#brogueing

[modmad]

old shoes, new boots <3

[oxfords---notbrogues]

[lazylittledragon]

i call this outfit “golfcore”

[mekanikaltrifle]

tbh the survival of small languages and dialects of all stripes is deeply important to all our cultures-- and I don't mean this in a weirdo blood-and-soil nationalist way-- because it helps to keep different ways of thinking and seeing alive. Often, languages come with their own perceptions on time and colour and days and night, anything they could possibly have. Major languages too, but the smaller ones are always at risk of being lost to time... and with them go the context, the meanings and the different perspective that its individual speakers could have had.

For instance, in Scots, there's a fundamental minor difference to time and how it relates to the individual compared to standard English. In Scots you can often hear folks saying phrases like 'that's me away' (or awa' in very broad Scots, pronounced a bit like awah), when you're looking to leave a place. Taken literally in English that would be incorrect, as you are not in fact physically leaving, and it's not like you're watching your own body wander off out the door. However, in this case the 'what is about to be', and the 'what is right now' are functionally the same thing. Time becomes a little malleable in the Scots way of looking at it.

Of course this is hardly the only example and I am sure people can add their own examples of similar but... it's interesting to think about, isn't it? How your language approaches both the physical and the abstract, and how its constructed your brain to think. Because language physically shapes your brain, and knowing more is always good for the old grey matter.

[irish-dress-history]

I just stumbled across the following story in the 'Irish News' section of the 1741 issue of The Gentleman's and London Magazine; or Monthly Chronologer:

It's a darkly funny story until you realize that this happened during Bliain an Áir (English: the Year of Slaughter), one of the worst famines in Irish history. The fact that a brogue-maker ended up in debtor's prison suggests most of the Irish were too poor to afford shoes. This is horrifying when you consider the fact that the 1740-1741 famine was caused abnormally cold weather. Temperatures as low as 0º F (-18º C) were recorded in Ireland in 1740. Image trying survive that without shoes.

[hordeofcorvids]

My deepest desire is for a Sherlock Holmes adaption with a Scottish Watson because one line in a Study in Scarlet mentions that he doesn't have any family in England and I used it as a thin excuse to incorporate Scottish Watson™ into my world view

[trenchcroats]

"I dont support trump but i agree with his gender mutilation policy" WHAT? WHAT?????? WHAT WAS THAT?????? WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU SAY???

[brewed-pangolin]

[frankensteinmutual]

he wore pink striped socks to a funeral I'm losing my fucking mind

[themancorialist]

Cathedral Yard, Manchester.

[apocalypticvalraven]

Dungeon Meshi Ch14- The Kelpie, when you were a mythology kid

"That's a Kelpie."

"No, she's not, that's a kelpie, kelpies are ravenous beasts. Stop whatever you're doing, Senshi."

"Yes, they're omnivores that lure people onto their backs, drown them, and eat them."

"Senshi, no. That is exactly what a Kelpie wants someone to do so it can eat them. You will get eaten."

"Listen to the boy! When the monsterfetishistlover thinks its a bad idea, the man who reads about monsters in his free time, it's a bad idea."

"Senshi. Stop. Get off while you can. If you can. You're an idiot. Fucking stop this idiocy."

"Get that fucking shocked look off your face, Senshi, this is what kelpies do. You literally did this to yourself. Because you're an idiot."

"SENSHI. THAT'S JUST WHAT KELPIES DO. THEY'RE NOT MAGICAL WATER HORSES, THEY'RE SHAPECHANGING MONSTERS THAT TAKE ON THE FORM OF A HORSE TO LURE DRUNKEN IDIOTS ONTO THEIR BACKS. THIS IS LIKE SAYING 'I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY THAT DRAGON BURNED DOWN A VILLAGE AND TOOK OUR SHEEP.' IT'S WHAT THEY DO. YOU'RE LUCKY YOUR PARTY DIDN'T CONSIDER YOUR DEATH TO BE THE JUST CONSEQUENCE OF YOUR IDIOCY, AND SAVED YOU."

[oxfords---notbrogues]

Alden Shell Cordovan Wingtips

[cafe-solo]

[toopunkrockforshul]

It's unfair how Gender Riz's character is for Junior Year

[zalimaaa]

what shoes does one wear to the office in the colder months. bc i’m not trying to walk around with frostbite from wearing my kitten heels everywhere

[teddylacroix]

And another for Ace Day featuring just my beloved ♥ Happy International Asexuality Day!!

Jon & Martin version for JonMartin Week Day 4: Ace Day