spiderine:

tielan:

reconditarmonia:

lannamichaels:

rhube:

bastardlybrendan:

fuckingrecipes:

facts-i-just-made-up:

I spent like 15 hours on this.

*impressed slow clap*

This was ridiculously pleasing to read out loud. 

This is a legitimately fine poem. I say so with my BA in English and Philosophy and my PhD. It’s DAMN HARD to write something like this. Be impressed, yo.

Mr. Fox, sir, I won’t do it. I can’t say it. I won’t chew it.

Thank you W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan for my ability to cold-read this at high speed

DED OF LAFF

*standing ovation*

violent-darts:

yuenchien:

erinbowbooks:

thechanelmuse:

Hazel Scott playing two pianos at the same damn time with ease

Hazel Scott was a musical sorcerer and a civil rights hero.   She:

  •  was admitted to Julliard at 8.  
  • was performing in top venues by 16.  
  • pioneered “swinging the classics” and made the equivalent of a million dollars a year doing it.  
  • was the first person of color to have their own national TV show.  
  • went to Hollywood but refused to be cast as a “singing maid.”  Demanded and got control over her casting, her wardrobe, and how footage featuring her was cut.  
  • refused to perform in segregated venues and led charges for integration in several northern cities, notably Spokane.  

She was brought down by the House Committee on Unamerican Activities, and has been largely forgotten.  But she was a sorcerer, and a hero.  

@theladyragnell

Let’s un-forget her.

thoodleoo:

thoodleoo:

concept: a translation of the speeches of cicero done in the style of a tumblr callout post

callout post @ catiline:

  • abuses our patience
  • eludes us with his madness
  • hurls his unbridled audacity around to no end
  • not only lives, but comes into the senate
  • ought to have been put to death by the order of the consul long ago

books for ancient roman children

thoodleoo:

  • oh, the places you’ll conquer!
  • where the wild things are: persia and other barbaric realms 
  • cerberus, the big black three-headed hell-dog
  • black beauty and other famous politicans
  • alexander the great and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day: a story about hephaestion
  • don’t let the sacred chickens steer the ship!
  • the little cohort that could: stories of military might that you will be expected to reproduce at the appropriate age
  • is your mama a llama? and other stories about zeus