kleenexwoman:

vitabreva:

open-plan-infinity:

For the first time since 1941, anthrax has hit Western Siberia, with 1,500 reindeer dying and 13 Yamal nomads being hospitalized including 4 children.

This is because unusually high temperatures (it’s 10 degrees Fahrenheit higher than normal) have melted permafrost containing the corpse of a reindeer that died of the bacteria 75 years ago.

Anthrax goes dormant when frozen, turning into a spore that reanimates when the temperature rises. Scientists estimate it can survive in this state for a minimum of 100 years.

In Siberia, dozens of herders have been relocated, a quarantine is in place and a state of emergency has been declared by the mayor.

This renews concerns that ancient viruses and bacteria could once again pose a threat, as the earth warms.

In 2014 scientists discovered that a Siberian virus, pithovirus sibericum, which lay dormant in permafrost for 30,000 years, became infectious again once thawed.

The article:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/07/28/anthrax-sickens-13-in-western-siberia-and-a-thawed-out-reindeer-corpse-may-be-to-blame/

this is not a consequence of global warming i had ever envisioned but now it’s the scariest thing i’ve ever heard

Hey, so remember back in 2014 when they first found that virus and we all went “we’ve all seen enough science fiction to know how this goes” and then there was no news ever again?

Yeah.

drneverland:

doublemooncrab:

It’s time for the next installation of me being mad about Kingdom Hearts merchandise coming out too late for my KH phase.

I dunno, that hat’s pretty dope.

no such thing as too late. I’ll be rocking that look dammit and I’ve been doing my own taxes for like fifteen years now

mim029:

Agrabah~

dklem:

woah jason really wanted to be included in that pic, huh

small-frost:

Dicky bird is not a fan of being made to wear his first suit for making a public appearence

If you’re still doing ugly drawings, maybe Jim and Spock attempting DDR?

petimetrek:

doubletranquility:

my favorite trope is the thing star trek does where when a character lists something and they’ll list real things/people but add 1 thats fictional, like “great writers such as shakespeare, robert frost, edgar allan poe and zaxar the giant rat man“

sashaforthewin:

unclewhisky:

clannyphantom:

if ur hair covers ur boobs u have mermaid hair and u are a mermaid i dont make the rules

As a man with a hairy chest, I was very, very confused by this post for about ten seconds.

You are a mermaid, sir

as a woman with a hairy chest, I am delighted

jumpingjacktrash:

jumpingjacktrash:

the-rain-monster:

jenniferrpovey:

lechevaliermalfet:

librarian-amy:

bjornwilde:

jenniferrpovey:

Triggered by another post I didn’t want to hijack:

Excalibur.

In the legends, Excalibur comes out of a lake (although some versions have Excalibur as the sword in the stone, those are later…the sword Arthur pulls from the stone breaks and he goes to get a better one).

From the “Lady of the Lake.”

Here’s the thing.

In northern Europe in the Iron Age all the way through to the early Medieval period, most iron came from bog iron. It was hard to smelt, because it was a rather low grade ore, but you didn’t have to mine it and it was a renewable resource (in about twenty years you could just come back and get more, because it formed constantly).

Meaning that the iron used to make a sword came…out of water.

In most fairy stories, fairies don’t like iron. So the vision of the Lady as some kind of fairy or elf? Not likely.

The idea of her as a druid? Maybe.

But what’s far more likely is this: The Lady of the Lake was a smith.

But….but…

The Celtic deity in charge of smiths and ironworking was Bridget, a goddess. The mystical associations with the Lady would fit with her being a priestess of Bridget…and thus, a smith.

IOW, Arthurian people, maybe we should not be visualizing the Lady of the Lake as a slender, graceful woman in a gown…

…but as a jacked smith in an apron.

Yes PLEASE!

@magitekbeth

This had never, ever occurred to me. But after careful consideration: YES PLEASE.

I can’t believe I got to my forties without thinking of it myself!

i like this, but i think it’s more likely that the lady of the lake is an echo of the primarily female water pilgrimmages that happened across the north from the late stone age up to, quite possibly, the 1400′s or so. still water, particularly the black water of bogs and the unlit water of caves, symbolized both death and birth. these women may have been shamans, or they may simply have been spiritually motivated people, but whether they were magicians or not they were very probably midwives and physicians.

so rather than a muscular smith, i visualize a wise but gentle elder who has brought souls into the world and seen them out for many years. the sword she provides comes out of the water of birth and death; that is to say, it has a soul.

related thought: the lady of the lake was said to be ‘clad in white samite’. samite was a silk cloth from the east; people who would have access to it in england were royalty, and those who had traveled as far as the silk road. like, say, a doctor and holy woman who had taken the water pilgrimmage through the caves of eastern europe.

yeah, the more i think about it the more i like my shaman/midwife headcanon.

Jacked af shaman who can also smith.