This Might Be A Hot Take But I Think We Should Still Be Required To Wear Masks On Airplanes

Church of Whale Fall

sometimes i am struck by the fact that there are people i follow on tumblr because we were friends on livejournal TWENTY YEARS AGO

Bob Yeager

not to be a guy whose meds are working but i am having a good time and i like my job

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 absolutely do not want a fourth season of nbc hannibal but what i do want is for the existence of this current version of iwtv to drive bryan fuller into crowdfunding a 12 minute independent film in which hugh dancy and mads mikkelsen’s unnamed characters erotically murder each other in increasingly fantastical dream sequences until they are interrupted by a mysterious figure with a gun, whereupon we discover that they have been narrating these scenes to each other while having just some pretty average ‘fiftysomething guys who have been having kinky married sex for eight years now’ knifeplay time in their little villa full of murder trophies or whatever

"Star Trek Deep Space Nine already did this in the 90's. It's not as special or original as you think." I say loudly to be heard over the din of the sportsbar where a baseball game is playing on a TV.

「　 モブサイコ100 II 　//　 Mob Psycho 100 II 　」

Key animators: Hideki Kakita ( 柿田 英樹), Kenta Yokoya ( 横屋 健太), Nobuaki Nagano ( 長野 伸明), Shingo Abe ( 阿部 慎吾), & Yoshimichi Kameda ( 亀田 祥倫)

never let anyone tell you that trawling through mediocre victorian poetry isn't worth it. we just happened upon an absolute BANGER of a worm poem. go read it or else 🪱🪱🪱

Melanistic Maned Wolf