:

gaysexagainstawall:

them-days-was-olden-as-fuck:

The spread of the black death.

Poland

Poland, tell us your secret.

Poland is the ~~old~~ new Madagascar.

If I remember correctly, Poland’s secret is that the jews where being blamed all over europe (as usual) as scapegoats for the black plague. Poland was the only place that accepted Jewish refugees, so pretty much all of them moved there.

Now, one of the major causes of getting the plague was poor hygiene. This proved very effective for the plague because everyone threw their poop into the streets because there were no sewers, and literally no one bathed because it was against their religion. Unless they were jewish, who actually bathed relatively often. When all the jews moved to Poland, they brought bathing with them, and so the plague had little effect there.

Milan survived by quarantining its city and burning down the house of anyone showing early symptoms, with the entire family inside it.

I reblogged this tons of times, but the Milan info is new.

Damn Italy, you scary.

Poland: “Hey, feeling a bit down? Have a quick wash! There, you see? All better”

Milan: “Aw, feeling a bit sick are we? BURN MOTHERFUCKER, BURN!!!!!”

Also, this might have something to do with it: from what I understand, O blood type is uncommonly… common in Poland. Something to do with large families in small villages and a LOT of intermarriage. The black plague was caused by a bacterium that produced, in its waste in the human body, wastes that very closely mimic the “B” marker sugars on red blood cells that keep the body from attacking its own immune system. Anyone who has a B blood type had an immune system that was naturally desensitized to the presence of the bacterium, and therefore was more prone to developing the disease. Anyone who had an O type was doubly lucky because the O blood type means the total absence of ANY markers, A or B, meaning that their bodys’ immune system would react quickly and violently against the invaders, while someone with an A may show symptoms and recover more slowly, while someone with B would have just died. Because O is a recessive blood type, it shows in higher numbers when more people who carry the recessive genes marry other people who also carry the recessive gene. Poland, which has a nearly 700 year history of being conquered by or partnering with every other nation in the surrounding area, was primarily an agricultural country, focused around smaller, farming communities where people were legally tied to, and required to work, “their” land, and so historically never “spread” their genes across a large area. The economy was, and had been, unstable for a very long period of time leading up to the plague, the government had been ineffective and had very little reach in comparison to the armies of the other countries around for a very very long time, and so its people largely remained in small communities where multiple generations of cross-familial inbreeding could have allowed for this more recessive gene to show up more frequently. Thus, there could be a higher percentage of O blood types in any region of the country, guaranteeing less spread of the illness and moving slower when it did manage to travel. Combine this with the fact that there were very few large, urban centers where the disease would thrive, and with the above facts, and you’ve got a lovely recipe for avoiding the plague.

Interestingly enough, as a result from the plague, the entirety of Europe now has a higher percentage of people with O blood type than any other region of the world.

WHY IS THIS ALL SO COOL

When Tumblr teaches you more about the plague than 12 years of school ever did.

Just to throw a nod in, as a medieval historian, this is all credible, and is the leading theory as to the plagues effectiveness at this point. So. Enjoy your new knowledge!