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A picture that says “A student once asked anthropologist Margaret Mead, “What is the earliest sign of civilization? The student expected her to say a clay pot, a grinding stone, or maybe a weapon.
Margaret Mead thought for a moment, then she said, “A healed femur.”
The second picture is a news headline. It is bolded and a much larger font. “27-year-old who couldn’t afford $1,200 insulin copay dies after trying cheaper version.”
The third picture is the same font and size as the Margaret Mead quote. It’s a continuation. It says, “A femur is the longest bone in the body, linking hip to knee. In societies without the benefits of modern medicine, it takes about six weeks of rest for a fractured femur to heal. A healed femur shows that someone cared for the injured person, did their hunting and gathering, stayed with them, and offered physical protection and human companionship until the injury could mend.”
The fourth picture is another headline. It is in a large and bolded type. “Dying man who couldn’t afford to go to hospital after vomiting blood"
The fifth picture is a screenshot of the Margaret Mead story.
Mead explained that where the law of the jungle—the survival of the fittest—rules, no healed femurs are found. The first sign of civilization is compassion, seen in a healed femur.
The next screenshot is of a slightly different font. The letters are pointier and the lines are a little curvier. It says, “Susan Finley returned to her job at a Walmart retail store in Grand Junction Colorado, after having to call in sick because she was recovering from pneumonia.
The day after she returned, the fifty three year old received her ten year associate award — and was simultaneously laid off, according to her family. She had taken off one day beyond what is permitted by Walmart’s attendance policy.
After losing her job in May 2016, Finley also lost her health insurance coverage and struggled to find a new job. Three months later, Finley was found dead in her apartment after avoiding going to see a doctor for flu-like symptoms.
A screenshot of a bold, bigger headline. It says ‘The house always wins’: Insurers’ record profits.
A final screenshot of smaller text with a slightly gray background. It says “We are at our best when we serve others. Be civilized.” /end ID.]
#is this post a refutation of the claim that civilizations are defined by caring for their injured?#is it a critique of our own community and saying that we aren't civilized?#YOU DECIDE!
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de please explain the necraloid i have so many questions
#warframe#albrecht entrati#loid entrati#necraloid#if this gets refuted the moment deep archimedea drops i’ll cry because it’s very funny to me
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buggy who turns to shanks one night after they've reunited and says softly, with indecipherable look in his eyes and says, "i'm not in love with you anymore." and shanks, shocked beyond belief, heart aching with a want he didn't even know he had, with a need he hadn't even realized was there, thinks quietly to himself, i didn't know you ever were
#i mean like obv buggy is fucking lying to himself#but he hopes that if he says it to shanks' face he'll get over it#but honestly how do get over a near lifetimes worth of love#(you don't)#and shanks who didn't even know loving buggy like that was an option until buggy said smth is devastated#because of course he loves buggy. what else has been a constant in his life but buggy?#but he didn't realize that be /in/ love with buggy was an option. and shanks who has always taken buggy's words at face value#doesn't refute them. he sits in his heartbreak and tries not to mourn the loss of his love#benn and cabaji are so fucking sick of them#buggy the clown#buggy one piece#op buggy#shanks#akagami no shanks#op shanks#shuggy#shanks x buggy#one piece
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sqq's fursona
what fandom thinks it is:
what luo binghe thinks it is:
what sqq thinks it is:
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Batman Beyond (2016) Issue #45
Dick: *introducing damian to the Titans* This is my baby!
Damian: I'm 10 years old and a trained assasin. I'm not a baby.
30 years later
Dick: *introducing Damian to his kids* This is my baby!
Damian: I'm 40.
Dick: And your point is?
#Dick: I noticed you didn't refute that you were mine#Damian: tt.#dick grayson#damian wayne#damian grayson
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???????? IM SORRY….
WHAT DID THEY MEAN BY THIS???????
#oc#gifs from @ofnightandlight#supernatural#sam winchester#dean winchester#wincest#spn 9x08 rock and a hard place#SUBTEXT#WHAT SUBTEXT#ITS IN THE FUCKING TEXT ITS RIGHT FUCKING THERE#HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO BE NORMAL ABOUT THIS SHOW#WHEN IT PULLS SHIT LIKE THIS#??????????????????#im literally speechless#like why would they put this in there if spn wasnt the brother love show.#how can anybody refute that wincest was endgame when they pulled shit like THIS#cw supernatural everyone ….
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There's some inherent tragic horror in the fact that Simon canonically doesn't remember much of what he did as Ice King, just 'dreamlike impressions'. I imagine he remembers people, certain significant moments but otherwise it's kind of a blur. Simon is over a thousand years old but he barely remembers any of it. Not to mention the non-magical human brain isn't built to contain so much memory so any attempts to recall could be dangerous for him.
Imagine how terrible it is to be told a story of yourself acting strange and manic and pathetic and terrible and there's no internal context for it. It may as well have happened to someone else in a dream but its the personality and actions most people know you by. Simon hears an outrageous story of Ice King and who knows if it's real or not? He barely knows who the man was.
#adventure time#simon petrikov#I initially started this post for humor in that people could just say WHATEVER about IK and Simon couldn't refute it#but then I realized the inherent horror of it#to be known as a man you don't remember being#people holding you accountable for actions you dont recall doing#no wonder hes so mixed up about ice king#hes expected to take ownership of a person he doesnt know
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“kill them with kindness” wrong! FREE THOUGHTS ON THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 📜📜📜📜📜📜📜📜📜📜📜📜📜📜📜📜📜📜📜📜📜📜📜📜📜📜📜📜📜📜📜📜📜📜📜📜📜📜📜📜📜📜📜📜📜📜📜📜📜📜📜📜📜📜
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What if little Leyley has so many hairpins because her mom wasn't taking care of her hair and Andy was the one who had to do this, but he didn't really know how to?
#random thoughts#maybe it's refuted/confirmed somewhere idk I still didn't finish the game I just run with my headcanons lmao#the coffin of andy and leyley#tcoaal#ashley graves
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Vlad owned a cookbook.
Keyword, owned.
But you see, it was far from an ordinary cookbook.
It was a bit magical in nature, not on any purpose of Vlad's part, despite being the one to make it. It was created a while after Vlad stopped having an obsession with Maddie and became on somewhat better terms with Jack, in which he decided to entirely ignore one Daniel Fenton.
Instead, he focused on creating the perfect cookbook that has ever graced the mortal plane. Made from the highest leather, the best finest paper and bound together with the best thread he could find.
All helpfully sourced from the Ghost Zone.
Of course, after all of that he had to, well, fill it with recipes.
He had multiple duplicates scouring the internet for various recipes, and since it's for personal use he doesn't have to care for copyright or whatever since it won't be used by anyone but him. While also looking around in the Ghost Zone for specific types of ghosts.
Mostly grannies.
Overtime and with help from his multiple duplicates his cookbook has quickly become filled up, though for some reason there seemed to be an endless number of pages left unfinished, doesn't matter since it's just more space.
Then he started to encounter the spirits of witches, wizards, warlocks, shamans. You get it.
He took recipes from them too, because when he meant this would be the greatest cookbook, he meant it, and what is potion making if not Alchemy, and what is Alchemy if not cooking?
So, after some time, with blood, sweat, and tears being poured into his book with recipes from everywhere and his own personal recipe along with few decorations here and there, making it look less like a common book and more like the prized treasure it truly is, and Vlad's work is finally complete.
The greatest cookbook to ever grace the mortal plane.
He went to sleep happy, woke up the next day happy, used his newfound cookbook happily and was overall having the greatest of times.
He also found out that his cookbook became sentient. Which is nice, because he can just call out a page and it'll flip right through to it, but he doesn't recall how it became sentient.
He's been watching it carefully before completion, and every time it came in contact with ectoplasm it never became sentient like the food the Fentons produce (And yes, living food is indeed within the endless pages of his book), so it maybe had something to do with the more magical recipes contained within.
Not that he cared, really, since it served it's purpose extremely well.
Except, a few months later, with a visit from the Fentons to his mansion, he finds he lost it.
Vlad, predictably, is in shambles.
Is it because his cookbook is a genuine danger to society if in the wrong hands?
No.
Perhaps because contained within its pages are high level alchemical recipes?
No.
Or maybe because there was a recipe to create some kind of potion to kill an immortal, make someone immortal, or reverse death? (Honestly he didn't even remember where he got that one)
Fuck no.
He's in shambles because he didn't even get to use a quarter of the recipes that weren't even his own.
Also, because it's became his technical technically both his son and best friend.
Who does he accuse first?
One Danny Fenton.
Because it only disappeared after Danny came to visit, and while he wouldn't put it past Jack to do something incredibly stupid, the man was nowhere near his book at the time!
Danny, predictably, is not at all amused.
Vlad then pesters him to go out and search for his missing greatest creation and doesn't stop until Danny agrees.
So, now Danny has to find a cookbook that can and probably is a genuine danger to society if someone decides to use the far less than normal recipes.
Also, why the fuck did Vlad even have them??
#dc x dp#dp x dc#dp x dc crossover#dpxdc#dcxdp#dc x dp crossover#Hmmm#I could already feel some people tagging this as Ghost King Danny since that's a really popular hc#or maybe not#Anywho#I was going to refute that hc but now I'm genuinely considering it#Mah#I'll leave it up to whoever finds this post#Right#Did I mention that Vlad's Cookbook may or may not have a recipe to create#both a false and genuine god?#Teehee#You won't even know if I'm being serious or not
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SO I'm going through hollow knight for the fourth time ha ha
Besides, I've re-read the "Stag Beetles and Broken Legs" fan fiction again, so it's time to humanize Monomon and Quirrell!
(seriously, read "Stag Beetles and Broken Legs", it's damn good)
In my conception, Monomon is the oldest of the Dreamers, but she's actively youthful, wearing such light clothing and acting quite active compared to her scowling counterparts (However, she also looks younger than her years on her face, so no one has any questions about it)
And young Quirrell, haha. So young and inspired, with burning eyes. Cute. Time has not bypassed him (though it's even better for some-). At least now he's age appropriate for Monomon
I can redraw my old concepts in more detail if you like my humanizations. I can also draw humaneizations of other characters if you ask (or more Lurien….. I like to draw his face…… gentle rose…….)
#I really like how Monomon and Quirrell look next to each other....#Age has done Quirrell good hahaha#I think Monomone was one of those people who didn't really care about anything#So she wouldn't mind a relationship with a cute young Quirrell#But that would be a problem for Quirrell#Even if the feelings are mutual the age difference feels like a very unequal union#And when he got old it stopped being a problem hahaha#They're on the same level now#There are so many different humaneizations of Dreamers on tumblr#It's amazing how different they all are#I guess the lack of canonical information contributes to this#Technically you can't say another person's vision is wrong unless you have something to refute it with#hollow knight#hk#hk dreamers#hk monomon#hk herrah#hk lurien#hk quirrel#hk hornet#lurien the watcher#monomon the teacher#herrah the beast
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Okay so, the prospect of dragons becoming 'softer' and 'less strong' and 'pet-like' due to living with vikings for a few years is so messed up!
This is partially due to how Toothless was characterized in THW. His character in Httyd 1 & 2 + GotNF +RoB/DoB + RTTE + other short movies is leagues different from THW Toothless. And amongst the common reasons theorized for this is dragons having become 'softer spoiled pets' due to 'being away from the wild'. And I hate it!
These dragons, especially the ones who have riders, are canonically stronger, faster, smarter and stealthier than any wild dragons due to all the experience they gained over the years. The dragons of Berk, particularly the gang's dragons, have travelled tremendous distances in single flights, fought battles with armadas and hunters and submarines and entire flocks and practically giants, been to habitats far and wide where wild ones don't dare venture, been through so much, have had near death experiences countless times and came out of those stronger than before. Heck they've even planned and strategized before! They have sharper instincts, faster reflexes, higher endurance and stamina than the wild ones who live in their own habitats. These guys have experienced and survived going through all kinds of habitats. I really doubt that the gang's dragons, the first and last line of defence, the researcher assists, the protectors and best friends of the most competent group on the island would get soft just like that.
AND! And, each of these dragons, Toothless, Meatlug, Hookfang, Stormfly, Barf and Belch, they were becoming smarter and smarter by the day. Toothless in the first movie was intelligent, curious, kind, stealthy, elegant, scary, dangerous, adorable, protective, strong. And he remained as such throughout the series. Why turn him into a... A senseless dog?! Where did his grace, his speed, his stealth and intelligence and protectiveness and loyalty go? That was NOT Toothless. Why was my boy treated like a silly pet and nothing else? Did they just up and forget everything he did throughout the course of the franchise? Toothless whose first thing to do when he got a controllable tailfin was go out to find Hiccup's lost helmet that fell in the ocean and then he broke that tailfin because he valued and treasured this friendship over potentially distancing freedom, Toothless who had defeated and befriended multiple feral dragons without being able to fly, Toothless who ate an eel to keep his best friend safe, Toothless who played possum to fool the outcast guards and escape on his own, Toothless who was willing to drown because he couldn't leave Hiccup alone, Toothless who broke the most Intense mind control hold of the Bewilderbeast because the bond he had with Hiccup was stronger. Are we talking about the same Toothless even?
Gah, I just despise that last movie for so many reasons. I might've given it grace marks if it was just the theme being sad but everything in it was wrong and messed up and illogical.
#can you tell I don't like THW At All? bcoz i don't#i get the themes they were trying to deliver but it was executed extremely poorly#the Bing Bam Boom episode of DoB did it way WAY better#and actually made logical sense#but thw? nothing made sense. every reason for every plot point was refutable#even the villian felt like a ripoff who couldn't decide whether to dress up as Vigho or Pitch and mashed the two costumes#thw salt#httyd#httyd thw#dreamworks dragons#httyd rob#httyd dob#httyd rtte#httyd toothless#httyd hiccup#hiccup and toothless
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ok y’all so like i’ve just noticed that there almost seems to be a split second where henry/nick smiles? right after “come on 🤪 loosen up 🤪”
exhibit a:
exhibit b:
and dudes… this is gonna be my undoing i need to know, if this is him smiling, is this a henry being smitten smile or a nick not being able to keep a straight face smile i NEED to know it’s very important for obsession purposes
(screenshots come from gif by @chenfordsbee thank u)
#the evidence is refutable but i feel like i have seen that face smiling from the side enough times by now to make an educated guess#i’m so normal about this movie#rwrb#red white and royal blue#rwrb movie#firstprince#red white & royal blue#alex claremont diaz#taylor zakhar perez#nicholas galitzine#henry fox mountchristen windsor#henry hanover stuart fox
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had a conversation with one of my professors about achilles's physical description in the iliad and she said that the word used to describe achilles's hair, ξάνθος (xanthos, lit. "yellow"), is often translated as golden, tawny or auburn, but it can also mean "shining." we've talked in her class about how divinity in mortals is represented through their physical appearances. achilles's shining hair, then, is a representation of his demigod status: his divinity is literally shining on his head and flowing down his shoulders.
and i've been thinking about that a lot, and i realized that when achilles cuts his hair at patroclus's pyre, the narrative recognizes it as a signal that he will die soon. (he promised not to cut his hair until he returns to his homeland; when he cuts it at troy, we know that he will never go home.) but if his hair represents his immortal blood, then he is literally cutting away the divine parts of him before he dies. and it's interesting that xanthos signifies his demigodhood, because ichor runs gold.
(you may also recognize xanthos as another name for the river scamander, or as the name of that one horse that talks to achilles. it was a pretty versatile word.)
#this is mostly just nonsense thoughts#i'm going to ask my prof about these theories on monday#so i'll reblog with a refutation if she says this is implausible#anyway.#the iliad#achilles#tagamemnon
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Mage Warden 🤝 Dwarf Warden
Being attacked by trees in the Brecilian forest and having to tactfuly find out whether that's normal or something they need to like, deal with
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just so obsessed with the idea of revali silently loving link and pining so much for him, but holding back because he's already created this facade that he despises link, because zelda and mipha already loved him first, because why would link ever choose him? so revali keeps it all inside and tries to display his bitterness at unreciprocated love as jealousy and arrogance at the imbalance of their roles, and tries desperately to fall out of love with link.
but it's as though the little hylian won't let him.
link, who practically insists on staying by revali during battle, who stares at revali with that wide blue-eyed gaze, who naps peacefully with his head in revali's lap when they're alone. and revali should be ecstatic at how close they are, but it hurts more than anything. this isn't fair to him, to be so tantalizingly close to link but to never be able to have him more than this. it's so suffocating, revali doesn't think he can stand to do this any longer, or else it might kill him.
but he continues to let link do whatever he pleases; silently tagging along after revali to the archery range, sitting beside him at mealtimes and letting him sneak more bites from revali's plate as though revali doesn't see him, even going as far as to let link sleep with him in his hammock after what revali assumed to have been a very bad nightmare. no one says a single word when revali and link arrive late to breakfast, with link clinging sleepily to revali's wing and revali looking strangely peaceful.
try as he might (he's not trying at all), revali can't say no to link (and neither does he want to), so he supposes he might as well endure this suffering a little longer.
"why do you let me do all this?" link whispers to him once, in the dead of the night, wrapped around revali in his hammock. and revali is silent for a moment, trying to come up with some sort of answer that could defend his actions. but he can't.
"i don't know," he says simply. he can't tell link the truth.
"does it bother you?"
"do you think you'd still be in my bed practically choking me to death with how tightly you're wrapped around me if it did?" revali winces at how biting his words are, but link just hums and snuggles deeper into revali's neck. he doesn't stop link.
"if it bothered you, you'd tell me, right?" the little hylian murmurs.
revali thinks about it for a moment. and he decides, no, i wouldn't. if you wished to be warm, i'd let you use my body as fuel for a campfire.
"go to sleep," he says aloud instead, softly, gently. he couldn't tell link that either, and he probably never would be able to. he wouldn't ever have the chance. "we have battles to prepare for in the morning."
revali wraps his wings snug around the blond, and link practically purrs in content, dozing off immediately into the warmth. like this, the rito almost smiles. if burning himself alive was the only way to have link, even for just a moment that couldn't always be guaranteed, then revali would just have to make sure he stayed alight; to be the bonfire keeping link warm throughout the night.
#revalink#loz#botw#loz botw#legend of zelda#amihan's revalinkverse#this is a draft from APRIL folks. finally finished it up#alexa play the truth untold by bts#revali coming up with every excuse why link shouldn't ever love him back#and link refuting all those excuses with a solution or straight up saying he doesn't care#revali: we can't be together we're not even the same species i can't give you blood kin#link: that's okay i'm fine with adopting#to#revali: we can't date because ah. Uh. erm. ah see there! that spot on your neck!#i hurt you so deeply it left a mark it MUST mean that we weren't ever fated to be!#link: .... revali that is a hickey i willingly let you give me because i wanted it.#i was initially going to stop the post right before the dialogue#but i think it's very revalink of them to acknowledge all of it but continue as is#link thinks that they're fine and that their relationship doesn't need a label#meanwhile revali is straight up going WHAT ARE WE??? WHAT ARE WE LINK?????#q
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