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A timeless story about some nice boys, their van, their band,...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 16:06:44 -0400

A timeless story about some nice boys, their van, their band, and a cat…

See Tir Asleen star in the movie everybody is talking about “Save Van Burgundy”. In theaters at Cloud Springs Deli this Friday. This show is not yet rated. #tirasleen #cloudspringsdeli #SaveVanBurgandy

youngblackandvegan:Destroy the idea that you have to be constantly working or grinding in order to...

Fri, 22 Jun 2018 01:36:10 -0400

youngblackandvegan:

Destroy the idea that you have to be constantly working or grinding in order to be successful. Embrace the concept that rest, recovery, and reflection are essential parts of the progress towards a successful and ultimately happy life.

falloutlore: In Vault 76, our future begins.

Thu, 21 Jun 2018 23:45:08 -0400

falloutlore:

In Vault 76, our future begins.

sixpenceee: Tom Bob refuses to simply live in the world. He’s...

Thu, 21 Jun 2018 23:31:06 -0400

sixpenceee:

Tom Bob refuses to simply live in the world. He’s reshaping it. Creating clever street art on common objects in the urban landscape, he’s perfectly personalizing his boring surroundings. (Source)

More info: Instagram

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snailfeathers: grandmastattoo: grandmastattoo: snailfeathers: T...

Thu, 21 Jun 2018 23:00:50 -0400

snailfeathers:

grandmastattoo:

grandmastattoo:

snailfeathers:

This is my favourite one of these I’ve done! Gift for a friend, a tyrannotaur made from plastic toys. Experimenting with using a mixture of cornstarch and PVA glue to fill in the gaps.

I am the friend and I stubbornly call it a centaursaurus because death of the author and she lives at my house

so anyway I just turned around to admire my centaursaurus and… something seems different

There are two sides to every coin and sometimes you can’t show the internet both sides bc you need to wait until the friend you gave the first side to has it in their house and then swap the second side with it and see how long it takes them to notice (several days) but here’s the tyrannotaur and the dinosorse together pals for life

Freya Was Jacked

Thu, 21 Jun 2018 23:00:48 -0400

crazy-pages:

So there’s this story in Norse mythology, Þrymskviða. Compressed down, it goes like this: A Jotun steal Thor’s hammer Mjolnir and says he’ll only give it back if he’s given Freyja to marry, as she is the most beautiful goddess in all of existence. The gods argue over what to do for a while before Heimdall suggests they stick a bridal veil on Thor, says he’s Freyja, and pretend they’re giving Freyja (Thor) to the Jotun to marry so Thor can get close enough to the Jotun to steal Mjolnir back.

Now typically when people talk about this story, it’s with an element of disbelieving comedy. “Oh my god, who would believe Thor was a woman, let alone Freyja, the most beautiful goddess in the world?”

But I propose a different way to look at the story.

See, different cultures have different beauty standards. Modern western beauty standards may be a delicate hourglass supermodel, but that’s not always been the case. Greece, for instance, depicted Aphrodite like this:

Yeah. A Greek sculptor was told “sculpt the goddess of beauty” and they thought “alright, fat rolls, that’s where beauty is at, let’s do this”. And everybody else apparently agreed with them, because up went the statue. Beauty is a malleable concept is what I’m getting at.

Now this is where it becomes relevant that Freyja is not just the goddess of love, sex, and beauty. She’s also the goddess of war. And the righteous dead. Goddess of war in the same Viking warrior culture that gave us shield maidens, women who wielded seven fucking kilogram (15 lbs) shields in combat.

Sooooo … when the Norse storytellers said, “This is Freyja, goddess of war and the righteous dead, who rode giant murder cats into battle, she is the most beautiful goddess in the world”, I’m guessing they weren’t thinking of her as some willowy waif. No, I’m guessing they probably thought more along the lines of:

190 cm (6′3″), broad shoulders, built like a brick shithouse, with a jawline like whoa, and fully capable of murdering everything in her path.

Put in that context, the story of Thor dressing up as Freyja sounds less like a punchline about “how could anyone ever mistake Thor in a veil for Freyja?” and becomes more a case of “ohhhhhhhhhhh, no wonder all the gods thought this plan would work”.

It did, by the way. The plan totally worked.

annalisagaeta: @a-flower-in-the-sun e Caterina Pierro follow...

Thu, 21 Jun 2018 22:30:02 -0400

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@a-flower-in-the-sun e Caterina Pierro

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bomberqueen17: scornpios: anthonybourdainpartsunknown: Libertarians are probably in nirvana...

Thu, 21 Jun 2018 22:01:22 -0400

bomberqueen17:

scornpios:

anthonybourdainpartsunknown:

Libertarians are probably in nirvana right now

OK BUT THE THREAD??? Tumblr this is what kills me, you screenshot an amazing Tweet but don’t link to the source or UNROLL THE THREAD! So then I have to go read Twitter myself and lose my entire goddamn mind. Anyway!

here’s the OP and here’s the followup:

There was another amazing thread on how fucked the Domino’s pothole-filling squad was, but this was from the same poster so it was easy to find. The other thread was about the concept of “prevailing wage” and how Domino’s was surely paying their workers minimum, meaning the job wasn’t going to skilled tradesmen and is further aiding the slippage of the former middle classes into poverty, but now I can’t find it. Anyway! There’s some underpinnings for that punchline.

the-dark-joker-chronicle: E3 report : Fallout 76 coming soon...

Thu, 21 Jun 2018 21:30:45 -0400

the-dark-joker-chronicle:

E3 report : Fallout 76 coming soon !!!
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datura-tea: mistahgrundy: I thought it would be fun to take the...

Thu, 21 Jun 2018 21:00:01 -0400

datura-tea:

mistahgrundy:

I thought it would be fun to take the foods available in fallout and make my own creations from them (except the yumyum deviled eggs, obviously, I was building a breakfast menu! and modeling it off of MRE’s)

roasted razor grain coffee has no caffeine but that’s ok, you can just shoot up some jet

@couriers-mile

IS NO ONE ELSE HYPED ABOUT

Thu, 21 Jun 2018 20:30:55 -0400

sonderingtrashcompactor:

THISSSS??????

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Thu, 21 Jun 2018 19:51:28 -0400

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falloutlore: Fallout 76: scenery (part II)

Thu, 21 Jun 2018 19:31:13 -0400

falloutlore:

Fallout 76: scenery (part II)

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cosplayheaven69: Cosplayer: Maid of Might. Country: United...

Thu, 21 Jun 2018 18:30:53 -0400

cosplayheaven69:

Cosplayer: Maid of Might.
Country: United States.
Cosplay: Daphne from Scooby Doo.
Photo by: @happytriggerla.
https://m.facebook.com/MaidOfMightCosplay/

smartass-stripper: khazzman: penny-anna: sainatsukino: linguisticparadox: audreycritter: whet...

Thu, 21 Jun 2018 18:00:03 -0400

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penny-anna:

Legolas pretty quickly gets in the habit of venting about his travelling companions in Elvish, so long as Gandalf & Aragorn aren’t in earshot they’ll never know right?

Then about a week into their journey like

Legolas: *in Elvish, for approximately the 20th time* ugh fucking hobbits, so annoying

Frodo: *also in Elvish, deadpan* yeah we’re the worst

Legolas:

~*~earlier~*~

Legolas: ugh fucking hobbits

Merry: Frodo what’d he say

Frodo: I’m not sure he speaks a weird dialect but I think he’s insulting us. I should tell him I can understand Elvish

Merry: I mean you could do that but consider

Merry: you can only tell him ONCE

Frodo: Merry. You’re absolutely right. I’ll wait.

#legolas’ hick accent vs #frodo’s ‘i learned it out of a book’ accent #FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT

Legolas: umm well your accent is horrible

Aragorn: *hollering from a distance* HIS ACCENT IS BETTER THAN YOURS LEGOLAS YOU SILVAN HICK

Frodo: :)

Frodo: Hello. My name is Frodo. I am a Hobbit. How are you?

Legolas: y’alld’ve’ff’ve

Frodo, crying: please I can’t understand what you’r saying

Ok, but Frodo didn’t just learn out of a book. He learned like… Chaucerian Elvish. So actually:

Frodo: Good morrow to thee, frend. I hope we twain shalle bee moste excellente companions.

Legolas: Wots that mate? ‘Ere, you avin’ a giggle? Fookin’ ‘obbits, I sware.

Aragorn: *laughing too hard to walk*

@ghostriderofthearagon

dYinGggGggg…

i mean, honestly it’s amazing the Elves had as many languages and dialects as they did, considering Galadriel (for example) is over seven thousand years old.

english would probably have changed less since Chaucer’s time, if a lot of our cultural leaders from the thirteenth century were still alive and running things.

they’ve had like. seven generations since the sun happened, max. frodo’s books are old to him, but outside any very old poetry copied down exactly, the dialect represented in them isn’t likely to be older than the Second Age, wherein Aragorn’s foster-father Elrond started out as a very young adult and grew into himself, and Legolas’ father was born.

so like, three to six thousand years old, maybe, which is probably a drop in the bucket of Elvish history judging by all the ethnic differentiation that had time to develop before Ungoliant came along, even if we can’t really tell because there weren’t years to count, before the Trees were destroyed.

plus a lot of Bilbo’s materials were probably directly from Elrond, whose library dates largely from the Third Age, probably, because he didn’t establish Imladris until after the Last Alliance. and Elrond isn’t the type to intentionally help Bilbo learn the wrong dialect and sound sillier than can be helped, even if everyone was humoring him more than a little.

so Frodo might sound hilariously formal for conversational use (though considering how most Elves use Westron he’s probably safe there) and kind of old-fashioned, but he’s not in any danger of being incomprehensible, because elves live on such a ridiculous timescale.

to over-analyse this awesome and hilarious post even more, legolas’ grandfather was from linguistically stubborn Doriath and their family is actually from a somewhat different, higher-status ethnic background than their subjects.

so depending on how much of a role Thranduil took in his upbringing (and Oropher in his), Legolas may have some weird stilted old-fashioned speaking tics in his Sindarin that reflect a more purely Doriathrin dialect rather than the Doriathrin-influenced Western Sindarin that became the most widely spoken Sindarin long before he was born, or he might have a School Voice from having been taught how to Speak Proper and then lapse into really obscure colloquial Avari dialect when he’s being casual. or both!

considering legolas’ moderately complicated political position, i expect he can code-switch.

…it’s also fairly likely considering the linguistic politics involved that Legolas is reasonably articulate in Sindarin, though with some level of accent, but knows approximately zero Quenya outside of loanwords into Sindarin, and even those he mostly didn’t learn as a kid.

which would be extra hilarious when he and gimli fetch up in Valinor in his little homemade skiff, if the first elves he meets have never been to Middle Earth and they’re just standing there on the beach reduced to miming about what is the short beard person, and who are you, and why.

this is elvish dialects and tolkien, okay. there’s a lot of canon material! he actually initially developed the history of middle-earth specifically to ground the linguistic development of the various Elvish languages!

Legolas: Alas, verily would I have dispatched thine enemy posthaste, but y’all’d’ve pitched a feckin’ fit.

Aragorn: *eyelid twitching*

Frodo: *frantically scribbling* Hang on which language are you even speaking right now

Pippin, confused: Is he not speaking Elvish?

Frodo, sarcastically: I dunno, are you speaking Hobbit?

Boromir, who has been lowkey pissed-off at the Hobbits’ weird dialect this whole time: That’s what it sounds like to me.

Merry, who actually knows some shit about Hobbit background: We are actually speaking multiple variants of the Shire dialect of Westron, you ignorant fuck.

Sam, a mere working-class country boy: Honestly y'all could be talkin Dwarvish half the time for all I know.

Pippin, entering Gondor and speaking to the castle steward: hey yo my man

Boromir, from beyond the grave: j e s u s

Literally canon

Gimli, in Khuzdul: This is why we don’t teach our language to fucking anybody.

Reblogging the other thread because I’m crying at ghost Boromir and I desperately need to believe Tolkien, as a linguist, would have laughed himself sick at all of these

pwlanier: The Wellcome Collection.

Thu, 21 Jun 2018 17:30:54 -0400

pwlanier:

The Wellcome Collection.