From here, light and sacred draughts

The thoughts, experiences, and photos of a Trinity College, Dublin, Hunter College, CUNY, and University of Cambridge educated man-about-town currently pursuing a Ph.D in history at the CUNY Graduate Center.

[zenthisoror]

01/11/2018 ~ It’s a Sheep

Back with one of my favourite scenes from the Discworld series. Ink and digital colours.

Nightmare fuel, tearjerker, and hilarious all in one scene, Vimes and the dark, in the dark.

[academicssay]

[bixbiboom]

[thelastconfessor]

“As a joke, Arthur Conan Doyle once sent five letters to five friends that read, “We are discovered, flee immediately”, to see what they would do. One of them disappeared and Conan Doyle never saw him again.”

—

QI (E Series - Espionage)

it’s worth mentioning that those friends were people in high places in the government. (via hicockalorum)

[oldhollywood]

Katharine Hepburn as Amazon warrior princess Antiope & Colin Keith-Johnston as Theseus in stage production of The Warrior’s Husband (1932) (Corbis)

[crimelords]

ok. ok

[elodieunderglass]

all right I’ll allow it

[ilexvici]

Tribbles have picked the wrong man to mess with

[startrekrenegades]

[[*TNG theme song plays* *Patrick Stewart runs outside and shouts* YOU MOTHERFCKERS ARE GONNA KILL ALL MY LILIES *shoots guns twice* PEST CONTROL! *TNG theme song*]]

[not-in-front-of-the-klingons]

Please watch

[brummbart-deactivated20181221]

Wasserspeier am Freiburger Münster

[the-stickers]

WINTER IS A BAD TIME.

[soup-that-is-2-hot]

What it feels like to chew 5 Gum

[gallusrostromegalus]

IT’S MY FAVORITE GARGOYLE BACK AGAIN FOR WINTERTIME.

[allthingshyper]

I want to know the exact conversation that lead to the creation of this abomination

[gallusrostromegalus]

Ye olde German architect: “ok, it’s time to put in the rainspouts and last night I was out with the lads and Hans had too much and the point is I had the FUNNIEST idea…” *Holds up drawing*

Ye olde German Architect Supervisor: * snorts beer out of his nose.* “YES. BUILD IT IMMEDIATELY.”

[charliecoxbf]

That’s gussy babe

[earthgirl2788]

Sooooo I just came back from studying in Freiburg and went on a tour of the Münster with a historian who knew all of the insider secrets and the story is even better than you think. 

It took more than 300 years to build the Freiburger Münster (1200s-1500s), so they went through a lot of architects and people who paid those architects. Some of the patrons were dicks and one of those dicks lived in a house right next to the Münster. The asshat kept demanding they work faster and changed his mind every five hours about what he wanted and THEN he refused to pay the architects because he wasn’t happy with what they’d done. 

That really pissed the builders off so in retaliation, the head architect built the butt gargoyle facing his house so that every morning for the rest of his life, when the dick looked out his window at the Münster, he’d have to look at a gargoyle butt.

So, the defecating gargoyle is a big fat “fuck you” to someone’s dick of a boss that has survived 500 years and two world wars 

[yveinthesky-deactivated20190127]

*standing ovation*

[trulyvincent]

Creating a marble sculpture Joey Marcella Link to full vid in comments

[butchmachine]

WOW

What happens to all the unused marble chunks?

[foxyclock]

Snack

[cyancrown]

Let me introduce you, FIGHT CHRIS CLUB(｡◕∀◕｡)

[helloitsbees]

in all my life, I have never encountered such an astounding act of trolling as the time I spent an hour and a half downloading what I thought was a Good Omens fanmix and then discovering that it was a Best of Queen album.

[polyamorousmisanthrope]

That is a work of art.  Beautiful.

[wordsofdiana]

[formalhall]

He was made a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) for his services to Drama in the 2018 Birthday Honours List (announced June 9, 2018, four months before Venom was released). The third of the five grades of the Order of the British Empire, CBE is the highest rank in the order that does not grant knighthood, so he is not yet Sir Tom Hardy, but is instead Tom Hardy, CBE.

[georgiansuggestion]

polish your boots with champagne

[roboco-san]

I just saw somebody express disappointment that the new Watch show is intended to be “modern and inclusive”

buddy. friend. pal. half the goddamn series is about Vimes unlearning his prejudices and the other half is about Vimes’s extreme dislike of people who abuse their power. if anything I’m willing to bet they’ll tone it down out of cowardice

[roboco-san]

Samuel Vimes is the embodiment of “always punch up, never down” and if you missed that I’m not even sure we read the same books

[asymbina]

I reserve the right to bludgeon anyone who complains about this with hardcover copies of Monstrous Regiment and Snuff.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

Anyone who complains about the show being inclusive is going to get a visit from the ghost of Terry Pratchett, who is going to beat the stuffing out of them

[thebibliosphere]

With his meteor sword.

[honourablejester]

Over the course of the books, the Watch has acquired:

a six-foot-tall cultural dwarf

a werewolf

an ex-‘splatter’ troll (like a bouncer, but hits harder)

a openly female dwarf from a culture that severely frowns on that

an ex-slave golem who set up an organisation to slowly buy the freedom of his people

a friendly-but-determined religious missionary from a desert country named Visit-the-Infidel-with-Explanatory-Pamphlets

a zombified revolutionary a-la Enjolras

a forensic accountant poached from the Patrician

a made-from-spare-parts mad scientist coroner

Nobby Nobbs

Over the course of the same books, it has developed from your standard medieval fantasy gang-of-thugs city guards to an extremely modern police force containing:

an alchemy-based forensics department

an aeriel traffic corps

a coroners office

a forensic accountants department

drug outreach programmes run by the ex-bouncer troll

a general community policing model

It has gone from a three man graveyard of a force to a political powerhouse capable of taking on basically any real or political power on the Disc, and it has done so in large part because of the reputation of its commander as a man who will tackle any crime, at any level, against any opponent, up to and including ancient demons and the gods themselves, or even the commander himself, to protect the rights of any Joe Soap on the street to be an idiot without getting shafted for it.

I mean. ‘Modern and inclusive’ don’t even cover it, you know?

[gifsboom]

High speed carrot destroys lightbulb. [video]

[randomitemdrop]

Item: appears to be a normal baby carrot, but when the command word is spoken, it flies around the room destroying every light source it can reach in one minute before returning to the owner.

[paradisixx]

i’m so in love with this bath bomb 😍

[pocmemes]

[stars-struck-lover]

I had a server tell me about how he was harassed into going to a church baptism ceremony by a not so close friend and to get them off his back he agreed

He decided some time before that of he was going to be forced to do this her might as well have fun with it right? So he goes to lush and buys one of the black bath bombs, and cuts it in half.

Now fast forward to the day of and he is wearing a small harness under his shirt that is keeping both haves of the bath bomb one either shoulder blade.

He volunteers to get baptised

They take him up put him in the white robe and then he waits for his turn. Now the friend who invited him had no clue what he is doing. They are pleasantly surprised to see him participating.

Honestly. A mistake on their part.

I only knew this guy for a max of 45 minutes and I could already tell this dude was a chaos entity.

So his turn comes up and they go to dunk him and the water immediately starts to foam and turn black and he starts screaming like a banchee jumps out the water and hisses at the priest

Everyone fucking lost it and her was banned from ever attending that church again.

So yeah all in all seems like a great thing to do for a hilarious story

[parlezvousladybug]

Legend

[ariaste]

i thought this post was going to be about Venom

[noobtheloser]

I couldn’t sleep so I made this. 

[6-phds-and-no-sense]

sometimes people try to tell me that scientists are paragons of rationality and I have to break it to them that I have yet to work in a lab that didn’t have at least one weird secret shrine in it

[6-phds-and-no-sense]

new guy: why is all of the equipment in this room covered in toys?

me: dONn’t touch those

new guy:

me: they need the toys to function. if they don’t all have toys they get jealous.

new guy:

new guy:

me: when something breaks just take the wizard and wave it around for a while. they seem to like that.