tumbling down taniquetl

poking the legendarium with a stick

[whirlception]

Tolkien fic & meta

maybe some star trek & star wars eventually, but right now the silm has 1000% of my brain space.

[xalatath]

You misused thou/thee in a joke post and provoked my ire.

[labete-du-gevaudan]

Swedish Chef was on Masterchef Junior this week and he has human hands and it makes me really uncomfortable. 

[nihilistwife]

when the texture packs don’t all load together

[czechs-and-holdings-deactivated]

The Swedish Chef has human hands in every video he’s in? 

That’s part of the joke. 

[takethistoyourstardust]

He had human hands on The Muppet Show.

[labete-du-gevaudan]

I was a Bear in the Big Blue house kid. I never watched the Muppets. A puppet with people hands is freaky to me. I just want my bear and his big blue house.

[apathetic-revenant]

can confirm, the Swedish Chef (almost) always has human hands. don’t know why. he’s an anomaly that way. 

fun additional bit of trivia: most Live-hand Muppets (that is, ones that have articulated glove hands instead of the hands being moved by rods) are performed with the primary puppeteer doing the head and the left hand while a secondary puppeteer, usually a less experienced one, performs the right hand, a task typically known as ‘right-handing’. (the puppeteers use their dominant hands for the head, so for most of them their remaining hand will be the left. I don’t know if they reverse the process and have people left-handing for left-handed puppeteers.) looks like this:

the Swedish Chef is one of the exceptions to that rule, though, because his skits required a lot more complicated hand movement that needed better coordination, so with him one person would work the head and one would do both hands; they also did that for things a character playing the piano. that added complexity might be why he doesn’t have glove hands, plus the fact that he already looks a lot more human than most Muppets anyway. but I don’t really know.

…that was…probably more information than you wanted. sorry. 

[labete-du-gevaudan]

I JUST LEARNED SO MUCH ABOUT PUPPETS. Thank you.

[spiroandthelacktones]

Also fun fact when they put an older swedish chef puppet into the Jim Henson museum exhibit he didn’t have any hands cause he was a live hand puppet, so the museum called up Frank oz and had him actually make casts of his hands that they used to make display hands for it

[certified-muppet-posts]

certified muppets post

[fuckyeahsnackables]

Y'all are missing the best part. You know how the Swedish Chef is always throwing shit in the air and failing to catch things? That’s because Frank Oz started doing that to fuck with Jim (bc as noted above, a puppet with two practical hands is pretty unusual). And Jim would have to react or try to catch things that were raining down on his head from above. And from there it became A Thing, every bit as iconic as the Swedish Chef speaking gibberish.

[dalliansss]

Artanáro Ereinion Gil-galad Morifinwion

Drawn by the most talented @sauroff

In my hc's, Gil-galad is the first half-elven, child of Caranthir and Haleth.

[targetedknowledge]

[saul-tortellini]

It was like the sun came out from behind the clouds...

[starpeace]

i’d love to see more fantasy/sci-fi worlds where a species lifespan difference between a married couple, or between friends, is a normal factor of life. i’m tired of dramatic angsting about it, i want to see how people cope with it when it’s just an everyday part of the world

[starpeace]

how does it affect ideas of marriage when you are not, in fact, expected to be able to live out both your lives together? do certain species have specific traditions for mourning their shorter-lived friends? are interspecies friendships and relationships more avoided or more valued because of this? do longer-lived species form bonds with whole families, part of their lives for generation after generation? how does it affect society’s ideas of age/maturity if some people will never reach certain ages? are comparisons between different species’ relative ages argued about? how would it affect a political landscape if people with vastly different lifespans lived in one place?

[starpeace]

i want “help, i know this is normal for humans but my husband decided to spend ALL the rest of his short life with me and now i can’t cope with how much i love him”. i also want “fuck, i killed a guy and i have to pay a wergild for his life but it turns out he had a lifespan 50x a human’s and the court here says i have to pay 50x as much, please bail me out”

[starpeace]

“extortionate rates? ma’am, i am merely a humble artist. if you don’t want the very finest job done preserving the visage of those who will be gone in a mere flutter of a butterfly’s wings—pardon the expression—then by all means seek a cheaper option”

“our local ruler is from a species that endures hundreds of years longer than us. my children’s children will not live to see the end of his tyranny. unless we put an end to it ourselves”

“oh, that’s my uncle! he’s been a friend of the family for twenty generations. my ancestor saved his life in battle, you know how it is, he’s supposed to stay until he saves one of our lives in return. but we’re mostly shopkeepers so now he’s just kind of here. gives great birthday presents”

“sweetheart please stop making me put off writing a will. we both know you have no life skills so you are going to be provided for when i die or so help me i WILL make you learn how to cook”

[lanotteviene]

my best friend linen my brother in arms cotton my partner wool my beautiful sister silk

[oldenglishtextposts]

min betst freond lin min eaxlgestella bæst min gemaca wull min fæger sweostor godwebb

[stephanisoejono]

happy new year -------------_--------------------

[calamity-aims]

[11thfempachi]

Girls just wanna have fun

[pesti-devota-futurae]

lacuna mutata

[... ] a wonderful phrase

lacuna mutata

aint no [... ] craze

it means textual emendations

for the rest of your days

it's a source [...] free

ambiguity

lac[... ]

[existingperpetually]

Sauron, listening to Morgoth as he rants about Fëanor (again):

"This is getting ridiculous. Why is he so obsessed with that elven smith? With the way he talks about him I'm not sure if he wants to fuck him or flay him."

Sauron Annatar, centuries later in Eregion:

"Ah. Yes. I get it now."

[tsarina-anadyomene]

it really is quite bad for your military to have an image of itself as a warrior class. what you really want is for your soldiers to think of themselves as boring professionals who will fill out a report form if someone gets a little too warrior ethos out there

[gsot]

[drmajalis]

[paksthestoic]

I love the “captain’s log” mechanism in Star Trek as a method for time skips and exposition.

I am, however, devastated that we never got an episode where any captain’s voiceover is strained and slow. very precise about the events they’re describing. While the screen itself is showing the most batshit insane events and making it clear that the captain is trying VERY HARD to keep everyone involved out of a court martial.

[kuttithevangu]

the new fantasy genre, popehunk, encompasses all books in which historical figures responsible for real atrocities are presented as sexy and potentially suffering from a cute lil' anxiety disorder

[nataliehall]

I wouldn’t call it finished but I’ll probably come back to this some other time

[memecucker]

I still think it’s funny how the Exagoge a Hellenistic Jewish play about the Exodus story written in the Ptolemaic period had to include a line where God tells Moses “it is impossible for a mortal to see my face, but it is possible to hear my words”bc Greek attendees would’ve been really confused about getting to the exciting scene where a god appears and would’ve been expecting Yahweh’s actor to be lowered from the ceiling astride a chariot and would’ve been scratching their head wondering if there was technical issues with the crane or something bc like where’s the god i was expecting a cool exciting entrance of a god they clearly got the burning bush effect to work like maybe that did happen during the opening run and they had to quickly insert that line

[animatedamerican]

How is this the first I have heard of the Exagoge in my slightly-over-half-century of life. HOW.

From the Wikipedia article on the play's author, Ezekiel the Tragedian:

Exagōgē is a five-act drama written in iambic trimeter, retelling of the biblical story of The Exodus from Egypt. Moses is the main character of the play, and parts of the biblical story have been altered to suit the narrative's needs. These changes probably point to Ezekiel's intention to stage the play, since certain scenes that are impossible to stage were converted into monologue. This drama is unique in blending the biblical story with the Hellenistic tragic drama; Erich S. Gruen writes that "the choice itself of that tale suggests an appeal to pride in national history and tradition produced in a quintessentially Hellenic mode."

... So you're telling me this was Alexandria's Prince of Egypt? That's what you're telling me?

I can't remember the last time I went so quickly from complete ignorance of a thing to a passionate need to experience it.

[decompose1]

ohhhh shit. target is recalling their up & up baby wipes (fragrance free & fresh cucumber scented) because they're contaminated with Burkholderia cepacia complex and Burkholderia gladioli, multiple people are reporting discoloration & infections. i just got a call about it cuz i had purchased those but i've already gone through them 😅 so no refund for me. but im fine. if you have these they're saying you need to immediately stop using them and bring them back to target for a full refund. this bacteria can cause life threatening infections in children/infants and people with compromises immune systems (ESPECIALLY cystic fibrosis!!) and i know lots of other chronically ill people follow me!!!!

[decompose1]

Hold on i should've been more specific.

First: THIS RECALL IS NOT STATE SPECIFIC. IT IS NATIONWIDE.

here are the specific products and dates:

FDA page on this:

Target Recalls Up & Up Fragrance Free and Fresh Cucumber Scented Baby Wipes Due to Potential Microbial Contamination

Target is voluntarily recalling Up & Up Fragrance Free and Up & Up Fresh Cucumber Scented Baby Wipes following customer complaints of produc

[dr-otter]

If you use baby wipes go check them NOW. A lot of Burkholderia bugs are antibiotic resistant so infections can be really difficult to treat.