insufficientlykinglike:

lazer-kitten:

mosellegreen:

dinosaursandzombies:

theawkwardlifeofapsycho:

Why is this not taught universally.

the man is terrified haha!

I think we all know why this isn’t taught universally.

I took a self defense course in college and they taught us this, and when I told it to my then-boyfriend, he laughed and said it was too extreme. That should’ve been my first red flag tbh

the fact that she doesn’t say “so he won’t do it” she says “when you’re in court” is terrifying

nahkia:

Hello friends!!

The marvel trumps hate auction has just started, and I’m in love with all the creators who are offering their works!!
I’m also participating in it, and if you could reblog the post, it would mean the world to me!!

  • if the bid reaches 25 dollars: i’ll draw two full bodies, with a simple background
  • if the bid reaches 40 dollars: i’ll draw two (or more, max 5) full bodies with a fully colored and a complex background!
  • if the bid reaches 45+ dollars: i’m offering to do the above + reference sheets for any AU you’d like, or two (up to 5) headshots!
  • if the bid reaches 50+ dollars: I’ll figure out a way how to print your drawing and send it directly signed to your door!

laughingquill:

planeoftheeclectic:

personalprofundity:

redcabbageparty:

mzminola:

tanoraqui:

bladeoffenris:

amiseeingyourcolourormine:

raserus:

LIL BABBY

U CANT SCARE THE OCEAN

GO LAY DOWN

IT LOOKS LIKE TOOTHLESS

I like to believe that all the dragons in the world were magically cursed and turned into cats. But cats have never forgotten where they come from, hence the attitude.

I nearly didn’t reblog this but the above comment makes more sense than anything I’ve ever heard.

…that’s…that’s actually a story my mom used to tell me when I was little? That a dragon showed up at someone’s cottage so they gave it milk. And the dragon enjoyed the milk, so it kept coming back and got smaller and softer and purry-er until eventually it wasn’t a dragon anymore, it was a cat, and that’s where cats came from and why we keep giving them milk.

She might have gotten the story from Ursula K. Le Guin, or I have confused it with a different dragon story.

That’s also why cats tend to hoard their toys behind the couch!

Actually the story is even older. Written by a woman named Edith Nesbit, first published in 1899, it is called “The Dragon Tamers”. It predates Leguin and other fantasy biggies like Lewis and Tolkien.

Nesbit actually can be credited with being one of the first authors that began to shift myths and legends to more fantasy-like stories (fantasy as a genre how we know it, wasn’t around then because it was just part of literature, especially British literature). In fact, many scholars who study fantasy literature and children’s literature believe that, since her children’s stories were so popular with children in England, the stories and their content prompted Tolkien (the first to coin fantasy as its own genre in his essay “On Fairy Stories”) to take up the stories of dragons and elves and fairies as they’d have been children when she was writing.

Tolkien was born in 1892. He would have been 7 when “The Dragon Tamers” was first published. Edith Nesbit did a LOT for modernizing myths, legends, and lore as a children’s author, maybe more than we will ever know.

http://www.online-literature.com/edith-nesbit/book-of-dragons/6/

I love Edith Nesbit. Her fairy stories are great and The Railway Children has always been a personal favourite