Unavoidably detained by the world...

• 2013-05-18

  hawkeyeagentbarton:

  demmonz:

  Reblog this if you want Hawkeye in The Avengers 2, played only by Jeremy Renner and with a better development of his character

  I wanna see if I’m alone here

  

  (via nialla42)

  Source: demmonz

• 2013-05-17

  northernlotus:

  A Haiku written by Col. Jack O’Neill:

  Daniel don’t touch that
  Daniel alien tech is-
  FOR FUCKSAKE DANIEL

  <3! *nostalgic cackling*

  (via stepchildofthesun)

  Source: northernlotus

• 2013-05-16

  the-ravenclaw-khalessi:

  yogalarva:

  morrissarty:

  the best of tumblr confusion

  These made me laugh so freaking hard.  You’re welcome.  :-)

  Cereal Water & Meat Sprinkles. 

  Bless.

  (via erstwhilegirl)

  Source: cornchipz

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  sonicsea:

  men who pass around/publicize naked photos sent to them by someone who trusted them are shitty people. & if you shame the girl for sending those photos which they thought were going to be kept private, instead of blaming the guy for being an asshole and betraying his partner, you suck too. 

  THIS

  (via erstwhilegirl)

  Source: sonicsea

• 2013-05-15

  artandsciencejournal:

  Mineral Microscopy

  Stephanie Bateman-Graham does mineral microscopy, or as she prefers to call it “using a low-powered digital toy microscope to take pictures of beautiful minerals”. In these works Bateman-Graham discovers the parts of nature that are weirdly similar to recognizable art styles — from Van Gogh impressionism to the fractured lines of Picasso. I’ve included her descriptions of the three works above:

  Ecosystem (Moss Agate):  Do you see a mixed population of microbes living together in a complete ecosystem? Actually it’s a microscope view of the mineral Stringy Moss Agate from Lake Bonneville. The material is translucent which gives a watery feel to the image, but it is entirely solid crystal.

  Heart of Stony Glass (Opalite): Microscope view of the Australian mineral Rosella Opalite. The light bounces around this veined and fractured crystalline material to reveal a heart and vascular system inside the stone. The amazing brushstrokes and textures in this image are all natural.

  Fire Mountain (Lace Agate): A mountain burns in this microscope view of the mineral Laguna Lace Agate from Mexico. Also known as Crazy Lace Agate.

  To see more of Bateman-Graham’s works, click here. 

  - Lee Jones

  (via skycroeser)

  Source: artandsciencejournal

• 2013-05-14

  alonzo1948:

  Prayer circle that Vastra, Jenny, and Strax all survive the season finale
  

  So say we all.

  (via stepchildofthesun)

  Source: alonzo1948

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  stepchildofthesun:

  Before I die…

  I painted the side of an abandoned house in my neighborhood in New Orleans with chalkboard paint and stenciled it with a grid of the sentence “Before I die I want to _______.” Anyone walking by could pick up a piece of chalk, reflect on their lives, and share their personal aspirations in public space.

  It was an experiment and I didn’t know what to expect. By the next day, the wall was bursting with handwritten responses and it kept growing: Before I die I want to… sing for millions, hold her one more time, eat a salad with an alien, see my daughter graduate, abandon all insecurities, plant a tree, straddle the International Date Line, be completely myself…  People’s responses made me laugh out loud and they made me tear up. They consoled me during my toughest times. I understood my neighbors in new and enlightening ways, and the wall reminded me that I’m not alone as I try to make sense of my life.

  After receiving many requests, my friends and I created a toolkit and the project site beforeidie.cc to help people make a wall with their community. You can also download all files for free to remix or create your own stencils. Thanks to passionate people, over 100 Before I Die walls have now been created in over 10 languages and in over 30 countries, including Kazakhstan, Portugal, Japan, Denmark, Australia, Argentina, and South Africa. - Candy Chang

  This is wonderful.

  Source: stepchildofthesun

• 2013-05-12

  You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed. You want your mother to know that all your energy, every vibration, every Btu of heat, every wave of every particle that was her beloved child remains with her in this world. You want the physicist to tell your weeping father that amid energies of the cosmos, you gave as good as you got.

  And at one point you’d hope that the physicist would step down from the pulpit and walk to your brokenhearted spouse there in the pew and tell him that all the photons that ever bounced off your face, all the particles whose paths were interrupted by your smile, by the touch of your hair, hundreds of trillions of particles, have raced off like children, their ways forever changed by you. And as your widow rocks in the arms of a loving family, may the physicist let her know that all the photons that bounced from you were gathered in the particle detectors that are her eyes, that those photons created within her constellations of electromagnetically charged neurons whose energy will go on forever.

  And the physicist will remind the congregation of how much of all our energy is given off as heat. There may be a few fanning themselves with their programs as he says it. And he will tell them that the warmth that flowed through you in life is still here, still part of all that we are, even as we who mourn continue the heat of our own lives.

  And you’ll want the physicist to explain to those who loved you that they need not have faith; indeed, they should not have faith. Let them know that they can measure, that scientists have measured precisely the conservation of energy and found it accurate, verifiable and consistent across space and time. You can hope your family will examine the evidence and satisfy themselves that the science is sound and that they’ll be comforted to know your energy’s still around. According to the law of the conservation of energy, not a bit of you is gone; you’re just less orderly. Amen.

  — 

  -Aaron Freeman (via hellyeahitscat)

  Just less orderly. I love it.

  Source: hellyeahitscat

• 2013-05-11

  ewoksandwrackspurts:

  I wish self-esteem campaigns would focus less on “everyone is beautiful” and more on “who the fuck cares if you are beautiful or not”

  (via erstwhilegirl)

  Source: ewoksandwrackspurts

• 2013-05-09

  

  Knife to the guts. Jesus. <3

  Source: asofterspecops