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e-pluribusunum:

Another powerpoint historical shitpost!

There were so many amazing women that we don’t really get to learn about since apparently those petty ass motherfuckers we sometimes call “The Founding Fathers” were more important! I couldn’t fit them all so I tried to do the ones people would be most familiar with! I also recommend looking up Mercy Otis Warren, Sally Hemings, Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, Theodosia Burr Alston, Martha Jefferson Randolph, Louisa Adams, “Molly Pitcher”, and Deborah Sampson.

[See “The Founding Fathers 101 or The Only Thing They Could Agree On Was That England Could Go Suck A Dick” for the being of this powerpoint series!]

Day in the life of a scientist

Me, at an art store: I need a paint marker with low toxicity and a delicate tip.
Employee: What kind of project are you working on?
Me: It’s for a research project. I just need bright colors.
Employee: What medium are you using? Canvas or paper?
Me: uh….spiders.
Employee: Plastic or felt?
Me: ….live spiders. Like, from the forest.
Employee: ….
Employee: I have to get back to the counter.

pervocracy:

My dad just spent a few days visiting here.

Things my dad was confrontational and judgmental about:

  • Microsoft products
  • Hillary Clinton
  • Music created after 1820
  • Brutalist architecture
  • Tourists
  • Pilsners
  • Large cars
  • Small cars
  • Advertising of any kind
  • Sports other than football (”real football”)  (soccer)
  • Flags
  • Blu-Ray
  • Americans with the temerity to speak American English
  • (my dad very insistently says “petrol,” “advert,” “loo,”  etc.)  (he’s from Pennsylvania)  (he did live in Germany for several years) (but he is from Pennsylvania, still)

Things my dad was not confrontational or judgmental about:

  • My career choices and path
  • My physical and mental health
  • My gender expression
  • Me living with two people

My dad’s weird and grumpy and I love him.

your dad sounds a lot like my dad (minus the sports).

Eliza Hamilton remembered the sleepless night when her husband gave immortal expression to a durable principle of constitutional law. As an ancient lady garbed in widow’s weeds, she told the story to a young man who recorded it this way in his journal:

‘Old Mrs. Hamilton…active in body, clear in mind…talks familiarly of Washington, Jefferson, and the fathers. I told her how greatly I was interested…on account of her husband’s connection with the government. “He made your government,“ said she. “He made your bank. I sat up all night to help him do it. Jefferson thought we ought not to have a bank and President Washington thought so. But my husband said, “We must have a Bank.” I sat up all night, copied out his writing, and the next morning he carried it to President Washington and we had a bank.“

Alexander Hamilton, Ron Chernow
(via viragos)

#oh my god#can you even imagine#alexander storms home#ELIZA I AM GOING TO INVENT A BANKING SYSTEM#RIGHT NOW#FETCH SOME PAPER#eliza: ok darling#eliza: why now…?#alex: because JEFFERSON DOESN’T WANT IT TO HAPPEN#eliza: oh god it’s going to be one of THOSE night#eliza: someone fetch us ALL the coffee#(hamilton probably didn’t need coffee)#(hamilton probably existed in a natural triple-shot latte state)#6am the next morning#eliza writes a letter#my dear angelica#I drank all the coffee#my heart feels very strange#have not slept for 24 hours#hamilton attaches an addendum#MY DEAREST ANGELICA#YOU CAN TELL THOMAS JEFFERSON#IN YOUR NEXT MISSIVE#‘UP YOURS’ (fahye’s tags) 

YES. (ps this reads to the tune of “take a break” and I love it.) 

(via wildehack)

#everyone’s in love with the schuyler sisters#i read this and in my mind i thought:#keeping up with the schuylers#because like#i know ham’s name is important#but when i think about the three of them like this#or of ‘take a break’#i think:#damn ham was super lucky the schuyler sisters agreed to adopt him (via @coldneverbothersdragons)

carry-on-my-wayward-artblog:

alda-rana:

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muffinworry:

roachpatrol:

out-there-on-the-maroon:

babtest:

so. they made a new german discowrld essentials edition, with a new covers (which is good because the old ones are real bad)

and they are these manga-like ‘build a picture’ style, which i like

but. oh my god. look at that vimes

this isn’t samuel ‘worked the night-shift for 30 years, runs on coffee and spit, has probably not slept more than 3hours any given day’ vimes

this is the guy who played vimes in murder-mystery play, ‘inspired by real events’. hammy acting, horrible script, ‘Clues’ everywhere, heroic fightscenes, big speaches. Vimes threadened to shut the whole thing down for slander.  Sybil probably got an autograph

I’ve been staring at this post for 15 minutes and I can’t stop laughing omg omg I’m seeing stars oh no.

Sybil invited the damn company to the house for their afterparty and you know it.

the actor earnestly explains at one point the fitness routine he undertook to ‘get in character’ for the part of the ‘heroic commander’ while pointing at various melon-sized muscle groups. vimes himself is sitting there shoveling something that’s 98% grease by volume into his face and also staring balefully. he’s never done a pushup in his life. he wouldn’t know a fucking pushup if it spat on him in the street. sybil is doing her absolute best not to laugh and her best is nowhere good enough. the actor, encouraged by the (presumably) admiring male stares and flirtatious female giggles, goes on to describe his hair-care regimen.

Nooooooo oooooonnnnne stops coups like Sam Vimes

Distrusts clues like Sam Vimes

No one lives off of Klatchian brews like Sam Vimes

He’s especially good at in-VEST-igating

My what a guy, that Sam Vimes

This post got better since I saw it last night oh my gods. 

Thank you @roachpatrol I don’t think I’ll ever stop laughing now.

Sorry @roachpatrol for hijacking your post but that was just hilarious and i had to draw it….

(It’s hard to draw Vimes out of uniform! But I guess even he doesn’t wear armour 24/7…)

(Young Sam is like ‘daddy, I want an armour like that!’)

I’m sure Angua loved it too

And then she run