Sad Idiot making the rounds.
stranger and stranger
Ruined By Its Fans
A collaborative project, nearly a year and a half in the making, has finally appeared online courtesy of my inability to finish what I start, but also of the fact that I impulsively bought a Red Bull at Rite Aid last night at like 8 PM. An explanation, courtesy of my Red Bull haze:
For those of us who prefer to spend our days enjoying things, it is a fact of life: Lots of disagreeable people like things that might otherwise be pretty cool. In early 2012, Tag, David, and I, using nothing but a Google doc and our combined grade-school knowledge of mathematics, attempted to quantify the ways in which these madding crowds might be messing up our lives.It’s strange that we let others drag down our appreciation for something as great as Chappelle’s Show, but also funny how Sublime’s fans manage to make Sublime even worse. We live in a complicated world.
Feel free to disagree with any of our conclusions. Recommended: sort by Level of Tragedy in order to get the clearest picture of what greatnesses have been sunk by their accompanying fandoms.
‘fascinating’ is a word I use for the unexpected.
(Source: hiddlesy)
(Source: apriki)
coming soon to a computer screen near you
Lonesome Dreams
that Inception AU fic by Katy where Kirk extracts, Sulu runs point, Chekov builds, Uhura forges, Bones mixes chemicals, Spock invades dreams, Scotty tags along, and Marcus sells secrets to the militant Klingon Corporation
alternatively, the best dreamsharing team in the world hunt down the mole responsible for sending one of their own into limbo in the dream world and a coma in the real world
YO HOLD ON.
IT GETS BETTER.
This mummy, found in the Altai mountains of Siberia, is actually that of a young woman who died at about the age of twenty-five; she is thought to have been a member of the Pazyryk tribe.
She was buried with six horses and two similarly-tattooed men (the horned griffon that decorates her shoulder also appears on the man buried closest to her, covering most of his right side), possibly escorts. She was also wearing a horse-hair wig, silk, and elaborate boots, which is all a level of ceremony that would have likely only been accorded to a woman of high rank. You didn’t get inked like this unless you were very important, and had worked your way up to that importance.
…Hence, of course, the references to her by researchers as ‘The Ukok Princess,’ although due to the lack of weapons in her grave they have concluded that the woman was in fact a healer or a storyteller.
And now I’m all consumed with curiosity: Who was she? What amazing things did she accomplish? Why these symbols, and what did they mean? Who were the two men alongside her?
The most informative article about it can be found here, although I would completely eat up any other information you guys could find.
Map Paintings, Paul Morstad
