#I could not be more French than that

[electromignion]

Jeremy Bradshaw observational drawing edition (?)

I don’t know how to title this but I’m at the bakery and I was thinking that it would be funny to have Jeremy in France for a seminar and him wanting to have some food and then he gets lost and confused considering how many different breads we have

It’s a messy and not fully proportional doodle but it trains me better on my real life drawing so good thing for volumes and light and all!! Thanks Jeremy ksksks

Once again, if you have any prompt you want to see considering Bridgewater fanart, don’t hesitate!! <3

[shitpostingkats]

I swear, nothing makes me go bonkers fucking yonkers quite like comparing Athena and Apollos' introductions to the WAA.

When Phoenix asked Athena to come work for the agency, he reached out overseas to get in contact and offer her a job. When Phoenix asked Apollo to come work for the agency, he didn't even mention what the business was called or what they actually did.

On Athena's first day in court, Phoenix showed up and took over for her when she started to break down. On Apollo's first day in court, Phoenix made him an accomplice in crime and almost ruined his career.

When Athena introduces her childhood best friend to the WAA, they get her cleared of murder charges and save a friendgroup. When Apollo tries to introduce his childhood best friend to the agency, he dies before that can even happen.

When Athena returns to the space center, she is greeted by the robots with open arms. When Apollo returns to the space center, he is greeted by the name of a dead man.

When Phoenix sought out Athena as a protégé, it was because he realized how much she was hurting. When Phoenix sought out Apollo as a protégé, its because he realized how much he could be used to hurt others.

[autisticandroids]

CASTIEL: Stop. What's the point if you don't mean it? You fear me - not love, not respect, just fear.

[youtube with closed captions]

a godstiel pity party. i'd like to thank an anon i got way back in february of 2021.

[harbingersecho]

countless days pass by immeasurably;

anniversaries gutter in the maelstrom

[mbenguin]

Got tired of opening ten different Wikipedia pages at once so I made a map marking the birthplaces of our marshal guys including some extras on IbisPaint.

(Zoom in if you actually want to read anything, trust me)

[17panicattacksinatrenchcoat]

What if

I started learning French and German again

[anghraine]

Just thinking about Gondor, as usual, and how wild it is that the (supposedly minority!) population of Gondorians who speak Sindarin and/or know Quenya at the end of the Third Age is likely higher than the combined number of all Elves still remaining in Middle-earth who can speak either.

Tolkien's specific statement is that more Men speak Sindarin or know Quenya than Elves do either, but while this group of Men would encompass people like the Northern Dúnedain, Théoden, etc, the letter directly links this to Gondorian usage of Sindarin and Quenya. That does make sense given the extreme population disparities involved; the vast majority of the Men in question would pretty much have to come from Gondor. Certainly, the only place where we actually see widespread, casual, local Sindarin usage among Men is Minas Tirith (though we know the linguistic patterns of MT are also characteristic of Dol Amroth and likely throughout much of Belfalas).

In addition, Tolkien tried to make sense of the limited evolution of Gondorian Sindarin by saying it's an acquired polite language among Númenórean aristocratic elites and scholars. In the actual process of writing LOTR there were various explanations (in one draft Faramir explains that Westron is a Gondorian conlang invented for dealings with other peoples, for instance). But Tolkien's standard justification for Gondorian Sindarin being so recognizable soon settled on an idea that Gondorian Sindarin is a language of the elites taught to them in childhood and used as a courtesy or mark of high status rather than evolving naturally.

I've always found this explanation a bit odd given that in the main narrative of LOTR, the Gondorian groups we see using Sindarin in full sentences/conversations rather than for specific names like Mithrandir or isolated words are mainly Gondorian soldiers outside of leadership roles. Faramir's men in Ithilien switch to "another language of their own" that turns out to be Sindarin. In the streets of Minas Tirith, "many" random soldiers call out to each other in Sindarin to gossip about Pippin. The almost entirely Gondorian armies following Aragorn praise the hobbits in Sindarin and Quenya.

But if we take Tolkien's statement at face value, the implication is that Númenórean elites in Gondor (i.e. a small fraction of the overall Gondorian population) outnumber the combined populations of all Sindarin- or Quenya-speaking Elves remaining in Middle-earth.

Many Elves have left or died, yes, but we're still talking about the Elves of Rivendell and of Lothlórien and all the ones scattered throughout Lindon, combined. If they really are outnumbered by Gondor's ruling aristocracy alone, I think the usual estimates of Gondor's overall population must be far too low. Tolkien simply noted that the population of Minas Tirith and its fiefs (presumably referring to Lossarnach, Anórien etc), while declined from the past, must have still been "much greater" than the combined Elvish populations of Rivendell, Lothlórien, and Lindon. That's not even getting into the more outlying fiefs of Gondor like densely-populated Belfalas.

(Alternatively, you could fanwank that Sindarin/Quenya are more widely spoken in Gondor than this and thus the population disparities, while certainly present, are not quite so extreme as this suggests. But that interpretation does require ignoring explicit statements from Tolkien in a way that something like theorizing population based on vague canonical suggestions is typically going to avoid doing.)

[littlefankingdom]

I'm sorry, but y'all do not know wtf do these words mean, like at all. And I'm tired of people calling Bruce a capitalist when he is NOT (owning a company and being rich ≠ being a capitalist. You can be poor and be a capitalist, because it's an ideology. Being born rich and the heir to a company doesn't make you a capitalist, because it's an ideology. My brother is a capitalist, which is a shame, and he is far from rich) or saying Jason or Oliver are communists just because they have beef with him, when they are not (Oliver calls himself an anarchist, I could argue with him about that but still, not the same as a communist. Jason has not shown to have communist ideologies. I was raised by communists, this boy is not one)

[acesstark]

That super ancient tumblr post about how all of the Winnie the Pooh characters allegedly represented a different mental disorder except it’s applied to the iwtv characters…

Louis represents depression.

Armand represents autism.

Claudia represents oldest daughter syndrome.

Daniel represents repressed bisexuality.

Lestat represents being French.

[mattysmarvel]

HAPPY ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY TO THEEEEE GIMBAPPE PICTURES !!!!!!

[coquelicoq]

[bolts upright in the shower] i need to reorganize my bookshelves

[la-galaxie-langblr]

what is going on w my brain

[therearenoowls]

one minute of some of my favourite moments from Adam's Paris vlog, featuring:

Adam making a fashion statement while waiting for his new boots to cook at the skate shop

double European champion can't get out of (or into?) his harness

“man is laughing; will not laugh tomorrow when you wake up”

step one: get home. step two: dump backpack. step three: faceplant into bed

[hechose]

'lestat crossed an ocean to save claudia and louis from the paris coven!!!'

..... im gonna hold your hand while i bash you over the head when i tell you this,,, that mans went to paris to be healed by armand,,, that mans went to paris to punish the people he abused for daring to fight back,,,

[sovamurka]

Team behind "Ma Meilleure Ennemie": How long this song can be?

Arcane team: Ahhhh... 2:30 max??? No, wait, 2:28!

Team behind "Ma Meilleure Ennemie": ...hmmm, quite short. Okay :)

Arcane team: Okay?

Team behind "Ma Meilleure Ennemie": Hehe :D *creates THE BEST FUCKING 2:28 song EVER*

[hacksawboy]

some of us r sane and the rest of us spend 5 hours drawing their tf2 ocs

i was gonna do more but um. no. not right now. another day mayhaps.

anyways i finally finished vampire medic and i also designed scene scout which was an idea i never talked about but ive had in mind for a bit xD yeah i hope u enjoy :)