Linnean House, Missouri Botanical Gardens

for april fools we’re deleting this entire site sayonara you weeaboo shits

Whoever was the first bouncer who came up with the "you don't have to go home, but you can't stay here" was one hell of a king for setting professional emotional boundaries. Such a gentle and tactful but explicitly clear way of concisely saying "look man I'm not telling you to go solve all your problems. All I need you to do for me is to stop being my problem."

Dracula and Jonathan’s Tango - from The Polish National Opera production of ‘Dracula’.

With Choreography by Krzysztof Pastor and Music by Wojciech Kilar.

Dark side of the loom

Dropping this here for anyone who may not already know about it. paywallreader.com

req'd by @thedragonemperess

oh just the usual

text: What the fuck is wrong with you other than the obvious

Like, our stance towards exclusionary theology should not be “well actually if we look in the Bible we can see that it never actually forbids being gay,” but instead “how fucking dare you presume to delimit God’s love? What blasphemous arrogance could have possibly led you to where you are? When did you start worshipping your own image in place of the Divine?” 

East coast counties are so small because they were made so nobody in the county had to ride a horse for more than a day to get to do government business.

Midwest counties are often square because of the homesteading act. Everything was cut into square pieces of land for a while to make it easier to distribute.

Western counties are just big. Nobody in there. Had to draw lines somewhere. Trains exist now they’ll figure it out

You know, museums lend exhibits to each other all the time so it's not like the British museum would be completely without exhibits from other cultures if they returned the stuff people are asking for. Unless they've made so many enemies that nobody wants to lend them exhibits I guess.

jesus would've hung out with furries in high school if he were born in 1998 and subject to the american school system he would have let them make a fursona for him over lunch even