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YOU NIQQAS WANNA LEARN ELVISH?! HERE YA GO!

idareu2bme

is this legit?

stut--ter

This is legit. My husband, sitting across the room, looks over and says, “IS THAT SOMEONE SHOWING HOW TO CONVERT ENGLISH TO TENGWAR? BECAUSE THAT’S THE WAY!”

Believe this man. He owns atlases of Middle Earth, the complete history of Midle Earth (leatherbound), and has read the books at least 150 times. Also: speaks elvish.

Yes.

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A Timeline of Women’s Fashion from 1784-1970 (source: http://kottke.org/17/07/a-timeline-of-womens-fashion-from-1784-1970)

thehistoricalseamstress

such a useful reference to see the transition of styles

chromnur

@writingtipsandtricks

wranglerpunkymonroe

Yaaaaaasss

nocontextgoodplace

thatclassicalliberal

talking to communists on tumblr

weloveshortvideos

british summer is here.

sixohsixoheightfourtwo

[rain pouring] [thunder rumbling] [car horn blaring] “go on. wheyyyyyyy!! Oh no.” [in distance: “YOU IDIOT”, uproarious laughter] “why would you go through that. what are you doing. ahhh no, he’s actually floating!” “well of course he is. what a fucking bellend!” “what a knobhead!” “fucking hell.”

irrationalnerd

This should be shown whenever people say stuff like “British people are so polite,” “I love their accents,” or “surely the miserable summer weather is just exaggerated to give people things to talk about”.

dreamlightasafeather

IF YOU NEED TO CALL 911 BUT ARE SCARED TO BECAUSE OF SOMEONE IN THE ROOM, dial and ask for a pepperoni pizza. They will ask if you know you’re calling 911. Say yes, and continue pretending you’re making an order. They’ll ask if there’s someone in the room.

You can ask how long it will take for the pizza to get to you, and they will tell you how far away a dispatcher is.

Here is an example video

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Reblog to literally save a life

anotherdayforchaosfay

I’ve done this. I’m alive because of this.

My flat-mate’s date for the night was almost as drunk as her. She had passed out in her room and locked the door. He refused to leave because he wanted to have sex. He also demanded food because he was dealing with “whiskey dick”. He didn’t like the lack of food in the fridge. I called 911, did the stuff stated above, and he was getting PISSED about how long the “order” was taking. He took my phone, demanded they “hurry the fuck up”. Police arrived two minutes later, arrested him, and helped me file a police report. Pressing charges wasn’t necessary because he had warrants on him from THREE different states for the very thing he planned to do to me. Several months after this happened one of the officers informed me he was charged with two felonies because he crossed stay lines, and will be serving no less than 35 years in prison. The officer ripped into my flat-mate about her bringing home complete strangers, while drunk, knowing full well this shit could happen.

This was 14 years ago.

Do the pizza order, do it as calmly as you can. The dispatcher I spoke to said things like this:

“If he’s drunk say you want mushrooms.” I said I want extra mushrooms.

“If he’s threatening you with sexual assault say you want onions.” I said I want onions.

She went like this with different toppings and sauces for a description of him, like pineapple if he’s blonde, black olives if he’s tall, extra large if he’s tall, etc.

They’ve heard this sort of coded call before. They’re trained for it. They will understand what you’re saying. Order the pizza.

torios

Really though. I’m in training for dispatch and this was one of the first things they taught us. Pretend you’re talking to a friend or relative, pretend you’re ordering pizza, we’ll figure it out. We’ll word questions so you can answer in an easy, casual way. Please, just make the call and we will do everything we can to help you.

drifty-little-kitten-deactivate

Important!

ravenno

Lighting comps.

Done with Euclase’s permission, because it’s her drawing; I’m just screwing around with different light on top of it, which is fun, because her drawing is so detailed and solid, and I don’t have the benefit of her reference image/s to know what the original lighting situation is.

cloacacarnage

i know its the mets, but this is the coolest shit i’ve ever seen a human being do

futureblackwakandan-deactivated

Wtf????

theryanproject

Smoove with it too

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This is the kind of shit you see in anime that shows that a certain character is stronger than other characters.

bankuei

“Pathetic. You can’t even hold the bat you dare step to the plate? Have you no respect for the sport?”

pardonmewhileipanic

reminds me of this gif

sueanoi

batter-sempai

Baseball players are to be feared

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thenamesdede

Reblogging for the last one

saito-91

^Same for me

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They just kept getting progressively more “woah”

scp2008

much woah

lord-blongus

Oh my god this is a lucky universe

hackett-out

im gonna add ‘barely legal’ / ‘finally eighteen’ to the list of phrases that will make me pass on a book immediately

thetrippytrip

I’m with this movement!

deadmugen

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Salute to this movement

mega-purplezebracorn

This is so important!

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Everybody needs to value eachother!!! Yes!!!! I love this!!!!

that-bi-guy

Can’t tell you how many times I’ve been coerced into sex because some girl decided that she wanted it, and when I say no she turns it into some kind of criticism of her. Or I’m cheating. Or I’m actually gay. Or she starts groping me and playing with me trying to “get me in the mood”. Or she just won’t take no for an answer. After many years of this you know what I’m left with? Low self esteem, constant bad sex, depression, having all sex now feel like a chore, being terrified that if I have sex with someone I actually *like* then it won’t work out, and the feeling like I CAN’T say NO.

Ladies, “No means No” isn’t just for guys. Some of us have grasped the concept. Time for you to do so as well.

17mul

I support this movement 100%

callmedeku24

I’m here for this I’m tired of these double standards

forgottenthot

The move

sinofgreedx

🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

hi-imkingdavid

Mannnnn I had this conversation with this girl like the other week

westafricanbaby

I’m here for this!!! AND STOP CALLING MEN GAY OR “SUSPECT” BECAUSE THEY AREN’T SEXUALLY ATTRACTED TO YOU OR THEY AREN’T IN THE MOOD TO HAVE SEX WITH YOU‼️

mintedwitcher

NO MEANS NO ALL THE TIME.

peccatopotpourri

straight men get flak for being piggish, turns out straight women can be piggish too…… perhaps maybe it’s a character thing and not a gender thing *gasp*

jaixvii

This is the movement 👏🏾

liferuining-soulsnatcher

HERE👏🏽 FOR👏🏽 IT 👏🏽 ❗️❗️❗️

boulevard-of-june-30th-deactiva

Will always reblog this

metalliocalypse

I support this so much, guys have feelings too they’re not always thinking about sex jfc

witcheryofundeadtrash-deactivat

Signal boost the shit out of this!!!!

No one owes you sex and no one should ever be criticized for saying “no”

banal-adventures

Sex positivity means EVERYONE being able to say no to sex. End the stereotype that all men are always dtf!!

quinnedleson

Writing a historical novel means knowing how far they can travel on a horse, This is good info right here.

(via Pinterest)

valerie1972

Off the top of my head, it jibes with what I’ve discovered in other sources.

meridok-old

Queuing this with a reminder to self: add that Cartographer’s Guild thread link to this, it has more details w basically the same numbers.

meridok-old

… things i never did: add that link. Ahem.

sandegonefishing

Just to add re: horses re: typical 4 gaits

Walk is an average of 4mph Trot is an average of 8mph Canter is an average of 16-20 mph Gallop is an average of 25-30 mph

Your gallop is probably only gonna be 40 mph if a) your horse is really fit or b) your horse is built for running, a la the English Thoroughbred or the American Quarter Horse. Your horse also needs to be pretty physically fit to sustain a gallop for more than a couple of miles. Top level eventing equines, at the peak of physical fitness, only sustain a gallop for about 11 minutes/4 miles, and that’s a tremendous effort resulting from serious conditioning, and is also including going over/through various terrain and obstacles that the average horse might shy away from. If your horse hits that speed, they will need to recover immediately afterward, either through stopping, or going at the walk.

Your horse will probably be able to maintain a relatively high speed for longer if they are alternating between walking and trotting, with some cantering.

Good references for horse travel include the Pony Express, literally any cavalry program, and modern-day endurance racing.

jenniferrpovey

More on horses and distance.

Message riders, including the Pony Express, would switch horses so they could run a horse to exhaustion without killing it and then grab another fresh one while a groom took care of the spent horse. Which would then do another run after it had recovered. Pony Express riders would switch horses about every 10 miles. Also, the riders were restricted to 125 pounds. Most Pony Express riders were teenaged boys. So, how far did a Pony Express rider ride in a day? About 75 miles. Still not 100. Could you do it? Probably, with multiple horses, but you’d be riding yourself beyond exhaustion and it’s more likely you’d fall off from tiredness, bluntly.

Stage coaches also used a similar system to maximize speed. A stagecoach could cover 60 to 70 miles per day. This was, by the way, the fastest way to travel in Regency England.

100 miles in a day on a single horse?

The Tevis Cup is a 100 mile race with a time limit of 24 hours. In 2016 the winning rider, Karen Donley, rode Royal Patron to the finish at Auburn at 9:48pm, having set off from Robie Park at 5:15am.

This means it took her 16.3 hours to cover the 100 mile distance on a single horse.

The Tevis Cup is the most difficult endurance ride in the world.

After such a ride, both horse and rider would be spent. They take days to recover from these rides. Days.

The horses have to be at least 8 years old to compete at the top level. They’re checked by a vet regularly, and these horses and riders train extensively.

There is absolutely no way horse and rider could cover 100 miles in a day and be fit for anything else afterwards. Furthermore, if a top race rider is taking 16 hours to do that distance, with anything quicker likely to kill the horse…

70 is more reasonable, but they’re still not going to be much use.

So, how far should you have your character travel on horseback in one day.

The answer is 20-30 miles, maybe 40 if they’re on a road in level terrain. Less if they’re having to trailblaze, use game trails, etc. That is assuming that your characters know how to ride and that their horses are in appropriate condition.

It’s also assuming you don’t have a wounded, unconscious companion tied across the saddle. Or have a pack horse. Dead weight - unconscious or dead bodies, the deer you just killed, your packs, or somebody who doesn’t know how the heck to ride slow horses down considerably.

The distances are similar, by the way, for mules.

delicatefury

I’m going to add this because no one else will:

Most tractors’ top speed, on a highway, is about 20mph.

If you’re writing someone driving down a rural road (backroad or highway) during the spring or the fall, there’s a chance that they’ll be caught behind a tractor. You wanna frustrate someone, have that happen to them.

lady-griffin

How Long Have They Been in “The Good Place”?

Attempt #1: 25 days (approximately)

I skimmed over the 1st season, following the context of each episode (how many days they said passed) as well as the different days shown in each episode with day to night and costume changes. I specifically looked at Eleanor and Chidi’s outfits, as Jason and Janet wear the same thing each day and Tahani changes her clothes multiple times in a single day.

Attempt #2: 1 day

Attempt #3: 128 days (likely the most successful attempt)

Attempt #11: 43 days

Attempt #108: .5 days (Eleanor finds out before she’s introduced to The Good Place)

Unknown Attempt #: 1 day (Eleanor finds out at the welcome party)

Unknown attempt #: .5 days (It seems that Eleanor finds out at Orientation)

Attempt #484: 0 days (Michael just rants)

Attempt #649: At least 3 days (Chidi and Eleanor typically meet on day 3)

Unknown Attempt #: 55 days (I’m assuming it’s a different attempt from #649, because Janet’s uniform is different-though she could’ve been rebooted)

Attempt #802: 7 days (Michael says they’re a week in)

Bonus Days:

Mindy St. Claire’s Place: At least 8 days (according to Mindy)

Day Ones: There have been 802 attempts, not counting the 11 attempts we know about, there have been 791 “Day Ones”.

Estimate #1:

Counting all the days we know for a fact happened, they’ve been in “The Good Place” for 1,063 days or close to 3 years.

Estimate #2:

However, by averaging out the days of the 10 attempts (excluding #649) where we know the specific day that they ended on, we have an average number of 25 days (rounding down) per attempt. Which is the same number I calculated for attempt #1, so that seems right.

25 days is the average. So, by multiplying that by the 792 other attempts, we have 19,800 days.

And adding the days we do know about, that is 20,069 days or close to 55 years.

Conclusion:

Eleanor, Chidi, Tahani and Jason have been in the “The Good Place,” anywhere between 3 to 55 years.

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Writing Body Language

How to Improve your writing

This is something that happens every day in your life. A shift of your eyebrow in skepticism, or the way your lip may twitch to a half smile cause you’re trying not to laugh. These behaviors are vital for writing in character, because not only do the allow you to visually see what is happening but it is also reaffirming whatever emotion your character is showing.

So why should you write it?

Much of human communication is non-verbal which means you need to also translate this non-verbal reaction in a post. It allows you to greatly enhance the emotions of another character and always another person to ‘visually’ see how they feel in a post. Most of all, this will add depth and volume to your post to make it feel more real. IT will make your character feel like a human instead of just another fictional person you look at from above.

Below you will find a list different type of emotions and what sort of body language can be exhibited to them.

Three ways to accent an action.

When writing about emotions, there are different ways to verbally write them out. Each one is unique in their own way, allowing you to show more about the emotion.

Emphasize the Emotion. But doing this, you are expressing both the emotion and the body language. We’ll use a simple example. It’s short and simple yet you can sense he is happy. John felt so happy that he was humming a tune while walking down the hall.

Complicate the Emotion. Sometimes, even when you are feeling one emotion, deep down rooted underneath the facade of it all, there is actually an underlining emotion they feel. This is something you have to truly express otherwise no one will know. John felt so happy that he was humming a tune while walking down the hall. However, it was obvious by the way his nose crinkled that he was disgusted by the actions beforehand. Instead, John covered it up by appearing pleased today.

Contradict the Emotion. This is a little different than complicate. Contradicting means that you are claiming one thing when in fact its the other. In many ways, this has a variety of uses, from inner depth of the truth to what you see in person, or someone creating a wall. It could be considered a lie, but when is anything that easy? John felt so happy that he was humming a tune while walking down the hall. In truth, once he was in the classroom, his shoulders slumped and a pout crossed his lips when no one was around, showing just how displeased he was with the situation.

Remember that you do not always have to contradict or complicate anything. Sometimes all you need to do is emphasize and that will be just fine. You don’t always have to have an underlining complicated for an emotion to make it more enhanced.

Do be afraid to use the Thesaurus to also improve an emotion. Such things as “happy” is a nice emotional word, but think of how much more powerful it is when you heard some is “overjoyed” or “content.” She how these emotions matched up with a body language can give two different styles of happiness? Mix and match to find what works best for your character at the time.

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