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Sea serpents in the ROTE world are one of my biggest loves

when will my body just decide if it can digest eggs or not…..

#like I am clearly not allergic if I eat like #a pastry or a cake that contained eggs it’s fine #but just an egg or an omelette or a pancake … nope. cramps and my whole system shuts down for days and I can’t sleep #and it seems to be mostly concentration related and not related to the amount? bc if I make a cake with like 4 eggs in it and I eat idk a #quarter of that #I will have eaten one egg’s equivalent #but one small pancake would contain less egg #but that makes my entire body riot #so it seems to be more concentration related #but also a cake with ~4 eggs has a pretty high concentration too…#my gf’s bday we ate okonomiyaki and I did get some bloating and pain but it was over in less than a day #so I tried to make it at home two days ago #and now I’m still super bloated but the pain is *almost* gone?? and it’s the same dish with the same exact recipe even #like can my body just decide….#can we eat eggs or not…. idk #random #t sats

thedreadvampy

I know I'm harping on this but the thing is I will not ever never accept 'Common Tongue' in fantasy as anything other than a copout.

I'm not saying RotE is some sort of ethnolinguistic masterwork, Hobb usually just has her protagonists learn the languages they need for the plot very fast and fluently, but in all the previous books she does give some thought to what languages people speak and how they relate (eg the Duchies have mutually intelligible regional dialects; Outislander uses a different writing system but has enough common roots for Duchy speakers to pick it up fairly fast, which reflects their shared heritage; Jamaillian is used across the Cursed Shores because they're Jamaillian territories; the Mountain tongue is related to Elderling languages). and it creates a sense of place and space, in the same way that the different cultural mores and gender norms of different regions and countries do.

in previous books, travelling a few weeks north or south put you in a tangibly different country and cultural context and that gave the world a more solid feel. introducing a Common Tongue at the same time as we start really taking advantage of the fast-travel points dotted around the world makes it all feel way flatter imo. and I just think it's a shame.

#YEAH!!!!#also for the way too fast learning I just assume Fitz (and subsequently bee) are some kind of linguistic geniuses #and beloved too

thedreadvampy

love these books obviously but Robin you cannot. 16 books into an established setting where language barriers frequently matter. Suddenly assert the existence of a language called "Common" that is spoken in at least two countries with mutually indistinguishable languages. Common as a language started to exist around 16,200 pages into this series, 131 pages into the LAST BOOK. Don't fuck with me.

#yeah it makes no sense and I just ignore it hdjsjsjw #six duchies & jamaillian & our islands languages are closely related but it ends there #to an extent mutually intelligible #for the sake of my own sanity #*outislands #chalcedean and mountains are unrelated linguistically #but witch different ways of pronunciation #like my hc based on my own lived experience is that duchy is like Swedish/danish #outkslands is Norwegian/faroese (Icelandic would be too hard to understand)#jamaillian is like English/dutch/german type #and now I only mean linguistical distance not that these literally are those languages #mountains language would be like a #sino Tibetan or finno ugric language distance away #chalcedean like Uralic maybe #ik chalced obviously kinda orientalist in the word building but I ignore that #again I’m talking about linguistic distance not actual real world equivalents #since ppl from clerres and the surrounding area seem to be able to speak some kind of I assume their language would be part of the same #language family #and like bee makes herself understood in chalced clearly without making an effort #so it’d also be at a distance of some other indo-European #maybe Germanic or a Slavic/Romance language that had a lot of interactions with jamaillian #like Anglo-Norman or some shit #anyway this is the reasoning I have in my head for my own sanity #oh and by nkweguan I don’t mean Oslo or southeastern dialects I mean western and northern dialects #chalcedean and mountains are Not related or similar in my head #at least not closely or identifiably related on a surface level

mevil

bebemoon

kim minhee behind the scenes of "the handmaiden" (2o16), dir. park chanwook .

targetedknowledge

bovid-beauty

New White House Counter-Terrorism Memo specifically identifies Anti-Fascists and pro-transgender activists as domestic terror threats:

Currently we face three major types of terror groups: • Narcoterrorists and Transnational Gangs • Legacy Islamist Terrorists • Violent Left-Wing Extremists, including Anarchists and Anti-Fascists We can defeat every single one of these groups, but the threat is significant and pervasive.

As real threats were ignored or underplayed, Americans have witnessed the politically motivated killings of Christians and conservatives committed by violent left-wing extremists, including the assassination of Charlie Kirk by a radical who espoused extreme transgender ideologies.

In addition to cartels and Islamist terror groups, our national CT activities will also prioritize the rapid identification and neutralization of violent secular political groups whose ideology is anti-American, radically pro-transgender, and anarchist. We will use all the tools constitutionally available to us to map them at home, identify their membership, map their ties to international organizations like Antifa, and use law enforcement tools to cripple them operationally before they can maim or kill the innocent. We will do the same with the state sponsors of such groups and those governments undertaking lethal plots on U.S. soil or against Americans anywhere.

#uuuuhhhh

tpwrtrmnky

humans should be able to do a special Ultra Sleep after major life accomplishments where you're just out for like 32 hours or something and then you wake up fully refreshed in every way

im literally starting my fourth year of environmental engineering this year (first year at masters’ level) and my dad just now asked what kind of engineering environmental engineering is 😭

yeah, I haven’t met him in two years, but that time I gave him two projects I’d worked on for school and one of them is the first big project you do in the program that lasts a whole semester where you make a very extensive plan to restore a polluted river … okay…….

#(he works at a university himself he’s a professor of industrial design lol)#(and I gave him the projects to mark to him that I’m a capable adult)#oh yeah and at that time I hadn’t seen my dad for like five years idk #t says #he never seems to grasp people get older and mature when he’s not there #anywayyy #thanks dad #do I just send him the university’s website lmao

joleneghoul

i think censoring subtitles is actually ableism

cilantrhoes

h4nifah

my favourite season

teaboot

Not pertinent to anything in particular but I do think it's kinda weird that we keep depicting cavemen in media crawling around on all fours covered in dirt with tangled, matted hair, speaking in broken, cobbled-together toddler language when like.

They were us.

Like literally genetically they were US, just like. A while ago.

Would you trust a TV caveman with a baby? Probably not

A real life caveman though??? I think they'd be at least okay at it

sheilikhal

This is actually really important and comes up in Anthropology classes all. The. Time.

As long as homo sapiens have existed, we have had the same emotional and mental capacity as you and I do today. You nailed it. They were US. Even Neaderthals existed alongside and had offspring with Homo Sapiens for many thousands of years.

There's much evidence that cavemen would have had complex spoken language, culture (learned information passed down), symbolic interpretation, and I think they most certainly would have been able to handle holding a baby. In fact I have my suspicisions that an ancient homo sapiens mother may be a more present, attentive, and knowledgable mom than I could be today.

Do not let media trick you into believing we are the pinnacle of humanity. Unilinial evolution theory (google it quick I beg) is BUNK, GARBAGE, and the root of so much evil.

We've been human for a long, long time, and we are not inherently better than all those who came before.

fresne999

One the most profound experiences of my life was visiting Font de Gaume, which has 12 thousand year old paintings. They use a technique where the horses appeared to run across the wall when seen in flickering firelight. There was a bison the wall staring at us with such attitude, I could practically hear him. I had the most profound feeling of those ancient artists reaching forward to lay their hands on my shoulders. To say, "This was my world." It was a profoundly moving experience.

Some years later, I went to the Orkney islands where we visited a tiny family run museum of artifacts from the chambered tomb at the other end of the farm. They handed me a pestle once held by some neolithci human.They'd worn groves where the thumb and forefinger would be for better grip.

cymbie8

One time, in a French history class, my teacher randomly at the end of the class had all of us draw a sketch of a horse. And we were all like ??? Okay???

At the beginning of the next class, my teacher showed us a cave painting of a horse. And then he showed all of our horses, which he had scanned and put into the presentation.

He then pointed out all the ways that our horses looked similar to the prehistoric horse. Same features, drawn from the same angle, etc.

And then he asked us, "Isn't it cool that you draw horses the same way as someone who lived 20,000 years ago?"

Yeah. That stuck with me for a while.

catgirlthecrazy

In Spain, there's a cave full of ancient, ice age era drawings of bison and reindeer and other animals of that period... And one small section of chaotic scribbles just a little away from everything else. These scribblesv were so incomprehensible, they were originally just called the 'Panel of Enigmatic Signs'... Until it occurred to someone that drawings only three feet off the ground probably weren't made by adults.

Scientists are now pretty sure the scribbles were made by kids ages 3-6, more or less on their own. The adult cave artists were probably doing what any modern parent might do when they want to keep small children out of their hair for awhile: they gave the kids some drawing tools of their own and a small section of wall to work on, out of the way but still close enough to keep an eye on them, and let them have at it.

What's most charming about the whole thing is the way the cave scribbles look exactly like what you'd find on the wall of a preschool today. Artistic styles vary widely across different times and cultures, but child development is as near to a universal human experience as it gets.

mikkeneko

Wisher made detailed 3D scans of the drawings, which helped her understand the uneven pressure applied to the charcoal and the direction the lines were drawn. The team then compared the panel’s composition with age-appropriate artistic efforts by modern children. Kids across cultures go through the same developmental stages, which influence their physical ability to draw, until about the age of 6, Amir notes.

The team compared the ancient art with the developmental stages exhibited by modern children: the furiously scribbled circles and push-pull lines typical of 3-year-olds just learning to control their bodies, for example, or the wobbly, right-angled figures of slightly older kids beginning to master fine motor skills.

Both are apparent in the cave, superimposed on each other as though two or more kids were drawing at once. That’s a clue the Las Monedas marks were likely made by “siblings or a mixed-age play group within the sphere of safety around adults, but also within their own space,” says co-author Felix Riede, an Aarhus archaeologist.

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Adults at Las Monedas would have been aware of what the kids were doing and presumably had lit fires or torches; without ample firelight the cave is pitch black.