[jidashia]

You’ve heard about Mom Friend and Dad Friend, now get ready for....

Grandpa Friend™:

- almost always grumpy - bad at showing affection but cares about their friends a lot - “what did you say?”, “Sorry i didn’t hear that, can you repeat it?” - often reminisces about their youth (even though they’re probably only in their twenties. Alternatively: “kids these days…”) - too old for this shit (see above) - totally not down with the youth - bad back (and everything else hurts too) - likes to complain

[itsjusteurovision]

I read an interview about the melfest lick from last night. David gave Robin a kiss on the cheek during rehearsals and when the moment came during the big night Robin decided to play a trick on David and went in for a kiss. David feeling that Robin was turning his head to kiss him decided to trick Robin back and did a lick instead of the planned cheek-kiss.

😮😮😂😂 Thanks for this info. So Robin expected a kiss 😂😂 I’m going to post again the gif here because is the best of the week tbh 😂

[z1err4]

I had this weird idea floating around in my head for a while, about a reversed leopard print. I wasn’t sure it could be done (and honestly, I’m still not quite sure it can be) but decided to try it.

Obviously, I went for the two most common colors in the animal kingdom; teal and purple, because that just made sense.

So, what’s the verdict? Can it be done? Or does it just look weird? It looks weird right? Yeah, it’s weird.

[hawkguyz]

lesbabeths:

i could never be the victim in the horror movie that gets the ominous phone calls because i just literally do not answer the phone ever

[asgardreid-deactivated20180407]

The only thing that’d be more potentially embarrassing than my internet history would be my calculator history, a chronicle of all the painfully simple math I couldn’t manage to do in my head.

[z1err4]

Excuses every season

Winter: It's snowing, i better stay inside and read.

Spring: I have allergies, i better stay inside and read.

Summer: It's too hot, i better stay inside and read.

Autumn: It's so windy, i better stay inside and read.

[bookphile]

Pay attention, this part is very important! x

[useless-swedenfacts]

swedish idioms painfully literally translated into english

- now you’ve shat in the blue cupboard

- the taste is like the butt

- there’s no cow on the ice

- i sense owls in the marsh

- to walk like a cat around hot porridge

- don’t paint the devil on the wall

- to be out biking

- cake on cake

[speculativexenolinguist]

okay @chigrima @silvysartfulness  I need you guys to help me out: what are the actual Swedish phrases AND WHAT DO THESE MEAN?!

[silvysartfulness]

@chigrima is probably replying to this as I type, but that only means you get twice the swedesplaining, @speculativexenolinguist . u.u

- now you’ve shat in the blue cupboard

Actual phrase: Nu har du skitit i det blå skåpet.

As far as a I know, this one dates back to ye olde times, where you’d store the night pot in a cupboard by the bed. In the kitchen area, you had another fancier cabinet (blue, for example, is fancy, maybe some flowers painted on there, pretty stuff) where you kept the “china” to eat on. So to say you’ve shat in the blue cupboard means you’ve made a huge mistake - like using your dinner china for going poo-poo in.

- the taste is like the butt (divided)

Actual phrase: Smaken är som baken - delad

Literally means that just the way the butt is split into two ass-cheeks, so peoples’ tastes and preferences may be divided. The last part of the idiom is often left out since everyone knows what it is.

- there’s no cow on the ice

Actual phrase: Det är ingen ko på isen.

A cow that’s gotten lost from the pasture and wandered onto the frozen nearby body of water is bad. You may end up with drowned cow. So as long as there’s no cow on the ice, whatever you need to do isn’t really in a hurry. If there WAS a cow on the ice, you’d be in a rush to fix it before it got worse, though.

- i sense owls in the marsh

Actual phrase: Jag anar ugglor i mossen

It means to suspect foul play (fowl play, ha, see it works in English, too), that something’s not quite right. Since I didn’t know how it originated, I’ll leave you with the wisdom of Wikipedia - it’s originally a Danish idiom where the owls were actually wolves (which makes more sense, something creepy’s about) that got mistranslated into owls because apparently unbaptised children who died out of wedlock turned into owly marsh-spirits-… you know, that’s fucked up creepy, too. That, and I now feel a very strong urge to incorporate cursed owl-featured child-zombies of the marshes into like ALL my original stories. Anyway. Moving on.

- to walk like a cat around hot porridge

Actual phrase: Att gå som katten kring het gröt.

Circling but evading an issue, being reluctant to bring something up. Porridge was often served with butter and milk, which were tasties for cats. But the porridge was too hot, so the cat would just slink around, waiting for it to cool down. So evading something until, preferably, someone else brings it up or it goes away. Like the heat of the porridge.

- don’t paint the devil on the wall

Actual phrase: Måla inte fan på väggen

This is so visually poetic. It means you shouldn’t invite trouble, or borrow misery. Things might just work out fine, so if you start painting up vivid scenarios of everything that COULD go wrong, you may end up screwing things up for yourself. Don’t.

- to be out biking

Actual phrase: Nu är du helt ute och cyklar

Means to be completely and utterly wrong, way off topic, making no sense. Like being out biking and getting yourself utterly lost. Which happens faster if you’re biking than walking? Or something.

- cake on cake

Actual phrase: tårta på tårta

Literally means to stack one cake on top of another. Ie doing something to extreme excess, exaggerating, too much of any one thing. Is often used about language taking a turn for the purpler - you needn’t describe the polar bear to be furry and white, it’s a polar bear, they’re ALWAYS furry and white, kinda thing.

Finally, because no post about Swedish is complete without it, I shall add on my very favourite Swedish insult: Skitstövel. It literally means shit-boot, and I think that’s beautiful.

[scotchtrooper]

@endlesslyunamusing

[fira211]

#can we just #can we just all agree to replace ‘ship and let ship’ or ‘your kink is not my kink’ with #THE TASTE IS LIKE THE BUTT #PLEASE FANDOM #DO THE THING #i made a ridiculous noise #language (@jedi-seagull)

Help, I am crol XD

[rebelwithoutpaws]

@copperbadge because of cake on cake, sorta like if it’s worth doing…

[copperbadge]

See and I totally am living out the trope because as soon as I read that one I thought “But why wouldn’t you put cake on cake, IT’S CAKE.” :D 

I’m pretty sure in the foodieverse, Mjolnir has a dessert called tårta på tårta which is one of those “if you eat the whole thing your party eats for free” deals. 

Steve and Bruce both have their photos on the tårta på tårta wall of honor. 

[z1err4]

My ESC Top 5

 1)  Australia

2)  Israel

3) Lithuania

4) Russia

5) Spain

And Malta’s cleavage get my twelve points! O_O

[post-and-out]

Things I Have Done with Books I Could Not Have Done with Boys

This list is not exhaustive. Feel free to add your own

* Stolen them from my mother * Thrown them at a wall for pissing me off * Stuck on a shelf and forgotten for six months * Handed to a friend immediately after being done with them with instructions to “Finish this as soon as possible” * Had them on the table while I ate dinner * Had the same conversation multiple times and not been frustrated over it * Carried 12 of them home at once in a single bag * Sold them for store credit * Replaced them with an identical copy after the original one was destroyed * Left on the curb marked “FREE” * Dropped off at second hand store without a second thought * Cracked the spine * Removed the cover and replaced it with a new one * Used it to kill an unidentified insect with repeated blows on the table” * Forgot on a bus * Highlighted the stupid parts just to show a friend how stupid they were * Picked up 4 for the price of 3 * Ordered online for my sister’s birthday * Stacked five high on my bedside table

[thebeautyofbecoming]

[wilwheaton]

Wow. Every one of these could be a writing prompt.

[jeza-red]

We’re just a hiccup in time. Once were gone, she’s going to make us seem like we’ve never existed at all.

[vanityfair]

The dream team. 

[vikander]

Kate Winslet attends the 88th Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood & Highland Center on February 28, 2016 in Hollywood, California.

[foxglove-grove]

Does anyone else just lay in bed for an hour or so before they fall asleep and generate their own fanfictions? And they are super elaborate and you just sit and go through it and wasting precious sleeping time. Reblog if u do.

[barkjunhee]

[leonardodicapios]

[undergradhist]

Professorial Coping Strategy # I’ve Lost Count: Making fun of internet memes.

[runawaymarbles]

OK but 

Rleamense Regvioo of the Tower of Tleour’en’bh

[cleoselene-deactivated20260315]

Ertalynse Arlverf of the Forest of Lesous'ni'bh lmfao I was dying at this whole thing

[largishcat]

Sontrcae'e Errblk of the Vale of Alenin'el'bh

Also, I think we all know who everyone’s least favorite president is

[teland]

Sonleroei Yforof of the Vale of Oodouh'ti'bh

I can’t stop hooting.

[dsudis]

Chamaiase Ohnro of the Tower of Odsade’kp’bh

It was all actually pronounceable until it dissolved into a raspberry at the end there…

[z1err4]

Sonsaikase Onnvenju of the Haunted Wastelands of Inghcf’lu’bh Almost couldn’t finish it because my high school didn’t have a sports team, but it made me inexplicably upset, so I took some liberties.