Anonymous asked: Just a quick note that you are such a wonderful person. You always have a kind word, and you really pay attention to others. You're kind and considerate, and also intelligent and creative. I hope you slept well, and that you have a good day ahead of you! <3

Thank you so much *massive internet hugs* 

Though I think we’ve been caught by time zones, I am, in fact, on my way to sleeping now (and have been for the past hour. it’s 11. sugar) though I will treasure this message for always and I will take the day as tomorrow :)

*sends baked goods your way* <3

Anonymous asked: May your days be merry and bright!

Ahh thanks anon :D

(though I do believe I know who you are… the fact that it still makes me happy is still true!)

I was going to sleep -

and then hugh skinner happened.

And now I’m watching les mis and playing spot the amis…

thestarsjustblinkforus:

I’m just going to go ahead and pretend that this is how Joly and Musichetta met…

Oh man this movie is adorable!

(and I can’t help but try to work Bossuet into this scenario because it would work So Well)

climateadaptation:

Road crews tear down Mayan pyramid to make gravel.

Belizean police are investigating a construction company that has destroyed most of one of the largest Mayan pyramids in the Caribbean nation to make gravel to dump on village roads, according to reports from the Caribbean.

Archaeologists and a local TV station witnessed the destruction Friday as bulldozers and excavators continued to demolish the 60-foot-tall main temple at Nohmul — “great mound” — one of the tallest structures in northern Belize, along the Mexican border in the Yucatan Peninsula.

“We can’t salvage what has happened out here,” John Morris, of the Institute of Archaeology, told 7 News Belize. “It is an incredible display of ignorance. I am appalled.” A news crew was threatened by a man with a machete as dump trucks hauled away rock and limestone from the temple, which has been “whittled down to a narrow core,” the TV station said.

A Caterpillar excavator was photographed tearing down what was left of the limestone-rich ruins. “It’s like being punched in the stomach, it’s just so horrendous,” Jamie Awe, head of the institute, told the Associated Press. “These guys knew that this was an ancient structure. It’s just bloody laziness.”

The pre-Colombian site is about 2,500 years old and consists of twin ceremonial clusters surrounded by 10 plazas and connected by a raised causeway. Mayans used stone tools to quarry the rock and build the complex by hand. An estimated 40,000 people are believed to have lived there between 500 and 250 BC.

More of these incidents to come in the years ahead as population growth outweighs the need to protect resources.

(via somuchscience)

dedicationtocurves:

painzyerp:

stay dapper.

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hunkyharry:

do you ever reblog from the source to cover up the fact you’re creeping on somebody’s blog 

(Source: premiium, via spaceparked)

Towel/flag number 1 complete!

(now to decide whether or not to write on my Enjolras towel…)

excalilbur:

things i can’t imagine:

• someone having a crush on me
• someone thinking about me during random times of the day
• someone getting butterflies by thinking of me or talking to me
• someone wanting to talk to me but doesn’t, thinking they’ll annoy me
• someone thinking i’m genuinely cute and wanting to kiss me
• someone wanting to date me
• someone falling in love with me
• someone
• having
• a
• crush
• on
• me

(via obsessivecompulsiveteadrinker)

abitterpearl:

cosette being friends with any of the amis is my favorite idea tho

• cosette and enjolras spending hours researching different charities so they know which ones they want to donate money to
• cosette and combeferre jokingly arguing about moths vs butterflies (it is not actually a joke this is fucking serious)
• cosette and courfeyrac going shopping together and being super affectionate together and making everyone confused about whether they’re dating
• cosette being the only one who can get bahorel to sit down and take an ice pack on his eye after getting punched in the face
• cosette and jehan doing things like hanging out in fields together and most people who see them think they might actually be like fairies or something
• feuilly teaching cosette all the fan signs (this one is unchanged it will always be my fave idea)
• cosette and joly ganging up on people to tell them get more sleep take care of yourself smoking is bad for you
• cosette dancing with bousset and with her gracefulness and his clumsiness they amount to a standard dancing couple
• cosette being really affectionate with grantaire and always trying to make him smile but when he says something that pisses her off she pulls his hair and says don’t test me boy

(Source: cuddlefeyrac, via madamelapin)

scinerds:

Barns Are Painted Red Because of the Physics of Dying Stars

Have you ever noticed that almost every barn you have ever seen is red? There’s a reason for that, and it has to do with the chemistry of dying stars. Seriously.

Yonatan Zunger is a Google employee who decided to explain this phenomenon on Google+ recently. The simple answer to why barns are painted red is because red paint is cheap. The cheapest paint there is, in fact. But the reason it’s so cheap? Well, that’s the interesting part.

Red ochre—Fe2O3—is a simple compound of iron and oxygen that absorbs yellow, green and blue light and appears red. It’s what makes red paint red. It’s really cheap because it’s really plentiful. And it’s really plentiful because of nuclear fusion in dying stars. Zunger explains:

The only thing holding the star up was the energy of the fusion reactions, so as power levels go down, the star starts to shrink. And as it shrinks, the pressure goes up, and the temperature goes up, until suddenly it hits a temperature where a new reaction can get started. These new reactions give it a big burst of energy, but start to form heavier elements still, and so the cycle gradually repeats, with the star reacting further and further up the periodic table, producing more and more heavy elements as it goes. Until it hits 56. At that point, the reactions simply stop producing energy at all; the star shuts down and collapses without stopping.

As soon as the star hits the 56 nucleon (total number of protons and neutrons in the nucleus) cutoff, it falls apart. It doesn’t make anything heavier than 56. What does this have to do with red paint? Because the star stops at 56, it winds up making a ton of things with 56 neucleons. It makes more 56 nucleon containing things than anything else (aside from the super light stuff in the star that is too light to fuse).

The element that has 56 protons and neutrons in its nucleus in its stable state? Iron. The stuff that makes red paint.

And that, Zunger explains, is how the death of a star determines what color barns are painted.

(via somuchscience)

drarna:

the reason why people are so hard to read is because they are composed of the letters a, t, c, and g in random sequences and as im sure you know, that doesn’t spell anything

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crochetallthethings:

Snailvengers! Assemble! …Slowly.

Up in the shop: [link]

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I AM NOW OFFICIAL ONE YEAR OLDER. YAY.

This means I am now legally the age I’ve felt for the past few months! *celebration times*