watching and reading

[pargery]

If there's more of us, then we're not rebels.

[systlin]

Hi I have a follow up to my mulberry question. If perhaps I don't have the time and energy to grow my own silk and spin it by hand into yarn, where would you recommend buying silk yarn? (Or a good undyed wool yarn?)

Colourmart, selling luxury yarn mill ends to craft knitters and weavers since 2005. Thousands of happy customers worldwide. Free shipping gl

Let me introduce you to my beautiful beloved mill ends on Colourmart.

You can't guarantee what they'll have but you can find some real treasures there.

[dangerphd]

silk yarn mill ends:

Silk Yarns

Located in the Historic Milling District of Downtown Allegan Michigan. Old Mill Yarn 148 Mill District Road Allegan, MI. 49010

[systlin]

oh HELLO

somehow two pounds of mulberry silk mill end yarn just fell into my cart.

Also, FUCK ME, they're running a sale right now for $50 for TWO POUNDS of mulberry silk mill end yarn. $62.65 with shipping, or if you order $100 worth free shipping

[alexmaybe]

hello fiber arts friends, would you like some DANGEROUS YARN KNOWLEDGE?

[lookninjas]

484.

and if you saw that meteor tonight then no the fuck you didn't

we observe no fucking omens we heed no fucking signs

there is no fucking destiny at play

we are going to have A NORMAL FUCKING WEEK so help me physics

or I'm climbing Olympus with a bat and a pocketknife and believe me there will be some words that will be FUCKING had

[liddie-dissociating]

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[minnesotacore]

“Liam is home now and we are grateful to Joaquin Castro for traveling to Minneapolis with him and his dad.

Welcome home Liam ❤️❤️” -Ilhan Omar on social media

[muffinlance]

The judge's opinion on this case is short and EXTREMELY worth reading

[linguisticparadox]

"Apparent also is the government's ignorance of an American historical document called the Declaration of Independence."

[alexmaybe]

wow

that is a judge who is angry angry

citing both the constitution and the declaration of independence is a bad sign. the footnote cite to blackstone and the fucking magna carta is a bad sign with flashing lights and sirens and an evacuation warning

[rolameny]

today i held a vow of revenge renewal 💕 i gathered all my friends and family in a scenic location and stood up in front of them to reaffirm my pledge that i will hunt you to the end of the earth for what you've done 💕 fifteen years and still going strong baby! you can't escape me forever!! 🥺💕🙏

[penny-anna]

Legolas pretty quickly gets in the habit of venting about his travelling companions in Elvish, so long as Gandalf & Aragorn aren’t in earshot they’ll never know right?

Then about a week into their journey like

Legolas: *in Elvish, for approximately the 20th time* ugh fucking hobbits, so annoying

Frodo: *also in Elvish, deadpan* yeah we’re the worst

Legolas:

[penny-anna]

~*~earlier~*~

Legolas: ugh fucking hobbits

Merry: Frodo what’d he say

Frodo: I’m not sure he speaks a weird dialect but I think he’s insulting us. I should tell him I can understand Elvish

Merry: I mean you could do that but consider

Merry: you can only tell him ONCE

Frodo: Merry. You’re absolutely right. I’ll wait.

[penny-anna]

#legolas’ hick accent vs #frodo’s ‘i learned it out of a book’ accent #FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT

Legolas: umm well your accent is horrible

Aragorn: *hollering from a distance* HIS ACCENT IS BETTER THAN YOURS LEGOLAS YOU SILVAN HICK

Frodo: :)

[storywonker]

Frodo: Hello. My name is Frodo. I am a Hobbit. How are you?

Legolas: y’alld’ve’ff’ve

Frodo, crying: please I can’t understand what you’r saying

[ramshacklefey]

Ok, but Frodo didn’t just learn out of a book. He learned like… Chaucerian Elvish. So actually:

Frodo: Good morrow to thee, frend. I hope we twain shalle bee moste excellente companions.

Legolas: Wots that mate? ‘Ere, you avin’ a giggle? Fookin’ ‘obbits, I sware.

Aragorn: *laughing too hard to walk*

[reformedkingsmanagent]

@ghostriderofthearagon

[cryptidscrypticcrosswordclub]

dYinGggGggg…

[whetstonefires]

i mean, honestly it’s amazing the Elves had as many languages and dialects as they did, considering Galadriel (for example) is over seven thousand years old.

english would probably have changed less since Chaucer’s time, if a lot of our cultural leaders from the thirteenth century were still alive and running things.

they’ve had like. seven generations since the sun happened, max. frodo’s books are old to him, but outside any very old poetry copied down exactly, the dialect represented in them isn’t likely to be older than the Second Age, wherein Aragorn’s foster-father Elrond started out as a very young adult and grew into himself, and Legolas’ father was born.

so like, three to six thousand years old, maybe, which is probably a drop in the bucket of Elvish history judging by all the ethnic differentiation that had time to develop before Ungoliant came along, even if we can’t really tell because there weren’t years to count, before the Trees were destroyed.

plus a lot of Bilbo’s materials were probably directly from Elrond, whose library dates largely from the Third Age, probably, because he didn’t establish Imladris until after the Last Alliance. and Elrond isn’t the type to intentionally help Bilbo learn the wrong dialect and sound sillier than can be helped, even if everyone was humoring him more than a little.

so Frodo might sound hilariously formal for conversational use (though considering how most Elves use Westron he’s probably safe there) and kind of old-fashioned, but he’s not in any danger of being incomprehensible, because elves live on such a ridiculous timescale.

[whetstonefires]

to over-analyse this awesome and hilarious post even more, legolas’ grandfather was from linguistically stubborn Doriath and their family is actually from a somewhat different, higher-status ethnic background than their subjects.

so depending on how much of a role Thranduil took in his upbringing (and Oropher in his), Legolas may have some weird stilted old-fashioned speaking tics in his Sindarin that reflect a more purely Doriathrin dialect rather than the Doriathrin-influenced Western Sindarin that became the most widely spoken Sindarin long before he was born, or he might have a School Voice from having been taught how to Speak Proper and then lapse into really obscure colloquial Avari dialect when he’s being casual. or both!

considering legolas’ moderately complicated political position, i expect he can code-switch.

…it’s also fairly likely considering the linguistic politics involved that Legolas is reasonably articulate in Sindarin, though with some level of accent, but knows approximately zero Quenya outside of loanwords into Sindarin, and even those he mostly didn’t learn as a kid.

which would be extra hilarious when he and gimli fetch up in Valinor in his little homemade skiff, if the first elves he meets have never been to Middle Earth and they’re just standing there on the beach reduced to miming about what is the short beard person, and who are you, and why.

this is elvish dialects and tolkien, okay. there’s a lot of canon material! he actually initially developed the history of middle-earth specifically to ground the linguistic development of the various Elvish languages!

[bowditch]

Legolas: Alas, verily would I have dispatched thine enemy posthaste, but y’all’d’ve pitched a feckin’ fit.

Aragorn: *eyelid twitching*

[linguisticparadox]

Frodo: *frantically scribbling* Hang on which language are you even speaking right now

Pippin, confused: Is he not speaking Elvish?

Frodo, sarcastically: I dunno, are you speaking Hobbit?

Boromir, who has been lowkey pissed-off at the Hobbits’ weird dialect this whole time: That’s what it sounds like to me.

Merry, who actually knows some shit about Hobbit background: We are actually speaking multiple variants of the Shire dialect of Westron, you ignorant fuck.

Sam, a mere working-class country boy: Honestly y'all could be talkin Dwarvish half the time for all I know.

[sainamoonshine]

Pippin, entering Gondor and speaking to the castle steward: hey yo my man

Boromir, from beyond the grave: j e s u s

[esser-z]

Tolkien would be SO PROUD of this post

[runiaimperii]

It got better

[peaceheather]

there may come a day when i do not reblog this post, but it is NOT THIS DAY

[alexmaybe]

Okay, but please consider what an absolute clusterfuck of an accent Elrond must have. Like, sure he can do Formal Standard Sindarin, but he lived in a refugee camp with at least two distinct cultural groups until he was six, and then was raised by the remaining Sons of Feanor and whoever was still willing to hang out with them. At a minimum he'd been exposed to Gondolin Quenya, Doriath Sindarin, and Feanorian Quenya; I'm sure there were other dialects mixed in, as well as Taliska and whatever else humans were speaking. He and Elros were probably using sound combinations never before conceived of.

[tolkien-feels]

I didn't even know elves had heraldry, how is Finrod's sigil different than others?

They do! Tolkien himself came up with some designs, look how pretty!

The above aren't all elven. For instance, the one at the center, with the red hand, is Beren's, and the tree with three circles represents the Silmarils. But I wanted this picture because I love that Tolkien did this, it's all very pretty.

Anyway, initially, Finrod seems to have used his father's device, probably because he's the leader of the House of Finarfin in Beleriand. It looks like this

This is very typical of elves. Personal devices for male elves are always lozenges (with circles for women and squares for countries or families.) They're also typically symmetrical on both horizontal and vertical axes.

You can see that eight rays touch the rims of the lozenge - that signifies rank. The more rays, the more important the person, roughly speaking. Finwe has sixteen, and all his sons have eight.

Finwe's sons also borrow Finwe's colors, which are these (note also how similar the design is):

And then Finrod goes ahead and changes his device to look like this:

What is this, Finrod? What are you doing. Great job on keeping the lozenge but uh. What the fuck is going on here? Where are the colors of your house? Where are the rays of your rank? Where's the symmetry of your species?

I mean, from the forest green and the blazing torch, and especially the harp, everything represents his meeting with the people of Beor. It's clear what he wants his device to say, but god! Is this really the best way to say it??

This design is so bizarre that the very authoritative book JRR Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator speculates that maybe the Edain made this device for Finrod, and they weren't clear on or just didn't care about eleven heraldic traditions. Except, this is Beor's device:

It's literally more elvish than Finrod's by a large margin!! If Beor or his people are making a device for Finrod, then either Finrod made one for them, or they deliberately swapped styles for some other reason.

Now, it could also be that this is a posthumous thing, but I think the same problems still apply? It's just. It's an odd device, okay?

Sure, it can just be a random inconsistency, but it's so much fun to imagine Finrod being Weird. "Hey I found this new species! On a related note, let's take down my father's heraldry, I'm about to invent Modern Art™️ 🥰"

Alternatively: "Hi! My gender is male. My lineage, rank and race are ✨Friend of Men✨ No further notes."

[tolkien-feels]

I'll also point out, as a side note, that the background color of Finrod and Beor's devices is the same, and they share other colors as well, so I think it's extremely unlikely that they aren't meant to go together. Whether they were developed at the same time or not, they must be referencing each other. Oh, and note that the eight circles on Beor's device are placed exactly like the eight rays of Finarfin/Finrod, and the four corners are pretty similar, too.

The question, I think, is basically, which one of the following is true:

Finrod and Beor came up with devices for each other

Finrod and Beor came up with their own devices but designed them together, or apart but taking inspiration from each other

Some future generation came up with one or both devices and thought they should go together, and everybody said "Yeah, that checks out, let's adopt that"

I'm okay with either of the first two options. The third, while possibly likelier, is much less fun, because, like I said, it deprives me of Finrod Felagund Shocks Elven High Society situations

[alexmaybe]

I do love the idea of Finrod and Beor giving each other Friendship Heraldry. Like, the mental image of Beor happily doing arts and crafts with his Weird Forest Cryptid Bestie is great, but also, their meeting is ultimately responsible for how each of them is remembered through history and it's cool that their devices reflect that.

[heartwarminganimals]

Sproing

[petermorwood]

Reblogging once again.

All cats jump, but snow leopards seem to have some Special Arrangement with Gravity.

[riverlarking]

the process of double knitting socks mentioned in “war & peace”. this is the oldest historical mention of the method, hence why nowadays it’s known as ‘the war & peace method’, and it seems like the knowledge of how to do it was lost/forgotten until this article from 2006 that details it. it’s still not a very popular way of knitting socks due to its difficulty , but it’s fairly interesting in how it works.

every other stitch on the needles belongs to the inside sock and, as you go, you knit one stitch with one yarn and the next one with the other, so that the two projects share the same needles but aren’t actually connected to each other

then you can, in fact, magically pull out the second sock from inside the first

[msbarrows]

All the little angels (how do they rise up) by Terry Pratchett

[txttletale]

oh thank god for the ui update i was jsut thinking that WAY too much space in the ui is devoted to the conent of the posts (the thing i come to the website for) im so glad that those upstart Posts are finally getting overshadowed by their rightful overlords, the real stars of the show, icons and urls,

[txttletale]

every time i see this post reblogged the combination of reblogger + my icon / url bar is nearly as big as the post itself. im going crazy. most tumblr ui changes are whatever this is absolutely insane

[darklight-owl]

Uh oh! You are now a were-animal! This means you become a human-sized animal hybrid with uncontrollable bloodlust every night!

Spin this wheel to get your species

How screwed are your loved ones

Not at all! Anyone can fight back against me.

They should be fine with a bit of prep.

Nothing will happen as long as I lock myself in my room.

I'm pretry sure this animal can break down my door, this doesn't look good...

No chance of survival whatsoever.

I'm were-bald (see results)

Voting ended onMar 13, 2025

[greenreticule]

I know I know I know he like Died died, but consider:

Galadriel arrives in the Undying Lands and Fëanor is just standing on the shores, hands on hips like “WHAT THE HELL??? THREE STRANDS??? TO A DWARF???”

Galadriel just smirks as she walks past.

Eventually, Fëanor gets over it because hey it’s FINE. He’s gonna live forever in the Lands with her, and the Dwarf won’t.

And then like a century later that Greenleaf bitch rows up in his own little canoe with WHO FUCKING ELSE

[ghost-of-morrowbright]

Lol dying

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[inthefallofasparrow]

[mzminola]

On a "local to Barrayar" level I think the Bats would be vigilantes in Vorbarr Sultana (or maybe Vorkosigan Vashnoi pre-destruction) but on a galactic level we have to drop them in Jackson's Whole. We just have to. That's the closest thing Bujold's galaxy has to Gotham, we gotta drop them in the capitalism-corrupts-everything interlocked-crime-syndicate planet with five wormholes.

[alexmaybe]

ra's is clearly cetagandan, he sometimes hangs out on jackson's whole for "inspiration" and also because most of the other cetas find him creepy.

i keep trying to place the other members of the justice league, and the only one i'm sure of is that wonder woman is from beta colony. barrayar might be metropolis? i can see lex vorluther, and clark was raised on komarr before moving to vorbarr sultana.