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Fanny Dashwood:

The Dashwood girls: Food

Fanny Dashwood:

#YAS #Two of my favorite things in one post! #Also yes hi I am still alive thanks #Sense and Sensibility #Jane Austen #The Emperor's New Groove

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favorite character meme ✨ 1/7 scenes

Come on, you obviously get off on being the guy who always gets to throw the last punch, who always swoops in to save the girl. Now you’ve destroyed the world’s most dangerous sandwich. Congratulations.

#AU in which everything is the same except Ward isn't evil and Fitz never ever lets this go #'Do we really trust him? He destroys perfectly good sandwiches.' #'Fitz that was seven years ago. He's your daughter's godfather.' #'Only because you promised me you wouldn't let him anywhere near my lunch!' #Agents of SHIELD #Leopold Fitz #Grant Ward

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Fitzsimmons Seasons Ranked (as voted by my followers) ★ 6 → Season Seven

#So many smiles! #And Fitz really grew up and he deserves credit for that #Agents of SHIELD #FitzSimmons

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Wait but tell me more, what kind of math does our godforsaken measuring system make sense for? I'm horribly curious!

oh dear oh boy okay, I've tried to explain this to people and had them just get more annoyed, so I'll give it a shot, but no promises that it will make any sense. Disclaimer also that I don't really know what I'm talking about, I've just done a lot of baking, and ages ago I read something by Plato explaining why the musical scale is how it is, and I'm extrapolating from the two

(wow this turned out way longer than I meant it to because IT'S MIDNIGHT)

the metric system is a base 10 system, like most modern human math, so it is easy to use in the way people tend to do math these days - ie, by sitting down with either a piece of paper or a calculator and doing sums. It's a good system for a lot of things, especially scientific applications where you need to be VERY precise and don't want to waste time converting units, and need to do shit like calculus. It's a highly rational way of doing it...if you are literate.

if you aren't literate, or are less literate, it's not a sensible way to construct a measuring system at all. If you measure something and come up with 367.45 cm, that's nothing. You're going to forget it, and you can't easily divide it by anything, there's no way to go from here

But consider the English Foot. We've all been working with a base 12 system without realizing it, and without really utilizing it for what it's best for, which is easy mental division. This is where people get mad at me, they say math all gets terrible and ugly when you do it in feet, you end up trying to figure out how many sixteenths of an inch 0.135 is, or you end up with repeating decimals, and it all sucks super bad. To this I say yes, it does, because you're thinking like a modern algebra student, and not like a medieval bricklayer.

The base 12 system of the traditional English foot is fantastic for mental math, because 12 is a highly divisible number. It's easily divisible into halves, thirds, quarters, and sixths by most people in their heads. The inch is then typically divided into 1/16ths, which *super* suck to deal with on a calculator, but are really quite friendly if you just keep them as fractions like God and the Magna Carta intended. This is the kind of math most artisans need to do. You want supports placed evenly along a wall, to divide a piece of fabric in half, or to double a recipe. Nobody 1.7x's a recipe. Metric would be great for that, but why would you do that? It wouldn't be worth the math involved.

And listen, I also use a lot of metric baking recipes. Everything is in grams, you can measure everything the same way, and it's super accurate. They're great if you have a digital scale, but before the age of digital scales? Unfathomable. You (a medieval peasant) have a cup you've decided is The Cup, and sometimes you put in a half or a third or a quarter of that cup. THAT makes sense. Also, it's a lot easier to double something that calls for 1 cup of flour than it is when it calls for 136 grams of flour, and this is for me, a person who learned math in the typical modern way and always has a calculator in their pocket. I would have the sourdough recipe I make every week memorized if it wasn't in fucking grams. I DO have my pie crust recipe memorized. For every cup of flour you put in a third of a cup shortening, one tablespoon of butter, and start with 3 tablespoons of water (and a dash of salt). A double crust pie takes about 3 cups of flour, so that's one cup shortening. Easy! A third of a cup of shortening in grams is 68.3333333. That's nothing! That's garbage!

"Wouldn't it be more accurate to measure 68.3333333 grams, though?" Sure, but the amount of wet indigence you need to put in any baked thing changes with the fucking weather! That's why this recipe says "start with 3 tbs water." There's no need to be more accurate, and in fact it would make things more difficult.

Okay that turned into a tangent about how to make pie crust, a thing I think everyone should learn because pie crust is delicious, but i hope you get the idea. TLDR sometimes you just want to divide things in thirds and have it not suck ass. The eldritch sigil of measurement conversions is a little less threatening if you realize every step up or down is a factor of thirds or fourths

fuck oh no another half remembered piece of pop science coming at you - the largest number a typical human can hold in their head *without language* is 3. You don't need numbers to count to three, you don't need to count to be aware of three, you can just see three things and say "that's three." Don't believe me? That's the whole basis of Roman numerals. The numbers 1-3 are representational, after that they get more symbolic, and you never end up with more than three of the same symbol in a row. After III comes IV, not IIII, and it's just that III is much easier on the brain. For the same reason, a lot of English conversions are in factors of 4. There are 4 cups in a quart, and 4 quarts in a gallon, so you're only dealing with measurements that are easy to hold in your head without counting. You never have to count out 4 cups if you convert. You either need 3 cups or 1 quart. Does that make sense? Anyone who has done Big Cooking should know that if you have to count cups beyond 3 or 4 it becomes very easy to lose track.

Now i'm not saying it's all logical. It would be great if every step was a factor of 4, but they had to get fancy and throw pints in there. Pints aren't too bad, that's a factor of two, but I'll be the first to admit that it makes no sense for one tablespoon to equal three teaspoons instead of four. But because this is a system that evolved over time instead of being constructed intentionally, you have to cut it some slack. I'm sorry to anyone who decided to read this, I should be in bed, but I actually care a lot about this and I swear it's not just stockholm syndrome from Being American

#AGREED #I will stan the English system until my last breath #Because I am a person and not a computer

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My Fair Lady (1964) dir. George Cukor

#My Fair Lady #Same Eliza same

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I may be a little inactive in the fandom these days, but I did teach my toddler to love prosciutto and I feel like that counts for something.

#Confessiona of Agent 85

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Distance is our curse.

#This is ridiculously beautiful #Also 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 #Agents of SHIELD #FitzSimmons

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Marvel did a story about Loki falling in love with himself and people are shipping it and it's *chef's kiss*

#Loki

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i knew the state of society’s view of children was bad but i didn’t realize just how dire the situation was was until the lockdown began. this last month or so has really opened my eyes to how much people dislike children, even their own children, simply because they exist and they need them because you know… they’re small humans without the capacity to care for themselves.  it seems harmless but memes talking about how parents need alcohol to deal with their kids or can’t wait for their kids to go back to school so someone else can deal with them does harm in that it dehumanizes children and puts blame on the children for existing when it’s not the child’s fault they were brought into the world. it also brings about another uncomfortable fact: if you don’t like the way your children behave, barring them having a behavioral disorder or disability, you’re probably to blame and need to reevaluate how you’re raising them. children are more than innocent bystanders… they are helpless and absolutely reliant on the adults around them to not only provide for them, but to show them love which in turn sets the precedent for how they will love in the future. this attitude implying they asked to be here and that it’s okay to joke about how annoying they are has got to stop. 

#TRUTH #Children make the world better #And we gave allowed this child hatred to get to a point where we are not even replacing ourselves #Where we are literally destroying the human race by refusing to keep it alive #By denying the next generation something that was freely given to us #It's pretty sick #Confessions of Agent 85

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En el cual estos tres weyes son regañados y estos deciden abrir la boca + Janeway :)c

In which these three dorks are scolded and they decide to open their mouths +Janeway :)c

ID of the three pages under read more:

[First Image description: Comic is in a simple cartoon style. Harry, Tom and B'elanna, are in the captain's ready room, standing in line with their hands behind their back. Janeway is standing upright with a stern expression in front of them, she scolds them saying "So... I expect you three to follow a better behaviour, I don't expect to be dissapointed... Is that understood?". Harry, Tom and B'elanna, looking to their sides with expressions of discomfort reply "Understood, Ma'am." Harry by accident says instead "Mom". The three of them realize what Harry says and Harry starts to sweat nervously. Janeway stops looking stern and raises her eyebrows. END ID.]

[Second Image description: Harry, Tom, B'elanna and Janeway are in the middle of the captain's ready room drawn in stick figures. A spotlight is shining on top of Harry, Tom and B'elanna, Harry sweating and standing straight while Tom and B'elanna are peering at him. Janeway then asks "...Did one of you... Just call me mom?". The art style returns to be cartoony and Harry immediately tries to answer "No, ma'am", but B'elanna interjects saying "YES, MA'AM". Tom also tries to interject, instead saying "Yes, mom-... Shit", and then looking down flustered with Harry peering at him with a smug grin and B'elanna exclaiming "HA!" at him.]

[Third Image description: Janeway crosses her arms and looks at them with a fond expression, she then shrugs and smiles saying "Come on, 'Lanna, don't make fun of my kids". Tom covers his face with his hands muttering "Whyyyy", While Harry pats him in the shoulder condescendingly. B'elanna flusters at the nickname and exclaims "Mo- CAPTAIN" and becomes more flustered. Harry and Tom both peer at her from their previous positions with smug grins. END ID]

#This might have well happened #Star Trek: Voyager #Fan art

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Colonel Fitzwilliam: "So, let me get this straight, you broke up Jane Bennet and Bingley because you had objections to Jane's family and didn't want him to marry into that mess."

Darcy: "Yes."

Colonel Fitzwilliam: "But you want to marry Jane's sister, Elizabeth Bennet, and asked her to marry you."

Darcy: "Yes."

Colonel Fitzwilliam:

#Basically #Pride and Prejudice

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The SHIELD team having their last supper at Rae’s before the next big thing blows up. Done on commission. This one took a lot of detail work! Enjoy!

Commissions Redbubble

#Amazing work #Agents of SHIELD #Fan art

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We can either roll the dice and hope for the best, or we can spend the rest of our lives on the run.

#I'm sick of the space between the two of you 😏 #Agents of SHIELD #FitzSimmons

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fitzsimmons week ★ day 4 → favourite underrated moment

I have so many favourite underrated moments that it’s hard to chose one. I watched this one recently and I love the innocence of them in this scene. The fact that Jemma goes to Fitz when there is a giant elephant in room makes their exchange slightly awkward but kinda sweet too. You can see how hesitant she is to go in and speak to him but Fitz is more than ready to help her at the drop of the hat like always. I also love Jemma’s statement about Fitz being her second pair of eyes whilst she was on Maveth. He was her comfort when all was dark. This scene also shows the strength of their relationship: that they are still on each other’s wave length and finishing each other’s sentences regardless of the awkwardness. I just always find this little exchange very sweet. Plus on a side note… Fitz is doing all kinds of things me when he looks up at her. Iain is a SNAAAC.

#She knew he would find out about the cottage 😭😭😭 #Agents of SHIELD #FitzSimmons

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Top 10 Fitzsimmons Episodes (as voted by my followers) ★ 7 → 5x06 “Fun and Games”

#The second to last gif is so peak Fitz I can't handle it #Agents of SHIELD #FitzSimmons

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Oh, and due to a technical malfunction, the Lighthouse thinks we’re under nuclear attack, so we may be trapped inside for fifteen years. Ish. I’m sure there’s a way around that, so in the meantime, there’s no reason to panic.

#But seriously people #Listen to the whole menu #Agents of SHIELD #Phil Coulson #Melinda May

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#I'm the one on the left these days #Confessions of Agent 85