Zoetrope

[purplebuddhaproject]

https://www.instagram.com/pbuddhaproject/

[andyswarhol]

[edelschwartz]

My life in short

[edelschwartz]

THIS. THIS. THIS.

I’ve been trying so hard to get a timer that’s at least 3 hours and THIS comes when I’m least expecting him. Recipe was all 950 with plum ofuda, Taroutachi as attendant sword.

JIJI WELCOME YOU ELUSIVE OLD MAN

You can come have tea with Uguisumaru and my 2 Tsurumarus will also entertain you.

So...it was either just a good omen or it was because I was drawing Jiji a while ago? Or it was because I had his favorite things in the citadel? I dunno, anyways, let’s have a great year in 2017!

[edelschwartz]

Ahem, I’m back...

Please enjoy an Ishipapa Ishikirimaru brought to you by yours truly.

Cleanse and purify...

[pansoph]

for chinese new year they get all these famous actors and comedians together and they do a lil show and one of the comedians was like “i was in a hotel in america once and there was a mouse in my room so i called reception except i forgot the english word for mouse so instead i said ‘you know tom and jerry? jerry is here’

[beefmilkthings]

jerry is here

[eruriholic]

my chinese teacher once shared this story in class about someone who went to the grocery to buy chicken, but they forgot the english word for it, so they grabbed an egg, went to the nearest sales lady and said “where’s the mother”

[cuddlyaxe-deactivated20190218]

When I was a teenager, we went to Italy for the summer holidays. We are German, neither of us speaks more than a few words of Italian. That didn’t keep my family from always referring to me when they wanted something translated because “You’re so good with languages and you took Latin”. (I told them a hundred times I couldn’t order ice cream in Latin, they ignored that.) Anyway, my dad really loved a certain cheese there, made from sheep’s milk. He knew the Italian word for ‘cheese’ – formaggio – and he knew how to say ‘please’. And he had already spotted a little shop that sold the cheese. He asked me what ‘sheep’ was in Italian, and of course, I had no idea. So he just shrugged and said “I’ll manage” and went into the shop. 5 mins later, he comes out with a little bag, obviously very pleased with himself. How did he manage it? He had gone in and said “'Baaaah’ formaggio, prego.”

I was done for the day.

[ravenpuffheadcanons]

This makes me feel better about every conversation I had in both Rome and Ghent.

[elodieunderglass]

I once lost my husband in the ruins of a French castle on a mountain, and trotted around looking for him in increasing desperation. “Have you seen my husband?” I asked some French people, having forgotten all descriptive words. “He is small, and English. His hair is the color of bread.”

I did not find my husband in this way.

In rural France it is apparently Known that one brings one’s own shopping bags to the grocery store. I was a visitor and had not been briefed and had no shopping bag. I saw that other people were able to conduct negotiations to purchase shopping bags, but I could not remember the word for “bag.”

“Can I have a box that is not a box,” I said.

The checkout lady looked extremely tired and said, “Un sac?” (A sack?)

Of course. A fucking sack. And so I did get a sack.

[kat2107]

I once was at a German-American Church youth camp for two weeks and predictably, we spoke a whole lot of English. 

When I phoned my mom during week two I tried to tell her that it was a bit cold in the sleeping bag at night. I stumbled around the word in German because for the love of god, I could remember the Germwn word for sleeping bag.

“Yeah so, it’s like a bag you sleep in at night?”

“And my mother must probably have thought I lost my mind. She just sighed and was like ‘So, a Schlafsack, yes?”

Which is LITERALLY Sleeping sac … The German word is a basically a one on one translation of the English word and I just… I failed it. At my mother tongue. BIG

[eridaniepsilon]

My former boss is Italian and she ended up working in a lab where the common language was English. She once saw an insect running through the lab and she went to tell her colleagues. She remembered it was the name of a famous English band so she barged in the office yelling there was a rolling stone in the lab…

[backonrepeat]

I’m Spanish and have been living in the UK for a while now. I recently changed jobs and moved to a new office which is lost somewhere in the Midlands’ countryside. It’s a pretty quaint location, surrounded by forest on pretty much all sides, and with nice grounds… full of pheasants. I was pretty shocked when I drove in and saw a fucking pheasant strolling across the road. Calm as you please.

That afternoon I met up with some friends and was talking about the new job, and the new office, and for the life of me I couldn’t remember the English word for pheasants. So I basically ended up bragging to my friends about “the very fancy chickens” we had outside the office.

Best thing is, everyone understood what I meant.

[eridaniepsilon]

I love those stories so much…

[acleverforgery]

Picture a Jewish American girl whose grasp of the Hebrew language comes from 10+ years of immersion in Biblical and liturgical Hebrew, not the modern language. Some words are identical, while others have significantly evolved.

She gets to Israel and is riding a bus for the very first time.

American: כמה ממון זה? (”How much money?” but in rather archaic language)

Bus Driver: שתי זוזים. (”Two zuzim” – a currency that’s been out of circulation for millenia)

[learningftw]

that’s hilarious

[shiraglassman]

I am officially screamlaughing at my desk from that last one OH MY 

[speakertoyesterday]

Does everyone know the prime minister who promised to fuck the country?

So in Biblical Hebrew the word for penis and weapon are the same. There is a verb meaning to arm, which modern Hebrew semanticly drifted into “fuck”: i.e. give someone your dick.

The minister was making a speech while a candidate, bemoning the state of the world. “The Soviet Union is fucking Egypt. Germany is fucking Syria. The Americans are fucking everyone. But who is fucking us? When I am prime minister, I will ensure we are fucked!”

[andhishorse]

What the hell Biblical Hebrew.

[moral-autism]

Just guessing: The path from something like “give someone a blade” to “give someone a blade, if you know what I mean ;)” is probably not that difficult or unlikely.

[edelschwartz]

Ok here goes the Jiji come home campaign doodle #2. It’s just his eyes but I’m happy now.

Let’s see if this actually works. If not I’m going to try the Doudanuki summoning method to find this old man.

[edelschwartz]

Will Jiji come home if I draw him enough times?

My citadel needs you you elusive old man, look I don’t even want Kogarasumaru now, I just need you to COME HOMEEEEE

Jiji countdown doodle #1. The day I stop counting will be the day I get Jiji.

[edelschwartz]

I cannot get over the cuteness of Hanamaru.

So I decided to draw some Taroutachi. Gosh I love this boy, he’s always so responsible when he’s team leader. He’s my second favorite oodachi after Ishipapa.

I couldn;t choose between the different title styles so I did both.

Yay. I’m happy now.

[edelschwartz]

I’m back, deeper in ACG hell than ever before.

I’m still too unskilled to do full-body drawings so I’ll be uploading little snippets here and there.

Did I mention I entered a realm called Touken Ranbu? Anyway, hope I can make more TouRabu drawings in the future!

[tourabuconfessions]

[edelschwartz]

Uchigatana...

When no matter what recipe you try all you get is uchigatana...

GIVE ME A TACHI ANY TACHI WILL DOOOOOOOOOO

I’M NOT ASKING FOR JIJI OR TSURUMARU BUT ANY TACHI WILL DO AT THIS POINT

[dropsamortentia-deactivated2022]

The thirst for Jiji at Wonder Festival is very real!

Uchiban ver. Scale Figure and Nendoroid , Damaged Ver. Scale Figure and Nendoroid and a 1/1 scale figure…yes, you read that correctly, I kid you not. 

1/1 SCALE. 

1.80m. 

I need to buy a house first.

Like I said, the thirst is real.

[animenews-gurrrrl]

6-Month Forging Project Remakes Sword Hotarumaru

The campaign to fund the sword's reconstruction brought in 8 times the original goal, likely due to contributions from "Tōken Ranbu" fans

[edelschwartz]

Yay!

[edelschwartz]

Touken Ranbu

After trying for ages, I’ve finally started playing Touken Ranbu. Let’s see if this is going to run me into the ground or not XD

[culturenlifestyle]

Flock of White Origami Birds Invade French Courtyard

French designers Maxime Derrouch, Typhaine Le Goff and Emeline Marty have brought the courtyards of Montpellier in Southern France to life with a flock of thousands of white paper origami birds suspended in mid-air for the Architectures Vives Festival. The modern and ancient are combined in a cohesive project that champions multiple forms of design and art such as architecture, installation, origami etc.

Keep reading

[ariaste]

Relationships are scary and complicated ONLY when you start thinking of your partner as some kind of adversary. 

You know how to stop being scared of relationships? Remember that it’s got a goddamn buddy system *built in*. That’s all a relationship IS: “Let’s approach life with the buddy system.”

Check on your buddy. Make sure your buddy doesn’t forget their lunch box on the schoolbus. Hold hands with your buddy so you don’t get lost. If your buddy wants to look at the monkey cage, look at the goddamn monkey cage with them. If you are the one looking at the monkey cage, ask your buddy what they want to do next, and when they want to feed the giraffe, help them find a quarter for the little food dispenser. Be a good buddy, and if your buddy isn’t a good one too, tell the teacher and ask for a new one.

This isn’t fucking rocket science, people. 

[matociquala]

I have reblogged this before. I will reblog it again. And it’s not just romantic relationships: it’s family members and friends as well.

[smartass-stripper]

This kind of woke my ass up because of the amount of times I’ve had a buddy who didn’t check on me, didn’t want me to check on them, but didn’t want me to leave.

[editoress]

Be happy, bro, seven billion smiles and yours is my favorite.

a student to his friend, overheard on campus today (via editoress)