I Enjoy Things

Reviving my Tumblr after 11 years away. I read speculative fiction, sew whatever I want to wear, and write terrible derivative fluff.

[herssian]

ya gotta stop caring what people think and start being extremely weird. but never cruel. i think that might save you

[myjetpack]

My cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books.

[earhartsease]

[ID: youtube comment from Hal Sawyer:

My favorite relic English still used everywhere is the word "the" used in phrases like: "the more I look at this, the stranger it seems, or "the bigger they come, the harder they fall". This "the" is not the article of any noun, it is a different word, a conjunction descended from the old English "þā", pronounced "tha" which means either "when" or "then". Back in early Middle English the structure "if - then" had not taken over and if you wanted to express an if - then relationship you said "þā whatever, þā whatever", meaning "when such-and- such, then such-and-such". "þā" sounds almost the same as "the" and the spelling of the two converged, but the meaning remained totally different. "the more, the merrier" literally means "when more, then merrier" or "if more, then merrier'; same as centuries ago.

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this is so cool

now with added wiktionary link

update, correction to this:

[image description: tweets from user Matt (official) that read, "this is not quite accurate. this 'the' comes from þȳ, the old instrumental case of the definite article. so it's like 'whereby x, therefore y' or 'by how much x, that's how much y.'

þā ... þā does indeed mean 'when ... then' in Old English, but this temporal correlative is not where we get 'the more the merrier' construction. i'm afraid someone took an OE class and mixed a few things up.

so it doesn't originally mean 'if more, then merrier' as suggested in the comment. it has always meant 'by how much more, that's how much merrier' i.e. double or triple the quantity leads to double or triple the merriment." end id.]

thanks to @wovesaxe for this addition

[hvacinth]

you want REAL enemies to lovers? they're from rival countries who wage war against one another. he steals from her, over and over again. she maims him. she's the reason he has nightmares. she's the only one who can soothe him. calf love that survives amputation. she jokes about poisoning him. he kills for her honour. she lets him do whatever he wants. he kidnaps her so she will marry him. they wear matching embroidery. she cried on their wedding night. he saved her from her fate. she saved him from his fate. he didn't marry her to become king. he became king because he wanted to marry her. they're both just two lonely kids. the gods themselves have been rooting for them.

[dissapparate]

a series of stupidly gorgeous collections ↳ paolo sebastian a/w 2014 bridal collection [+ details]

[picnic-hallae]

i would like to know

so is playing piano supposed to signify sex for these two lovebirds? because, if so, damn. i haven't seen sexual tension this thick in a kdrama since han gyul decided he loved men (and aliens?)

[picnic-hallae]

im mute

[picnic-hallae]

Starting a relationship in my senior year of college with an international student

Cultural differences don't always have to be a bummer.

[beastdw]

[mojorolls]

[bunnylitany-deactivated20241007]

[picnic-hallae]

You can just see the mispronunciation. I hate it, I love it. It's horrible. The elocutionist in me is being undone by a wink.

[fuckyeahkdramas]

[picnic-hallae]

Don't try to chop wood man, you'll just look like an idiot.

[arwenchoi]

[shura-blog1]

[oomshi]

do i have a crush on you or am i just lonely

[pickledmoomoo]

[hot-summer-wind]