fittingoutjane:

enkiduofvideogames:

nicodiangeloisliterallymefr:

spitblaze:

‘the human body is perfect god doesnt make mistakes’ what about wisdom teeth then. huh. gonna let those bastards grow in and fuck up your jaw for god. didnt think so

also the exploding appendix

there’s an entire book about all the ways the human body is fucked up, but the highlights I remember are:

-The blood vessels for our rods and cones in our eyes don’t run behind them but rather in front of them. It’s like putting the power cables *over* a camera’s lens

-the nasal sinus cavities fucked up during evolution. when our skulls shortened, we went from having a straight shot from one end to the other to having basically a basin which can collect mucus, which then has the actual exit for the chamber at the top of it. this normally isn’t a problem bc cillia can work viscous mucus up it, but when we get sick and produce super watery mucus, it no longer works, which is why our noses get stuffed up.

the book is called Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes. I recommend it.

Most mammals can’t get scurvy. They make their own Vitamin C. But in primates, the gene to make it is broken. Normally, when an important gene breaks, the organism dies and has no surviving descendants, but when it broke a few million years ago, our ancestors were living in a lush climate with lots of fruit and survived the failure just fine.

Then humans invented fire and clothing, and moved to colder climates where fresh food was only available part of the year, and scurvy was born.

And our reproduction, oh heavens. There are SO MANY WAYS that human reproduction is fucked up that simply DO NOT APPLY to other animals, even the our nearest relatives, the great apes. When a gorilla is giving birth, she finds a nice hiding place in the trees, squats down for like half an hour, and pushes out a baby. Humans, not so much. In fact, the outcomes of unassisted childbirth in humans are so poor that most anthropologists agree that we must have invented midwifery in some form before we became fully human.

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barclaysbianca:

Meme news: The Brazilian actress Renata Sorrah came out as bisexual at the age of 76

That’s her, btw


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She’s an icon and also very talented. We Stan.

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haunthouse:

overheard some teens today talking about a girl they know who’s a “canned fish influencer” and makes and sells her own canned fish and how everyone they know is big into canned fish now and throwing fish canning parties every weekend? i can’t tell if i’m way more out of touch with The Youths than i thought, or if they were doing a bit, or if seattle youths are just extra incomprehensible. maybe all three

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dailyadventureprompts:

Adventure: An Ascension form Violence

“ You have been taught a great lie, and like all such lies it was spoken by those who would blind you to the truth of the world, and have you live in a reality of their making. 

Their Lie is thus: That Power is the antidote to fear, and that the road to power lays through the pain of others. 

Accept that to fear is to be mortal, and you will not fear pain, fear no pain, and they will hold no power over you. 

This is the Truth of the world: Do with it what you will. “

Teachings of grandmaster Jidek, recorded during his encounter with an assassin.  

Adventure Hooks: 

  • While wandering into town, the party encounters a group of thugs shaking down some local shopowners, and when the party intervenes, they discover that the thugs infact outnumber them 3:1. Things look like they’re going to get heated, when a shaven headed young woman makes herself known in the crowd, scaring the bandits off with just her presence. With a fight averted, the woman goes back to her vegetable shopping without a word, leaving the party to ask the onlookers what the hell just happened. 
  • After tracking a gang of bandits back to their lair ( or perhaps being captured themselves,) the party finds that the roughians have taken a young brother of the local abbey hostage. More of an inexperienced scholar than a hardened master of the martial arts, the badits have worked this youth over looking for information about his abbey and someone named  “Nomolun” 
  • Three-Glories monastery and the landscape it inhabits have long been famous for the poetry they inspire, with artists and other appreciators of beauty making pilgrimage to the sun-blessed temple. Several of these admirers have actually had their remains interred within the monastery, to become one with the landscape in death.  These dramatic interments have only increased Three-Glories reputation, and given rise to the occasional rumor of secret catacombs beneath the abbey filled with the bones of dead poets. 

Setup: Three-Glories monastery is infact at war with a vicious gang of bandits known collectively as “the Grinsplitters” , under the leadership of a sadistic hafling by the name of Joki Cobble.  The woman they’re looking for, Nomolun, was one of their best assassins and burglars, and was sent into the monastery after Joki got it into his head that the monks were infact hording a massive pile of treasure, treasure he wanted to take for himself.  Specifically, Joki overheard that a particular poet buried in the abbey “Turned everything her tongue touched to gold” and decided that since relics of other dead people he’d heard of had other crazy powers, that this poetic embellishment was infact some kind of alchemical miracle.  Nomolun was sent in to find the tongue, but ended up encountering the abbey’s grandmaster when she couldn’t find the non-existent artifact and was forced to look for someone to ask for directions.  A hostage situation ensued that lasted three days, during which the grandmaster calmly engaged his captor in conversation, and eventually got her to put down her knife and renounce her ties to the Grinsplitters. 

Having since taken vows and begun her path as a dedicate of Three-Glories monastery, Nomolun is eager to see her former comrades give up their pursuit of a fatuous treasure and perhaps even their lives of crime, but she realizes that most are still held to their course by terror of/ loyalty to Joki

Even without his gang, the halfling is a menace in and of himself. Growing up rough, Joki was kicked off his family’s farm for torturing one too many of their livestock, eventually falling in with a brutal gang of mercenaries called “The Butcher’s Company” where he earned the fine art of sociopathy and throatcutting. Most infamously the halfling marks his gang’s kills by taking a single tooth from each of his victims on a necklace, and has amassed such a collection that he’s made a tradition of starting every year with a fresh cord. The Grinsplitter’s leader has made it no secret that he’d like to add one of Nomolun’s teeth to the strand, and aims to do so before the year is out.  

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spicyshimmy-blog:

if you are ever feeling down, like a complete failure, just remember that the dread wolf, who was clever enough to defeat the ancient elven gods of yore, a brilliant trickster god of cleverness and cunning, woke up one day from a really long nap to discover his ancient orb of awesome power wasn’t working right, so he decided to give it to one of the most dangerous and conniving darkspawn ever because, like, that seemed like a good idea at the time or something

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fierceawakening:

hebicakes:

as we get closer to pride 2023

a lot of anti-kink rhetoric is going to be dressed up in progressive language, and we need to think VERY CAREFULLY about it before blanking out and hitting reblog.

Think about the outcomes of the things you say and do. 🙏 And remember that anti-kink policies and censorship of sex will always come for and affect queer people first.

“Who is that HARMING?”
“Did you ask the people involved?”
“Well, no, but I think–”
“We’re done here, thanks, bye.”

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