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farmersliga

erling haaland leads norway's viking row after defeating brazil in the world cup round of 16 (05.07.2026)

useless-norwayfacts

RO! RO! RO!

#norja norja norja!!!

beardedmrbean

they used to let kids have real fun

haveyouseenthismovie-poll

Have you seen Hardcore Henry (2015)?

Yes

No

Haven’t even heard of this movie

Voting ended onOct 21, 2025

#also wrote fics for it #one of the movies i own i will never give away #hardcore henry

everythingfox

“Find your own house”

mezzinow

RIM-TIM-TAGI-DIGI, DIM-TIM-TAGI-DIGI-DIM

#esc #rim tim TAGI DIM

lingarace

What’s your favorite line from this years Eurovision?

Me:

#esc

mygardenoffantasies

To the person reading this, I hope tonight treats you gently, and that tomorrow looks brighter

audible-smiles

my grandma has this 115 year old picture book, and apparently in 1907 they would just let you publish anything

letmeliedown

@downwarddingo

his-shining-tears

Cats and train miniature

#animals #cats

ambersnake

Many languages, such as English, have puns that are based on pronunciation. Finnish pronunciation, however, is very regular. All letters are pronounced and they’re pronounced the same way regardless of other letters surrounding them, so pronunciation-based puns don’t really work. If you pronounce it the same, you write it the same. Thus, Finnish puns tend to be grammar-based, instead. While pronunciation may be regular, Finnish has 15 noun cases, and when you add in plural forms and various suffixes, a single noun can have over 2000 different forms. Verbs, adjectives, numbers etc. also conjugate, a lot. So, some different words are bound to share conjugated forms with each other, and this is where the puns come in.

For example, there’s a line in the song Jokainen kyynel (“every tear”) by Profeetat that goes like this:

Levyt platinaa, en enää puhu ees mun kullista It translates to “records platinum, I no longer even talk about my golds”. Gold in Finnish is kulta, and the plural elative form of it is kullista. However. The word dick in Finnish is kulli, and the single elative form of it is, you guessed it, also kullista. So he anchors the listener’s thoughts to records by first mentioning platinum records, but he does then say that he no longer talks about his dick.

Now that is a quality grammar pun.

teal-skull

A finnish strip comic Fingerpori by Pertti Jarla is also very famous for using these grammar puns. Characters in this comic then often misunderstand and it leads to some obscure situation. Here’s few of my personal faves:

The sign says: “Take a form from here in your own language”

the pun is that the word kieli means both language and actual tongue and their conjucated forms are exactly the same, only context will define which word you mean. Therefore, kielelläsi can mean “in your language” and “With your tongue” and the man understood it in the latter sense

*In a farm owners house*

“How is the householder doing?”

“The aid application needs to be filled out. Chicken needs to be plucked / Chicken is holding the pens”

Here Jarla plays with two words. First of all the verb pitää means multible things in finnish and once again context (both gramatical and situational) is what rules what the word means.

Pitää can mean “to hold something” as a normal verb but also “have to” as modal verb, when it often needs another verb to accompany it or “to like something” (but this meaning would reguire different kind of suffix to the noun that is being liked, and therefore it is not part of this wordplay)

In “tulohakemus pitää täyttää” the only possible meaning is “have to be filled” because in “pitää täyttää” pitää is used as modal verb and no other meaning would be gramatically coherent.

But in the second statement, “kana pitää kyniä” things get tricky

pitää kyniä is first implied to mean have to pluck because pitää was used as “have to’ in the first statement.

Kyniä is a verb for plucking feathers. Kyniä kana would be “to pluck the chiken”

So at first it seems like the “pitää (meaning “have to” as mobal verb) + verb” structure is repeated twice in the second panel

BUT

Kyniä is ALSO plural partitive of the noun kynä = pen

So in the third panel the reader realises that pitää kyniä is actually “verb + noun” (holding the pens) sturcture and not “modal verb + verb” (have to pluck)

So pitää is actually “to hold” and “kyniä” is “pens”

The farmer didn’t say he has to pluck the chicken, but that he cannot fill the application because chicken is holding the pens.

starswaterairdirt

Townsend’s Big Eared Bat drinking water

Merlin Tuttle

#animals #bats

batcii-archive-deactivated20210

people in fanfiction are so good at identifying v specific smells. I literally struggle to identify vanilla when I’m sniffing a candle labelled “VANILLA” how are these kids getting woodsmoke, rain, mint, and a whiff of byronic despair from a fuckin tshirt

archouai

Once I read a fic where they were like “he tasted like” and I’m expecting the typical formula (1 cooking ingredient + 1 natural phenomenon + “something uniquely [character name]”) but instead they said “he tasted like mouth” and it was one of the greatest fic moments of my life

nicetobealive-deactivated201710

click and drag to find out what your shitty fanfiction kiss tastes like

nerdgul

*if ur on moble screenshot it

#mint sunshine tranquility #yeh

j-evans-pritchard

Dead Poets Society x text posts #5

#dead poets society #im sad so i bury myself deep into dps #apparently its my comfort zone

todds-perry

headcanon where Todd and Charlie bond over their despair after Neil's death and become super close, relying on one another whenever painful dates come around, such as Neil's birthday or the holidays.

Charlie takes Todd under his wing because he had noticed how close Neil and him became in such a short amount of time and he's afraid Todd might do something stupid in that state of mind, and Todd, being the sensitive soul that he is, helps Charlie talk about his feelings and allow himself to be emotional instead of always protecting himself by making everyone laugh.

#dead poets society #;__________;

autisticexpression

The appalling travesty that was BBC’s Sherlock has infested the Sherlock Holmes fandom like a malignant tumour so I want you all to know how awesome the OG literary Holmes was:

The literary Sherlock Holmes was an autistic coded character before people knew what autism was.

The literary Sherlock Holmes was an explicitly aromantic character before people had a word for that.

Literary Holmes solved mysteries not merely for the intellectual stimulation but also out of a genuine desire to do good. He cared deeply about every client. HE WAS NOT A HIGH-FUNCTIONING SOCIOPATH! He could definitely be insensitive and blunt but he was not callous or unfeeling.

Literary Sherlock threatened to beat a guy who was being creepy with his own stepdaughter.

Literary Sherlock learned to grow past his misogyny after a woman outsmarted him.

In particular, he was always respectful to Mrs Hudson, never belittling or talking down to her (the otherwise enjoyable Guy Ritchie films screw this up too). In fact, they got along so well that they were actually a very popular ship back in the day.

Literary Holmes would NEVER call Watson an idiot. He was his only friend who he loved and respected, even if he did get frustrated with him sometimes. He didn’t need to belittle others to feel powerful.

Literary Holmes and Watson broke into a corrupt man’s house and witnessed him being murdered by a woman he was blackmailing. They knew exactly who she was but they let her get away because they were chaotic good like that.

Literary Holmes had HUMILITY: something a smug prig like Steven Moffat will never understand. He could be arrogant but he had a sense of humour and was willing to admit when he was wrong. And he was wrong sometimes because he was a flawed human being, not some gross male power fantasy.

Literary Holmes respected the working class and was often disdainful of the rich. In Victorian England!

Literary Holmes indirectly caused the death of a guy who abused (and implicitly molested) his daughters and he didn’t give a single fuck about it.

At the end of the series, Holmes retires to Sussex to keep bees. Beekeepers are awesome.

#sherlock holmes