Our Truckers Drink With Bears, And U Shocked Bout Cat On Head? Lol. Please. )))

I felt the need to appreciate Karl Urban’s gorgeous locks and scruff this morning. Blessed be.

The complete Icelandic staves / Ásatrú symbol series. (Artwork 2015)

Reupload of one of my most popular posts.

Each artwork is representing an element. They are presented here in the following order : fire, earth, metal, water, wood and air. The symbols are accompanied by stanzas of the Hávamál or Völuspá, written in runes.

Disclaimer for purists : admittedly for aesthetic effect only, as these runes are Elder Futhark and thus predates the viking era by a few centuries. (Let’s not even go into the subject of Icelandic staves which are even a lot younger than that). The transcription is also a wild approximation, again accuracy wasn’t a concern during the creative process.

The stanzas :

1) Fire : Helm of Terror

Cattle die and kinsmen die, thyself too soon must die, but one thing never, I ween, will die fair fame of one who has earned.

2) Earth : Vegvísir

Happy is he who hath in himself praise and wisdom in life; for oft doth a man ill counsel get when ‘tis born in another’s breast

3) Metal : Hólastafur

Hard is it in the world, great whoredom, an axe age, a sword age, shields shall be cloven, a wind age, a wolf age, ere the world sinks.

4) Water : Veiðistafur

He welcomes the night who has enough provisions Short are the sails of a ship, Dangerous the dark in autumn, The wind may veer within five days, And many times in a month.

5) Wood : Varnarstafur Valdemars

An ash I know, Yggdrasil its name, With water white is the great tree wet; Thence come the dews that fall in the dales, Green by Urth’s well does it ever grow.

6) Air : Valknut

Thought and Memory each morning fly Over the vast earth: Thought, I fear, may fail to return, But I fear more for Memory.

It does not help. Nothing can save us, except ourselves. But this is Russia (like Sparta but worse), here no one's voice matters.

How LGBT in Russia are treated

In Russia, there are groups that purposely find “outed” LGBT people and groom them, make them think that they are more people who accept and love them.

They are not.

These people track down the person they have targeted and beat them.

They attack and brutally savage these people.

LGBT are often beaten to death during this. Some are shot execution-style.

Nobody stands up. Not even authority. The groups that do this get away with it. Barely ever are they charged.

These people commit MURDER and get away with it.

The POLICE are involved in these groups. People who are there to protect you and help you are threatening you with injury and death.

I unfortunately know of these fucking hateful and disgusting acts because my brother was murdered by one of these bastards.

Beaten to death and left in public, in a humiliating pose which makes me sick to this day.

I was five when I heard he died. Imagine that, you’re told your sibling is dead, and you’ll never see them again. At five.

Imagine your brother being the only support you had, because you also liked boys, and didnt understand it. And hes gone. You also have to worry about that happening to you.

Imagine thinking nobody in your country likes you, they want you to die.

Yeah, thats LGBT Russians.

Vladimir Putin, you horrible, bastard of a man. Get your country together and solve this bullshit.

Это странно, но мне нравится - _ -

He appeared to me. Here, in this room. He blessed me and made the sign of the cross. But he was silent, and his image faded almost as soon as I saw it.

Nadezhda P. Suslova (b 1843) was Russia's first female physician. She worked as a gynecologist in Nizhny Novgorod, and was involved in many charity efforts. She was allowed by Ivan Sechenov and Sergey Botkin to attend classes at the Imperial Military Medical Academy. Suslova's first article, Changes in skin sensations under the influence of electrical stimulation, was published in Meditsinskiy Vestnik in 1862. In 1865, after women were officially banned from universities, she moved to Switzerland. In Switzerland, she audited medical classes at the University of Zurich for two years, then became an official student when the university was opened to women. Suslova was the first Russian woman to be awarded a Doctor of Medicine degree, which was conferred after having to defend her research and education in front of a large audience and the medical school faculty.

Making a thread to help you educate all the "name one thing women invented" "women can't do science" "what have they ever contributed?" people

EVERYBODY READ THIS

Kirk: If you have ten cookies, and someone takes away half, what do they have?

Chekov: A broken hand