To Counteract My Previous Repost Of A Vaguely Anti Tony Post. Tony Stark You're Still Great!

This is late but Happy Ides of March everyone!

*sheldon voice

Queen Elizabeth sleeps while I play bongos!!

every single channel is airing news of the queen's death except E4 which refuses to interrupt reruns of the big bang theory

Ye Olde Contraception

Me: …

Ye Olde Doc: …

Me: sir keep your herbs away from my hoo-ha

Propaganda Machine

One thing I think about all the time is the sheer scale of propaganda out in the world right now.

Consider for a moment, Henry IV of Castille. He was the brother of Isabella of Castille, who became Queen after his death, and it was because of her that Christopher Columbus set out on his voyage for India. We know SO MUCH about Isabella and Ferdinand and the conquest of the Americas but we know so little about Henry IV. And yes, that's in part because he didn't do as much and wasn't as significant, but it's also because during his rule, his position as monarch was tenuous. He had a lot of detractors and people vying for his throne. These detractors put out huge amounts of propaganda, about him and his daughter, and because there's so much nonsense to wade through to pick out even a sliver of truth, we know barely anything about his reign.

If Historians can be largely clueless as to what happened 500 years ago, in a time where there was no social media or internet, and there were highly limited mediums through which to spread propaganda and misinformation, how screwed does that make us now?

Surely it'll be hundreds of times more difficult to ascertain what happened when there are thousands of contradicting tweets, videos and articles surrounding every issue. It's unspeakably horrible to imagine that 600 years from now, Historians might look back and believe the words of Anti-Vaxxers, or take everything Trump and his supporters say as gospel. I'm not saying they will, because Historians are super smart, and a big part of the discipline is taking sources with a grain of salt, but I think it's a legitimate concern, that we're going to lose the lessons we could've learnt from our present, because it's so bogged down in bullshit.

Gorgeous

not mine, found on pinterest

why are people still simping for kylo ren when he looks like someone chucked a dark-sider in warm water to de-thaw and left him there too long

dogs are the best guys i mean no one else in my life is that excited to see me when i come home.

actually no one in my life is that excited at all.

My Stranger Things SLug Baby Hypothesis

I don't know if anyone else thought this but I've just finished watching Season 1 of Stranger Things for the first time (I know I'm late to it but please no spoilers!!!) and did anyone else think that Will was going to get pregnant with slug things like that dude in Round the Twist did that one episode?

This cannot be a coincidence. In nine months Will is going to be the proud mother to an inter dimensional slug baby.

And on another note Round the Twist was...something. I remember loving it as a kid so I went back and watched a bunch of episodes on youtube and oh man. It's a lot.

My parents r now so invested in the quest to get Taylor Swift eras tickets that if we don’t end up succeeding my house will be looking very Shakespearean. Tragic stylez

Agatha Christie Appreciation Post

Can we all take a minute to remember back to 1926 when Agatha Christie went to a spa for a couple of days and the whole of England proceeded to fall into a state of chaos as it thought she'd gone missing.

She was the top story in all the newspapers.

The entire police force was looking for her.

And the real kicker is that her brother had told the police that she was at a spa and they'd just said 'nah can't be' and not bothered to check.