𓃗
Doug Jones
Show & Tell
The Stonewall Inn
gracie abrams
occasionally subtle
blake kathryn
EXPECTATIONS
Monterey Bay Aquarium
I'd rather be in outer space 🛸
hello vonnie
❣ Chile in a Photography ❣
Andulka
Not today Justin
todays bird
The Bowery Presents
Origami Around
🩵 avery cochrane 🩵
#extradirty
Game Changer & Make Some Noise
seen from Iraq
seen from United Kingdom
seen from Australia
seen from Germany
seen from Saudi Arabia
seen from Türkiye
seen from Germany
seen from Colombia
seen from United States
seen from Ecuador
seen from Germany
seen from United States
seen from Malaysia
seen from Kenya
seen from United States
seen from United Kingdom
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Germany
seen from United States
@pipkin-the-hellion
Is there a word for like Paywallification? For when the service itself has not gotten worse, but what was initially free has become paywalled.
Because I want to call it enshittification but that's not exactly right. The service is still good and I still want access to it, but the thing that used to be free now wants $50/month. And no. No to that and honestly fuck you for even asking
Never stop hating
reblogs were off
The fun thing about finnish is that formal written finnish is technically speaking a distinct dialect that's different from all spoken dialects, and while fiction is almost always written with written finnish, many authors will have the dialogue spelled out in spoken dialects to give the text more "real", naturally flowing flavour.
Someone speaking written finnish in casual day-to-day life usually means one of two things - either the speaker is somewhere on the autism spectrum (not a diagnostic criteria, but one of those "I've never seen a neurotypical person do that" things) or they speak finnish as a second language. And I don't know how to say this without sounding condescending, but I love hearing it, it's so charming. Like you stepped straight out of a 19th century play.
Standing in the line to a public bathroom, there's a man talking on the phone, speaking in finnish with a distinct accent, going "I understand, darling. Love. My love. Beloved, I understand. I understand. I will make my way there. Yes, I understand. I will make my way to you. Two hours."
And now that I wrote that out, I can see that there is no way to express in english just how delightfully formal and "writing a love letter with ink on paper to your beloved promising to come back from the war" it sounds when someone in finnish says "rakkaani, minä ymmärrän, minä tulen luoksesi."
@ozyga fun thing actually! The finnish written language was deliberately intentionally constructed during the 1500s during protestant reformation, in order to translate the bible into the peoples' own language. The concept of finns as a distinct people - not to mention a nation - was not even regarded as a valid thing. Finland wasn't occupied as much as just the isolated eastern half of the Swedish kingdom, whose peasants just happened to speak their own rural peasant language.
The reason why finnish is written so strictly exactly the same way it's pronounced is because the people who wrote it down were men of the church, who spoke the language as their "home language" but were educated in latin. Finnish was written down the way it phonetically sounded to people who could read and write latin.
And while I will now pause to aknowledge that the "fathers of the finnish language" were Problematic™ by 21st century Tumblr standards, the written form of finnish was constructed by intentionally mixing together different dialects of the spoken language, to tie them all together to an uniform standardised common finnish.
IT’S MARCH
Uh… It’s still May…
It’s august
The way that most of Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories’ most horrible villains are rich dudes that are abusive to women, in a time such as the 1880’s, compels me.
There’s a whole subset of Sherlock Holmes stories that could be labeled Asshole Guys Try to Control Women’s Money.
Yup, there’s a huge number of times where Sherlock Holmes is the ONLY person to take a young woman’s complaint or worry seriously and finds out someone is up to some serious evil. Holmes also shows a lot of compassion and empathy with the victims over and over again. (This is why I find “Secretly a woman” or “Trans” Holmes headcanons much more convincing than “sociopath” Holmes.)
I am never going to shut up about how much I specifically love The Adventure of The Copper Beeches because it is literally Sherlock Holmes listening to a young lady he does not know except as a potential client, agreeing with her that a potential job she has interviewed for that she thinks is SUPER SKETCHY is, indeed, sketchy as fuck and when she says she’s probably gonna take the job anyways because the money is good and she needs it going “OKAY I GUESS but for the love of god please write to us so we know you’re okay we will literally drop everything and jump on a train if you want us to”.
The job turns out to indeed be sketchy as fuck, she writes to them, Holmes and Watson drop everything and jump on a train when she asks them to. I read this story for the first time when I was twelve and it made a HUGE impression.
This is also the basis for a lot of speculation about Holmes’ family life. The idea that he has been a victim of abuse, or his mother was abused (or even murdered by his father.) There’s definitely SOMETHING that makes him very aware of how dangerous isolated families can be, and the dark things that can happen behind closed doors. Plus, of course, the motivation to devote himself to stopping crime. And yes, so much of it is of the personal type.
dude see this is one aspect of the original books i NEVER understand why modern remakes (cough cough) don’t go all in on. Like, in the 21th c we HAVE all the dumb forensic shit that made Victorian Holmes stand out, but we STILL DON’T HAVE uh….you know, compassion for women and minorities, or the willingness to believe them, adequate community support for domestic violence or hate crimes, etc. etc. which you’d think is exactly where a renegade consulting detective would come in handy. A good modern day Sherlock Holmes remake, instead of trying to convince us that Holmes is some super genius for being better than fingerprint analysis or whatever, could have him just be…a good person who helps out people the police can’t and won’t help. There you go. That’s how to write a relevant modern Holmes.
One thing that annoys me is how much the BBC version of Sherlock (and the fandom around it) focus on police cases or cold cases. In the stories, Holmes’ bread and butter cases had fuck-all to do with the police and in a few stories, he actively works around/against them, or outright lies to them. Of the many, many things I wish that show had done differently, this is one is particularly obnoxious since it’s such a gimme.
There were very few actual murder cases in the Canon, and Holmes handled them either one of two ways:
Option one: The murder victim was innocent while the killer was an abusive bastard, see Speckled Band. Conclusion, arrest and have the killer charged (Or in the case of Speckled Band, indirectly murder him yourself then shrug and go home)
Option two: The victim was murdered to protect someone that the victim was abusing, or for vengeance, see Boscombe Valley, Devil’s Foot, Abbey Grange. Conclusion, Oops, I don’t know who the killer is, I am suddenly incompetent, oh look a pheasant.
#my favorite murder in holmes canon#is when they straight up witness a lady murder her blackmailer#do nothing except destroy his other blackmail material#and then straight up lie to lestrade about it#sherlock holmes#more of this in modern adaptations pls (via @cactusspatz )
Let’s not forget the time Holmes helps a young woman who’s being catfished by her own stepfather to steal her inheritance, and when the villain sneers that the law can’t touch him, Holmes grabs a horsewhip out of sheerest chivalry.
So, the most canon-accurate iteration of Sherlock Holmes in the last few decades is actually Benoit Blanc….
I think it’s also important to note, and complicates our ideas about what the highly patriarchal/misogynistic society of 19th century England looked like, that these stories SOLD
they were POPULAR
the Victorians LIKED reading about women who won out over shitty men in their lives, even when that plotline reaffirmed a woman’s power and agency or put an active sexist in his place (ie Irene Adler besting Holmes)
which is fascinating in light of. you know. [gestures broadly at all of Victorian gender dynamics, laws, etc.]
So yes, Benoit Blanc is the best modern Sherlock.
Googled something about quick hydration and it suggested big jug of water, couple tbsp pickle juice, dash of lime juice.
Its surprisingly tasty????
Pleased to report that after a day of this i am not longer craving caper brine and my mouth is not dry as usual. There's some good suggestions in the notes too that I want to try.
-ancient roman posca: water, red or white wine vinegar, honey, salt, herbs (coriander, mint, thyme)
-switchel: water, ginger, vinegar, sweetener, lemon, salt
-ayran: yogurt, water, salt, mint
-Agua pepino: water, cucumbers, lime, sugar, optional mint.
I have been reminded of:
-shrub: vinegar, sida water, elderberry (or other berry), sugar.
I have now been informed of
-sekanjabin: honey, vinegar, mint, water.
"Wow, I wonder why this post was popular this week."
-sees the reports of the heatwave in Europe-
"... ah."
character misses their shot and the villain goes "ha! you missed." and the main character goes "did i?" and then shoots the villain again while they're frantically looking around the room for what the hero could possibly have aiming for instead
i hate the notes on this so much so many people are saying shit like "and then the hero shoots the villain while they're looking around!! XD" THAT'S WHAT THE POST ALREADY SAID. THAT'S THE ENTIRE JOKE.
There's a Pukicho post like this I need to find it
Edit: found it
maybe... they DIDN'T miss part of the post...! (starts frantically looking around)
(i shoot you while youre looking around)
and then while i'm frantically looking around you shoot me for real this time XD
Omg you missed part of the post
did i? 😏
(frantically looks around)
(i raise my gun to shoot you while you're distracted but the bullet i already fired ricochets all around the room and hits me in the back of the head, killing me instantly)
How dare you say we miss on the poor
in more pleasant news: this year is seeing the biggest humpback migration in Australian history, bigger than it was PRE whaling. That's right, there are more humpbacks migrating off the coast of Australia than there were BEFORE industrial whaling started.
A huge, fat W for environmentalists and Greenies. what an achievement
we did it! we saved the fucking whales!!!!
Once hunted almost to extinction, the population of humpback whales currently migrating down Australia's east coast has bounced back and is
Further info for those interested
from The Memory Palace, by Nate DiMeo
hey don't cry. 7,401 species of frog in the world, ok?
IMPORTANT UPDATE: 7,532 species of frog in the world, ok?!
great news! 7,556 species of frog in the world, ok?!
hey don't cry, now there are 7,576 species of frog in the world, ok?!
excellent news! 7,591 species of frog in the world, peace and love on planet earth
guess what! 7,624 species of frog on planet earth, ok?
hey don't cry, 7,645 species of frog on planet earth, ok? peace and love on planet autism
great news! 7,653 species of frog on planet earth, ok?
hey don't cry. 7,670 species of frog on planet earth, ok?
new year new frogs! 7,678 species of frog on planet earth, ok?
hey don't cry. 7,683 species of frog in the world, ok? ❤️
hey don't cry. 7,698 species of frog in the world, peace and love on planet earth
hey don’t cry. 7,701 species of frog in the world, ok?
@markscherz how many of these do we get to thank you for again?
95 at present, more on the way :)
hey don't cry. 95 species of frog discovered by tumblr's own frog scientist dr. mark scherz, ok?
hey don't cry. 7,758 species of frog in the world, yippee!
hey don't cry. 7,806 species of frog in the world, ok?
hey don’t cry. 7,817 species of frog in the world, peace and love on planet autism 💖
hey don't cry. 7,836 species of frog in the world, ok?
hey don't cry. 7,864 species of frog in the world, yay!
hey don't cry. 7,935 species of frog in the world, yippeeeeee
HEY DON'T CRY. 8,008 SPECIES OF FROG IN THE WORLD PER AMPHIBIAWEB AND THE 8,000TH FROG WAS DESCRIBED BY TUMBLR'S OWN FROG SCIENTIST DR. Scherz, ET AL., PEACE AND LOVE ON PLANET EARTH ‼️‼️‼️
@joy-and-whimsy-official SO MANY FROGS !!!! WHAT A PERFECT TIME TO BE ALIVE
Joy and whimsy detected! So many frogs! And they are all so joyful and whimsical! Happy birthday frogs!
(What are you supposed to say when frogs get discovered? Happy discovery day?)
the actual main difference between data and spock is that data is almost completely sincere the majority of the time meanwhile spock is mostly lying or being a bitch for fun
bugs annoy me
The amount of slavery in Ancient Rome was legitimately terrifying tbh
Y’all know that I’m into ancient Roman history and I do a lot of research on it but even though I should be used to it by now sometimes I read an anecdote about how an individual slave was treated and I’m hit with the realization that like a third of the population was living like that and I just need to put my head in my hands for a second
Emperor Hadrian randomly stabbed a slave in the eye in a fit of rage and he was supposedly unusually sympathetic to slaves.
There’s other instances of people randomly punching slaves that they didn’t even know because they got in their way or something. This was just normal behavior.
And slaves didn’t rebel en masse because if even one slave committed an act of violent rebellion it was common practice to kill every slave and former slave in the household.
People only took notice for posterity when these mass executions got into the hundreds of people. One of the few recorded for the history books is of over 400 people being killed because one guy stabbed his enslaver.
Like how many people throughout history were beaten to death because some rich asshole was angry and there was no legal or social consequences for doing so? We don’t know.
When you study ancient history you’re reminded that slavery has never once been kind or justified. It just takes on different forms of evil in every time and place that it infects.
Lurking under this is also the fact that most Roman mining operations were done by slaves in conditions that were far more brutal than those of household slaves, to the point that sending a slave to the mines is a threat I’ve read leveraged multiple times in separate texts
also Rome’s slavery is considered chattel slavery.
Today is the only day you can reblog this
Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” that was written in 1950 is set on the day of August 4th, 2026 (tomorrow)!! Now’s your chance to read it around the time it’s based in!
Audio: A recording of Leonard Nimoy reading it on Internet Archive.
Text: A PDF version.
Graphic Novel: On Internet Archive.
I used to set this one for second year undergraduate creative writing seminars on writing science fiction on a double bill with Octavia E. Butler's "Bloodchild" and no-one here gets out alive.
!!!! Today is the only chance we’ll ever have to listen to this absolute banger of apocalyptic fiction on the very day the story is set 😲✨
Nemoy’s voice is PERFECT in this!
(A content warning if you do listen - the dog dies, though it’s not super graphic)
I paused the robot vacuum so I could listen to this 1950’s story predicting the robot vacuum.
what the fuck. theres not even a fucking joke here. its just the fucking alphabet. i was expecting some kind of fucking meme like “gun” or “john cena” or something like that but no its just the fucking alphabet. here. on tumblr.com. 26 users just fucking banded together to write the alphabet. what the fuck, man.
I think the update broke them, and almost everyone else.
16
26
28
35
37
38
61
65
69 ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
70
72 …..why not….making the best out of this sad situation
73… I got so angry at this post I had to reblog it and continue
77
83
86
89 ;/
103
104
109
112
114
120
122
123
124
125
128
129
131
132 :(
I guess I’ll do 136… but did anyone else notice we’re missing 51?
137
139
51 …not missing anymore just a little confused where he should go
140… this post will continue until the end of tumblr I swear on my own goddamn grave
143…holy shit you kiddies are fuckin’ crazy
146
152
also why are so many people deactivated
158
160
161
162
168 :)
169
