YOUR NEW FRIEND

middle aged . small time artist & baker . if you look like a bot I will block you . there be much vulgarity and nudity on this blog, lads…but also cute animals, so…

[venceslaugama]

[thoodleoo]

been reading cicero's rant about words being given obscene meanings and i don't think i've ever seen a latin sentence that made me burst into such immediate and violent laughter before

[thoodleoo]

had a couple people be like "i have no idea what this means" so to clarify: the word penis in latin originally meant tail and only later got the sense of, uh. penis. so this is cicero complaining that nowadays all these hooligans are using the word "penis" for naughty purposes

[atii-uqaulahaluanngilutit]

Thank you for this post, I will be showing it to every boomer who ever complains about how the kids these days are butchering the language.

[murderbotbot]

Fuck, fuck everything, fuck this, fuck me especially.

[wiiwheel]

clicking into a blog called bigfatbuttsonly only to see I'm already following it

[rederiswrites]

As requested, an installment of images of the marketplace at Pennsic, from the mundane of the camp store to the sublime of the medieval luthier.

There are many more and I'll add as I go--these were some quick shots taken on my way to buy dinner groceries, and I was late.

[rederiswrites]

The Labyrinth Man, whose name I do not know, draws these lovely historically accurate labyrinths throughout the main areas.

People compete for first pick of the latest sari delivery.

The racks in Auntie Arwen's, which specializes in spice blends. Half a dozen people work in here at any given moment, keeping the shelves stocked and the checkout line moving.

There are also often musicians playing for tips in the marketplace, and always clumps of friends and acquaintances catching up and hugging.

[ofchaosgoddess]

I wonder if you would get interesting results by soaking each fiber/yarn in a different concentration of citric acid before dyeing, then dyeing them all in a single hotel pan.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

I often take time away from tumblr, and every single time I come back, an ask of yours crosses my dash referencing some new disk horse. It's never the original either. It's always someone attacking you for your take or trying to start related drama. It really is like seeing a shadow pass under my ship. Except when I look down, Ben Affleck is swimming through the water with a cigarette and a harpoon gun

Anyways, thank you for your service o7

can anyone out there do art and whip up Ben Affleck prowling the sea with his cigarette and a harpoon gun for the love of god

[3hobbitsinatrenchcoat]

I'm not a traditional artist BUT I spent most of the 2000s doing photobashes and manips. I could see this poor drowned man in my minds eye

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

that's what I'm talking about!!!!

[fanfavoritefragrances]

can I play too?

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

Affelia...

[wiskie]

“Remember, nothing tastes as good as skinny feels 😇”

[bethanydelleman]

I have been listening to this podcast called Betwixt the Sheets, The History of Sex, Scandal & Society, and it's really reminding me of the main reason that you should listen to experts. It's not because of the reason media usually shows, them having encyclopedic knowledge of their subject (though many do have that) it's their ability to sort.

This podcast demonstrates that ability really well because sex scandals tend to be used as propaganda, so it's difficult to tell if they are true or not. The host will ask the historian guest, "Did he have sex with men?" and the guest will say something like, "Well four sources say so, but three were written after his death and the one from his lifetime was from a dude who REALLY hated him, so I'm going to conclude no."

That is what an expert can do, that we've perhaps forgotten about because we have so much information at our fingertips, an expert can tell which information is good & valid vs. bad & unreliable. An expert can sort much faster than a layman because they've been doing it for years.

It's the same for my field. Some things I am absolutely sure are wrong, like if someone says "We only use 10% of our brains." No, we use all of it and I can even tell you what every part does. But other claims, if I see a news article claiming something that sounds fishy, I can read the research article behind it and judge the validity of the source. I can sort. I know which parameters to sort on. That was the entire point of my education and it was pounded into my head.

Knowledge isn't enough. Researching isn't enough because if you don't know how to sort you'll just be led astray down dangerous rabbit holes. That is why experts are so important.

[yournewfriendshouse]

ok life sucks so bad rn but there are so many birds making the loudest racket outside of my window rn

i guess a bunch of birds have arrived from a migration or something?

shriek and squawk on planet earth

[yournewfriendshouse]

apps will demand everyone’s ID while making their app more and more ugly and unusable

[bulljumpingfresco]

Minoan octopus fresco

[thatdisasterauthor]

Today at work a girl at my register was heatedly explaining to her mother that wearing a dinosaur costume to her school’s decades day was, in fact, perfectly acceptable because her teachers did not specify any particular decades.

[antique-scarecrow]

the kids are alright 

[gallusrostromegalus]

SCA garb guidelines say “before the 1600’s” which includes like. The Ice Age. Catch me rolling up to Pennsic on assorted pelts and the latest in attatl technology.

[yournewfriendshouse]

doctor standing me up or an appt three times in one week and consequently I’m without painkillers?

jesus fucking christ

[homunculus-argument]

Idk who needs to hear this but being unwilling to follow orders, and being incapable of following instrucrions, are not the same thing. Your stupidity is not a virtue.

[thechangeling4]

It should be added that peoples' inability to give clear instructions does not mean you're stupid.

[homunculus-argument]

Sure, naturally. It's best to consider the ratio here.

If you encounter one lunatic driving the wrong way on the highway, you encountered one lunatic driving the wrong way on the highway. But if you pass five of them in a row, the problem might be you.

[camelidae]

When it comes to dragons’ hoards, “Look, Don’t Touch” is the cardinal rule. You might think the “Don’t Touch” is the most important part about that credo, but that’s because you’ve never offended a dragon by not being impressed enough by his hoard. You MUST come prepared to gush.

[likitesplit]

Art Deco bookends featuring Medieval ladies reading. 1920

Max Le Verrier.