The Well of Segais

There's nothing funnier than watching people who shouldn't be laughing try not to laugh.

[mighthavegiffed]

On Set Exclusive / Vanity Fair/ Oscar Isaac

requested by @rustandruin​

[tchaikovskaya]

thank u google thats exactly what i was looking for, not how many days she has been the prime minister of the united kingdom, her height in picometers. you can read my mind, google, its uncanny 

[sonofhistory]

1807 in the De Witt Wallace Museum, Colonial Williamsburg

[you-have-startled-the-witch]

how can I live with myself knowing I’ll never be 1% as cool, as stylin’, as RADICAL as this guy from 1807

[cliffracer]

this guy looks like he’s about to tell me it’s wednesday and then start wailing at the top of his lungs

[flumeingo]

I LOVE THIS CAST

This was their reaction to Shannon Purser (Barb) asking the cast a question at Comic Con 😭❤️

[not-reddie]

This is fucking adorable

[linguafandom]

English Has a New Preposition, Because Internet

However it originated, though, the usage of “because-noun” (and of “because-adjective” and “because-gerund”) is one of those distinctly of-the-Internet, by-the-Internet movements of language. It conveys focus (linguist Gretchen McCulloch: “It means something like ‘I’m so busy being totally absorbed by X that I don’t need to explain further, and you should know about this because it’s a completely valid incredibly important thing to be doing’”). It conveys brevity (Carey: “It has a snappy, jocular feel, with a syntactic jolt that allows long explanations to be forgone” “It has a snappy, jocular feel, with a syntactic jolt that allows long explanations to be forgone”).

But it also conveys a certain universality. When I say, for example, “The talks broke down because politics,” I’m not just describing a circumstance. I’m also describing a category. I’m making grand and yet ironized claims, announcing a situation and commenting on that situation at the same time. I’m offering an explanation and rolling my eyes — and I’m able to do it with one little word. Because variety. Because Internet. Because language.

[cubstearns-blog]

Reblogging. Because linguistics.

[legalizememes]

bruh

[heathyr]

everything about this… this statue, the choppy waves, the cliffs behind her, the echo, the drumming….. aesthetic

[itsdetachable]

By the Statue of the Selki - or Seal Wife in Mikladalur

[aztechnology]

That’s Eivør! I’ve been a huge fan of hers for years! That song is actually  Trøllabundin, you can listen to the studio version here

[putthison]

“When I was young there were beatniks. Hippies. Punks. Gangsters. Now you’re a hacktivist. Which I would probably be if I was 20. Shuttin’ down MasterCard. But there’s no look to that lifestyle! Besides just wearing a bad outfit with bad posture. Has WikiLeaks caused a look? No! I’m mad about that. If your kid comes out of the bedroom and says he just shut down the government, it seems to me he should at least have an outfit for that.”

- John Waters on the sorry style of today’s rebels  (emphasis mine)

[pluckyminna]

helpless laughter oh god

[synebluetoo]

This is the only criticism of millenials I will accept

[norcross]

when John Waters has thoughts about fashion, you fucking listen.

[tallmage-deactivated20171006]

You would not believe your knees

If 10 million bumble bees

[krinkshaming-deactivated2017021]

[skypig357]

Lmao

[bigwordsandsharpedges]

modern art

[cuentosallaround]

Okay, at this point there has to be something wrong with me, right? I’ve watched this 20 times in the last half hour, I still don’t know what they are saying half the time, but it doesn’t seem to matter because i’ve been crying my eyes out laughing for the entire last half hour …

[adulthoodisokay]

clearly i need to watch this show, which is apparently called “Letterkenny” 

[laughterkey]

I haven’t seen this in AGES oh man it’s from a show this is a delight

[carriecourogen]

[laurynstudy]

Hey there! I’ve been getting a lot of questions recently regarding the way that I practice French and learn German at home. I decided to make a masterpost with all of the links I find helpful for learning a language for free!

I don’t like to learn in classrooms, it’s just way too much pressure. My French class last year was too hard for me, and it wasn’t fun at all since we were doing too much vocabulary and not enough fun stuff! I think that learning a language at home is your best option (from my experience), since you can go at your own pace, and not at the fast pace of a class!

I have used all of these links personally, so don’t worry, this isn’t a promotion in any way!

Starting your target language from scratch (beginners) 

Duolingo (can be found in the app stores for Android and Apple) is a great place to start learning a language. You can start from the basics of your target language, and build your way up. It provides a good base for the language learning process. I wouldn’t recommend using ONLY Duolingo to learn your target language, as it just goes through vocabulary. You should use other resources to learn the grammar as well.

BBC Languages is also a helpful website for over 40 languages.

MyLanguages allows you to learn the alphabet for your target language.

101 Languages has 167 languages available to learn for free!

Memrise is another helpful app for vocabulary.

Omniglot is kind of like an online language learning encyclopedia. It’s a good place to start! 

When you’re ready to start using the language (reading, writing, listening)

Interpals is a really cool website that allows you to have conversations in your target language with a native speaker! It’s really just a pen pal thing, but you can also meet people to travel with!

The Polyglot project is a good place to find things to read in your target language. If you don’t know a word, translate it through the site!

HelloTalk is another good app/website for conversing with speakers of your target language.

Celebrating Multilingualism Through Harry Potter is a section in the University of Calgary website. You can listen to the first part of Harry Potter in over 60 languages! 

Resources for studying your target language

Dictionaries are essential for learning a language. Here’s a masterpost with tons of dictionaries for different languages by lets-become-polyglots.

Quizlet is a great flash card making app/website. I use it to practice my vocabulary in my spare time.

Forvo is good for listening to words. Search up a word, and listen to a native speaker of your target language say that word!

Other masterposts regarding language

Learning a foreign language by areistotle

South Asian language resources by reclaimthebindi

Language Learning Collection by cosmogyros

German by studying-for-the-future

French by jenaipassommeil

Italian by studybowie

Maltese by maltese-boy

Latin by learnal

Japanese by nihongogogo

Vietnamese by skopjeisanawesomecityname

Finnish by nimeni-on-hopo-hopo

That’s all of my resources! I hope you all enjoy learning a language!

[mlder]

[fjuri-the-fury]

I approve of this look

[wordsnquotes]

We don’t have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that’s what I want in life…it’s not quite love and it’s not quite community; it’s just this feeling that there are people, an abundance of people, who are in this together. Who are on your team. When the check is paid and you stay at the table. When it’s 4 a.m. and no one goes to bed. That night with the guitar. That night we can’t remember. That time we did, we went, we saw, we laughed, we felt.

Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories (via sonnywortzik)

[drownerrs]

[marvins-wedding-gown]

Yorktown

[actualdogvines]