In a Land When...

Between reality and imagining is this place where my life fits in...it's quite odd really.

[podkins]

How to Crochet Spiral Flowers – 10 Petal

via Youtube. 

[selana1505]

It is #shawlsharesaturday and what else could I show you but my recently finished Fire Dragon shawl? Test knitting will start soon and pattern will most likely be released in the second half of August. If you don’t want to miss it, you can sign up for my newsletter via the link on my profile. There is a 40% coupon waiting for new subscribers. #indiesunite #knittersofinstagram #knitstagram #instaknit #shawlsaturday #shawlknitting #laceknitting #knitdesign #selanasdesigns #handarbeitskram

[knitforbrains]

I NEED THIS PATTERN!

[srsfunny]

This Makes Me Uncomfortable

[kristoffblogman]

I hate tumblr as much as the next guy but at least we still see dashboard posts in chronological order instead of the bullshit random order of instagram and facebook where stuff from days ago appears right below stuff that was just posted

[demonius-darkblade]

[altonzm-deactivated20170213]

french recipes: if you’re not making this in paris then what’s the point. fuck you

italian recipes: use the left leg meat of a pig from one of three farms in this specific area of tuscany, or from this day my grandmother will begin manifesting physically in your house

[thirdtimecharmed]

american recipes: buy these three cans of stuff and put them in a pan congrats you cooked

[svynakee]

chinese recipes, as handed down from mother to child: season it with a pinch of this and some of that. you want to know the exact amount? feel it in your heart. ask the stars. yell into the void. 

[orriculum]

English recipes: boil and salt it. Okay that’s it enjoy

[digitalfare]

Greek recipes: You followed all the right steps but this isn’t quite right. I don’t know what to tell you.

[jamesandlilys]

Australia recipes: chuck it on the barbie

[monsterhighalumni]

Latinx recipes: you will never make it better than your abuela, face the facts

[megatrcn]

Filipino recipes: add rice and soy sauce and some more rice MORE RICE MORE RICE MORE

[merak-zoran]

Serbian Recipes: everything is salad. Ajvar? Salad. A single whole hot pepper covered in oil? Salad. Cabbage? Salad. Kajmak? Salad.

[allmyemptyspace-deactivated2021]

Lebanese recipes: If you don’t have at least 3 family members cooking this dinner with you than you aren’t doing it right.

[demonessryu]

Indonesian recipes: have you added spices? Add some just in case. Eat with rice. It’s not a proper meal until there’s rice in it. You just had bread/burger/cake/pizza? Eat rice anyway or you’ll die of starvation

Bonus Javanese recipes: Have you added sugar? What do you mean it’s meant to be salty/sour/spicy/something else? ADD SUGAR.TO IT

[silver-millennial]

Canadian recipes: Well part of the directions are in metric but you have imperial measuring cups. I hope you like math because we’re going to find out how many gallons in a litre and how many millimetres are in a cup.

[stammsternenstaub]

Swedish recipes: Assemble all the beige items you have in your kitchen. Great. now add raw red onions, dill and salt and white pepper. if u prefer it blander, don’t do the last things. consider serving it with jam

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

Norwegian recipes: listen after three days skiing uphill you will eat anything so stop complaining.

[loonydoc13]

Indian recipes: spend two weeks digging the required spices out of your cupboards. Chop onions until you cry. Fry onions with spices until evey pore in your body is open, let the fragrance seep into your skin, become one with the curry.

[athenastudying-deactivated20220]

german recipes: this meal isn’t what you think it is. it has 164 different names in different regions. it’s either made of potatoes, served with potatoes, or it’s cake. there’s a 50% chance it’s actually austrian, but don’t tell anyone.

[ay-federico-garcia]

belarusian recipes: “cook over a slow fire until done”. how many degrees is a slow fire? when is “done”? what am i even cooking there’s no picture and the only ingredients are honey and cornflower

[enjouyer]

turkish recipes: “if you do this, there’s really -REALLY- good change that you’ll die because everything is too spicy or too sweet but here we go”

[andromxche]

romanian recipes: if you don’t already know the ingredients and directions by heart then what are we doing here

[ginys]

Brazilian recipes: make an extra sweet (preferably with chocolate) version of other culture’s food (sushis, hot dogs, pizzas, kibes, sfeehas, spaghetti made of chocolate; strawberry sashimis, banana burritos…)

[notahotlibrarian]

American South recipes: put a stick of butter in it.  Oh, you already put butter in? Well, bless your heart honey, but go ahead and put another stick of butter in there.

[markwatneythespacepirate]

Polish Recipes: potato? Potato.

[darkstrangevirgilanxiboi]

Lithuanian Recipes : You’ll need mushrooms from THIS EXACT forest , and good luck knowing what spices you need because every version of this recipe is different ,you’ll either cook it too long or too little and it won’t taste the way you remember it from childhood ADD MORE MUSHROOMS FROM THE ROOTS OF THE TWELFTH TREE IN THIS FOREST

[viking-badger]

Croatian recipes: add vegeta. did you put some vegeta? i need you to put some vegeta there

[akasztofavirag-por]

Hungarian recipes: add more paprika and/or sour cream. More. More. MORE. And if you mention that you find it too greasy/spicy, you’re disrespecting our ancestors back to Attila the Hun.

[prokopetz]

I think people often underestimate the potential educational value of senseless memes. For example, thanks to Spiders Georg, literally every teenager on Tumblr has a reasonable grasp of what a statistical outlier is and the sorts of problems that outliers can introduce into a naïve analysis. There are grown adults who don’t get that - I deal with them on a daily basis.

[confusedbyinterface]

“Memes have educational value” actually statistical error. Average meme teaches 0 facts. Spiders Georg is an outlier adn should not be counted

[studyingisfortheweekend-blog]

Top 100 most common French verbs

1. Être ~ to be 

2. Avoir ~ to have

3. Pouvoir ~ to be able (can)

4. Faire ~ to do; to make

5. Mettre ~ to put; to place

6. Dire ~ to say; to tell

7. Devoir ~ to have to, must, to owe

8. Prendre ~ to take; to catch; to capture

9. Donner ~ to give; to produce

10. Aller ~ to go

11. Vouloir ~ to want; to wish

12. Savoir ~ to know

13. Falloir ~ to have to

14. Voir ~ to see

15. Demander ~ to ask; to request

16. Trouver ~ to find; to discover

17. Rendre ~ to return (something); to give back

18. Venir ~ to come

19. Passer ~ to pass; to go past

20. Comprendre ~ to understand; to include; to comprehend

21. Rester ~ to stay; to remain

22. Tenir ~ to hold; to keep

23. Porter ~ to carry; to wear

24. Parler ~ to speak; to talk

25. Montrer ~ to show; to display

26. Continuer ~ to continue

27. Penser ~ to think

28. Suivre ~ to follow; to pay attention

29. Connaître ~ to know; to be acquainted with 

30. Croire ~ to believe in

31. Commencer ~ to begin; to start; to commence

32. Compter ~ to count

33. Entendre ~ to hear; to understand

34. Attendre ~ to wait; to expect

35. Remettre ~ to put back (on); to replace; to deliver

36. Appeler ~ to call; to contact

37. Permettre ~ to permit; to allow; to enable

38. Occuper ~ to occupy; to take up (space/time)

39. Devenir ~ to become, to grow (into); to turn (into)

40. Partir ~ to leave; to depart; to proceed

41. Décider ~ to decide; to persuade

42. Arriver ~ to arrive; to happen

43. Servir ~ to serve

44. Sembler ~ to seem

45. Revenir ~ to return; to come back

46. Laisser ~ to leave; to allow; to let

47. Recevoir ~ to receive; to welcome

48. Répondre ~ to reply; to answer

49. Vivre ~ to live

50. Rappeler ~ to call back; to remind

51. Présenter ~ to present; to introduce

52. Accepter ~ to accept

53. Agir ~ to act

54. Poser ~ to put down; to pose; to lay (something) down

55. Jouer ~ to play; to act; to gamble

56. Reconnaître ~ to recognize; to acknowledge 

57. Choisir ~ to choose; to select

58. Toucher ~ to touch; to feel; to affect

59. Aimer ~ to like; to love

60. Retrouver ~ to find; to regain; to meet up

61. Perdre ~ to lose; to waste

62. Expliquer ~ to explain; to account for

63. Considérer ~ to consider; to study

64. Ouvrir ~ to open (up)

65. Gagner ~ to win; to earn; to gain

66. Exister ~ to exist

67. Refuser ~ to refuse

68. Lire ~ to read

69. Réussir ~ to succeed

70. Changer ~ to change; to alter

71. travailler ~ to work

72. Représenter ~ to represent; to depict; to portray

73. Assurer ~ to secure; to assure; to insure

74. Essayer ~ to try; to attempt

75. Empêcher ~ to prevent; to stop

76. Sortir ~ to go out; to leave; to exit; to come out

77. Reprendre ~ to resume; to recover; to take back

78. Mener ~ to lead; to conduct

79. Appartenir ~ to belong ~ to concern

80. Risquer ~ to risk

81. Concerner ~ to concern; to affect

82. Apprendre ~ to learn; to teach; to hear of 

83. Rencontrer ~ to meet; to encounter

84. Créer ~ to create; to build

85. Obtenir ~ to obtain; to get

86. Chercher ~ to look for; to seek

87. Entrer ~ to enter; to go in

88. Proposer ~ to suggest; to propose; to offer

89. Apporter ~ to bring; to cause

90. Utiliser ~ to use; to employ

91. Atteindre ~ to reach; to attain; to achieve

92. Tenter ~ to tempt

93. Importer ~ to import; to matter

94. Ajouter ~ to add

95. Produire ~ to produce

96. Préparer ~ to prepare (something); to make

97. Relever ~ to raise; to stand up; to pick up

98. Écrire ~ to write

99. Défendre ~ to defend; to stand up for; to forbid

100. Tirer ~ to pull; to draw (curtains, sword, etc); to fire (gun); to print

[moffatlove]

I sometimes wonder if people who prefer the Russell T Davies era ever actually watched it.

[the-wolf-in-the-police-box]

Wow a Moffat Stan choosing style over substance what a surprise.

“It’s not Shiny and Pretty so it’s bad!1!!11!”

[moffatlove]

What substance?

[the-wolf-in-the-police-box]

Love and Monsters: An episode about a group of people with complex backstories (losing children to drugs, having their mother killed when they were a child) who bond over the Doctor. Manipulated and killed. Subplot about Jackie Tyler dealing with never knowing when her daughter will be home, if she ever comes home, and the shit she has to put up with because of it.

      “Let me tell you something about those who get left behind. Because it’s hard. And that’s what you become, hard. But if there’s one thing I’ve learnt, it’s that I will never let her down. And I’ll protect them both until the end of my life. So whatever you want, I’m warning you, back off.”

It parallels Elton (who lost his mother) and even Bridget (who lost her daughter), who got involved with LINDA as a coping mechanism for being left behind.

It’s also got a great ending speech:

       ”you know, when you’re a kid, they tell you it’s all, grow up, get a job, get married, get a house, have a kid, and that’s it. But the truth is, the world is so much stranger than that. It’s so much darker, and so much madder. And so much better.”

A message that RTDs Doctor tries to convey in almost every episode.

Frequently dismissed by people because “lol monster not scary”. Maybe if he was a stone angel with some pointy teeth…

Space Pig: Clearly not meant to be taken seriously. Designed to be obviously not an alien to the audience, to show the gullibility of humans and their tendency to overreact and act violently when faced with the unknown, as the soldiers did when they shot him to death when he clearly showed no threat. Also, meant as a DISTRACTION for the overreacting humans so that the real alien threat could put the world on red alert and they could get ahold of nuclear weapons.

Scribble: A product of an emotionally disturbed child from an abusive home where her only living family member refuses to give her closure of the abusive part of her childhood.

Slitheen: Skinned human beings and wore their pelt. Intended to use nuclear weapons to destroy the planet to sell for profit. A clear symbol for the destructiveness of corporate greed. But like “lol it fart and green so it bad”, right?

Lazarus: Tried to play god and delay the inevitability of aging and death. It resulted in him becoming quite literally a monster who’s fears and selfishness made him disregard other’s lives. 

       ”It doesn’t work like that. Some people live more in twenty years than others do in eighty. It’s not the time that matters, it’s the person.”

Everything ends. That’s a common theme in Davies work. He’s informing us that death is inevitable but it doesn’t have to be horrible if we make the most of what we have.

Shrivelled Ten: The Master purposefully made the Doctor pathetic and weak to destroy the will of the people of earth. The Doctor is a symbol of hope, and if you weaken him then people give in to their fate.

Max Capricorn: He planned to wipe out London just to get revenge on members of the board. His inability to let go of his anger at the board is paralleled by his inability to let go of life, hence his existence as a cyborg at 200+ years of age. but “lol head on wheals, right?”

The Master: He’s completely physically unstable, because he planned his own resurrection as a means to escape the Doctor and cause the Doctor grief. His physical instability is just a visual manifestation of his emotional/mental instability. It’s symbolism Davies uses to get his point to the audience. 

Chloe Webber: Already addressed this a bit, but I’ll continue. Chloe was being possessed by another child who she felt kinship to, because she literally had no one. She had no way to communicate to other children because of the emotional distress her father caused, and her mother also had emotional distress which caused her to not be able to communicate with Chloe about her father. The means the Isolus uses to get to Chloe is hardly relevant when you put it into the perspective of WHY she targetted Chloe.

Tinkerten: This is admittedly a Deus Ex Machina, but it’s a decently executed one, because the story arc is intended to take a backseat to character and emotional one. From a narrative perspective, Martha’s journey is less about finding a solution to the Master and more about her coming in to her own person. Furthermore, the God Symbolism is used for a reason, so it can be deconstructed (as RTD tends to do), as the minute he survives, he’s punished for his hubris. His self-righteousness (forgiving the master) leads to the Master deciding to leave him alone in the universe, and later leads to Martha leaving, as he caused a HUGE rift in her family life.

RTD knew he was writing a kids show. He took serious stories and complex emotional arcs, and buried then under sixty feet of silly to get them accross to the young audience, as he should. Moffat, however, takes silly nonsensical stories and shallow emotional “arcs”, changes the chronological order, ads some scary monsters and flowery speeches, and thinks himself mature.

I read somewhere that RTD’s Doctor Who was a serious show pretending to be silly, and Moffat’s was a silly show pretending to be serious, and I think this all explains it well, and you’re a perfect example of the people who buy into it.

Now, tell me again why I shouldn’t prefer RTD to Moffat?

[pouahhh]

 #I WILL REBLOG IT ANYTIME IT’S ON MY DASH #BECAUSE YOU SHUT UP WITH YOUR CRITICS #GO AND LOVE YOUR MOFFAT AND HIS SPECIAL EFFECTS WITH NO SENSE #AND I PREFER THE PLOT AND EMOTIONS AND FEELS AND GREAT ACTORS AND GOOD SCRIPT

[cottognapple]

PREACH

[gzltheduck]

THIS IS THE BEST EXPLONATION WHY RTD’S ERA ALWAYS WILL BE BETTER THAN MOFFAT’S

[belovedsangi]

While I was introduced to the doctor in a moffat/gaiman episode (the doctor’s wife), it was watching RTD’S episode that made me a diehard fan of the series and it’s the seasons I tend to re-watch the most.

[aviewfrommercury-deactivated201]

Basically my thoughts on the “Millennials are Killing X” trend.

[pr1nceshawn]

Reasons Why Retail Jobs are Harder than Office Jobs.

[raverenn]

And yet people don’t think retail workers should get a living wage. I’ve literally gotten a five cent raise myself.

[fun-ta-mental]

8 cent raise right here

[randomcuriosities]

I was told by my boss in my retail job that in order for him to give me a raise, I'd have to resign, wait one month, and he'd hire me again at a slightly higher rate.

[awwww-cute]

Ohh, so where do I sit

[guy]

idk which position is my fav

[metaphorformetaphor]

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

Simone Weil  (via lesgardenias)

Jesus is the only one who can truly fill these voids. Trust Him.

(via byfaithistand)

[thescienceofapologetics]

The bible is incredibly edited. If it fits together, which is heavily does not, it's because someone arranged it to be that way. Books that didn't match up were discarded. It's nothing more than a collection of short stories, cultivated in a vain attempt to convince generations of people to pass judgement on others. There's not a shred of evidence a word of it is anything more than personal delusion. Believing is just buying into that delusion.

Actually, the Bible is the most authenticated ancient text known to man. What does that mean? A lot of things actually…

The Bible has the smallest time gap between the time it was first written and the earliest manuscripts we have. That is VERY important when we are dealing with ancient documents because it greatly increases probability of reliability. We are going to take a few moments to compare the New Testament to other ancient historical accounts that are considered trustworthy and reliable. I usually just link to this whole video but I felt like throwing in pictures this time because I’m Extra like that

By historical comparison, the earliest manuscripts we have of the New Testament were written in a shockingly short time span from when the original document was penned - a mere 50 years. But there is so much more…

Every single manuscript out of the 24,633 we have of the New Testament alone matches up virtually perfectly, which means they were copied, not edited. They were not perpetuated like a game of telephone, they are true to their original content. How does that compare to the works of other ancient text? Look how many we have of Caesar, Plato, and Tacitus in comparison to the New Testament:

The next closest in regards to the number of manuscripts we have would be Homer’s Iliad with a total of 643 manuscripts

That still leaves the Bible leading by 23,990 manuscripts.

The foundational points of Caesar’s life, the preservation of the Iliad, and the reliability of Tacitus’ writings are considered rock solid. We believe those events happened, we believe the stories told are ones the authors wrote. So why do we doubt the Bible which is FAR more trustworthy than anything else we have? 643 x 38.31 to be exact.

So internally it’s accurate, but what about externally? How do we know it is not simply the writers perpetuating a lie? Glad you asked! Next slide…

Apart from the Bible, we have 9 non-Christian outside sources and 33 Christian outside sources. That brings us to a total of 42 outside sources affirming the events and authenticity of the Bible. Compare that to the second place who would be Caesar of which we only have ten outside sources documenting his life.

We don’t doubt the events of Caesar’s life, we don’t say that there is no evidence to prove the words about him are true, we don’t claim that these other books are so heavily edited that we can no longer believe anything they say is accurate. So why do we doubt the Bible is true?

The Bible blows everything else away. It passes every test of authenticity by a massive amount. If we disregard the validity of the Bible, we have to discard everything we claim to know about ancient history because the Bible is the absolute highest standard for historical accuracy. That’s a fact. (You can watch the whole video including why the four eye-witness gospel accounts are important here)

[handsomedogs]

This is Gwen! She likes head scritches, maple bacon treats, cuddling, and zoomies.

[xchickengirlx]

[kaible-deactivated20181205]

“He’s behind me making that fucking face again. I don’t even have to turn around to know it. God damn it. I hate that goddamned stupid face he makes. God fucking damnit.”

[homiu-l]

( -__-) (◉□◉ )

[ahiddenpath]

[the-candydan-can]

This is the most important thing I have ever reblogged

[blujayonthewing]

So it occurred to me that ‘grawlix’ is sort of an obscure and specialized word, but what I didn’t know until I was googling around just now is that it was actually invented by cartoonist Mort Walker in his 1980 book The Lexicon of Comicana, in which he categorizes (and invents terminology for) all kinds of visual cues and shorthand commonly used in comics

In other news, this is now right up there with The Meaning of Liff as ‘books of made up words I desperately need to own”

[knitpool]

Important

[boweldisruptions]

heck yeah

[transhumanisticpanspermia]

“how you doing man? you’re looking pretty drunk” “surmounted by thrush”

[randomcuriosities]

@excellentquestions