There's something to be said of wit @anruik - Tumblr Blog

i'll defend fanfic for my whole life. like the joy it brings is genuinely transformative and indulgent in a way unique to the genre. it isn't meant for a market, it isn't meant to be sold or marketed. it is born out of such care and passion for a media that one must write and must share it, so other folks can enjoy it to. for no other reason than love and joy. do you know how special that is? especially in our current social and political climate.

hollisbrownthornton

VHS - permanent marker on paper, 8 x 10 inches, 2015

stealingpotatoes

my carrd is now ladynormalgirl.com! (i feel very professional)

ladynormalgirl.com is now your one-stop-spot for all my social media links, checking whether commissions are open, and probably some other stuff when i get round to it!

stealingpotatoes

other stuff now includes an archive of (most of) the Lady Normalgirl comics! very useful if you need to show the comics to your non-tumblrina friends or prove to people that you're not crazy, there's actually a reallly good reason why you talk to your cat in shakespearean english

ladynormalgirl.com/#comics

teaboot

“Why are you scared of dating” I’m not scared of dating, I just haven’t found anyone’s company to be more enjoyable than my own. And also I don’t care

justlightmeonfire

I just don't want anyone to steal my very cursed amulet

teaboot

Also the amulet

whimsicalmayhem

Is that you talking? Or the amulet? Are you SURE a new hand doesn't want to touch the beacon?

teaboot

The amulet and I are not currently looking for a third

madeofklay

I saw this perfectly in my head and had to recreate it

teaboot

Holy Shit

fuckyeahchinesefashion

OP joined a sneaky paofan/rice in soup eating contest. The set is like a high school classroom. All ages can sign up. The host played the homeroom teacher and patrolled around. Anyone caught would have to accept a punishment. And there are other interesting contests in Chinese malls too.

chibird

Bonus photos of some of the pottery I’ve made over the years! When I first started pottery, I was bad. I couldn’t get the hang of it, and I wasn’t good enough to make the mugs or plant pots I’d dreamed of making. I wanted to toss that first cup I made!

I’ve taken more classes, learned new skills, and practiced countless of hours… and I still feel like I’m a beginner (unseen are the dozens of scrapped and broken pieces that don’t make it into the kiln)! But I’m okay with that, and I’m not afraid to keep failing. There’s no pressure to be perfect.

I only practice pottery a month or two out of the year because it’s quite time-consuming, but I’m happy I’ve been able to make pieces I’m proud of and can use. I hope this can encourage you to pick up something new, even if you fail at first. It’s just the first step to success! 🥳

only-cat-memes

alexaloraetheris

Wack-a-kitten

beardedmrbean

Congratulations on the cat

mist-the-wannabe-linguist

Levels of understanding other slavic languages

oh we also have X and it means the same!

that looks like X but misspelled

that's just the archaic variant of X

this sounds a lot like Y from another slavic language I know which means X in mine so this almost 100% also means X

this word is completely different but I can kinda tell the meaning from the morphology

what

okay right now I'm gonna have to dissect the entirety of this language's history to figure out how the FUCK did y'all get to the point of calling X that and not something more normal

I wanted to ask for X and accidentally called someone a whore

mist-the-wannabe-linguist

I don't even have to look at the blog and I just know this is from a Pole about Czechs

suffering

byrons

KAKAOVY CHLEBICEK???!!!???

mist-the-wannabe-linguist

hissing growling scratching you etc etc

mist-the-wannabe-linguist

for example

(Polish: are you looking for a squirrel?, Slovak: excuse me, he is doing what to the squirrel?)

(also "hladna pića" means "cold drinks" in Croatian. means "hungry cunt" in Slovak and Czech)

("you're weird" in Czech is the same as "you're amazing" in Croatian, while "you're amazing" in Czech is the same as "you're terrible" in Croatian)

poetka

My favourite recent-ish example of #8:

visloka

czto-nebud-blog

Don't forget this:

And of course pomoć (help) vs pomoč (ordering you to piss on something)

czto-nebud-blog

Also remembered this shop from my trip to Croatia (piko means meth in czech and slovak)

kaazdalena

przepraszam w CZYM ta restauracja????

axolotl-anemonoides

This reminds me of that time my (Czech) family went to Poland for my uncle's wedding (because my aunt - his wife - is Polish and they decided to get married in Poland).

The wedding afterparty was in full swing, everyone was drinking and partying.... and an elderly Polish lady approached my two aunts (who were also drinking a lot and partying hard) and commented something along the lines of "jesteście odporne". Which in Polish means "you're resilient" (as in they're handling the alcohol well) but in Czech it means "you're disgusting".

It took my aunts a bit to remember that it means something different in Polish. 😅

mist-the-wannabe-linguist

another beautiful case of n.8 from @someidioticurl

Czech vision: ah yes an emergency button to press in case of emergency

Polish vision:

ta-bajna-cerna-okybaca

Oh, I have a few!

'pozor' in Czech means 'watch out!', but means 'shame' in Russian

droga in czech means drug, in polish it means road

záchod in czech means toilet, zachód in polish means 'west'

odchod 'to depart' in Czech means very specifically 'to depart by foot', while in Slovak it has a bit wider meaning, and buses and trains also combine with 'odchod'. To a Czech speaker this gives the funny implication that departing trains grow legs and walk out of the train station

Croatian 'mrdati' = to wiggle, means 'to have sex' in Czech

'Čerstvý, voňavý chléb' is Czech for 'fresh, nicely smelling bread'. In means the opposite in some slavic languages 'stale, stinky bread'. This kind of 'good meaning in one but bad meaning in other' duality happens surprisingly often actually, see also úžas and odporný above

otrok in Czech means 'slave' but in Slovenian and perhaps other South slavic languages it means 'child'. Very funny when combined with bazaar, turns a perfectly fine baby bazar into a slave bazaar

My friend has a fun sentence from Slovenian - "Hitri otroci kuhali jed na Dunaji". Literally none of the words here mean what a Czech thinks they mean. No not even Dunaj. Czechs read it as 'smart slaves were disemboweling poison by the Donau river', original Slovenian meaning is 'fast children were cooking food in Vienna'

Edit: wait one more. "srpanj" in Croatian means July, "srpen" in Czech means August. Listopad in Croatian means 'October', in Czech means 'November'. rujan in Croatian means 'September', říjen in Czech means 'October'. kwiecień in Polish means 'April', kviteń in Ukrainian also means 'April', květen in Czech means 'May'. Months are fucked up.

alexaloraetheris

Slavic languages is what happened when God decided that the Tower of Babel was getting too tall.

segamascott

he seems to be doing a pretty good job tbh

mothman-etd

Not sure got to feel when the hobby book says this should only take an hour but it took me 5 hours.

gallusrostromegalus

1. Hobby books are often written by the same people who think you can caramelize onions in 5 minutes

2. Hobby books are even more often written by people who don't have or are actively neglecting their partners/full-time jobs/pets/children/household maintenance.

3. Hobby books are often written by people with ADHD, and an hour in ADHD hyperspace is like 2-7 hours for everyone else, including other ADHD people who are not currently in the zone.

4. Hobby books are written by people who, when told by an editor to add in how long it will take, just make shit up

5. If you're doing something for the first time, you're going to take way, way longer to do it than someone who's had years of practice. Maybe it does only take an hour IF YOU'VE BEEN DOING IT FOR TEN YEARS. Think about how long it took you to make idk your first excel spreadsheet vs how long it takes now

To actually answer your question: proud. You should feel proud, because you made something, AND you did so while learning a brand-new skill! Go you!!

May I ask what the Allegedly-One-Hour project was? Both because I like hearing about what my friends are doing and I want to see how wildly inaccurate the listed time scope is.