SweeneyxxTodd

Books, Danny Phantom, Gravity Falls, Harry Potter, cats...and anything else that strikes my fancy.

[parkchanwoohoo]

“In 1404, King Taejong fell from his horse during a hunting expedition. Embarrassed, looking to his left and right, he commanded, “Do not let the historian find out about this.” To his disappointment, the historian accompanying the hunting party included these words in the annals, in addition to a description of the king’s fall.“

LMFAOOOOOO rip to that guy

[shitacademicswrite]

i thought maybe this was fake, but there’s even a citation!

Taejong Sillok Book 7. 5th year of King Taejong’s Reign (1404), February 8.

[delphinidin4]

Happy 618th anniversary of the day King Taejong fell from his horse!

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

Apparently the recorders were really intense about this. We have a record of King Taejong complaining about a recorder who followed him on a hunt in disguise and another who eavesdropped on him behind a screen. No one was allowed to see the records, even the king (one king did and killed five men based on what was written there, after which they took greater care to ensure it would never happen again), and changing the content or disclosing it was a capital punishment. Even when there were rival political factions trying to influence the writers, they wrote down what was a revision and what wasn’t and kept an original version with no revisions in it.

They also made sure to back up their data. They made four copies of it, then when three copies were lost in the Imrim Wars they decided to make five more copies just in case. One copy was destroyed in a rebellion, another was partially damaged in an invasion, and Japan stole one copy during their occupation and moved it to Tokyo University, where it was mostly destroyed in the Kanto Earthquake (47 books remained and were returned to South Korea in 2006). Now the whole thing is digitized, free on the internet, and translated into modern Korean for all to see.

It took centuries of meticulous recorders, justifiably paranoid copiers, absolutely determined historians, and painstaking infrastructure for this joke to be possible. Happy 618th anniversary to the day King Taejong fell from his horse.

[anonymous-ivplay]

Happy 619th anniversary to the day King Taejong fell from his horse!

[bunjywunjy]

happy 620th anniversary of the day a king fell off his horse everybody

[flyingscanian]

happy 621st anniversayr of the day a king fell of his horse

[sweeneyxxtodd]

Happy 622nd anniversary of the day King Taejong fell off his horse.

[glumshoe]

the ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ has only been actually typed once by a single person, everyone else who has ever used it has just googled “shrug emoji” and copy-pasted it

[thejonymyster]

why repaint the mona lisa

[yardsards]

everything in this life is temporary. except that fandom hyperfixation from when you were 14. that thang will be with you forever there's no escaping.

[sabertoothwalrus]

being an artist and revisiting media you liked when you were 11 is like. oh ok. this shaped my sense of humor and the way I write characters and the way I pace narratives and the tropes I'm drawn to. and I vastly underestimated how much of an impact it had on me because I literally have not thought about it for 15 years. but it was there inside me the whole time. ok. ok cool! c ool

[sandmandaddy69]

[asmeesh]

1$ flea market score. Tiny glass 1960s perfume bottles. I love them.

[shit-show-no-go]

Can you swap their heads ?

[asmeesh]

omg you can

[asmeesh]

Their meeting was foretold in the ancient texts

[guerrillatech]

[thememedaddy]

[medli20]

[bestoftsars]

Love this

[towerofglass]

[tredekim]

[1i1yoftheva11ey-doesntknow]

asdfhskfkshd

[erinlace-deactivated20200503]

[bone-and-brawn]

[official-lucifers-child]

no no that’s a bop, i love it

[flightyfinch]

“Woman!” cried I, somewhat tearsome,

“Who are you to stand so fearsome

With your wavy locks of auburn hair and eyes of emerald green?”

Quoth the woman, “I’m Jolene”

[blanceyblance]

I have talked before about how frustrating i find thay the paladins and co. will act like Lance has rocks for brains one moment

And next moment listen to him in dangerous situations with no complains.

So my headcanon is that Lance has a "locked in" voice.

When you hear his normal voice you know its safe to play and joke around, the situation is not that dire, but the locked in voice is the kind of voice you hear telling you "you have ten seconds to stop this shit and you are already at seven" and your monkey brain tells you, you need to listen or else !!!

[weirdlaughs-uwu]

I always found this super irritating, they were very unfair to Lance

[clinicalcuntetiquette]

unfair is the least you can say about his situation.

he literally had 0 development, treated as the punch bag of the show, was called stupid by the paladins for 8 fucking seasons and he’s the one (aside from allura imo) who had the WORST, unsatisfying ending to top all that off.

the minute he moved to the red lion his story made ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE. in s3 he admits that he feels useless THERE WAS NO CLOSURE. after that, the only focal point in his story was allura.

but the scene. oooooo that scene that irks me most. oooooh it boils my blood and I skip it EVERY TIME. It was s8ep9 when all the paladins meet the former original voltron paladins, and lance meets the former red paladin (allura’s dad) and they NEVER talk about lance they talk about allura and the only thing alford says to lance “I’m glad my daughter chose you” ?!?!?! What?!?! HE HAD NO WORDS OF WISDOM FOR LANCE. NOTHINGGG.

through out the years I watch people say that hunk and allura were done dirty the most by the writers but I can’t help but disagree. no character I know of was done dirty like lance. and it’s infuriating.

idk what was going on in the creators room but they for sure hated his guts you can tell after rewatching again and again 😩 sigh.

[kaijuno]

[dorothylarouge]

This is the kind of messaging you really want to be seeing from the global hegemon

[herpsandbirds]

Kaisar-I-Hind Swallowtail (Teinopalpus imperialis), family Papilionidae, Doi Pha Hom Pok, Thailand

photographs by Antonio Giudici

[herpsandbirds]

Purple-spotted Swallowtail (Graphium weiskei), family Papilionidae, West Papua, New Guinea

photograph by John Lenagan