jeffsimpsonkh: “ I’m a bit late to the mad max party, but I finally drew some Furiosa ”

jeffsimpsonkh:

I’m a bit late to the mad max party, but I finally drew some Furiosa

lousysharkbutt: “ HES JUST A LITTLE STRESSED OUT ”

lousysharkbutt:

HES JUST A LITTLE STRESSED OUT

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#trOOOOO #tfa #swtfa #ples
sydweiler: “I adopted a pitcher plant. Tumblr killed the gif quality.. original here ”

sydweiler:

I adopted a pitcher plant.  

Tumblr killed the gif quality.. original here

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#a bb! #gif
arthurdactylus: “A parlour game suggestion from a nineteeth-century book of “indoor amusements”. Sounds fun to me. ”

arthurdactylus:

A parlour game suggestion from a nineteeth-century book of “indoor amusements”. Sounds fun to me.

Rey is given a luxury that comes so easily to male heroes – she simply turns a corner, finds a magical item (Luke Skywalker’s Lightsaber, no less) and it awakens the Force in her. Just that. No searing infertility, no rape, no revelation of past abuse, no heartbreak, no sacrifice. No heroine who’s validity is defined by what she has sacrificed, in the way of Katniss handing up her life for her sister, becoming a martyr for a revolution. In the way of Ariel, handing over her power to speak in order to walk on land. No poison apple, no needle on a spinning wheel here. —

Opinion: Girls Explain Star Wars To You – (via damelola)

Good lord, what a great insight on Rey.

(via inapprehension)

Seriously, I have heard so many variants, from women who’ve seen it, of “IS THIS WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO BE A TEENAGE BOY IN THE 1980s!?!?”

(via jessicalprice)

in a lot of ways TFA really is the best star wars

(via hexmaniacwingy)

aristoteliancomplacency:

Finally got Mad Max on dvd and sat down to watch it with my partner (who never got a chance to see it at the cinema).

Here are some semi-coherent thoughts from a classicist: 


By using the term ‘imperator’, the comparison to Rome is invited.
Immortan Joe, The Bullet Farmer and The People Eater as a triumvirate.
Men, emperors, concerned to make themselves gods even before they die. The imperial cult.

—

The mother’s milk, the women treated as cattle - Hera, Io, once again, the “Greek impulse to see female sexuality in terms of cows.” (Padel, 1992: 121), though perhaps it’s not such a specifically Greek impulse, in the end. The ‘humanisation’ of the rapist, the playing down of rape: the mental and emotional abuse on top of the physical abuse. The wives have it good, Immortan Joe tells them. If you ignore the slavery and the rape. Io will have it good, Prometheus tells her - Zeus will impregnate her with a gentle touch. Nevermind that it’s still rape. Nevermind that she has been dragged from her home and family and chased across the world until eventually she finds a place she can settle down. Just one more woman racing through a hostile world desperately looking for a place to call home. 

—

The Citadel = agriculture
Gas Town = commerce
The Bullet Farm = war

Who killed the world? Ask the wives. Men like Immortan Joe, the camera tells us, framing him in front of their written question. The world ended. There was an apocalypse. Where are the four horsemen? What happens to them afterwards? This would not be the first work that has replaced their horses with cars. (Good Omens, Supernatural).

the Bullet Farmer (The Bullet Farm) as war
Immortan Joe (the Citadel) as famine
The People Eater (Gas town) as pollution

But Death is always different. Death is not like the others. (again, Good Omens, Supernatural). Death is Furiosa, and Death comes even for her brother horsemen, in the end.

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Mad Max as Odysseus - the City Sacker, but an Odysseus without hope. And Odysseus who cannot return home no matter how far he wanders. There is no Penelope in this world - no woman beset by men trying to force her to take their hand in marriage, whose only hope is to hold them off until her husband returns. No. Instead these women are Medeas and Amazons. In this world the suitors already took them. They could not hold them off. And now they will not wait for a man to save them. They will save themselves or die trying.

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Furiosa as Persephone? She left and the Green Place died. Now she returns to the Many Mothers - the Many Demeters, who hold the seeds, who are ready to replant and revitalise the world, to make the crops grow again, if only they could. She cannot revive the Green Place with her return, but she can take them back with her to a new Green Place, her city, a city of Famine and Death. In the post-apocalyptic world, the borders and boundaries break down - the imaginary borders of countries, the borders between the world, between Olympus, and the earth, and Hades. Now Hades is the Green Place. Persephone no longer ocillates between her roles, she is both, all the time. Time has no meaning in the post-apocalypse. Season are one more boundary that has disappeared.

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frrmsd: “ Printmaker & Artist: Edgar Bacalao “WAY ZOTS!!” De la serie “La Fiesta del Huay Chivo” Estampa de grabado en madera (Xilografía) Tinta Negro de Hueso Papel Guarro Opalina Marfil 57 cm x 72 cm ”

frrmsd:

Printmaker & Artist:

Edgar Bacalao

“WAY ZOTS!!”

De la serie “La Fiesta del Huay Chivo”

Estampa de grabado en madera (Xilografía) 

Tinta Negro de Hueso

Papel Guarro Opalina Marfil 

57 cm x 72 cm

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coolartefact: “ One of the two Buddhas of Bamiyan, Afghanistan, c. 591 - 644 AD, before they were destroyed by the Taliban in 2001 Source: https://imgur.com/aH1x5wU ”

coolartefact:

One of the two Buddhas of Bamiyan, Afghanistan, c. 591 - 644 AD, before they were destroyed by the Taliban in 2001

Source: https://imgur.com/aH1x5wU

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#rip

Dental Formula Cheat Sheet (adult) 

oosik:

ileanderthal:

jangojips:

I made this for myself, but maybe others will find this useful!

Cat: 3131/3121

Raccoon: 3142/3142

Skunk: 3131/3132

Wolverine: 3141/3142

Dog: 3142/3143

And you are saying to yourself: “Jangojips, there is no way I would confuse a dog with a cat.” To which I say, “But what if you find a partial chihuahua?”

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(image from skulls unlimited )

Flat face, big eyes, small size…. I could see how this could confuse a novice. 

That is the scariest skull I’ve ever seen.

I can see how this can be mistaken for a cat, but here’s the easiest way to note if a skull in question is from a dog or cat:

Check the teeth in profile:
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See how huge the last premolar is? This is a defining characteristic of canids, even with chihuahuas. 

Now, look at the dental profile of a felid. Below is a bobcat. Note the size of the back molar. It’s definitely the largest. So if you’re just looking for a quick ID, you hardly even have to worry about counting.

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ohnorobo:

Madonna of the Microscope, Madonna of Dark Matter, Madonna of the Particle, Chris Shaw 2013

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academicatheism: “ Chimps show empathy by mimicking pupil size Chimpanzees and humans may share the same ability to empathise with other individuals by involuntarily matching their pupil size. The mimicry only appears to work between two humans or...

academicatheism:

Chimps show empathy by mimicking pupil size

Chimpanzees and humans may share the same ability to empathise with other individuals by involuntarily matching their pupil size. The mimicry only appears to work between two humans or between two chimpanzees but not between species, suggesting the signalling reinforces social bonds within species.

We already know that pupils change shape in response to a new, unfamiliar target: they tend to constrict initially and, after a fraction of a second, readjust and dilate. There’s evidence that human pupils dilate more rapidly while adjusting if their owner is interacting with another human whose pupils are also dilating. The dilation-adjustment happens more slowly if the other human’s pupils are constricting. But it is unclear when this pupil mimicry began in evolutionary terms.

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