something I've been thinking about
The really funny thing about Hobbits dressing like 19th century gentleman farmers and everyone else looking generically renaissance/medieval is that it kind of heavily implies that Hobbits are the only ones who developed advanced sewing techniques.
Hobbits are the best tailors #confirmed
Merry: do you have any scissors?
Éowyn, who lives in the early medieval period: what are scissors
can’t tell you how much i hate this post!!!
1. hobbits dress in 18th/19th century costume but most of their clothes are rougher spun and less finely tailored than the clothing worn by everyone else in these movies
2. scissors are 4,000 years old
3. if there are any “advanced sewing techniques” on display in this film they’re in Gandalf’s robes (+ embroidery), Faramir’s doublet (+ tooled leather!!), Elrond’s silk cape with ruching under the epaulets???, Eowyn’s blue overgown, i mean do you kNOW HOW HARD THOSE SLEEVES ARE, Aragorn’s mixed velvet and suede surcoat (+ metallic embroidery!!), Arwen’s purple chiffon hidden-seam dress and purple velvet riding cloak and black velvet pearl-accented mourning gown with matching veil i mean come on
4. you’re really out here creaming yourself over a couple lace-up shirts, stockingless breeches, and some vests. ok
5. none of the costumes are “generic” anything!!! the costumers did so much goddamn research into different pre-modern periods from multiple continents. Rohan is designed to look like an early medieval Anglo-Saxon culture with some Norman influence. Gondor is late antique Rome and Byzantium combined with 15th-16thc Mediterranean plate armor. The Elves have silhouettes borrowed from 13th-14th century France except for Legolas, the wood elf, whose costumes borrow prints and length from 14th-15th century Bavaria. even the detailing is carefully constructed, sometimes copied from real artifacts, and all of it is wearable. sorry but those embroiderers didn’t spend 40 hours on Theoden’s mourning costume just to be called “generic” ffs
6. lastly, and i mean this with my whole pussy, there is no such thing as the fucking renaissance
love this energy but I would argue that their clothes are not actually rougher-spun, they’re just little so the scale is different
(and in fact the costumers did dress the scale doubles in costumes with a tighter weave)
I Wake Up Refreshed and Energized - a sigil to induce the body to become refreshed and energized after waking up from sleep, the cause of it is intentionally not mentioned here so that it has a lot more wiggle room to happen.
We do it because you love it.
“THE LONGER YOU STAY HERE, THE MORE DANGER YOU ARE IN.”
— a sign I saw in Mt. Rainier National Park during a vacation there when I was 12, ie the phrase I most want on a welcome mat
Ok so it’s not a welcome mat but I made a cross stitch pattern for it
ok but that’s definitely true of that park. Tahoma/Tacoma (The Puyallup name for the mountain) is an active volcano. It’s at v high probability of erupting and is one of the Decade Volcanos -- not named because of when they will erupt but named for the project that studies “very likely to be really really bad and has a reasonably chance of erupting anytime in the applicable future” volcanos. and the mountain itself is a dangerous place to be. The volcanic activity means there are avalanches, rockslides, mudslides, pyroclastic flows, etc, frequently. Depending on the season, there may be spring melt and flooding or rushing waterways.
so uh
because there’s no way to basically
SIMPLY build reading lists/filters on tumblr like we used to do on LJ
i’m unfollowing a bunch of blogs. cause my dashboard got waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too full for me to handle. like i came back because there are idk like four specific blogs that i keep finding myself going “gosh i miss the stories from those ones”
so hi, i’m tentatively back. on a trial basis. and if i unfollowed you it doesn’t mean i don’t still adore you.
Anonymous asked:
not sure if you already know but the colonizers never beat a single Pa stronghold and I hope that brings you as much joy as it does me,, they may have got just about everything else but they never beat a single Pa,,, peak warfare
I DO!
MAORI SKIRMISHERS INVENTED AN ENTIRE NEW FORM OF AMPHIBIOUS MUZZLE LOADED RIFLE COMBAT WHERE NEW ROUNDS WERE HELD IN THE TEETH AND LOADED AND FIRED WITHOUT THE CLEANING AND TAMPING STEPS
MEANING YOU COULD FIRE FIVE TIMES AS FAST BUT AT ONE FIFTH THE ACCURACY, COMPLIMENTED BY FORGOING EASILY TARGETED NAPOLEONIC BATTLE LINES IN FAVOR OF SMALL HIGHLY MOBILE SQUADS
COLONIZERS HAD TROUBLE ADAPTING TO THE MAORI TACTICS EARLY ON BECAUSE NONE OF WOULD SURVIVE RAIDS, AND WHEN THEY LEARNED WHAT THE MAORI WERE DOING COLONIZERS ACCUSED THEM OF "CHEATING"
CHAD SHIT OF THE HIGHEST ORDER
As fucking awful as the history of colonization is and how devastating it is to indigenous culture, I will forever love how fucking badly the British got DEMOLISHED at the Battle of Pukehinahina. The Maori went hey youre invading us heres the terms of combat, the British disregarded it, and so they built trenches and fortifications along a ridge of Pukehinahina and fucking obliterated the British and STILL held up on how they said they would treat wounded and dead British soldiers. If y'all like metal theres a kickass thrash metal band called Alien Weaponry all about the colonization of Maori culture and land.
felinepurrrstory
“I drew a picture of a cat with wings, and I thought “Oh, what fun! Why shouldn’t a cat have wings!?” and then, “What would happen if they did?” and so there goes the book.
– Ursula K. Le Guin
my brother has been criticizing me all day and he told me if i wasn’t happy i could go somewhere else so i wouldn’t ruin everyone else’s dinner so i took the massive bowl of pasta + special sauce i spent the last 2 hours making from scratch for the whole family and i left
marisatomay
it really is incredibly bold to mercilessly criticize the person who is not only making your dinner but also holding a knife
marisatomay
I sequestered myself in the other side of the house and ate my family-sized pasta from a mixing bowl using a serving spoon in the dark because the sun went down in the 2+ hours I spent stewing and I was too stubborn to turn on a light
marisatomay
the only person I shared my pasta with was my dad who on a conference call at the time and didn’t just stand there and watch my brother be an asshole like the rest of my family and since he came to me in my sanctuary with his bowl and asked nicely if he could have some pasta i did share with him
marisatomay
sometimes you’re an adult who has been quarantined with your parents, younger siblings, grandfather, and dog for the last 2 months because of a global pandemic and some nights you just have to take your pasta and Leave because you are an adult who knows when to tap the fuck out
OP thank you not only for the amazing image of you eating pasta in the dark and your father kindly pleading for your mercy but also a wonderful example of when to set firm boundaries and prioritize yourself bless u
good for you, OP.
i hope dad sat in the dark and ate his pasta with you.
ragabond
Also you must be folder of the hamburger/sandwich wrapper, and feeder of fries. I am told this is crucial work.
artistictranquility
Here’s an article link:
the article says it took years to unearth the whole thing and arrange sale and that’s why it’s being announced officially now. It’s 14 tons!!
Also incredibly detailed, including skin impressions, and injuries, with visible T-Rex teeth stuck in the Triceratops’ body! This is amazing!
artistictranquility
(The link I added isn’t showing up in the notes so I’m commenting again so ppl see this in case they want a link!)
pantheris
Holy shit
cannot be defeated
keepcalmandcarrieunderwood
That last gif was what I was waiting for and I am not disappointed.
“If you promise to stay alive just a little bit longer I promise that we are going to make this world a place worth living in by any means necessary. I ain’t giving up. I swear.”
Spotted in Clackamas, Oregon
I can’t stop thinking about this message, so I spent a while trying to isolate just the writing and make it transparent. I might order a shirt with it
Whoever in Clackamas wrote this message on their bus stop, I love you
[ if you promise to stay alive just a little bit longer I promise that we are going to make this world a place worth living in by any means necessary. I ain’t giving up. I swear. end caption ]
so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god
okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post
thetatteredveil
…..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment
likes charge reblogs cast, folks, this is the good luck post
so you know how people talk about how industrialized and urban society is specifically antagonistic to autistic experience?
i recently picked up some feed corn and am dekerneling it by hand and it’s such a soothing and pleasing task.
pastoral autism at its finest.