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transfemme-shelterdog

French people when you call it bukake and not "nut a la visage" and shibari instead of "corde attacher l'submissive"

transfemme-shelterdog

Pisse? In le pantalons???

Mon tabarnak j'vais te décâlisser la yeule, câlice!

your-dewey-decimal-number-is

440s and 306.777

french and fetishes

passionslikemine

And courtesy of @transfemme-shelterdog, we can also add

447.9714 Québécois

#dewey #dewey decimal system #library science #libraries

your-dewey-decimal-number-is

This may have been asked before, but does the Dewey Decimal system fall under any number?

0xx: information and general knowledge 02x: library science 025: library administration/departments 025.4: subject analysis and control 025.43: general classification systems 025.431: dewey decimal system

#library science #Dewey decimal system #libraries

nerdybitch

Hellblazer story where John has to deal with a weeping angel-esque situation with statues coming alive, except it's specifically those weirdly terrifying statues on Crosby Beach in Liverpool

there is 100 of these things along the beach.

#these are cursed as fuck looking and I love it #john constantine #hellblazer

visenyaism

Insane tumblr ad pull

visenyaism

Twitter ads try to turn you into a Nazi, Bluesky tries to turn you into an Elizabeth Warren staffer, TikTok ads try to turn you into one of those radical centrist incoherent political assassins. But Tumblr. Tumblr ads are trying to turn me into a fucking Jacobite

passionslikemine

I’m trying to imagine telling my parents I’m a Jacobite and I honestly think my dad, Rabbie Burns stan that he is, would disown me on the spot. “Did I teach you nothing?!” he’d yell, while Ye Jacobites By Name plays in the background.

#tumblr ads are trying to turn me into a fucking Jacobite

leaslichoma

Apparently in China peach wood (Along with the rest of the plant) is believed to have properties that repel evil spirits, a little similar to silver in European legends or iron for both European fae and West Asian/Middle eastern Jinn. Taoists sometimes keep swords made of peach wood because of this. This made me realize something. If you took a peach wood stick, and attached studs to it of both silver and iron you'd end up with a club or staff (or mace, flail etc.) that would have the weaknesses of many kinds of supernatural creatures while still retaining effectiveness as a normal weapon (peach is a hardwood and silver's poor edge retention doesn't matter for studs). You could even keep adding new stud materials to get something ridiculous that affects over 120 catalogued folkloric monsters. Since you just need a few little studs you could even get some really expensive materials like meteoric iron (a thumb tip sized meteorite can still cost like 10-20 bucks I think). I could somewhat feasibly make a weapon that affects every monster ever thought to walk the earth, from vampires and werewolves to jinn and jiangshi and even mankind.

my-random-fandoms

thetrekkiehasthephonebox

Verified: Microsoft 365 gets massive 45% price hike — and it's all to do with AI tools (Tom's Guide - January 17, 2025)

mothwizard

oopsie i tripped and spilled my link to archive dot org's downloadable copy of Microsoft office suite for 2007, which features no AI tools and is a powerful word processor that still holds up just fine on windows 10!

#free stuff #resources #microsoft

tchinoquenonai

…. nothing has changed. Still I eat dirt and keep my shadow for company. Year 1204 of the Lord, in August

epitaph no. 6 from Nenad Tasović’s Bosnian Tombstones (1994), p. 6

(...) And when spring comes for who knows what time, my crazed bones too would wish to follow the scent of some old, secret and strange loves. And that is what my life was like. In my dreams I was like a mountain, in my thoughts like a knight, but in life – a dog. Do not turn over my stone, for you might see what you too will look like. On the twentieth day of February, in the year of Our Lord 1165

from epitaph no. 10, p. 7

... and when it rains you cannot understand the way I can, how disappointing it is for a cloud to turn into rain. Year of the Lord 1174, if I didn't miscount

epitaph no. 18, p. 10

(...) And here am I, and when you make yourself believe you're something other than what you are, simply throw a glance at my stone. And the silence will tell you everything. 1429 in the cold month of December, but I am no longer cold

from epitaph no 28, p. 14

And here is Trtisa's stone. I lived peacefully, praying to God and thinking no evil. Here where my stone stands, I was killed by lightning. Why, God? May the hands that would tear down this stone before I get my answer be cursed and accursed. In the year of Our Lord 1174

epitaph no. 35, p. 18

Here lies Sulduk, and the stone had been dedicated by [his] father. God, give the dream of his soul peace; as for You and I, may we settle the score. You are Three in one, and I am now alone; but even alone afraid of You Three I'm not. If injustice is the Will of God, it is my fate to be against God. Son of man, do not desecrate my son's stone, and may it remain what it is, a testament to God's mistake. Do not ask for the peace of my soul; for my soul cannot find its peace either in this world or the next. Year 1135

epitaph no. 37, p. 19

... in this endless silence I sense the presence and portent not of God's footsteps, but yours. If this may be God's punishment, then even in this punishment my mad heart finds joy.

excerpt from an unsigned and undated epitaph, p. 24

... for the sky exists so that you could, thinking you're about to leap into eternity, have an easier time leaping into nothing.

excerpt from an unsigned and undated epitaph, p. 24.

#epitaph 35 hurts something fierce #Bosnian tombstones #nenad azinin tanović #poetry #bosnia

noosferik

Tombstone from 1451

(tr. The Shapes of Bosnian Souls)

tchinoquenonai

this is the forty-seventh epitaph listed in Nenad Azijus Tanović's The Shapes of Bosnian Souls (2006). the latter is one man’s compilation of Mediaeval Bosnian vernacular poetry – except it’s actually not merely a compilation, but a poetry collection, including poems penned by Tanović (like the Herbarium of Lost Souls, stitched together from fragments of multiple different epitaphs). at the very least, it’s a transformative work – and for a lay reader like me, it’s just about impossible to distinguish genuine Mediaeval epitaphs from Tanović’s own poems, much less gauge how much did Tanović modify the epitaphs he chose to include into his collection. like, for instance – would any subject of Stephen Thomas refer to him as “Stephen Kotromanić”? Stephen is not a name, for one, but a title – though maybe there was a taboo on using the king’s personal name in 15th century Bosnia for all I know – and, more importantly, would they attach any significance to his descent from Kotroman (as opposed to, say, his descent from Stephen Ostoja)? if this epitaph had originally come with a date, and the dating is not Tanović’s own, I’d be really curious to see how did the original look like. see what I mean?

the book gives off the vibe of being written for an international audience – which isn’t, like, a bad thing, but works about Bosnia written for Anglophones tend to have a certain… aesthetico-ideological inclination I’m not fond of. oh well. notably, Tanović (as “Nenad Azinin Tanović”) wrote another, much less polished work on Mediaeval Bosnian epitaphs in the middle of the Bosnian War – Bosnian Tombstones, published in 1994. that one does actually seem to merely present a list of epitaphs, all(?) of whom found their way into the expanded 2006 collection. the 1994 collection is a little over thirty pages long; the forty-seventh epitaph shown above seems to be missing. I can’t help but notice the 2006 collection is missing a statement at the end of the one from 1994, through which Tanović renounced authorship of the epitaphs listed in the collection; unlike the 1994 collection, the 2006 also lacks a bibliography. not the best sign…

#poetry #bosnia #nenad azinin tanović

lyraisnotonfire

favorite thing about tumblr is having a fandom in law. no i haven't watched this show and i'm not planning to. but my moot is having fun!! look how much they love it!!! i'm supportive from the sidelines!

#me @ saw fans #I watched the first film many moons ago and I don’t know how I did it #way too gruesome for me nowadays #but I like seeing y’all having fun #fandom

I know I don’t actually need to explain my reasoning to anyone, but it would be nice if the answer to the question “why are you studying this language in particular?” could be:

“I just think it’s neat”

and that answer not be taken to have some deeper hidden meaning. I have studied languages for reasons other than “because it’s neat” — Spanish because I was learning it from an early age and had a passion for learning languages but also limited options; Swedish out of necessity and eventually out of a desire to master it beyond simple competency — but I don’t want to study Russian for political or economic reasons. I just think it would be neat to be able to understand it when there’s a lot of people who speak it. I’m not sure where or when I’ll find the time or energy to make that possible, but I hope I do.

#arguably there will always be political reasons for studying one language over another #but there is a point where you’re just extrapolating so much that it’s exhausting