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[macaedh]

what the fuck ethan

[kvothbloodless]

I wish i had a context for this. But I really dont.

[pervocracy]

I was all ready to “um, actually” this, but, um, actually there’s about 3-4 grams of iron in a person, which x400 is 1.2-1.6kg, which is a smallish but not unreasonable sword. So. Math checks out.

[maxknightley]

How would you extract the iron, though? The more practical solution would be to kill a mere hundred men, then mix 1 part blood with 3 parts standard molten iron, imo. Cheaper and faster, while still retaining the edge that only evil magic can give you.

[bemusedlybespectacled]

Or, you could just make the sword of iron, and then use the blood to temper the blade.

[squeeful]

1.2 to 1.6 kilograms is a perfectly reasonable large sword.  Your average longsword was 1.1–1.8 kg and I don’t even remember if that’s including the weight of the hilt, guard, and pommel or just the blade.  Your more classic “knight sword” was a mere 1.1 kilograms on average; the blood of 400 men is more than enough.

This is using the comparatively crappy metallurgy of medieval Europe and their meh iron swords.  Move east to, say, contemporary Iran and make a scimitar using high carbon steel (~2%) for a .75 kilogram blade and you only need the blood of about 225 men.

[optimysticals]

So putting my thoughts in on this… because how could I not.

So you’ve exsanguinated your 400 guys to get the iron for your sword. Cool. But now you have 400 bodies lying around.

Why not put those to good use and cremate them. Use the carbon from those 400 bodies (you won’t need all of them) and now you can make a nice mid-high carbon steel sword.

Now you have a sword forged with the blood of your enemies AND strengthened with their bones.

[hedwig-dordt]

“high fantasy math” - the tag I should have expected to write some day.

[themarysue]

I’m so proud of everyone in this post

[formershadowcaster]

You are gonna want more than 1.2 kg of iron to make a sword. Yes the end result will weigh in at 1.2-1.6 but the forging, shaping, grinding and scale blasting can remove 1/3 of the material. So hedge your amount at 500 bodies. Then utilize the bones and viscera to bring the sword from iron to a carbon steel. Save a femur for the handle grip. And leather the skin to make a handle wrap. Belt and sheathe too.

This is all good to know for potential writers and dungeons masters. To spice up the lore for that wicked sentient evil sword or weapon your players find.

[probablyevilrpgideas]

New NPC for my game: The Grim Paladin.

A much-rumored knight, said to have once rounded a dictator and his entire force to put them all to the sword, then made a sword from their blood and bones as a reminder of the death that awaits tyrants.

[immortalloverodd]

I’m still not clear on what his secret weapon is though.

[theapatheticstag]

I just had a fucking stroke

[pompousprince]

[z-nogyrop]

those “monkey brain/human brain” posts except the monkey brain is presented as the rational one

[z-nogyrop]

monkey brain: extra body hair provides warmth and producing it but then cutting it off wastes valuable nutrients

human brain: hehe leg smooth

[localdoubt-deactivated20221128]

*looking at a tiger*

monkey brain: that animal right there is a dangerous predator adapted for stalking, chasing, and quickly dispatching of creatures like us. we should find high ground to get away from it before it sees us

human brain: hehe kitty wana pet

[localdoubt-deactivated20221128]

monkey brain: the ocean is the last place we want to be right now. we’re not built to swim and we’ll likely drown within five minutes. and let’s not even get into what might want to kill us once we get into open water

human brain: wheee swimmy

[busymarina]

15 things I tell myself when I don't want to work/study

1. You are very lucky and privileged to have access to almost unlimited knowledge and you should appreciate that. 2. Be one of those rare people who step over their insecurities and succeed. 3. Only 5 minutes. Only today. (Repeat it 5 minutes later and every day). 4. You will know what to do as soon as you start. Ideas never appear from inactivity. 5. Make yourself proud. 6. One hour every day doesn’t feel much but it’s 365 hours a year. You can’t not succeed after so much work. 7. It’s not supposed to be easy. Nothing good is easy. 8. If you had a child to look after, you’d make them study because you want them to accomplish something. Don’t you love yourself? 9. “Everything you want is on the other side of fear” George Adair 10. Every mistake increases our chance to make progress. 11. If you give up now, you’ll have to return to this later anyway but from the very beginning. 12. Let the process be your result. 13. Every moment you thought your fears would suppress you has become the time you made it. 14. Maybe you think you can never find something to use your skills and mindset for. But if you continue investing in what matters to you, it will find its way out there. 15. I allow you to think globally. You have a right to the boldest dream.

[todayisnot]

If I could add one - there exists a time in the future where you’ve already written this paper/completed this project. So you must know what you want to write. You just need to close that gap.

[catchymemes]

Harder Better Faster Stronger by Korean elementary kids

[obvioususername]

I’m drunk and this fucked me up

[nerdinaomi]

Vocab Lists

Useful Phrases

Boost your Spanish with more complex synonyms for words you already know

Boost your Spanish with Spanish common expressions

False Friends (Words that Look Like Cognates but Are Not) 

Really similar Spanish words you shouldn’t mix up when using them

Response Words in Spanish #1

Spanish Words and Expressions

Useful Spanish conversation phrases to get to know someone!

Words to use instead of decir / Verbos declarativos (saying verbs)

21 Spanish Filler Words

Food and Drink

Beverages in Spanish

Grocery List in Spanish

Herbs and Spices

Las Frutas 

Restaurant Vocab

Spanish Baking Vocab

Spanish Food Vocab 

Spanish Vegetarian Vocabulary / Vegan/vegetarian vocabulary in Spanish and Catalan

Kitchen Vocab

Personality and Identity

Personality Traits

Spanish Vocab - Pride Edition

Talking about age in Spanish

Activities

Art vocabulary in Spanish and Art Vocabulary Masterpost Spanish - English

Everyday activities in Spanish

Hiking Vocabulary in Spanish

Musical Instruments

Tennis Vocabulary in Spanish and French 

Seasons, Holidays, and Time

Birthday vocabulary - Spanish

Months and Days of the Week 

Spanish Vocabulary - Summer Edition and Spanish For You: Summer Vocabulary 

Spanish Christmas Vocabulary

Spring Vocab

Time Vocabulary and Spanish Vocab - Time 

Valentine’s Day Vocabulary

Winter Vocab 

Weather Vocab

Feelings and Emotions

Happiness in Spanish

Lazy Vocab in Spanish

Romantic Spanish Vocabulary 

Sleepy Vocab List

Some adjectives describing personality and emotions in Spanish

SPANISH + CATALAN VOCAB: emotions

Vocabulario - Las emociones

Animals, Nature, and the Environment

Animals in French - Spanish - Portuguese - Italian

Birds in Spanish 

Flower Vocabulary 

Gems in Spanish 

Nature in Spanish 

Ocean life vocabulary

Ocean Vocabulary 

Space Vocab 

SPANISH ENVIRONMENT VOCABULARY

Spanish Outdoorsy Vocab  

Spanish Vocab: The Forest 

Spanish Vocabulary - Animals 

Trees in Spanish 

Clothes

Clothes in Spanish

Spanish Vocabulary - Clothes 

Textiles and Fabrics 

Vocabulario - La ropa 

Health

Mental Health Vocabulary in Spanish 

Medical Vocab 

Periods in Spanish 

Spanish Vocabulary - Death

Vocabulario Menstrual 

School

Classes in Spanish 

Spanish Vocabulary #2 School 

University Vocab

Miscellaneous

Around the house - Vocabulary in Spanish

Colors in Spanish 

Computer Vocab

Political Vocab

Social Media in Spanish and French

Spanish City Vocabulary!

Spanish Vocab: Countries and Continents

Spanish Vocab — Renting

Spanish Vocabulary - Family

A-Z Spanish Vocab

A

B

C

D

E

F

G-H

I-J

L

M

O-P

R

Grammar

All the Spanish Tenses in One Post 

Common Mistakes English Speakers Make While Speaking Spanish 

El Pretérito Indefinido, el Pretérito Imperfecto y el Pretérito Perfecto

Este, esta, esto, eso, esa, aquel, & aquello

Grammar for Spanish Adjectives 

IRREGULAR PRETERITE CONJUGATION GUIDE 

Is there a sort of cheat sheet of when to use each spanish tense? 

Masculine words ending in -a 

Medio VS Mitad 

Object Pronouns 

Para VS Por and another Para VS Por

Past Participles in Spanish 

PRETERITE VS. IMPERFECT MASTER POST

Reflexive Verbs and More Reflexive Verbs

Spanish Essentials; Tenses Masterpost 

Spanish Grammar - The Imperative 

Spanish Subjunctive 

The difference between qué and cuál 

Understanding Ya and Todavía 

Verbs that take the preposition “de” 

Resources

Websites

Babbel.com

BBC Learn Spanish

Fluencia.com

Spanish Resources Online

Studyspanish.com

Websites for Learning Spanish 

TV Shows and Youtube

Beginner Spanish TV Shows

Charlie and Lola in Many Languages

EXTRA 

Learn Spanish by Listening Youtube Channel

Spanish TV Shows Masterpost 

Spanish Speaking Youtubers 

Spanish Youtubers and TV Shows

Listening and Music

Listening Resources 

Spanish Music

Spanish Radio Stations 

Spanish Singers Masterpost

9 Great Spanish Podcasts Every Spanish Learner Should Listen To

Reading

AP Spanish Literature and Culture Resources

Free Spanish EBooks Online

Libros electrónicos gratis en Español

Spanish Books for Beginners

Using Buzzfeed for Reading Practice 

12 SITES WITH THOUSANDS OF FREE SPANISH EBOOKS 

Miscellaneous

How to Set Up a Language Journal

Spanish Resources Links

Spanish Resources for Beginners

Spanish Writing Prompts

Websites/Apps/Podcasts/Videos/Music for Learning Spanish

Blogs

Quotes Blogs:

@fraseslibros​​

@spanish-quotes

@frases-deun-joven

@spanishfrases

Vocab blogs:

@vocabninja​ 

@holaspanishwords

@vocabulariodeespanol

@ailmadrid​ has many helpful vocab infographics (though the blog hasn’t posted in about a month, now)

Friendly bloggers who post a variety of Spanish-related content for people learning the language:

@spanishskulduggery​

@ourspanishblog

@thatwordofmine​

@spanishboone​ (created the A-Z Spanish lists I included above!)

@langsandculture

@spanishahora

@estoy-la-hostia

@speakinglatino

@lenguadelalma

@spanishvoyage

[paper-mario-wiki]

every lactose intolerant person ive ever met: i mean TECHNICALLY im lactose intolerant but [goes on to justify the fact that theyre about to eat a dairy product]

[lochnessie]

Can we as millennials and gen-z’s collectively agree that NObody Cares about elbows on the table like Why was that Ever A Problem for Anyone?? We can chill right?

[damienhaaas]

FAMOUS AUTHORS

Classic Bookshelf: This site has put classic novels online, from Charles Dickens to Charlotte Bronte.

The Online Books Page: The University of Pennsylvania hosts this book search and database.

Project Gutenberg: This famous site has over 27,000 free books online.

Page by Page Books: Find books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and H.G. Wells, as well as speeches from George W. Bush on this site.

Classic Book Library: Genres here include historical fiction, history, science fiction, mystery, romance and children’s literature, but they’re all classics.

Classic Reader: Here you can read Shakespeare, young adult fiction and more.

Read Print: From George Orwell to Alexandre Dumas to George Eliot to Charles Darwin, this online library is stocked with the best classics.

Planet eBook: Download free classic literature titles here, from Dostoevsky to D.H. Lawrence to Joseph Conrad.

The Spectator Project: Montclair State University’s project features full-text, online versions of The Spectator and The Tatler.

Bibliomania: This site has more than 2,000 classic texts, plus study guides and reference books.

Online Library of Literature: Find full and unabridged texts of classic literature, including the Bronte sisters, Mark Twain and more.

Bartleby: Bartleby has much more than just the classics, but its collection of anthologies and other important novels made it famous.

Fiction.us: Fiction.us has a huge selection of novels, including works by Lewis Carroll, Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Flaubert, George Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others.

Free Classic Literature: Find British authors like Shakespeare and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, plus other authors like Jules Verne, Mark Twain, and more.

TEXTBOOKS

Textbook Revolution: Find biology, business, engineering, mathematics and world history textbooks here.

Wikibooks: From cookbooks to the computing department, find instructional and educational materials here.

KnowThis Free Online Textbooks: Get directed to stats textbooks and more.

Online Medical Textbooks: Find books about plastic surgery, anatomy and more here.

Online Science and Math Textbooks: Access biochemistry, chemistry, aeronautics, medical manuals and other textbooks here.

MIT Open Courseware Supplemental Resources: Find free videos, textbooks and more on the subjects of mechanical engineering, mathematics, chemistry and more.

Flat World Knowledge: This innovative site has created an open college textbooks platform that will launch in January 2009.

Free Business Textbooks: Find free books to go along with accounting, economics and other business classes.

Light and Matter: Here you can access open source physics textbooks.

eMedicine: This project from WebMD is continuously updated and has articles and references on surgery, pediatrics and more.

MATH AND SCIENCE

FullBooks.com: This site has “thousands of full-text free books,” including a large amount of scientific essays and books.

Free online textbooks, lecture notes, tutorials and videos on mathematics: NYU links to several free resources for math students.

Online Mathematics Texts: Here you can find online textbooks likeElementary Linear Algebra and Complex Variables.

Science and Engineering Books for free download: These books range in topics from nanotechnology to compressible flow.

FreeScience.info: Find over 1800 math, engineering and science books here.

Free Tech Books: Computer programmers and computer science enthusiasts can find helpful books here.

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

byGosh: Find free illustrated children’s books and stories here.

Munseys: Munseys has nearly 2,000 children’s titles, plus books about religion, biographies and more.

International Children’s Digital Library: Find award-winning books and search by categories like age group, make believe books, true books or picture books.

Lookybook: Access children’s picture books here.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION

Bored.com: Bored.com has music ebooks, cooking ebooks, and over 150 philosophy titles and over 1,000 religion titles.

Ideology.us: Here you’ll find works by Rene Descartes, Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, David Hume and others.

Free Books on Yoga, Religion and Philosophy: Recent uploads to this site include Practical Lessons in Yoga and Philosophy of Dreams.

The Sociology of Religion: Read this book by Max Weber, here.

Religion eBooks: Read books about the Bible, Christian books, and more.

PLAYS

ReadBookOnline.net: Here you can read plays by Chekhov, Thomas Hardy, Ben Jonson, Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe and others.

Plays: Read Pygmalion, Uncle Vanya or The Playboy of the Western World here.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: MIT has made available all of Shakespeare’s comedies, tragedies, and histories.

Plays Online: This site catalogs “all the plays [they] know about that are available in full text versions online for free.”

ProPlay: This site has children’s plays, comedies, dramas and musicals.

MODERN FICTION, FANTASY AND ROMANCE

Public Bookshelf: Find romance novels, mysteries and more.

The Internet Book Database of Fiction: This forum features fantasy and graphic novels, anime, J.K. Rowling and more.

Free Online Novels: Here you can find Christian novels, fantasy and graphic novels, adventure books, horror books and more.

Foxglove: This British site has free novels, satire and short stories.

Baen Free Library: Find books by Scott Gier, Keith Laumer and others.

The Road to Romance: This website has books by Patricia Cornwell and other romance novelists.

Get Free Ebooks: This site’s largest collection includes fiction books.

John T. Cullen: Read short stories from John T. Cullen here.

SF and Fantasy Books Online: Books here include Arabian Nights,Aesop’s Fables and more.

Free Novels Online and Free Online Cyber-Books: This list contains mostly fantasy books.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Project Laurens Jz Coster: Find Dutch literature here.

ATHENA Textes Francais: Search by author’s name, French books, or books written by other authors but translated into French.

Liber Liber: Download Italian books here. Browse by author, title, or subject.

Biblioteca romaneasca: Find Romanian books on this site.

Bibliolteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes: Look up authors to find a catalog of their available works on this Spanish site.

KEIMENA: This page is entirely in Greek, but if you’re looking for modern Greek literature, this is the place to access books online.

Proyecto Cervantes: Texas A&M’s Proyecto Cervantes has cataloged Cervantes’ work online.

Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum: Access many Latin texts here.

Project Runeberg: Find Scandinavian literature online here.

Italian Women Writers: This site provides information about Italian women authors and features full-text titles too.

Biblioteca Valenciana: Register to use this database of Catalan and Valencian books.

Ketab Farsi: Access literature and publications in Farsi from this site.

Afghanistan Digital Library: Powered by NYU, the Afghanistan Digital Library has works published between 1870 and 1930.

CELT: CELT stands for “the Corpus of Electronic Texts” features important historical literature and documents.

Projekt Gutenberg-DE: This easy-to-use database of German language texts lets you search by genres and author.

HISTORY AND CULTURE

LibriVox: LibriVox has a good selection of historical fiction.

The Perseus Project: Tufts’ Perseus Digital Library features titles from Ancient Rome and Greece, published in English and original languages.

Access Genealogy: Find literature about Native American history, the Scotch-Irish immigration in the 19th and 20th centuries, and more.

Free History Books: This collection features U.S. history books, including works by Paul Jennings, Sarah Morgan Dawson, Josiah Quincy and others.

Most Popular History Books: Free titles include Seven Days and Seven Nights by Alexander Szegedy and Autobiography of a Female Slave by Martha G. Browne.

RARE BOOKS

Questia: Questia has 5,000 books available for free, including rare books and classics.

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT

Books-On-Line: This large collection includes movie scripts, newer works, cookbooks and more.

Chest of Books: This site has a wide range of free books, including gardening and cooking books, home improvement books, craft and hobby books, art books and more.

Free e-Books: Find titles related to beauty and fashion, games, health, drama and more.

2020ok: Categories here include art, graphic design, performing arts, ethnic and national, careers, business and a lot more.

Free Art Books: Find artist books and art books in PDF format here.

Free Web design books: OnlineComputerBooks.com directs you to free web design books.

Free Music Books: Find sheet music, lyrics and books about music here.

Free Fashion Books: Costume and fashion books are linked to the Google Books page.

MYSTERY

MysteryNet: Read free short mystery stories on this site.

TopMystery.com: Read books by Edgar Allan Poe, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, GK Chesterton and other mystery writers here.

Mystery Books: Read books by Sue Grafton and others.

POETRY

The Literature Network: This site features forums, a copy of The King James Bible, and over 3,000 short stories and poems.

Poetry: This list includes “The Raven,” “O Captain! My Captain!” and “The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde.”

Poem Hunter: Find free poems, lyrics and quotations on this site.

Famous Poetry Online: Read limericks, love poetry, and poems by Robert Browning, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Lord Byron and others.

Google Poetry: Google Books has a large selection of poetry, fromThe Canterbury Tales to Beowulf to Walt Whitman.

QuotesandPoem.com: Read poems by Maya Angelou, William Blake, Sylvia Plath and more.

CompleteClassics.com: Rudyard Kipling, Allen Ginsberg and Alfred Lord Tennyson are all featured here.

PinkPoem.com: On this site, you can download free poetry ebooks.

MISC

Banned Books: Here you can follow links of banned books to their full text online.

World eBook Library: This monstrous collection includes classics, encyclopedias, children’s books and a lot more.

DailyLit: DailyLit has everything from Moby Dick to the recent phenomenon, Skinny Bitch.

A Celebration of Women Writers: The University of Pennsylvania’s page for women writers includes Newbery winners.

Free Online Novels: These novels are fully online and range from romance to religious fiction to historical fiction.

ManyBooks.net: Download mysteries and other books for your iPhone or eBook reader here.

Authorama: Books here are pulled from Google Books and more. You’ll find history books, novels and more.

Prize-winning books online: Use this directory to connect to full-text copies of Newbery winners, Nobel Prize winners and Pulitzer winners.

[science-junkie]

… and here is a gift for all of us.

[theintrovertnation]

[prepolyglot-moved]

Topics to write about in your target language(s)

These are for a range of different levels so do what you can!

Introduce yourself. Talk about your birthday, hobbies, languages you speak, etc.

Create characters and introduce them

Talk about your favourite book/book series. Why do you like it?

Favourite movie?

Favourite animal(s)?

Least favourite animal(s)?

What’s the weather like outside? What was it like yesterday? What do you hope it’ll be like tomorrow?

Describe your favourite colour without using the word

Talk about a childhood memory

Talk about a family member

Describe your pet/a pet you want

Where do you see yourself in the next year? next 5 years? next 10?

Describe your dream date

Complain about something that’s been bugging you lately

Talk about your day

Write a letter to anyone. Your mom, your friend, a stranger you saw on the train

Write a poem

Write about anything but the first letter of each sentence has to spell a word

Write what you need to do in the next week, month, year

Talk about your favourite food

What was your favourite story you read as a kid? Who read it to you?

Why did you start learning your target language(s)?

What language(s) would you like to learn in the future?

Talk about a dream you had

Pretend you’re at a restaurant. What type of conversations will you have there?

What’s something you’d never tell anyone? Why would you never tell anyone?

Your pet suddenly got the ability to talk. What do they say to you?

You’ve woken up somewhere you’ve never been before. Describe what it looks like

What do you want to do in the future?

Dream trip?

Do you want kids? Why or why not?

Translate a conversation you had with someone

Talk about your favourite weather

Favourite season?

Pretend you’re telling your childhood stuffed animal something

Write a to-do list

Talk about your favourite plant(s)

Write about something funny that happened to you or someone you know

Write about a time you were scared

A time when you were happy

Sad

Angry

Miserable

Give a summary of different books/movies you’ve read/watched

Write about your favourite teacher. Why did you like them?

What’s your favourite meal? Who makes it?

What’s your dream job? It doesn’t have to be realistic

What names do you like. Why?

Write about one of your fears

What motivates you to learn your target language(s)?

[zinnia-apologist-deactivated202]

Actually, Ratatouille is the dish’s name, you’re thinking of Ratatouille’s monster.

[bifacts]

Fact: A lot of people are confused about what bisexuality is or what it means to be bi. To clarify: “bi” is short for the word “bike” which in itself is actually short for “bichael”. We hope this clears things up.

[siahatha]

it’s time we start oppressing ppl that use the word “hubby”

[acoolguy]

sorry but “Hubble Space Telescope” takes too long to say

[body5000-deactivated20180929]

[starsuggestion]

everything will be alright in the end