In my ignorance I’ve been telling people for years I have a form of number dyslexia, based solely on the fact that when people tell me numbers or ask me to copy them down I occasionally mix up the order (or even write some of the characters themselves “mirror imaged” - mainly 2s and 3s).

Then today a bout of Wikipedia-link-hopping led me to this article. I’m 21 - why am I only just finding out that this is a real thing now? I have so many more of these symptoms than just the writing down numerals wrong!

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deodrant:

i’m literally not close friends w anyone i’m sort of just like semi-friends w everyone 

And just where were my babies? (a.k.a. Bran and Rickon)

xylodemon:

Roose Bolton was 6000% done with Robb’s shit before the episode even started.

Bronn is best.

OMG, burned clockwork Winterfell in the credits sequence made my heart break.

madebyabvh:

Animated Doctor Hoo
Original Illustration by M.Dyer

oecologia:

“In March, due to a natural phenomenon, Siberia’s Lake Baikal is particularly amazing to photograph. The temperature, wind and sun cause the ice crust to crack and form beautiful turquoise blocks or ice hummocks on the lake’s surface.”

Photograph by Alex El Barto.

‘I thought that I saw a white figure that shone and did not grow dim like the others. Was that Glorfindel then?’

droo216:

Flower, gleam and glow
Let your power shine

Ladies of Disney → Rapunzel

Tamsin Egerton for Phoenix Magazine (Spring 2013)

peregrintooks:

“Pity? It was pity that stayed Bilbo’s hand. Many that live deserve death, and some that die deserve life.”

theunseeliequeen:

Of Myth → Lilith, Sumerian and Babylonian Demon-Goddess of Sexuality and the Night

Lilith is a Sumerian or Babylonian demon Goddess, Who is perhaps better known for Her role in Jewish legend. Called “The Dark Maid” or “Maiden of Desolation,” Lilith is associated with owls and is a creature of the night. She is depicted on a Babylonian clay plaque from 2000-1600 BCE as beautiful winged woman with bird’s feet and claws.

As a young woman, Inanna, the Sumerian Goddess of love and war, plants a sacred huluppu-tree from which She hopes to make Her throne (representing Her power as an adult woman) and bed (representing Her full sexuality). But Lilith, along with the serpent and the lion-face danzu-bird, takes up residence in the huluppu-tree, as a symbol of Inanna’s fears. The hero Gilgamesh eventually drives Lilith out, and Inanna is then able to claim Her throne and bed.

In Jewish legend, Lilith is Adam’s first wife. She refused to have sex with him because she did not want to be beneath him. She left him and was cursed to give birth to one hundred demon children a day who were then killed. She was said to take Her revenge for this curse by stealing or killing human children. Her name means “Screech Owl” or “Night Creature.” She is mentioned in the Bible: as the Hebrew God, Yahweh, threatens the destruction of Edom (a land located to the south and east of the Dead Sea) He describes what will happen after it is laid waste: “…The night creature shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest” (Book of Isaiah, chapter 34, verse 14). Like in the Inanna legend, Lilith’s presence symbolizes a dark time of fear or desolation.

Lilith was also believed in Jewish folklore to be a succubus, a sexual vampire or demon who came to men at night and caused wet dreams. The Queen of Sheba, portrayed in some legends as a seductive temptress or sorceress, is associated with Lilith in Jewish tradition.

In recent times, Lilith is revered as a strong and independent Goddess, confident in Her sexual powers, Who refused to be subordinate to the husband She was given to, and Who left Paradise willingly rather than submit to a man. (x)