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tolkien week » colors » green
There was a wall here once. The tree remembers, but now the wind blows through roots that once nestled among stones.
What does the arab in your carrd mean? Is it like afab and amab?
.. i’m palestinian
same energy
there’s more
I love the idea of Spock being super queer, highly expressive and very emotional from a Vulcan view point. Like...
What humans see:
What Vulcans see:
Vulcans seeing Kirk as a version of Gritty seems incredibly accurate, too.
“Nicky has been living for centuries, but he still greets with a smile the people he meets in the desert, inside him there’s the flame of an infinite goodness. Every character has a different sensitivity and their own armour. Nicky is probably the less armoured one” — Luca Marinelli on his character Nicolò di Genova in THE OLD GUARD (2020)
The Evolution of Douchebag Style [full video]
Oh, he’s good.
I don’t know whether he deserves an Oscar or a restraining order.
No mourners
No funerals
Classic animators doing reference poses for their own drawings. I’m in love with these images.
Part of the reason animators like to work alone, late at night when no one is watching.
The distinctive and memorable Thailand-only covers for the Harry Potter novels.
Whoa. These are like if J. C. Leyendecker did fantasy covers. :O The artist’s name is Arch Apolar, and here’s his Instagram.
SHIREMAIDEN’S 4K CELEBRATION | BOROMIR + QUOTE ➸ for @aw–heck
B: We are all afraid, Frodo. But to let that fear drive us to destroy what hope we have… don’t you see? That is madness! F: There is no other way. B: I ask only for the strength to defend my people! If you would but lend me the Ring…
25-35 is such a weird fucking age because you’re 100% a bread-and-butter Standard Edition Millennial but the cool teens are like “ok boomer” because you have a Real Job but the actual Boomers at your job are like “I’m not going to listen to a literal fucking child” as they download 16 self-replicating viruses and meanwhile the Gen Xers are telling you to refinance a mortgage for a house you don’t have and you’re sitting there at the Adults Table with the pretty tasty casserole you cooked because you’ve finally figured out how to do that now but everyone is eating the Boomer’s store-bought macaroni instead and admittedly they do sort of taste similar so it probably wasn’t worth all the trouble of cooking from scratch and you’re trying to comfort the freshly-graduated sobbing 22-year-old next to you because she just woke up here and doesn’t know where she is but you have like maybe 5k dollars in a savings account labelled RETIREMENT that grows approx. twelve cents a year and you keep eating dry macaroni while smiling incomprehensibly and periodically blacking out like ??????????
Translation: How do western european perverts imagine Slavic girls to be like: Me and the womenfolk of Moravia:
This is now officially a Slavic humor blog
i often wonder how many ppl from 2012 tumblr are still active on here
are u also still here, lurking in the shadows????
Thanks Satan…
You ever invite your coworker to watch you give birth just to spite a racist
Okay howmst the fuck has a ship doctor in the far future never handled a birth without the father present? Are sperm donors and gay couples and trans women no longer a thing in the bajillionth century CE?? :/
I while understand the frustration with erasure sometimes it helps to look at things through the cultural context of when something was made. Star Trek the Next Generation was made in 1987, this particular episode I believe aired in 1988 a time when a future where the husband was always present for the birth would have been amazing to many of the people watching the show as men had only been allowed to be present for the birth of their children for 10/15ish years at that point in the US.
Women (and many men) fought for decades with hospitals to even have men allowed in the delivery room during the early stages of labor, which can last for several hours, and hospitals only began to give in to their requests in the 1960s but even then they would be kicked out of the room by hospital staff before the actual birth took place. So many of the couples watching the show would have had to go through labor without having/being allowed to support their spouse regardless of their wishes. Having the child’s father present for the birth only began to happen in the 1970s and 1980s. Which means most people watching this show either went through birth without the support of their spouse, were not allowed to support their spouse during the birth of their child, or their own mother’s went through that during their birth.
A future where the husbands were always present for the birth was still a little crazy to consider in the late 1980s. A good kind of crazy for the people living in that time, it showed a future where the wishes of the couple were finally consistently listened to by medical professionals as a result of the actions of people during their or their parent’s lifetimes. And it does that by also subverting it in allowing Data to step into the role of the father when the father was unknown and/or unwilling/unable to fill that role (I’ll be honest my knowledge of Next Gen is a bit spotty and I have not seen this whole episode, just a piece of it at family Thanksgiving). The woman’s desires as to how she would give birth are listened to and respected, something that still doesn’t happen in many hospitals now and would have been seen as even more revolutionary then. So while it isn’t perfect I think this scene was actually fairly impressive for its time and cultural context and shows a future that many people of that time would have seen as ideal.
I think this kind of contextual understanding and analysis is really important because things that look antiquated now were revolutionary then. I remember reading that the mini skirts in Star Trek TOS were legot just in fashion (about 64’ ish), one of the actresses (the one that played Rand) requested they be in the show and both her and Nichelle Nichols said they didn’t see them as demeaning but liberating in that time and context. Where as NOW it looks like ‘sexy male gaze’ but then it wasn’t.
Miniskirts are comfortable and easy to move in - unlike longer bulkier skirts, which had previously been required for “modesty.” And unlike the approach of “we’ll just put them in pants,” miniskirts made a statement that women crew-members weren’t being treated like men. Miniskirts were a way to say “I can be an attractive woman, wear comfortable clothes, and still look professional and do a serious job.”
The clothing for that message today would be different.
I was today years old when I learned that when you type “otp: true” in AO3 search results it filters out fics with additional ships, leaving only the fics where your otp is the main ship
Gamechanger
Here’s a cheatsheet of all the available hidden search functions. “-creators:[whatever]” is another exclusion that can be particularly useful.
What it’s like to live and work with 6 people of 5 different nationalities and none of you is a native English speaker
- desperately trying to explain to another coworker that your Bangladeshi flatmate is saying “pea shells” and not “bee shells” (“pea pods, du ved, ærte… skræller..? Ærtebælge!“)
- Tunisian guy says a French word. Everyone understands. French guy says “it’s the same in English”
- you forget the English word for strainer. You know it in German. Only your Austrian flatmate understands what you’re talking about.
- “according to my high school diploma I speak B1 French”
- Austrian forgets the English word for fork, but remembers it in Danish.
- “I don’t have the name in English” *tells us what an animal is called in Latin*
- 0 out of 6 people can remember what broom is called in English
- “fucking… she’s trying to kill me” – our Frenchman after tripping over the dishwasher
- *accidentally speaks Danish to non-Danish flatmate* *starts to say something in English to my family* *is spoken to in English by Danish flatmate*
- I tell the Frenchman to write leverpostej om the shopping list. He looks at me like he’s dead inside and writes pâté
- no one knows how to spell
- “what gender is apple in German?” “is book neuter or common gender in Danish?” *calls an inanimate object he or she* “what’s the plural of hus? Huser?”
- What are gendered genitive pronouns? I mean, who really knows? Not the French speakers, that’s for sure!
- everyone speaks 2 languages, most at least kind of speak 3.
- my English gets worse for every day that passes
-translating jokes from your native language to English makes for the best anti jokes. “A dwarf walks into a bar and the bartender asks him ‘Do you play cards?’ ‘No, I was born this way,’ the dwarf answers”
- Austrian: “ti, tyve….. uhhhh….. fyrre, halvtreds, tres, halvfjerds…. fjers?? ….. …?????? hundred.”
- “can you hand me the… Uhh… You know the, the thingy!” “The what?” “THE BOWL!”
- “You can’t name your child Valdemar, that’s the guy from Harry Potter!”
- I try to speak German and my Austrian roommate tells me that my accent is cute because I speak the hard German sounds so softly
- Frenchman imitates really bad French accent and it’s hilarious
- someone thought the Austrian was Scottish because she rolls her r’s
- “Share a coke with… Vendire… Veninerere…” “Veninderne” “Please tell me that’s not a name” “It’s means female friends”
- Høkeren -> hookeren
- *French speakers forget to pronounce an h*
- there’s a heated discussion about whether or not some penguins can fly. The argument immediately dissolves as it is revealed that in French auks are called penguins.
- you learn to never correct people unless they ask you to or you literally do not understand what they’re saying
- you translate an idiom from your own language into English. It’s the same in one of the other languages, but not in English. No one questions it.
- you borrow a flatmate’s Netflix. All the titles are in a language you don’t speak. FRIENDS is dubbed in German, so you turn on sous-titres. They’re in Bangla.
- “Santa Claus surprise”, the Frenchman cheerfully says about secret santa
- you try to talk about knitting with your roommates but you don’t know any of the proper terms in English. They try to talk about crotcheing in turn, but they don’t even know what that’s called.
- you have to disassemble the couch, so you send your roommate to get the tools for doing that. You never talk about the tools of which you don’t know the names, but she brings the right ones regardless.
- you say a sentence and someone repeats it back to you, mispronouncing one of the words because they’re certain you mispronounced it
- you somehow manage to hold a conversation in two languages at once