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Vanellope von Schweet cosplay

Cosplayer: Tenori-Tiger

Photographer: Saitoubou

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My new horse!

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cjwho:

Human Nests by Jayson Fann

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kaajoo:

World’s Most Beautiful Abandoned Places

Italian product manager and web designer Francesco Mugnai recently added a collection of images to his blog touting some of the most beautiful images of abandoned spots and modern ruins that he’d ever seen. The images Mugnai has captured come from empty castles, shuttered power plants, and dilapidated churches around the world. From a sunken yacht in Antarctica to a forever-closed amusement park in Japan, these images all make up a sort of anti-phoenix; rather than rising as new from the ashes, these husks remain preserved in decomposition, forcing viewers to confront the strange beauty of ruination.

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Howl’s different looks

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luminouslitha:

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open-the-cages:

http://www.ringlingbeatsanimals.com/pdfs/haddockDeclarationRedacted.pdf

Ringling Bros. “training” methods:

• Beat unruly or depressed elephants that fail to cooperate with bullhooks
• Punish elephants and babies that do not want to work by isolating them from the other animals and starving them
• Play loud rock music to drown out the sounds of babies screaming
• Depriving the elephants of play 
• Try and convince the public that “conga lines” and “headstands” are natural elephant behaviours and that there is nothing cruel about it
• Use electric hotshots on babies or aggressive elephants if bullhooks aren’t enough to get them to submit

Cases:

Riccardo - 8 month old baby broke two legs after being forced to sit on a plastic tub that was too high for him, like the photo above. He was made to walk 100 yards to the barn before he collapsed in shock and agony. He never got up again.

Birthing - Mothers in labour are chained for 15 hours straight. When the calf is born, it drops onto solid concrete floor. If the calf is male it is usually euthanized or sold on.

Hiding the cruelty - in order to pass inspection, keepers smear mud onto the legs of elephants, covering up any lesions or burns. Hot shots are kept well hidden. 

Revenge - Elephants that retaliate or try and hurt their keepers back are severely punished. They are electrocuted for about ten minutes. One elephant was in so much pain it regurgitated water. They are beaten for several minutes with bullhooks and electrocuted. Sometimes the keepers get so worn out from the beating that they take a break and then come back later to “finish the job”. 

Replacements - If babies die whilst travelling on the road, they simply “send for another”, as if they are mere props. 

Power tricks - some tricks put so much strain on the animal’s body that they suffer severe arthritis and ruptures to their uterus.

Beatings - “I’ve seen elephants being beaten who have no idea why they are being beaten or what is expected of them. They start randomly lifting one leg, and then another, and another, and lifting their trunk, hoping some trick will satisfy the trainer and make the beating stop.” 

Fuck circuses that use animals.

This makes me want to cry so hard

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imsirius:

itsmeagan:

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.

I want this painted on my wall.

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