#trivia

[lilacchao]

*g̑n̥néh₃mi: (1) to know, recognize (from *ǵneh₃- (“to recognise, know”) +‎ *-né- (nasal infix) in 1st person singular form) (compare "know" (with a non-silent k))

*stéh₂tim: (1) standing, position (from *steh₂- (“stand (up)”) +‎ *-tis (abstract or action suffix) in accusative singular form, which means that ) (no direct descendents in english that i can find to compare to, but descendants of the main bit "steh" include "stand", "state", "static", "system", and "testicle")

the fact that proto indo european grammar is reconstructed enough that this post can have it correctly translate to "i know a place" (and not "we know places" or some such thing) is so cool, even if it's purely reconstructions and no definite words - consider that we don't even know what most proto indo european tribes would call themselves!

(though some proto indo iranians called themselves *aryas (unknown meaning), leading to iran and aryan (people avoid using this as a name for the wider group nowadays for. obvious reasons), and some western proto indo europeans called themselves *tewteh (people), leading to deutsch)

but a true name is unknowable, for an important reason (aside from the "6000 years ago" thing): there were many proto indo european tribes, they all spoke different languages (it's a language family), and they lived across a huge variety of places (from india to spain) at a huge variety of times (2000 years)

anyway they'd probably be like "*g̑n̥néh₃mi stéh₂tim" and then lead you to the middle of the steppe, and then tell you a story about someone who made a bargain with a trickster to become the ultimate welder, then welded the trickster to a tree to avoid paying the price! and then you'd give them superglue and they'd fall in love with you and you'd watch the sunset together!

and then you'd freeze to death in the night, sorry but it can't be helped

Proto-Indo-Europeans be like “*g̑n̥néh₃mi stéh₂tim” and then they take you into the middle of the steppe

[nocturnal-stims]

Snowberry clearwing hummingbird moth hard at work. Unlike most moths, these beautiful pollinators are diurnal and most commonly seen on warm summer days, sipping nectar from phlox, honeysuckle, beebalm, and verbena. They even emit an audible hum!

🌸 Happydaysfarm on IG

[thatsbelievable]

[miercoles-wednesday]

Oh god my fucking Lollapalooza RIBCAGE POST from 9 million years ago is circulating… mortified… lmfao.

I was going through my archive and almost deleted it the other day because I was like “is this too freaky…”

Please forgive me, Tumbr. I know I’ve made an entire blogging career out of fetishizing a one (1) month period in Nine Inch Nails’ 30+ year history…

For my sins, I’ll pass this along. I recently came across like 2.5 seconds of Lolla footage I had not previously seen in this unfinished documentary on Vimeo.

Most of it is available in a similar clip on YouTube, but that clip for whatever reason omits a few brief moments that are included in this one.

It starts around 22:00 minutes in and is preceded by a guy with a very southern accent complaining that Nine Inch Nails is “weird.”

Now I must go bury my head in the sand in shame…

I’m literally so embarrassed by my digital footprint and hope at least some of you find this nonsense entertaining!

[obscure-uty]

UTY trivia #95: The Golden items all have the same reject text, but the Coffee doesn't have parenthesis.

[triviacrossing]

In New Horizons, if the game can't load an NPC due to their referenced model name being invalid, or for other reasons, the game will instead load a naked, unnamed Bob in their place as a failsafe. This was likely a dummy NPC used for testing reasons.

[ultraericthered]

His love interests always have LL initials.

Low-hanging fruit is here, gonna grab it.

Crazy Things that happened to Golden/Silver/Bronze Age Superman that he just shrugged off

-He's a clone of a clone and the original Superman died years ago.

-The universe is an infinite time loop, once the big bang occurs it happens again. He has lived through his childhood and early adulthood twice.

-He can't die of old age so if he wants to die he'll have to kill himself.

-He's indirectly responsible for a nuclear apocalypse that laid a planet completely barren, but doesn't remember it because it happened in a time bubble where he was turned back into a baby and sent on his way to earth.

-He's partially responsible for Kandor getting bottled- he went back in time and tried to organize an effort to evacuate the planet, but he forgot to check the name of the city he was in, so their entire fleet got sucked up by Brainiac.

-He cries uncontrollably on his birthday, not because of Krypton's destruction, but because Kryptonians have a tradition of being sad on their birthdays. He hypnotized himself to forget this for some reason.

-He's doomed to be haunted by a white woman with double initials. He once tried to go back in time and not encounter Lois, only to encounter an even crazier bitch who tried to attack him to expose his identity.

-Despite having a rule against killing, he accidentally built a fully sapient and self-aware robot as a teen and killed it without mercy while it begged for it's life.

-Wizards are real

-He attempted to prevent the assassination of Abraham Lincoln but failed, watching John Wilkes Booth shoot the president while he stood frozen.

-His eyes rolled so far back into his head he looked at his own brain.

-A clone of himself, identical in every way except for his super powers committed suicide via gunshot.

-Mxyzptlk made a fake wife and son for Superman and acted like Mxy had just removed the memory of his marriage instead of just making them up wholeheartedly. He turned out to be the kid but the wife was a fully sapient magical construct who dies on the floor.

-Bizarro is the Christian devil, the Yeti and Mary Shelly's inspiration for Frankenstein

-A mob wanted to make superman guilty of murder, so they resurrected a guy from the dead for ten hours, so he can get superman to punch him at the exact right time to fall dead again. He got hit by a car so plan B was Boxing Match + Suicide capsule

-The Kryptonians once built an exact duplicate of Krypton as a decoy to distract space pirates who wanted to rob the planet. Superman found it, an unknowingly activated the booby trap, killing every sentient robot duplicate, including his parents. He didn't know that they were fake at the time.

-If you smash a potted tibetan plant over your skill at a right angle, you can see exactly one hour into the future

-Superman robots explode f they hear a language that isn't English.

-John Corben, Metallo and Bruce Wayne, Batman look exactly like him.

-His love interests always have LL initials. Lyla Lerrol (Kryptonian Actress), Lois Lane (Human Reporter), Lana Lang (Smallville Resident), Lori Lemaris (Mermaid telepath) and Lahla (Thorone Dissenter)

I'll post if I can think of more.

[shittymoviedetails]

did I forget any category?

[retrogamingblog2]

Pokemon and the real creatures that inspired their design

Poliwag – Translucent Tadpole

Shellos – Chromodoris Lochi

Caterpie – Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Caterpillar

Ursaring – Sun Bear

Parasect – Cordyceps  Fungus

Sandslash – Pangolin

Goomy – Ceratosoma Amoenum

Victreebel – Pitcher Plant

Drowzee –  Tapir

Mudkip – Axolotl

[cinemagal]

Trivia for The Blair Witch Project (1999) dir. Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sanchez

[class1akids]

Bonus book Q & A (i can’t believe they left out Shouto!)

All Might being a virgin is the funniest.

[nocturnal-stims]

Flatworms are tiny invertebrates that live in fresh or salt water, depending on species. They are bilaterally symmetrical and dorsoventrally flattened, giving them flexible, ribbon-like bodies. Most flatworm are less than 50 mm long and are very thin and delicate. They glide across the ocean floor on hair-like cilia, feeding on dead (or dying) marine animals.

🪱 Roamtheocean on IG

[thatsbelievable]

[blue-wolfe]

what character is most likely to be a chronic tumblr user? for some reason i can picture Jedediah being like “Sydney im working on my project. #myproject.”

No. Sydney is the Tumblrina. Jedidiah goes on there maybe twice a month to post some longwinded addition to some poor viral post as "science side of tumblr" and only (only) Sydney reblogs it.

[stra-tek]

Mad stuff that's 100% canon in the Star Trek universe:

Going past warp 10 turns you into a hyper-evolved Salamander

Special cheese can bring down the highly advanced bio-neural circuitry of an Intrepid-class ship

A software mod can make a regular transporter beam across many light years

A software mod can make a regular transporter beam across universes

The addition of old DNA in a transporter can reset you physically to whatever age the DNA is from, but with all your memories and experiences intact therefore curing all ills

There's a forcefield surrounding the galaxy and nobody really asks why it's there

Touching it sometimes gives people Q-like powers

There's a Prime Directive not to interfere with pre-warp cultures but everybody does

There's a Temporal Prime Directive not to interfere with the timeline but everybody does

Captain Picard was turned into a Borg for a few days and was never the same again

Captain Janeway, B'Elanna Torres and Tuvok were turned into Borg for a couple of days and where just fine after

Discovery's new captain is probably still waiting on Vulcan

There's a planet in the centre of the galaxy surrounded by a forcefield with a big floating head on it that pretends to be God

The Borg, most deadly dangerous things in the galaxy responsible for enslavement of trillions, could possibly be forever defeated by a single jpeg of a weird shape but they don't do it because sympathy

There's a secret cabal of Starfleet officers that attempted genocide once and it's the only thing that saved the Federation

There's a universe which, when it bleeds into ours, makes everyone uncontrollably sing and dance