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deeisace · 1 year

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He remembered how his mother had always planted wallflowers among his father's prized vegetables. "Cheers them up and keeps them company," she'd laughed.

The Wallflowers, by Evelyn Green/Millie Bird (unpublished).

#well. unless anyone here happens to have archived copies of 'my weekly' magazine c. 1950-2010 #there's a note here (and with plenty other short stories) that says she planned to (or did) send it in to them #maybe up to about 2018 or so but i don't think she did much of anything her last couple of years tbh #but there's no dates and i can't date paper - tho i don't think this was on a typewriter so that cuts out maybe 1950-1980 or so #i've no idea beyond that #maybe i should send them a letter the magazine is still very much going #anyway #this line makes me smile #millie bird

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ethereance · 1 month

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Not me scrolling through allurance posts like an archaeologist unearthing something ancient or maybe just a silly little raccoon rummaging around bins. Probably the latter. Thus is the tumblr lifestyle.

#I get so embarrassed like. hey here’s a post you made like 5 years ago. I’m gonna remind you of that #yes it was vld. so sorry #I post like it’s 2018 and it’s the height of vld. and not rocking up at the party years late. everyone has gone home. it’s been remodelled.#sold off. abandoned. a family of birds nest in the corner. they don’t know why they’re still here. it’s been in the family for generations #where was I going with this

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caranoirs · 1 year

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"THE TORY WANKER" SPIKE TRIVET AS THERESA MAY @ GOOSEBUMPS 6 // apw

#spike trivet #shay purser #mike bird #attack pro wrestling #show: goosebumps 6 #14/10/2018 #*gifs #*attack #*torywanker #*refshay #*bird #britwres #yes i will spend a stupid amount of energy into making a pretty gifset of something years past their time

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righteousruin · 1 year

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Honestly Conquest should've been Bane's first appearance after Secret Six, it would've been so much better for his character

#like i do hate that dixon in the year of our lord beyonce 2018 was still trying to make bane a wall-punching mysoginist but aT LEAST #we can attribute that to the venom making him hyper-aggressive because Bird calls him out using multiple times #Dixon doesn't always write my favorite Bane but Bane IS his baby and he does love him and it does show #ooc #rascal reads comics #also he has dumb cute buddy cop stuff with batman and there's a lot of comedy and it's just so much better

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aaeoluss · 2 years

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if I was stupid or delusional I would decide to do nanowrimo this year. maybe I am

#i did it 2018 and 2019 then skipped 20 and 21 #well i got like 15k into it last year then gave up and never finished the project but i always meant to #I've decided the solution to all my qualms is just writing a LOT to get back into the groove of it #fully expecting that the outcome will be far from groundbreaking #so nano might be perfect for that actually. three birds in one stone sort of situation

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egg2k16 · 8 months

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"Mystery Train" came out on Mar 14, 2011, n it was about Finn's 13th birthday, so I'm just gonna lazily use that date as his birthdate

#post #adventure time #the only date adjacent ep in s3 is the finale incendium on feb 13 2012 #s4 has hot to the touch which came out apr 2 2012 #so I guess s3 n s4 count as 'one year'#s5 has the great bird man which came out mar 4 4023 #now we have 2 yrs #later on that same season we have lemonhope released on mar 10 2014 #so another year #s6 walnuts n rain on mar 5 2015 #s7 flute spell on mar 12 2016 aka the closest we get to the 14th #so 2 yrs #s8 n s9 can also count as 'one year' so the closest ep is s9's #orb on apr 21 2017 #that's another year #then s10 has blenanas on mar 18 2018 so that finishes another year #8 yrs in total! Finn would be 21 at the end? but of course we know that's not true #or well. *I* wouldn't know. the last ep I watched was the show finale n before that #I watched new eps sporadically. so. idk how old he's supposed to be #when the show finishes #that's very exciting! getting to watch the show in its totality now

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givtit · 10 months

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the local railway contractor is dumping construction debris in the unused fields near my house again. gotta love destruction of green scenery

#the last time they did this (2018/19) it took like four years for the greenery and shrubs to come back #it's gonna happen again. sigh #and just when the birds and all had started coming back too #beloved 2 speaks

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elastijubilee · 1 year

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It's my 5 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

#5 year tumblrversary #tumblr milestone #2018 #i did it to post a cute bird picture of shelley long #3rd year of college and 21 1/2 years old #me discovering other people like to talk about stuff too

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wintersettled · 2 months

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Here's a list of recs if you'd like to read somecomics about different batfam characters:

BRUCE WAYNE - Batman: Year One (1987) - Batman: The Long Halloween (1996) & Dark Victory (2000) - Batman: Knightfall Saga (1993) - Batman: No Man's Land Saga (1999)

SELINA KYLE - Catwoman (1989) - Catwoman (1993) - Catwoman: When in Rome - Catwoman (2018) - Catwoman of East End

DICK GRAYSON - Robin & Batman (2022) - Robin: Year One - Nightwing: Year One - Nightwing (1996) (specifically Tomasi's run!) - Batman: Black Mirror

JASON TODD - Batman: The Cult - Batman: A Death in the Family (i dont actually care for this but i feel obligated to include it so here...) - Batman: Under the Red Hood

TIM DRAKE - Batman: A Lonely Place of Dying - Robin (1993) - Young Justice (1998)

CASSANDRA CAIN - Batgirl (2000) - Batgirl (2008) - Batgirl: Redemption - Batgirl: Silent Knight

BARBARA GORDON - Batgirl: Year One - Black Canary/Oracle: Birds of Prey - Birds of Prey (1999) (especially Gail Simones run!!) Barbara also appears frequently in the batgirl runs

DAMIAN WAYNE - Batman and Robin (2011) - Robin: Son of Batman - Robin (2021) - Batman & Robin (2023) (currently ongoing! imo this would be a good place to start reading since its happening right now so you can see it happen along with everyone else!)

DUKE THOMAS - Batman: Zero Year - We Are Robin - Batman & The Signal

HELENA BERTINELLI - Huntress: Year One - The Huntress (1989) - Batman/Huntress: Cry for Blood - Nightwing/Huntress Helena is also a character in birds of prey from issues #57-127 <3

STEPHANIE BROWN - Detective Comics #647-649 - Showcase '95 #5 - Robin (1993) #126-147 (steph has a ton of appearances in Robin 1993 so it would be good to read that for more or to look through her appearances on locg if you just want to read about her! these chapters are her as Robin.) - Batgirl (2009)

I haven't read a super large amount for every single one of them so disclaimer that some of the ones I mention here might not be their best! These are what I could think of but there are plenty more, especially as standalone issues, so if anyone sees this please mention more!! also, there are lots of comics that are questionable but this list was very much on the fly off the top of my head so i was kind of sat here with my head in my hands like 'god i need to give more than one jason todd comic dont i....' and this was all i could come up with that wasnt like.... a random detective comics issue idk

#batfam #batfamily #bruce wayne #dick grayson #jason todd #tim drake #stephanie brown #barbara gordon #helena bertinelli #cassandra cain #duke thomas #damian wayne #reading is WHAT?#essential thats right!#if anyone from twt recognizes me i actually need you to look away like im freestyling im in a haze im trying to name any i can plea-

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madeline-kahn · 1 year

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Dancing in Film: Prom dances

High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008) dir. Kenny Ortega Pretty in Pink (1986) dir. Howard Deutch Blockers (2018) dir. Kay Cannon Not Another Teen Movie (2001) dir. Joel Gallen Jawbreaker (1999) dir. Darren Stein Back to the Future (1985) dir. Robert Zemeckis Lady Bird (2017) dir. Greta Gerwig Prom Night (1980) dir. Paul Lynch The Prom (2020) dir. Ryan Murphy 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) dir. Gil Junger Footloose (1984) dir. Herbert Ross Twilight (2008) dir. Catherine Hardwicke Valley Girl (2020) dir. Rachel Lee Goldenberg Never Been Kissed (1999) dir. Raja Gosnell The Spectacular Now (2013) dir. James Ponsoldt Carrie (1976) dir. Brian De Palma The Prom Pact (2023) dir. Anya Adams Napoleon Dynamite (2004) dir. Jared Hess To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before: Always and Forever (2021) dir. Michael Fimognari She’s All That (1999) dir. Robert Iscove

#filmedit #disneyedit #musicaledit #80sedit #90sedit #00sedit #teendramaedit #usergina #userk8 #my edit #filmchoreo #because it always needs to be said:#not an exhaustive edit just an exhausted editor #but also i deliberately did not include anything that did not use the word prom in its script #(blockers is the afterparty and hsm3 is before the night of but eh)

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mindblowingscience · 1 year

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The first case of a crocodile who made herself pregnant has been identified at a zoo in Costa Rica. She produced a foetus that was 99.9% genetically identical to herself. The phenomenon of so-called "virgin birth" has been found in species of birds, fish and other reptiles, but never before in crocodiles. The scientists say the trait might be inherited from an evolutionary ancestor, so dinosaurs might also have been capable of self-reproduction. The research has been published in the Royal Society journal, Biology Letters. The egg was laid by an 18-year-old female American crocodile in Parque Reptilania in January 2018. The foetus inside was fully formed but stillborn and so did not hatch.

#science #stem #biology #nature #crocodiles

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catastrxblues · 4 months

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articles and news on what’s happening in west papua are so appallingly scarce that i could rarely find any except a few before this. as an indonesian, i didn’t even know any of this is happening in the first place until a few months ago because rarely any of the big news outlets have ever brought it up, much less in a scale that is necessary to gain the world’s attention. SO PLEASE CHECK THIS OUT, one article at a time if it seems too much (which is what i'm currently doing too).

i think it’s important to note that while indonesia has been loudly advocating for palestine’s freedom, it has also been committing silent acts of violence against the people of west papua and exploiting them for years and silence those AND others who have tried to bring it to light.

things included in the thread ->

ARTICLES :

freewestpapua.org *the link isn't working at the moment but op has included screenshots in the tweet!

west papua : a history of exploitation (al jazeera)

courtesy of amnesty international

OTHERS :

amnesty international - "sudah, kasi tinggal dia mati" pembunuhan dan impunitas di papua (in bahasa)

BOOKS TO READ :

'the road : uprising in west papua' by john martinkus

'an act of free choice : decolonisation and the right to self-determination in west papua' by pieter drooglever

'merdeka and the morning star : civil resistance in west papua' by jason macleod

’see no evil : new zealand’s betrayal of the people of west papua’ by maire leadbeater

‘freedom in entangled worlds’ by eben kirksey

‘poisoned arrows’ by george monbiot

‘papua blood’ by peter bang

’west papua and indonesia since suharto’ by peter king

pdf available :

’the united nations and the indonesian takeover of west papua’ by john saltford

’west papua : the obliteration of a people’ by carmel budiardjo and liem soei liong

FILMS TO WATCH :

rebels of the forgotten world (1991)

blood on the cross (1999)

freedom for west papua (1999)

papua merdeka (2002)

west papua — the secret war in asia (2007)

forgotten bird of paradise (2009)

strange birds in paradise — a west papuan story (2010)

west papua — a journey to freedom (2011)

mama malind su hilang (our land has gone)

benny wenda — oslo freedom forum (2012)

isolated (2013)

courage is contagious — TEDx sydney (2013)

the road to home (2015)

punks for west papua (2016)

run it straight (2016)

act of no choice (2019)

paradise bombed (2023)

investigative tv reports :

inside indonesia’s secret war for west papua — ABC news (2020)

selling out west papua — al jazeera (2020)

INFOGRAPHICS :

amnesty international

brief history

2017

2018

#putting a keep reading because i know some of you hate reblogging long posts that don’t match your aesthetic or whatever #west papua #free west papua #indonesia #papua new guinea #news

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blueiskewl · 1 year

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Ancient Ceiling Reliefs Uncovered in The Egyptian Temple of Esna

The reliefs were buried under millennia of dirt, soot, and bird droppings.

Conservation work on a 2,200-year-old temple in Egypt has uncovered 12 reliefs representing Babylonian zodiac signs, as well as depictions of stars and constellations that the ancients used to measure time.

The images were found carved into the ceiling of the Temple of Esna in Luxor, which was completed around 250 C.E. and dedicated to the Egyptian god of fertility Khnum. They were revealed by a restoration team, made up of archaeologists from the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities and the University of Tübingen in Germany, which cleared away millennia of dirt and bird droppings from the temple’s surfaces to unveil the 12 astrological motifs that are unusual for a site of worship in Egypt.

“Representations of the zodiac are very rare in Egyptian temples,” said Christian Leitz, a professor at the University of Tübingen, who explained that the Babylonian zodiac was probably introduced to Egypt during Ptolemaic rule between 305 and 30 B.C.E.

“The zodiac was used to decorate private tombs and sarcophagi and was of great importance in astrological texts, such as horoscopes found inscribed on pottery sherds,” added Daniel von Recklinghausen, a Tübingen researcher. “However, it is rare in temple decoration. Apart from Esna, there are only two completely preserved versions left, both from Dendera.”

Zodiac signs aside, the restoration effort further unearthed a trove of other reliefs, including illustrations of the planets Jupiter, Saturn, and Mars.

A host of deities and fantastical animals were also found, such as a snake with a ram’s head, a bird with a crocodile’s head, and yet another snake with four wings.

Additionally, researchers discovered some previously unknown inscriptions, which had been covered by soot and inadvertently preserved. Analysis is currently being carried out on these new finds.

Restoration on the Temple of Esna began in 2018, and has involved the cleaning and recoloring of the monument’s surfaces. Along the way, the team has logged finds including a colorful fresco made up of 46 depictions of Egyptian goddesses Nekhbet and Wadjet, as well as painted inscriptions that detail royal titles and caption the constellations carved into the temple’s ceiling.

#Ancient Ceiling Reliefs Uncovered in The Egyptian Temple of Esna #Luxor #archeology #archeolgst #ancient artifacts #history #history news #ancient history #ancient culture #ancient civilizations #ancient egypt #egyptian history #egyptian art

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julietsartvision · 2 years

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Cryptid File - 3

The Mothman

In West Virginia folklore, the Mothman is a humanoid creature reportedly seen in the Point Pleasant area from November 15, 1966, to December 15, 1967. The first newspaper report was published in the Point Pleasant Register, dated November 16, 1966, titled "Couples See Man-Sized Bird Creature ". The Mothman is known to bring about prophecies and ill-fortune, a ‘harbinger of doom’. It is said that if someone sees the Creature that they or their family shall suffer serious tragedy. There were many sightings of the Mothman around the Silver Bridge in the Point Pleasant area, coincidentally the bridge collapsed the same year the sightings were reported. Some say that the winged monster is an Angel of death and caused the collapse, some others believe the creature appears merely as a warning. Although the official sightings stopped in the late 1960s, there have been an increasing amount of winged creature sightings every year. For example there was the ‘Chicago Mothman’ sightings of 2018 and many more.

#my edits #cryptid #cryptidcore #nostalgiacore #weirdcore #liminalcore #the backrooms #horror #horrorcore #Mothman #the mothman #cryptozoology #cryptozoolologist #bigfoot #sasquatch #liminal reality #paranormal #ghostcore

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landscapeexposurenetwork · 5 months

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Thank you again for another great year allowing us to share original photographers with you. We will be taking a break and return January 8th. In the meantime we have set up a queue filled with photos from our past featured blogs this year. If you are looking for new blogs to follow, please have a look at the list below. We have listed a general description of the types of photos each blog posts, so it will be easier for you to find the ones you like. And of course applications are still open during our break. Hope to see you all again in 2024. Happy holidays and much love from all of us at LEN.

January 341 @cissaking (landscape) 342 @foliorumviridis (forests, landscape) 343 @rchrgd (nature, forests) 344 @marljin (forests)

February 345 @highways-are-liminal-spaces (landscape, animals) 346 @dk-thrive (landscape, quotes) 347 @fotozeiger (landscape) 348 @alyaly (landscape, flowers)

March 349 @joeswildlifephotos (animals, landscape) 350 @silver-frog (landscape, urban) 351 @bedr-focus (landscape, urban, animals) 352 @alli-takes-photos (nature, landscape, urban)

April 353 @thethingsiveseen-photography (landscape, animals, flowers) 354 @rock-cedar-mosquito (forests, landscape) 355 @zedensposts (landscape, animals) 356 @whitneybarkman (nature, forests)

May 357 @renmoldovan (landscape, animals) 358 @gettinglostisnotawasteoftime (landscape, forests) 359 @nwalthall (landscape, flowers, portrait) 360 @ivacunja (landscape) 361 @moer-koffie (flowers, animals)

June 362 @lbk-photography (landscape) 363 @stillwater67 (landscape, urban) 364 @desomnis (landscape, urban) 365 @tomo8455 (flowers, animals, landscape)

July 366 @bluebelly-sun-serpentine (nature, landscape) 367 @carmen-art (landscape) 368 @thomaswaynewolf (landscape) 369 @birdmemorandum (birds) 370 @thecorpsofrediscovery (landscape, urban)

August 371 @orofeaiel (forests, fungi, animals) 372 @sugiichi (birds) 373 @oscar-out-of-a-suitcase (landscape, urban) 374 @pela-schmidt (landscape)

September 375 @andulkaphoto (nature, urban) 376 @orendarling (landscape, urban) 377 @thomas--bombadil (birds) 378 @kiteknots (nature, forests)

October 379 @differentharmonywasteland (nature) 380 @zocher (landscape, flowers) 381 @mbhfphotos (nature, fungi, forests) 382 @wild-e-eep (nature, fungi, animals) 383 @franz-bauch-foto (forests)

November 384 @vnvnationfan (landscape, flowers) 385 @sssnapspics (nature, animals) 386 @ohlsdorf-cemetery (nature, forests, cemeteries) 387 @flippantsmeagol (landscape)

December 388 @coenderuiter (landscape, forests) 389 @opdrie (landscape, forests)

2022 Featured Blogs | 2021 Featured Blogs 2020 Featured Blogs | 2019 Featured Blogs 2018 Featured Blogs | 2017 Featured Blogs 2016 Featured Blogs

#photographers on tumblr #original photographers #nature #landscape #original photography #nature photography #landscape photography #featured blog #photography #landscape exposure network #year end #2023

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lands-of-fantasy · 7 months

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Modern DCTV

(Most) Live-action series from 2000-present (2024)

SUPERMAN MYTHOS: Standalone Superman-related series

Smallville (2001-11)

Krypton (2018-19)

Superman & Lois (2021-) | The series is a spin-off of the 2015 Supergirl series, but it is set in its own continuity, on a different Earth. A different version of the titular characters, as played by the same actors, can be seen in the Arrowverse.

BATMAN MYTHOS: Standalone Batman-related series

Birds of Prey (2002-03)

Gotham (2014-19)

Pennyworth (2019-22)

Gotham Knights (2023)

ARROWVERSE: These series share continuity, each having their own separate storylines but also periodically connecting for a joint one.

Arrow (2012-20)

The Flash (2014-23)

Supergirl (2015-21)

Legends of Tomorrow (2016-22)

Black Lightning (2018-21) | The series joined the Arrowverse mid-season 3, and while it is affected by the events of the crossover of that year, it remained mostly independent.

Batwoman (2019-22)

"TITANSVERSE": These series are independent but Titans features its own version of the Doom Patrol (same cast, different universe) and has a Stargirl cameo.

Titans (2018-23)

Doom Patrol (2019-23)

Stargirl (2020-2022)

THE SUPERNATURAL: Standalone series centered on supernatural characters and events

Swamp Thing (2019)

Constantine (2014-15) | After the series' cancellation, the actor reprised his role as John Constatine in the Arrowverse, eventually joining the main cast of Legends of Tomorrow.

From the pages of DC Vertigo/DC Black Label:

Lucifer (2016-21)

The Sandman (2022-)

OTHER SERIES

Watchmen (2019)

Peacemaker (2022-) | This series is a part of the DC Extended Universe, taking place after the events of The Suicide Squad (2021) movie