This is amazing. If it was in HD I’d have joy-puked.
(Source: cineraria)
A Bornean woman waterboards a captured orang-utan, attempting to force it into revealing the secret jungle location of the Ape-City.
Orang-utan prisoners of war can be technically killed and revived many times during such procedures, allowing the torture to go on for days.
(Source: headlikeanorange)
I’ve actually been really annoyed about this. A book shouldn’t have to literally say “They’re black” outright. That’s ridiculous.
I’m writing a story in which one of the characters is black. I’ve never mentioned that they’re black, I’m not even sure if I’ve alluded to the fact they’re black. But I would hope that if my story ever got turned into a movie, my fans wouldn’t be such racist imbeciles as to complain about the casting.
(Source: ssuperhero)
I wanted to yell about this SO bad last night. But I kept my mouth shut, since we were watching with other people.
Oh thank the gods it wasn’t just me.
This was my immediate thought as well! Couldn’t stop thinking it the whole time he was in that scene!
Book of Kells
i’ve seen the Book of Kells in person. It’s one of the few pieces of art truly worth calling a masterpiece.
AAH OH MY GOD! WE LOOKED AT THIS IS ART HISTORY! This slide is literally burned into my mind for the final:
Incarnation > Book of Kells
Medieval
Iro-Celtic
760-820 A.D.
whoo hoooooo art history has melted my brraaiinn
but actually yeah this book is amazing.
Hahaha! All these people in the notes saying how they remember the Book of Kells from art class or from seeing it in real life! This isn’t the Book of Kells, this is an English translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam.
You can clearly see the bottom left says:
”Ah Love! could thou and I with Fate conspire
To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire,
Would not we shatter it to bits — and then
Re-mould it nearer to the Heart’s Desire!“
- That’s in English, not Latin.
- That’s a love poem by Omar Khayam, not the gospels of the New Testament.
- The art and lettering doesn’t even look like the art in the Book of Kells!
- Tamam Shud is Persian for “Finished”.
So you’ve seen/studied the Book of Kells, and are professing your love for it or saying that “This slide is literally burned into your mind” and yet… It’s the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam. Obviously didn’t look/study too hard…
The gods would wish to avoid mentioning this one,
because the work of his hands will long be remembered by gods and men.
Hárr, from Gylfaginning in the Prose Edda
There’s a girl.
Words cannot describe it.
“Luc?”
Luc recognised that voice. He squinted against the glare of the snow, searching for movement. And then he saw it. A bundle of white, invisible but for its eyes and the deep-sunken holes it left with each bound. “Fetch?” breathed Luc.
“Luc!” shouted the little beast. “Luc!”
I miss her.
“Níl sa saol seo ach ceo.”
O, a Chartoon Saloon, cén fáth nach rinne tú an scannán seo as Gaeilge? *sigh…*
(Source: houseofupsidedown)
