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#linguitics

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smartphone storage plateauing in favor of just storing everything in the cloud is such dogshit. i should be able to have like a fucking terabyte of data on my phone at this point. i hate the fucking cloud

#technology

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Please unmute this

#wolves

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mr sandman

man me a sand

#memes #meme history

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https://vm.tiktok.com/ZTdQuxw52/

I think I found my new favorite rabbit hole. This voice actor does Shakespeare scenes in a southern accent and I need to see the whole damn play. Absolutely beautiful

#shakespeare #accents #linguistics

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Archaeopteryx, a new beginning.

One of my favorite dinosaurs and fossils, Archaeopteryx lithographica. I hope I get to see it in person someday <3

The missing link between dinosaurs and birds, an extinct animal shedding light on such a modern matter. It has always fascinated me. The evolutionary success of so many animals, still present and alive today, coming from millions of years ago.

Even before it was found, scientists expected some animal like Archaeopteryx to have existed, so here archaeopteryx stands in the middle, glowing, as if saying "I'm here! I existed! We are still around, in stone, and in the sky!"

I am submitting this drawing to the art contest Paleoartapalooza, held by the Museum of the Rockies. Wish me luck 🤞

I hope you like it!

#paleoblr #paleoart #yesssssssss!

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Which wolf clipart?

this fucker:

I call it Lumpy Kiba and I’ve seen it used for car decals, stickers, clipart, traced with varying degrees of obviousness by artists of all skill/experience levels, I’m pretty sure I saw it in some small local company’s logo once.

here’s the original still from Wolf’s Rain (which is not a lot less weird-looking, but it looks fine in a stylized anime where it’s supposed to be), which I saw early in high school and ever since have had to live with apparently being the only one who knows that all these people just fucking traced an anime wolf.

it’s like the goddamn wilhelm scream of lazy art, once you see it you will never unsee it again, and it’s everywhere. and you can always tell because it’s frankly a pretty mediocre trace of an already wonky-looking wolf, so like. you can tell.

here it is on two different bumper stickers (two of MANY, just google ‘howling wolf bumper sticker’ and at least 70% of the fullbody ones will be Lumpy Kiba):

jewelry:

clipart collections that REALLY show off the Lumpiness compared to silhouettes referenced from actual wolf photos:

random art, including my personal favorite, a watercolor where the artist could just as easily have looked up an actual photo of a wolf but chose Lumpy Kiba instead:

a tattoo:

and THIS mcfuckery where he went through the whole process of sketching and refining to make it look like he was drawing a wolf from scratch (the gods know what you’ve done, jon harris):

anyway Lumpy Kiba is the bane of my existence but if I point it out I sound insane so I’m glad I had this opportunity to curse you all with the burden of this knowledge.

#wolves #wolf art #wolf's rain

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Q&A with Ashley Pharoah : about that cliffhanger...

HERE BE SPOILERS!  Continue at your own peril…

The one year anniversary for the Iplayer release of The Living And The Dead is almost upon us.  So it’s great timing that Ashley Pharoah - creator & exec producer - held an impromptu TheLivingAndTheDead Q&A on Twitter this afternoon.  Here’s a quick recap of what’s been asked & answered so far.

And yes, Ashley mistakenly refers to the estate as Chedzoy :-)

Shout out to @rocknvaughn @quiltineb  @whisperingmind1 @darasmithville @narlth, @jaqtkd Purrlin37 & everyone else fielding excellent questions.

Quiltineb : I would have loved to know the whole story. I wonder if @AJPharoah has still got this on the back burner.

Ashley : Alas, I’ve run out of options so there will be no more The Living And The Dead, so ask any questions you like.

Rockn : I hope you don’t regret saying that because I have about a million questions!

Ashley : I’ll answer a few key ones.  Always good to leave mystery, esp in ghost stories.

Rockn : Were the seance people in the end scene from the 1920′s? If so, Nathan dies young. Or was he executed for murder?

Ashley : Yes, 1920′s.  He was executed for murder and Chedzoy [sic] became a strange, tormented house.

DaraS : I had an idea that might have been the case. That breaks my heart.

Ashley : Ah, but they had a great love. [edit]

Rockn : Which wife did Nathan supposedly kill, and did he actually do it? 

Ashley : He was accused of killing Charlotte.  No, he didn’t do it.

Rockn : In relation to this…was the 2nd series meant to be sort of a ‘Nathan tries to solve the puzzle of why he’d kill his wife before he did it’?

Ashley : Sort of.  At first he tried to get on with his life but bad things start to happen - but this time to Charlotte.

Rockn : Who was speaking through Harriet in episode 5 and what did the warning mean?  [UNANSWERED currently]

Ashley : Remind me! What was the warning?

Rockn : ‘They’re coming for you. Nathan, they’re coming for you.’

Rockn : How did Olivia Appleby die? It was assumed childbirth because of the dates, but maybe not? Why does Nathan not mourn her like he did Gabriel?

Ashley : They married very young and it wasn’t a strong marriage. A mistake, really. Charlotte was the love of his life.

Rockn : Victoria didn’t want Nathan to light the Solstice fire.  A curse? One that curses them to see the dead?

Ashley : More that she doesn’t want him to stay at Chedzoy [sic].  Remember her ‘Leave my son alone!’ That was her seeing/hearing Lara in the house.

[edit]

Rockn : Explain how the car ended up in 1894 but Lara’s baby didn’t?

Ashley : Lara’s baby survived the car crash.

Whisperingmind : So if someone from modern times saved Lottie and removed her from the car, how did the car come to be in 1894? The timelines converged?   [UNANSWERED currently]

Rockn : In the original timeline (before Lara was involved in changing it), did Nathan succeed in killing himself? Did Charlotte remarry?

Ashley : There was no original timeline as the timelines merged.  So no and no.

Rockn : Also, if Nathan killed himself in original timeline, why would Gabriel even need help from Lara’s mother / Lara? [UNANSWERED, but think this is explained by AJ’s previous answer]

Rockn : About the curse : affects spouses once they become pregnant? Victoria could see ghosts & Charlotte heard crying baby and saw Lara. [UNANSWERED currently]

Khaireddin : 1. Does Nathan ever realise that Lara is/was/will be his [great] great granddaughter?  2. Why does Gabriel need Lara to look after him in the afterlife, rather than Olivia? [UNANSWERED currently]

More later…

#the living and the dead #TLatD

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#good things

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tired: mermaids are all women

wired: much like elves, merfolk are mistaken by sailors for being all women because they have long hair and are very pretty

#merfolk

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Dude this page is a lifesaver Google is really bad for working out the order to read them in

#discworld

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Dhxjsjxhdhshdhd I love my bf so much he just said "hey do you ever see a picture that changes your life forever" and then showed me a photo of a loaf of bread shaped like a crocodile

#bread #cultures #weddings

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A day in the life of someone who posts on the internet in Catalan *cue dozens of Spanish people asking "what's wrong with your mouth", ordering him to speak in Spanish or "in Christian", saying he's rude for speaking in Catalan, calling him "polaco" (derogatory Spanish word to mean a Catalan person), calling the Catalan language a dialect, saying he is possessed because he's speaking Catalan, etc*

This is a video by Sergi Mas showing some of the comments he gets on YouTube. He makes videos about mountain biking that he posts on YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram. And the first comment he got on his first YouTube video was already someone telling him he should do it in Spanish.

Some days ago, another creator who posts his videos in Catalan (Joan Sendra, find him on Instagram and TikTok) answered to a Spanish person who was complaining that it's rude to speak Catalan/Valencian on the internet instead of Spanish because then there's people who don't understand you (as if everyone in the world spoke Spanish lmao). Joan, who is tired of getting this kind of comments so often, answered: there are already endless videos and things to watch on the internet in Spanish. In fact, if you look for [the topic he was talking about in the video that this guy commented] all the videos are in Spanish except for mine. And yet you had to come to me, the one in Valencian, and tell me that I can't make a video in my language and that I can only make it in yours. If you don't like it, it's so easy to find another one!

However, it's not a matter of actually being interested in what's being said in a language they don't speak. It's about the imposition of the language they consider superior (Spanish) and telling speakers of the languages whose land Spain had occupied that they are useless and should be ashamed of existing in public. Well, we aren't. Like Sergi's video, don't let the comments disturb your macarrons.

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“Red Fox And Magpie In Autumn” by Niko Pekonen

#foxes #magpie #mushroom #nature photography

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have i ever shown u people my hand sofa

#home decor #furniture

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#calendar dates