TiffinPosts

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[free-my-mindd]

[wyrm-boy]

[cyber-corp]

this website’s easy watch. *dangles a bunch of greek gods like keys*

[cyber-corp]

i know what i’m doing dw

[cyber-corp]

Keep in mind I only know like. Two Greek gods by name. Homer is one of them, and he was good friends with Odysseus I think?

[cyber-corp]

Wait fuck Homer isn’t a god he wrote the fucking thing. Fuck

[cyber-corp]

POST CANCELLED NO ONE LOOK

[cyber-corp]

desperately google searching for “greek gods to pray to when people notice your online idiocy”

[pluto-officially]

You're failing.

[cyber-corp]

You don’t think I know that, God of Death? Can I pray to you so I can DIE ALREADY

[communist-mannyfesto]

Pluto is Roman, not Greek

[cyber-corp]

?????

[enigma-system03]

Short version is that Pluto is a later name for the god of death, which is often associated with the Roman era/Roman mythology. Hades is the earlier name.

[cyber-corp]

I set up my own house made of sticks and it has promptly fallen on me

[cyber-corp]

HE’S NOT EVEN REAL?????*

[cyber-corp]

I made this post thinking I knew what kind of fire I was playing with. Hephaestus, God of Fire, looking upon me from his fuck off tower or whatever said “Oh you think you know? Check this shit” and promptly set my post ablaze for everyone to observe

[legionoftuna]

Hephaestus doesn't have a tower, he lived in a volcano

[cyber-corp]

FINE THEN. BIG FUCK OFF VOLCANO. WHATEVER

[cyber-corp]

wrong.

[pointless-achievements]

Achievement Unlocked:

Lightning Bait

You're basically doing the post equivalent of standing out in a field during a storm with a ten-foot copper pole, you better hope Zeus is busy hiding from Hera.

[cyber-corp]

FUCK'S SAKE NOT AGAIN

[taco-bee]

I need you to name every greek God you know and what they are for plz

For science

[cyber-corp]

OKAY FINE HERE'S WHAT I'VE FOUND

HERMES: DA FUNNY ONE

ZEUS: DA LIGHTNING (NOTE: THOUGHT HE WAS NORDIC, FATHER OF THOR)

POSEIDON: DA SEA ONE

HEPHAESTUS: DA FIRE/FORGING/STEEL ONE

APHRODITE: DA HOT ONE

KRATOS: GOD OF WAR

HADES: DA HELL ONE. ROGUE LIKE

APOLLO: DA DODGEBALL/PROPHECY ONE

[boxxed-juice]

ares is the god of war, not kratos

[cyber-corp]

WHY THE FUCK DOES THE GAME CALL HIM GOD OF WAR THEN

[ironwoman359]

I can't believe this post is less than 24 hours old, it feels like something out of classic tumblr lore

[bingle-official]

op god of war is not official greek mythology lmao

[reekill-playlists]

Someone needs to read a Percy Jackson book

[reekill-playlists]

hey is this still post of the year or

[cyber-corp]

NO

[zelly-fangirl]

how's the hole op? want some snacks? a blanket? a shovel to dig yourself out?

[cyber-corp]

I'D LIKE OUT NOW I THINK

[cyber-corp]

Reblogging this as I’m going to see The Odyssey today. Maybe then I can figure out what the fuck is going on.

[shinraalpha]

i do think lobbying for data centres over climate goals should be considered a crime against humanity btw

[beardedmrbean]

[theman]

I GOT A FUCKING RAISE THE POTATO WORKED WTF

[tattooedzombigirl]

This potato works. Every. Fucking. Time.

[secondlina]

Reblogging because it’s a damn potato and I want to encourage people to assume potatoes are magical.

[sinksanksockie2]

w-what if potato is actually lucky

[lovely-cherubs]

[I feel like] people forgetting that Cloud is canonically a gearhead is another example of how fandom tends to ignore other aspects of Cloud's character. He's more than just his trauma and has interests. I also don't like how fandom constantly reduces him to just being love interests for Tifa and Aerith. It's just weird and annoying af.

[tiffinposts]

Adding to this: Not enough is made of him creating the fusion sword AND the batshit fighting style required to use it. He's skilled, creative, and absolutely nuts. And given that there was no sign of Sephiroth returning when he made the sword, it seems he did it all FOR THE HELL OF IT

Cloud has a personality and it's wild.

[apolladay]

for those who speak a language that is not one of the official languages of the country you grew up in, how did you learn it?

my parents spoke it at home

my school* offered classes in it

i took classes outside of school (in person or online/app)

it's not an official language but many people in my country speak it and i picked it up

i learned through watching movies / tv of that language

other

not applicable / results

*whether elementary to high school or uni

for those who speak a language that is not one of the official languages of the country you grew up in, how did you learn it?

my parents spoke it at home

my school* offered classes in it

i took classes outside of school (in person or online/app)

it's not an official lang. but many in my country speak it & i picked it up

i learned through watching movies / tv of that language

other

not applicable / results

Voting ended onJul 19

*whether elementary to high school or uni

[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.

[tenleaguesbeneath]

the way heroes in Kalevala shift between being these major godlike beings and being men with families and fields and stuff like that has me thinking

e.g. Ilmarinen is said to have forged the heaven and wrought the air's foundations, Väinämöinen was born from a continuous act of creation with the sun, moon, and stars, but later on, they're both very human. They're said to be brothers at one point, but later on aren't

Like, one way to play with this idea is to have explicit, like, forces of creation acting on the primordial world, but to inhabit it you have to shrink yourself, give up the things that made you able to shape it. When the work is done, you die as mortals

As primordial spirits, you were all kin to each other. As mortals, you aren't, you have new kin now, among the mortals

Another way to play with this idea is to go the other way. Huge acts of world-creation are in fact done by mortals. Mortals with secret skills and immense power within their discipline, but mortals nonetheless

[tiffinposts]

I wrote a Kalevala-inspired novel in which I had to resolve this question of are the heroes gods or mortals or somehow both. I don't think I came up with the best solution, but it worked thematically in the book. Some people from ordinary families are born with immense power and physical resilience. They exist in the mortal world of farms and families but are doomed to outlive everyone they love, and that puts them in a different world of untouchable heroes. The two main characters are sisters, one of whom has a chronic condition preventing her from using magic and the other who was born one of those powerful "heroes." There's fundamental discomfort between them because one sister will inevitably see the other die, while the other sister lives in the mortal perception of time and doesn't understand why her sister can't as well.

It's such an interesting problem! I like OP's suggestions a lot.

[tiffinposts]

I think I'm so chill about Nolan's Odyssey because I got all my mistreated epic frustration out about that new Kullervo movie

[natalieironside]

The wizardposting trend feels a bit too specific to "the D&D 5th Edition character class known as Wizard" and/or "Merlin from T.H. White's The Once And Future King" to really reel me in. The wizardposting doesn't encompass nearly enough odinposting and/or solomonposting, imo. To say nothing of väinämöinenposting.

[natalieironside]

I gotta get you guys on the Väinämöinen hype train

[catgirlwheels]

You gotta show us how it's done Natalie

[natalieironside]

alright hold up lemme just

[tiffinposts]

VÄINÄMÖINEN POSTING!!!

Women, am I right? *sick kantele solo* Old men chasing after pretty girls are creeps. *boat building montage* Unless it's me. *destroys the prosperity of a nation for no particular reason* Oh shit here comes Jesus. *exit stage right, playing kantele*

[shamebats]

The (European) sun is a deadly laser, stay safe everyone

[unfuckablebogtroll]

☝️🤓 it’s because the further you move toward the earth’s poles, the lower the angle of the sun is at the hottest parts of the day, meaning the radiation hits your whole body, causing it to feel 10-20 degrees warmer than the thermometer reading will tell you. People from tropical climes, aka close to the equator, are used to the sun’s radiation hitting a much smaller target- their head and shoulders.

Also the further you move toward the poles the more pronounced the difference between the length of day and night is. Worst part of a far-north (or south) heatwave is it doesn’t get dark long enough for meaningful cooling.

It’s not the heat. It very literally is the sun.

[torillatavataan]

[homunculus-argument]

The fun thing about finnish is that formal written finnish is technically speaking a distinct dialect that's different from all spoken dialects, and while fiction is almost always written with written finnish, many authors will have the dialogue spelled out in spoken dialects to give the text more "real", naturally flowing flavour.

Someone speaking written finnish in casual day-to-day life usually means one of two things - either the speaker is somewhere on the autism spectrum (not a diagnostic criteria, but one of those "I've never seen a neurotypical person do that" things) or they speak finnish as a second language. And I don't know how to say this without sounding condescending, but I love hearing it, it's so charming. Like you stepped straight out of a 19th century play.

Standing in the line to a public bathroom, there's a man talking on the phone, speaking in finnish with a distinct accent, going "I understand, darling. Love. My love. Beloved, I understand. I understand. I will make my way there. Yes, I understand. I will make my way to you. Two hours."

And now that I wrote that out, I can see that there is no way to express in english just how delightfully formal and "writing a love letter with ink on paper to your beloved promising to come back from the war" it sounds when someone in finnish says "rakkaani, minä ymmärrän, minä tulen luoksesi."

[homunculus-argument]

@ozyga fun thing actually! The finnish written language was deliberately intentionally constructed during the 1500s during protestant reformation, in order to translate the bible into the peoples' own language. The concept of finns as a distinct people - not to mention a nation - was not even regarded as a valid thing. Finland wasn't occupied as much as just the isolated eastern half of the Swedish kingdom, whose peasants just happened to speak their own rural peasant language.

The reason why finnish is written so strictly exactly the same way it's pronounced is because the people who wrote it down were men of the church, who spoke the language as their "home language" but were educated in latin. Finnish was written down the way it phonetically sounded to people who could read and write latin.

And while I will now pause to aknowledge that the "fathers of the finnish language" were Problematic™ by 21st century Tumblr standards, the written form of finnish was constructed by intentionally mixing together different dialects of the spoken language, to tie them all together to an uniform standardised common finnish.

[mcrmadness]

To add to this: spoken Finnish existed for a really long time before people (or one man) decided that it needs to have a written form too and combined two "different" type of Finnish into one (which is why the dialects are separated into Eastern and Western dialects, as they are basically the same language but also not because the proto-language for both is a different one. Eastern dialects share the same protolanguage as Karelian, whereas Western dialects developed from just proto-Finnic or such iirc). Then this guy also added and made up lots of new words.

Jokinly I always say that when the written Finnish was literally made up, Finnish speakers were not really having it and continued to use the spoken language regardless which led us to having two types of Finnish that everyone here understands. In reality it probably was that people just could not read or did not have access to education that would have taught them to read, I'm not sure as I haven't really researched this. Anyhow, all Finns understand both the written and spoken language as well the dialects, but for Finnish learners that can be a challenge. Many have said that they learned Finnish from books and then traveled to here and realized no one speaks whatever they were taught in those books.

I also find it very fascinating that so many words in Finnish have 1-3 synonyms because we have the spoken language version(s) and then the written language version, but also loan words from either Swedish and/or Russian. And then of course regional differences between different dialects, e.g. naturally the Russian/Slavic loan words are more common in the East.

[tiffinposts]

Finnish learner here. The discovery that the language you've been learning from classes or text books is not the language Finns speak is devastating. Conceptually, it's incredibly cool. But my god is it demoralizing.

Story time: Once at a Finnish language cafe, I had the misfortune of meeting a Polish guy who refused to speak spoken Finnish, he only spoke formal book Finnish. He said spoken Finnish was "wrong." I told him, in my bad Finnish, that it wasn't his language but he kept saying the same thing with a smug smile. The only time the smile went away was when I told him he sounded like a beginner.

What an asshole. It's not our language!

[theomenroom]

You're not to old to start your project. Väinämöinen was already an old man when he first set his feet upon the surface of a sea-encircled island in a region bare of forest.

[fhauly]

repeat after me: i am a sexy bitch and no one ruins my 2014

[heirtocragflame]

I am a sexy bitch and no one ruins my 2014

[mabeldrinkstea]

THE CHILLS that I got when I heard Vilma Jää's song in the new "Paranatural Manhattan Trailer" oh my goddddd

[tiffinposts]

I've seen people asking for aromatic characters who are not asexual. Can we also have asexual characters who are not aromantic? Aroace is great but there's such a wide range outside of that.

[ravioliet]

yes i do ship those characters but i ship them in an infinitely more aroace way than you will ever be able to comprehend

[ravioliet]

they're not "dating" they're not "a couple" they're intrinsically connected and intertwined with each other for eternity. they're bound together like the stars. get with the program