The Fandoms That Makes Me Smile

Amanda. 25 years old. Demisexual. I quite literally reblog (curate?) a bunch of stuff. That's literally it. Enjoy. 🙂

[romantictensions]

me at a job interview after finishing university

[queenie435]

[animentality]

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

[fadingembers]

As a kid, I was really upset that Bill Watterson wouldn't license Calvin & Hobbes so I could have plushies or so there would be a Saturday morning cartoon. Now, I realize his resistance is the reason we don't have a Calvin & Hobbes DreamWorks movie starring Chris Pratt.

[yb-cringe]

i feel like your group of close knit characters would work better less as a found family and more as a ride or die indie rock band a la lemonade mouth. “whos the mom friend” shut up. whos the bassist.

[hellenicpaganism]

[mismedleym]

animated version of moon eyes for her one year anniversary

[mismedleym]

just added this version of moon eyes to my prints! (the original version is still there too) + my work is 30% off right now

prints here!

[auujehjrgnmuuoingjoskjcnjsjshdo]

[machinecreature]

[angelhtml]

he’s too precious..

[oddarette]

Ah the rare teacup spill nail. They don’t live very long because it’s difficult to hold their shape. They sure are beautiful though.

[catsbeaversandducks]

"no"

By yuki_illust19

[browndresswithwhitedots]

Izjzkn

[the-big-mood]

Walter White in Mario Kart Wii

https://m.youtube.com/c/TheChiptuner

[describe-things]

[ID: Two black and white photos of Kwame Tu/Stokely Carmichael, a young Black man, saying into a microphone with a sardonic expression, "In order for non-violence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none, has none." End ID.]

[eightyonekilograms]

How far back in time can you understand English?

An experiment in language change

Nifty little language game here.

I can read back to 1500 with basically no difficulty

at 1400 I have to read slowly and carefully, but I can understand all of it save a couple words

at 1300 I can still comprehend most of it if I read slowly, but a much larger percentage of the words are unfamiliar to me, even with context

1200 and earlier are almost totally unintelligible

[winged]

This was so fun! 1200-1600 really IS a test of how many of the antiquated letters you either already know or can guess, tbf. And also vocabulary.

I was fairly good until abruptly not being at 1200 but I can still make it through 1200, if I accept just shrugging at some words and using context. At 1100, though. Whew! Nooope. Slowly and then all at once INDEED. His explanation is great! Very interesting. Still glad I never took a class that required translating Beowulf. That is nerd hobby time stuff, not ‘I have four hours of other homework’.

It was MUCH easier if I read aloud - and having heard and had to perform 14-1600s and occasional Middle English snippets! I also found knowing German (obviously) and fascinatingly, some Welsh, helped me. There are definitely some places where things like ‘hydder’ — which I can only, including in context, imagine is at least the same root as ‘hither’ if not pronounced that way — use spellings that would be cognates to how those letters would sound in Welsh. Same case with a few of the (but not all) vowels.