so, i made a uquiz bc i am bored and it’s 2am

are you a cowboy, vampire, or ghost?

IM SORRY IT CAME OUT MUCH MORE SADDER THAN INTENDED

A message from the Government of Yukon.

You can download a print quality version of the poster here!

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Submitted by @teaganaliss 

You need a nap!

Test your colour vision

IM A FUCKING MOLE

i tried again and got dog HOW AM I AN ART KID

I’M A HAWK WTF I’M BASICALLY BLIND

September 21st 1937: The Hobbit published

On this day in 1937, J.R.R Tolkein’s fantasy novel The Hobbit, or There and Back Again was published in the United Kingdom. The novel follows the adventures of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins, as he assists a group of dwarves to reclaim their homeland, and tries to claim a share of treasure guarded by the fearsome dragon Smaug. Tolkein, an academic at Oxford University, found inspiration for the novel in his studies of Old Norse mythology and language. Upon completion, Tolkein had several notable literary friends, including C.S. Lewis of Narnia fame, read the manuscript. The novel was published by George Allen & Unwin Ltd. in September 1937, with an initial run of 1,500 copies, which quickly sold out. The Hobbit was a great success, popular among adults and reviewers despite its childlike tone, and was nominated for the Carnegie Medal. The popularity of The Hobbit led Tolkein’s publisher to request a sequel, which became The Fellowship of the Ring (1954), the first book in The Lord of the Rings series. His work on these novels led Tolkein to amend certain portions of The Hobbit to accommodate Middle Earth lore introduced in the new books. The Fellowship of the Ring was followed by The Two Towers and The Return of the King, and the trilogy - along with its precursor The Hobbit - remain immensely popular literary classics.

The epidemic began on September 13, 2005, when Blizzard introduced a new raid called Zul’Gurub into the game as part of a new update. Its end boss, Hakkar, could affect players by using a debuff called Corrupted Blood, a disease that damages players over time, this one specifically doing significant damage. The disease could be passed on between any nearby characters, and would kill characters with lower levels in a few seconds, while higher level characters could keep themselves alive. It would disappear as time passed or when the character died. Due to a programming error, players’ pets and minions carried the disease out of the raid.

Non-player characters could contract the disease but were asymptomatic to it and could spread it to others.[2] At least three of the game’s servers were affected. The difficulty in killing Hakkar may have limited the spread of the disease. Discussion forum posters described seeing hundreds of bodies lying in the streets of the towns and cities. Deaths in World of Warcraft are not permanent, as characters are resurrected shortly afterward.[3] However, dying in such a way is disadvantageous to the player’s character and incurs inconvenience.[4]

During the epidemic, normal gameplay was disrupted. Player responses varied but resembled real-world behaviors. Some characters with healing abilities volunteered their services, some lower-level characters who could not help would direct people away from infected areas, some characters would flee to uninfected areas, and some characters attempted to spread the disease to others.[2] Players in the game reacted to the disease as if there was real risk to their well-being.[5] Blizzard Entertainment attempted to institute a voluntary quarantine to stem the disease, but it failed, as some players didn’t take it seriously, while others took advantage of the pandemonium.[2] Despite certain security measures, players overcame them by giving the disease to summonable pets.[6] Blizzard was forced to fix the problem by instituting hard resets of the servers and applying quick fixes.[3]

The major towns and cities were abandoned by the population as panic set in and players rushed to evacuate to the relative safety of the countryside, leaving urban areas filled to the brim with corpses, and the city streets literally white with the bones of the dead.[7]

please read the full wikipedia article

Orgrimmar during the incident.

This is legitimately one of the most fascinating events in online and/or gaming history to date.

This post leaves out the most incredible part, which is that the CDC straight up contacted Blizzard and asked for all the data they had on the Corrupted Blood Plague for the purposes of refining their models of epidemic behavior in real human populations. 

First day of fall semester: It’s a new year and we’re all going to hit the ground running–fresh, energized, and excited to work!

First day of spring semester: Wait sorry class starts when and what are we reading? Which is my classroom? Oh God I haven’t put real pants on in two weeks, what tf do you mean coffee is not a meal

Things The Signs Aren’t Good At

luminatress:

me when artistic inspiration strikes:

me a week later when followers ask where the content is:

Lucifer vs. Other Supernatural Shows

Other Supernatural Character: I must protect my identity AT ALL COSTS. My partner can NOT discover my secret, it would be dangerous for her/him and they would not be able to handle it!!!

Lucifer: Hey, Chloe, I’m the devil. Literally. Here, watch!!! Look, I’ll use my power to get the suspect to divulge their desires. Why aren’t you listening to me. I’m the devil!!!

#IN A FILM OF PERFECT MOMENTS THE HAND FLEX™ STANDS ALONE#BEATIFIED; REVERED AMONGST ITS PEERS#NEVER BEFORE OR SINCE HAS A PIECE OF CINEMA BEEN SO PURE; SO HEART WRENCHING; SO OBSCENELY EROTIC#IM GONNA KILL MATTHEW MCFADYEN#pride and prejudice#THE WAY HIS THUMB GRAZES OVER HER KNUCKLES PUT ME IN THE MOTHERFUCKING BIN#and the way she looks at him like ‘did he just’#and he looks back at her like ‘fuck. i did that…. we practically boned on the driveway’#BUT HONESTLY THIS ONE MOMENT IS MORE SEXUALLY CHARGED THAN ANY SEX SCENE OR ANY ACTUAL SEX#and okay like people who hate this movie#(YES. THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO HATE CINEMATIC MASTERPIECE PRIDE AND PREJUDICE 2005)#say that it is a bad adaption of the book because it focuses on the sexual tension too much#and not the like ~repressed nature of lizzie and darcy’s witty repartee#BITCH#ARE YOU SEEING THIS?#DO YOU SEE THIS GIFSET?#IS HE NOT REPRESSED ENOUGH FOR YOU?????#HE SPENDS THE WHOLE MOVIE DISGUSTED THAT HE’S ACCIDENTALLY CAUGHT FEELINGS#HE THRIVES ON HAVING TOUCHED HER HAND TO HAND FOR LIKE A MONTH!??#THEY GAZE AT EACH OTHER DURING CHURCH SERMONS#I’VE NEVER SEEN TWO PEOPLE SO REPRESSED IN MY WHOLE FUCKING LIFE#look JANE AUSTEN HERSELF would SWOON watching this movie#she would skype that dude she got engaged to for one night and ask him to roleplay reenact this hand flex with her#kinkshame the austen

@thesepoorhearts