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moringottos-deactivated20210117

when I was 14 I worked in a grocery store and one day I got to bag Stephen King’s groceries and of course, being the little horror fiction nerd I am I was completely starstruck

I think he thought I was gonna ask for an autograph because I was not even lowkey staring I was full on moon-faced and bouncing and he kept looking over at me hesitantly like aw jeez kid fuck off

anyways I finally managed to squeak out that I was a huge fan and asked for advice on writing, “how do I write as well as you do?” in my horrible thick German accent and broken ass English and he gave me the best writing advice I have ever received

“shit kid, stop worrying about how other people do it and just write your story”

14 years later my wife and I nearly hit him with our car because he was jaywalking

thespoonmissioner

sachesky

Chaotic Good brother.

jasonpriestley

The Scooby-Doo Project (1999)

acreaturecalledgreed

fun fact this special scared so many kids so fucking badly (b/c the blair witch aspect was played weirdly straight) that CN never aired it again

mysharona1987

fuckstev-deactivated20240104

May Ohio have mercy on your soul

ohio isn’t real

lloydthevoid

Dont tell the ohio fault lines fetish guy

fuckstev-deactivated20240104

who now

toastiest-lizard

I’m from ohio I can vouch the people out here WILL fuck ANYTHING that so as much EXISTS (I’ve got a friend who openly has a kink for sticking scrambled eggs in her coochie)

fuckstev-deactivated20240104

lesbiandomesticity

you’re sitting across from me in a shitty diner in anywhere, america, and i watch you pour too much creamer in your coffee and i think “i love you.” you look up, catching me staring, and for a moment i think i’m brave enough to say it, but i take too long and the moment passes. i take the balled up straw wraper and flick it at you, pretending that was my plan all along. you laugh. i never want to go another day without hearing that laugh. i think i will have all the time in the world to say it.

pinkdolphin12

op are you okay

lesbiandomesticity

yes im married to her now

hoanbee

lordelmelloi2

oh dude. this is peak content

aeondeug

Early Irish law is very important.

unfetteredwood

You gotta love that the Brehons were even thinking of the crazy cat ladies.

anais-ninja-bitch

question, and feel free to answer with real info or total bullshit (i like both): why was this an issue of concern for lawmakers? like, were there disputes over cat names? what problem was this seeking to solve?

rannulfr

I’m going off memory and this is going to sound like BS, but it’s not, I went to school for this, lol. Cat’s were an important part of keeping a house in the medieval era. Rats, mice and roaches were known to be disease carriers and keeping a good hunting cat was believed to be a good ward against those animals and their diseases. (Of course, with the exception of plague, this is true.) But not all cats are created equal, same as now, some were content to just sit around and mooch off the milk. (Don’t feed your cat cows milk, we know better now.) Medieval Irish cat law, or “ Catshlechta “ Was a means of solving the lazy cat problem. How do you determine what a cat is worth? By it’s merit of course. How do you know what it’s merits are? By it’s name. So a good hunting cat would be given a name that reflected what its positive traits were regarding it’s job. (Everything was work back then, even for cats.) In example… “Meone” meant “Mighty roar” and it was considered to be able to scare beasts away (both pests and supernatural creatures.) It was worth 2 cows. “Cruipne” or “Mighty paw” was a thrice proven mouser, and worth three ounces of coinage. usually assigned to protect areas of wealth like grain stores or cattle housings. “Breone” or “Fireside cat” was good at both hunting and purring (I.E affection.) and was worth 3 whole cows. “Baircne” a female cat (Owned by a woman usually) said to be good at protecting ships and women. It was worth whatever you could get a woman’s husband would pay for it. Cats were usually kept in the same housing as the cows and were looked after by whomever fed said cows, hence the relation to cow costs. Also, gender mattered. Male cats were noted to be far more lazy, and were worth about half of whatever a female cat was. (Don’t ask me how they sexed the cats, they didn’t leave us that detail.) There’s also a set of laws for dogs called “Conshlechta” .

romanvelvet

Okay how are those names pronounced though

And what would a lazy, dumb cat be called because I might need to change my cat’s nickname

truagh-mo-thuras

With the usual caveat that we don’t actually know how medieval languages were pronounced, and that this is a reconstructed pronunciation based on historical linguistics:

Meone: /’meo:ne/ meh-OH-neh, with stress on the meh.

Cruipne /’crubne/ CRUB-neh.

Breone /’breo:ne/ breh-OH-neh, stress on breh.

Baircne /’bar’gne/ BAR-ug-neh, with the ‘ug’ syllable much shorter than the other two syllables.