My Boromir costume making details. Full article about process is on my page in VK https://vk.com/article47552_3992 Article is needed for @starconpro cosplay contest. Картиночки из моей старконовской статьи (которая не выходит в поиске по хэштегу #КосплейНаСтарконе (а вдруг сейчас сработает, ммм) ) #boromir #boromircosplay #cosplay #russiancosplay #costume #handmade #lotr #lotrcosplay #lordoftherings #lordoftheringscosplay #gondor #tolkienfan #femversion #fellowshipofthering #sword #seanbean #starcon #starcon2018

Whenever a new fantasy/historical drama comes out I eagerly look forward to the rants from the handful of people I follow on here who are deeply into historical fashion and costuming. It's like

I need you to FREAKING listen to me. Back when I lived with my parents my mom would watch Hallmark channel and there was this show called When Calls the Heart. It was supposed to be in like late Victorian era or Edwardian era....... I think? (they have early cars) And THIS is what the costumes look like......

Literally all you had to do to make it quasi-believable was fix their hair/facial hair and give them hats. Also fix the character's neckline, she's the only character in the show where they're like "no she must be hot and have a V neck"

Ok sorry I had to get that out of my system.

Thorin, King under the Mountain, with dragon-sickness...

[hoarsely] is everyone ok

*covered in blood and debris* [shakily] yeah

[unseen, muffled] doing awesome

a tv adaptation of dracula but it's a romantic slice of life comedy about lucy and the boyfriend squad, except for 1 - 3 minutes every episode, we abruptly cut away from Lucy Westenra is The Bachelorette to whatever ungodly horror jonathan's facing in castle dracula today, with no context before it cuts back to lucy, with no explanation or resolution of what's happening with jonathan. this happens without warning every time.

Wizards! Stop scrolling!! This is your reminder to:

"Blah! It's me, the alien! I'm gonna getcha! I'm the alien!"

- the alien from Alien (1979)

she never said this. stop spreading misinformation.

She was thinking it though.

Venom making breakfast for Eddie.

Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021), dir. Andy Serkis

March

It’s gonna be

x

GUYS THIS IS AMAZING

SERIOUSLY

6000 YEARS

STORIES THAT ARE OLDER THAN CIVILIZATIONS

STORIES THAT WERE TOLD BY PEOPLE SPEAKING LANGUAGES WE NO LONGER KNOW

STORIES TOLD BY PEOPLE LOST TO THE VOID OF TIME

STORIES

GUYS LOOK AT THIS

OH MY GOD YOU GUYS

GUYYYYYSSSS

“Here’s how it worked: Fairy tales are transmitted through language, and the shoots and branches of the Indo-European language tree are well-defined, so the scientists could trace a tale’s history back up the tree—and thus back in time. If both Slavic languages and Celtic languages had a version of Jack and the Beanstalk (and the analysis revealed they might), for example, chances are the story can be traced back to the “last common ancestor.” That would be the Proto-Western-Indo-Europeans from whom both lineages split at least 6800 years ago. The approach mirrors how an evolutionary biologist might conclude that two species came from a common ancestor if their genes both contain the same mutation not found in other modern animals.” 

How do they control for stories that were borrowed, which almost certainly happened?

“ Unlike genes, which are almost exclusively transmitted “vertically”—from parent to offspring—fairy tales can also spread horizontally when one culture intermingles with another. Accordingly, much of the authors’ study focuses on recognizing and removing tales that seem to have spread horizontally. When the pruning was done, the team was left with a total of 76 fairy tales.”

This article doesn’t say how, but I bet those methods are in the paper.

For this, they used a library of cultural traits for each culture a fairy tale occurred in, and then measured the likelihood that trait t occurs in culture c due to either phylogenetic proximity (inheritance) or spatial proximity (diffusion), using autologistic regression:

(Autologistic regression is a graphical model where connected nodes have dependencies on each other, except instead of an undirected graph, ALR is a special case that requires sequential binary data and assumes a spatial ordering.  In this case, the binary data are the cultural features).

Cultural traits states are generated using Monte-Carlo simulation and phylogenetic or spatial influence are fitted as local dependencies between the nodes in the graph representing cultural traits.  I can’t find this in the paper (though it may be mentioned in the citation of the method they used), but presumably if the spatial influence exceeds the phylogenetic influence by a certain threshold, the trait is removed.

The full paper is here.

@the-forest-library You might be interested in this. :)

Very much so! Thank you, @motleybits! This is fascinating.

“In 1984, when Ruth Coker Burks was 25 and a young mother living in Arkansas, she would often visit a hospital to care for a friend with cancer.

During one visit, Ruth noticed the nurses would draw straws, afraid to go into one room, its door sealed by a big red bag. She asked why and the nurses told her the patient had AIDS.

On a repeat visit, and seeing the big red bag on the door, Ruth decided to disregard the warnings and sneaked into the room.

In the bed was a skeletal young man, who told Ruth he wanted to see his mother before he died. She left the room and told the nurses, who said, “Honey, his mother’s not coming. He’s been here six weeks. Nobody’s coming!”

Ruth called his mother anyway, who refused to come visit her son, who she described as a “sinner” and already dead to her, and that she wouldn’t even claim his body when he died.

“I went back in his room and when I walked in, he said, “Oh, momma. I knew you’d come”, and then he lifted his hand. And what was I going to do? So I took his hand. I said, “I’m here, honey. I’m here”, Ruth later recounted.

Ruth pulled a chair to his bedside, talked to him

and held his hand until he died 13 hours later.

After finally finding a funeral home that would his body, and paying for the cremation out of her own savings, Ruth buried his ashes on her family’s large plot.

After this first encounter, Ruth cared for other patients. She would take them to appointments, obtain medications, apply for assistance, and even kept supplies of AIDS medications on hand, as some pharmacies would not carry them.

Ruth’s work soon became well known in the city and she received financial assistance from gay bars, “They would twirl up a drag show on Saturday night and here’d come the money. That’s how we’d buy medicine, that’s how we’d pay rent. If it hadn’t been for the drag queens, I don’t know what we would have done”, Ruth said.

Over the next 30 years, Ruth cared for over 1,000 people and buried more than 40 on her family’s plot most of whom were gay men whose families would not claim their ashes.

For this, Ruth has been nicknamed the ‘Cemetery Angel’.”— by Ra-Ey Saley

She’s 60 now, she’s still doing activist and advocacy work, and working on a memoir.

incoming wall of text but HEY LOOK IT’S THAT KICKSTARTER I MEAN TO RUN IN FEBRUARY BUT THIS ENTIRE YEAR HAS BEEN A RIDE HAHAHA *cough*

HERE’S THE LINK TO THE KICKSTARTER PAGE 

-but! in case you don’t want to be bothered going there for the pitch here’s the gist: I made a fairytale story, and lots of people wanted it to be a book, so we’re gonna try to make it into a book! There’s also lots of really nice rewards like seriously they’re really shiny and I love them?? You can read the entire story here for free to see if you like it! As a taster it contains but is not limited to-

Pretty Pastel Pink City

Princess Who can Kick your Ass and Will

Adorable Silent Movie Comedian-type Jester Nerd

MUTUAL. PINING. and rhymes. lots of rhymes. also a baby dragon.

If that’s not enough for you THERE IS ALSO LIKE A WHOLE PLOT WHERE SNEAKY SNOBBY HIGH-UPS IN THE CASTLE TRY TO LIKE, MURDER THE JESTER AND IT GETS KIND OF INTENSE NGL like make up your own mind about it by going to read it. Go on. Read my dorky love story it’s completely free and will take like 10 minutes tops and like maybe you’ll??? Enjoy it? It’s effectively an AU of the two characters from this animation I made a while back, which oh hey look you can watch that for free too at the bottom of this post.

I have also made a lot of Fan Comics on here which you might recognise, and I make The Property of Hate! The only stretch goal is to REPRINT VOLUME ONE AND TWO of TPoH which is currently completely sold out, so if you like any of the stuff I’ve done I’d be HUGELY grateful if you could support this project and/or share it with people! Thank you! :D

miles “who’s morales” morales’s biggest weakness is the cover story

peter, lying out of his ass: i was, uh, married to his uncle aaron. he just never let you know

Jefferson, later: Do you think Aaron never told us because Peter’s…

Rio: …Tall

Jefferson: I didn’t think Aaron liked … Tall people.

Jefferson: “But listen: Aaron might have married a white boy just to annoy me, specifically. It’s a thing he would do!”

Rio: “I can’t hear you. I’m asleep.  I have a shift in four hours.”

I really wish there was a way Uncle Aaron lived and came back to meet his “husband” at some point now.

Aaron: …Miles…I love you, and I am proud of you…but you are somehow the smartest and dumbest boy I have ever known.

Miles: Says the man who used his big brain to become a criminal when he could’ve been a black Tony Stark with that gear he made. And thought working for the Kingpin, who everyone knows will throw his minions away like tissues, was a good idea!

Peter: He makes a good point, babe, you did kind of mess up first–

Aaron: Call me babe again and see what happens. I’ll whoop you with a collapsed lung.

All I see is “fake marriage au, but it’s also enemies to lovers”

If I ever stop reblogging this post, assume that I have yeeted myself off this mortal coil

^

My needlepoint Jaguar rug is finally finished and she turned out great! She measures roughly 3 x 4 feet and is about 80% recycled materials! The most expensive part of the whole project was her custom laser cut claws! This was a really challenging and humbling project and I’m proud of the finished piece! I can’t wait to start a new project! 

BONUS: This is what she looked like five months ago!

Nothing could be more anime than the secret vampire art of instant death fish karate chop.

I love this goddamn show.

Me hitting my man's morning wood when I'm not in the mood

r/vexillology

The Flag of Japan but it's actually this hand towel with a perfectly-placed water stain

oh shit i just peed on my towel accidentally better turn this into clout

it was a WATER STAIN i had an ICE PACK and it LEAKED onto the towel I DIDN'T FUCKCING PEE ON IT

you peed on it

you peed on it didn’t you lil piss boy

I DIDN'T PISS I DIDN'T!!!! I'M NOT A LITTLE PEEPEE BOY!!!! I'M NOT!!!!

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