LilibetBob

Blue things, art, blue art etc.

[aroloverboy]

And its enough

[theamazingsaraman]

Oof

[theamazingsaraman]

Paul Kidby posted his painting of Bilious the Oh God of Hangovers from the Discworld Series today and my first thought was ‘I spend too much time on Merlin Tumblr because that is looking just like Colin Morgan to me’… and it turns out it actually is based on him!

I love how he manages to sneak his way into as many Terry Pratchett things as possible 😊

[theamazingsaraman]

Adding this because I’ve never seen this picture of Colin with his painting before!

[aroloverboy]

Hey if you know any songs that have aro vibes, I'd love to hear about them

[theamazingsaraman]

Not sure if this fits but I’ve always loved Stay Free by the Clash because it feels like a platonic love song 💚

[theamazingsaraman]

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Ok, I think I’ve finished processing the emotions from Joey Batey’s fluorescent yellow debut novel, now to be destroyed emotionally by Colin Morgan’s fluorescent yellow debut novel. What a time to be alive.

(Video is worth watching, has a clip of the audiobook and really gives you a sense of the atmosphere of the story)

[theamazingsaraman]

Couldn’t think of anything more terrifying than the Solkats or more beautiful that Madeleine’s illustrations to go on my pumpkin this year!

Obviously Whisht goes at the front, and then I chose the other ones from the overlap in the Venn diagram of my favourite illustrations and things I thought I could conceivably carve into a pumpkin with my very amateur carving skills 😅 I wanted to add Neb and Belter too but I ran out of space.

Now I just need to hope I haven’t unleashed any unspeakable forces into the world… I did use an LED light instead of a candle because if I accidentally burn my flat down the irony will just be too much

[theamazingsaraman]

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It’s Joey!

I’m so excited for this book!!

I think people in other parts of the world maybe have it already? Don’t get my UK copy until October 23rd though. Counting down the days….

[theamazingsaraman]

Um, am I getting this right? Doctor Who had an episode about people protesting Eurovision. In the second year that people are actually peacefully protesting Eurovision in real life because Eurovision are letting Israel compete after they’ve illegally occupied land, killed over 19,000 children, killed medics and journalists, and are enforcing apartheid conditions on Palestinians. And they made Israel into the ‘Corporation’ who aren’t involved in the show at all and whose crimes are kept super vague aside from destroying poppies. And they made the peaceful protestors into people attempting to kill everyone watching the show. Like, they decided to essentially depict real life events but move the wish to commit genocide to the group who in real life are the victims of genocide? Is this real?

[natequarter]

i think part of my problem with lucky day is that doctor who's earth doesn't translate well to our earth when it comes to political analogies. this doesn't hamper doctor who's ability to tell good political stories; i merely mean that doctor who's version of earth, specifically, is very different from ours in some ways which make certain political analogies... weird. the plot of lucky day hinges on the idea that aliens do exist and all the people acting like they're a hoax are the real conspiracy theorists, which is okay within the context of the episode but kind of ludicrous in the real world - aliens do not exist in that capacity and do not go around invading the earth in the real world, and in the real world, ruby would be the one who comes off as a conspiracy theorist for believing in aliens. likewise, within the framework of the episode - which is clearly a critique of alt-right conspiracy theorists and the radicalisation of young adults, especially young white cis men, into fascism - the decision to position unit as being in the right does narratively make sense, but again, in the real world... well, what are the optics of a massive military organisation functionally beholden to no higher authority going around threatening to shoot civilians? and, i mean, unit throughout doctor who has been depicted as pretty corrupt, whether the narrative actually acknowledges this or not. one need only look at the silurians for evidence of that - or indeed lucky day, which shows kate threatening to kill a man in cold blood. this is treated as at least somewhat morally ambiguous, but at the end of the day, this episode expects us to side with unit and ruby, because... well, because they're unit and ruby. not because they're good, just because we all love unit, right?

right?

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Dropped some mince on the floor today which means that Diesel got a treat of fresh mince. He did not eat it all which means that the stray kitty will get a lovely surprise of fresh mince.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

American translation: I dropped some "ground beef". Not ground up fruit. [insert 'ground beef on the ground' joke here.]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#wait do people not know mince is meat?

I've had this confusion with Americans before and my experience is that if you say "mince", whether they automatically assume you're talking about fruit or meat seems to be regional. Even if they do assume meat they usually assume pork or chicken, whereas in Australia the default mince assumption would be beef or lamb (although those others are available, just less commonly eaten). Every American I've heard talk about beef mince has instead called it ground beef.

[chibisquirt]

Okay, so as an American: "Meat" is definitely meat. I mean, obviously. And if you just say "mince," I assume I'm talking to someone who calls ground beef "mince," so "mince" is also meat.

...But fucking "mince meat"???

Not! Meat!!!

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

WHAT IS MINCE MEAT THEN

[pearlsthatwereeyes]

The British have a fruity pie/pastry filling that they call “mincemeat.”

I suspect that the Americans who think “mince” refers to fruit are ones who have encountered British mincemeat and are unclear about whether it’s a whole commonwealth thing or just a specifically British thing.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I know that the evolution of different dialects is a beautiful thing but if all the English-dominant countries could just get together and agree on universal versions of all the food words then that would be great

[silence-at-the-library]

I was wondering what USAmericans would call our pies (single-serve meat pies? small meat pies?) but thought they might confuse that with party pies. Then wondered if they even have party pies.

Pie + banana for scale + sausage roll i couldn't be bothered to take out of shot

photo of party pie i grabbed off image search because i don't have any

[abalidoth]

We don't really have those, but possibly "turnover"? They look delicious though.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

You don't have beef pies??

[trans-mando]

We don't. The closest alternative is a corn dog, which is hardly comparable at all.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I was feeling sorry for you until I remembered that oh yeah, dagwood dogs (which I assume are the same thing as corndogs) are fucking delicious. So probably a fair trade honestly.

[apollosdrunkenmixup]

as a british person we don’t have little beef pies (or corn dogs). we do think of mince as meat though.

we do have little mince pies though (which i assumed other countries also had). these contain the aforementioned mincemeat. this is in fact made of fruits and assorted spices. not meat as some older cousins would have you believe.

[theamazingsaraman]

Yeah, another Brit here, mincemeat is fruit and a completely different thing from mince. Most people only eat mincemeat in mince pies at Christmas. Traditional mincemeat recipes include suet though (hence the name mincemeat I assume) so if you’re veggie you do still need to check the ingredients list to make sure the ones you’re eating have substituted vegetable oil!

[gayhoediaz]

@ people who carry bags everywhere what do you put in them what is there to bring other than chapstick, keys, phone and maybe a tampon why are you packing a suitcase to be outside for 5 hours

[what-even-is-thiss]

There’s certain hobbies and interests that aren’t inherently conservative or regressive but do attract a lot of people who are those things or worse and when you’re a progressive person involved in those hobbies hearing that someone else is interested in your hobby usually has to involve some “But are you normal about it?” conversations before you get too excited

[what-even-is-thiss]

Someone: I think the Vikings are really cool. I like Viking metal and stuff like that.

Me: *threateningly holds up plastic fork* Answer me quickly. Do you have normal opinions about immigrants?

[elodieunderglass]

age of sail/napoleonics, allotment/food gardening, keeping chickens, golden age detective fiction, Celtic languages, Waldorf/steiner-montessori parenting - not even touching on permaculture; do not touch on permaculture - foraging and food preservation, the lord of the rings, horses -

[theamazingsaraman]

Someone: I love morris dancing!

Me: Awesome. Wonderful… in the queer way or in the Tory way though?

[theamazingsaraman]

I went to a Christmas party the other day and decided to add diamantés to my arm sensor. I think this may be the most inspired thing I’ve ever done.

[headcanonsandmore]

Sauron: Aha, who is now in possession of the One Ring? A common soldier? Perfect; they will be tempted by dreams of conquest, wealth and power! But... wait, what is happening? Why is the tempation not affecting them? What sort of lowly human could possibly resist my power?

Sam Vimes, chucking the One Ring into the fires of Mount Doom before striding off to get home before 6pm: Bloody stupid piece of jewelery-

[bittersweettnightshade-deactiva]

Ok so. I have a question. If there was a full glass of human blood in front of you, and the was absolutely no health risk to drinking it, like, that's not ever a factor, how much of it do you think you would drink? Because I would at least take one solid gulp.

[clingyduoapologist]

LOSING MY FUCKING MIND

[clingyduoapologist]

Mr and Ms queerbait ❤️

[apollosdrunkenmixup]

HI COMPLETELY SIDETRACKING THIS TO TAKE ABOUT ENGLISH FOLK TRADITIONS. My god I have been trying to find information on ‘Tommy’ for a year now and I find it in a tumblr post?!

MORRIS DANCING

Ok so Morris dancing is an English folk tradition that I highly recommend looking up. There are many styles, the main ones being Cotswold and Border (beltane border morris is a favourite group of mine). (There are lots of other styles and variations using sticks, handkerchiefs, swords (I’ll come back to this), and bells.)

CROSS DRESSING

Now crossdressing is a key part of any English tradition (see pantomime dames). And this applies very much to folk dance as well. Many Cotswold groups will have a ‘molly’, a bloke wearing an apron and a bad wig. ‘She’ will usually introduce the group and berate them as they dance, to the amusement of the audience.

RAPPER DANCING

Now I do a specific type of dance called rapper (I suggest looking up Northgate Rapper and Tower Ravens if you want to watch some). This dance involves 5 (or more) ‘swords’ held by the dancers as they weave in and out without letting go. This makes some cool patterns and you can also interlock the swords into a star shape (a major symbol of English folk dance).

TOMMY AND BETTY

Now we don’t have a ‘molly’ instead we have a Tommy and a Betty. Betty fulfills the same role as Molly and is presumably of the same origins. Our Tommy also functions the same way but without the crossdressing (at least not in my all men’s side). I have been wondering for a while about why ‘Tommy’ even existed as a character/the name origins. However this would explain that the intention is for ‘him’ to be a crossdressing woman instead. Which is very cool and I’m very happy with this knew knowledge.

Any way long rant over. Please if you are interested in folk dance/why the English cross dress so much. I need people to talk to about this. :)

(PS this would also explain where ‘tomboy’ comes from)

[theamazingsaraman]

And of course Molly dancing which also has a Molly!

Most of the sides I know are Cotswold or Border and the only Molly side I know is Gog Magog Molly who all wear skirts regardless of gender. They’re not traditional as such which is something there’s a lot more space for in molly dancing because, as I understand it, the big folk dance collectors thought it was a bit silly and didn’t record much of it and it died out completely before being revived.

I think in traditional Molly you just had the one Molly and everyone else had other types of disguise on. This was because you were essentially doing morris in the Pratchett tradition of ‘we’ll keep doing this until you pay us to go away’ which could involve property damage, and you ideally still wanted your landowning target to consider employing you again in the Spring. Disguises could involve black face as well as cross dressing which I think is important to acknowledge so we can decide which parts of our traditions we want to keep and which we recognise as racist and leave behind.

On another note: a friend of mine is currently researching Moll Cutpurse who was a cross dressing/ gender non-confirming (and maybe ace!) thief who became a very famous public figure in the early 17th century and is depicted in the 1611 play ‘The Roaring Girl’. My friend is looking into whether Moll may be part of the origin of the term Molly House 😊

[imaredshirt]

Have you ever met somebody (unrelated to you/not a family member) with the same first name as you? Add embellishments to the tags (yes but spelled slightly different, no but I know a friend of a friend, yes and im named after them, etc)

Yes

No

My answer is neither yes nor no, fool

Voting ended onAug 24, 2024

[aquar-io]

if you ask me, the guy who put the sword INTO the stone should be king, not the chucklefuck who got it out.

[acekoral]

I assume the guy who put the "sword that makes you the king" into the stone, doesn't really want the position

[monkeychewtoy]

i think the stone should be king since it held the sword the longest

[aquar-io]

[apollosdrunkenmixup]

“I’ve always been a bit puzzled about that story. What’s so hard about pulling a sword out of a stone? The real work’s already been done. You ought to make yourself useful and find the man who put the sword in the stone in the first place, eh?” - Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett (1993)

[theamazingsaraman]

The logic here holds up though! In Men at Arms the person who ends up putting a sword in a stone really doesn’t want the position!