Calendula

More things than I can possibly name.

[msburgundy-but-worser-deactivat]

mythbusters was so good because it wasn't a killjoy show. they didn't just say "see, it doesn't work" and leave it there

whenever they find that the stunt doesn't work as portrayed in the movie, they immediately ask "what would it take to make this happen?"

[disclaymore-deactivated20230920]

“we know it takes this amount of explosives to work, but what if we doubled it anyway?”

[oldschoolvillageidiot]

Some myths I'll always remember:

* Are elephants scared of mice? (They only did that because they were in Africa and had access to elephants.)

* Will a bull run amok in a china shop?

* Is it better to run zig-zag or straight when chased by an alligator?

I love these because NONE of them turned out the way they expected. They went into all three with pre-conceived ideas of how it would go, and each time they "failed." Elephants WILL cower from mice. A bull moves very gingerly through a china shop. It doesn't matter how you run because ALLIGATORS WON'T CHASE YOU.

And each time, they reacted with just... pure glee. "Holy shit, we were wrong! Oh my god! This is great! We were so wrong!"

And that, to me, is what science is. Being excited about being wrong because either way it's information.

[blandlava]

genuinely so funny for sophie to tell benedict to leave his own house and even funnier for him to do it asap

[clarkgriffon]

this might be my 2nd fave bridgerton season behind season 2.... like i know it's literally just cinderella. but turns out cinderella is a good story actually

[sonny-shine]

I think the main problem with shows getting shitty is because the creators have not thought out the ending beforehand so they lose the plot

[musicofthe-ainur]

Am I the only person who thought this was really fucking funny

[eleemosynecdoche]

A lot of the really funny moments in Lord of the Rings come from Tolkien playing with language like this, where we have relatively formal, archaic, “high” language responded to with informal, modern, “low” language. 

[modernclaire]

another hilarious example:

[lotrmusical]

my absolute favorite example of tolkien switching registers in this way is

[dukeofbookingham-deactivated202]

[warmfigure]

i am massively overdue for a very very good week where not a single bad thing happens and everything is easy

[unlettered-heathen]

reblog to give prev a very good week where not a single bad thing happens and everything is easy

[thecalendula]

So, about that last chapter of The Hallmarked Man....

Whose phonecall was that? Robin? A potential client? I'm 80% sure it's not an irrelevant phonecall.

And... Do we believe the next book is going to start right where we left? Maybe from Robin's POV? Or is there going to be a time jump yet again?

EDIT: I just read that book 9 starts 5 minutes after the end of The Hallmarked Man 🫢

[thecalendula]

Of course you did... 🙄

[thecalendula]

It was at this moment that we all knew he'd fucked up.

[archatlas]

Architecture Students Reimagine Harry Potter 

Students of a 12 day course at the Melbourne School of Design were not sorted into houses, but they were assigned Gringotts Bank, Grimmauld Place, the Shrieking Shack and other fan favorites in the Harry Potter universe. their Harry Potter architecture models were laser cut from cardboard (ten house points), hand-modeled (forty house points), constructed in very little time (fifty points), and remind us of the truest magic of all (teamwork).

Students at the Melbourne School of Design had very few spells to work with in order to cast these gorgeously film-accurate 3D models. Students were given 1.0 mm and 0.6 mm boxboard to create their models from. They used trace paper — for windows and diffused lights — and LED lights and motors connected to Arduinos.

[joannerowling]

omg I keep seeing posts of Harry Potter fans talking about the Dursleys' abuse of Harry and ending with 'of course, she-who-must-not-be-named just thought it was a big joke..' like actually I dont think JKR thinks starving and strangling your children is funny lol, I think she was just able to represent abuse appropriately for a childrens book. I think they want her to write the books like "Harry thought about how unfair and abusive the Dursleys treatment was. It was fatshaming and systematic oppression to starve him, and abusive and immoral to hit him with a frying pan, solely because he was green eyed wizard of color". that way there's no room for confusion

I saw a post the other day of someone who wrote, i kid you not, "i wish it was said in the books that Dudley was abused too because his parents never told him no and that made him a bad person"

Point literally made explicitely in HBP

Like not implied or explained via metaphor, nope, TEXTBOOK said in that very way by the series's official voice of wisdom character aka Dumbledore

Gun to the head they wouldn't be able to read the actual words in those books

[thememedaddy]

[luke-and-leia-the-cats-not-jedi]

1000x

[denmark-street]

[theconcealedweapon]

[seraphym100]

And also, after things got better, some countries decided they would use CFCs again, and guess what happened…

Guess.

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[ainaraoftime-deactivated2025020]

one of my favourite linguistic phenomena/in-jokes is spanish potato chips being “ham-flavored, probably”

[ainaraoftime-deactivated2025020]

y’see because spain and portugal are so close, labels in stuff like food, shampoo, etc often come in portuguese as well as spanish

this brand of chips, Lay’s, displays the flavor in spanish and portuguese, resulting in ham-flavored chips looking like this:

with “jamón” being spanish and “presunto” being portuguese

however, “presunto” is also a spanish adjective, meaning “presumed” (or suspected)

so you have this in-joke going where spanish chips taste like ham, presumably

[fluffmugger]

[official-linguistics-post]

official linguistics post

[watermelinoe]

it's insane to me that there are people arguing that jkr is worse than neil gaiman because they believe she contributes to systemic violence while neil gaiman's actions were just an isolated incident. women's words are part of a global conspiracy of violence but a man's violence against women is merely a self-contained interpersonal conflict