marsh_mellowed

Naomi Jon is my comfort creator ♡

[Julia @tomhollwho]

THIS FUCKING LEGEND.

[˚ʚ♡ɞ˚ @metgalacrave]

Zendaya at the 'Spider-man' photocall in London, England.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Pirates engraved their hometown on the inside of their gold earrings. If their body washed up on a strange beach, the gold paid for the coffin and the engraving told the finder where to ship the bones home. Freeman is doing the same thing. He is just the latest in a line that goes back much further than pirates.

In 1991, hikers in the Alps found a frozen man who had died 5,300 years ago. His ears were pierced. The holes had stretched to 11mm wide. We call him Ötzi. He is the oldest person known to have worn earrings, and he predates pirates by nearly five thousand years.

Ancient Sumerian queens were buried in gold hoops the size of doughnuts. Persian soldiers wore earrings into battle for luck. By 600 BC, Greeks were placing a small coin called an obol in the mouth of the dead. It paid Charon, the ferryman who rowed souls into the underworld. No coin meant your soul was stuck on the riverbank for a hundred years.

That coin is the ancestor of the sailor earring. By the medieval period, Scottish law reportedly required fishermen to wear a gold earring so that if they drowned and washed up somewhere strange, the finder had enough money to bury them properly. Pirates added the address-engraving trick a few hundred years later.

Then came Cape Horn. The Dutch found the passage in 1616, where the Pacific and Atlantic crash into each other. Rogue waves, icebergs, ships smashed against rocks. Sailors called it the graveyard. If you made it past the Horn alive, you earned a gold loop in the ear that faced it. Cape of Good Hope earned a ring in the right ear. Both capes plus a lap around the planet earned three rings.

Freeman has been sailing since 1967. He has covered close to 40,000 miles in open ocean, mostly on a Shannon 43 sailboat. His wife pierced his ears when he was around 35. He calls himself a blue-water man, sailor talk for someone who crosses oceans instead of hugging the coast.

His 2019 Facebook post explaining the earrings was four sentences. He said the gold is worth just enough to buy him a coffin if he dies in a strange place, that this is why sailors used to wear them, and that this is why he does. The hoops in his ears are doing a job people have been asking jewelry to do for over five thousand years.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The actor playing the charming romantic lead in 13 Going on 30 had the left side of his face completely paralyzed two years before they shot it.

Mark Ruffalo was 33 when he woke up from a dream telling him he had a brain tumor. No symptoms, just an ear infection. He was on set with Gandolfini and Redford for The Last Castle. He told the cast doctor about the dream anyway. The CT scan came back: a mass behind his left ear the size of a golf ball. Acoustic neuroma. Benign, but it had to come out.

His wife was nine months pregnant with their first kid. He didn't tell her. She had the doula, the birth plan, the hot tub ordered. He carried the diagnosis alone for weeks until after she gave birth.

Going into surgery, the doctors told him there was a 20% chance the left side of his face would stay paralyzed. He told them: "Take my hearing. Let me keep the face. Just let me be the father to this kid."

He woke up completely deaf in his left ear and the entire left side of his face frozen. Couldn't close his left eye.

Two years later he showed up to play the romantic lead in a Jennifer Garner movie that required everything brain surgery had just tried to take from him. The smile. The warmth. The comic timing. A goofy Thriller dance in front of a crowd. He almost quit during the rehearsal. Garner has told that story publicly. He stayed.

The movie opened 22 years ago today. $22M in week one, $96M+ worldwide. That same year he also shot Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Collateral, and We Don't Live Here Anymore. Four films in twelve months from a guy who had just learned to use his face again.

He went on to four Oscar nominations and the Hulk.

The romantic comedy nobody takes seriously was the comeback film of an actor who had to relearn how to smile.

[NASA's Kennedy Space Center @NASAKennedy]

The planet can spell your name – literally. 🔤🌍

This Earth Day, see your name written in landscapes captured by Landsat: https://t.co/kcP12dhsI2

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Miley Cyrus as Hannah Montana, 20 years later.

[vids that go hard @vidsthatgohard]

The Eddie tribute at the end of stranger things was legendary

[chia @julianmiflaco]

this hug turns 15 years old btw

[marsh_mellowed @marsh_mellowed]

Just had a dragon fruit that was both tart and sweet at the same time. Where are the fruit you’re eating grown fr

[throwbacks @solelynostalgia]

not exaggerating when I say this is the most romantic scene in cinematic history

[𝘛𝘪𝘢 @tiapiece00]

Different nations, same flag. 🏴‍☠️ Freedom everywhere — from Indonesia & Nepal to Gaza, Italy & France. Who’ll raise it next?

#ONEPIECE

[film & tv (viv’s version) @fromvivsvault]

the difference between alex and cole! #MyLifeWithTheWalterBoys #MLWTWB

[cath ✧･ﾟ#loveforyou @scenophile]

close enough . welcome to the club jackie howard

#MyLifeWithTheWalterBoys

[Mciver @mciverrr]

Hand stitched sashiko stitch denim 100+ hours

[marsh_mellowed @marsh_mellowed]

M.A.S Active bulk merchants are actually the worst human beings. Who hurt them? Why are they like this? Is being unreasonable and uncooperative a part of their JD?!?!

[Ichigo Niggasake @SomaKazima]

Nah this goes hard 😭😭😭

[𝓥𝓮𝓻𝓸𝓷𝓲𝓬𝓪💫 | MJ fan @iamveronica777]

44 years ago today, Diana Ross called Michael Jackson up on stage while performing her hit 'Upside Down'

I love the way he just grabbed the mic and made it his own 😭

[almi @almvault]

POV : you just finished OBX season 4 part 2
#outerbanks #obx #obx4

[Why you should have a cat @ShouldHaveCat]

The splooch? The ear twitch??? The paw on the bottle??? 10/10