Some people consider me a hippy, but im just me. Anything I reblog gives you details of everything about me. And I'm gay, 29, and live in Memphis TN.
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âIf anyone needs to go camping in my stateâŚâ âIf anyone needs to visit their aunt/cousin/friendâŚâ
STOP. STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP.
FOR YOUR SAFETY, S T O P.
DO NOT VOLUNTEER TO HOST RANDOM STRANGERS. DO NOT AGREE TO BE HOSTED BY A RANDOM STRANGER.
DO NOT PUBLICLY POST THAT YOUR HOUSE WILL BE AN ABORTION SAVE HAVEN. OFFICIAL NETWORKS TO DO THIS ALREADY EXIST, NETWORKS THAT HAVE THE ABILITY TO BACKGROUND CHECK, AND SHIELD THEIR VOLUNTEERS FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT
I know how obnoxious this is to say, but please: reblog this. I see these posts a lot, and I know most of you have good intentions. But these unoffical auntie networks are dangerous, both for those trying to help, and those seeking help. Law enforcement sees you. Violent anti-abortion extremists see you.
If youâre like sleep spooning a centaur and they roll over in bed do you just die
sleep on her back, then youâll just roll off if she shifts
i dont follow
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okay but what if you had a special bed insteadÂ
nothing says commitment like buying a new mattress
Centaur Comfort Mattressâ˘: The Horse Hole Keeps Your Bones Safe
Iâm honestly so glad Tumblr discusses things like âHow can I comfortably sleep with a centaur?â and âWhat kind of chairs would dragons have?â
Something I find incredibly cool is that theyâve found neandertal bone tools made from polished rib bones, and they couldnât figure out what they were for for the life of them.Â
âWait youâre still using the exact same fucking thing 50,000 years later???â
âWell, yeah. Weâve tried other things. Metal scratches up and damages the hide. Wood splinters and wears out. Bone lasts forever and gives the best polish. There are new, cheaper plastic ones, but they crack and break after a couple years. A bone polisher is nearly indestructible, and only gets better with age. The more you use a bone polisher the better it works.â
Itâs just.Â
50,000 years. 50,000. And over that huge arc of time, weâve been quietly using the exact same thing, unchanged, because we simply havenât found anything better to do the job.Â
i also like that this is a âask craftspeopleâ thing, it reminds me of when art historians were all âthe fuckâ about someoneâs ear âdeformityâ in a portrait and couldnât work out what the symbolism was until someone whoâd also worked as a piercer was like âuhm, heâs fucked up a piercing thereâ. interdisciplinary shit also needs to include non-academic approaches because crafts & trades people know shit ok
One of my professors often tells us about a time he, as and Egyptian Archaeologist, came down upon a ring of bricks one brick high. In the middle of a house. He and his fellow researchers could not fpr the life of them figure out what tf it could possibly have been for. Until he decided to as a laborer, who doesnt even speak English, what it was. The guy gestures for my prof to follow him, and shows him the same ring of bricks in a nearby modern house. Said ring is filled with baby chicks, while momma hen is out in the yard having a snack. The chicks canât get over the single brick, but mom can step right over. Over 2000 years and their still corraling chicks with brick circles. If it aint broke, dont fix it and always ask the locals.
I read something a while back about how pre-columbian Americans had obsidian blades they stored in the rafters of their houses. The archaeologists who discovered them came to the conclusion that the primitive civilizations believed keeping them closer to the sun would keep the blades sharper.
Then a mother looked at their findings and said âyeah, they stored their knives in the rafters to keep them out of reach of the children.â
Omg the ancient child proofing add on tho lol
I remember years ago on a forum (email list, thatâs how old) a woman talking about going to a museum, and seeing among the womenâs household objects a number of fired clay items referred to as âprayer objectsâ. (Apparently this sort of labeling is not uncommon when you have something that every house has and appears to be important, but no-one knows what it is.) She found a docent and said, âExcuse me, but I think those are drop spindles.â  âWhy would you think that, maâam?â  âBecause they look just like the ones my husband makes for me. See?â They got all excited, took tons of pictures and video of her spinning with her spindle. When she was back in the area a few years later, they were still on display, but labeled as drop spindles.
So ancient Roman statues have some really weird hairstyles. Archaeologists just couldnât figure them out. They didnât have hairspray or modern hair bands, or elastic at all, but some of these things defied gravity better than Marge Simpsonâs beehive.
Eventually they decided, wigs. Must be wigs. Or maybe hats. Definitely not real hair.
A hairdresser comes a long, looks at a few and is like, âYeah, theyâre sewn.â
âDonât be silly!â the archaeologists cry. âHow foolish, sewn hair indeed! LOL!â
So she went away and recreated them on real people using a needle and thread and the mystery of Roman hairstyles was solved.
She now works as a hair archaeologist and I believe she has a YouTube channel now where she recreates forgotten hairstyles, using only what they had available at the time.
why do so many people refuse to believe that cats love so pure and deeply and they’re not always just self serving little heat creatures. when a cat loves you, when a cat looks at you with love in their eyes… my god