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“Look out upon the lands where evil and despair shall come upon those whom you have delivered to me. For you have dared to mock me, and have questioned the power of Melkor, Master of the fates of Arda. Therefore with my eyes you shall see, and with my ears you shall hear, and nothing shall be hidden from you.”

- Children of Húrin, J.R.R. Tolkien

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Let me make one thing extremely fucking clear

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YES

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Annie Swynnerton - Oceanid (1904)

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The future is female. The past was too.

March is Women's History Month.

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gay people can never say 'I love you' it's always gotta be some shit like "you are a wood-elf, anyway, though elves of any kind are strange folk. yet you comfort me. where you go, I will go," and "but you comfort me, gimli. i'm glad to have you standing nigh with your stout legs and your hard axe."

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Scythian Tattoos Appreciation. I

Kurgan II of Pazyryk, Altai. Right upper arm of a Scythian men with tattoos showing animals and hybrid creatures. 5th century BCE.

Original skin (left) and outline (right).

Source: Under the Sign of the Golden Griffin. Royal Tombs of the Scythians (2007).

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I am a teacher and want to do a unit on bugs for my kindergarteners and preschoolers and I would love to have some live bugs as a class pet.

I would keep the critters after the unit ( I’ve always wanted some and it’s a great excuse to get work to buy it)

Do you have a recommendation on beginner critters that we would be able to observe easily?

I think isopods are a great option since they are harmless, can be colorful, and do well on minimal care! I’ve always thought isopods would be great class pets since they also are good at demonstrating laws of genetics, convergent evolution etc. for older students.

you’d probably do well with Porcellio scaber or Armadillidium vulgare, both hardy temperate species available in a rainbow of color morphs (and often sold in mixed-color cultures). since they eat dead tree leaves, it might be a fun idea to have your kids go outside and gather dead leaves to feed their class pets (make sure it’s away from pesticides). one issue might be that both species are strictly nocturnal and aren’t reliably visible in captivity, spending their time in hiding. you can still flip their hides to find them, but it's best to keep that to a minimum.

if isopods are too mundane, I also suggest cockroaches like dubia or Madagascar hissers. while hissers can climb, dubia can't, and both are harmless and popular insect ambassadors at museums. hissers are good for handling but they still need to be treated gently, and have sharp spines on their legs that they can use to enforce that. if you’re in the southeast esp. Florida these are not legal to keep but I can suggest alternatives.

mealworms and superworms are beetle larvae that eat just about anything and are very hardy to dryness. their complete metamorphosis makes them good teaching species; the superworm Z. atratus avoids pupating in a colony setting so it’s perfect for isolating in little vials so you can watch its transformation into pupa and beetle.

plain old pet store crickets are a very active option too but Acheta domesticus die quickly due to viruses and generally being a crappy bug. if you want crickets find Gryllodes sigillatus—they’re quieter and longer-lived but much more agile

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in fucking tears rn

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women in STEM (supervillainy, treachery, evilness, malevolence)

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Web Sculpture by Ann Carrington

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the moon is loved no matter what phase she’s in... just as you are.

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What is Silmarillion Epistolary?

Silmarillion Epistolary is a challenge dedicated to creating fanworks to tell the story of the Silmarillion in the style of an epistolary novel.

An epistolary novel is where the story is told through letters, diary entries, or other types of documents. One of the most well-known epistolary novels is Dracula, another more modern example would be The Princess Diaries series. These books use different kinds of documents and communications between characters such as letters, telegrams, email, journals, instant messaging, or texting to tell a story in a nontraditional way.

The goal of Silmarillion Epistolary is to encourage fans to take the stories we know and tell them through different kinds of documents. Some examples would be:

Letters

Diary entries

Invitations/announcements

Records

Inventory Lists

Research papers

Guidebook entries

Maps

Blueprints

Treaties

Family Trees

Recipes

Sketches of places, plants, objects, animals, and people

There’s a lot of different documents that can help tell a story, so be creative!!

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she is to me what leia's gold bikini was to straight boys