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deltarune backrooms

people who learned about greek mythology due reasons that DONT involve having read percy jackson at 12 freak me out, like what the FUCK was going on in your life that you found out that zeus turned into a pigeon to woo his wife like HOW

cavegirlpoems

tumblr users baffled by the concept of engaing with things that aren't YA fiction and fandom.

libraryogre

Percy Jackson came out when I was an adult, my dear OP. I was, in fact, a high school teacher.

This was my first exposure to Greek myths. It was more than 20 years old when I got a hold of it. It is old enough that it might have been Rick Riordan's first exposure to Greek myths.

parkchanwoohoo

“In 1404, King Taejong fell from his horse during a hunting expedition. Embarrassed, looking to his left and right, he commanded, “Do not let the historian find out about this.” To his disappointment, the historian accompanying the hunting party included these words in the annals, in addition to a description of the king’s fall.“

LMFAOOOOOO rip to that guy

shitacademicswrite

i thought maybe this was fake, but there’s even a citation!

Taejong Sillok Book 7. 5th year of King Taejong’s Reign (1404), February 8.

delphinidin4

Happy 618th anniversary of the day King Taejong fell from his horse!

aspiringwarriorlibrarian

Apparently the recorders were really intense about this. We have a record of King Taejong complaining about a recorder who followed him on a hunt in disguise and another who eavesdropped on him behind a screen. No one was allowed to see the records, even the king (one king did and killed five men based on what was written there, after which they took greater care to ensure it would never happen again), and changing the content or disclosing it was a capital punishment. Even when there were rival political factions trying to influence the writers, they wrote down what was a revision and what wasn’t and kept an original version with no revisions in it.

They also made sure to back up their data. They made four copies of it, then when three copies were lost in the Imrim Wars they decided to make five more copies just in case. One copy was destroyed in a rebellion, another was partially damaged in an invasion, and Japan stole one copy during their occupation and moved it to Tokyo University, where it was mostly destroyed in the Kanto Earthquake (47 books remained and were returned to South Korea in 2006). Now the whole thing is digitized, free on the internet, and translated into modern Korean for all to see.

It took centuries of meticulous recorders, justifiably paranoid copiers, absolutely determined historians, and painstaking infrastructure for this joke to be possible. Happy 618th anniversary to the day King Taejong fell from his horse.

charnel-grounds

Gothic 19th-century daguerreotype metal plate photograph of a young lady dubbed “Mona Lisa of the Deep”.

This portrait was found in the wreck of the ship that sank 1857.

source

afurioushawk

Bruh, how many Chicago-born American heads of Christian faiths are there?

takiki16

okayto

During the gift exchange, the Cubs fan wore a satisfied smile, while the Holy Father, with an expression of resignation, held up the dark-blue jersey with the name “Leo” and the No. 14 printed in red.

Mar Awa III posted a photo of the moment on his Instagram profile, where he wrote: “During the exchange of gifts, I presented the pope with a customized Cubs jersey and hat (in honor of all of our north side Chicagoans). Needless to say, the pope enjoyed his gift very much,” he recounted with evident irony.

-National Catholic Register

I think it's also important to note that the "recounted with evident irony" is how the article describes an emoji 😊. Which I think is a completely accurate interpretation, but also incredibly funny considering it's the head of a church.

batmanisagatewaydrug

a deeply underrated part of the gay taylor swift conspiracy theories is that if they're right and she really has spent over a decade sending subliminal messages based on minute details for people to decode then she's uuuuuh. I mean she's insane. she's jigsaw. she's the riddler. her dad bought her career because if she didn't have music to distract her she would have started building deathtraps.

bayesic-bitch

Apparently the silksong subreddit has started doing human "sacrifices", where they ritually elect someone to be banned, in order to guarantee the timely release of the game. somehow this isn't even surprising

snailfen

HELP????

yume-fanfare

i think it's really fun when a rly specific trope is super popular in one particular medium but in other ones it's just totally unheard of. it's the time knife. visual novel players are suuuuper used to death games but many others encountered them for the first time in squid games. the other day my mom showed me all excited the summary of a super original novel she found and it was about a girl who got reincarnated as the main character in her favorite fantasy book

paperjoshi

what the fuck is a time knife

bramblepatch

strawberrylovely

sonicspeeddemon

Why was this everyone’s first guess?

saucefunk

preacher boy

fripperiesandfobs

Suit, 1915-17

From Whitaker Auctions

mcnostril

There's a clear hierarchy of danger in From Software games, and Retro Circlet is no exception.

PS: I had pre-emptively prepared this picture for those that might doubt the truth, but it seems most folk readily accept the indisputable reality of ratte.

stonesense

obviously i’m the one choosing for her to do this but at some point shadowheart casting guidance every time you speak to somebody displays a quite funny lack of confidence

stonesense

tav: i’m going to have a conversation with—why are you casting enhance ability

shadowheart: don’t worry about it. i have total faith in you