Babbles

Practicing Roman Catholic. Profile picture by @awesomebutunpractical

[owenbroadcast]

[wizard-council-bureaucrat]

“Your ancestors are amazed at all your spices!”

“Your ancestors are impressed that you are an educated woman!”

“Your ancestors are proud that you are thriving in spite of what society did to them and you”

It’s all very sweet! But! Necromancy! Is! Still! Illegal! Your ancestors are going back in the ground!

Stop resurrecting them to show off!

[tornadointhetundra]

Today is July 2nd, the day Independence was voted on. It took two days to draft the Declaration, agree on the final draft, and sign it, thus making July 4th the day it was signed and the day we celebrate Independence.

Happy Treason Day everyone, for today is the day we committed to the path of treason against the British Empire.

There’s no doubt the Founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence in July 1776. But which date has the legitimate claim on Indepe

[beggars-opera]

Hey, do you guys remember my 18th Century Life Coach, Gary?

He has finally accepted what people have been telling him for years ("Hey, dude, you kinda look like Ben Franklin. You should capitalize on that")

Gary IMMEDIATELY gets out there and takes the most Ben Franklin photo I've ever seen

I just

Behold

[beggars-opera]

[the-big-mood]

During a high speed car chase pursuit, the FOX 11 Los Angeles helicopter had an unexpected moment when they spotted a rooster and a chicken casually walking down the sidewalk right in the middle of the pursuit.

[reblogmonstah]

The fact that they were walking 1-3mph

His joy and whimsy at seeing this

His acknowledgement of it not being as interesting as the chase

His little "huh" cuz you know they told him to focus

[cerceos-deactivated20160308]

Calvin and Hobbes - It’s July Already

[physicsgoblin]

I am fascinated that while looking into homeric greek and translations of old epics that I keep seeing some translation of the Odyssey by the first woman being hailed as the most accurate ever. I then google "most accurate translations of the Odyssey" and I see either old forums in hot debate over a few translations over and over or articles from various mainstream sites that all list this woman's translation as the most accurate. I look up this version:

I swear some woman are hell-bent on making my entire sex appear lame. This suckssssss. Homeric Greek is supposed to sound epic and big and these other three examples do that, at least. Her's is like a 6th grade level. Maybe it is word-for-word more technically accurate, I don't know but style is still crucial to conveying the story. Plus again it just sounds so bad to the ear I don't even care if it's "more accurate."

[kuuderecatgirl]

you know apparently you're not supposed to give kittens and cats saucers of milk? yeah what you're actually supposed to give them is 1-2 Modelo tall boys. easy mistake to make, happens to the best of us.

[crowboy-bebop]

mysterious stick appears out of thin air............

(hellgate osprey livestream)

[hotteacocoa-deactivated20241121]

I was watching a woman interview pro-life marchers, and one of them was holding a sign that said “four of my siblings were aborted. Choose life.”

This marcher said she was raised in a family of pro-abortionists, and the siblings before and after her were aborted because the mother “wasn’t ready” at first, and after she gave birth to the third baby, the mother just “didn’t feel like going through another pregnancy.”

That alone hit me so hard. But the part that hit the hardest was when the pro-lifer said “the reason why I was had is…because I was the more conveniently timed one.”

Why do we have to boil down the lives of children to one’s “convenience”? Why? This poor girl has 4 siblings who have no graves, no dates, nowhere to mourn or place flowers, all because her mother chose to think of herself before her children.

It’s so sad. It’s so so sad.

[mornington-the-crescent]

[s-leary]

Amazing moments in Dads: my friend’s dad’s critique of Frankenstein was, “I just don’t think the author had read science fiction before.”

[rohirric-hunter]

I just got a call from "Verizon" asking me if I've been experiencing service interruptions such as dropped calls recently.

I very much doubt that Verizon is going to call customers individually to resolve service issues

I don't use Verizon

So I said, "Yeah, in fact I can feel one coming on right now," and hung up

[culturevulturette]

The Sparkler of the West lights my way!

[apolladay]

What category is your last name?

Son of some guy ("Johnson", "O'Brien", etc)

Job ("Smith", "Miller", etc)

Place/town ("Hill", "del Valle", etc)

Nickname/attribute ("Short", "Goodman", etc)

Hyphenated/multiple of the above

Other (describe in the tags!)

Unsure/results

Remaining time: 3 days 12 hours

[princesssarcastia]

there are some things a character should not be able to tell us about themselves EVEN with a gun to their head. depending on the character that could even expand to include "most" things

[princesssarcastia]

i'm talking "you can lead a horse to water but you can't make them drink" territory. "i've constructed an elaborate rube goldberg machine of plot to force this character to have precisely the realization about themselves that i want them to, and i'm only maybe 60% sure it'll work" territory. "the deity of their choice reveals it to them in a dream and they wake up and say, 'no, that can't be right,' and promptly forget about it" territory.

[awesomebutunpractical]

Superhero stories should never be realistic ever, but realistically, Superhero-ing should be, like, a five year gig, max.