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mavisvermillions: trying to get friends to ship your ship

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:54:08 -0400

trying to get friends to ship your ship

siggymcpissyface: femgie-flames: wellthatsnicehuh: But that’s...

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:52:32 -0400

femgie-flames:

wellthatsnicehuh:

But that’s ALL of my blog :(

Get ready to lose a lot of users, tumblr. In many cases this site is used purely for porn. And I know some people won´t be taking this change lightly. Besides. Why should this site be for kids anyway? Like, kids under the age of obvious.

IT’S A FAKE TWEET YOU GUYS.

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Thu, 23 May 2013 12:50:57 -0400

archiemcphee: American artist Dave Cole transforms existing...

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:50:44 -0400

archiemcphee:

American artist Dave Cole transforms existing machinery into awesome new devices with functions completely unrelated to their original purpose. In 2012 he transformed a 22,000 pound steam roller into The Music Box. Instead of flattening surfaces the machine now plays the “Star Spangled Banner.”

Though Cole stripped most of the weight out of the compactor to make the sculpture more manageable, it still weighs in at 2,000 pounds. The sculpture was commissioned by the Cleveland Institute of Art.

Click here to watch a video of The Music Box in action.

Back in 2005 Dave Cole created The Knitting Machine. Two enormous excavators were fitted with 20-foot-long knitting needles and positioned across from each other. Working together they knitted an oversized American flag. Click here to watch video footage of The Knitting Machine.

[via Juxtapoz and Laughing Squid]

rudeshota: SOMETIMES I WONDER HOW KINGDOM HEARTS IS A REAL VIDEO GAME SERIES THOUGH LIKE HOW DID IT...

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:50:22 -0400

rudeshota:

SOMETIMES I WONDER HOW KINGDOM HEARTS IS A REAL VIDEO GAME SERIES THOUGH LIKE HOW DID IT EVEN MAKE IT THROUGH PRODUCTION AND HOW IT BECAME A COMMERCIAL SUCCESS LIKE WHEN YOU GET INTO IT ITS GOOD BUT IF YOU DIDNT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT IT AND YOU JUST SAW THIS IMAGE

YOU WOULD THINK “oh my god that looks fucking ridiculous” LOOK HOW SERIOUS AND ANGRY DONALD LOOKS AND THERES AN ANIME GUY WITH A GIANT KEY STANDING NEXT TO HIM HOLY SHIT

hiddlestonhug: The perfect post.

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:49:50 -0400

hiddlestonhug:

The perfect post.

hiddlestonhug: The perfect post.

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:49:15 -0400

hiddlestonhug:

The perfect post.

amandaonwriting: The Disturbing Origins of 10 Famous Fairy...

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:43:00 -0400

amandaonwriting:

The Disturbing Origins of 10 Famous Fairy Tales

by Emily Temple (reblogged from Flavorwire)

Sleeping Beauty
In one of the very earliest versions of this classic story, published in 1634 by Giambattista Basile as Sun, Moon, and Talia, the princess does not prick her finger on a spindle, but rather gets a sliver of flax stuck under her fingernail. She falls down, apparently dead, but her father cannot face the idea of losing her, so he lays her body on a bed in one of his estates.
Later, a king out hunting in the woods finds her, and since he can’t wake her up, rapes her while she’s unconscious, then heads home to his own country. Some time after that, still unconscious, she gives birth to two children, and one of them accidentally sucks the splinter out of her finger, so she wakes up. The king who raped her is already married, but he burns his wife alive so he and Talia can be together. Don’t worry, the wife tries to kill and eat the babies first, so it’s all morally sound.

Little Red Riding Hood
If you can believe it, the Brothers Grimm actually made this story a lot nicer than it was when they got their hands on it. In Charles Perrault’s version, included in his 1697 collection Stories or Fairy Tales from Past Times: Tales of Mother Goose, there is no intrepid huntsman. Little Red simply strips naked, gets in bed, and then dies, eaten up by the big bad wolf, with no miraculous relief (in another version, she eats her own grandmother first, her flesh cooked up and her blood poured into a wine glass by our wolfish friend).
Instead, Perrault gives us a little rhyming verse reminding us that not all wolves are wild beasts — some seduce with gentleness, sneak into our beds, and get us there. The sexual undertones are not lost on us — after all, the contemporary French idiom for a girl having lost her virginity was elle avoit vû le loup — she has seen the wolf.

Rumpelstiltskin
This story is pretty simple: a miller’s daughter is trapped and forced to spin straw into gold, on pain of death. A little man appears to her, and spins it for her, but says that he will take her child in payment unless she can guess his name. In the Grimm version, when the maiden finally figures out Rumpelstiltskin’s name, he reacts rather badly: ‘The Devil told you that! The Devil told you that!’ the little man yelled, and in his fury he stamped his right foot so hard that he drove it into the ground right up to his waist. Then he took hold of his left foot with both hands and tore himself in two.” Ick.

Cinderella
Here, Perrault is much nicer than Grimm — in his version, the two cruel stepsisters get married off to members of the royal court after Cinderella is properly married to the prince. In the Grimm story, not only do the stepsisters cut off parts of their feet in order to fit into the glass slippers (surprise, surprise, the blood pooling in their shoes gives them away), but at the end, they have their eyes pecked out by doves. Just for good measure.

Snow White
First of all, in the original 1812 Grimm version of this tale, the evil Queen is Snow White’s actual mother, not her stepmother. We don’t know, but that makes it a lot more terrifying to us. The Disney version also left out the fact that the Queen sends the huntsman out to bring back Snow White’s liver and lungs, which she then means to eat. And the fact that she’s actually not in a deep sleep when the prince finds her — she’s dead, and he’s carting off her dead body to play with when his servant trips, jostles the coffin, and dislodges the poison apple from SW’s throat.
Most notable, however, is the punishment the Grimms thought up for her. When the queen shows up at Snow White’s wedding, she’s forced to step into iron shoes that had been cooking in the fire, and then dances until she falls down dead.

Hansel and Gretel
The version of the story we know is already pretty gruesome — the evil stepmother abandons the children to die in the forest, they happen upon a cannibalistic witch’s cottage, she fattens them up to eat, they outwit and kill her and escape. The Grimm version is basically the same, but in an early French version, called The Lost Children, the witch is the Devil, and the Devil wants to bleed the children on a sawhorse. Of course, they pretend not to know how to get on, so the Devil has his wife (who tried to help the poor kids earlier in the story) show them. They promptly slit her throat, steal all the Devil’s money, and run off.

Rapunzel
Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair. Well, in the Grimm version, she does, a little too often, to a prince, and winds up pregnant, innocently remarking to her jailer witch that her clothes feel too tight.
The witch, not to have any competition, chops off Rapunzel’s hair and magically transports her far away, where she lives as a beggar with no money, no home, and after a few months, two hungry mouths to feed. As for the prince, the witch lures him up and then pushes him from the window. Some thorn bushes break his fall, but also poke out his eyes. For all this extra bloodshed, however, there’s still a happy ending.

Goldilocks and the Three Bears
In this tale’s earliest known incarnation, there was no Goldilocks — only the three bears and a fox called Scrapefoot, who enters the three bears’ palace, sleeps in their beds and messes around with their salmon of knowledge. In the end, she either gets thrown out of the window or eaten, depending on who’s telling the tale. Interestingly, it has been suggested that the use of the word “vixen” to mean female fox is how we got to Goldilocks, by means of a crafty old woman in the intervening story incarnations.

The Little Mermaid
We all know the story of the little mermaid: she sells her voice for a pair of legs, flops around for a bit, then wins her prince’s heart, right? Well, not exactly. In Hans Christian Andersen’s original tale, she trades tongue for legs all right, but part of the deal is that every step will be nearly unbearable, like walking on sharp swords, and the day after the prince marries someone else, she’ll die and turn into sea foam.
Hoping to win the prince’s heart, she dances for him, even though it’s agony. He claps along, but eventually decides to marry another. The mermaid’s sisters sell their hair to bring her a dagger and urge her to kill the prince and let his blood drip onto her feet, which will then become fins again. She sneaks up on him, but can’t bring herself to do it. So she dies, and dissolves into foam. Later, Andersen changed the ending, so that the mermaid becomes a “daughter of the air” — if she does good deeds for 300 years, she can get a soul and go to heaven. Many scholars find this rubbish.

The Frog Prince
Traditionally the very first story in the Grimm Brothers’ collection, this story is simple enough: the princess kisses the frog, out of the goodness of her heart, and he turns into a prince. Or, if you’re reading the original version, the frog tricks the resentful princess into making a deal with him, follows her home, keeps pushing himself further and further onto her silken pillow, until finally she hurls him against the wall. Somehow, this action is rewarded by his transformation into a prince, but it’s not even the most violent. In other early versions, she has to cut off his head instead. That’s rather far off from the traditional kiss, don’t you think?

fudgeflies: youngheartoldmind: white people

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:41:55 -0400

fudgeflies:

youngheartoldmind:

white people

tumblgheadovrheels4u: savingpeopledoingmoosestuff: #hey kids...

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:41:09 -0400

tumblgheadovrheels4u:

savingpeopledoingmoosestuff:

#hey kids #u wanna buy some drugs

I’M CRYING, CAN’T BREATH!

benedictedcumberbabeof221: mighty-thor-of-assgard: danniauttumns: ser-merlin-of-valyria: tumblr...

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:40:53 -0400

benedictedcumberbabeof221:

mighty-thor-of-assgard:

danniauttumns:

ser-merlin-of-valyria:

tumblr has fallen

david karp is dead

yahoo is coming

your second sentence only has 5 syllables. Haiku fail. Though… they all do have 5, poem pass, haiku fail.

it wasn’t a haiku, it was a harry potter reference:

“the ministry has fallen

scrimgeour is dead

they are coming.”

illkim: You have no idea what I’ve been through in my life. I had the ORIGINAL GameBoy Advance....

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:40:34 -0400

illkim:

You have no idea what I’ve been through in my life. I had the ORIGINAL GameBoy Advance. That shit had no light and I had to find the perfectly lit room. You don’t know what I come from.

erikhorrmone: ARIEL/LILLITH/MEDUSA so, keep your eyes peeled,...

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:40:21 -0400

erikhorrmone:

ARIEL/LILLITH/MEDUSA

so, keep your eyes peeled, your panties wet, your wallets loaded and follow LOST CAUSE APPARELs facebook page [ https://www.facebook.com/pages/Lost-Cause-Apparel/321981914521759?ref=ts&fref=ts ] until you can get your hands on these hot cakes!

doctorwho: Matt Smith from the Doctor Who: The Name of the...

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:39:23 -0400

doctorwho:

Matt Smith from the Doctor Who: The Name of the Doctor Inside Look

laugh-until-you-drop: Because someone wanted this rebloggable

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:39:02 -0400

laugh-until-you-drop:

Because someone wanted this rebloggable

sweet-bitsy: breanieswordvomit: caffeinated-zombie: So, in...

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:29:54 -0400

sweet-bitsy:

breanieswordvomit:

caffeinated-zombie:

So, in the middle of everything today, we ran across a hellaciously distressed momma mallard and a bunch of her baby ducks that had fallen down a sewer grate. Another guy was already trying to fish them out, so my friend and I called animal control before we tried to fish the rest of them out. When Animal Control got there, we had all of them out and the mother duck quacking very happily. I was surprised - none of us got snapped at or hurt. I was even holding onto a bag at one point that had all of them in it and she just watched me.

I love how the duck is perched on the guy’s butt

I’M SO HAPPY

chihayahearts: Dreams do come true

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:29:08 -0400

chihayahearts:

Dreams do come true

fake-mermaid: how are we almost in june i swear we were in march 2 days ago

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:28:09 -0400

fake-mermaid:

how are we almost in june i swear we were in march 2 days ago

frostbackscat: One of the best animated villains in the entire...

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:28:01 -0400

frostbackscat:

One of the best animated villains in the entire fucking universe.

mr-dalliard-ive-gone-peculiar: whalesam: toomuchtaylor: Newest...

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:27:38 -0400

mr-dalliard-ive-gone-peculiar:

whalesam:

toomuchtaylor:

Newest tattoo!

It’s on my left forearm. It’s a note my mom left me the night she died. Here’s a side-by-side shot of the two.

Deserves every note.

I cried and then I reblogged