The Tunnels

These are the Tunnels and Workshops of Stalag 13, where the Work is done and Schemes take Form. Here you find my own art, fics, cosplays and whatever else i may produce.

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flirting/suggestive dialogue prompts

"you owe me a kiss"

"keep it, looks better on you anyways"

"admit it, you like fighting with me"

"annoying you is what i'm best at"

"i can tell you want to kiss me right now"

"well, you're trouble, and i'm apparently into that"

"do you even realise what you do to people? to me?"

"are you sure you're not a model? i could swear i've seen your pretty face on some magezine before"

"are you trying to turn me on?"

"i dare you... to kiss me"

"careful, someone might think you actually want me"

"say my name again, it sounds good when you say it like that"

"stop glaring, love, i know you want me"

"i think i deserve a kiss, don't you?"

"what do you think would happen if i kissed you right now?"

"are you checking me out?" - "like a book"

"if you ever need someone to teach you how to make out with someone, i'm always free for you to call"

"don't act innocent, you had me pinned down pretty well last night"

"i've been thinking about you all day, not gonna lie"

"what's your ideal type?" - "you"

"you're quite the troublemaker, sweetheart"

"what a lovely sight to wake up to"

"you look like a dream, love"

"i'm in the mood to tease you today"

"on a scale of one-to-ten, how mad would you be if i kissed you right now?"

"you know you love me"

"who's the most beautiful person you've ever seen?" - "the person who just asked me that question"

"i really like your outfit, too bad it won't leave this room in one piece"

"did anyone ever tell you how hot (colour) makes you look?"

"people keep asking me if you're my boyfriend/girlfriend and i'm loving it"

"you know, wouldn't hurt to give me a try"

"you should totally just lean in and kiss me right now"

"miss me? i know you did"

"if i win this race/competition, i get a kiss. deal?"

[cherryjennn]

[cillianmurphys-world]

Cillian Murphy who Plays Tommy Shelby in Peaky Blinders at the premiere of series three at the Mailbox in Birmingham

[chic-a-gigot]

L'Art et la mode, no. 5, vol. 47, 30 janvier 1926, Paris. Robe de crêpe de Chine "châtaigne" garnie de biais piqués créée par Nicole Groult, 29, Rue d'Anjou. Bibliothèque nationale de France

[cherryjennn]

People who say cillian Murphy's acting is stoic and cold have never seen cillian Murphy act

[00cillian]

happy December 🦌❄️

[propertyofjameswilson]

gregory house's silly winks

[history-of-fashion]

ab. 1917 Dress by Lucile Ltd (Lucy Christiana, Lady Duff Gordon, New York)

silk tulle, satin, lace

(Kent State University Museum)

[the1920sinpictures]

1928 A Mercedes-Benz Roadster in front of the Le-Corbusier House at Stuttgart's Weikenhof Estate. From Art Deco, Avant Garde and Modernism, FB.

[everrhart]

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[badassbiburgerbob]

Some of the things that have preceded this look are also the funniest or most ridiculous tbh

His boys really share custody of a single brain cell and Kinch has it 80% of the time. Bakers got it 15 and the other three share that last 5% lmao 🤣 im sure hes given them this face far more than we’ve seen on the show

[thydungeongal]

I think it's funny that in French the word for "unicorn" is "licorne" because:

The word "unicorne" was first reanalyzed as "une icorne"

The definite article was then added, making it "l'icorne"

The new definite form was reanalyzed once again, resulting in "une licorne"

[thydungeongal]

Before any anglophones get on the French people's case on this, consider for a second what y'all did when you reanalyzed the Spanish "el lagarto" ("the lizard") as "alligator."

Reanalysis is fun.

[jkcorellia]

Oh yeah, everybody does this*. Another English example is "apron", which was once "napron" until we reanalyzed the initial N as part of the indefinite article (a napron -> an apron).

A fun one in Arabic is the city of Alexandria in Egypt. Quite understandably, Arabic speakers heard the initial "Al" and thought "ah yes, the ubiquitous definite article" and Alexandria became al-’Iskandariyya.

In the opposite direction, Spanish adopted hundreds of Arabic words during the Middle Ages due to Andalusian/Islamic influence, and there are very few Spanish words that start with al- that aren't of Arabic origin (and in fact, many words that start with A without being followed by an L, as in about half of cases in Arabic the L in "al-" is elided).

Reanalysis occurs in many other places besides article-noun combos, of course, but it's an extremely common case.

*citation needed, but reanalysis is extremely common

[thydungeongal]

Oh, this actually explains something I'd just attributed to a quirk of sequence constraints or something; why Alexander is realized as Iskander/Iskandar in Arabic! It makes sense to analyze it as al-Iskander in Arabic!

[grungeygoddess]

Same thing happened with the word alchemy! Started out as the Arab term "al-kimiya", and when it was transported to Europe, it became "alchemy". This is actually really interesting, because as the term evolved more, it became "chemistry", effectively un-reanalyzing the word!

[thydungeongal]

Oh actually there's another layer of fun there: the Arabic "al-kimiya" is actually a loan of the Ancient Greek χῠμείᾱ (khumeíā), which was used to refer to the art of alloying metals. Arabic borrowed a lot of Greek terminology owing to Arabic translations of Greek classics (many of which were actually lost in Europe until they were retranslated from Arabic). So, yeah, the Greek khumeíā made a round trip through Arabic, then into medieval Latin as "alchemia," and from there we eventually do get chemistry!

[valtharr]

Not quite the same thing, but this reminded me of one of the funniest phenomena in the German language.

So, you may or may not know that x-rays were discovered by a guy called Röntgen (or Roentgen, though the ö is the proper spelling). Because of that, they're called "Röntgen rays" in German. Now, the thing is that in the German, the infinitive of a verb is always formed with an -en at the, so, for example, "to run" is "rennen" or "to sleep" is "schlafen." And because of that, it just so happened that the verb for performing x-rays became... "röntgen."

ich röntge, du röntgst, er/sie/es röntgt, wir röntgen, ihr röntgt, sie röntgen

[thydungeongal]

In the X-rayed lab, straight röntgin it

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official linguistics post

[mewo777]

my favorite episode in the show actually. this entire episode is so hilson but this scene in particular.................. absolutely down bad PATHETIC stare after he says "moving back in with me? >.<" and then the way he looks SO SAD when wilson rejects this proposal oh my god. okay spend an entire episode talking about how wilson loves neediness and then complete your self fulfilling prophecy by acting like the worlds neediest loser ever. im never going to get over them. we will never get a queer situationship so insane in media ever again

[junewild]

new asoiaf/got worldbuilding discourse just dropped! check out the author’s blog for more thoughts on asoiaf, lotr, and more.

[virtualyric]

I would like to know why "Westeros is too big for the kind of vassalage-based polity we're told it has"? That sounds like it would be an interesting explanation.

[findingfeather]

The really short version is that the kind of setup he wants the world to have is too unstable for the breadth of territory and interaction of cultures and politics.

(And honestly I often think that while GRRM was thinking Wars of the Roses, the actual interpersonal and inter-fiefdom shit he wants is actually suited to half a millennium earlier, in the Heptarchy, and that was even less centralized and less well organized and less integrated than the Wars of the Roses.)

The long version is . . . honestly quite long: it involves getting into the nitty-gritty of what logistically it takes to get large numbers of people to agree to follow basic sets of rules, to operate their world in the same way, to agree that this rule applies here and this rule applies here and even if those rules are unfair and unjust, to even apply them consistently. Have you ever tried to organize a community group to do something the same way? Like that except a million times more Plus Swords and Violence.

The kind of feudal vassal-overlord relationship set that's supposedly working in GoT is one that's personal and immediate and inevitably also breaks down into war every few generations (at the longest). By the time you're actually trying to work on the scale of people, institutions and mileage that's involved in GoT, you have to have institutions that outlast people.

They will probably still be some level of nepotistic/etc - I'm not saying that you end up with Perfect Fair Egalitarianism. But you can trace this progression in every large organized empire that lasts (and this is a crucial point) beyond one or two generations - and make no mistake, even Westeros itself is functionally an empire (that is: a centralized government ruling over a number of disparate and originally politically independent regions which were originally united by conquest). You have to be able to appoint someone who is basically competent to oversee things that need to be done; you can't rely purely on who inherits political power where. You also have to make sure they CAN'T just go "you know what? fuck this shit I'm out" with the whole of their army or they will do this . . . .at least once a reign.

(Even in England, York went through a period of basically doing this every new king. They were subdued! They swore allegiance to a king! . . . that king died and even though he was succeeded by his heir in quick and orderly fashion, York went "right, fuckit, fuck off, we're done!". . . . .and the new king had to go subdue them. And then he died and although he was succeeded in orderly fashion, York went - )

If you want Westeros to work, the royals have already so thoroughly intermarried and politically intertwined with the Starks that much like the duchies of York and so on just became parts of the English crown, titles and positions to be handed to certain levels of that government structure (like yes: those levels were "the blood heirs of the ruling monarch" but it's still just part of the government in a monarchy), Winterfell isn't a separate political entity just barely agreeing to be part of the whole thing with a totally separate lineage, Winterfell is an extension of the centralized royal family. Ditto everything else. Or you maybe still have local rulers allowed to do local things, but they're operating within the empire/centralized government under the supervision of a governor/proconsul/satrap/whatever you want to call them who arranges the centralized taxation and military drafts and so on.

And like: you're free to ignore all of this and have fun with the stories, don't get me wrong. "Shut up there's dragons, just let me have fun" is a valid position to take . . . as long as you slash the author do not then try to make claims for 'accuracy' or 'realism'.

[vigilantsycamore]

Incidentally, here's France during roughly the high point of French feudalism:

And this is, if anything, downplaying how decentralized things were. The "County of Barcelona" was functionally several much smaller counties at that point and the only reason they weren't independent is because they were still bothering to send tribute to the King of the Franks. Most of the larger duchies had a similar degree of decentralisation within their own borders, with assorted counts and barons pretty much just doing whatever they wanted. Some areas that are the same color on here were ruled by one person, but others were ruled by brothers or even cousins (or, for the pink areas, just coworkers since those are ecclesiastical territories), and even where it was one person it was less "political unification" and more "same guy owns the land". In most of the kingdom, "county" was the highest level of actual political unity; above that it was just "sure, I'll follow the king as long as he doesn't expect me to actually do anything besides pillaging my neighbors". It took 600 years of war, politics, strategic fucking, and pure luck to get France from this to the absolute monarchy that got itself guillotined

Over in the Holy Roman Empire, the stem-duchies self-destructed one-by-one, some slowly while others disintegrated the insant one particular ruler died without a strong heir

England did pretty well all things considered... because of Alfred of Wessex spreading his first kingdom's burh-and-herepath network and the shire system to the rest of his domains to make fending off Norse attacks easier, and because of Danish and Norman invasions that both replaced chunks of the nobility, and because of a fuckton of castles being built specifically because of what feudalism led to elsewhere, and because of reforms like the Magna Carta, and because of atrocities like the Harrying of the North, and they still had multiple civil wars throughout the medieval period

And at the other end of Eurasia, here's what China looked like when it had something akin to feudalism:

This is late enough in the Warring States Period that a lot consolidation had already taken place as well. 250 years earlier the map looked more like this:

Feudalism is a political system based on family trees and rent and that doesn't lend itself well to large-scale organisation, especially back when the fastest modes of transport were sailboats (reliant on bodies of water) and horses (horses)

[resplendentoutfit]

Mario Reviglione (Italian, 1883-1965) • Portrait in black of Mrs. Levi Muzzani • 1916

Fur was everywhere in the 20s. Both men and women were resplendent in fur. Fur-trimmed collars and cuffs adorned coats and jackets. Full-length all-fur coats of mink or sable were only affordable to the upper classes. People of lesser means made do with squirel or beaver.

Lord & Taylor silk coat, lined with fox fur • 1920s

Wrap coats such as the one above were very popular, both for day and evening. It's not clear if the one above was meant to be worn as an evening coat but I suspect it was.

These fashion plate examples are more accurate examples of fir-trimmed coats worn in daytime.

Fur was popular in previous eras of fashion history as well. And, of course, remained popular for many decades to come. Thankfully, this trend was called to attention in the 1980s for its unnecessary cruelty.

[srryaboutallthatnoise]

Guys i caved and watched Anna again! So here’s a tribute post to agent Lenny Miller who makes that ass movie rewatchable

[preventativemedicine]

out of context screenshot for no reason