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Yes I am, those fuckers were literally bird-brained.
I think you'll find I'm 150 million years out of Thagomizer range you extinct piece of Allosaur shit
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Oropher: You don't have to go out of your way to be petty.
Thranduil: I've never once gone out of my way to be petty. It's directly on my route.
Thranduil: In fact, sometimes, it's the destination.
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Anonymous asked:
Have you ever seen a movie more than once in theaters?
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“I have no idea what Ryan has planned - If indeed he had been planned anything”-
SOMEONE CHECK UP ON RYAN CONDAL RIGHT NOW PLEASE
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i had a dream that time travel was invented and too many people choose to travel back in time to save the titanic from sinking (the question of whether unsinking of the titanic deserved so much attention in the face of human history was the subject of both heavy academic and online discourse), which caused a rift in the space-time-continuum that led to the titanic showing up indiscriminately all over the world’s oceans and sea in various states of sinking.
this caused a lot of issues both in terms of fixing said space-time-continuum and in terms of nautical navigation, and after a long and heavy battle in the international maritime organization it was decided that the bureaucratic burden of dealing with this was to be upon Ireland, much to their dismay. the Irish Government then released an app for all sailors and seafarers so they could report titanic sightings during their journeys, even though they heavily dissuaded you from reporting them given the paperwork it caused.
anyway i woke up with a clear image of the app in my head and needed to recreate it for all of you:
no you don't understand. i do international regulation of emerging technologies for a living. this WAS me stress dreaming about work
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Maedhros and Maglor taught their younger brothers how to sail. Yes, someone got pushed into the water to prove to Caranthir that the life-vests work.
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Pangaea was wasted on the dinosaurs. Imagine the railway network.
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pick a book series you'd love to erase from your brain and read for the first time again:
targtowers: choose the twilight saga.
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we did it tumblr
SCHOLASTIC MAGAZINE???
Not only has Goncharov broken containment but it's now fully immortalized in print. Fantastic work everyone.
Truly, the greatest mafia movie ever made.
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August next week !!?!??????!!!!?????!!??????
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The treatment of ancient technology in Stargate SG1 vs Stargate Atlantis is so funny cause Jack struggled to simply light up a lamp while all John had to do was exhale and every bit of ancient tech in a 2 km radio came alive in an attempt to impress him
John: I don't see what's so hard about working with Ancient tech. I do it all the time and you don't see me with a PhD -- Everyone on Atlantis, together, in exasperated chorus: THE CITY LIKES YOU BETTER JOHN
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One thing I love about the Silmarillion is that because it’s so massive, its fans have to specialize.
Like I love everything but my Silm major is in Finrod studies, with a minor in obscure background characters.
Reblog this post with your Silmarillion “speciality,”
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With the knowledge that Vulcan has regularly high winds & subsequent sandstorms I propose a type of guy: midwestern dads watching tornadoes but for Vulcans. Somebody's uncle Sovar standing outside with his hands on his hips watching a massive cloud roll closer. Unconcerned because this happens, like, every couple of weeks. He's like "this one is large, is it not" yes it is go back inside Sovar
The one Vulcan aspect Kirk can excel at.
Kirk: “Oh yeah I’m from Iowa. It’s part of something called tornado alley.”
Spock: “Where’s the captain? The storm is getting worse.”
Crewman: “He’s out there with the other Vulcans. He told us to wait in the shuttle.”
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Another Ides of March thought: bcos the majority of our primary sources on Ancient Rome were written by members of the senatorial class it's easy to fall into the trap of conflating 'the senate hated this guy' with 'everyone hated this guy' when those are two very different things.
& then when there's evidence that people outside the senate didn't in fact hate that guy, it's easy to fall into the trap of privileging the senatorial position on the assumption that the senate just Knew Best.
Commodus* & Nero, two of the most notorious Bad Emperors, were actually very popular with regular people. This is often attributed to them essentially putting on a big show (festival, circuses, that kind of thing) but that's kinda just continuing to privilege the senate's position by assuming that when contemporary sources say 'the plebs liked Nero bcos he threw a lot of cool parties' they are actually being truthful. Regular people in Ancient Rome very much did pay attention to politics.
Like yeah Julius Caesar did piss off the senate enough that a full 60 guys conspired to murder him but the population of the city of Rome at the time was potentially approaching 1 million people (half a million if you want a more conservative estimate). That's uhh. A lot of people whose opinions are not well reflected by the sources.
Just some food for thought anyhow!
*That's the one from Gladiator fyi
Ditto Caligula. Most of the stuff that was later spun as "this dude was wildly crazy" was more likely a deliberate insult to the Senate or probably never happened and was just standard vilification by historians who came from the senatorial class, and by all accounts Caligula was quite popular with the Roman people for his generous subsidies, his building projects, his participation in public sporting events, and his habit of hanging out with equites and even lowlier people who he thought were more fun than Senators.
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Imagine waiting for the coast guard or whatever to show up and instead a replica of 18th century merchant ship pulls up and tows you to the coast.
pov: you’ve been transported to the 17th century
#in the article it says that the sailboat sailors were concerned because they could not be towed quickly because of the kind of boat#so they asked Götheborg what type of ship they were and warned that they would not be able to go above a certain speed#and götheborg went ' we are also a sailboat. 50 meters length. no worries :) '#and the poor sailboat sailors were just like ' That's not possible. they have to be messing with us' and then the ship Rolled Up (via bunjywunjy)
I'm crying. Here's a photo of a sailor from the Götheborg watching over the little sailboat in tow:
From the story:
We repeatedly emphasized that we were aboard a small 8-meter sailboat, but the response was the same each time: "We are a 50-meter three-masted sailboat, and we offer our assistance in towing you to Paimpol." We were perplexed by the size difference between our two boats, as we feared being towed by a boat that was too large and at too fast a speed that could damage our boat. The arrival of the Götheborg on the scene was rapid and surprising, as we did not expect to see a merchant ship from the East India Company of the XVIII century. This moment was very strange, and we wondered if we were dreaming. Where were we? What time period was it? The Götheborg approached very close to us to throw the line and pass a large rope. The mooring went well, and our destinies were linked for very long hours, during which we shared the same radio frequency to communicate with each other. The crew of the Götheborg showed great professionalism and kindness towards us. They adapted their speed to the size of our boat and the weather conditions. We felt accompanied by very professional sailors. Every hour, the officer on duty of the Götheborg called us to ensure everything was going well.[...] This adventure, very real, was an incredible experience for us. We were extremely lucky to cross paths with the Götheborg by chance and especially to meet such a caring crew. Dear commander and crew of the Götheborg, your kindness, and generosity have shown that your ship is much more than just a boat. It embodies the noblest values of the sea, and we are honored to have had the chance to cross your path and benefit from your help.
"Our destinies were linked for very long hours" is just knocking me out.
Reblogging again. This must have been a surreal experience.
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the Federation itself as a concept is so funny because the founding members are
- the Vulcans, who have been friends with humanity for years but don't seem to actually like them all that much, instead regarding them with a sort of perverse fascination usually reserved for virology labs
- the Andorians, who were fighting the Vulcans for like a hundred years
- the Tellarites, who don't like any of these people and whose cultural trait is arguing, and
- humans, whom nobody knew existed until last century when they shot themselves into space on a heavily modified nuke, invented world peace and won a fight with the nearest imperial superpower
like imagine you're the Romulan Empire and these weird monkeys who've barely figured out interstellar travel show up on your doorstep in the equivalent of a shipping container with missiles strapped to it, kick your ass in front of everybody, and then start a friendship club with 3 of your neighbours who all hated each others' guts until like a year ago. now I understand why every Romulan on the show is so angry
And the guy who started it all, spent 10 years poking his head over the neighbor's fences saying "Hi. This is the Earth ship Enterprise, do you want to be friends?"
Reblog if you want to be friends