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[stuckinakillingjar]

lmaoooo what is that celta guy doing

[pebblume]

chilshi week day 5: cuddling + kiss

stills under the cut!

[astronicht]

I pulled up the sketchy online Old English version of Beowulf and yeah it has 3,182 lines. If you took 5 seconds per line you’d need four and a half hours to recite it (or specifically to recite the one version that got both written down and preserved for a thousand years) (only a little charred). But I mean 5 seconds per line is for chumps who don’t want to unlock the Beowulf speedrun.

Also ok for SCIENCE I timed myself and quickly reciting the first 5 lines took 16 seconds, let’s call that fifteen because I mispronounced meodosetla. At that pace (if you could keep it up consistently and I mean never cough never take a drink) you’d be looking at 2.65 hours, or 2 hours and 39 minutes (or 159 minutes). This is actually 20 minutes shorter than the theatrical run-time of Peter Jackson’s Two Towers (179 minutes).

Now, the original post was about reciting Beowulf in an hour, so 2 hours and 39 minutes is not gonna cut it, and is so far over time that even doubling your pace can’t save you. You’re gonna lose this speedrun and Æthelflæd’s new scop poet is going to laugh at you. However, there’s a cheat to exploit here. In the period when Old English (language of Beowulf) was spoken, people often just said there were 12 hours in a day and 12 hours in a night, no longer how long or short daylight actually was. This made the concept of a daylight hour stretch in summer, when daylight lasts way longer than 12 hours. There’s a good article on this I’ll find it if anyone wants it. I don’t actually expect anyone to have read this far.

ANYWAY, the longest day in Jarrow (furthest north Old English speaking town I could think of) in 2024 (sorry this data is not calibrated for the 10th century) was of course midsummer: June 20th, at 17 modern hours 22 modern minutes and 1 modern second. This means each early medieval hour that day actually lasted 1 hour and 26 minutes. Still not nearly enough lads, but this is when it becomes a skill game. Because I wasn’t going ALL that fast. We need to squeeze 159 minutes of Beowulf (aka basically Two Towers) into 86 minutes. If you could half my pace-per-five-lines from 15 seconds to 7.5 seconds, you’d be able to do it, one day of the year, in Jarrow. Iceland is cheating. Good luck.

[fagcrisis]

[pinoypesilat]

[admincendekiawanjudi]

Pada tanggal 22 Maret 2024, sebuah pertandingan yang menegangkan dalam Liga Concacaf terjadi antara Amerika Serikat dan Jamaika. Pertandingan yang berlangsung sengit ini berakhir dengan skor 3 - 1, mengukuhkan dominasi Amerika Serikat dalam kompetisi ini.

[wardenmop]

save me undead cowboy...

[floweypilled]

Growing in the empty space where a Soul should be

[branchflowerphoto]

19/31 days of Lensbaby - Sol 45 lens

My lovable little limpet, Paisley 🤍

[pattymelterqp]

as millennial trans women enter their 40s and Gen X trans women enter their 60s, we, as a community, are beginning to resolve decades of cultural discontinuity born of mass death and social expulsion. We must respond with joy: stop defining a "hot older woman" as someone in her 30s

[arttsuka]

I've been thinking about this clip a lot

[multiseb21]

This race has everything…a jump start (great start according to checo), lap one crash, safety car, max and lando having a dick measuring contest, sky commentators talking about max like he murdered their entire family, charles being waterboarded, the 400th race asteroid taking out dinosaur peepaw, max serving jail time, and ferrari forza-ing their way into 2nd in the constructors championship

[chevrolangels]

everyone is sooooooooo anti-destiel until a major historical event happens

[zealfruity]

They’re friends to me. Riyo lends him her makeup+gets him clothes+buys him and his favourite vode treats, and Fox helps her get blackmail on political oponents+writing clone rights bills.

Individual “frames” and the original:

[brawcolie]

Human softboots + a waltz:)