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Monterey Bay Aquarium
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Love Begins
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JBB: An Artblog!
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i'd like to get on Vgen and by asking for both your freshest loaves of bread and reblogs & likes on this post will allow me to apply for access. also will prove i'm not a bot, just very very silly. thank u
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Cannot Stress Enough how important it is to read Howl’s Moving Castle written by Diana Wynn Jones immediately after watching Howl’s Moving Castle directed by Hayao Miyazaki. When he made the movie he was of course upset with war and thus included it in the film, but you gotta understand. You really Gotta Understand. Every time in the movie where Howl turns the door dial black to travel to an absolutely hellish warscape? You know where that same dial takes him in the book? The Real World Country Of Wales
He goes to his sister’s house to play rugby and have a drink with his mates. His sister is like “you fucking loser get a JOB” and Howell is like “I have a job, I’m a wizard!” And she’s like “FUCK OFF”
good things will happen 🧿
things that are meant to be will fall into place 🧿
THIS ONE FUCKING WORKS. REBLOG IT.
this for real fucking works
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❄️❄️❄️ BITFROST ❄️❄️❄️
cover art and additional drawings of the main characters all by me! book, of course, by Sam Farren :)
It’s happening soon y’all. I’ll give you the deets when we get em!!
Bitfrost is going up for sale on August 8th!!! Pre-orders later this week!!!!
I’m SO excited about being here for Sam’s next book to go out, and I hope you are all excited for it 😊 please support my talented wife!!!!!!
Happy birthday Sailor Moon!!!
I must say I did get pretty hyped for the Warmind expansion and let me say, it was pretty darn good. Not the best thing I’ve ever played, but definitely taking Destiny 2 in a very good direction.
The Scaly Puppy and the Alchemist ~
(Sequel to The Kennel Lad and the Scaly Puppy)
The Kennel lad seeks medical help for his newest pup - and gets some surprising information! TBC …
((Patreon))
truly inspiring
Full video because I love it.
renamonkalou:
The family home of architect Sami Angawi, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Holy shit….
Real life solarpunk.
I just read the links, and omg this is even better.
So I looked at it and knew it was using the open courtyard and the pools and fountains to do a lot of the work of cooling the house, but it’s also got drip irrigation for all of those plants (which adds more moisture to the air and also helps cool it in addition to being an effective and efficient way of watering the plants), it’s got a roof garden and other eco-conscious stuff. It combines modern construction techniques with classic Arabic art and architecture.
And his home is a cultural center.
He holds lectures, concerts and salons in his home, with guests and speakers from around the world. He’s founded multiple institutions to preserve Islamic history and architecture. He’s an activist against the extremist factions he says are trying to hijack Islam.
His home is going to be part of an international institute offering degrees in Islamic history and science, as his legacy, housing a collection of over one hundred thousands of his photos, drawings and writings about Islam and the holy cities of Mecca and Medina.
This is serious real-life Islamic solarpunk for real.
Tumblr likes the idea of solarpunk, even if there’s not a real body of work about it yet. Well, we’re missing that people are already doing this for real, and have been for a long time.
I am not generally an architecture fan. It’s nice and all, but it doesn’t do a lot for me, especially modern American stuff. But I am totally bowled over by this and must now go look at everything he’s ever designed.
@notyourexrotic
what she says: i’m fine
what she means: the words “christmas tree” are used in the hobbit, and since we know that bilbo is the author of the hobbit, hobbits must have christmas which means there must be a middle earth jesus. but hobbits seem to be the only ones who have the concept of christmas which means it was probably a hobbit jesus. but frodo says in return of the king that no hobbit has ever intentionally harmed another hobbit so who crucified hobbit jesus?? were there other hobbit incarnations of religious figures?? was there hobbit moses?? did jrr tolkien even think about this at all??
Wait wait I might actually have an answer
Tolkien wrote The Hobbit like waaaay before he even dreamed up the idea for Lord of the Rings, so when he DID dream up LotR, he had a whole bunch of stuff that didn’t make sense. Like plotholes galore
Like for example in the first version Gollum was a pretty nice dude who lost the riddle contest graciously and gave Bilbo the ring as a legit present and was very helpful and it was super nice and polite and absolutely nobody tried to eat anyone because this is a story for kids and that’s very rude
But that doesn’t work with LotR, so Tolkien went back and re-released an updated version of The Hobbit with all the lore changes and stuff to fix everything that didn’t work
This is the version we know and love today
BUT rather than pretend the early version never existed, Tolkien went and worked the retcon into the lore
If you pay attention in Fellowship, there’s a bit where Gandalf is telling Frodo about the ring and he mentions how Bilbo wasn’t entirely honest about the manner in which it was found
To us modern readers, this doesn’t make a ton of sense, so mostly we just breeze by it–but actually that line is referencing the first version of The Hobbit
The pre-retcon version of the Hobbit is canonically Bilbo’s original book. The original version with Nice Gollum is canonically a lie Bilbo told to legitimize his claim to the ring and absolve him of the guilt he feels for his rather shady behavior
Then the post-retcon version is an in-universe edited edition someone went and released later to straighten out Bilbo’s lies
So it’s 100% plausible that the in-universe editor who fixed up Bilbo’s Red Book and translated it from whatever language Hobbits speak was a human who knew about Christmas Trees and tossed the detail in to make human readers feel more at home, because that’s the kind of thing that sometimes happens when you have a translator editor person dressing up a story for an audience that doesn’t know the exact cultural context in which the original story was written
Tolkien was a medieval scholar and medieval stories are rife with that sort of thing, so like… yeah
There’s a good chance it maybe did cross his mind
@old-gods-and-chill LOOK AT THIS THAT’S SO COOL
Not only all that, but Tolkien was also working within a frame narrative that he wasn’t the real author, but a translator of older manuscripts; so, in-universe, the published The Hobbit isn’t actually Bilbo’s book, but rather Tolkien’s copy of an older copy of an older copy of an older copy of Bilbo’s book. So when errors and anachronisms came up, he would leave them there instead of fixing them, and he may have even put some in intentionally; what we’re supposed to get from the “Christmas tree” bit is that the first scribe to translate the book from Westroni to English couldn’t come up with an accurate analogue for whatever hobbits do at midwinter.
Yes. Another example of tolkien doing this is him using, for instance, Old High Gothic to represent Rohirric - not because the people of Rohan actually spoke that language, but because Old High Gothic had the same relationship with English that Rohirric had with Westron (Which is the Common Language spoken in the West of Middle-Earth). There’s tons of that stuff in the book.
Like, Merry and Pippin’s real names (In Westron) are Kalimac Brandagamba and Razanur Tûk, respectively (to pick just one example of this). Tolkien changed their names in English to names which would give us English-speakers the same kind of feeling as those names would to a Westron-speaker. Lord of the Rings is so much deeper than most readers realise.
tolkein’s entire oevre is just one epic in-joke with the oxford linguistics department imo
DPS mains: Mercy is too OP! Nerf her!
Mercy: -nerfed to the point her ult isn’t even able to rez in time-
DPS mains: REZ ME REZ ME REZ ME I WAS ON FIRE WHY DIDN’T YOU REZ ME THIS PATCH WAS SUPPOSED TO HELP US SGJSCSJLGSAJFAKS
#han solo approaches wildcat and counters hissing rage of anxiety with forehead kiss and gentleness #han solo would have countered this with combative sarcasm just one week ago #han solo has been waiting to drop that act for so long he goes right to ‘gentle affection’ literally the week after they make out #han solo’s internal monologue after their previous spats was probably ‘istg princess one day I’m gonna LAVISH YOU WITH DEVOTION’ #‘that’ll show you!’ #han solo is a giant marshmallow who throws himself into selfless affection and support at the drop of a taun-taun
“He doesn’t get to tell me what my future is. I’m responsible for forging my own path.” - Michael Burnham, “What’s Past is Prologue” (1.13)
so apparently the Asset’s name in The Shape of Water is Charley
#apparently its a reference to some tuna brand but the company wouldnt let them use it
quietly but with feeling: no
@getclever I CANNOT STOP LAUGHING HELP
Dutch longsword fencer Tosca Beuming
Photographed by Martin Philippo and Andress Kools
Consider me gay!!
@lady-feral I feel this is relevant to your interests.
Indeed.
Those wonderful fucking shoulders
Step into the spotlight .
