Writers are Sadistic Bastards

swiczeniuk:

regibean:

When patients were committed to the Willard Asylum for the Insane in Upstate New York, they arrived with a suitcase packed with all of the possessions they thought they needed for their time inside.
Most never left. The mental hospital had an average stay of nearly 30 years. When patients died, they were buried in nameless graves across the street of the asylum. Their suitcases, with all their worldly possessions, were locked in an attic and forgotten.
In 1995, an employee of the mental hospital discovered the suitcases, 400 of them. They date from 1910 to 1960.
Now, photographer Jon Crispin is cataloging each suitcase and opening a window into the lives - and the minds - of the people deemed too unwell to be allowed in society.

This is fascinating and distressing. I wonder how many of those people were actually “unwell”, or whether it was just a reflection of what society considered unacceptable at the time. 

I wonder how much of those suitcases they were actually allowed to keep with them, considering regulations of the times. Which just makes it more distressing. But incredibly fascinating.

geothebio:

i-am-no-man-bitch:

akatriel-rowanborn:

mrchristianbale:

I WILL NEVER NOT REBLOG.

This is still the best thing on the Internet

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yasboogie:

Cucamelons: They’re grape-sized watermelons that taste like cucumbers with a tinge of lime

They’re native to Mexico and Central America. They also go by the following names: mouse melon, Mexican sour gherkin, Mexican miniature watermelon and Mexican sour cucumber. [homegrown-revolution.co.uk]

You can buy the seeds here: $2.50 for 25-35 seeds. [rareseeds.com] Read more.

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shadow-of-a-whisper:

*dead from too much cuteness*

dontmindcontrol:

terra-mater:

15 amazing things in nature you won’t believe actually exist

Source

I want to see all of this.

nette811:

thedevilswaiting:

The original story of the little mermaid is that she must kill the prince in order to be human, and in the end, she loves him too much and kills herself instead.

The artwork is too great not to reblog. 

Ok, ok - important expansion: she only has to kill the Prince because the deal was if he fell in love with her she could be human forever, and he didn’t. By which I mean, he was a good person and genuinely nice to her, but he didn’t fall in love. He fell in love with someone else, also perfectly nice - not the seawitch in disguise, fu Disney. The Mermaid is told she can only return to the sea now if she kills the Prince. She goes into the room where he and his lover lie sleeping and they look so beautiful and happy together that she can’t do it.

That’s why she kills herself. And because it was a noble act she returns to sea as foam.

One moral of the story was that women shouldn’t fundamentally change who they are for love of a man, and in theory Han Christian Anderson wrote it for a ballerina with whom he fell in love. She was marrying someone else who wouldn’t let her dance.

Holy shit

And that’s why i’m proud of my country 

Huh, I heard another version that said he might have written it for a man.

(Source: xxdardarxx)