quark ds9 sucks in a very peculiar way and i just don't think you could replicate it with any other guy honestly. it's just him that does this.

no hope for you like at all

Do you guys remember this, literally what was it for? it feels like a fever dream because there’s no explanation

I vividly remember this because I got an alert on my phone that a clown was spotted close to university campus

someone reported you on your way to class?? 😧

I don't know who needs to hear this today, but "second sleep" as a widespread societal thing in the past is highly debated. I read the main 2004 paper on which that whole theory is based, and it seemed to me that the author (Robert Ekrich) just took examples from literature, letters, and diaries of people talking about waking up in the night and doing something before they fell asleep again, and tried to say that it was a codified Thing

Some of his sources did use the term "second sleep," but it wasn't like "this is a thing called second sleep that we all know and acknowledge and experience." It was like "I woke up at 2 a.m. and had trouble getting back to sleep, so I read a book, and my second sleep was deep and pleasant." People use that term, but the phenomenon was just… Waking up in the middle of the night occasionally. Not some grand secret of natural circadian rhythms that capitalism forced us to abandon

Generally speaking, I would recommend that people be wary of any bold claims regarding the secret way humans are wired to do things that our ancestors understood and we have forgotten. Or at the very least, read the actual paper

(it's so weird. He's like "this is what the first sleep was called! This is what the interval in between was called!" And then you read the paper and look up some of the primary sources in context, and it's just. people talking about waking up in the middle of the night and using terms to describe waking up in the middle of the night, but not really much to suggest that it was actually something everyone experienced as a Known Everyday Phenomenon)

Note how these columns are designed to perfectly allow the climbing of small lizards up and down their faces. This is a typical example of Gecko-Roman architecture

Reader, I did NOT fix him

God fixed him, with a sledgehammer.

I understand that you were aiming for a morally grey protagonist, but in practice what you've ended up with is more of a moral beige.

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Distinguishing features of moral beige:

Martin Luther King Jr. playing with his children Dexter King, Yolanda King and Bernice King in their backyard in Atlanta on November 8, 1964.

Photos by Flip Schulke

4 non blondes were right. I DO wake up in the morning and I step outside and I take a deep breath and I get real high and I scream from the top of my lungs what’s going on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

every time someones says "hey how are you" and i say "good" and forget to add the "how about you?" i feel like i've missed a quicktime event

Whenever someone tries to justify saying it's bad to read many books in a year or whatever it's usually to say that they need time to digest/sit with the text. And it's fine if you do need that, but it's a little weird to assume anyone who doesn't take a week to process a book just doesn't process it all and is merely consuming it in a shallow, meaningless way

Anyone who reads fewer books than me is an illiterate philistine. Anyone who reads more than me is rushing through them and failing to properly appreciate them. It just so happens that the number of books I read is the number that makes you a perfect human being.

...does anyone else think that mr collins recycled the proposal speech for charlotte from his proposal to elizabeth? going on and on about lady catherine and his reasons for marrying and, dear god, did he mention that she was his third choice? obliquely, of course, but i can just see him thinking it necessary to mention that he had first selected jane and was told she was off-limits--with, of course, many congratulations at the happy event that was no doubt soon to occur--and then tried again with elizabeth and was refused--and truly, he bore her no ill will even though she'd called him the last man alive who could make her happy, but really, no ill will at all--and only then, when he had made himself even more than usually utterly ridiculous, tried to pretend like charlotte was his heart's desire?

and poor charlotte, who had literally no other option than to say yes, however much she might have wanted to say no, had to sit there and listen to it and drown in absurdity as deep as the ocean and imagine what her life was going to be for the next thirty to forty years?

I do think Mr. Collins recycled his speech. Don't know if he would have mentioned Jane and Elizabeth or pretended that Charlotte was his first choice.

I don't think Charlotte wanted to say no though, she went out to meet him on purpose, she snatched this guy with motives, it's awful to sit through but this is what she decided to want.

i do forget sometimes that mr collins, as a character, tends to suck all the narrative air out of any room he's in, and that if one subtracts him, charlotte does get pretty much everything she wants and that, in the context of the world she lives in, she's done well for herself. i kept imagining terrible dark nights of the soul but upon reflection, i don't think it's in charlotte's nature to be unhappy if she can help it; perhaps it is jane austen's comment on sometimes having to put up with necessary evils--and that includes lady catherine, too--in order to have access to the things that we want and that benefit us.

besides, it's in keeping with the themes of the book that austen is subtly (or maybe not so subtly) showing us that while happiness may be some matter of chance, it does take work on our part, too (i'm sure i'm not looking at mr bennet at this point). so, if this is what charlotte decided she wanted, then it is up to her to make it as bearable for herself as she can, and because she has done that, she may have a real chance at being, as she puts it, "tolerably happy."

Unlike some other mismatched and unhappy marriages, Charlotte stays respectful of Mr. Collins and seems to do her duty by him (unlike Mr. Bennet and Maria Bertram/Rushworth). She will need to make her own happiness, and I think the novel allows us to wonder if she always will, but she went in with her eyes open. In some ways she's like Persuasion's Lady Elliot, she wasn't in love with her idiot husband but she made the most of it (at least Sir Walter was hot tho...)

I think Charlotte is an example of the ridiculous choices that women who are in the gentry but have no fortune feel themselves forced to make. While Jane Austen/the narrator may not endorse the choice that Charlotte makes, she certainly understands the factors that drive it.

you never realize how many pictures are on Tumblr until your internet is bad

i promise the map of salamander diversity is not what you expect

Appalachia numero uno salamander capital of the world baby <3 there are like 70 something species in North Carolina alone

Basically its cause they evolved here!

The U.S. states of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama also have the most biodiverse freshwater ecosystems in the world.

The Appalachian Mountains are notable for having the world's greatest diversity of tree species in a temperate forest, with over 100 species of tree that make up the forest. They're also a global hotspot of lichen biodiversity.

Fun fact, dozens of genera of plants only have 2 species in them, one found in Appalachia and one found in SE Asia. These are called vicariad species pairs. Eastern Asia and Appalachia has very similar climates, that's why all the major Appalachian invasive species, such as Kudzu, are from eastern Asia

The SE United States has some of the nation's most biodiverse ecosystems but they are also some of the least protected.

preparing the important medicine and knowing the inner juices of the body are both very good skills for physicians to have