when have i ever had a plan?

personal blog. im 26, so make good choices. the stars decide the bears.

[greenstick-district]

listen im drunk & wasting time & sanity leaving comments on youtube shorts about.... like everything but mostly house of the dragon. jesus christ y'all; getting out of here in 2014, was a fucking godsend. apparently tumblr no longer contains any level of reading comprehension.

'alicent was right' 'rhaenyra was right' OMG ITS ALMOST LIKE PATRIARCHAL SUCCESSION IS A FUCKED UP CIRCUMSTANCE DICTATED BY DUDES WITH DICKS AND NOT BY GODS. WEIRD. DAMN. ALMOST LIKE EVERYONE IS DOING THEIR BEST IN A FUCKED SITUATION.

[apocryphics]

lydia davis

[snakesonacartesianplane]

In the same vein:

"The simultaneous borrowing of French and Latin words led to a highly distinctive feature of modern English vocabulary: sets of three items, all expressing the same fundamental notion but differing slightly in meaning or style, e.g., kingly, royal, regal; rise, mount, ascend; ask, question, interrogate; fast, firm, secure; holy, sacred, consecrated. The Old English word (the first in each triplet) is the most colloquial, the French (the second) is more literary, and the Latin word (the last) more learned." (Howard Jackson and Etienne Zé Amvela, "Words, Meaning and Vocabulary: An Introduction to Modern English Lexicology." Continuum, 2000)

via ThoughtCo

Though I like how John McWhorter phrases it better:

But language tends not to do what we want it to. The die was cast: English had thousands of new words competing with native English words for the same things. One result was triplets allowing us to express ideas with varying degrees of formality. Help is English, aid is French, assist is Latin. Or, kingly is English, royal is French, regal is Latin – note how one imagines posture improving with each level: kingly sounds almost mocking, regal is straight-backed like a throne, royal is somewhere in the middle, a worthy but fallible monarch.

from "English is not normal"

[cliffpantones]

Gossip Girl Challenge: Day 30

Best Overall Scene

[cliffpantones]

→ Blair & Serena 2.24 Valley Girls

[baradragon]

[the-quasar-hero]

[proxac]

[nihil1666-deactivated20150727]

Wolf kill, in Superior National Forest, National Geographic October 1977

[iapislazuli]

Guys I’m going to be so bare naked ass honest with you we had a house fire tonight and I was standing in the kitchen with the flaming stove reading the Wikipedia page for fire

[huethemudluff]

(via @microwaiver)

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Stupid is timeless.

[kumboochies]

I’m that lady who’s just FEELING it

[beep-beepster]

tbh cables were like that and safety precautions weren’t hard set in yet

[10-thousand-words]

Oh wow this is horrifying

[moripartylove]

Holy shit

[literaryfurball]

Why don’t we see this kind of stuff more in history books?! I’d be way more interested in history if I understood that people were afraid of electricity because they were afraid of power lines slicing them to peices like cheese-wire! History books make it sound like “oh those silly people thought electricity carried demons or something!” Rather than “those poor people opposed electricity because they were terrified that eventually there would be so many power lines they wouldn’t be able to see the sun anymore.”

[andiamburdenedwithgloriousfeels]

Forbidden Zipline

[zaziecurie]

Me, reading about people fearing electricity when it was invented: well, people always fear changes and the new, so-

*further reads about the madness that was the massive powerlines and its horrifying lack of safety”

-you know what. I would do the exact same: be terrified of the “giant electricity spider”.

[acecroft]

THE WALKING DEAD 1.01

[artificialsilkgirl]

[boyhood]

Dario Robleto

The Common Denominator Of Existence Is Loss

2008

50,000-year-old extinct cave bear paws, human hand bones, stretched and pulled audiotape of the earliest audio recording of time (experimental clock, 1878), 19th-century mourning ribbon, bocote, shellac, glass

42¾" x 47 ½" x 47 ½"

[vampcraft-deactivated20231205]

i think as adults it’s our responsibility to be nice to kids and treat them with the respect we wish we got at that age and im not kidding or exaggerating in the least

[neuer-fruehling]

[thetudorsgifs-deactivated202402]

Henry VIII reconcile with his daughter Mary "Mary I" THE TUDORS (2007-2010) | 3x01 "Civil Unrest"

[blumineck]

"Why are there so many female archers in fiction?"

Please forgive the clickbait-y title! This is a super complex and interesting topic that I barely scratch the surface of here, but I hopefully will be able to do more justice to things like this in the future!

Also, it's not the point of the video, but I had fun with the outfits in this- do you have any faves?

As always, please consider supporting me on Patreon if you can, or watching on youtube if not!

[blatantescapism]

The Hays code wasn’t just about censoring sex and violence; it was also about enforcing gender norms. This is an insightful video.

I’m torn between the blue sundress and the kilt + harness for Best Outfit.

[thyrell]

elon musk had a third child with grimes that he kept secret until the release of his biography. he named it techno mechanicus

[thyrell]

can you imagine being an adult nepo baby at a company your rich dad invested in and having to walk into the boardroom first day like. hi everyone. my name is techno mechanicus

[lumeninfusco]

I can tell this is fake because "techno mechanicus" doesn't start with X

[lumeninfusco]

OH SON OF A BITCH

[telegantmess]

Thanks I hate it 

[roseapothecary]

TAYLOR ZAKHAR PEREZ as ALEX GABRIEL CLAREMONT-DIAZ Red, White & Royal Blue (2023) dir. Matthew Lopez

"While neither of us is naive about what it means to be public figures, we never imagined our most private and intimate thoughts, fears and truths would become fodder for public examination. What was taken from us this week was our right to determine for ourselves how and when we should share our relationship, and our queer identities with the world."

[kingsroad]

  Tom Glynn-Carney as Aegon Targaryen — » Episode 1.08 of House of the Dragon, “The Lord of the Tides.”