also known as: papa ~ the archivist ~ lorekeeper ~ winter or wintersoul
english, queer, autistic, elder millennial, linguistics grad
[[i love words // writing systems my beloved // stuff about or in non-english languages is tagged '<language name> language']]
it’s always ok to dm me about something i’ve posted about or talked about in tags, but messages that just say "hey" will not be answered
asks are usually open, do knock yourself out. i'm always happy to share factual information related to inside no 9, the league of gentlemen, reece shearsmith’s acting work, pembersmith lore etc
[[answered asks // asks game]]
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fics'n'fanworks masterpost of my fics, fanvids, podfics and webweaves. also tagged stuff i made along with gifs and creative stuff that doesn't fall under the pembersmith fanworks umbrella
TAGS OF NOTE
percy irl ~ personal things // percy werk ~ stuff about my job // percy.wav ~ audio things // percy.mov ~ filmmaking things // photo diary ~ pictures i have taken
i like to go digital dumpster diving or talk about just archivist things. as part of that you will find examples of transcribed audio
other things i enjoy include illustration and (stop motion) animation ~ skulls and bones ~ fyeahgayvampires ~ spaces and places ~ greek mythology ~ folk and fairy tales ~ electronic music ~ podcasts ~ improv comedy ~ sci fi ~ general goth shit ✌🏻
ANGSTY THINGS
the bats on the ceiling are spelling out the word turmoil // modern life is rubbish // ai bullshit
JOYFUL THINGS
cats make everything better // this is so stupid i love it // hope as a radical act
dividers by @uzmacchiato 🖤 profile pic by @not-xpr-art
hey! this is maybe a question i could find the answer to myself if i poked around a bit, but i figured it'd be more fun to ask someone:
do we know who came up with the name "the league of gentlemen"? (i know it's also the name of a movie)
in all honesty this is for fanfiction purposes, so ill be precise: if reece had never been part of the group, what are the chances they'd have the same name?
thank you!!
Heya! Thanks for the lore request 😊 Sadly I can't infodump about this because I don't think I've ever heard/read this specific detail? You probably already know that the name plus their early uniform of tuxedos was meant to parody/skewer the Cambridge Footlights/Oxford Revue shows that dominated postwar British comedy
It always struck me as more of a Gatiss thing than a Reece thing? (You may also know that Steve's suggestion was "The Porn Dwarfs")
And funnily enough Mark will be hosting a screening of the 1960 movie at the BFI in September. Maybe someone could try and ask him? 😁
Im enjoying the longevity of tumblrs recontextualization style of humor. a seemingly innocuous post followed by like "posts that a gnome would make" or like "are you a phone"
I keep my personal life out of this blog, but unfortunately I find myself in a position where I don’t have enough money to pay my rent this month. There is absolutely no obligation, but if you enjoy the archiving I do and would like to help me out to say thanks, I have a Ko-Fi here 🖤
Some AAVE speakers pluralize 'child' as 'childrens'. People get racist about this ("It's already plural!"), but 'children' actually comes from Middle English speakers doing the same thing: slapping their plural marker on word already pluralized by an extinct plural marker.
To oversimplify: in Old English, 'childer' ('ċildra') was the plural of 'child' ('ċild'). Middle English developed an '-en' plural marker, which we see in 'oxen'. Instead of updating to 'childen', people slapped their preferred '-en' onto the end of 'childer' - so now we have 'child-er-en'. AAVE carries on this tradition with 'child-er-en-s'.
"Pure" language is just impurity obscured by the passage of time.
do you ever think about how a series of tiny choices like “I guess I’ll watch that show” can like totally and entirely change huge aspects of your life
if you're ever beating yourself up for 'missing the obvious hints' that someone is romantically interested in you, know this: i once met a guy who asked out a girl after she sent him nude pictures of herself in the bath and she said she wasn't interested. it is never obvious
