Reading a book about slavery in the middle-ages, and as the author sorts through different source materials from different eras, I am starting to understand why so many completely fantastical accounts of "faraway lands" went without as much as a shrug. The world is such a weird place that you can either refuse to believe any of it or just go "yeah that might as well happen" and carry on with your day.

There was this 10th century arab traveller who wrote into an account that the fine trade furs come from a land where the night only lasts one hour in the summer and the sun doesn't rise at all in the winter, people use dogs to travel, and where children have white hair. I don't think I'd believe something like that either if I didn't live here.

I mean honestly everything that Arab traveler said lines up with the Arctic areas, except the white hair part, I don't know where that originates from, or if it's accurate

If I had to guess, maybe they had albinism? Or maybe it's one of those cases where kids sometimes start out with one hair color and develop a different one when they get older. This is all conjecture, but something to consider.

Still really cool tho

guys, the traveler just wasnt used to blondes

Also, languages develop words for colors over time so they get grouped with the closest one. That's why people with orange hair are called redheads. The word for red is generally the third color that gets a name. There wasn't always a word for the color orange, but there have almost always been people with orange hair.

And the Romans in Rome were fascinated by the Celtic slaves brought back from the British Isles because of their fair hair and skin.

For the sake of "I would not believe it either if I didn't live here" kind of context, this is a perfectly normal hair colour for children where I'm from. It darkens to a dark ash blond/sand brown when they grow up.

So what I learned from this is even in modern times, people don’t know or believe that Scandinavians are just that pale and blond without jumping to “albino” first

You wouldn’t have believed the 10th century Arab guy either.

Day 15/365 of listing something good I saw today:

I gave myself a horrible haircut at 5 am. I already had a mullet, but I made it worse. I love it.

conversations overheard through the batkid com lines pt. 34 (masterpost here)

*gunshot*

Jason: oooooh right down the ear canal. *ace ventura accent* like a glove~!

Dick: *laugh* you're lucky B isn't here tonight.

Tim: the guy was a rapist, i don't feel too bad.

Jason: YEAHHHH, REPLACEMENT TURNS TO THE DARK SIDE! oh shit- *grunt* whoooo, that was close.

Dick: shit, i saw that flip from three roofs over, nice one.

Jason: what can i say, wing? pilates.

Tim: *laughs*

Dick: oooooh~ how sexy.

Tim, snorting: jesus-

Jason, amused: save it for ya waynecest fanfiction goldie,

Dick: *loud cackles*

Damian: for his WHAT.

Tim, weeping: oh g- oh god, it all comes out-!

Dick: DON'T EXPOSE ME HOOD! WHAT I FANTASIZE ABOUT IN THE SAFETY OF MY OWN HOME IS MY BUSINESS.

Jason: *bursts out laughing*

*metal shwing*

Damian: ok that's the last of them on our side. the fuck is waynecest?

Jason: oh didn't you know, kiddo? the public wants all the Wayne boys to fuck.

Dick: YEAHHHHHHH!!!

Tim: ok- *snorts* Robin, Red Hood, can i come over to your rooftop? i dont like Nightwing's energy right now.

Jason: no stay over there. you're the sacrifice.

Tim: *whining* nooooo-

Dick: it's fine Red, you're underage. we filter you out.

Tim: -sorry? SORRY? FILTER ME OUT OF WHAT?

Jason: *cackles* it was- *wheeze* it was one time,

Dick: we were high, to be fair. completely off our faces.

Jason: yeah, fun trip but never again.

Damian: do not fucking tell me you googled that- *disappointed* god, Akhi-

Jason, laughing deliriously: it was his idea-!

Dick: don't you point at me from three rooftops away! you were also there, asshole. you're just mad everybody makes me the jaydick top!

Tim: GOD you remember the SHIP NAME!?

Dick: *cackles*

Jason: well im sorry- sorry, but there's no fucking way i would be the bottom! that's bad writing!

Dick: it's amazing writing, you just don't pay attention. i'm the circus acrobat with good hip flexibility and core strength. you're the guy who's used to taking it up the ass from your troubled past on the streets!

Damian, horrified and resigned: oh my god,

Jason: don't you- *bursts into a wheeze* don't you fucking- i can SEE you gyrating over there,

Dick: you see my form? this is TOP form, Hood.

Tim: i am begging you two, let me come over to your rooftop. i don't like it here.

Jason: *cackles*

Damian, dry: i'm calling childline, this is an unsafe environment.

Dick: you just stabbed like eight people,

Damian, without hesitation: and you'll be the ninth.

Saw this funny post and wanted to draw something w it

one of the batkids gets dosed with truth serum and they immediately use it to try to get the others in trouble. not the non-drugged batkids using it to their advantage mind you, but the drugged one.

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The Fenton Parents get the chance to present their work to Bruce Wayne. He looks vaguely interested, and even purchases some personal protective devices and ghost weapons.

Danny's parents are really hopeful that this is the start of something big! All of their inventions are patented and if a big company like Wayne Enterprises decides to make a deal with them, that would meam the first real financial success in years.

Unfortunately, Wayne Enterprises never contacts them again. A few months go by and Danny sees a member of the Justice League using ghost weapons that are exact copies of his parents work without the fenton branding on them!

Did Bruce Wayne really just. Steal his parents designs and then sell them to the Justice League?????

Thats corporate espionage!!!

Danny gets so mad he literally flies to Wayne Enterprises biggest competitor, Lexcorp, and manages to finagle a meeting with Lex Luthor himself. It was suspiciously easy, but the moment Lex heard about an opportunity to get some leverage on Bruce Wayne, he personally invited Danny into his office.

An hour later and Lexcorps lawyers are chomping at the bit to start the lawsuit process. This is basically definitive, legal proof that Bruce Wayne and Wayne Enterprises has ties with the Justice League, that so great for lex he literally has to stop himself from evil villain cackling. Lex gices the lawyers cart blanche to go for the throat on behalf of the Fentons.

Danny is spitting mad! If the Justice League had gone to his parents, they probably would have made them personalized weapons for free. But instead Wayne stole his parents work and then, presumably, sold it to the League. All billionaires really are bastards.

Meanwhile, Bruce had purchased the weapons with the intent on keeping them for the Bat family to use. He removed the fenton branding because the neon green paint literally glowed in the dark and was not good for stealth.

Green Arrow borrowed a couple of the weapons for a ghost problem, one time, and now he is looking at the nastiest lawsuit Wayne Enterprises has seen in a long, long time.

Well shit.

Sometimes two languages have a lot in common because they come from a similar origin point but sometimes two languages have a lot in common because one tried to eat the other at some point

English and Dutch have a lot in common because they’re close geographically and came from a similar spawn point.

English and French have a lot in common because one time a guy from Normandy ate England.

Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese are all languages that come from completely different origin points and are in entirely different language families.

However, China and Japan have a habit of eating things both culturally and militarily so grammar and vocab fingerprints of all these languages can be found in all of the other ones. But especially Chinese words get everywhere. Because China has always been very big with a lot of fingers in a lot of pies.

Why does Spanish have so many Arabic words? Because Islamic kingdoms munch munched on southern Spain for a while.

Why are Spanish and Italian so similar? They both used to be Latin.

gender affirming care should never be seen as a reward for good behavior

And no one should have to perform a trans stereotype in front of shitty doctors just to get gender affirming care

Teens are doxxing their own dads for being ICE.

Round of applause to these teens.

@mjmadison23

The kids are all right on 1,102 days left

normal way to think about making art

I have been scrolling for maybe ten minutes. THIS FREAKING POST IS LIKE EVERY TENTH POST!!!! ITS BEAUTIFUL BUT MAKE IT STOP

When I was about to go to college my dad, who is a thoracic surgeon specialized in lung cancer, sat me down and told me I could be a stoner, but absolutely not a cigarette smoker

His logic was:

When I was a teen, my dad told me that, although marijuana was generally pretty safe and although the fear mongering around it was ridiculous, I should still be wary of smoking it, due to its potential to act as a gateway drug. And when I was like “what… to coke??” he said, completely seriously “no, to cigarettes.”

Because it’s true that an occasional joint won’t do much harm. But if you get in the habit of smoking anything, then you’ll have a much easier time getting started if you ever try smoking tobacco: the smell of smoke is something that you can acclimate to; you won’t choke on your first cig; you’ll already know how to hold it and light it; it’s just plain easier to pick up smoking stuff that is actually scary for your health if you already smoke something else.

“If you want to try marijuana, go for it, it’s really no big deal – but do me a favor and please just stick to edibles.”

You are not staying in the tags

Canon (more or less btw) in the Spidergirl universe

Well, the effort was there.