So I might have been excited when this came across my dash because I’ve been in one of these multiple times and some others are on my “must visit” list.
For anyone interested:
1. Marble Caves (Cuevas de Mármol) in Chile - open to kayakers
2. Fairy Caves (Gua Pari) in Borneo - open to tourists who can handle going down and up a lot of stairs
3. Cave of the Crystals (Cuevas de los Cristales) in Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico - not open to the public
4. Raufarhólshellir in Iceland - open to the public, has adventure tours (which is why it’s on my list)
5. Lechuguilla Cave in Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico, USA - You can only visit this if you are a very, very lucky researcher or park employee
6. Coconino Lava River Dave in Flagstaff, Arizona, USA - open to general public
7. Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico, USA - this part of the park is open to the public, and is accessible to most people! This park has a well paved trail through the cave with handrails and an elevator. This park has a special place in my heart.
8. Nettlebed Cave in Kahurangi National Park in New Zealand - I don’t believe this one is open to the general public, but I think you can hire a tour guide?
9. Moaning Caverns in Vallecito, California, USA - tourist destination with a vertigo-inducing spiral staircase
10. I think this is Namakdan Salt Cave in Qeshm, Iran - open to tourists and tentatively on my list. Another picture of Namakdan Salt Cave:
More caves:
Gyokusendo Cave in Okinawa, Japan:
Fern Cave in Lava Beds National Park, California, USA:
Ice Cave also in Lava Beds National Park, California, USA:
Waitomo Glow Worm Caves in New Zealand (you can float on a tube through this cave!!)
Amazing site I just discovered that archives girls’ games from the 2000s
They’ve archived games from Barbie, Polly Pocket, Monster High, My Scene… the list goes on and on! It’s overwhelming how much they have!! I think they’ve archived nearly every game for every category they have. And the best thing is, it’s all online and you don’t need Flash!
Bless whoever is maintaining this site, seriously. The nostalgia I got from replaying these games was so intense.
If you like this site and want more, check out BlueMaxima’s FlashPoint! They’ve archived 100,000+ Flash games for play without Flash, and you can download individual ones to your computer for offline play as well as online. Includes games from American Girl, Club Penguin, Newgrounds, Miniclip, and more!
classic scifi novels by men r always like. page 1 here’s a cool scifi idea i had. page 2 i hate women so much it’s unreal
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guys if one more person leaves a tag like this on my post im gonna lose my mind. There Are Science Fiction Authors Who Are Not Misogynistic Men
ok i’ve gotten one too many ‘this is why i don’t read sci-fi’ comments so here’s a rec list for the people convinced all science fiction is bad and misogynistic (with something for everyone, hopefully!):
(also, btw, the book links are to the Storygraph, which includes content warnings for each one!)
smth funny and lighthearted about a security robot who’d rather watch TV then do its job? all systems red by martha wells (first novella in the The Murderbot Diaries series, 6 books, ongoing)
a complex, intricate political space opera following a warship AI who’s lost (almost) everything? ancillary justice by ann leckie (first in the Imperial Radch trilogy) (fun fact! bc of space linguistics reasons, all characters in this series are referred to with she/her pronouns, making gender a non-factor - it’s really cool!)
a dark story about travelling between parallel universes and a woman who is dead in almost every single one? the space between worlds by micaiah johnson(standalone) (SO good, i don’t get to recommend it often enough!!!)
a story about grief and letting go, and a unique take on alien invasion? the seep by chana porter (standalone novella)
hey, how abt some dystopian YA, for old times sake? specifically, one with sapphics and sick mechas? try gearbreakers by zoe hana mikuta (first in duology)
or, if you’d prefer something a bit less angsty, YA about a ragtag group of teens and a space heist? the disasters by m. k. england (standalone)
a hopeful utopian future and a human-robot friendship? a psalm for the wild-built by becky chambers (novella, first out of two) (this author’s got a whole bunch of hopepunk sci-fi novels in general, if that’s smth you’re looking for!)
africanfuturism, coming-of-age, and cool jellyfish aliens? binti by nnedi okorafor (novella, first in trilogy)
cosmic horror with an autistic scientist, cyborg angels and AI gods? the outside by ada hoffmann (first in trilogy, 2 books are out)
also, if you’re a fan of Janelle Monáe, may i draw your attention to the fact that they’ve recently come out with a Dirty Computer short story collection, each story co-written with a diff writer?
what if i told you there was one user on the russian social network/ video sharing website odnoklassniki/oднокла́ссники that has uploaded nearly every movie ever from 1896 to the current day, mostly with subtitles. and including that has uploaded every criterion collection film in full hd with subtitles. for free. all hail ok.ru user fleurinna guta
they keep their films in unlisted folders so you cant just see them all on their profile unfortunately but ill provide links. also don’t ask me why this user separates their films in this way, i don’t know and frankly it confuses me too.
“MISC FILMS”(aka films from everywhere that isn’t the usa, europe, japan. sometimes films from the GDR are in here which is confusing again because communist germany was still part of europe)
this is a much better alternative to stuff like 123movies or bflix because there are no hot singles in your area or games that you wont last 5 minutes playing. hope u enjoy and let us all praise and embrace user fleurinna guta
oh heck yeah
ok.ru is always my go to for safer film finding and is great for hard to find gems
so just verifying for anyone hesitant that it’s an alright site to use and you can use it without logging in as long as you don’t mind either hitting skip on the login prompt regularly OR just fullscreen a video to avoid seeing it entirely.
more qijing from jwqs!!! 😭😭 If you still havent heard it theyre wlw enemies to/and lovers the novel is fully translated pls give it a read if ur interested in dark plot heavy drama with palace intrigue and revenge and a whole smart sexy lesbian cast !!!!!!!!!!!
tbh “the Victorians did not go to the trouble of inventing aniline dyes so that we could wear neutrals” mostly covers it?
they went to a lot of effort to bring affordable screaming bright fuchsias and acid greens into the world, and we should honor their tacky, tacky choices.
(TELL ME that last one isn’t a steampunk look. just try and tell me)
yes! thank you, these are EXACTLY what i meant. tomorrow I’ll take a picture of the bafflingly tacky goldenrod-and-maroon gown I’ve got at the shop
also
this is wise, and correct.
This is 100% true.
Oh no, no those are tasteful compared to what wild color shenanigans the 19th century got up to. Most of them being mid-century are only ~2 colors excepting the plaid. By the 1890s, five colors per dress was the fashion. They…didn’t all coordinate the way we would.
PUMPKIN WORTH
I have seen mid-century dresses in electric blue. Barbie pink
Black with photo-realistic brocade oranges. Royal purple with GIANT POLKA DOTS.
Hey hey did you know lime green and lavender was a favorite color combo in 1895?
This one is not so much tacky as…vibrant
Okay at ~1903 it’s not really Victorian but I love the melting ice cream explosion look of it
This dress has faded but it would have originally been a quite eye-catching shade of violet.
Not that past eras were any less fond of colors even if they weren’t artificial dyes. I’ve seen canary yellow Regency dresses and an 18th century man’s coat in turquoise velvet printed with leopard spots. Steampunk isn’t really Victorian so much as it is ‘drapery store vomited on a sexy colorblind school marm’
Et le piece de resistance…
Yes, those orange blocks are outlined in green chenille fringe.
brb, saving that green one to my ‘Malfoy estate sale’ pinterest board
Steampunk isn’t really Victorian so much as it is ‘drapery store vomited on a sexy colorblind school marm’
Pair a brightass fushia dress with a top hat and gears you cowards
MORE PUMPKIN ORANGE AND FRINGE YOU COWARDS
If you’re not using blood red and forty pounds of lace and trim what the fuck are you even playing at
The Pragmatic Costumer: “Trims were all the rage in the mid 1870s and 1880s, and this dress is raging harder, faster, and more extravagantly than most.”
And here’s a Worth tea gown from 1895. This really needs to be worn by a mad scientist. Especially one interested in fish.
@gwengrimm Some of these are just amazing, and others sink worse than the sink we just unclogged.
I would wear that bright orange pumpkin monstrosity, just saying 🤣
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