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Tumblr is so fun bc someone will blog something like “tummy ache: 2 dead 3 injured” and you look on there profile and they’re 29yrs of age

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boyboobs:

do you have a problem with our aging populace having tummy aches. are our senior citizens just a joke to you

dyatlovpassingprivilege:

don’t really care about zelda so i’ll be brainstorming ways to claim that it’s morally wrong to play and/or post about. watch this space

3liza:

anthropologist-on-the-loose:

demoniccow:

anthropologist-on-the-loose:

micewithknives:

alwayswasalwayswillbeourland:

alwayswasalwayswillbeourland:

Not to be australian but wtf is a bog? You guys just make shit up hey

Ok i looked it up and that was NOT what i thought a bog was.

(Pst don’t we have bogs?)

#did i only learn this six months ago #perhaps #ngl everyone else's weird obsession with them is never endingly confusing to me thoALT

@micewithknives the obsession is totally valid. The whole not-really-land but not-really-water thing definitely gives bogs an ethereal quality. Ngl, their stagnant stillness paired with the extensive plant life gives strong “life comes from decay” vibes which is such a fun concept to mentally play with. And they’re fascinating ecosystems even without the cultural connotations.

Plus bog-hopping is both fun (getting all muddy) and terrifying (oh shit oh shit this hole was way deeper than I realized and now I’m stuck up to my waist in mud water and there’s nothing nearby to grab except more mud and waterlogged vegetation and I’m gonna die because I wanted to get closer to some pretty moss)

Awkward moment when you realize people love bogs mostly for their amazing biodiversity and not …

ya know

bog bodies.


(Content warning on the link: there are detailed photos of preserved human remains.)

Sometimes I forget that bog bodies are *not* a typical thing to know about so I didn’t mention them because “well everyone already knows about my personal favorite parts of bogs (bog bodies) (broader cultural and historic perception of bogs) so I don’t need to bother with explaining their long-standing reputation as liminal spaces”

And then I am reminded that I am not immune to the phenomenon of specialists forgetting what is considered common knowledge to the general populace.

armchair anthropologist here to just chime in and agree there is no human culture that im personally aware of that lives in/around wetlands generally and bogs in particular that doesnt consider them ritually, religiously or culturally important in extremely similar ways. so much so that we have indigenous bog bodies (some evidently sacrificial and some apparently normal funerary burials) in Florida AND Europe that are preserved incredibly well because peat itself is just a really really good preservation medium due to a combination of factors sort of similar to pickling (acidity and protection from air). you can take 3000-year-old dairy butter out of a peat bog and eat it on a cracker if you want to. wetlands really are magical and liminal, not just as a passage between the water and the land, but as a portal between millennia.

tigerdrop:

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Look at my plants boy

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i am once again being tempted to eat poison (fried jalapeño situation) (they might have cheese inside)

t+2h50m status: yuck

riben:

myclicheass:

riben:

Hi this is your dasher it appears that youve ordered my favorite meal

Well get here early and we can halfsies

I’m not coming

holo-tape:

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i accidentally corrupted my sims 2 town and now whenever the baby cries i can bribe him 50 big ones to stop