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theanimaleffect: Brave! by sarat6ix on Flickr.
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thedevilswaiting: The original story of the little mermaid...
The original story of the little mermaid is that she must kill the prince in order to be human, and in the end, she loves him too much and kills herself instead.
The artwork is too great not to reblog.
Ok, ok - important expansion: she only has to kill the Prince because the deal was if he fell in love with her she could be human forever, and he didn’t. By which I mean, he was a good person and genuinely nice to her, but he didn’t fall in love. He fell in love with someone else, also perfectly nice - not the seawitch in disguise, fu Disney. The Mermaid is told she can only return to the sea now if she kills the Prince. She goes into the room where he and his lover lie sleeping and they look so beautiful and happy together that she can’t do it.
That’s why she kills herself. And because it was a noble act she returns to sea as foam.
One moral of the story was that women shouldn’t fundamentally change who they are for love of a man, and in theory Han Christian Anderson wrote it for a ballerina with whom he fell in love. She was marrying someone else who wouldn’t let her dance.
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neil-gaiman: In case you missed it…
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"I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz, or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots..."
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I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.
I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way than this:
where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.
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I Do Not Love You, Pablo Neruda
(via blackintellect)
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the-absolute-best-posts: azorel: seen in Gastown, Vancouver,...
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emmylovestrees: iliketowatchyoureleaseyourdemons: Wow I am...
iliketowatchyoureleaseyourdemons:
Wow
I am really glad this got so many notes (300 is a lot for me lol)…. but not because I want the notes or whatever but because when I saw this comic it made me feel really weird and sad inside and I thought that I wanted a lot of people to see it too
it makes a point thats really difficult to explain with words in such an artful way and it’s not something I thought about much
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frostedfairycakes: This is one of the most depressing thing...
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thejavey: I fight for beauty
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insideillusions: Drogon, Rhaegal and Viserion
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45boom: The other Franco, ladies and gentlemen.
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the-alt-historian: Kyoichi Sawada, a Japanese photographer...
Kyoichi Sawada, a Japanese photographer embedded with Allied troops in Indo-China, took this harrowing picture of American troops dragging a captured Viet Minh leader behind their M113.
The action was intended to make him talk; the man never spoke a word and died two days later. The soldier manning the M2, Cpl. Jacob Dembrofsky, later committed suicide.
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NOW YOU SEE ME – Official Motion Poster. In Theaters May 31....
NOW YOU SEE ME – Official Motion Poster. In Theaters May 31. Watch the spell-binding magic unfold here http://bit.ly/NYSMOnesheet
Enjoyed it very much, thank you.
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we-are-star-stuff: Russians Recover Fresh Flowing Mammoth...
Russians Recover Fresh Flowing Mammoth Blood
About 15,000 years ago, an old female wooly mammoth plunged through the ice as she was being chased by predators. Her remains have now been uncovered by scientists working in Siberia. And remarkably, as they were digging it out, blood began to stream out - wich is weird given that it was 10° below freezing.
It’s not known if the blood or tissue samples contain living cells required for cloning. And even if such cells are recovered, the DNA repair would require a very complex process that could take years. A report is expected later this July.
The beautifully preserved specimen was discovered partially embedded in a chunk of ice at an excavation on the Lyakhovsky Island, the southernmost group of the New Siberian Islands in the Arctic seas of northeastern Russia.
The mammoth’s lower portions, including the stomach, were locked in the ice for the past 10,000 to 15,000 years. Its lower jaw and tongue were also recovered; the trunk was found separately from the carcass. The upper torso and two legs were preserved in soil and show signs of being gnawed upon by both prehistoric and modern predators.
Semyon Grigoriev, head of the Museum of Mammoths of the Institute of Applied Ecology of the North at the North Eastern Federal University, is calling it “the best preserved mammoth in the history of paleontology.”
During the excavation, and as the researchers were chipping away at the ice, they noticed splotches of dark blood in the ice cavities below the mammoth’s belly. When they broke through with a poll pick, blood started to flow out.
“It can be assumed that the blood of mammoths had some cryo-protective properties,” noted Grigoriev. Mammoth blood, it would appear, contains a kind of anti-freeze. This is consistent with work done by Canadian geneticists who in 2010 showed that mammoth hemoglobin releases its oxygen much more readily at cold temperatures than that of modern elephants.
In addition to the blood, the paleontologists also recovered well-preserved muscle tissue. The scientists say it has a natural red color of fresh meat. The blood is currently undergoing a bacteriological analysis, and the results are expected soon.
Based on the preliminary evidence, the scientists say the female wooly mammoth was anywhere from 50 to 60 years old and weighed about three tons. They theorize that she was trying to escape from predators when she fell through the ice, or that she got bogged down in a swamp.
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mooners: coiaf: Season 3 Episode 9: The Rains of...
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