#it's actually my highlander

[otiksimr]

Balloon rat creature

[icterid-rubus]

I wanted to make some kilt hose for the Highland Games but could only manage a single ho 😔

Guess I could hop.

[matrim-cauthons-hat]

ok so like obviously the battlemech most suited to be painted up as showckwave is a highlander, and mean lookit this guy!

flat head, broad body, gun arm. its pretty close. but what battlemech most looks like soundwave? i keep coming back to a shadowhawk but idk it kinda feels off for some reason

[peachetteprice]

Currently obsessed with the sappiest version of Johnny MacTavish there ever could be (he is my hyperfocus now), who feels so inadvertently put-out by his own wrenching feelings towards the wee town's primary teacher, a young-ish thing, naïve in aspiration and prospects alike, who can hardly stomach spending more than five quid on a drink, opting for the kind man in the pub to spot her a round that she promises to pay him back for. Frankly, he's too pre-occupied being disgustingly worried by the idea that he might fuck up whatever this thing is that has him cocooning around a pint of lager at the pub, dragging his sweaty palms over his thighs and hoping she laughs at the half-fledged jokes tumbling from his lips that are partially gulped down after each unsure, wobbling sentence.

He's confident, or seems it, at least. She'd have no true way of knowing, which works partly in his favour, the other part careening more towards the possibility that she simply doesn't care enough to even consider indulging in his folly, regardless of its well-meaning intent.

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[magical-girl-04]

Highland dancer Miku :]]

[midnight-els]

BRIDGERTON (2020 - ) | 3x08 "Into the Light" 🍨🪻🐝

[yoursassybookwormfriend]

Nevermoor Fun Fact #14:

During Christmas in Silverborn, Hawthorne will be in the Highlands visiting family, according to calculations.

[serpentface]

FAMILY TITLES AMONG THE HILL TRIBES

(ft. various linguistic notes and tangents)

In-universe Brakul’s self-given title of ‘Red-Dog’ is Brakul 'ne-Dainh' in his native language (Bict-Urbinnas dialect of the Highland language group) and Brakul 'Chin-Reyla' in Wardi. Ne-Dainh/Chin-Reyla is not something he treats as or considers an actual surname or identity, just a self-styled nickname. He already has a title.

Family names/surnames are not a native practice among the Hill Tribes (though some clans or individual families have adopted this practice), and all traditionally use titles that designate immediate ancestry, clan and tribe. These full titles are officially given when one comes of age and are spoken aloud in ceremony (with the entire direct male and female lines listed by name, with most traditions expecting 12 generations of each being named).

The function is to cement one’s sense of place in the world, and their place in a direct ancestral line, which puts the person under the full watch and guidance of their ancestors. It's also a critical method of recording lineage- the long held practice of each person memorizing at least 24 total direct ancestors allows for very long, largely accurate records of family history to be kept, with some people able to trace their ancestry all the way back to initial settlement of the Highlands (or even beyond).

Brakul’s full title is:

“Brakul virsum Kuligan et Borunil an Briyonis ne-Taig an Bict-Urbinnas”

Which dead literally translates to “Brakul son of Kuligan and Borunil of the Foothills (of) Red-Cattle, of the North (Urbin/Erubin) River Valley” but has a much richer meaning in the original language.

"BRAKUL VIRSUM KULIGAN ET BORUNIL"

The actual meaning here is closer to ‘Brakul, son of Kuligan and his father’s fathers, and Borunil and her mother’s mothers’.

“Virsum” means ‘child (son/daughter) of’ (the gender is contextual), but implies the person’s status as a descendant of a full male and female line of ancestors. A different word is used if you’re just saying ‘I’m so and so’s son”. The title describes him as a son of his father Kuligan and of Kuligan’s male line, and of his mother Borunil and Borunil's female line.

All ancestors (within this particular system of kinship, divided into one direct male line from the father and one direct female line from the mother, and not including husbands from the female line or wives from the male line) are invoked and credited with the word ‘virsum’. Speaking it as part of the personal title is part of the routine and necessary honoring of one’s ancestors, who watch over their descendants from the afterlife and can temporarily return to the land to guide and protect (and sometimes punish, or teach sharp lessons to) the living.

"AN BRIYONIS NE-TAIG"

The actual meaning here would be understood as ‘clan/people of the foothills where cattle are lit red by the setting sun'.

‘Briyonis’ is the word for ‘foothill’, citing his clan’s specific location being the foothills that form the slopes of the north Urbin river valley. He is of a lesser clan within the powerful North Urbin River tribe. His clan benefits from close affiliation to their more powerful ruling clans located directly in the river valley, which grants them access to a greater variety of cultivated foods, but their actual position in the foothills still renders them predominantly reliant on cattle for subsistence. Clan names referencing cattle or horses are very common, given their frequent centrality to life.

The ‘ne-Taig’ literally means ‘red cattle’, but the ‘ne’ color word for red specifically invokes shades of red seen in and cast by a rising/setting sun. This red cast is culturally regarded as a unique beauty and evocative (and part of the name) of the solar god Hraighne. The foothills his clan is physically located on are a vantage point from which the western horizon is not fully obscured by mountains, and they experience very striking sunsets and are directly touched by the light. This is fairly unique to this location, and is invoked in the clan name and identity. ‘Ne-Taig’ here suggests a visual of grazing cattle illuminated red by the sun as it crosses the horizon.

‘Ne-Dainh’ carries the same implication, a dog illuminated red by setting sunlight. The Wardi language does not have a comparable word for a sunlit red and ‘Chin-Reyla’ really does just mean ‘(orangeish) red dog’ (‘reyla’ is specific to orangey-red colors, which is the closest match he could get. There’s no way to impart the meaning of ‘sunlit-red dog’ in Wardi that is non-clunky enough to be appropriate for a name).

"AN BICT-URBINNAS"

‘an Bict-Urbinnas’ is fairly simple, Bict means ‘north’, and 'Urbin' is the name of the specific river that stems from a northern and eastern tributary. This river has a very ancient name (or a derivative of one) that predates settlement by the Hill Tribes, and its exact meaning is lost.

The root -(n)nas designates a river valley, but has strong implications of being an esteemed and bountiful place, rather than solely a literal geographical descriptor (as the river valleys are centers of power and trade in the highlands). It may be a loanword from the Wardi language family, as its usage is VERY similar in form and function to the Wardi -(n)nos, which also suggests a place of esteem and bounty (more specifically having connotations of a kingdom).

’An’ literally means ‘of’, but in the specific sense of describing the place and identity of a collection of people. ‘an Bict Urbinnas’ would be understood in speech as ‘of the north Urbin River Valley (people)’. The clans historically settled in and around the valley of the North Urbin River form the totality of the Bict-Urbinnas tribe.

The ‘Urbin’ word predates the contemporary Wardi name ‘Erubin’ for the river, the latter of which invokes the semi-mythological founding figure Erub, who himself was of a Wardi tribe located downriver to the south of the Highlands. The real historically extant ‘Erub’ was most likely named Urub after the river, with his cited name shifting over the centuries in folklore, and the Wardi name for the river shifting with it.

‘Erubin’ as a corruption of ‘Urbin’ functions very well in Wardi language due to ‘-bi/bin’ denoting something as a ‘gift’, usually in a more metaphorical sense. ‘Erubin’ is understood as meaning ‘(The river that is) Erub’s gift’, and the Erubin/Urbin river is a key tributary to the much larger Black river, one of the key rivers that feeds the region's wetter and more fertile west. This 'gift' meaning also occurs in the name of the southeastern Imperial Wardi city-state Erubinnos, which is understood as meaning ’((The kingdom that is) Erub’s gift’. He is considered to have conquered and taken the land (from the core city's actual founders, the Wogan people) and established a kingdom there in the early days of warring Wardi tribal monarchies.

[milkweedman]

Mends on my favorite hoodie. I've had it for almost a decade and it's kinda disintegrating along the seams and where the penguin patch is. All the blue/blue and white bits are mends I did a few days ago in between jobs. I started out doing the flower patches (which are of utmost Sports Significance) but they take a long time and aren't very strong anyway. In the future I'll probably keep to using them only to cover stains. So my improved technique for mending high stress areas on a thick cotton knit is just darning using feltable wool. Once it felts after a few cycles through the washing machine it becomes basically impenetrable and holds together a lot better.

Here's an example of one of the felted sections. I mended this area repeatedly with thread, a patch, and non-wool darning, all of which failed eventually. This seems to be holding though.

[the-busy-ghost]

Me normally: Let people love what they love

Me, after a Test Match Special commentator expresses their belief that the new All Creatures Great and Small is somehow "better" than the 1978 version: This is pure insanity and TMS can no longer be trusted on anything, how can they even be trusted to know about cricket, do they have no TASTE

[banished-away]

ffxiv dawntrail benchmark is out, guess who i had to make

[thebreakfastgenie]

Say Goodbye to Hollywood Life is a series of hello's and goodbye's I'm afraid it's time for goodbye again

Summer, Highland Falls How thoughtlessly we dissipate our energies Perhaps we don't fulfill each others fantasies

All You Wanna Do Is Dance Well you can hide away honey, in your rock and roll dreams And you can stand by your blue suede shoes

New York State of Mind I don't have any reasons I left them all behind I'm in a New York state of mind

James And will you ever change? Will you ever write your masterpiece?

Prelude/Angry Young Man And there's always a place for the angry young man With his fist in the air and his head in the sand

I've Loved These Days A few more hours to be complete A few more nights on satin sheets

Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out On Broadway) They turned our power down And drove us underground But we went right on with the show (Oh, oh, oh)

My favorite lyrics from each Billy Joel song

Cold Spring Harbor | Piano Man | Streetlife Serenade | The Stranger | 52nd Street | Glass Houses | The Nylon Curtain | An Innocent Man | The Bridge | Storm Front | River of Dreams | Turn the Lights Back On | You're Only Human

[matrim-cauthons-hat]

so i tried my hand at creating a locust with a LB 2-X AC, and starting from the 1E, it turns out it like wasnt hard like at all. just give it a clan XL engine and strip the other weapons, and it frees up 6 ton to use for the weapon and a single ton of ammo. it was a bit boring so i added an endo steel and cut half a ton of armour to give it a trio of jumpjets. i figure mobility will help it survive more than armour ever will. did leave me with an extra point of armour to add to the head tho. i figure that since the cannon is mounted in the torso, we can just not both putting arms on it. like, they aint needed its fine. oh yeah and upgraded its single heat sinks to double because why the hell not. maybe they will take a hit somehwere instead of something important like the ammo or the engine. but, i wanted to get silly...

SO I TRIED TO PUT A SECOND LB 2-X AC!!!!!

i stripped it down to half a ton of armour, ripped out those jump jets i gave it, made the XL engine just a touch smaller, and took away all those nice jump jets id given it, to create my ultimate war machine! sure, its as sturdy as a wet tissue and is going to evaporate the moment another mech so much as looks at it, but damn if it isnt going to be just kinda irritating the whole time. like, not actually an issue but you kinda wish it would go away

[drivemysoul]

going through this movie list and i’m astonished at how many of them seem to be on my orbit and i’ve just either never heard of them or i’ve heard of them and somehow never formed any desire to watch them

[binch-i-might-be]

not to flex but every time I go to scotland I have like the most wonderful weather. it hasn't rained ONCE this week. there is SUN. on my FACE

[random-michael-kin]

This week has been great for me

I mean theres that thing i already posted about

But!!!!

Theres also

• my friends who are iffy about therians saying that im an exception because they know im cool

• yesterday i met 2 kids who were therians and we were all wearing masks thats how we found eachother

• my mum said she'll buy the dog ears 😈

• I realised what kind of dog i am im a doberman and when i regress im a doberman puppy :3