day 965

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（Sorry for deleting it by mistake earlier.

still cannot process how mcr wrote demolition lovers in tHEIR FIRST ALBUM. FIRST ALBUM. THEY WERE JUST SOME SAD KIDS FROM NEW JERSEY AND YET THEY WROTE "I'M TRYING, I'M TRYING TO LET YOU KNOW HOW MUCH YOU MEAN, AS DAYS FADE, AND NIGHTS GROW, AND WE GROW COLD" FOR FUCKS SAKE

WHYS HE SO CUTE~🎃

Wait… Isn’t Ed Balls day coming up? ED BALLS DAY, I HAVE TO GET READY TO CELEBRATE 

all seeing sphinx

Knowledge is empowering

heyyyy!!!

this is another attempt at a poster, i’m not a massive fan of it, i think it could of been better tbh but im still learning!

patience is a virtue.

"Cause mostly I've been sprawled on these cathedral steps while spitting out the blood and screaming "Someone save us"

This is one of my all-time favorite songs and I think I finally was able to illustrate what I'm seeing in my head when I'm listening to it

so like up until the 1600s, people believed that plants got their mass by eating dirt, because where the fuck else would they get it from. a guy named jan van helmont thought this sounded kind of funky and decided to test it by planting a willow tree sapling, letting it grow in a pot for 5 years, and measuring the soil before and after. lo and behold, at the end of the 5 year experiment the weight of the soil was basically the same. he decided that the mass of the growing willow tree would HAVE to be from water, because what the fuck else could the plant possibly eat, am i right lads???

anyway what im trying to get at is that its actually a really common misconception that plants eat dirt. they do not eat dirt. they get their mass from carbon dioxide in the air that they converted into sugars and starches in photosynthesis. yes, they get nutrients and stuff from the soil, but the bulk of what you see in terms of like, leaves and bark and Non-Water Plant Stuff™ was made from materials converted from carbon dioxide in photosynthesis. 

jan van helmont did not know this. jan van helmont self-identified as an alchemist and spent most of his time thinking very hard about how eating things worked while under the assumption that plants apparently got bigger from only water and absolutely nothing else. this, although some sort of mood i can’t pin down– a small worm, a similar hat, if you will– is not a life style i would encourage

good riddance live