#17th - today

[todayontumblr]

Monday, February 19.

Make a wish.

Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you. Happy birthday dear, well, us?

Well, how about that. On this very day, 17 years ago, online culture was changed forever. The internet instantaneously became better, brighter, shitpostier, and adequately normal about the things we care about most. And that's because Tumblr dot com was birthed.

Whatever it is you're doing, folks, keep it up. You're doing it well. Come celebrate with us.

[astrolavas]

2 years of The Brainrot (happy hunting palismen anniversary)

[inkedhorror]

the 11 doodle requests in my inbox for a completely different fandom:

me drawing this guy instead to get me out of my unmotivated Pit:

[diathadevil]

This is just episode 8 in a nutshell.

Happy 21st anniversary to Princess Tutu!

(based off of that one screenshot)

[ltwilliammowett]

Scupper

A scupper is an opening in the side walls of a ship or an outdoor structure through which water can drain away instead of collecting within the bulwark or gunwales of a ship or in the beams or walls of a building.

Scuppers for Ships of the Line and Frigates, 17th century

The word scupper is derived from the Low German word Speigatt, which is made up of the words speien: to spit, to vomit and Gatt: Hole, opening.

[oyiiixenia]

happy anniversary, Miku! (ft. N25 Miku)

someone pranked her with the candle, but she likes warm things, so i guess it worked out

[livelaughlovelams]

GUYS. NOW!!!

ITS TOMORROW

(also, I'ma just @ all some people who might care :>)

@hammyham-o-o @johnlaurensstuff @johnlaurenstheturtlelover @johnlaurensgayass @johnlaurensadmirer-johnsenpaiowo @johnlaurensdeservesbetter

ILY HAMMYHAM-O-O 🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🧡

[vamp-bites]

Happy Icelandic day of independence🇮🇸🇮🇸🇮🇸🇮🇸🇮🇸🇮🇸🇮🇸🇮🇸🇮🇸🇮🇸🇮🇸🇮🇸 fuck you denmark♡

Fun iceland facts of the day:

The 17th of June is celebrated as our day of independence but we actually fully officially got independence on the 1st of december

We celebrate the 17th because its the birthday of the guy who was out in Denmark in 1944 and was like "hey guys, hear me out, what if you let iceland rule itself? We've kinda been asking for years and you're kinda under nazi occupation right now so they're doing their own stuff over there anyway cause you can't really intervene cause of the. The nazis."

I dont know why we celebrate his birthday. He didn't even fucking live here, he moved to Denmark when he was young and never came back, false idol that he is (Jón Sigurðsson)

Iceland was originally under Norway (thats where we came from, mostly) but then Denmark claimed us in the divorce (they invaded Norway in 1537 and turned it into a Danish puppet-state)

Iceland is bigger than Denmark in land mass but wayyy smaller in population and no one is happy about this

Why is our population so low? Why do we all live around the shores and not in the middle of the land? Well, you see, like 90% of this country is uninhabitable. It is just mountains and glaciers and ravines and black sands and fields of nothing out there. Only 2% of the country is forested, and most of it is imported

We do not have an army. And yet we have been in a war. The Cod Wars. A small Icelandic fishing boat rammed itself into the side of a huge British ship fishing in our waters. The brits got really offended because the giant hole we made in their ship knocked over a picture of the queen. America had to intervene so we wouldn't keep sending our tiny but fast fishing boats headfirst into British ships fit for war. In our defense, our pride and our fish were on the line

Pretty much all Icelanders are at least bilingual, tho they try to make us trilingual but very few of us actually retain any of the Danish they try to teach us at school, Icelandic preteens notoriously hate Danish (or maybe that was just me)

We make ourselves out to have descended from great vikings, its basically our whole brand besides puffins who aren't even our national bird we just love to show off our puffin population, but we actually weren't really vikings, we came mostly from farmers

Half of the country is located in the American continent, and the other half is in Europe, there's a mall out in the country that has a line down the middle of it because that's where the line between the continents splits and u can walk between America and Europe

We had the worlds first female president (Vigdís Finnbogadóttir🇮🇸🇮🇸🇮🇸🇮🇸)

Despite our low crime rates, we have an unusually high crime fiction writer rate

I'll leave the fun facts about the phallus museum and the likes for next time, gleðilegan 17. júní góða fólk!

[lixel-5]

HAPPY OCTOBER 17TH (2013 tsp release date) TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE

[silverior968]

TFP/Skulduggery Pleasant AU designs 2, another early timeline version of a character who ends up looking very different later on. The Vitakinesis info box is very short because I've written about the discipline in more detail here and here. Anyways fun fact this AU version of Ratchet is canonically from 16th century Denmark.

[Image ID: A digital drawing featuring two drawings of a Skulduggery Pleasant version of a younger Ratchet from TFP. He's drawn as a young white man with pale, freckled skin and teal eyes. His hair is ginger and slightly wavy, reaching midway down his back. He's stocky in build, the text next to him indicates that he's 1,7 meters or 5'7 feet tall. The first drawing depicts him before the 300-year war. He has one arm bent in front of him, holding a bouquet of marigolds in the crook of his elbow. His other arm is also bent, with his hand held slightly below his shoulder to his side, as if explaining something. He has his mouth open, as if talking. His outfit consists of a white undershirt, the sleeves tied close to his skin with dark brown string. On top of the shirt he has a light beige tunic, the sleeves of which are pulled up to his elbows. The hem of the tunic reaches halfway to his thighs, and is tied at the waist with a rope. The rope has been tied with a slip knot, and the tassels at the ends are dyed red, indicating that he's graduated from a Vitakinetic school. A single brown pouch has been placed to hang from the rope. His trousers are light beige, and he has boots that reach to his knees, dark brown in color. The text next to him reads "PRE-WAR/ EARLY WAR ERA. Visual age: late teens to early twenties. Actual age: Late teens to eighties." The other drawing has him during the start of the war. He has a wide, battle-ready stance, with a large scythe in his hands. His face is covered with a white mask, the eyes of which are completely black. He wears the same outfit as before, but his shirt and tunic are now covered by a second, white tunic, tied with some sort of white fabric. The sleeves are tied with brown string. The text next to him reads "EARLY PROTO-CLEAVER ERA. Visual age: early twenties. Actual age: late eighties to late 100s." The text block between the two drawings has a drawing of the rod of Asclepius above it. The text reads: "Vitakinetics generate raw life energy, which they can use to heal themselves or others. They can also use this power to put others into shock, although this takes a great physical toll on them. / End ID]

[ssruis]

hit ‘em with the lmm pose birthday boy

Me: idk what to draw for tsukasa’s birthday

This picture hiding in the depths of my photo library:

[youngoffender]

hii

[ltwilliammowett]

Today a little excursion ashore and to a topic that may seem a little strange. But I'm currently working on a little project about the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment (dating from 1660) and the Navy (please don't ask any questions yet, I'm still collecting documents). You may have seen these gentlemen and a few ladies at parades in London or somewhere else. They are on horseback and perform mounted (and some dismounted) ceremonial duties at state and royal occasions and consist of two regiments: The Life Guards and The Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons) and they are the King's official bodyguards.

You might ask me now: Yes, fine, and what does that have to do with nautical matters? Well, there is a small but subtle detail on the Life Guards uniforms.

A Life Guard officer in full ceremonial uniform

You can see this hair-like detail on the helmet. That's the white plume, which in the past, but especially in the 18th and 19th centuries, was not made from hair, but from whale bone shavings from corset shops. Exciting what whale was used for.

I thought I'd share this little fact with you, maybe you'll find it as interesting as I did.

[s0lace-1n-s0l1tude]

Just realized I might be on the asexual spectrum

[bogkeep]

spending norwegian constitution day alone in the classroom slowly chipping away at my school project...

[turnipoddity]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TURNIPODDITY!!!! YOURE SO THE COOLEST

THANK YOU!!! It’s not my birthday though HAHAHAHA 🥰