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[twunkish-cleric]

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[11thfempachi]

Girls just wanna have fun

[mon3trs]

[swagophile]

important reminder that most people you follow online are significantly lamer than you think they are including me. and if you feel insecure comparing yourself to someone online: DON'T. theyre probably also lame and weird. most people on the internet are

[most-sane-classicist]

reblog if you're also lame and weird.

[minihorchata]

Lady Aranessa Royce

[chipthekeeper]

I'd say that's that question answered

[vosquitransitis]

the great thing about tumblr is that you can meet people you'll vibe with on a level you have never vibed with anyone before and the tragedy about tumblr is that they almost certainly will live in another country

[svartalfhild]

After that brief conversation between Occtis and Vaelus about how she didn't think at all about what would happen to him when she sacrificed the stone broke my heart. That really confirmed for him what he already felt: that Thaisha and Thimble are the only people in the whole world who give a single genuine damn about him as a person.

I have to wonder if Vaelus feels guilt about that. I have to wonder if she's afraid to care that much about him, because she's lost so much. Hannan had an advantage in starting to worm his way into her heart, because he was an elf and that brings so much with it, but now he's gone before she'd barely had a chance to start really knowing him.

And nights are going to be so awkward now between the two of them. I think they may have to hash some things out before they can be totally comfortable with each other while everyone else sleeps again. Occtis seems like he's going to be bitter about Vaelus' lack of consideration for him, and while I don't think Vaelus regrets the decision she made, she may regret not having at least thought of him, or at the very least, she may regret having hurt him by admitting she didn't think of him. Regardless, I'm very interested to see where that goes.

I really want to see Vaelus overcome her trauma and learn to let people in, and I really want Occtis to have more people who really care about him and to accept it as true. If they can do that together, so much the better.

[sofilophisaurus]

Me: Wow, I love Hannan and Vaelus's relationship! Its so deep and complicated! I cant wait to see it develop further!

The evil and despicable Primus Tachonis: 🖕

[funstyle]

[recommending something i sincerely love] ok so the thing about it is it kinda sucks

[deadsetagainst]

australian sour patch kids have gluten in them i am truly at my fucking limit im crashing out im waging war against wheat idgaf anymore

[amvs]

oh is that one of those things where ableist companies put in traces of common allergens so they can just avoid the cost of making it safe

[deadsetagainst]

WHAT

[amvs]

Why Manufacturers Are Intentionally Adding Allergens to Their Foods

A trend we predicted in 2016 continues.

US based but it’s similar reasons in other countries. and of course many companies have international locations. idk if that’s why it’s happening with sour patch kids but this is a thing

[rosetintmyworld84]

I cannot even explain how ANGRY I am at this.

My nephew is very allergic to eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, and sesame. Last year my sister discovered all hot dogs and hamburger buns now contain sesame. Not "may contain", but listed in the ingredients. This year basically every brand of sliced bread also now contains sesame, making it very difficult to find bread items he can eat.

They're just adding it to their products, so they can just list it as an ingredient and not bother with worrying about cross contamination. And they aren't even bothering with telling anyone. Capitalism is going to kill us all.

"Which brings us back to Kellogg’s. Back in 2016, the company found a way around the added burden and expense of complying with the FSMA: they simply began adding trace amounts of peanut flour to their cracker products. Doing so allowed them to list peanuts as an ingredient of the product, freeing them from having to prevent cross-contact.

At the time, Kellogg’s notified Food Allergy Research and Education (FARE) about the impending change and left it to them to warn the allergic community. In this case, Pearson’s didn’t even bother as near as we can tell."

[earthwormes]

a quote from the above article. i feel like people without food restrictions and allergies don't truly understand the life those of us with them do. this is our reality. this is for every ingredient you ever buy. you have to check the ingredients on every grocery every time. you still run the risk of it going home and making you sick. people with allergies and food restrictions have to deal with so much all the time. can you imagine if you could only consistently have a handful of foods that were 'safe' but every time you go to the grocery store (for the rest of your life) there's the chance you will have less and less options to eat?

[ghiblin]

PRINCESS MONONOKE もののけ姫 1997, dir. Hayao Miyazaki

[blackjackkent]

Today in my ongoing brainrot adventures I found the font used for dialogue in Baldur's Gate 2.

PostAntiqua-Roman font belongs to Regular subfamily. The author of the font is unknown. The font version is 001.000 and its license is: Copy

IDK if anyone else has any need for this but go forth and prosper. XD

[thunderboltfire]

I found two more fonts that are used in the interface!

Sherwood Font | dafont.com

GoudyStd-BoldItalic font belongs to Bold Italic subfamily. Font created by Frederic W. Goudy, Morris Fuller Benton. The font version is Vers

Sherwood (or something very similar) is used in the screen titles ('Equipment' 'Character Sheet' etc) and Goudy Oldstyle Std. is used on the scrolls appearing when hovering a mouse over an item in the equipment.

[battletailors]

Tyranny

[motherfuckingshakespeare]

A HANDY CHART FOR THOSE OF YOU WONDERING WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH THESE. NOTE THAT THESE ARE ALL THE INFORMAL AND YOU IS THE FORMAL SO LIKE YOU WOULD ALWAYS ADDRESS YOUR SUPERIOR/ OLDER PERSON/ SOCIAL BETTER WITH YOU BUT WITH YOUR BUDS YOU CAN USE THESE. 

[heroineimages]

I’m not sure I knew the thy/thine distinction. Thanks for this!

[svartalfhild]

Thee functions more broadly than this chart shows.

Thou is nominative, i.e. for when the person is the subject of the sentence (the one doing the verb).

Examples:

Thou art nasty.

Thou givest me the ick.

Thou speakest true.

Thee is accusative/dative, i.e. for when the person is the object (receiver of the verb) and/or they follow a preposition (to, from, for, at, with, etc.)

Examples:

I give thee permission to party.

I weep for thee.

Thou takest the banana with thee?

WHILE I'M AT IT.

Notice how the verbs in those sentences have different endings when the subject is thou, but not when it's I?

That's because English used to conjugate its verbs more complexly.

Here's a site that shows the different forms of Elizabethan English verbs and where to use them.

[darkelfchicksick]

big news for people who are me

1,000-year-old Viking textile production center uncovered near Aarhus in Denmark | Archaeology News Online Magazine

Archaeologists uncovered a 1,000-year-old Viking textile production center near Aarhus, revealing large-scale cloth making and trade.

The site sits near Søften in eastern Jutland, about 10 kilometers north of modern Aarhus. Excavations by the Moesgaard Museum show a planned production area instead of a normal farming village. The settlement covered at least 100,000 square meters. Most of the work focused on making textiles, though other forms of handwork also took place there.

Researchers found an area where flax was prepared before workers turned the plant into linen. They also uncovered 82 pit houses, small sunken buildings linked with Viking workshops. Many held spindle whorls and loom weights, showing cloth production took place on a large scale.

[regexkind]

The linguistic through-line between bassinet and raisinet is quite unintelligible to me, but am certain wiser souls will prevail

[fyridis]

-et: ez, it's the same -et. diminutive, inherited from Middle English -et, from Old French -et.

raisin: from Middle English raysyn, borrowed from Anglo-Norman reysin (“grape, raisin”), from Late Latin racīmus, from Latin racēmus.

racēmus: 'cluster or bunch of grapes, berries or similar fruits'.

bassinet: basin + -et. so we move on to basin.

basin: From Middle English basyn, from Old French bacin, from Vulgar Latin *baccinum (“wide bowl”).

baccinum: 'a wide bowl'. From bacca (“wine jug”), from Gaulish *baskis, from Proto-Celtic *baskis (“bundle”). a bit questionable (no source given) but let's just roll with it.

bacca: alternative form of bāca?

bāca: 'various small fruit of trees and shrubs: a berry (!), stone fruit (including olives, cherries)'.

QED. they are both to do with small berries, etymologically speaking.