Because I Can

Multi-Fandom with additions & college woes.

[star-kovs]

Superheroes being 197% done with wii music playing

[transfemininomenon]

the princess bride is exactly what a dnd campaign would look like as a movie like? the delightfully weird cast of characters with their own quirks, the strange pacing and narrative that still Works, the absolute absurdity of it all, the jumping back and forth between wanting to be serious and it being really funny, hell its even Told like a dnd story through the use of the grandfather being the one telling the story

what a fantastic fucking movie

[transfemininomenon]

also like the character backstories are SUCH dnd backgrounds like? “im out for revenge for my father who was killed by a guy with six fingers on one of his hands” “i bumped into a band of pirates and their leader liked me so much he ended up having me take on his title to retire”

that is the Exact shit that people come up with for dnd characters

[transfemininomenon]

DM: having narrowly escaped Humperdinck, you find yourselves in the dangerous Fire Swamps

Westley: do I know anything about this area? Any danger?

DM: roll a history check

Westley: 15

DM: you know of rumors of giant rats in the swamps, as well as quick sand

Westley: what do I know about the giant rats?

DM: roll nature

Westley: [nat 1] …… rodents of unusual size? I don’t think they exist

DM: hey what’s your passive perception-

[cogentranting]

In Infinity War, when the army in Wakanda is charging forward to meet Thanos’s army, you see Steve and T’challa fly past everyone because they both run super fast. But Bucky is just as fast. And Bucky was not with them. Bucky looked at the army of weird alien monsters and thought to himself “I’m not in any hurry to get to that. I’ll jog it.”

[sonneillonv-deactivated20220218]

Bucky, watching Steve and T’challa sprint headlong toward a possibly deadly fight: My god, now there’s two of them.

[mihri-the-sasscatte]

Size comparison of Y’gathok, the Ceaseless Hunger and Bjorn, our level 20 Goliath Barbarian.

[professorsparklepants]

Hey quick question: why the FUCK do you have that

[kittyopteryx]

Imagine, from out of nowhere, your dm casually slapping this thing down on the table like any other encounter.

[mooretimetoplay]

“Yeah, the fight will start in a sec, uh…I’ll give inspiration to whomever helps me get this fucking box out of my car.”

[necrowemancer]

https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/7asxci/oc_ygathok_the_ceaseless_hunger_final_boss_of_our/ This is the reveal of this ridiculousness during their game

[jelloapocalypse]

Please watch this reveal video it’s kickass

[creepsandcrawlers]

FUCK ME  the reveal video

[threefeline]

“CHRIS??????”

[tanoraqui]

“Um, I don’t think our plan is gonna work.”

[8bitmickey]

[island-delver-go]

Always reblog Y'gathok

[kawaiianimebae]

DM:*Pulls out Y’gothok* *Turns on “Open Your Heart” by Crush 40*

[sensicalabsurdities]

Wow that DM really goes above and beyond

[post--grad]

know your englishes

i was just talking to a friend about how we have to have this conversation every single quarter that we teach, so i pass it on to you. shakespeare is not old english! chaucer is not old english!! 

old english

also called anglo-saxon

in use from around 400 to around 1066 (the norman conquest) in england and parts of scotland during the early middle ages.

most popular example: beowulf (see it written)

looks the least like modern english:

“Hwaet, we gardena in geardagum, þeodcyninga þrym gefrunon, hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon!”

if it looks like it could be the name of a field or military group in Rohan, it’s probably OE

middle english

in use from 1066 to the early 1500s (along with french & latin) during the late middle ages. 

most popular example: chaucer’s canterbury tales (see it written)

A knyght ther was, and that a worthy man, That fro the tyme that he first bigan To riden out, he loved chivalrie, Trouthe and honour, fredom and curteisie…”

will have recognizable words. read it out loud if you’re struggling.

still no standardized spelling. or dictionaries. soz. we’re getting there.

just straight-up regular english

in use from the 1500s until now.

that means shakespeare and james joyce and jk rowling are all grouped under the same language umbrella

reread that. shakespeare is tough and uses english differently than we’re used to, but he is not old english! he is, for the purposes of labelling, modern english. 

if you are feeling super picky you can label his work as “early modern english” (”early modern” being the period between 1500 and 1700ish) but tbh that’s a fairly arbitrary distinction.

[backpacksandblazers]

Identifying texts from around 1500-1700 as early modern is fairly standard within academic circles. This is because, despite Shakespeare’s English more closely resembling our own, there was still a great deal of variety in the ways in which words were spelled. Shakespeare, of course, is so popular, that his works are widely available in modern English and with modern punctuation (though it’s worth noting that punctuating Shakespeare is still an ongoing critical debate.) For example, in the First Folio of Shakespeare’s plays, the famous couplet from Claudius—"My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. / Words without thoughts never to heaven go.“—appears as, “My wordes fly vp, my sinnes remaine below. / No King on earth is safe, if Gods his foe.” This example highlights the spelling and editorial revisions which have since gone into making Shakespeare sensible to “modern” audiences. Moreover, early modern texts are also contemporaneous with what is commonly referred to as the “great vowel shift"—the period in which the pronunciation of English vowels changed drastically. What this means is that, whereas you might recognise Shakespeare’s English more easily than, say, Chaucer’s, you wouldn’t understand Shakespeare’s English if you were to hear it out loud. The Globe Theatre periodically does OP (original pronunciation) productions and they’re worth checking out if you’re curious.

[post--grad]

yes!! this is such a great addition, thank you! yall, reading in the original is so, so important - and it’s easier with early modern texts than with medieval ones. if you have database access most things are centrally available on EEBO, and both the folger and the bodelian have digitized versions of shakespeare’s first folio that are worth checking out. don’t settle for reading the results of late editorial decisions you didn’t make!  

[aelfscinu-deactivated20161008]

also on the distinction between old and middle english– there are, of course, gradations, as one would expect when trying to periodize a thousand years into two neat linguistic partitions. as time passes, our notion of middleness shifts inevitably to the right, for better or for worse. with old and middle english the distinction is almost neat, as the norman conquest created some very deep and abiding changes in the language (the change from “cyning” to “king,” as evinced in the later sections of the anglo-saxon chronicle, is a notable example), but there are still marked shifts over time– though old english is the form of english that least resembles our modern language, there are sections of the a-s chronicle that can be read much like modern English thanks to case collapse and syntax shift. old english comes with a different alphabet which includes ð, þ, and æ; different syntax; a case system; vastly different vocabulary– as well as so many words that are just a letter or two away from their modern derivatives–; dialects and variation; and pronunciations that feel simultaneously foreign and so familiar. and all this nuance is of course lost with the words “old english? what, like shakespeare?”

[post--grad]

100%, all of the above. also i edited the original post (a few minutes after it took off, unfortunately) to add that middle english looks & sounds very different depending on where it’s written/spoken – gawain and the green knight, for example, looks very different from the canterbury tales, in large part because the gawain author is from the north and chaucer wrote from london. 

ALSO a Very Important Medieval Fact is that “ye,” as in “Ye Olde Shoppe,” is NOT A THING. not a thing, folks!! the letter thorn (þ) was pronounced “th” and often looked very similar to the letter “y” - some scribes didn’t even distinguish between them. when the press happened, “the” was mostly written with a “th,” but sometimes rendered as “þ” with a superscript “e”; eventually thorn phased out and got replaced by “y” (probably because that was one less piece of type for printers to deal with). so “ye olde shoppe” is actually just “the olde shoppe.” now you know~~

[dukeofbookingham-deactivated202]

Just adding to the early modern English thing: let me introduce you to a wonderful little thing called secretary hand. Basically it’s an early form of what we all know as ‘cursive’ or ‘joined up’ writing–it was used to write efficiently and legibly. But there was still a load of variation and some of the letter forms are absolutely unrecognizable today, so it can be really confusing to read. In our first secretary hand workshop this year we had to basically re-learn the alphabet and it took us literally two hours to decipher a marmalade recipe. Here’s why:

Here’s the trickiest part: minims. Minims are little teeny dashes used to indicate small letters like m, n, u, v, w, etc. Problem is, when you get a bunch in a row it can be really hard to work out how many letters are actually there and what they are. The word “minimum,” for example, would b a nightmare. Here’s another example of the secretary hand alphabet from the Folger Shakespeare library. If you look in the middle of the fourth row you’ll see the minims, in between the big fancy Ls and Ms: 

So that’s an extra little tidbit about early modern English.

[inthenameofsephiroth]

I, Loki … (looks at Thor) Odinson.

[hyggekrog]

6.09 // 7.07

[teroguecat]

Tony: Can't you see, I'm Poison!

Tony: People get close to me they get killed!

Tony: Or worse

[Y/n]: Expelled!

Tony: Exactly! Wait... what?

[flutelorelai]

One Medley To Rule Them All

Oh man, this labor of love is FINALLY FINISHED!!! I AM SO PROUD!!! MY DREAM PROJECT ACTUALLY HAPPENED!!!

Thank you everyone who joined this insanity from the Tumblr post a year ago!

Please share this piece, and there are signups open for the next one. If you play or sing, you’re welcome to join!

[setheverman]

hey guys, what’s the mood for today?

[trauma-sharkbud-deactivated2017]

[unpretty]

there’s something really satisfying about the fact that sir arthur conan doyle was the most gullible motherfucker on the planet

[unpretty]

sir arthur conan doyle: here is my oc, he is a super genius who solves all the mysteries using the power of deductive reasoning

also sir arthur conan doyle: i have deduced that these fairies are real as shit

[unpretty]

sir arthur conan doyle: there’s only one way to determine if these fairies are real… i will give you girls these cameras, that i bought myself, and then i will develop the photos, so i know they haven’t been tampered with

some girls who took selfies in the woods with paper cutouts on hatpins: that seems reasonable

[unpretty]

harry houdini, after showing his good friend how he got tricked by a con artist: so as you can see, anyone can make it seem as if they can talk to ghosts

sir arthur conan doyle: harry… i can’t believe you never told me you can talk to ghosts, for real, using actual magic

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Doyle and Houdini’s relationship is the funniest thing in the entire history of the skepticism movement

Doyle was SO CONVINCED that Houdini had legit magic powers and could turn into smoke or some shit to escape things and Houdini was like “no seriously it’s a trick let me show you how it works” and Doyle was all “it hurts me that you won’t trust me with this secret”

If memory serves he eventually decided that Houdini was subconsciously magic and in denial

[theheartoftheocean]

the last jedi basically confirmed r2d2’s beeps are 90% swearing

[isindar]

F R O D O!

[somethingaboutblacktop-blog]

Visit Original Link

[the-ick-vault]

wow

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Jolene (33 R.P.M) - click for .mp3

Unsure where this came from, if not the palsied hands of the good Lord himself.

Simple premise: Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” slipped from 45 to 33 rpm. Nothing more; no studio trickery, no trip hop drum breaks. The guitar lopes back in and around itself. The bass becomes elastic, hot rubber. The violin stabs become sustained cello lines. The backing choir’s split harmony rattles around, slinking ghostly into the corner.  And most importantly, Parton’s once-frantic vocal is transformed from bubblegum country scrawl into something approximating field holler reverence. 

An already perfect song made transcendental..

[clairesclitpiercing]

Who would win in a battle for my immortal soul: the devil on his fiddle or “Jolene” at 33 RPM

[frodo-sam]

#me at the end of the semester

[mamalazzer]

[twitchytyrant]

I can’t believe he killed Harrison Ford twice

[tastefullyoffensive]

Photography by Jorge Saenz

[teroguecat]