#clarenecessities

[hollis-exe]

in honor of the Blorbius post hitting 100k, i have decided to finally release the entirety of the Blorbius cut. you can enjoy it here. prank your friends. do it.

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

Do you have any recommendations on where to learn some like, very late Middle Irish? I’m trying to translate a 16th century poem but I only have modern resources and I worry my guesswork is muddying the waters. Is there a dictionary or a primer or something that you consider reputable?

you are firmly in the early modern zone with that one by a long way by the sixteenth century, especially if it's poetry! I recommend léamh.org for that. tumblr won't let me put a link bc it hates fadas (the gaeltacht vampire is glaring at them from donegal...) but give it a look

early modern irish starts from much earlier than you expect (13th century) and in poetry you'll be in what they call classical modern irish which is a whole beast of its own with very formalised metrical rules and specific grammar

i hate translating poetry so frankly can't help much but léamh is your one for that era. alternatively my usual method is crying into a dictionary. this may also work. dil.ie is your historical dictionary. eDIL my beloved. léamh has a glossary for the early modern terms tho which may be helpful

[rileydrawesandwrites]

I threw out a grilled cheese argument and you threw out pain lmao

You know I gotta ask for a snippet from Perfect

well, you asked for it!

Catra didn’t stir as Adora pulled her up into her arms, aside from a flicker of her eyelids.  

Her breathing was shallow, faint and rasping, her fur was tacky with blood and cool to the touch. Adora cradled her with one arm, resting her other hand over the wound, careful not to exacerbate it  instinctively trying to apply pressure, despite the sword in her hand. Definitely in shock. And based on how sluggish the bleeding was becoming…

Hordak was saying something, people were still shouting, but it was all static in Adora’s ears. 

She concentrated only on the memory of future-Adora’s healing lesson, the steady hand that had wrapped around her own to gentle her grip. 

Don’t force it, she’d said, smiling so gently it made her face look like a stranger’s, if you’re angry you’re going to be punching rainbows. Just breathe.

Catra was fading, and all she was doing was sitting there holding the hilt of her sword to the wound. Frustrated tears welled up in her eyes, and she squeezed them shut, trying to breathe evenly.

[tippenfunkaport]

Official Dreamworks Digital SPOP Releases

I put a bunch of these in other posts I've posted before or things I queued up to post later when i was archiving everything form the Twitter account but since we were talking about this I might as well collect them all in one post...

The She-Ra Page on the Dreamworks activity center links to many (some of the links are broken) of the official digital merch they made.

There are Zoom backgrounds, watch along bingo cards, recipies, and some printable paper craft things like the mini-figs from Roll With It, the She-Ra Sword, and the valentines (which also include a papercraft model of Bow's arrow).

The She-Ra virtual reality room which is kinda boring but props to them for trying, I guess.

For use with VR set ups, obvs, but you can view it in a browser as well.

Want something really random? Scholastic had a math handout they did as part of their newsletter for schools featuring Marcus Scribner as Bow. Brand synergy is a mysterious thing.

The text version is here if you prefer to read

Lastly, there was a handout on how to read First Ones language also done by Scholastic to cross promote the books...

There was also a paper hand out they had at the Scholastic booth at cons and I actually own that but I don't have time to find / scan it at the moment.

There was an official She-Ra Instagram filter (beloved of my children) which is alas no more but you can see their IG story about it here (assuming that link works?)

And, of course, there is the sticker app which is still available in an app store near you and I uploaded most of the stickers from it to Tumblr a while ago as well.

Lastly, a lot more of the printable crafts they did can be found on @dreamworksshera which is the official tumblr of the show. There's a pattern to make Bow's shirt, Spinnerella themed pinwheels, a Sea Hawk flag, Netossa net and Mermista smoothie that I remember off the top of my head. Unfortunately, whoever ran that account did not understand tagging at all so they are very hard to find but such is life!

cc-ing @n7punk and @clarenecessities just since this conversation is all over the place and confusing as hell

[hypnag0g]

doodlin my houseplants. top sketches are me desperately trying to figure out how to capture my older raven zz's resilience + my Corkscrew Albuca's dormancy/active states. not sold on the scientist vibes just yet, but we're still in the early stages. bottom image is my beloved Bogos Binted, the first raven zz i ever got (via the lovely and generous @clarenecessities )

[rileydrawesandwrites]

@clarenecessities post about 80s She-Ra reminded me of this for some reason

[cthulhu-with-a-fez]

via @clarenecessities

there's still a week left for the funniest possible thing to happen (charles dying before the coronation) like to charge reblog to cast or whatever

[bazsilisk]

LICHENTHROPE for @clarenecessities <3

[hollis-exe]

got tagged by @baysee for the top 7 songs on my spotify on repeat playlist!!

caveat: i rarely use spotify, i use it to listen to like. birdsong and wind and bugs sounds to fall asleep. so i'm going to be excluding things that are obvious sleep music LOL (links lead out to youtube)

#3 - Aphex Twin

2. Spinning in a Dream - Lorn

wait what do you mean they stop at 25. are you kidding me. i'm not fucking around when i say all 23 other songs on here are just. ambient. bird sfx. that i use to sleep. uhhh. fuck okay hold on there's like, sort by numbers of plays right. hold on what do you mean there's no sort by number of plays. okay. okay. i can do this.

3. Werewolf Gimmick - The Mountain Goats

4. Something Else - Childish Japes & Dave Vives

5. Space Cowboys - Disco Street Machine

6. Brutus - The Buttress

7. A New World - Code Elektro

disaster. disaster. disaster. i'm tagging @hungry-bug @rdhndrd @clarenecessities @synthaphone @dayvan @x-unnamedgraves-x @orebat and anyone else who wants to do this

[interruptingkau]

i engaged w those & you're right to feel superior. i envy you deeply

You needn't envy me, homestuck has a grip on my heart even now.

[flightyfinch]

Hey did you test out the magnifying glass/sun thing on Your Own Arm?

of course not! i tested it on a leaf. THEN i wondered what it would do to human flesh

[pitviperofdoom]

So Luffy: Wolf daemon. Deku: Wolf daemon. Phoenix: Really big dog daemon. I'm sensing a theme here :p

My favorite heroes have the souls of real big doggos. just some huge boofers.

I will not apologize.

[thelastpilot]

Suggestion for rabbit!nino: Inlé. From watership down, means the moon/darkness. Fu inlé is midnight, for a fun master fu allusion. I like the moon association bc of the eastern rabbit-in-the-moon thing but this one is pretty nerdy. Alternately: Sauteur (jumper), Cognomon (pun on cognomen and gnomon bc I have no self control). Or like.... Blue Buck to keep w the naming conventions

ooh i like that too! i’ll have to look more into rabbit related myths that might be a good source, although i really like Sauteur. And Inlé! Inlé is better for shorthand, see i like these and also the suggestion of Hare-Raiser( @flowiehowie ) but im not sure what they would be called for short. I also liked Encore alot, (suggested by the same person) because of the showman-ship aspect, but im not completely hooked yet. I really like these! i’m gonna keep them in mind and look around for some more, but they are the best ones ive seen

[wintermoth]

@clarenecessities

gurl?

[morecolorfulmetaphors]

clarenecessities replied to your post “wouldn’t it be great if instead of young people blaming their grandma...”

Man stop blaming the youth and start considering voter suppression. You’re mad at the wrong people

oh i totally agree that voter suppression is a big issue and targets young people, but it doesn’t account for *how* low youth voter turnout is and has been historically. we need to be able to have a nuanced conversation where we both recognize the specific barriers placed in front of young voters and also acknowledge that there have been many young people who could’ve voted but didn’t. 

[reihimura]

Am I reading this wrong? I thought the time Fuyumi was referring to was shortly BEFORE rei was admitted, and "stopped seeing shouto" was literal. As in, when she looked at him, she could only see End*avor. None of the translations I've found are clear enough to disambiguate :I

hmm maybe?? i think the official translation is “right around the time rei was admitted to the hospital”, so it doesn’t really give us a before or after. maybe fuyumi did mean it in a literal sense, i just wish it hadn’t been written in a vague way sdgfdfghfdgh...

if we ever get touya backstory we will Know...