walking simulator

[reyukiis]

Timeskip #kenmakozume

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boyfriend's quail photos have reached perhaps a lifetime peak today

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Arankita🖤

They buy co-ords and swap peices so they can have cute couple outfits ♡

[forestdenizen]

Henning von Gierke - Reflections I, 1983

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some wips for the harpy AU which has been consuming my thoughts lately!!! artist notes and a meme under the cut

Yuri ages much, much slower than humans. He lived with Nikolai for roughly half a century, which covered the period from when he was (physically) a toddler to his mid/late teens. Humans are generally hostile towards him so when Nikolai passes away he leaves. By the time he meets Otabek he’s been living in the wild again for a few decades

He thinks of himself as a bird so he believes he’s competing with Otabek’s steppe eagle (Şirin) for Otabek’s affections. The competition is entirely one-sided (Şirin is smarter)

For some reason in that wip of Yuri in the trees I feel like I accidentally made him look like Aliona Kostornaia. am i going insane???

[bobbole]

Schinako Moriyama, Stairway to the moon

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[millionsknives]

can you curry anything else or is it just favor

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tim

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So "currying" a furry animal means grooming or brushing it with a currycomb, which in turn comes from the Old French correier meaning "to prepare [something]", because you prepare a horse for riding by brushing it; it's most commonly applied to horses but you can get e.g. currycombs for dogs.

If I understand correctly, medieval French folk tales considered chestnut-colored horses to be deceitful and tricky; the Old French word for a chestnut or dun horse was fauvel, and so the Old French expression correier fauvel, literally "to brush the chestnut horse", meant lying or being hypocritical for personal gain. This turned into "curry favel" in 15th-century English, and then mutated into "curry favor" over the next few centuries as people forgot about the horse.

So "currying favor" is really "brushing the Horse of Lies", and the reason you can't curry goodwill, or love, or hatred, or even disfavor is that we didn't have Horses for those.

And it follows that we can gain the ability to curry other things by assigning them to Horses.

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#google is backing you up on this (via @oldguardians)

I realize, looking back on this post, that regular readers of my blog may have thought I made this up. Making up a ridiculous etymology is certainly the sort of thing I might do; in fact I've been meaning to start a sideblog dedicated solely to sufficiently accurate etymologies, and have a notebook with dozens of them jotted down, I just haven't had the time to do anything with them.

But I want to stress that this is not one of those cases. This is, to the best of my knowledge, the very real etymology of the phrase "curry favor".

The Old French fauve or falve referred to the light-brown color that's sometimes called "fallow" in modern English, but since it also sounded similar to faux, meaning "false", it was also associated with deceit and trickery ; the idiom estriller Fauvel literally meant "to groom the fallow one" but idiomatically meant "to lie or trick people".

Then in the 1300s we get the French poem Roman de Fauvel, a satirical poem about a fauve horse, whose name is derived both from the color and from the fact that FAVVEL is an acronym of Flaterie, Avarice, Vilanie, Varieté, Envie, Lascheté (Flattery, Greed, Vileness, Fickleness, Envy, and Cowardice) - all the different vices that this horse embodies.

Fauvel (purportedly modeled after Enguerrand de Marigny [source], an advisor to King Philip IV) is a sinful, conniving, and very rich horse who has various religious and secular leaders fawning over him and brushing him; it was well-known enough that "grooming Fauvel" came to mean "sucking up to someone powerful" more than just "being evil", and when it was translated into English the grooming was translated as currying, which specifically is grooming a horse with a curry comb [wiktionary]. From this we got the Middle English expression "currying Fauvel", which then mutated via folk etymology (in the "reinterpretation of unfamiliar words as more familiar ones" sense, not the "people are wrong about etymology" sense) into "currying favor".

Curry favor in:

Wiktionary: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/curry_favor

Merriam-Webster: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/curry%20favor

Etymonline: https://www.etymonline.com/word/curry

[pmamtraveller]

by Vasilisa Romanenko

[heylazzy]

laundry day

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Hideaki Miyamura’s iridescent-glazed ceramics

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Dorota Sroka

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Andreas Achenbach

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Sarah Targett

[thatwelshartist]

Couple of Thieves

I really like the colours you get on magpies, what at first glance looks like a other black and white bird is actually full of these wonderfully iridescent greens and purples

just a really spectacular animal

[classicalcanvas]

The Daryal canyon (1862) by Ivan Aivazovsky

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