Annkari

artist with ADHD she/her

[foldingfittedsheets]

May I present: Leda and the Swan Princess! It's based on this post about a swan princess who refuses to go quietly in obscurity when cursed. (If you liked this one you will probably also like my other comics which you can find on my pinned post).

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[melonalemonade]

always watching

[animentality]

[megacarapa]

ok so this is another long shot but a few years ago there was a twitter post (in japanese i think?) that had measurememts for how to make this book stand thing out of cardboard that you could use to double up books and use up more space on shelves

back then i made a bunch of these but by now i lost the pic and dont know how to find the original post anymore

if it comes down to it i can just take one apart and get the measurements from there but i would be very grateful if anyone happens to have the original post or something similar??

[megacarapa]

don't mind how long it's been since i made this post, anyway i realized that i don't even need to take one apart to get the measurements when i can literally just unfold it and refold it /FACEPALM

so anyway here is the diagram for anyone else who is interested!!

this requires pretty big carboard pieces, if you have a really big box or something you can make it from one piece, but if you don't, you can also just make each of the pieces individually and then tape them together

and then in the end you put it together like this!!

and then when you make a bunch you can put them all next to each other and stack your books like crazy

EVERYONE START GETTING MORE USE OUT OF YOUR SPACE NOW!!!!

[jmtorres]

i've been doing a version of this with bricks and two by four! recycled cardboard is probably cheaper tho

[puppygirllaika]

trying to buy a bookshelf/room divider feels so fucking pointless. it's a quest in futility. there's nothing worth getting, not at any price, and you know why? it's because 60-some odd years ago, god damned George Nakashima made this thing:

Look at this fucking infohazard of a piece of furniture.

Look at how fucking perfectly proportioned each and every void space is to create a subtle sense of motion and elevation, almost a landscape with just a few careful lines.

Look at how the reduction in the support pillars from left to right mirrors that ascension and proportion. How the different woods highlight each other and the near-seamless points at which they meet. How the shadowed interior boards bring out the bright highlights in the grain of the shelves and top piece.

Look at how it fits into a room, how it casts a shadow, and most importantly, how it perfectly frames and hilights every single thing placed on it.

Like. It's not some wild statement to claim that the man who defined an entire genre of woodworking and furniture making, crystalized in his book "the soul of a tree", is like. A human god of the art form. I get that i'm saying nothing revolutionary here. But this thing just. breaks me. nothing compares. i've spent years trying to find a bookshelf that can even hold the faintest candle to it. I've spent long nights up in cad modeling out my own versions based on his design, desperately wanting to take them down to the woodshop and try my hand, but like. one real, good look at this, and it's so clearly the result of decades of craftsmanship. a lifetime of the art. i love it. it ruined this type of furniture for me, and i love it so, so much.

I'll just have to stick to desks, the one thing I know Mr. Nakashima will never ruin for m-

...

fuck.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[thestuffedalligator]

It’s not a Discworld joke unless you read it, don’t parse it as a joke, and then carry on with your life for ten years until someone stops you to say something like “It’s a pavlovian response because the dog ate a pavlova” and you scream Terry’s name with enough indignant rage you hope it rattles the pillars of the multiverse so wherever his soul is he’ll hear it.

[andhumanslovedstories]

#i don’t think this is what pterry meant by ‘a man’s not dead while his name is still spoken’

I absolutely think it is

[seiya234]

I read Jingo for the first time when I was 13.

I’m 33 now, and I still discover a new joke every time I reread it.

Terry was a comedic genius

[stormsbreadth]

#shoutout to the one in Soul Music about the leopard that got thrown out of the circus because it couldn't hear the ringmaster#it was several months after my second or third time reading the book that I clocked it was a Deaf Leopard (via @morkaischosen)

god DAMMIT

[adverbian]

When I was informed that “Vetinari” is a pun on “Medici”. That pun was so painful I couldn’t even see it.

[triflesandparsnips]

...are you FUCKING KIDDING ME.

*starts thunderously knocking on the doors of heaven*

get out here Terry I just wanna talk

[amuseoffyre]

Twurp’s Peerage made me throw a book (gently) at a wall.

In the UK, the book of the peerage is called Burke’s Peerage. Burke sounds like berk, which means a silly/annoying person. So Terry took ‘twerp’, another word for a silly or annoying person, and replaced the e with u. 

The Book of Silly and Annoying People, based on the real thing with a pun on the name thrown in for good measure.

[deathsmallcaps]

OMG I FUCKING *KNEW* VETINARI WAS A JOKE ON FUCKONG SOMETHING I JUST COULDNT GRASP IT. I THOUGHT IT WAS A REFERENCE TO WIND SOMEHOW

[sarahreesbrennan]

I am not a talented punster so I was today old when I realised about Vetinari.

[fiollaigean]

guys it's fucking close to water

[aridotdash]

[jennyofmany]

Latinclass ca. 9th grade: the text we had to translate contained the words trans means "on the other side of" or in german it can be translated to "über/ hinüber". Also silvas; silvanis means "the forest" or in german "der Wald".

Trans silvas very simply translated into german would be über den Wald

Trans silvas -> Transsilvanien -> Überwald

My latin teacher gave me a very weird look as I suddenly facepalmed myself and groaned quietly.

[arkytiorlecter]

The Venturi and Selachii feud is what killed me when I got it.

The Venturi Effect is a scientific term referring to the acceleration of a liquid through a narrow tube (like a jet).

Selachii is a classification of sharks. (I discovered this when my stepson got really into sharks)

... fucking HELL Terry.

[nochd]

In Carpe Jugulum, Count Magpyr boasts of having helped write the Malleus Maleficarum, along with the Torquus Simiae Maleficarum, the Auriga Clavium Maleficarum, and in fact the entire Arca Instrumentorum.

The Malleus Maleficarum is a very real, very nasty and absolutely batshit insane book from late 15th-century Germany, basically laying out the procedure for catching, torturing, and executing witches. Its title translates to The Hammer of Witches. The other titles are Pratchett's inventions.

Malleus = "hammer" Torquus Simiae = "monkey wrench" Auriga Clavium = "bucket of nails" Arca Instrumentorum = "box of tools"

[lakevida]

on it boss

[zanmor]

step 1: mitosis

[thememedaddy]

[icaruswar]

shane and ilya at their daughter's peewee hockey game, judging the FUCK out of the coach for roster mismanagement and mediocre in-game adjustments.

(they don't realise that this is a middle school annual tournament for kids and not the NHL playoffs)

[madlori]

"Hey Jack, I got your practice schedule for the new season."

"Great, lemme see." Jack scanned over the week. He had the 12-to-14 year olds on Mondays and Wednesdays, learn-to-skate clinic on Tuesday morning, and the five-to-seven year olds on Tuesday and Thursday evenings.

He flipped to the roster list, just to see how many kids he had...when one name caught his eyes. "Oh, holy shit."

"What?"

"Maria Hollander? Age six?"

"So?"

"Are you brain-dead? That's Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov's daughter!"

"Great, she'll probably have a head start on her hockey skills."

"I am going to have to coach this girl's team while her parents, who are both in the Hall of Fame and have SIX Cups between them, judge me from the stands!"

"Maybe they can give you tips."

"Travis had Maria last year. He told me that Hollander used to lecture him for twenty minutes at a time about edgework drills and managing the long change. They were FIVE. Most of them could barely skate."

"Next you're going to tell me you had posters of one of them up in your room when you were a kid."

"One of them? Try both." He shook his head. "Fuck my life, man."

[typhlonectes]

[the-rad-menace]

The greatest drawing of a dog was also done in the 1700s by a Japanese artist - Nagasawa Rosetsu.

[creatures-in-posts]

These creatures are some of the greatest drawings

[hardlyhinged]

The traffic light system is great except for when you’re dealing with chronic overthinker Shane Hollander

Ilya does something new in the bedroom and asks for a color and Shane sorta freezes trying to figure out what his brain thinks about it and he likes the sex but he’s not sure how he feels about the New™ but he definitely doesn’t want to stop and they don’t have time to pause to sort through it all which of course leads him spiraling down the limitations of only three colors and he feels like there should be an “I don’t know” color like blue or purple but he can’t just say a color they didn’t talk about before so he’s trying to think of what all the colors would be combined except red and green are complimentary colors and he’s pretty sure that makes brown so it would be yellowish-brown? but he can’t say that because that doesn’t follow the rules of it being a single word so he trying to think of yellowish-brown stuff and thinks back to when he had the cottage built and they were excavating the foundation and there was a patch of ground that was a perfect yellowish-brown color so Shane finally just says “loam”

Ilya is five seconds away from calling an ambulance because he just asked Shane how he was doing and watched him pause for a very long time only to then speak gibberish back at him and Ilya knows he’s good but he’s pretty sure he’s not “fucks two primaries and a tertiary out of your vocabulary” good and is stressing

[lakevida]

on it boss

[zanmor]

step 1: mitosis

[lavenderprose]

"Vegas is sad because Ilya didn't actually want to be doing that :( He was trying to create distance between them :("

And what if I told you that Ilya engineered that hookup specifically because he wanted to dom Shane that night and he knew that if he got Shane in that hotel room that Shane would submit to him so beautifully and what if I told you that actually that's what they both wanted so fucking bad and what if I told you that the only reason the Penthouse hookup is bad is because Shane DID NOT COMMUNICATE what he wanted. Which was kisses. That's all he wanted. Not softer sex not Ilya being "gentle" not the denial of an aspect of his sexuality. Which is submitting sexually.

Vegas is sad because they aren't communicating well and they have feelings for each other and Ilya is refusing to recieve even the most basic aftercare (Chatting. Ilya enjoys to chat with Shane after sex, we've seen it before) and he's too in his own head about other things that he's failing to provide Shane's preferred aftercare (kisses) and neither of them even knows that that's a fixable problem at this point. THAT is the saddness of the scene. Not the kinky sex. They absolutely should have been having their kinky sex they just needed to be doing it more safely. But they're 24 and Ilya is about to reenter the Slavic Torment Nexus and Shane thinks he deserves to be sad forever until he wins a Stanley Cup. So.

[buried-in-stardust]

A Chinese-style flower arrangement of purple waterlilies

[sophsun1]

The Golden Girls – 5.26: The Presidents Coming! The Presidents Coming!

[theeggoman]

Our girlfriend looks so pretty from outer space