I Think That Every Child Should Have Unrestricted Access To Thick Blackberry Brambles Or Some Other Delicious

soup recipes are incomplete without the human bone marrow

why are all the star trek games based on war and ship command and galactic fighting and war. i want diplomat simulator. i want skyrim for star trek. i wanna talk to a bunch of aliens about their farming rivalry and then go to the planet where everyones an italian mobster. i dont give a shit about upgrading the torpedoes on my battle cruiser to level up and destroy other ships in the New Online MMORPG. i want my entire ship to malfunction because an alien laid an egg in the nacelles and then i want to fix it by raising the alien as my own and then tossing it into space. what’s so hard to understand.

i dont think you get it. 1980 was twenty years ago. 1990 was 10 years ago. 2000 was 10 years ago. 2016 was two years ago. 2018 was also two years ago. 2017 was last year. 2014 was four years ago. do you understand me now?????

And now, for a Water Rating Special Feature:

The Lost Sea, Tennessee

About 20,000 years ago, a giant Pleistocene jaguar ventured into a small opening in the mountain foothills, but soon found that this cave was far bigger than it bargained for. It lost its way in the dark, winding passageways, wandering for several days before eventually falling to its death in a narrow crevice, leaving behind its bones and perfectly preserved paw prints for us to find thousands of years later.

This was the first, but not the only, record of those who ventured into Craighead Caverns. Pottery, weapons and jewelry from the Cherokee people have been found in rooms up to a mile from the entrance, dating back at least a thousand years. Later, the caverns were used as a refrigerator for storing food in the summer, as a mine, a mushroom farm, and even as a dance hall. All throughout its history, there were legends of a great underground lake somewhere inside the vast caves, but no one knew where.

This changed in 1905, when a 13-year old boy was exploring the cave. Three hundred feet below the surface, he crawled through a narrow tunnel, and found himself standing in an enormous, half-submerged chasm. It was so large, in fact, that his light illuminated nothing but water. He began to throw balls of mud in an attempt to find the walls of the cavern, but he only heard splashing in response.

We now know that this lake is about four and a half acres, making it the largest underground lake in North America and the second largest in the world. But that’s only on the surface.

Diving explorations have revealed that this lake is seemingly bottomless. Beneath the ethereal water lies a series of caverns so deep that no end has been found. Divers have mapped about 1,500 feet in depth in just one of the main passageways. One diver, descending into a previously unknown chamber with a sonar device, hugged the wall and took readings all around him. There was nothing but more water in every direction.

At present, there are no further plans to continue exploration, due to the hazardous conditions in the depths of the sea. It seems, then, that the true scope of this lake may forever remain a mystery. Perhaps it is best that we leave alone this strange, bottomless abyss far beneath the ancient Appalachian mountains, to remain as dark and unknown as it was when that jaguar took its first ill-fated steps inside.

i think the fundamental problem i have with the way people talk about neurotypical people is that a lot of it seems to attempt to derive what neurotypical people are like based on what (the post author thinks) societal expectations for them are, which is like using gender roles to figure out what men/women are really like

you know those little critical thinking questions that they had at the end of short stories in literature textbooks? we should start putting those in posts. i miss them,,,,,,

questions:

what call to action is the author arguing for?

why does this work lack capitalization? what might this tell you about the author? what might this tell you about the context this work is meant to be read in?

is the addition of the questions self referential? does that make this post humorous? how so? how would the post be different without the addition of the questions?

now doesn't it make you feel better

haha ❤️ hilarious post my friend! *eyes narrow and my face goes stone serious* but it does not resonate with my own ideological schema, so i shall not be reblogging it

Civil Defense might be the funniest episode of ds9 to me... the way the camera keeps cutting to closeups of characters' shocked faces every time something new goes wrong. dukat's stupid little "attention bajoran workers. pleaseee stop rioting pleasepleaseplease ❤️ ok thanks" message playing on repeat until everyone's sick and tired of it. the fanfic plot of quark and odo getting trapped in odo's office and thinking theyre about to die. kira's iconic "Time for a less subtle approach" before just shooting a door with a phaser. jake sisko climbing through a tube. garak dramatically waltzing into ops just to tell everyone he has high enough security clearance to do that, but he can't do anything to help the station Not self-destruct. but he's here now :) the Science Fiction Device that looks like a cartoon bomb that materializes in the replicator and starts blasting indiscriminately in ops. gul dukat beaming aboard in the You Know I Had To Do It To 'Em pose and proceeding to have a calm and collected conversation with everyone in ops who's currently being shot at. ordering a tea from the replicator and allowing it to continue shooting at everyone while he and garak insult each other. garak brings up dukat's dad. still getting shot at. dukat realizing he's gotten himself stuck on ds9 about to blow up and making the walter white D: face. garak telling dukat to stop flirting with kira. "I should've executed you years ago" "you tried".