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[dear-ao3]

hold on a fucking second. delaware is a state?? i thought it was a river? or is the river more important than the state? why don't i know this? (i should mention i don't like in america, i'm just confused)

there is delaware (state) and delaware (river) 

both are equally strange

the state is a tiny little cryptid thing

the rive is a monster that spans new york, pennsylvania, new jersey and delaware. also washington crossed it once and that was like kinda a big deal i guess. like crossing the rubicon in rome.

the state tries to me more important with its “im the first state!!!” bs (seriously its even on the fucking license plates) but we all know. its the river.

[dear-ao3]

THATS TUPPERWARE

[sobutmermaids]

i thought delaware was a place in ohio? why are there so many things named delaware?

[dear-ao3]

delaware is too powerful

[uncertaininnit]

what the fuck

[dear-ao3]

[skaktusposts]

Wait what? I thought Delaware was a store with building supplies. Like paint, wood, nails and stuff?

[dear-ao3]

THATS HOME DEPOT ???

[skaktusposts]

I know home depot, but dude I don't know anything about America mad have never been there. Are you sure there is not a some sort of store called something close to Delaware!?!

[dear-ao3]

.....ace hardware....?

[uncertaininnit]

this post has only been around for a few hours but could very well be a world heritage post

[dear-ao3]

but at what cost

[publiusmaximum]

This post launched at 8am PST on 12 Feb 2021. The above conversation has happened in 3 hours.

[dear-ao3]

[uncertaininnit]

he WHAT? i thought he was from. w. wait. ???

[dear-ao3]

delaware stole the presidents shoelaces for clout and became too powerful

[likethehorrormovie]

From the UK- and what do you mean Delaware isn't a type of ceramic?

[dear-ao3]

it is now

[tome-itwas]

@hellsite-hall-of-fame is it too early?

[kkshowtunes]

Isn’t delaware what they make computers on???

[dear-ao3]

software ??

[you-say-that-so-often]

I think they meant Dell Ware, a specific computer type. We had a Dell computer once.

I thought Delaware was that famous singer they spoofed in Zootopia.

[dear-ao3]

gazelle??

[king-finnigan]

oh i thought delaware was that one british singer lady, you know, the one from chasing pavements

[dear-ao3]

that's fucking adele

[metamelonisle]

isn’t delaware that place you go when you die

[shirtshawaiian]

youre thinking of superhell and all of you are going there

[totalrosalia]

how the fuck did any of you come to the conclusions you all made

[dear-ao3]

we live in america?

[vigilantsycamore]

I thought Delaware was that food delivery service that keeps interrupting youtube videos with their ads when I'm trying to have a good time

[abnormalmind777]

..... are you talking about Doordash???

[destiel-is-canon-what]

Isn't Delawere the name of that one girl in the song that goes "Hey there, Delawere"? She's from NYC or something.

[dear-ao3]

THATS HEY THERE DELILAH

[katherynefromphilly]

Pausing here to point out that op is “dear-AO3″ and now I’m wondering if Delaware fanfic would be categorized as RSF (real state fic) or AU (alternate unitedstates)

[dear-ao3]

stop i do not want to think about this 

[joyflameball]

Isn’t Delaware that SPN ship that exploded the internet

[dear-ao3]

[forensicrodentfool]

Everyone on this post:

[sith-shenanigans]

I love that the “no, that’s [x]” meme is making a comeback here and only here and nobody has any idea what’s going on

[jmercedesd]

Keep up the good work, we can make poor OP have a melt down yet. 

[dear-ao3]

[callme-corpse-septiceye]

Isn't delaware that one brand of pizza that's like "it's not delivery, it's delaware."

[dear-ao3]

[paulblartinum]

isn't delaware the god of the sea

[dear-ao3]

[robbietherat]

Isn't Delaware the name of that guy who painted the Mona Lisa?

[dear-ao3]

[lordechostan]

delaware is that one evil cyborg guy that has a son named Luke and a red laser sword

[kiwikipedia]

Thats Darth Vader. Im pretty sure Delaware is that other red-laser sword guy. You know. The one that stabbed Qui-Gon.

[dear-ao3]

what have i created

[hellsite-hall-of-fame]

I usually only reblog older posts, but this definitely deserves to be in every tumblr hall of fame

[dear-ao3]

this post has only existed for 8 days. 

[gallusrostromegalus]

This is fantastic because it goes great with my theory that Delaware only exists for tax purposes. Like, all the states really only exists for Tax Purposes, but Delaware is particularly fake because back in 2012 I got lost in the Alleged Delaware Area looking trying to get to a family reunion, but every time I pulled over for directions, I would ask what the hell state I was in now, and I went through Mayland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey AND Virginia and I never fucking found Delaware but I did eventually find the Family Reunion and earned the repsepct of my then-prospective- Great-Grandmother-In-Law by saving her favorite grandchildren from a furious oceangoing horse so I’m convinced that not only is the state a purely legal construct, they didn’t even dedicate any landmass to it, or it’s a gov’t blackzone where the carnivorous horses live.

[wildsurvival]

[bear--hearted]

This is a beautiful graphic but it doesn’t explain the pros and cons of each fire type.

The Swedish torch is good for an efficient and contained fire, it’s controlled and good for cooking over and produces less light and heat than other fires. It can be difficult to keep going once you burn through the original log

The teepee is your traditional campfire. Good for heat and light not great for cooking, burns through fuel fairly quickly

The star fire is one of the slowest burning and not well protected but provides an even heat good for slow cooking and is excellent if you have limited fuel and need the protection a fire can provide

The lean to is a compact and efficient fire that evolves into a dense and hot bed of coals. The structure creates a good source of air flow which can help damp wood burn. A slightly better cooking fire that isn’t as bright. It also provides protection from wind on one side

The platform fire is incredibly hot and will create a very thick bed of coals but it doesn’t have a lot of air flow and is a little harder to get started.

The log cabin is big and bright and has lots of air flow which again is good for damp logs. You can also use this structure to start a smaller fire in the middle while drying out bigger logs. This fire will crumble into a messier bed of coals that don’t produce particularly even heat for cooking.

The modified leanto is excellent if you need it to perform multiple functions. The side with more fuel will burn bright and hot and the side with less fuel will burn less hot but more evenly and controlled, this gives you different cooking options.

[cobraonthecob]

👆👆👆

[theindestructiblelittlemy]

is it just me or is NASA weirdly aggressive in their article about black holes?

can a black hole destroy the earth?

no, you idiot.

black holes aren’t planet gluttons, you bitch.

and the earth isn’t some weak-ass planet that would just fall in to a black hole like a sucker.

and that dumbass sun that we’ve got isn’t big enough to make a black hole like other stars.

you fool.

[lugares-comunes]

Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock) - Mad Men créditos apertura (?)

[amazoogle]

[thatssomanda]

My brother saved this document and everytime he gets angry at our neighbours for being loud he prints it to their wireless printer and you can hear the wife shout “Why the fuck would you print this AGAIN?!” to her son.

[auntytimblr-deactivated20150403]

every time we serve chicken at work i think of this post

[gallusrostromegalus]

1.  If you were wondering, you can type the numbers in the works cited into google and they appear to be medical journal articles about using medical imaging to detect and diagnose a rare form of Gastritis.

2. Please enjoy the offical powerpoint presentation of this paper at an academic conference by the original author, complete with Q&A:

[zillyirk32]

THIS IS GOLD

[aprillikesthings]

oh m god please watch the video it’s some of the most contagious laughter on the planet

[artikgato]

When I saw this cross my dash tonight, I smiled and thought “yess, the chicken chicken chicken post, I get to reblog it again and inflict it on all of the people that have followed me since last time”, and then I scrolled down more and to my utter delight there was A VIDEO, needless to say my night has been made

[eliciaforever-deactivated201906]

I HAVE NOT SEEN THE CHICKEN VIDEO IN TEN DAMN YEARS HOLY SHIT

STILL FUNNY

[ruelukas22]

The bell

The last question

The woman howling in laughter 90% of the time

It’s all beautiful

It’s all

So beautiful

[explorerrowan]

I love that he was absolutely 100% prepared for a question in chickenese.

[caterinas80]

“I do not feel capable summarizing this article”

Same

[weloveshortvideos]

Guillotine vs a spray paint can.

[babyionian-deactivated20200611]

this caption is so deceptive, this video is so much more than that

[star-anise]

Shutting my brain off to enjoy fantasy novels gets harder and harder all the time.

Stuff the European Middle Ages didn’t have and it distracts me when they show up:

Potatoes

Oranges you could peel with your hands and eat

Sparkly diamonds

Musical harmony, eg guitar chords being played under a melody

A colourfast black dye for clothes

WHY DO I HAVE TO KNOW THESE THINGS. NO ONE CARES.

Petition to be able to scrub my brain of overly-detailed knowledge of the past.

(This is part of why I enjoy The Untamed. My brain is not stuffed with facts about Chinese history, so I don’t automatically notice when they put a 15th century sleeve on a 13th century outfit. I realize this will wear off as I learn more about Chinese history, but it’s nice while it lasts.)

[malkaleh]

Lis I hope you know that every time I watch The Tudors I now giggle helplessly at the black clothing next to the skin thing.

Also now I have to check what sort of oranges they would have had in Tudor England ;).

[star-anise]

Moors brought bitter oranges to Spain in the 10th century. The Alcazar palace of Seville in Spain is scented with extensive orange plantings. That’s why in English, they’re often known as “Seville oranges”. The oranges don’t make good eating raw, but pieces appeared in food for their flavour and orange oil was used in perfumes for its scent. Orange marmalade in England is documented back to the late 15th century (and these days, English marmalade is the main use for bitter oranges, everyone else having decided they were too much trouble). Sweet oranges, which go back ages ago in China, only reached England after 1660. 

(Here’s a page about the history of citrus, which includes records of Henry VIII’s citrus purchases)

[unrepentantnerdshit]

I was about to say, they definitely had oranges, diamonds, and musical harmony. I'm not sure about potatoes, or the dye

[star-anise]

They had diamonds. They did not have sparkly diamonds. Europe didn’t develop the technology to make diamonds that refracted light and glittered until the middle ages had ended.

Medieval diamonds were cut very simply, so in some lights they would appear clear like glass, but they just as easily appeared black.

This is how diamonds were depicted in artwork:

Here are examples we have of diamonds cut using the table or point cuts available:

So all those medieval princesses with diamonds that “glitter like starlight” or give off a “brilliant white fire”... yeah no. You want the 1600s and 1700s for that.

[wetmeadow]

This is all very interesting but can someone please explain the "no musical harmony"-thing in more detail

[findingfeather]

Short version: what we know today as “harmony” (multiple “parts” or “voices” sung or played at the same time, chords, all that shit) arose out of very specifically the Western Xtian music tradition and is kinda weird and has a very weird history. 

Most human music traditions (that have not, at some point, come into contact with the harmonic tradition) are monophonic. That is, there’s one part or tune. The melody may be very, VERY complex, or the rhythms may be incredibly complex, but every instrument that makes notes (as opposed to just rhythms) and all singing voices are, within one piece, singing the same thing. 

This was also true of the Western music tradition until some of the way into 10th century. 

We don’t know exact reason why, as it happens, monks started adding in a new line following the original at about a fourth or fifth above, or fourth or fifth below. But I tend to like the theory that it started at the very beginning because you suddenly had to do something with the boys whose voices were breaking. 

See, Xtian monks were singing extensive prayers seven times a day. You’ve probably heard these referred to as “Gregorian chant”, but they actually predate Gregory, and the word “chant” can be a bit misleading because these are what modern ears would call “songs”. And there’s an extensive sequence of this that monks are supposed to sing at seven different points of the day. Every day. For their entire monastic career. 

Now when you’ve got all adults that’s not a huge problem: none of these plainchant prayers have a fixed starting pitch, so you just pick a pitch that works best for your group. And even when you have young child oblates (that is, children dedicated to the monastery) it’s not that bit a problem because they can just sing an octave up. 

But AMAB individuals, absent any hormonal intervention, go through this period where the voice radically changes and deepens. (Actually technically AFAB-without-hormone-intervetion voices ALSO change at around the same age, but it’s nowhere near as dramatic so people outside of the actual classical vocal world tend not to know this. But I digress.) But it doesn’t do it all at once. It actually spends quite a bit of time with a very restricted range: neither as high as they used to be able to sing, NOR as low as they will eventually be able to sing. 

But they’re still SUPPOSED to be able to SING THE DAMN LITURGY WITH EVERYONE ELSE. 

So one theory is that some bright monk or abbot thought, hey, when you sing the exact same pattern but a fourth or fifth up from the original, it still sounds pretty good! And that suddenly puts it in the range that most of our voice-breaking-boys can sing. 

(Why fourth or fifth? Within that music tradition, fourths, fifths and octaves are “perfect” intervals. Why that is involves diving way more into musical theory than is useful right now.)

It might’ve been some other reason; they might just have gotten, you know, bored. After singing the same thing (at minimum) seven times a day every day for four hundred years. 

But once that started, people started running with it, and you developed “polyphany” for the first time we know of. Now, polyphany is not technically harmony: harmony is actually a very specific branch and development of multi-part singing that wouldn’t happen for another five hundred years or so. But in terms of what MOST people think of as “harmony” - that is, multiple “parts” to any given song, singing in intervals with each other, etc, yeah, polyphany is the first time we’re singing in those multiple parts. 

Or - somewhat later - playing instruments in multiple parts. But it took even longer to COMBINE the idea of a VOICE singing particular parts OVER a harmonizing instrument underneath. 

While there’s a strumming instrument underneath there you’ll note that it just strums literally the same thing all the way thru. The bowed instrument and the finger-picking instruments can and will both themselves play highly intricate melodies, alone! But it WON’T be like you’re used to hearing with a guitar now. That’s not how that music conceptualization works. 

Polyphany eventually got HELLA COMPLEX to the point where someone wrote a Mass for 40 Voices. Note that this does not mean “mass for forty people singing” but “mass for forty totally separate parts”. Eventually people got bored, and invented “harmony”, which is a shift in the conception of how musical notes relate to one another, and that’s when the Early Baroque started. 

tl;dr: If you’re early enough or working outside something vaguely analogous to the Catholic Xtian mediaeval musical tradition (or making something up to invent it with a different lineage) then no, you DON’T have harmony; even once you have multi-part stuff it’s not actually harmony (it’s polyphany) and doesn’t work the way most people think harmony works. 

If you’re working in a fantasy world there are, of course, ways around this. There is for example no reason not to imagine that the Teleri, music-obsessed as they are, came up with polyphany and later on with harmony; and if you want to imagine that your made up world has potatoes you can! It will COMPLETELY CHANGE the food realities of your culture and you should look up the impact of the introduction of the potato (once they convinced people to use it) on various food economies, but in a world that doesn’t have a Europe and Americas situation, there’s no reason potatoes can’t be in your fantasy world, although I will almost certainly be able to tell whether or not a fantasy author has decided they’re gonna have their fictional society have potatoes, or whether they’ve just not bothered or not known they should go look at what potatoes would do. 

It’s a lot trickier when it comes to actual historical fiction. 

[beatrice-otter]

(pssst. Sub-Saharan Africa had polyphony before Europe did, although as far as we can tell there is no cross-polinization between the two musical traditions.)

“Harmony” happened because the Catholic church didn’t like what polyphony was doing to the ability of people listening to understand what was going on.

It’s the middle ages, Latin has turned into Italian and French and Spanish and whatnot, and the common people don’t really understand Latin anymore, and the mass (worship service) is still in Latin, so the common people don’t know what’s going on every Sunday at church. But at least in theory, everybody needs to be able to understand the words.

With polyphony, you’ve got what are essentially however many parts (anywhere between two and forty) singing what are basically different songs at the same time.  The words overlap, by which I mean they’re singing the same phrases at the same time, but because the rhythms are so different, the phonemes are distorted and you can’t understand the words.  It’s gorgeous!  God, it is gorgeous.  But you can’t understand the words, and so however aesthetically pleasing it was, it is not very spiritually edifying.  There were all kinds of edicts about what kind of music you could have in church, and for a while it looked like they were going to ban every form of music other than a single unaccompanied vocal line sung in unison.

This is where harmony comes in.  If everyone is singing the same words at the same time, you can have different notes and still understand what is being sung.

This is not the only reason for the transition from polyphony to harmony, but it was one of the major factors.

[whetstonefires]

ty on the African polyphony. I have jackshit formal education in musical theory or history but I was like 'huh i could swear that i read on wikipedia while researching the mbira that...'

[trustmeimageographer]

Hi I'm a fantasy writer and now I need to know what potatoes do to a society

[behold-the-twilight-of-man]

Yes, we want potato facts

[star-anise]

Here are potato facts!

[larkandkatydid]

I love my dog and I love having a dog and I’m never loving dog-free again. HOWEVER, only cat owners experience the pure, altruistic love for a total asshole. The radiant joy of a cat person telling you about the disgusting demon cat that they clearly love is how God feels about us.

[yidquotes]

The last sentence is a winner.

[catchymemes]

[woodelf68]

All of this delights me to no end.

[neddea]

…I’m actually speechless.

I wasn’t looking for any information about railroads and now I’m left with that + knowledge about spaceships, Roman chariots and one (1) unexpected but welcome joke.

[songspinner9]

I am now trying to figure out how to share this (the age-appropriate parts) with my middle school history students. What a great chain of facts!

[awesome-picz]

Shoes That Grow: Guy Invents Sandals That’ll Grow 5 Sizes In 5 Years To Help Millions Of Poor Children

[greatfulldedd]

His name is Kenton Lee [x]

[dango-king]

Amd TODAY on “white people who dont know how to mind their own business and instead, decide its up to them to put others out of wrok in the name od charity”

[checkyourracismtmblr]

“Hi, my name is @dango-king the pathetic, grasping, privileged racist who has to invent reasons to be be offended by poor non-white children getting help cause I’m too lazy to”

[siryouarebeingmocked]

Someone: [helps shedloads of poor kids who can’t get decent shoes anyway]

Dango:

[cheshireinthemiddle]

White people could devote their lives to feeding the hungry and people will still find a way to make them look bad and mock their race for it.

[mizumanta]

How dare he try and improve the lives of the less fortunate.

[zamiiz]

disabled goldfish in wheelchairs,

for in your time of need ♡

[textposts-into-the-void-deactiv]

those wheelchairs have neither wheels nor chairs

[nr1-logo-design-inspiration]

Chameleon logo concept design ♡

Need a logo? PM us! 📩

[ghibli-collector]

Yasuo Ōtsuka (mentor to Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata) short lecture clip on character design

courtesy of @AnimeGolem on twitter

[whatareyoureallyafraidof]

  Far too many people have short memories when it comes to the shit their side did.

[afunnyfeminist]

White supremacists and police have never been asked to commit to nonviolence. That’s only ever been asked of victims.

[anarchistettin]

That’s only ever been asked of victims.

[lynati]

Say it louder for the people with their fingers in their ears.

[paddysnuffles]

My mom peacefully protested our country~s dictatorship when she was in uni.

The protesters weren’t the ones who brought dogs to maul people, it was the police who did it. 

As my mom once put it, “If possible, it’s preferable to protest peacefully. But there comes a point where peaceful protesting isn’t enough. And if you need to get violent then so be it. If you tried to protest peacefully and no one would listen, sometimes you have to make them listen.”

[airborneranger63]

One time my rabbi told us, “imagine you had a box with a little bit of god in it. What would you do with the box?”

So we were like ?? “We’d protect it and keep it nice and clean and polished” and he was like “your body’s that box. Stop eating markers”

[unabler]

someone: i like your shirt

me: so do i that's why i bought it

[its-all-down-hill]

[ayellowbirds]

the face of a bird who fully understands what he did and will do it again.

[monicalknighton-deactivated2018]

WHAT DID HE ORDER???

[bbybnnydddyrbbt]

OMFG HE ORDERED A WHOLE BUNCH OF STRAWBERRIES

https://youtu.be/IvnW89osj0g

[samwiselastname]

berries.

berries.

berries.

[moonlightandmarble]

@zaiqukaj Harpies tho

[zorkat]

Lady: “Alexa, read my shopping list.”

Alexa: “You have 19 items on your shopping list. Here are the five most recent.  Poetry, strawberries, strawberries, strawberries, strawberries.”

*Lady laughs*   

Alexa: “Would you like to hear the next five items?”

Lady: *laughing* “Who ordered this strawberries? (yes please?)” Alexa: “You have 19 items on your shopping list, Here are the five most recent. *cuts*  - the next five items? Lady: “Yes please”

Alexa: “Strawberry yogurt, easy water, jeans, Harry, big tofu. Would you like to hear the next five items?”

Lady: *laughing high pitched* yes!

Alexa: “Big, big, red retreat, milk, berry. Do you want to hear the last four items?”

Lady: “Please yes” *wheezy laughter*

Alexa: “Apple, berry, berry, berries”

*Lady burst into laughter* “Ohh hoo”

[alexi-bear]

Big Tofu