“As he mourned Ariadne, her form now stone forever, Dionysus looked hatefully at Aphrodite “Why did you make love this painful? Are you the Goddess of Love or the Goddess of Destruction?” Aphrodite’s eyes held sorrow as she said, “Both, child. Both.””
— Nikita Gill, Excerpts from Maidens, Myths and Monsters
6 hour long fight at this year’s Tolkien Historical Society Conference about whether Middle Earth has bees, before I reminded everyone that the Rohirrim had mead halls, which means they had honey, which means there’s bees. Everyone sighed and the conference continued. This is the life of a Tolkien scholar.
It’s what he would have wanted
op why did you wait six hours
Cause it’s fucking hilarious
Listen I would die for Jameela Jamil
I just… love her… so much we don’t deserve her
When you’ve got low self esteem and are having a bad day
Important update:
Another update:
ok so some interesting facts about her :
She’s partially deaf, she had battled anorexia as a teenager, she was a middle school English teacher and then a really successful British model, host, theatre actress and video jockey.
She has also battled and survived hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a car crash, mercurial poisoning, labyrinthitis and coeliac disease.
And obviously she’s known for her activism and killer acting skills.
She’s quite literally a queen.
posting not only as a critique of the profit motive under capitalism but also because I fucking hate youtube premium
this shouldn't be controversial
Possibly meme material but I don’t know what to to with it
Replace the word ‘bees’ with anything
Also this prequel image
gaslight gatekeep girlboss? nah. godspeed godbless godforbid
*Youth pastor voice* You know who else is keeping the gates of heaven?
For some reason, it never occurred to me that Project Gutenberg would have public domain old cookbooks. This is BRILLIANT. There’s a 1953 cranberry recipe pamphlet and a suffrage cookbook from 1915 and a translation of Apicus’s guide to food in Imperial Rome and a whole bunch of other fascinating old cookbooks, many pre-1800. Treasure trove!
I love you for sharing this!!!
For more old cookbooks, Michigan State University has 76 of their historical cookbooks scanned and searchable at Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project.
For even older recipes, check out Gode Cookery. They list medieval and Renaissance cooking instructions and translate the recipes for you into measurable amounts and all.
I have have have to mention Miss Leslie. I learned so much about cooking from that book, even if a lot of it is outdated.
Also, Forme of Cury is great fun, if you can muddle through the Middle English (Gode Cookery has translations and adaptions of some of the recipes from this).
i was rewatching legends bc a girls gotta have a little happiness after supergirl's disaster and
ik I'm a little late to this party but i really like how much they just casually sprinkle in the fact that behrad and zari are muslim
like it's normally just details like these and all but it's honestly really important to zari's s5 storyline like these evidence that she's now proud to practice her religion and everything since the old zari was apprehensive with it bc of the trauma of her family's death and the persecution they suffered in the old timeline
i really hope we get to see more of zari and behrad proud of their religion on s6 both bc it's a great way to show us how much happier and healthier zari is now and bc there's not nearly enough positive muslim representation on tv
You know what actually no i do think the steelhacker totem visits are cute because leave it to nate to be like but will the force let me fuck??? can i fuck??? I don't know what else i expected
patron saints are so funny, like some horrendous shit happens to them and the catholic church says "ok they're the patron saint of soap now"
personally I would love to introduce some medieval peasants to synth music. not for sinister reasons. just because I think they'd like it actually
synth music draws on the rich history of string music i think they would play along on a fiddle
If the United States was 50 individual countries, half of them would go bankrupt, most of the rest would be poverty stricken (more than they already are) and three or four would be major world powers.
But because they're united under one government, none of them has to fail outright. And the country as a whole is the richest place in the world.
Imagine if this was the case for the entire world. No more rich countries and poor countries. At most it'd be successful regions and less successful subsidised regions.
Borders make us weak. Borders leave people behind.
Support a global government.
Everyone needs a friend they can call and wake up in the middle of the night. Leslie’s usually already up. And often she’s already on her way over.
(Technically, this isn’t about saving your hands… but if you draw, you’re probably doing a lot of sitting, so…)
This has such extreme shitpost energies but it’s 100% serious
Looks pretty useful for everyone endlessly working at home at their dining room table.
