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Saw this on Facebook and thought it was totally deserving of being shared…

#tolkien #Tolkien's legendarium #frodo baggins

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Excellent examples of traditional scientific naming.

This is an adult frog. We just published its formal description. It is now officially called Mini mum. 

There are two other members of its genus: Mini scule and Mini ature. 

I am not kidding. Those are their actual names.

You can read a bit more about them here.

Is this how you scicomm?

Photo credit: A. Rakotoarison.

#frogs #biology #science! #there are three kinds of scientific/medical names #the ones that tell you very specific details #the ones that tell you who officially first described them or who they described it in #and the ones that tell you a joke

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14th century Aurora ✨

#sleeping beauty #fairytales #historical accuracy

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What’s the difference between a hot potato and a flying pig?

Ones a heated yam, and ones a yeeted ham.

#laugh rule #pun

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That’s a lovely brocade! Excellent use of the chemise and detachable sleeves, too.

Gimli: "It's true you don't see many dwarf women. And in fact, they are so alike in voice and appearance, that they are often mistaken for dwarf men. And this in turn has given rise to the belief that there are no dwarf women, and that dwarves just spring out of holes in the ground!"

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I premiered my lady dwarf OC Dirka today at my local renaissance festival and I felt so beautiful even with a beard. This has been a dream costume of mine for a long time and I'm so pleased with how it came out!

#tolkien #cosplay #costuming #dwarves #dwarf women

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#captain marvel #gifset

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     Carrot stood in the middle of the floor. His rusty chain mail was torn, his helmet was missing, he was swaying a little from side to side and one eye was already starting to swell, but he recognized the captain, dropped the feebly protesting customer he was holding, and threw a salute.

     “Beg to report thirty-one offenses of Making and Affray, sir, and fifty-six cases of Riotous Behavior, forty-one offenses of Obstructing an Officer of the Watch in Execution of his Duty, thirteen offenses of Assault with a Deadly Weapon, six cases of Malicious Lingering, and– and– Corporal Nobby hasn’t even shown me one rope yet–”

     He fell backward, breaking a table.

#fanart #discworld #carrot ironfoundersson

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why isn’t there a short film based on the thing where diana wynne jones refused to drop out of tolkien’s college class even though he was intentionally making it as boring and dense and unintelligible as possible so that everyone would drop out and he could get out of teaching it and write lotr instead. just imagine the potential of a 1940s Female College Student sitting in an empty classroom with Secretly Furious professor resentfully lecturing a meandering incomprehensible stream-of-consciousness inner monologue about The Structure of Narrative to this kid determined to get her money’s worth out of this chump. and them both getting way more personal and intellectual development out of this song-and-dance than they thought they would. hey guys why isn’t there a

#tolkien #dianna wynne jones #I didn't know I wanted this but yes please

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Plague Doctor masks based off of different birds

#history #plague doctors #nerdery

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while “zuko sent to find one single person who hasnt existed in 100 years and then he actually does” can be very funny in concept, can we just talk about how fucking heartbreaking it must be for iroh? 

like. he knows this is an impossible task. and it does happen–yes! in the first episode, so maybe we don’t even think about it that much! but when ozai tells zuko to go find the avatar, it’s an impossible task. and iroh knows this. and zuko might have everything riding on this, and he’s a kid and hasn’t learned what’s impossible yet, and so he’s plugging his ears and saying “i can do it! i can do it and then dad will love me again!”, but iroh knows the only reason this specific task was assigned is because ozai doesn’t want him. he doesn’t want him back. ozai didn’t want him to betray them so he gave him a little hope, a little “of course i could still love you, you can come back, that’s a possibility, just don’t disappoint me” because, you know, he’s an abusive dick. but iroh knows his brother, and he knows 

i think as a kid, while i loved loved iroh, it was a little hard to reconcile his silly moments with his wise moments. it’s not anymore 

i’m just thinking of the pai sho tile, and how silly it seemed at the time that it was just in his sleeve. silly old man! so forgetful 

no. no, that wasn’t it at all 

because every moment he stalled, every moment he mucked up the plan, every moment he just generally wasn’t helpful, that was another moment where he could still have a chance. where he might get through to zuko. where he could delay what was suddenly now a very real possibility: 

that ozai sent zuko away, but zuko would actually come back, expecting to be loved. and that’s what iroh didn’t want to happen. winning ozai’s love was more unrealistic than finding someone who’d been dead for 100 years, in the end 

#avatar: the last airbender #zuko #meta

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Lobelia Sackville-Baggins put on her secret Dwarven ring of power, turning invisible. She sneuck into Bag End using the secret doorway. Silently, she grabbed a silver spoon and began to retreat. 

“Well, thief! I smell you and I feel your air,” said Bilbo angrily. 

#tolkien #the hobbit #bagginses #laugh rule

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Our generation has witches that will never be burnt.

#gifset #superheroines

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A Painting Made From Pieces of Glass

#art #photoset

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#fun with language #pun #chickens #laugh rule

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Hacienda Marz

#photoset #horses

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watchin’ the prequels

#star wars #art

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#photo #spiderweb