who, girl, your man? no, a mango

tethys • she/her • twenty-something • forklift certified • future linguist • sexy sword lesbian • perpetual onion bitch DNI: Altaic truthers, people who deny the genetic significance of the Pama-Nyungan languages, and people who deny the efficacy of the comparative method in Australian Aboriginal Languages header by Mark Witton how many people read these anyways? anyways, here are some assorted facts and opinions: my favorite metamorphic rock is gneiss • french horn is the best brass instrument • ophicleides are underrated • cheap synthetic diamonds would make amazing cookware • the alveolopalatals ȶ ȡ ɕ ʑ ȵ ȴ are sexy • violins and trumpets can sound nice but they need to chill • popcorn is best eaten with chopsticks • long s (ſ) is fun to use in handwriting • people should be nicer to violas • ʘ and ǂ are the only decept ipa click letters, the others are terrible • euphoniums should be called tenor tubas, and baritone horns should be called tenor cornets • technically cornet means small horn, but clarinet means small trumpet but we still keep the name for bass and contrabass clarinets

[str-ngeloop]

it's called the whether because it depends

[norsesuggestions]

Bockstensmanen, a medieval person who happened to die in a bog which preserved his clothes (and more), clothes like hella comfy??

Like seriously. Comfy and warm wool clothes!

(yes this are pictures of his actual outfit, not reconstructed clothing. They were very well preserved in all except colour. The bog gave everything that yellow shade, i suspect)

Picture from: https://www.museumhalland.se/bockstensmannen/kladerna/

[norsesuggestions]

His kjortel (the clothing for his upper body)

He got a mantel that resemble a poncho

It goes around the entire body! So perhaps not quite a mantel but.

A got a little hood with a fashionedble long thingy at the end

Warm that too! There is no openings for wind or anything, so like. Just pull hood over head, get warm!

Warm socks! Gotta keep em feets warm (and just like in english, the swedish words for trousers, byxor, is in plural in its normal form, just because the medieval version of trousers consisted of two separate peices like here.

Somewhere, there should be something for hos upper legs but idk were that one is)

Anyway! I do think one can tell that keeping warm was an important part of the logic behind bockstensmannens clothing. Not odd that, when he lived in Scandinavia and all…

All pictures from

https://www.museumhalland.se/bockstensmannen/kladerna/

[norsesuggestions]

When we already at it, with listning his entire outfit. Here his this shoes

[norsesuggestions]

Reconstruction in how he might have looked like in life. The musuem points out, that his skull was very smashed when found, werehas it might be a bit so so with this dolls facial similiarity with bockstensmannen in life. And his hair colour we know not, the bog will colour most hair red with enough time.

But that hairstyle! That he really had! Bockstensmannen wore like Peak Fluffy Medieval Hair Fashion in life

The entire doll wearing bockstensmannens reconstructed clothing

Source: https://www.museumhalland.se/bockstensmannen/bockstensmannen-far-ett-ansikte/

https://www.museumhalland.se/utstallning/bockstensmannen/

[tumblunni]

Holy shit forbidden fashionable bog man

[petermorwood]

Now add colour, from period illustrations or marginalia, or by checking posts like this one which includes pics of what colours were available for medieval clothing. The post also includes information of what social status went with what colour, and how expensive they were.

That popular fantasy colour black was for wealthy people and some monastic orders; a true colourfast dye hadn’t been invented yet so, to stay properly black rather than fading, clothes had to be regularly taken apart, re-dyed, then sewn back together again. Not something the “lower and middling sort” could afford, either in time or money, and if they could (plot point?) there might be curiosity about how they were managing to do it.

But one thing is certain - “Monty Python Muddy” is Right Out.

This selection, shown in a comment on the other post by @elfwreck​, is from HIstorical Enterprises, and any number of tailors and costumers who’d be happy to work with any of them (I’m partial to those greys, myself…)

[joyflameball]

[wishing so bad to vaguepost but not wanting to send harassment after anyone] i saw a post. and it was bad.

[boringkate]

Someone somewhere is the best in the world at sucking dick and it's meaningless. They aren't famous. There's no prize. It's not a competition. None of us are competitors. You don't have anything to prove. All that matters is that you keep sucking. Maybe we can even suck on it together.

[estrogenesis-vaporeongelion]

Gifted

[hellstobetsy]

[queercanelady]

how it is apparently

[weaponwifer]

no Jamie, it's not called "free use"

In academia we use the term "open access"

[markovchaingang]

guy who thinks the goal of an argument is to humiliate the other person: -evil -pragmatist -regrettably correct

guy who thinks the goal of an argument is to facilitate reasoned discussion with an interlocutor: -doomed -hopelessly naïve -will be found dead in a back alley with two gunshot wounds to the back of the head but will depart straight to heaven on priority orders from the big man himself

guy who thinks the goal of an argument is to tally up your opponent's infractions in accordance with a book of empty rules you elected to bind yourself under: -a loathsome creature -never gonna make it -somehow even more doomed than the second guy

[kuttithevangu]

All fantasy authors wish they had a bigger bathtub in their house. You can tell by every bathing scene ever written into a fantasy novel

[supermalmoart]

When I asked Jo why she wanted to take me to the museum, she said she wanted to know me better. Why she needed a museum when I was right there was a question only I could answer.

[supermalmoart]

The star walrus model exists! It's about a foot long in real life.

[melodies-stereo]

sometimes merely existing in the world as a trans woman with principles makes me feel like i'm going insane. what do you mean people think prisons are a good thing. what do you mean diverting from monogamy is considered ludicrous. what do you mean people think one's nature is unchangeable. what is considered 'normal' by the overwhelming majority of people is fucking topsy-turvy land to me. i dont understand it at all

[melodies-stereo]

we're all really feeling this one, huh?

[ratsarecute4]

I was stranded in the parking lot of a Trader Joe's for about an hour today (car broke down, brother had to walk home to get his motorcycle to pick me up with) and some guy pulled up in what used to be a little school bus but was now painted over with ugly chipped green paint (school bus had Alaska license plate which is a whole Canada and then some away from where I live). He stepped out of his ride and he looked pretty normal but he had a leash connected to something in the bus. I thought, oh, he has a dog. WRONG! It was a sheep wearing a service dog vest. He went inside and then came back out a few minutes later with a gallon of milk. He left just before my brother returned and my brother didn't fucking believe me about that guy

[str8aura-no-not-that-one]

My browser, throwing a shivering website to me feet and snarling: caught this dirty beast at the walls, trying to view your location. What shall be done with him, my lord?

Me, lounging on my throne, one hand resting on the hilt of a blade: Quell your fury, my loyal friend. Tis only a restaurant chain I have chosen to order from, searching for nearby buildings. He may have my information... This time.

[bobdylanyaoi]

YOU CAN BE STRAPPED FOR CASH??????

[maureen-corpse]

The most annoying thing about making cities in the United States car-centric is that it also makes them miserable places to drive a car. You can’t make them car-friendly because they inevitably become actively hostile to cars. They are still car-centric, just unfriendly. Like dogfighting. That’s not friendly to the dogs but it’s pretty dog-centric. It’s also illegal. Something to consider.

[random-brushstrokes]

Ruskin Spear (British, 1911-1990) - The Curious Cat

[r-o-s-e-f-i-r-e]

you can sit on your mutual’s couch. if you’re lucky. and then. if god smiles on you. you can take a nap with their cat

[mid-evil-werewolf]

You will never understand the mental torture of being 12 years old and having a debilitating crush on Hugo Weaving Elrond & having to lie to ur friends and say you like Legolas Orlando bloom like all the other girls so you don’t get fucking bullied

[mid-evil-werewolf]

Now I’m 35 and I have a live sized cardboard Elrond who lives on my stairwell & I kiss him every time I go upstairs so anyway the moral of the story is never kill yourself

[mid-evil-werewolf]

No hate on you because you’re braver than any US marine for that but I think we might have been having wildly different experiences