“They Do Nothing But Fight At Home. But They Stick Together When We’re Out In The World.” (Namakabroud,

How my Red-tailed Hawk says hello. x

If you have Scottish and/or Irish ancestry AND red hair, you probably also have VIKING ancestry, according to a new study. The director for Nordic Studies at the University of the Highlands and Islands says red hair is modern evidence of the influence of the ancient Vikings in Celtic lands.

(via Celtic Red Hair From Vikings? - Wild Eyed Southern Celt)

My brother’s the only one who can get along with my grandparent’s grumpy dog

Calvin And Hobbes embodied the voice of the lonely child

Calvin didn’t have trouble focusing on the world around him, he had trouble reconciling himself to the fact that the world around him was such a disappointment. The reason the strip appealed to people both young and old is because Calvin was feeling underwhelmed at a college graduate level. It’s not unheard of for children to experience this, particularly those who are more sensitive to their surroundings, and for many it was a relief to know that seeing the world without the luster and facade constantly created for us wasn’t so unusual. 

“Calvin made it okay to be disheartened and disappointed by life and normalized the inherent loneliness that childhood can bring.”

 He was there for us as we grew up and while we learned that things were capable of getting so much better and so much worse as we experienced puberty and beyond, he was still mired in the first grade, raging against the machine.

Full story at avclub.com

Sigh

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7POL3MhfgA)

here we go, cecil number two (i have three in my head so far) (they probably all have the same tatts cause i love em)

once i started seeing native american cecils i really couldn’t resist for a moment

Amanda Palmer as a statue for a children’s book benefit at the New York Public Library.

And here’s David Hirst’s Verity, that she’s recreating.