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Giving the people what they want (Gideon in armor)

Oldie that I never posted here??? BTW this is available as a print on INPRNT, consider checking out my stuff! The whole site is on sale for labor day weekend and I'm tight on $$$ this month. Every little bit helps 🙏

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the inglorious mask

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let me fucking tell you americas test kitchen are the real goddamn american heroes because im scrolling the fucking internet like how do i get this chili oil off my hand HELP and the internet is just suggesting random things without explaining how they work and americas test kitchen is like. yea we tested what all those guys said and they're wrong. however we came up with a solution because we're smart food scientists who know how things work.

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can’t stop thinking about the scene near the end of two towers where frodo and sam reach the crossroads where the statue of an ancient king has been destroyed and broken and its head is on the ground and suddenly as the sun shines upon it frodo looks at it and says look! the king has got his crown again! and they look to see that flowers have grown in a crown around the king’s head… life changing

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can’t stop thinking about the scene near the end of two towers where frodo and sam reach the crossroads where the statue of an ancient king has been destroyed and broken and its head is on the ground and suddenly as the sun shines upon it frodo looks at it and says look! the king has got his crown again! and they look to see that flowers have grown in a crown around the king’s head… life changing

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its so sad how old the dragonriders of Perm fandom is because I KNOW there'd be more than 10 alemi/elgion fics on ao3 if the site had been around

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where is Anastasia, where is Anastasia

but no one asks how is Anastasia

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It's hard being a single mom of four to eight kids (she's bad at math)

Also self imposed design challenge to design an infant rodent that doesn't look like eraserhead baby

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Okay, so:

Latin has this word, sic. Or, if we want to be more diacritically accurate, sīc. That shows that the i is long, so it’s pronounced like “seek” and not like “sick.”

You might recognize this word from Latin sayings like “sic semper tyrannis” or “sic transit gloria mundi.” You might recognize it as what you put in parentheses when you want to be pass-agg about someone’s mistakes when you’re quoting them: “Then he texted me, ‘I want to touch you’re (sic) butt.’”

It means, “thus,” which sounds pretty hoity-toity in this modren era, so maybe think of it as meaning “in this way,” or “just like that.” As in, “just like that, to all tyrants, forever,” an allegedly cool thing to say after shooting a President and leaping off a balcony and shattering your leg. “Everyone should do it this way.”

Anyway, Classical Latin somewhat lacked an affirmative particle, though you might see the word ita, a synonym of sic, used in that way. By Medieval Times, however, sic was holding down this role. Which is to say, it came to mean yes.

Ego: Num edisti totam pitam?

Tu, pudendus: Sic.

Me: Did you eat all the pizza?

You, shameful: That’s the way it is./Yes.

This was pretty well established by the time Latin evolved into its various bastard children, the Romance languages, and you can see this by the words for yes in these languages.

In Spanish, Italian, Asturian, Catalan, Corsican, Galician, Friulian, and others, you say si for yes. In Portugese, you say sim. In French, you say si to mean yes when you’re contradicting a negative assertion (”You don’t like donkey sausage like all of us, the inhabitants of France, eat all the time?” “Yes, I do!”). In Romanian, you say da, but that’s because they’re on some Slavic shit. P.S. there are possibly more Romance languages than you’re aware of.

But:

There was still influence in some areas by the conquered Gaulish tribes on the language of their conquerors. We don’t really have anything of Gaulish language left, but we can reverse engineer some things from their descendants. You see, the Celts that we think of now as the people of the British Isles were Gaulish, originally (in the sense that anyone’s originally from anywhere, I guess) from central and western Europe. So we can look at, for example, Old Irish, where they said tó to mean yes, or Welsh, where they say do to mean yes or indeed, and we can see that they derive from the Proto-Indo-European (the big mother language at whose teat very many languages both modern and ancient did suckle) word *tod, meaning “this” or “that.” (The asterisk indicates that this is a reconstructed word and we don’t know exactly what it would have been but we have a pretty damn good idea.)

So if you were fucking Ambiorix or whoever and Quintus Titurius Sabinus was like, “Yo, did you eat all the pizza?” you would do that Drake smile and point thing under your big beefy Gaulish mustache and say, “This.” Then you would have him surrounded and killed.

Apparently Latin(ish) speakers in the area thought this was a very dope way of expressing themselves. “Why should I say ‘in that way’ like those idiots in Italy and Spain when I could say ‘this’ like all these cool mustache boys in Gaul?” So they started copying the expression, but in their own language. (That’s called a calque, by the way. When you borrow an expression from another language but translate it into your own. If you care about that kind of shit.)

The Latin word for “this” is “hoc,” so a bunch of people started saying “hoc” to mean yes. In the southern parts of what was once Gaul, “hoc” makes the relatively minor adjustment to òc, while in the more northerly areas they think, “Hmm, just saying ‘this’ isn’t cool enough. What if we said ‘this that’ to mean ‘yes.’” (This is not exactly what happened but it is basically what happened, please just fucking roll with it, this shit is long enough already.)

So they combined hoc with ille, which means “that” (but also comes to just mean “he”: compare Spanish el, Italian il, French le, and so on) to make o-il, which becomes oïl. This difference between the north and south (i.e. saying oc or oil) comes to be so emblematic of the differences between the two languages/dialects that the languages from the north are called langues d’oil and the ones from the south are called langues d’oc. In fact, the latter language is now officially called “Occitan,” which is a made-up word (to a slightly greater degree than that to which all words are made-up words) that basically means “Oc-ish.” They speak Occitan in southern France and Catalonia and Monaco and some other places.

The oil languages include a pretty beefy number of languages and dialects with some pretty amazing names like Walloon, and also one with a much more basic name: French. Perhaps you’ve heard of it, n'est-ce pas?

Yeah, eventually Francophones drop the -l from oil and start saying it as oui. If you’ve ever wondered why French yes is different from other Romance yeses, well, now you know.

I guess what I’m getting at is that when you reblog a post you like and tag it with “this,” or affirm a thing a friend said by nodding and saying “Yeah, that”: you’re not new

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1. why can't I be normal about this

2. its been like. three months.

3. its the suspense the suspense is the mindkiller

4. why did he stop talking to me

4a. option 1 he met someone and so has decided he needs to stop talking to me

4a i. thats mean we are friends

4b. option 2 he has feelings and is trying to stop having them by not talking to me

4b i. should be pipe dream but also stop that be normal

4c. option 3 hes busy slash bad at texting

4c i. HOW long has it been???

4c ii. we're doomed

5. I think about this approximately once a day which is NOT healthy

6. what on earth is this format of mild breakdown. I mean I guess I am breaking it down

I'm a fucking fool in clown shoes Alexa send tweet

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I'm a fucking fool in clown shoes Alexa send tweet

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i have just realized that pash is probably in her thirties. late twenties at a minimum. like on my first read i thought she was obnoxious and brash in the way that you are when your frontal lobe isnt fully developed but that math doesnt math. shes nine or ten in wakes photo which was taken at least twenty years before nona takes place. plus, pyrrha first guesses shes wakes sister. pash is fully grown. this is the best news

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im having feelings and I want to tumblr blog about them but I'm so sleepy that i cannot express them.

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GREGORY HINES & MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV White Nights (1985) dir. Taylor Hackford

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I'm as grateful for cellphones as the next person, but sometimes I think about how everyone having a phone on them at all times really did cause us to loose some things as a society. I mean - for example, kids these days will never experience their car breaking down and needing to find the nearest place with a phone they can use. They're never going to have the opportunity to tentatively approach a house only to discover that it's full of queer people having a party hosted by a transvestite to celebrate his creation of a sex homunculus, stay the night, and loose their virginity while unintentionally partaking in cannibalism. It's tragic, that kind of gay sexual awakening just doesn't happen these days because of cellphones.