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@ineverywordandsong
But as for Niënor, she ran on into the wood, hearing the shouts of pursuit behind; and her clothing she tore off, casting away her garments one by one as she fled, until she went naked; and all that day still she ran, as a beast that is hunted to heart-bursting, and dare not stay or draw breath.
The Children of Húrin, JRR Tolkien
Watercolour, gouache, coloured pencil, and ink on paper
"Often Beleg Strongbow came to Menegroth to seek [Túrin], and led him far afield, teaching him woodcraft and archery and (which he liked more) the handling of swords."
"...And Beleg and Túrin were companions in every peril, and walked far and wide in the wild woods together."
JRR Tolkien, The Children of Húrin
Watercolour and ink, based on Caspar David Friedrich's Forest Interior by Moonlight
"just write a little every day" ok but what if i write nothing for 3 weeks and then suddenly type like i’m being hunted by god
male athletes are so darksided wishing their wives a happy bday on socials always goes something like “thanks for everything you do for ME! you’re hot! and you’re a good mom i guess lol” meanwhile their bday posts to their teammates are like “you’re my everything we have gone through ups and downs together seen each other at our worst and best everyday i think about how lucky i am to know you you have changed my life for the better the world is lucky to have had you in it for this long already and looking forward to so many more years of being your everything” like get real
not to derail from football rpf into feminism but
The only adhd tips that actually work:
1. Never tell anyone what you're planning to do until you do it (you will get a premature dopamine hit and sense of accomplishment from telling them and lose motivation to actually do it)
2. Never sit down (never sit down)
im getting really fucking sick of all this “it gets better!” bullshit. im going to have depression for the rest of my life. it’s not going to “””get better””” fuck you
i have really great news guys, despite it all
Never have I ever felt so much warmth checking a post timestamp
i notice that i and many people in my area tend to omit the "to be" in phrases like "the cats need to be fed" and "your kid wants to be held" but i don't thiiink it's standard english and i'm curious if it is a regionalism or what
do you tend to omit the "to be" in those types of phrases
no, and i've never heard that done before
no, but i've heard others do it
yes, i do that on some occasions
yes, i do that by default
bonus: say what you voted and add what general region you're from/what dialect of english you speak (if you feel comfortable doing so)
"Needs done" is my dialect! I grew up rural American midwest and moved to a midwestern city in my teens where it didn't stand out, didn't know it wasn't standard English until my 20s. I've heard it described since as "farmer English" which tracks because,,, I'm from farmers. Kept it even after I "knew better" because fuck prescriptivists. 🥰
Wait while we’re all being unhinged about, like, stew. We all obsessed over the Joy of Cooking as children right. Right
The Joy of Cooking is a cookbook written by a committee of midcentury American goofballs who weren’t sure if your life circumstances were going to call for cooking woodchuck, wedding cake, or both at the same time. But the one thing they could arm you with? Unshakeable confidence and a wine pairing. Absolutely demented manual for living, 100% recommend imprinting on it as a child.
YES our first stop will be the Backpacking menu. We find it incidentally next to THE weirdest vintage things to do with bacon. Hello, bacon and rice custard. Why are you, somehow, a small act of violence in our day. We then see the actual menu with its genuinely extremely useful information including “welcome extra munch items.”
Referencing here also, useful information about building fires, which leads you to the Ritual Psychic Incantation of Massachusetts to determine what setting an open fire is on. This spell is to be performed nonverbally. and Mississippi will also do if you are a coward. Do NOT use anything except a US state!!!! Memorise this fact diligently as you may need it later
finally what other menus do we have, you ask? Normal ones of course
Lots of people asking “is this the one with the squirrel/rabbit diagrams” of COURSE it is that one
“Does it really have woodchuck”
Yes of course. Take one (1) woodchuck
Shout out to @arthurwilde for pointing out this is the one with the recipe for opossum that starts by first keeping the opossum as a lil pet.
File that under recipes you don’t need to make tiktokers try
@tartsandcrafts OH MY GOD
‘While bats can only sense the outer shapes and textures of their targets, dolphins can peer inside theirs. If a dolphin echolocates on you, it will perceive your lungs and your skeleton. It can likely sense shrapnel in war veterans and fetuses in pregnant women. It can pick out the air-filled swim bladders that allow fish, their main prey, to control their buoyancy.
It can almost certainly tell different species apart based on the shape of those air bladders. And it can tell if a fish has something weird inside it, like a metal hook. In Hawaii, false killer whales often pluck tuna off fishing lines, and “they’ll know where the hook is inside that fish,” Aude Pacini, who studies these animals, tells me. “They can ‘see’ things that you and I would never consider unless we had an X-ray machine or an MRI scanner.”
This penetrating perception is so unusual that scientists have barely begun to consider its implications. The beaked whales, for example, are odontocetes that look dolphin-esque on the outside—but on the inside, their skulls bear a strange assortment of crests, ridges, and bumps, many of which are only found in males.
Pavel Gol’din has suggested that these structures might be the equivalent of deer antlers—showy ornaments that are used to attract mates. Such ornaments would normally protrude from the body in a visible and conspicuous way, but that’s unnecessary for animals that are living medical scanners.’
-Ed Yong, An Immense World
This weekend I was told a story which, although I’m kind of ashamed to admit it, because holy shit is it ever obvious, is kind of blowing my mind.
A friend of a friend won a free consultation with Clinton Kelly of What Not To Wear, and she was very excited, because she has a plus-size body, and wanted some tips on how to make the most of her wardrobe in a fashion culture which deliberately puts her body at a disadvantage.
Her first question for him was this: how do celebrities make a plain white t-shirt and a pair of weekend jeans look chic? She always assumed it was because so many celebrities have, by nature or by design, very slender frames, and because they can afford very expensive clothing. But when she watched What Not To Wear, she noticed that women of all sizes ended up in cute clothes that really fit their bodies and looked great. She had tried to apply some guidelines from the show into her own wardrobe, but with only mixed success. So - what gives?
His answer was that everything you will ever see on a celebrity’s body, including their outfits when they’re out and about and they just get caught by a paparazzo, has been tailored, and the same goes for everything on What Not To Wear. Jeans, blazers, dresses - everything right down to plain t-shirts and camisoles. He pointed out that historically, up until the last few generations, the vast majority of people either made their own clothing or had their clothing made by tailors and seamstresses. You had your clothing made to accommodate the measurements of your individual body, and then you moved the fuck on. Nothing on the show or in People magazine is off the rack and unaltered. He said that what they do is ignore the actual size numbers on the tags, find something that fits an individual’s widest place, and then have it completely altered to fit. That’s how celebrities have jeans that magically fit them all over, and the rest of us chumps can’t ever find a pair that doesn’t gape here or ride up or slouch down or have about four yards of extra fabric here and there.
I knew that having dresses and blazers altered was probably something they were doing, but to me, having alterations done generally means having my jeans hemmed and then simply living with the fact that I will always be adjusting my clothing while I’m wearing it because I have curves from here to ya-ya, some things don’t fit right, and the world is just unfair that way. I didn’t think that having everything tailored was something that people did.
It’s so obvious, I can’t believe I didn’t know this. But no one ever told me. I was told about bikini season and dieting and targeting your “problem areas” and avoiding horizontal stripes. No one told me that Jennifer Aniston is out there wearing a bigger size of Ralph Lauren t-shirt and having it altered to fit her.
I sat there after I was told this story, and I really thought about how hard I have worked not to care about the number or the letter on the tag of my clothes, how hard I have tried to just love my body the way it is, and where I’ve succeeded and failed. I thought about all the times I’ve stood in a fitting room and stared up at the lights and bit my lip so hard it bled, just to keep myself from crying about how nothing fits the way it’s supposed to. No one told me that it wasn’t supposed to. I guess I just didn’t know. I was too busy thinking that I was the one that didn’t fit.
I thought about that, and about all the other girls and women out there whose proportions are “wrong,” who can’t find a good pair of work trousers, who can’t fill a sweater, who feel excluded and freakish and sad and frustrated because they have to go up a size, when really the size doesn’t mean anything and it never, ever did, and this is just another bullshit thing thrown in your path to make you feel shitty about yourself.
I thought about all of that, and then I thought that in elementary school, there should be a class for girls where they sit you down and tell you this stuff before you waste years of your life feeling like someone put you together wrong.
So, I have to take that and sit with it for a while. But in the meantime, I thought perhaps I should post this, because maybe my friend, her friend, and I are the only clueless people who did not realise this, but maybe we’re not. Maybe some of you have tried to embrace the arbitrary size you are, but still couldn’t find a cute pair of jeans, and didn’t know why.
This post is one of those things that I will reblog every time it appears on my dash. This is so important, and no one ever tells you about it.
I almost didn’t read this but then I did and I’m really glad that I did.
Super important
Tldr: The reason clothes never “looked right on you” is because models and celebrities always had their clothes tailored to fit them perfectly.
I love this post but it always frustrated me just a little because I can’t even afford to buy new clothes let alone get the clothes I have tailored. But then I remembered that a lot of things are easier to do than you think they will be, so here’s some resources on how to alter your own clothes!
Please read this, it’s an opportunity to learn about yourself, possibly a new skill and why it isn’t you, it’s the industry.
Melkor and Manwë, aka the Dark Lord and his brother Birdbrain
i hate driving. here are the laws! if you break them there will be consequences! except youre also expected to break the law just a little bit. people will get mad at you if you dont. you dont have right of way but the person who does is waving you forward for some reason. here's the speed limit! it's not the speed limit, the actual speed limit is that plus ~5-10. the light is green but you're in the turning lane. can you go? should you have gone just then? the person behind you is honking at you. there's a weird noise coming from your engine; if you try to do the right thing and get it checked out, will you get scammed? you are driving a 1-2 ton metal machine rocketing at speeds unknown to humankind for most of history. around a million people die in car accidents every year; that's about one person every thirty seconds. if you take that seriously and try to drive safely then people get mad at you.
Art by Jim Musil
ok guys am i stupid for feeling like folding chairs were a modern thing? i saw this folding chair from the 16th century in the ming dynasty and it's blowing my mind
not that they'd be difficult to manufacture im sure they could've made one a thousand years ago, thinking about it now. it's just like, in my dumb lizard brain you'd never invent the folding chair without first inventing the enormous auditorium conference hall for mediocre businessmen yk
this meeting could've been a bamboo scroll
Foxes disguised as monks. On the left from Japan and on the right from Denmark.
It was a global problem
grug hate two factor authentication. first grug have to remember password. then grug have to point out which cave painting has birds. now they want grug to hunt and gather new thing called numbers. grug won’t do it grug miss the bird paintings grug was getting pretty good at birds.
The Creation of Arda
But the other Ainur looked upon this habitation set within the vast spaces of the World, which the Elves call Arda, the Earth; and their hearts rejoiced in light, and their eyes beholding many colours were filled with gladness; but because of the roaring of the sea they felt a great unquiet. And they observed the winds and the air, and the matters of which Arda was made, of iron and stone and silver and gold and many substances: but of all these water they most greatly praised. And it is said by the Eldar that in water there lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than in any substance else that is in this Earth; and many of the Children of Ilúvatar hearken still unsated to the voices of the Sea, and yet know not for what they listen. (The Silmarillion, JRR Tolkien)
traditional art, made with gouache, watercolour, and ink
