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[tvandfilm]

Fleabag | 1x04

[phantomrose96]

After 13 years of this, it's still funny to me that detailing a full mental breakdown on tumblr is standard fare, but posting a nice selfie is a fraught decision.

[loki-zen]

this is the correct way around and every other social media site is wrong

[csny]

this is sort of sickening to me. can they swap

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Who wants to hear a DIY tiling pro tip that the experts won't tell you

[hazelriver74]

Yes!

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Do not drop your phone into the bucket of tile adhesive. This step is actually completely unnecessary and massively complicates the tiling process.

[fueles]

You say this but my uncle is a tiler and he swears by the “drop phone in putty bucket” technique. I think you’re just posting this for clout

[culmaer]

I think you mean they're just posting this for grout

[tsarina-anadyomene]

brass instruments have to have the biggest feel-good differential between being good at it and being bad at it of anything

[culmaer]

I promise I'm not being performatively woke and pretending not to understand, but if someone says /ŋɡə.faɪ̯/ my brain genuinely does not make the connection to the name Ncaphayi /n|a.pʰa.ji/ I mean that doesn't even have the same number of syllables like,, approximating foreign sounds with the nearest English equivalent is another matter entirely, e.g. in good faith substituting /ɬ/ with either /ʃl͡/ or /xl͡/ doesn't usually cause any confusion

[culmaer]

Nelson Mandela's Xhosa birth name was Rolihlahla, pronounced /xo.li.ɬa.ɬa/, or of you can't read ipa, the ‹R› is like the ‹ch› in Welsh and the ‹hl› is like the ‹ll› in Welsh. but you'll often hear Anglo-South Africans pronounce it as /xo.li.xl͡a.xl͡a/ or /xo.li.ʃl͡a.ʃl͡a/, which isn't right, but at least it's unambiguous

whereas Ngafai is a theoretically possible word and not a good or even "close enough" approximation of Ncaphayi. there's no real way around the dental click except learning how to say it (I mention /t̪θ͡/ mostly as a joke), and I know English doesn't have phonemic aspiration and Afrikaans doesn't have it at all (I still struggle to distinguish it consistently despite being aware of it as a feature), but ‹ph› to /f/ is an especially strange choice since if you listen to what is being said, I don't think that's how any Anglophone would actually perceive it. it only happens if you're reading the word like a Greek loanword

[pspsappho]

& honestly there's no debate to be had the zendaya earrings are orders of magnitude worse than kim kardashian wearing that marilyn dress. yes that piece was a one of a kind unique textile made so specifically for marilyn monroe she had to be sewn into it. at the end of the day it was a ~70 year old usamerican cultural artefact being repurposed by an american for an american cultural event and everyone involved knows exactly where the dress came from + what happened to it + where it went afterwards. zendaya is wearing the looted (or forged) cultural heritage of a people her government is currently bombing & whose lives they have been deliberately making unliveable for decades to a movie premiere that has fuck all to do with iran. we don't know where those discs came from where they were found or by whom & we never will. AND the jeweller appears to have altered them substantially from their original condition. destroying a people's cultural heritage at the same time you destroy their country + their lives so you can look good on a red carpet One Time i want to fucking hurl

[uhhhhmanda]

Zendaya’s The Odyssey premiere earrings spark ethics row

The earrings, worn by Zendaya at The Odyssey press tour, are believed to be 2,000-3,000 years old and come at a time when the US is bombing

An archaeologist quoted in the article says "the point of these earrings is not to showcase legitimate ancient artistry, it is to fetishize the past, to be a commodity, stolen from the elite, circulated illegally, and immorally…this is about class signalling."

[publicdomainreview]

Pages from Romeyn Beck Hough’s unique 14 volume work The American Woods (1888–1913), a collection in book-form of more than 1000 paper-thin wood samples representing more than 350 varieties of N.American tree. More samples from the work here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-american-woods

[culmaer]

I promise I'm not being performatively woke and pretending not to understand, but if someone says /ŋɡə.faɪ̯/ my brain genuinely does not make the connection to the name Ncaphayi /n|a.pʰa.ji/ I mean that doesn't even have the same number of syllables like,, approximating foreign sounds with the nearest English equivalent is another matter entirely, e.g. in good faith substituting /ɬ/ with either /ʃl͡/ or /xl͡/ doesn't usually cause any confusion

[culmaer]

I have said things on here before which I wouldn't even dare insinuate irl. but I wonder whether I haven't crossed a line even for tumblr

[culmaer]

¶

[anglaised]

y im hearing they had claudia call louis nappy headed on the show…? …she would never say that and its odd asf that a writing team with no black people on it would add that line in like theres been little stuff during this season that has made me go ? but i thought i was overreacting but no this is weird….like why did daniel call louis louisiana fried chicken…?

[xoacexo]

it just reminded me of this

[anglaised]

this is sad asf ik they are actors and just reading lines but i cant imagine how that line read made both of them feel ugh

[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

your fav flower {if multiple then the first one you thought of} is your new name how is it going

good

bad

great

awful

not for my gender

results

Remaining time: 4 hours 57 minutes

[silly-blue-gosling]

if my parents named me grape hyacinth i would actually hate them

[culmaer]

classical and baroque music was the popular music of it's time. and while a lot of it was vocal music as in songs with words sung by voice(s), so much of it was instrumental, for soloists, small ensembles and orchestra.

but I feel like today almost all popular music is vocal. is there any mainstream instrumental music that ever makes it onto the charts ? like perhaps it's more common in jazz, I suppose. or like EDM. but I can't think of any examples off the top of my head ?

[gasparodasalo]

Visit Original Link

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) - Trio Sonata for Oboe, Harpsichord obbligato and Continuo in E-flat Major, TWV 42:Es3, IV. Vivace. Performed by Paul Dombrecht, oboe, Michèle Dévérité, harpsichord, and Wieland Kuijken, viola da gamba, on period instruments.

[culmaer]

I've been some variation of vegan/vegetarian/pescatarian my entire adult life, but started eating meat as an experiment in January this year and it's been a largely underwhelming experience. like, meat isn't especially tasty nor has it sickened me, so it has just been.. underwhelming. but two weeks ago, I had liver rubbed in chilli oil and aromatic spices at a north Chinese restaurant and, unexpectedly, I really enjoyed it and haven't stopped thinking about it. delicious. liver of all things ! like what the ridiculous carnivore diet people eat !! who would've imagined ! (I must've had liver pâté as a child before going vegan but I don't remember particularly enjoying it so this is surprising)

[datasoong47]