#CORN. CORN. HORSES. CORN. DEER. city city city city CORN. HORSES

[wonderandwanderinginmexicocity]

The Land of the White Leadtree 

In the heart of Mesoamerica sits three great valleys. They are large and expansive, ringed by mountains. These mountains protect the valleys from the worst storms and hurricanes that may drift over from the Pacific Ocean. Seven thousand years ago, these lands were inhabited by hunter-gatherers, tribes of people who would roam, following the good weather or potentially groups of white-tailed deer or other game. Over time, people began to realize they could grow more food than they could hunt or search for, and people began to settle down in permanent homes and farm the land. Corn, beans, and other crops were cultivated and the population began to grow. With the time allowed by sedentary life, art, music, and culture began to develop.

Different ethnic groups, whose languages are still spoken in the region, settled and developed complex societies: Zapotec, Mazatec, Chinantec, and Mixé. A distinct warrior culture developed in the valleys. The hilltop fortress city of Monte Alban became the capital of Zapotec culture, and ruled the neighborhood for four hundred years. After 1200 CE, the Zapotecs came under the growing influence of the Mixtec, a group that had come down into the valleys from the northwest. Both the Mixtecs and Zapotecs were conquered by the Mexica-led Triple Alliance in the 15th and 16th centuries. The new conquerors from Tenochitlan built a fort on a mountainside to collect tribute and oversee trade routes. The Mexica (Aztecs) called the valleys "Huaxyacac", after a tree that grows there. Today we would call that plant the white leadtree or river tamarind. This word eventually evolved into the name for both the city and the modern Mexican state: Oaxaca. 

Shortly after the fall of Tenochtitlan, Spanish conquistadors arrived in the valleys of Oaxaca. The land was seen as a great prize among the invaders, and Hernán Cortés requested the title “Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca” from the King of Spain. The Spanish sent four expeditions to the region before they felt safe enough to found the city of Oaxaca de Juárez in 1529. The Spanish brought many new things with them to the valleys; Animals such as cows, chickens, horses, and pigs, as well as foreign crops such as vanilla, sugar, and tobacco. Due to war, disease, and repression, the indigenous population in Oaxaca suffered and drastically shrank, and rebellions continued through to the twentieth century. Catholicism became an important part of social life. But indigenous culture, language, and tradition in Oaxaca continue to survive and thrive. Two of the most significant leaders of modern Mexico, Benito Juárez and Porfirio Díaz, came from Oaxaca and both men were of indigenous descent. Juárez was born to Zapotec parents while Díaz was of Mixtec origin.

The city remains today, and every time period has influenced its contemporary cultural DNA: Colonial architecture, Catholic cathedrals, Spanish, Mixtec and Zapotec spoken on the streets, tlayudas (pictured above) and grasshopper tacos eaten with great relish in the city square.  

If you ever get the chance, visit Oaxaca City. There is amazing art, food, drink, and plenty to experience.

#travelgram #mexico #historyofmexico #oaxaca #cuidaddeoaxaca #oaxacadejuarez #oaxacacity #historymexicana #aztecs #zapotec #mixtec #indigenousmexico #southernmexico #surmexico #historia #history #culturamexicana #mexicanculture #surdeméxico #cocinamexicana #mexicancuisine #ancientmexico #méxicoantiguo

[honestlymaximumchild]

Vacation Rentals In Tennessee

Vacation Rentals In Tennessee

SOUTHERN BLESSING VACATION RENTAL

Be our Guest! We would love to be your host!

We have a 3 Bedroom/2 Bath Guest Suite overnight rental available on 18 acres. PRIVATE park-like setting located in Lenoir City. This apartment has its separate entrance on the front of the house.  Your space is all yours with 3 Bedroom.  Queen and Daybed with trundle downstairs.  Downstairs also offers a kitchen with all the extras you need to cook your meals, dining room, Reading Room with comfy chairs, Living Room with 50″ TV, and a walk in bath.

Take the spiral staircase and enjoy the entire Upstairs.  It is its own Master King Suite with 42” Smart TV, Sitting area, Workspace and En-suite with Garden Tub and Standup shower.

We have an occupancy of a maximum of 6 persons (regardless of age).

Fort Loudon Marina – 5 minutes

Turkey Creek/Knoxville – 25 minutes

Maryville – 20 minutes

Oak Ridge – 25 minutes

Smoky Mountains via Townsend- 45 minutes

We do NOT charge a Cleaning Fee or Booking Fees when you reserve with us directly.

In lieu of a Damage Deposit, we offer a Damage Protection Plan per stay.

Note: Exterior Security Cameras are on site.

We bought our home years ago with the dream of running it as a full bed and breakfast. We were blessed to do that for a while until our oldest was diagnosed with Leukemia. That changed our lives in a number of ways.  We closed the B and B and raised our babies.   Now they are flying the coup, and we have some extra space.

We run a farm with chickens, horses, cats and dogs. We plant vegetables like green beans, corn, okra, spinach, tomatoes, cucumbers, and fruit gardens like watermelons. We have blackberries, blueberries, raspberries, peach trees, pear trees and apple trees. I enjoy my multiple flower beds. We grow a extra large sunflower field near our lower pasture in the summer too. 

There are a number of different wildlife you will see on the farm – deer, turkey,  and more. 

We truly enjoy our farm and the tranquility it brings.  We hope you will too!

[danishmuseuminterns]

A Young Man Went West to Explore America’s Best Idea

By Anders Tornsø Jørgensen.

Developing a deeper understanding of American culture is an important part of my internship. Having a lot of exchange hours and with the encouragement of the museum staff, I decided to head out west with a final destination at Yellowstone National Park, the first national park in the world, nearly 1.000 miles away from Elk Horn, Iowa.

I went away, making my way through the heart of the U.S. prairie region, South Dakota. Driving along I-90, I enjoyed how the prairie spreads endlessly in every direction. My travels across the Midwest so far has really made me realize the sense of space – especially on the aptly named Great Plains. It’s a place where wide-open spaces led to big ideas, such as the one I am about to describe. I stopped in the city of Mitchell to enjoy the world’s only corn palace. Honoring the Midwest’s agricultural abundance, corn palaces became popular in the region during the late 19th century, with the first corn palace being built in Sioux City, Iowa in 1887. However, Mitchell’s 1921 Moorish Revival building, which is decorated mainly with corn, is the only corn palace still standing. Each year a new theme is chosen: This year’s theme was circus, which meant corn murals of tigers, acrobats, clowns, and so on. Does it get more Midwestern than a palace built to pay tribute to the corn farmers?

But actually, there is much in South Dakota that is not prairie exclusively. I went back on I-90, driving up to the Badlands National Park located in Southwestern South Dakota. This largely uninhabited district in the west of the state was once described by the controversial General Custer as "a part of hell with the fires burned out." Populated by rattlesnakes, bison, deer, elk, prairie dogs and coyotes, the Badlands offers some of the most beautiful scenery I have seen.

Driving out of the Badlands National Park, I knew I needed to visit Wall Drug. As I drove along I-90, billboards for this roadside attraction kept appearing. Wall Drug earns much of its fame from its humorous self-promotion, as signs can be seen hundreds of miles throughout South Dakota and the neighboring states – it becomes a little ridiculous, but it’s also really funny. I stopped and had a piece of amazing blueberry pie with two scoops of vanilla ice cream and enjoyed some of their Western paintings and items, showing Native Americans, cowboys, pioneers.

My next stop was Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills, a location that has been on my bucket list for several years. I still remember watching a Lego replica, which just made a huge impact on me back then.

Rising from the Great Plains in western South Dakota and extending into Wyoming, the Black Hills is known for the dramatic events of the 1870s, when Sioux Indians were expelled from their holy land after a military expedition led by General Custer found gold in 1874.

The Black Hills is home to both natural, but also to artificial wonders such as Mount Rushmore – perhaps the most impressive monument ever executed by mankind. The four heroic statues hewn on the mountain by Gutzon Borglum, who had Danish roots, depicts George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, and Theodore Roosevelt. 90% of the mountain was carved using dynamite, and I guess the last 10% must have been luck. From 1927 to 1941, 400 workers set out built a project of colossal ambition, that continues to be an icon of the United States today.

Not far away from Mount Rushmore, is the Crazy Horse Memorial. As a mountain monument under construction, it will depict the Oglala Lakota warrior, Crazy Horse, riding a horse and pointing to his tribal land. Being in progress since 1948, this project is far from completion, but really worth a visit, and a reminder of the dark past of this area.

Next stop on Western tour was the impressive Devil’s Tower Monument in Wyoming. Devils Tower was the first national monument in the United States and became famous in the 1977 film “Close Encounters of the Third Degree,” where it played a significant role in the latter part of the film as the location where contact was made with the travelers from space.

As I drove across the in desolate Wyoming wasteland, I realized that it’s possible to drive for a pretty long time without seeing a soul. Wyoming is the nation’s least populous state, but is the 10th largest by area. With traces back to the Spanish tradition of the vaquero, the cowboy is today an icon as American as apple pie, and an icon that still roams the Wild West of Wyoming.

Known as the Cowboy State, Wyoming keeps its heritage alive by the state’s welcome signs and its automobile license plates, which both depicts the vigorous Bucking Horse and Rider (a registered trademark of Wyoming since 1936). Also, the state is a conservative stronghold, where that uniquely Western rugged individualism, who dislike government interference or regulation, still thrives. Spending a night in Cody, which claims to be the Rodeo Capital of the World, I truly feelt like Clint Eastwood.

Anyway, I finally made it to Yellowstone National Park. On March 1, 1872, President Ulysses S. Grant signed the Yellowstone National Park Protection Act into law, thereby creating the first U.S. national park, which would later led to the establishment of National Park Service, an agency that currently employ approximately 20,000 people in 423 individual units covering over 85 million acres across the nation. Actually, this year Yellowstone celebrates its 150th birthday.

In early American history, vacation was mainly for the rich and powerful, and usually the destination was Europe. But when railroads opened areas that at one time seemed to distant, it allowed people from all paths of life to explore new the Western territories, but also to settle these areas, who later became new states in the union. And with automobiles, access to the West became democratized in ways never imaginable for earlier generations.

But let’s get back to my journey: Yellowstone is home to fabulous geological features and very little in the world can compare to the scenery of this national park with its geysers, waterfalls, canyons, and rich animal life. This was also the first time I met a buffalo. This quite so fascinatingly animal is also shown on the Wyoming flag. I happened to meet one on the road, where it appeared on the left side of road, creating a long line of cars. As I drove past the buffalo, I became a little nervous what was about to happen, but this magnificent animal didn’t even bother to look at me and just continued his path down the road – what a moment. Two of my highlights from Yellowstone was Artist Point, which is considered the most scenic area of the park, and the Grand Prismatic Spring, which is the world’s largest hot spring, and is really one of a kind due to its dazzling colors.

Described as America’s best idea, national parks, along with Amtrak, are one of those things I admire most about the United States. Protecting wildlife, while giving the public access to this unique nature, safe from spoliation and big companies destroying it, is truly one of the most important tasks of this century. Visiting Yellowstone in 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt, remarked, that “this park was created, and is now administered, for the benefit and enjoyment of the people.” Those words still ring true in 2022. National parks give access to unrivaled scenic beauty that enlightens the heart and makes the spirit humble.

After enjoying Yellowstone, I went to Grand Teuton National Park. I stopped at the Snake River Overlook, which is famous because of Ansel Adams’s 1942 iconic photo, showing the river and its meandering curves with the majestic Tetons in the background.

Next stop of my trip was the Rocky Mountains, which you may have heard about in John Denver’s beautiful song “Rocky Mountain High.” My favorite John Denver song is “Country Roads,” which describes the beauty of West Virginia. I never been to the Appalachian Mountains, but Rocky Mountains was almost heaven to me. Anyway, my trip to the Rocky Mountains led me to the great state of Colorado, but also a goodbye to scenic Wyoming. By the way, these are the only two states in the union to form perfect rectangles.

Driving in from Grand Lake, I entered the Rocky Mountains National Park from the West. Following the Trail Ridge Road, a 48-mile highway to the sky, I crossed Continental Divide, which divides Colorado (and the continent) down the middle by a sharp and impenetrable spine. Next, I went to the Bear Lake Corridor, on a long, long hike, seeing chipmunks and mooses as I made my way into the wilderness, seeing beautiful lakes, mountains, and enjoying the fresh air and silence. No matter where you turn, up and down or left and right, the overwhelming variety and magnitude of the Rocky Mountains makes you impressed.

Afterwards, I returned to civilization with a visit to Boulder. Home to an amazing university campus and with a view of the Flatirons rock formations, this city is pretty cool. Next, I went to Denver, the state capital, named for General James W. Denver, an old-time governor of Kansas, whom nobody has ever heard of.

Historically Colorado is of mixed origin: it has variously belonged to Spain, France, Mexico, and Texas. There is still a strong Spanish underlay in the southern part of the state. Despite being home to a certain omelet and great Mexican food, Denver is also the location of one of the most impressive state capitols. Remember to take tour of the state capitol if you ever find yourself in Denver. The tour ends with access to the building’s golden dome, where you can enjoy a magnificent view of downtown Denver with the Rocky Mountains in the background. The state capitol also bears the proud plaque, that states that the city is located “one mile above sea level,” which is why Denver is also nicknamed ‘The Mile-High City.’

While I could keep writing about Denver, which is a pretty progressive place, I will highlight one interesting experience. As the first state in the nation to legalize cannabis, Colorado is also home to the International Church of Cannabis. Open for families, tourists, and anybody interested, this place, once a Lutheran church, offers a psychedelic light show in its colorful chapel. Members claims that the use of cannabis can help elevate people to a higher understanding. However, no cannabis consumption is allowed the during the church’s public hours. Turn on, tune in, drop out, and enjoy some Jefferson Airplane and The Doors, while watching a groovy lightshow in amazing surroundings – feeling like you’re back in the 1960s.

And that’s it for me. Now I have 8 hours of driving back to Elk Horn, Iowa. My trip truly made me witness why Americans are heirs to what President Theodore Roosevelt described as “the most glorious heritage a people ever received.”

[choquequiraomachupicchutrek888]

Choquequirao to Machu Picchu Trek

This is the only trek that gives one to hike the two most impressive Incan cities: Choquequirao and Machu Picchu! However, both flaunt the exact same high Incas architecture quality, the Inca City of Machu Picchu receives 1000s of tourists each day while Choquequirao Archeological Park receives a couple of visitors because of its location on the surface of the Vilcabamba mountain range in the district of Santa Teresa province of the Convention at 3,033 m.a.s.l (9959 ft). Although, it is definitely worth visiting since it offers not merely views with this enigmatic and fantastic Inca's site, but additionally the likelihood of seeing the condors in majestic flight, pumas, quetzals, foxes, hummingbirds, skunks, deer or Tarucas, bears of glasses and the famous National bird of Peru the "Gallito de las Rocas" ;.Much more, for vegetation lovers there is a wide selection of orchids such as for example diverse vegetation and local crops such as for example coca, cocoa, corn, coffee and abundant fruit trees.

Condors soaring in the quiet atmosphere of mountains! This excellent trek continues exploring very historic Andean towns and a daily life of these residents, beautiful mountains and rivers until you reach the City of Choquequirao where you will dsicover buildings of temples, prisons and government buildings, beautiful mozaicos of ‘llas ', separated into 9 different sections offering the temple, squares known as Hanan and Hurin (Alta and Baja) and the main square Huaqaypata. Choquequirao also has a ceremonial platform called Ushno, this whole complex has a great similarity with Machu Picchu showing in both parts its buildings and agricultural terraces over the slope of the mountain.

Did you realize that the phrase Choquequirao means the “Cradle of the Gold” in southern Quechua? Nonetheless it is also known by other names such as "City of the heathen", "Refuge of the Incas", "City - or town - of the silver smith" and "Last refuge of the Incas of Vilcabamba" ;.

Choquequirao is known as as among the last resistance bastions and refugees of the Incas, who abandoned the imperial city of Cusco in 1535 by order of the Incan ruler Manco Inca to regroup because Cusco was besieged by Spaniards. Don't forget to bring your photography equipment with you since this journey is the most picturesque trip offered in the Cusco's area! There's going to be horses over the trip for your convenience and we offer you supreme quality camping equipment in addition to an extremely balanced and energetic diet. Are you looking forward to an unforgettable adventure? The Combo Expedition connecting both Incan highlights, Machu Picchu and Choquequirao should go beyond your dreams!! So, are you currently ready? Uncover the beautifull Machu Picchu and its sister Choquequirao around!

For more details please visit Choquequirao Trek to Machu Picchu.

#Choquequirao Machu Picchu Trek

[mizuno-marmalade]

yes i am 15. yes i am scared of thunderstorms. we exist

#LISTEN MAN IT'S MAKIN THE WALLS RATTLE >:( IT"S SCARY #listen man. i would have so much trouble falling asleep as a kid because the only think i could think abt was that we could die at any time #and i (being nine at the time) was not and i'm still not ready to die #but in our old house we had a tornado pass through we had this huge freakin hailstorm #and like. i'm in freakin. pennsylvania. #middle of buttfuckin nowhere pennsylvania. which is most of the state tbh #it's just. #CORN. CORN. HORSES. CORN. DEER. city city city city CORN. HORSES #and just that throughout the whole place. #anyway yeahhh #crawling thru the vents #tornado mention #tw tornado #death mention #existential terror

[headspace-hotel]

I’m really obsessed with the idea of worldbuilding that refuses to clarify its relationship to reality

When we read books we instinctively try to categorize books based on the kind of book they are, oh this is fantasy, post-apocalyptic, etc. and we try to find out things and clarify what kind of world it is and whether or not the things in it are make believe and how make believe they are.

So what if I...Messed with that process?

For instance. A book is set in Ohio. We mention the names of cities in Ohio and pieces of Ohio’s history and famous landmarks in Ohio and it’s incredibly well researched, even down to the names of museums in Cincinnati or something. We’re talking very firmly established in the facts of a place. It’s kind of an eerie book and in some ways the setting seems weird or cloudy or dreamy but it seems grounded in just the amount of facts that are in it about the setting.

There are little factoids dropped here and there. At first very boring ones. Something that happened at an Ohio water treatment plant in 1995. What it takes to serve on a jury in Ohio. Ohio laws about spraying pesticides on corn. Facts about corn itself. Probably one of those cutesy little facts about weird local laws.

They start to get...stranger. The little bits of worldbuilding. Did you know that Ohio has had more nuclear power plant accidents than any other state? In this small town in Ohio, you used to need a license to perform an exorcism! This charming small town’s mayor is a ghost. In Ohio, it is legal for doctors to draw more of your blood than they need to sell to third parties. There are no Dollar Tree’s in Ohio. (Have you ever seen a Dollar Tree in Ohio? Are you sure?)

At some point the reader catches onto something that is clearly not right. Maybe the book states at some point that Indiana is to the east of Ohio instead of the west. This is clearly a mistake, and they move on.

Some things about the everyday realities of the setting seem peculiar. There seem to be quite a bit of packs of wild dogs about, and mold seems to grow a lot quicker. Grass is described very strangely—a shade of green that isn’t very characteristic of grass. There seem to be a lot of cults, and there are a lot of empty lots in town enclosed with razor wire for no apparent reason. Sometimes a character’s hands grow suddenly cold, and they panic and hasten inside. Frostbite? Is it the climate? Why does the author write that way?

At some point, though, it becomes clear that the author is fictionalizing a bit. It may certainly be the case that nuclear accidents have occurred in Ohio more than any other state, but the tale of how deer from that area glow in low light is probably made up. And though that famous televangelist existed and it seems plausible enough that he owned tigers, like some kind of janky drug dealer would purchase, it seems implausible that he regularly fed people to them.

As the story continues, more and more facts seem a little off, though. The spatial relationship of Ohio to its surrounding states, and the shape that Ohio is (it’s described at one point as having a panhandle, and as bordering East Tennessee) seems to make less and less sense. The wild dogs are massive, and have smoldering eyes like hellhounds. One nuclear disaster apparently wiped out a full sixth of Ohio’s population. The deer, plagued with cancer from the radiation, have turned carnivores. The wild horses run under a red sky—the sky is always described as red. The original capital of Ohio is lost, its stones dashed down in the war that made its citizens turn to cannibalism. The invasive plants of Ohio can pry open windows, and once choked a woman in her sleep. The people of Ohio dream more frequently of birds of prey gouging out their eyes than people in any other state. There are plagues of rats in Ohio that sometimes devastate towns. In Ohio, unexplained disappearances are rarely investigated. There are eagles in Ohio—their wings blot out the sun. Ohio briefly seceded from the Union in 1922, and there are those that still believe in the Free People’s Empire of Ohio. Ohio shares a border with Arizona. Ohio has a coastline on the edge of a dark and perpetually cold sea.

It becomes abundantly clear that this is not Ohio. It is something else, named Ohio and superficially wearing Ohio as a skin, but it is not Ohio. And looking back, it is hard to tell when it stopped being Ohio. When it stopped being just quirky Americana and an eerie mood and started being...this. Small details were off early on, but these were not noticed, because they seemed so normal. The sky was always described as red, but that was because it was supposed to be sunset...right?

The governor of Ohio has been struck down. All bow before the God-Emperor of Ohio. The black wolves of Hell await those who will not bow with their teeth.

#writing #worldbuilding #worldbuilding thoughts #worldbuilding ideas #americana #midwestern gothic #ohio #my writing #ideas #fantasy worldbuilding #worldbuilding concepts #speculative fiction #10k #5k

[pompadourpink]

Pronunciation letter by letter

A:

(E)A+U > "O": Bateau - Boat (\ba.to\)

AI > "É": Aigre - Bitter (\ɛɡʁ\)

AÏ > "A-I": Maïs - Corn (\ma.is\)

A+Y > "ÉY": Ayant - Having (\ɛ.jɑ̃\)

AM or AN+consonant > "AN" (nasal): Manger - To eat (\mɑ̃.ʒe\); +vowel > "ANN": Banane - Banana.

C:

C+A, L, O, R, U > K. Café - Coffee, Clé - Key, Copain - Buddy, Cri - A scream

C+E, I > SS. Cercle - Circle, Citron - Lemon

C+H > CH. Chaussette - Sock (exceptions)

Ç > SS: Maçon (bricklayer, m), français-e (french)

Second words: G. Seconde, secondaire, etc.

D:

Mute when part of a compound word: Grand-mère (\ɡʁɑ̃.mɛʁ\)

E:

E+MM > "A": Femme - Woman (\fam\), Apparemment

Mute as a final letter: Chaise - Chair (\ʃɛz\)

F:

Mute in plural words when after (-)oeu: Oeufs - Eggs (\ø\), Boeufs

Mute in Cerf - Deer, Clef - Key, Chef d'oeuvre - Masterpiece

Turns into V when followed by -H or -vowel: Neuf heures

G:

[g]:

G+A: Béluga

G+O: Goéland - Seagull

G+U: Gueule - Animal's face

[j]:

G+E: Mirage

G+I: Magie

G+Y: Gymnopédie

H:

H- > mute: Hérisson - Hedgehog

C+H > CH: Chat - Cat

P+H > F: Philippe

I:

IM or IN+consonant > "IN" (nasal): Invisible - Invisible (\ɛ̃.vi.zibl\); +vowel or +M/N+vowel > "INN": Bouquiner - To casually read (\bu.ki.ne\), Immoral - Immoral (\im.mɔ.ʁal\)

-LL-:

\j\ (after -i-): Cheville - Ankle, Abeille - Bee

\l\: Allemand, Installer - To install

-i-: There's at least one letter before the vowel (Ex: Billard) which has to be I.

Exceptions: Mille/Millième/Million/Milliard, Tranquille, Ville.

O:

OEU > "EU": Soeur - Sister (\sœʁ\)

OE > "É": Oedipe - Oedipus (\ø.dip\)

OË > "O-É": Noël - Christmas (\nɔ.ɛl\)

OM or ON+consonant > "ON" (nasal): Bonjour - Hello (\bɔ̃.ʒuʁ\), Accomplir - To achieve (\a.kɔ̃.pliʁ\); +vowel or -N+vowel > "ONN": Personne - Nobody (\pɛʁ.sɔn\)

OO > "O-O": Zoo - Zoo (\zo.o\)

OU > "OO": Couper - To cut (\ku.pe\)

-P(S):

Mute unless it's borrowed from English or anatomical. (-)Corps - Body, (-)Temps - Time/Weather, Draps - Sheets, Sirop - Syrup... as opposed to Clip, Triceps, Stop, etc.

Trop (Too much/Way too), when followed by a vowel, is not mute: Trop_aimable.

-R:

Pronounced in: masculine adjectives: Fier - Proud; verbs of the second/third groups ending in -(o)ir : Dormir - To sleep; names in -a/o/ir : César; nouns after -i/er: Désir - Desire; nouns after -our/eur: Labeur - Hard work/labor; prepositions: Pour - For; nouns borrowed from other languages: Boxer - Dog breed+job.

Not pronounced in: infinitive first-group verbs ending in -er: Manger - To eat; Monsieur/messieurs - Sir-s; masculine names in -er : Roger; (masculine) job nouns in -(i)er: Infirmier - Nurse; masculine adjectives in -ier except if followed by a noun starting with a vowel: Premier - First, Dernier - Last…

S:

S- > SS: Sucre - Sugar

SC+LS > SS: Fils (\fis\) - Son, Scie (\si\) - Saw

S > SS: Poisson - Fish

-S (N.B.: For a not-verb/not-noun): SS or mute. Tous as an indefinite adjective, a comparative, a superlative or a negative: mute. Ex: Il n’y a plu(s) de pain - There’s no more bread, C’est la plu(s) gentille - She’s the nicest; as an indefinite pronoun: SS. Ex: Tous ces hommes - All these men.

N.B: When -s is followed by a vowel, make the liaison: Vous avez (Vou-z-avé) - You have, Les éléphants(lé-z-éléfan) - The elephants

X:

[ks]:

when inside a word: Texte (\tɛkst\)

when it follows E and is followed by a consonant: Excellent

when a word ends in -ax, -ex, -inx, -ox, -ynx, and sometimes -ix or -yx: Thorax, Lynx

[gz]:

when the first letter of a word: Xylophone (\ɡzi.lɔ.fɔn\)

when it follows E and is followed by either a vowel or H: Exactement - Exactly, Exhumer

[s]:

in SIX (6) and DIX (10), when used without an object: J’en ai six (\sis\)

in DIX-SEPT (17) and numbers from 60 to 69: Soixante (\swa.sɑ̃t\)

in the name of certain cities: Bruxelles (\bʁy.sɛl\), Auxerre 

[z]:

in numbers derived from DEUX (2), SIX (6), DIX (10): Sixième, Dix-huit, Deuxième (\dø.zjɛm\)

[/]:

when a word ends in -eux: Heureux - Happy (\œ.ʁø\), -aux, -eaux, oux, aux: Chevaux - Horses

when an invariant word ends in -x: Choix - Choice, Voix - Voice

Y:

-y- > /i/: Cycle

Y- > /j/: Yeux - Eyes

N.B.: When Yeux follows a plural determiner or adjective, don't forget to pronounce the Z (S+X). Les yeux: Lé-z-ieu.

Z:

Mute when final: Nez, Chez; turns the -E- into "É" (\ne\)

Anywhere else, regular pronunciation: Zéro, Nazi

#pronunciation #masterpost

[wjbsart]

A complete, very long list of all GBoard-combinable emojis because I can't find one anywhere.

Ok so for those who haven't seen my stuff (or have only seen my Bionicle posts), I sometimes emoji mashup redraws, with the recent fourth one using GBoard-based fusions. Frustratingly, there's no actual list of fusion-compatible emojis, so I'll attempt to compile them, in a list below the "Read More" thing:

Green/▢ = compatible with fusion Blue/△ = only works with certain emojis Red/◯ = not compatible with fusion

Also, since other people's terms for specific emojis might not match up with mine, I recommend using CTRL+F and then doing this to find the specific emoji you're looking for. This list is in the order presented in GBoard's Emoji menu. Some of them will be generic unicode symbols, I don't know how to change that, sorry for the inconvenience. Also, I won't aknowledge multi-category Emoji.

Smileys and Emoticons

😀Open-mouthed smile▢

😃Wide-eyed smile▢

😄Closed-eyed smile▢

😁Closed-eyed grin▢

😆Laughing▢

😅Sweating smile▢

😂Cry-laughing▢

🤣Cry-ROFLing▢

😭Crying▢

😗Kissing▢

😙Kissing, closed eyes▢

😚Kissing, blushing▢

😘Kissing, winking w/ heart▢

🥰Surrounded by hearts▢

😍Heart-eyes▢

🤩Star-eyes▢

🥳Noisemaker and party-hat▢

🤗Hugging▢

🙃Upside-down▢

🙂Smile▢

☺Blushing, smiling▢

😊Blushing▢

😏Looking off to the side▢

😌Relieved▢

😉Winking▢

🤭Hand over mouth▢

😶Nightmare fuel Mouthless▢

😐Neutral▢

😑-_-▢

😔Pensive▢

😋Licking lips▢

😛Tongue out▢

😝Tongue out, eyes closed▢

😜Tongue out, winking▢

🤪Tongue out, wide-eyed▢

🤔Hmmm▢

🤨Suspicious▢

🧐Monocle▢

🙄Rolling eyes▢

😒Unamused▢

😤Snorting▢

😠Angry▢

😡Angry, red▢

🤬Swearing▢

☹Frown▢

🙁Frown but less▢

😕Confused▢

😟Distraught▢

🥺Pleading▢

😳AWOOGA Flushed▢

😬Yikes▢

🤐Zip▢

🤫Shushing▢

😰Distraught, sweating▢

😧Distraught, shocked▢

😦Distraught, neutral▢

😮Open mouth▢

😯Open mouth, surprised▢

😲Shocked▢

😱Horrified▢

🤯Your head asplode Mind blown▢

😢Crying, single tear▢

😥Crying, less sad▢

😓Sweating▢

😞Dissapointed▢

😖Pained▢

😣Persevering▢

😩Weary▢

😫Tired▢

🤤Drooling▢

😴Sleeping▢

😪Sleeping but different?▢

🌛Left-facing moon▢

🌜Right-facing moon▢

🌚New moon face◯

🌝Full moon face◯

🌞The sun▢

🤢Queasy▢

🤮Vomiting▢

🤧Sneezing▢

🤒Unwell▢

🤕Bandaged▢

🥴Drunk▢

😵Dizzy▢

🥵Hot▢

🥶Cold▢

😷Masked up▢

😇Angel▢

🤠yee haw▢

🤑Money-tongue▢

😎Cool▢

🤓Nerd▢

🤥Lying▢

🤡Clown▢

👻Ghost▢

💩Poop▢

👽Ayy lmao Alien▢

🤖Robot▢

🎃Jack-o-Lantern▢

😈Demon 1▢

👿Demon 2▢

👹Oni◯

👺Tengu◯

☠Skull and crossbones▢

🔥Fire▢

💫Star with trail▢

⭐Star▢

🌟Star with bits▢

✨Stars▢

⚡Lightning◯

💥Explosion◯

💯100△

💢Anime anger symbol◯

💨Steam▢

💦Sweat Droplets▢

💤Zzz▢

🕳Hole▢

🎉Party popper▢

🎊Confetti ball▢

😺😸😹😻😼😽🙀😿😾Literally all the "cat in different emotions" emojis▢

❤🧡💛💚💙💜🖤Literally all the coloured hearts△

♥Heart suit▢

💘Heart with arrow▢

💝Heart with ribbon▢

💖Shiny heart▢

💗Growing heart▢

💓Beating heart▢

💞Swirling hearts▢

💕Two hearts▢

💌Love letter▢

💟Heart in square▢

❣Heart exclamation mark▢

💔Broken heart▢

💋Kiss▢

👥Two silhouettes◯

👤Silhouette◯

🗣Talking silhouette◯

👣Footprints◯

🧠Brain◯

🦠Microbe▢

🦷Tooth◯

🦴Bone◯

💀Skull▢

👀Eyes◯

👁Eye▢

👄Lips◯

👅Tongue◯

👃👂🦶🦵💪👍👎👏🙌👐Every other body part and hand gesture, seriously this isn't even all of them◯

People

Seriously, I don't know why none of the people-category emojis are Fusion-compatible. Let's just move on.◯

Animals and Nature

💐Bunch of flowers▢

🌹Rose▢

🥀Wilted rose◯

🌷Tulip▢

🌺Hibiscus flower◯

🌸Cherry blossom▢

🏵Rosette◯

🌻Sunflower◯

🌼Daisy▢

💮White flower◯

🍂Falling leaves◯

🍁Maple leaf◯

🌾Rice plants◯

🌱Seedling◯

🌿Herb◯

🍃Falling leaves again◯

☘3-leaf clover◯

🍀4-leaf clover◯

🌵Cactus▢

🌴Palm tree◯

🌳Deciduous tree◯

🌲Coniferous tree▢

🏞National park◯

⛰Mountain◯

🌊Wave◯

🌬Wind◯

🌀Tornado symbol◯

🌁Foggy scene◯

🌫Fog▢

🌪Tornado▢

☃Snowman (with snow)▢

⛄Snowman (without snow)▢

❄Snowflake

🏔Mountain with snow◯

🌡Thermometer◯

🌋Volcano◯

🏜Desert◯

🏝Desert island◯

🏖Beach◯

🌅Sunrise/set (water)◯

🌄Sunrise/set (mountains)◯

☀Sun▢

🌤Sun with cloud◯

⛅Sun and cloud◯

🌥Cloud with sun◯

🌦Sun and cloud with rain◯

☁Cloud▢

🌨Snowcloud◯

⛈Stormcloud◯

🌩Thundercloud◯

🌧Raincloud◯

💧Drop◯

☔Umbrella with rain◯

🌈Rainbow▢

✨Sparkles▢

🌙Crescent Moon◯

☄Comet◯

🌠Shooting star▢

🌌Milky Way◯

🌉Bridge◯

🌆City in the evening▢

🌃City at night▢

🌍🌏🌎Earth▢

🌑🌒🌓🌔🌕🌖🌗🌘The moon◯

🙈🙉🙊🐵Monkeys, wise or not▢

🦁Lion face▢

🐯Tiger face◯

🐱Cat face▢

🐶Dog face◯

🐺Wolf face◯

🐻Bear face▢

🐨Koala face▢

🐼Panda face▢

🐹Hamster face◯

🐭Mouse face◯

🐰Rabbit face▢

🦊Fox face◯

🦝Raccoon face◯

🐮Cow face◯

🐷Pig face▢

🐽Pig nose▢

🐗Boar head◯

🦓Zebra head◯

🦄Unicorn head▢

🐴Horse head◯

🐸Frog face◯

🐲Dragon head◯

🦎Lizard◯

🐉Dragon◯

🦖T-Rex◯

🦕Diplodocus◯

🐢Turtle▢

🐊Crocodile◯

🐍Snake◯

🐁Mouse▢

🐀Rat◯

🐇Rabbit▢

🐈Cat▢

🐩Poodle◯

🐕Dog◯

🐅Tiger◯

🐆Leopard◯

🐎Horse◯

🐖Pig▢

🐄Cow◯

🐂Bull◯

🐃Water buffalo◯

🐏Ram◯

🐑Sheep◯

🐐Goat▢

🦌Deer▢

🦙Llama▢

🦘Kangaroo◯

🐘Elephant◯

🦏Rhinoceros◯

🦛Hippopotamus◯

🦒Giraffe◯

🐒Monkey▢

🦍Gorilla◯

🐪🐫Camels◯

🐿Squirrel (why does the squirrel of all things have a Unicode symbol?)◯

🦡Badger◯

🦔Hedgehog▢

🦇Bat▢

🐓Cockerel/rooster◯

🐔Chicken◯

🐣🐥🐤Chicks◯

🐦Bird▢

🦉Owl▢

🦅Eagle◯

🦜Parrot◯

🕊Dove◯

🦢Swan◯

🦚Peacock◯

🦃Turkey◯

🦆Duck◯

🐧Penguin◯

🦈Shark◯

🐬Dolphin◯

🐋🐳Whales◯

🐟Fish▢

🐠Tropical fish◯

🐡Pufferfish◯

🦐Prawn◯

🦞Lobster◯

🦀Crab◯

🦑Squid◯

🐙Octopus▢

🦂Scorpion▢

🕷Spider▢

🕸Spiderweb◯

🐚Shell◯

🐌Snail▢

🐜Ant◯

🦗Grasshopper◯

🦟Mosquito◯

🐝Bee▢

🐞Ladybird◯

🦋Butterfly◯

🐛"Bug" yeah sure ok◯

🐾Pawprints◯

Food and Drink

🍓Strawberry▢

🍒Cherry◯

🍎Red apple◯

🍉Watermelon◯

🍑Peach◯

🍊Orange◯

🥭Mango◯

🍍Pineapple▢

🍌Banana◯

🍋Lemon▢

🍈Melon◯

🍏Green apple◯

🍐Pear◯

🥝Kiwi◯

🍇Grapes◯

🥥Coconut◯

🍅Tomato◯

🌶Chili▢

🍄Mushroom◯

🥕Carrot◯

🍠Sweet potato◯

🌽Corn◯

🥦Broccoli◯

🥒Cucumber◯

🥬Lettuce◯

🥑Avocado▢

🍆Aubergine◯

🥔Potato◯

🌰Nut◯

🥜Peanuts◯

🍞Bread▢

🥐Croissant◯

🥖Baguette▢

🥯Bagel◯

🥞Pancakes◯

🍳Frying pan◯

🥚Egg (somehow)◯

🧀Cheese▢

🥓Bacon◯

🥩Meat◯

🍗Chicken leg◯

🍖Anime meat◯

🍔Burger◯

🌭Hotdog▢

🥪Sandwich◯

🥨Pretzel◯

🍟Chips◯

🍕Pizza◯

🌮Taco◯

🌯Wrap◯

🥙Stuffed flatbread◯

🥘Paella◯

🍝Spaghetti◯

🥫Can◯

🥣Bowl◯

🥗Salad◯

🍲Pot of food◯

🍛Curry◯

🍜Noodles◯

🍣Sushi◯

🍤Fried prawn◯

🥡Takeaway container◯

🍚Cooked rice◯

🍱Bento◯

🥟Dumpling◯

🍢Oden◯

🍙Jelly Donut Rice ball◯

🍘Rice cracker◯

🍥Fishcake◯

🍡Dango◯

🥠Fortune cookie◯

🥮Moon cake◯

🍧Shave ice◯

🍨Ice cream◯

🍦See above◯

🥧Pie◯

🍰Cake slice◯

🍮Custard mate what kinda custard have you been eating, this is clearly a créme caramel◯

🎂Birthday cake▢

🧁Cupcake▢

🍭Lollipop◯

🍬Boiled sweet◯

🍫Chocolate◯

🍩Donut◯

🍪Cookie◯

🍯Honey◯

🧂Salt◯

🍿Popcorn◯

🥤Soft drink◯

🥛Milk◯

🍼Baby bottle◯

🍵Green tea◯

☕Coffee▢

🍺Beer◯

🍻Beers, plural◯

🥂Champagne glasses◯

🍾Champagne◯

🍷Red red wine◯

🥃Whiskey◯

🍸Martini◯

🍹Cocktail◯

🍶Sake◯

🥢Chopsticks◯

🍴Knife and fork▢

🥄Spoon◯

🔪Kitchen knife◯

🍽Plate▢

Travel and Places

🛑🎡Everything from the stop sign to Ferris wheel◯

🎠Merry-go-round horse▢

🎪🏕Everything from circus tent to campsite◯

🌇City at sunset yes I'm surprised as you are▢

🛤Train tracks◯

🛣Road◯

🗺Map◯

🗾Japan is an island by the sea filled with volcanoes and it's beautifuul!◯

🌐Globe with meridian lines▢

💺Plane seat◯

🧳Luggage◯

Activities and Events

🎈Balloon▢

🎀Bow◯

🎁Present◯

🎇Sparkler◯

🎆Fireworks◯

🧨Dynamite Firecracker◯

🧧Red envelope◯

🎐Wind chime◯

🎏Fish streamers◯

🎎Japanese dolls (that's what the emoji's called, don't @ me with the actual name for them)◯

🎑Moon viewing ceremony◯

🎍Pine decoration◯

🎋Tanabata◯

🎄Christmas tree▢

🎗Ribbon△

🥇🥈🥉🏅🎖Medals◯

🏆Trophy◯

📣Megaphone◯

🥅Goal◯

⚽⚾🥎🏀🏐🏈🏉🎾🏸🥍🏏🏑🏒SPORTS◯

🥌Curling stone◯

🛷Rosebud Sled◯

🎿Ski◯

⛸Skate◯

⛳Golf-hole◯

🎯Target◯

🏹Bow◯

🥏Frisbee◯

🎣Fishing rod▢

🎽Running shirt◯

🥋Martial arts uniform◯

🥊Boxing glove◯

🎱8-ball◯

🏓Ping-pong◯

🎳Bowling◯

♟Chess◯

🧩Puzzle piece◯

🎮Controller◯

🕹Joystick◯

👾Videogame alien◯

🔫Gun◯

🎲Dice◯

🎰Slot machine◯

🎴Flower playing card◯

🀄Mahjong tile◯

🃏Joker◯

🎩Top hat◯

📷📸Camera◯

🖼Painting◯

🖌Paintbrush◯

🖍Crayon◯

🧵String◯

🧶Wool◯

🎼🎵🎶Music▢

🎷🎺🎸🎻🥁Instruments◯

🎤Mic◯

🎧Headphones▢

🎚🎛🎙📻Assorted audio stuff◯

📺TV◯

📼VHS◯

📹Camcorder◯

📽Projector◯

🎥Film camera◯

🎞Film◯

🎬Clapperboard◯

🎭Comedy and tragedy masks◯

🎫🎟Tickets◯

Objects

📱🧻Everything from smartphone to toilet roll◯

🧸Teddy bear▢

🧷🧢Everything from safety pin to baseball cap◯

👑Crown▢

🎒💍Everything from backpack to ring◯

💎Diamond▢

💄👓Everything from lipstick to glasses◯

🕶Sunglasses▢

🥽📁Everything from goggles to folder◯

🕶Newspaper▢

🗞🔎Everything from rolled-up newspaper to right-pointing magnifying glass◯

🔮Crystal ball▢

🧿🔓Everything from Nazar amulet to open lock◯

Symbols

There are no compatible non-repeated Emoji here.◯

Flags

Aaaaand none here either.◯

Feel free to let me know if I got anything wrong.

#emoji #emoji mashup #cursed emoji

[whatdoesshedotothem]

Sunday 25 August 1839

3 ½

10 ¾

fine morning A-‘s neck poorly – off from Stockholm at 5 ½ in little carriage and 2 horses – no forbud – at Rottebro [Rotebro] (single house) at 7 13/.. – terrible boulder stone pavé in Stockholm and terrible and many deeo channels there – good road nice drive – about ¾ of the way very pretty wooded lake – Rottebro [Rotebro] one story red smeared wood house – not good to sleep at – sun now at 7 ½ am it peeped out about 7 – very fine morning – off in 13 minutes – good road – nice drive – nice good country for Sweden – peeps now and then of wood pretty lake (right) Maista [Märsta] single farm house not good to sleep at – A – very cold – very good road – forest with moss green rocks as in Norway but no large old trees – there open country – less encumbered with rock and boulder than in the other parts of Sweden that we have seen – better farming? and better crops? corn in stook and to cut – peas drying on poles reared in a circle and meeting at top like a Lapland hut – hops  very fine morning – Alisk [Alsike] single house – better than the 2 last – perhaps one might sleep here? Hamlets and villages and farms thinly scattered today – wondered at their being so thinly scattered close to the capital – the country here seems better peopled than just out of the gates of Stockholm –

Snow-ploughs lying at the roadside here as everywhere

From Alisk [Alsike] to Upsāla [Uppsala] very pretty drive – excellent road – open country – at 11 40/.. good wood bridge over broadish stream and then fine vist view thro’ forest by and by sun to terminate in the huge brick chateau built on a hill qui domine the 2 steepled cathedral and the city – arrived at 12 20/.. – Hotel de la poste – ordered dinner at 2 – changed our dress – out at 1 40/.. – to the cathedral – large

August Sunday 25 handsome (clean) whitewashed church – a large crucifix over the altar – beneath the pedestal of the crucifix a cross over which hung a serpent – the altar in decoration like a Roman catholic altar  the congregation was assembled at 2 and the organ played and the people sang psalms till 2 20/.. the preacher began the epistle at 2 20/.. and we staid 10 minutes longer – his manner perfectly quiet, but he spoke clearly and impressionably – home at 2 40/.. dinner at 2 ¾ in 35 minutes – then I dozed on the sofa till near 4 – up so early – and driving all the way (A- and I in front – John Winter our new courier and the peasant behind) and having nothing to eat but a little gingerbread with A- between 10 and 11 as we sat in the carriage at Alisk [Alsike] (from 10 27/.. to 11 10/.. one of the horses being shod in the meantime) i.e. little to eat from 4pm. yesterday to 2 ¾ today, made me feel sleepy – out at 4 to the botanic garden – our courier did not even know Linnaeus by name – but he native of Hamburg was courier to prince Oscar 3 years – then set up at Stockholm as loueur de voitures – failed recently and now gets his living as well as he can  - was with Captain Wilbraham of the 7th regiment a fortnight ago for 4 days – went to Dannemora – not time for Falun – off to St. Petersburg – Captain W- asked if ladies descended at Danemora [Dannemora] – no! none but English ladies and several of these had been down! – a civil intelligent garçon gardener shewed us the Serres and orangery and garden ground immediately around them – the building called orangery handsome – but no orange trees to be seen there or near there (a few in the serres the man said) the tubs outside filled with our common and Portugal laurels – ivy in pots outside – will no[t] do well out of doors! yet common sorts of palmiers seemed healthy in the orangery larger and healthier than what we saw in the serres – a thing very common hereabouts and forming a low hedge at the botanic garden is Spiraea calcifolia [salicifolia], flower like sweet dock

no fire in the hot houses

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August Sunday 25 Spruce firs planted at 2 foots, hedgewise – and others cut into cones or looked better as obelisks or a paral of 2 rows of them just below the chateau (in the part of the botanic garden between the museum and chateau) – these spruces looked just as well as if they had been yews and might be got up in ½ the time – the museum Thunbergs’ collection a poor concern – birds etc. ill stuffed and not in the best preservation – the specimens (an infinity of serpents) in spirits locked up in dark cupboards – many duplicates and bad arrangement – the statue of Linnaeus sitting – book in his hand – contemplating his favourite flower (Linnaea borealis)  not a chef-d’oeuvre, but interesting -  

2 or 3 specimens of Gigantic Elk – caught near here 6 or 7 years ago as I understood – but one of John’s (Winter) friends shot one last winter about 1 ½ mile from here – salted it the meat a delicacy – some left – we are to tasted it – this animal in all the forests here – the horns covered with a sort of down – as also the horns of the rein-deer. can buy here the salted tongues and hams of rein deer

Fringa, several [species] of, found in the isle of Gothland sur le bord de la mer – curious sort of ruff round its neck do not recollect having seen this bird anywhere before

Platalea pygmaea caught here pigmy spoonbill said to be the only specimen of the kind to be found in any museum –

August Sunday 25 Tetrao generic name of moor game

common barn-door fowl classed Phasianus gallus.

Heron, genus ardea.

from the musée sauntered to the chateau – the governor resides in one part – prisoners before their trail are confined in another part – many rooms unfurnished – the 3 or 4 towers (at one each corner) look well – but the modern parts – one front with a pediment are terrible – fine commanding situation – the views from it have excused us the trouble of going to the top of the cathedral – old Upsāla [Uppsala] full in view from the chateau – nothing worth seeing says our courier when at mora – merely a few stone with no inscriptions at all – then walked down thro’ the town to the Steamer that plies daily between Stockholm and here in 5 hours – deck passage 2 dollars rigs. – salon double that John thinks – nice vessel enough – deck covered with awning as usual - Upsāla [Uppsala] a nice town – the most livable we have seen – not so low and water girt as the towns in Sweden in general in which one fancies one could not breathe for damp and fog – the castle cathedral university buildings library etc. on high ground – fine fresh air, and agreeable – our Inn comfortable – the first house just below the new library and nicely situated – a drop or 2 of rain between 4 and 5 and afterwards but held off till we came in at 7 ½ - then a shower – till then very fine day – no supper – no wish for anything since dinner excellent veal cutlets (carbonnade) and preserved gooseberries and fried morsels of potato – then soup – then fritters – such is the order here – all good – had just written so far (inked all over accounts and all) now at 10 pm at which hour F60 ½°

[lovemesomesurveys]

THIS OR THAT! CEREALS! Froot Loops or Cinnamon Toast Crunch Lucky Charms or Frosted Mini Wheats Cheerios or Chex Honey Bunches Oats or Honey Nut Cheerios Rice Chex or Raisin Brand Honey Smacks or Reese's Puffs Rice Krispies or Great Grains French Toast Crunch or Cap'n Crunch Oatmeal Crisp or Cookie Crisp Kix or Eggo Cinnamon Toast Special K or Corn Flakes Frosted Mini Wheats (Strawberry Delight) or Apple Jacks Cocoa Krispies or Frosted Flakes Oreo O's or Corn Pops Honeycomb or Fruity Fruits Croque Graham Dore or Croque Canelle Nesquick or Sugar-Crisp Trix or Life Smorz or Fruity Pebbles Cocoa Pebbles or Cocoa Puffs All Bran or Weet-Bix Nestle Milo or Coco Pops Rice Bubbles or Crunchy Nut Nutri-Grain or Sultana Bran Cheerios or Frosties

DISNEY MOVIES! Snow White and The Seven Dwarf's or Pinocchio Dumbo or Bambi Cinderella or Alice In Wonderland Peter Pan or Sleeping Beauty Lady and The Tramp or The Sword In The Stone One Hundred and One Dalmatians or Robin Hood The Jungle Book or The Aristocats The Many Adventures of Winnie The Pooh or The Rescuers The Fox and The Hound or The Black Couldron The Great Mouse Detective or Oliver & Company The Little Mermaid or Ducktales: Treasure of the Lost Lamp Beauty and The Beast or A Goofy Movie Aladdin or Return To Never Land Pocahontas or Mulan The Lion King or Coco Monsters Inc. or The Emperors New Groove Toy Story or Toy Story 2 A Bug's Life or Zootopia Cars or Cars 3 Tarzan or Doug's First Movie The Tigger Movie or Treasure Planet Lilo and Stitch or Brave Atlantis: The Lost Empire or Teacher's Pet The Jungle Book 2 or Bolt Piglet's Big Movie or Planes Brother Bear or Home On The Range Finding Nemo or Finding Dory The Incredibles or The Wild Pooh's Heffalump Movie or Meet The Robinsons The Nightmare Before Christmas or Inside Out Frozen or Frozen 2 The Princess and The Frog or Big Hero 6 Up or Tangled Frankenweenie or Wreck It Ralph Monsters University or Moana The Good Dinosaur or Valiant Wall-E or Ratatouille Fantasia or Mary Poppins Fantasia 2000 or The Rescuer's Down Under Toy Story 3 or Hercules Luca or The Jungle Cruise Cruella or Cinderella 2 Winnie The Pooh or The Hunchback Of Notre Dame The Lion King ll or Tinkerbell  James and The Giant Peach or Prince Charming

NICKELODEON SHOWS!

Angry Beavers or Catdog Hey Arnold or Jimmy Neutron Ren and Stimpy or Rocko's Modern Life Spongebob Square Pants or Avatar The Last Airbender Fairly Odd Parents or As Told By Ginger Rugrats or Aahh Real Monsters Clarissa Explains It All or The Amanda Show H2O or I-Carly Kenan and Kel or Drake and Josh Rugrats All Grown Up or The Wild Thornberrys Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide or The Backyardigans Zoey 101 or Danny Phantom Blues Clues or Big Time Rush Franklin or The Penguins of Madagascar My Life as a Teenage Robot or All That Invader Zim or Are You Afraid Of The Dark The Naked Brothers Band or Rocket Power Dora The Explorer or Go Diego, Go! TV SERIES/SHOWS The Walking Dead or Lucifer Riverdale or Supergirl American Horror Story or Greys Anatomy American Horror Stories or Supernatural Home and Away or Gilmore Girls Two and A Half Men or Nine Perfect Strangers The Big Bang Theory or Young Sheldon Friends or The Real Housewives of New York City Good Girls or The White Lotus Trinkets or Dead To Me Sex and The City or The Carrie Diaries The Hills or The City The Good Place or Awkward Revenge or Workin' Moms The 100 or I-Zombie Santa Clarita Diet or Happy Endings Girls or Love Life Younger or Dollface Two Broke Girls or New Girl Fear The Walking Dead or Top Gear Looking or A Teacher Bob's Burgers or Family Guy American Dad or King Of The Hill The Simpsons or Futurama Outer Banks or Sex Life NEVERTHELESS or A-Typical The News or Late Night Talk Shows Never Have I Ever or Ginny and Georgia Superstore or Suits 13 Reasons Why or Shameless The Inbetweeners or Friday Night Dinner My Mad Fat Diary or White Gold Outlander or Too Hot To Handle ANIMALS! Lion or Leopard Tiger or Buffalo Antelope or Zebra Ostrich or Emu Giraffe or Cheetah African Wild Dog or Hyena White Rhino or Black Rhino Elephant or Hippopotamus Butterfly or Stick Insect Cat or Dog Bunny or Guineapig Chicken or Duck Goat or Lamb Lyrebird or Pigeon Macaw or Toucan Horse or Donkey Turkey or Rooster Kookaburra or Sulphur Crested Cockatoo Scorpion or Cobra Water Dragon or Tortoise African Grey Parrot or Amazon Parrot Meerkat or Tapir Chimpanzee or Gorilla Lorikeet or Galah Tasmian Devils or Dingoes Sealion or Stingray Alpaca or Deer Little Penguin or King Penguin Quokka or Wallaby Echidna or Mandrill Baboon or Peacock Pelican or Barn Owl Bilby or Sloth Black Bear or Polar Bear Dolphin or Humpback Whale Starfish or Clown Fish Shark or Orca COLOURS! Pink or Blue Green or Yellow Brown or Black White or Grey Green or Purple Orange or Blue Pink or Purple Black or Red Yellow or Red Orange or Pink White or Purple Grey or Blue Blue or Purple Pink or White GAMES! Donkey Kong or Super Mario Yoshi's Island or Mario Party Mario Kart or Super Smash Bros Pokemon Let's Go Eevee or Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu The Legend of Zelda or Skyrim Minecraft or Fortnite Crash Bandicoot or Croc Spyro or PacMan Tetris or Space Invaders Grand Theft Auto or Street Fighter ll Animal Crossing or Overcooked Cooking Mama or Stardew Valley Just Dance or Harvest Moon Ring Fit or Snipper Clips

#personal #text #this or that #bolding #categories #survey #surveys

[bumblebeerror]

I know I’ve clearly gone off on the whole “vegan because it’s cruelty free” and “vegan because it’s best for the planet” before but, there was stuff I left out of that rant.

Like that veganism is only effective to reduce waste and such in very specific areas. Or that rural poor living is much more in harmony with nature than you’d imagine. Here, let me paint you a picture.

You live on a farm. You grow wheat to be used to make flour or oatmeal or whatever. When you harvest your wheat, you can sell the fruit, which is tiny little seeds that you’ve threshed out of their casings (called chaffs) and now you have literally the whole rest of the pant that you can do nothing with. An entire harvest’s worth of hay and chaff. You could compost it, or:

You sell the useless stalks to a farmer who raises cattle, or goats, or sheep, or horses, and the animals eat it. Or you get yourself a few of those animals as well. There’s less wastage and now that same farmer can muck their barn and compost the manure to sell as fertilizer. When those animals get too old, the farmer kills them, bleeds them, butchers them, and sells the meat. Up to that point, he likely breeds them, helps them birth, and pays thousands in vet bills to keep them healthy, their hooves clipped, clean, and content, because otherwise they’re unlikely to produce quality milk or grow their fleece well.

Am I aware that a lot of the meat industry is not this clean and nice? Yeah. I never said it was. The meat industry, especially for poultry birds, can be absolutely downright abusive. That does not mean there aren’t ways to raise and eat animals humanely.

Now. Let me paint you a new picture. I wanna move on to a more traditional reason people eat meat: Poverty. Rural and urban poverty look very different. Rural looks like this:

You live in a village, or small town in the middle of assfuck nowhere, and it’s probably near or culturally similar to Appalachia. Your parents are poor. Your grandparents were poor. You work your job, and your s/o has to stay home with the kids because childcare costs too much to bother having them work. They also tend a garden in your yard, because you’re not pulling in enough money to get groceries and your kid’s rescue inhaler. You know a family down the way who does the same. They drop zucchini on your doorstep ding-dong-ditch style because they cant use it and like everyone else, the abhorr wasting food. You eat zucchini bread for a week or two. Your s/o preserves what they can from the garden, and return the favor by dropping off some tomatoes they don’t have enough jars for. In winter, it gets lean. You use your rainy day fund to buy meat from the grocery store that costs half a tank of gas to get to and from, and your kid isn’t allowed outside in the snow because their inhaler is running low. Or, if you were lucky, you got enough time off during hunting season that you were able to nab a decent deer, and you eat a lot of venison. Your kids work summers detassling corn and getting sunburned. The eldest gets a job at the hardware store at 14 and they’re paid under the table until they’re legal to work. Your car has more rust on it than car. Your kid’s shoes are dirty and have holes. Their clothes are hand-me-downs from older cousins.

Vegetables don’t keep in winter. Anything you can grow in warmer months that’s left will be canned, and if you can’t can it yourself, you’re probably making a lot of cabbage soup. Rural areas are food deserts, where stores that sell food are farther away and expensive to go to. You kill a deer mostly to eat it or sell it to someone else who needs it.

My point is, that just because you’re not killing an animal, doesn’t mean that your diet is less wasteful. Just because you, living in a city with a grocery store around the corner, can afford a vegan diet on very little money, does not mean anyone can anywhere. And just because you eat a certain way, doesn’t make your lifestyle as a whole less impactful.

I am not better than you. And you are not better than me. You can have your ethics. But they aren’t mine.

#veganism #im probably gonna get shit on but i dont care

[eldamaranquendi]

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1.  "Manwë and Melkor were brethren in the thought of Ilúvatar. The mightiest of those Ainur who came into the World was in his beginning Melkor; but Manwë is dearest to Ilúvatar and understands most clearly his purposes. He was appointed to be, in the fullness of time, the first of all Kings: lord of the realm of Arda and ruler of all that dwell therein. In Arda his delight is in the winds and the clouds, and in all the regions of the air, from the heights to the depths, from the utmost borders of the Veil of Arda to the breezes that blow in the grass. Súlimo he is surnamed, Lord of the Breath of Arda. All swift birds, strong of wing, he loves, and they come and go at his bidding. With Manwë dwells Varda, Lady of the Stars, who knows all the regions of Eä. Too great is her beauty to be declared in the words of Men or of Elves; for the light of Ilúvatar lives still in her face. In light is her power and her joy. Out of the deeps of Eä she came to the aid of Manwë; for Melkor she knew from before the making of the Music and rejected him, and he hated her, and feared her more than all others whom Eru made. Manwë and Varda are seldom parted, and they remain in Valinor. Their halls are above the everlasting snow, upon Oiolossë, the uttermost tower of Taniquetil, tallest of all the mountains upon Earth. When Manwë there ascends his throne and looks forth, if Varda is beside him, he sees further than all other eyes, through mist, and through darkness, and over the leagues of the sea. And if Manwë is with her, Varda hears more clearly than all other ears the sound of voices that cry from east to west, from the hills and the valleys, and from the dark places that Melkor has made upon Earth. Of all the Great Ones who dwell in this world the Elves hold Varda most in reverence and love. Elbereth they name her, and they call upon her name out of the shadows of Middle-earth, and uplift it in song at the rising of the stars."

2.  "Ulmo is the Lord of Waters. He is alone. He dwells nowhere long, but moves as he will in all the deep waters about the Earth or under the Earth. He is next in might to Manwë, and before Valinor was made he was closest to him in friendship; but thereafter he went seldom to the councils of the Valar, unless great matters were in debate. For he kept all Arda in thought, and he has no need of any resting-place. Moreover he does not love to walk upon land, and will seldom clothe himself in a body after the manner of his peers. If the Children of Eru beheld him they were filled with a great dread; for the arising of the King of the Sea was terrible, as a mounting wave that strides to the land, with dark helm foam-crested and raiment of mail shimmering from silver down into shadows of green. The trumpets of Manwë are loud, but Ulmo.s voice is deep as the deeps of the ocean which he only has seen. Nonetheless Ulmo loves both Elves and Men, and never abandoned them, not even when they lay under the wrath of the Valar. At times he win come unseen to the shores of Middle-earth, or pass far inland up firths of the sea, and there make music upon his great horns, the Ulumúri, that are wrought of white shell; and those to whom that music comes hear it ever after in their hearts, and longing for the sea never leaves them again. But mostly Ulmo speaks to those who dwell in Middle-earth with voices that are heard only as the music of water. For all seas, lakes, rivers, fountains and springs are in his government; so that the Elves say that the spirit of Ulmo runs in all the veins of the world. Thus news comes to Ulmo, even in the deeps, of all the needs and griefs of Arda, which otherwise would be hidden from Manwë."

3.  "Aulë has might little less than Ulmo. His lordship is over all the substances of which Arda is made. In the beginning he wrought much in fellowship with Manwë and Ulmo; and the fashioning of all lands was his labour. He is a smith and a master of all crafts, and he delights in works of skill, however small, as much as in the mighty building of old. His are the gems that lie deep in the Earth and the gold that is fair in the hand, no less than the walls of the mountains and the basins of the sea. The Noldor learned most of him, and he was ever their friend. Melkor was jealous of him, for Aulë was most like himself in thought and in powers; and there was long strife between them, in which Melkor ever marred or undid the works of Aulë, and Aulë grew weary in repairing the tumults and disorders of Melkor. Both, also, desired to make things of their own that should be new and unthought of by others, and delighted in the praise of their skill. But Aulë remained faithful to Eru and submitted all that he did to his will; and he did not envy the works of others, but sought and gave counsel. Whereas Melkor spent his spirit in envy and hate, until at last he could make nothing save in mockery of the thought of others, and all their works he destroyed if he could. The spouse of Aulë is Yavanna, the Giver of Fruits. She is the lover of all things that grow in the earth, and all their countless forms she holds in her mind, from the trees like towers in forests long ago to the moss upon stones or the small and secret things in the mould. In reverence Yavanna is next to Varda among the Queens of the Valar. In the form of a woman she is tall, and robed in green; but at times she takes other shapes. Some there are who have seen her standing like a tree under heaven, crowned with the Sun; and from all its branches there spilled a golden dew upon the barren earth, and it grew green with corn; but the roots of the tree were in the waters of Ulmo, and the winds of Manwë spoke in its leaves. Kementári, Queen of the Earth, she is surnamed in the Eldarin tongue."

4.  "The Fëanturi, masters of spirits, are brethren, and they are called most often Mandos and Lórien. Yet these are rightly the names of the places of their dwelling, and their true names are Námo and Irmo. Námo the elder dwells in Mandos, which is westward in Valinor. He is the keeper of the Houses of the Dead, and the summoner of the spirits of the slain. He forgets nothing; and he knows all things that shall be, save only those that lie still in the freedom of Ilúvatar. He is the Doomsman of the Valar; but he pronounces his dooms and his Judgements only at the bidding of Manwë. Vairë the Weaver is his spouse, who weaves all things that have ever been in Time into her storied webs, and the halls of Mandos that ever widen as the ages pass are clothed with them."

5.  "Irmo the younger is the master of visions and dreams. In Lórien are his gardens in the land of the Valar, and they are the fairest of all places in the world, filled with many spirits. Estë the gentle, healer of hurts and of weariness, is his spouse. Grey is her raiment; and rest is her gift. She walks not by day, but sleeps upon an island in the tree-shadowed lake of Lórellin. From the fountains of Irmo and Estë all those who dwell in Valinor draw refreshment; and often the Valar come themselves to Lórien and there find repose and easing of the burden of Arda."

6.  "Mightier than Estë is Nienna, sister of the Fëanturi; she dwells alone. She is acquainted with grief, and mourns for every wound that Arda has suffered in the marring of Melkor. So great was her sorrow, as the Music unfolded, that her song turned to lamentation long before its end, and the sound of mourning was woven into the themes of the World before it began. But she does not weep for herself; and those who hearken to her learn pity, and endurance in hope. Her halls are west of West, upon the borders of the world; and she comes seldom to the city of Valimar where all is glad. She goes rather to the halls of Mandos, which are near to her own; and all those who wait in Mandos cry to her, for she brings strength to the spirit and turns sorrow to wisdom. The windows of her house look outward from the walls of the world."

7.  "Greatest in strength and deeds of prowess is Tulkas, who is surnamed Astaldo, the Valiant. He came last to Arda, to aid the Valar in the first battles with Melkor. He delights in wrestling and in contests of strength; and he rides no steed, for he can outrun all things that go on feet, and he is tireless. His hair and beard are golden, and his flesh ruddy; his weapons are his hands. He has little heed for either the past or the future, and is of no avail as a counsellor, but is a hardy friend. His spouse is Nessa, the sister of Oromë, and she also is lithe and fleetfooted. Deer she loves, and they follow her train whenever she goes in the wild; but she can outrun them, swift as an arrow with the wind in her hair. In dancing she delights, and she dances in Valimar on lawns of never-fading green."

8.  "Oromë is a mighty lord. If he is less strong than Tulkas, he is more dreadful in anger; whereas Tulkas laughs ever, in sport or in war, and even in the face of Melkor he laughed in battles before the Elves were born. Oromë loved the lands of Middle-earth, and he left them unwillingly and came last to Valinor; and often of old he passed back east over the mountains and returned with his host to the hills and the plains. He is a hunter of monsters and fell beasts, and he delights in horses and in hounds; and all trees he loves, for which reason he is called Aldaron, and by the Sindar Tauron, the Lord of Forests. Nahar is the name of his horse, white in the sun, and shining silver at night. The Valaróma is the name of his great horn, the sound of which is like the upgoing of the Sun in scarlet, or the sheer lightning cleaving the clouds. Above all the horns of his host it was heard in the woods that Yavanna brought forth in Valinor; for there Oromë would train his folk and his beasts for the pursuit of the evil creatures of. Melkor. The spouse of Oromë is Vána, the Ever-young; she is the younger sister of Yavanna. All flowers spring as she passes and open if she glances upon them; and all birds sing at her coming."

9.  " Last of all is set the name of Melkor, He who arises in Might. But that name he has forfeited; and the Noldor, who among the Elves suffered most from his malice, will not utter it, and they name him Morgoth, the Dark Enemy of the World. Great might was given to him by Ilúvatar, and he was coeval with Manwë. In the powers and knowledge of all the other Valar he had part, but he turned them to evil purposes, and squandered his strength in violence and tyranny. For he coveted Arda and all that was in it, desiring the kingship of Manwë and dominion over the realms of his peers. From splendour he fell through arrogance to contempt for all things save himself, a spirit wasteful and pitiless. Understanding he turned to subtlety in perverting to his own will all that he would use, until he became a liar without shame. He began with the desire of Light, but when he could not possess it for himself alone, he descended through fire and wrath into a great burning, down into Darkness. And darkness he used most in his evil works upon Arda, and filled it with fear for all living things."

#tolkien #silmarillion #valar #valier #manwe #varda #ulmo #yavanna #aule #nienna #namo #mandos #vaire #este #irmo #lorien #tulkas #este the grey #vana #orome #nessa #melkor

[pizza-soup]

Things about rural life I’ve had to get used to or have come to love:

- No food delivery. Most places won’t even have your zip code or it’s in a no deliver zone on account of how far/hard to find it is. I haven’t had delivered pizza in years now, we make our own which is actually cheaper, more customisable in size or thickness, and tastes better imo. Rosemary and basil mixed into the dough with spinach, various meats and fresh cheese. All with $8 worth of ingredients that can make at least three more full sized pizzas later. Yes!

- Learning to entertain myself. Don’t have a movie theater, mall or shopping center? A storm knocked out the power and no wifi? Sounds like a drag huh? Doesn’t have to be, I've learned to keep myself from getting bored by being more outside, picking up new hobbies, and working on projects around the house or learning to repair things. Plus, when the time comes I do go to the city, I’m actually excited to go to the bookstores, markets, malls and art stores. Makes you appreciate things more and turns an otherwise mundane thing into an event.

- Everything closes early, either by 6pm or 8pm. Whatever you gotta get from the store better be done in the daytime or you’ll have to make that long long two hour drive to the city on a highway that’s perched on a cliffside, not well lit and remote. If you get in trouble out there, well...you better hope a kind driver well pull over to help because there’s not even a highway patrol out there after dark. On the plus side, when they started doing curfews due to current events, nothing was changed. The only 24 hour places we have are a Pilot gas station, ATM and medical care building.

- Self serve fruit stands. They still run by the honor system which is such a rare thing these days. It comes in handy when I don’t want to go to the store to get groceries, and they usually have what I'm looking for, like squash, corn or carrots. As well as treats like strawberries and fresh pastries.

- Wild produce is a thing. They grow on property that’s left behind when people pass on or move away. Sweet potatoes, onions, asparagus, squash and pumpkins often regrow or resow themselves in abandoned gardens or spread toward the river and canals. Any trees like plums, apples and persimmons also grow on their own, having tapped into the water table. I’ve made it a habit to check on these wild gardens when I'm running low on staples, esp around the summer and fall. The local kids are the ones that pointed this out to me after I asked them where they got their produce. 

- Walking at night and early morning. Being a city girl, I was amazed just how safe it is to walk out here, and you’ll see others do the same. Seems to be a social thing too, as neighbors will sometimes talk outside their driveway or walk and talk before parting ways to go back home. Heck I've slept outside on my front porch in a papasan, with no worry of something happening to me.

- Hotsprings! There’s many little hotsprings and bathhouses here with prices ranging from high to free. It’s mostly a colder weather thing for me, but sometimes I don’t mind slipping my feet into one after a long hike. During the winter, my family soaks in the hotsprings often. Nothing like watching the snow fall while half submerged in bubbling hot water.

- No street lamps. This is a double edged sword. It’s so dark out here and sometimes during the rains/snow makes it hard to see where you’re going, but the view of the stars more than makes up for it. Lack of light pollution has made me take up an interest in Astronomy and I have since viewed tons of sky events, as well as attended many star parties. 

- The wildlife. While we don’t get bears, elk or bison, those tend to stick to the mountains, we do get mule deer, coyotes, foxes, hawks, raccoons, bobcats, river otters, beavers, snakes, quail, frogs, rabbits, cranes, turtles, coatis, and skunks. Living so rural I've had to get used to seeing my wild neighbors often and deal with them when they get a bit too close to my property. Usually fences and making a lot of noise does the trick.

- Animals in general. I never grew up by a farm. The only time I ever held a chick was during a school field trip. Now I live near a farm with a rooster that I hear every early morning, walking down a dirt path to the creek and seeing horses poke their heads toward me, seeing escaped goats as I drive on a backroad, and biking near beehives. Big bonus is that I get fresh eggs, goat milk for my lactose intolerant bro, honey and beeswax, and old leather scraps from saddlery. In all my life I never pictured myself living this way, but I wouldn’t trade it.

- Closer to my roots. My father was Coytero Apache, they were hunters and ranchers, NM is also native land. My mother’s father is from Aswan, Egypt, they were from a long line of agriculturists, mostly vineyards. I grow my own garden now and grapevines, I don’t hunt but I do wild forage, I'm also a lot closer to gatherings/powwows and native markets. I’m living a life very similar to my ancestors.

- Monsoons and blizzards. Okay so it’s not all sunshine. During the winter, we get snowed in, often for days and must prepare in the Fall accordingly. In the late summer, roads turn into rivers, playgrounds are underwater and rockslides are common on the highway. Good thing about this is just how lush everything gets, we don’t get a whole of mosquitoes due to a ton of dragonflies and the double rainbows are a big treat. Flooding is a headache but it’s tolerated, because wildfires are far more dangerous when it doesn’t rain enough.

- A small friendly community. Growing up I wasn’t used to knowing my neighbors at all, everyone kept to themselves which was dangerous when domestic/child abuse happened, or when someone was struggling with depression or financial issues. They all looked the other way. Here people look out for you, they help and share what they have. When I first moved in, I was still reeling from my trauma, I seriously appreciated having people help me adjust to my new home, move furniture and boxes in, as well as get donated food and items. It left such an impression on me and may have been a big part of my recovery. It’s also why I donate food and help out when I can now. Continuing the cycle.

- Seasonal events. I don’t really celebrate holidays, not because I hate them but because I didn’t grow up with them. My folks weren’t Americanized as much as my friends’ families were. Also they didn’t like how commercialized holidays had become. But we did celebrate seasons! There’s something like this here as well. While people still put up decor, the social pressure to celebrate isn’t strong, it’s there but only if you want to participate. This has lead to me celebrating in my own way, and I've timed a lot of them to the seasonal solstices. One big regional thing I participate in is Bonfire Season, which lasts from October to December. Lighting lanterns, candles and holding bonfire parties is a big cultural thing.

#daily update #rural life

[the-deeds-to-shibden]

Sunday 25 August 1839

[Ann braves a painful neck, and the cold, to be driven by Anne to Uppsala, where they visit the largest cathedral in all of Scandinavia. Anne is for once impressed with a sermon, although it probably helps that it’s in a language she doesn’t understand. Tantalisingly, their guide had just recently been employed by a traveller in Persia and the Caucasus. There are no oranges in the orangery and the museum could be better, but all in all it’s rather nice and livable here, plus the food is good. And oh, mines will be visited in the next few days! Do ladies do that? Only if English.]

[up at] 3 1/2

[to bed at] 10 3/4

fine morning Ann’s neck poorly off from Stockholm at 5 1/2 in little carriage and 2 horses – no forbud – at Rottebro (single house) at 7 13/” – terrible boulder stone pave in Stockholm and terrible and many deep channels there – good road nice drive – about 3/4 of the way very pretty wooded lake – Rottebro one story red smeared wood house – not good to sleep at – sun now at 7 1/2  a.m. it peeped out about 7 – very fine morning – off in 13 minutes – good road – nice drive – nice good country for Sweden – peeps now and then of pretty wooded lake (right) Maista single farm house not good to sleep at –  Ann very cold – very good road – forest with mossgrown rocks as in Norway but no large old trees – then open country – less encumbered with rock and boulder than in the other parts of Sweden that we have seen – better farming? and better crops? corn in stook and to cut – peas drying on poles reared in a circle and meeting at top like a Lapland hut – hops. very fine morning – Alisk single house – better than the 2 last –  perhaps one might sleep here? Hamlets and villages and farms thinly scattered today – wondered at their being so thinly scattered close to the capital – the country here seems better peopled than just out of the gates of Stockholm – Snow-ploughs lying at the road side here as everywhere From Alisk to Upsāla very pretty drive – excellent road – open country – at 11 40/” good wood bridge over broadish stream and then fine vista view thro’ forest by and by seen to terminate in the huge brick chateau built on a hill qui domine the 2 steepled cathedral and the city – arrived at 12 20/” – Hotel de la poste – ordered dinner at 2 – changed our dress – out at 1 40/” – to the cathedral – large handsome, clean, whitewashed church – a large crucifix over the altar – beneath the pedestal of the crucifix a cross over which hung a serpent – the altar in decoration like a Roman Catholic altar the congregation was assembled at 2 and the organ played and the people sang psalms till 2 20/”  the preacher began the Epistle at 2 20/” and we staid 10 minutes longer – his manner perfectly quiet, but he spoke clearly and impressively – home at 2 40/” dinner at 2 3/4 in 35 minutes –  then I dozed on the sofa till near 4 – up so early – and driving all the way, (Ann and I in front – John Winter our new courier and the peasant behind) and having nothing to eat but a little gingerbread with Ann between 10 and 11 as we sat in the carriage at Alisk (from 10 27/” to 11 10/” one of the horses being shod in the meantime) i.e. little to eat from 4 p.m. yesterday to 2 3/4 today, made me feel sleepy – out at 4 to the botanic garden – our courier did not know Linnaeus by name – but he native of Hamburg was courier to prince Oscar 3 years – then set up at Stockholm as correur de voitures – failed recently and now gets his living as well as he can – was with Captain Wilbraham of the 7th regiment a fortnight ago for 4 days –  went to Dannemora – not time for Falun – off to Saint Petersburg –  Captain Wilbraham asked if ladies descended at Danemora – no! none but English ladies and several of those had been down! – a civil intelligent garçon gardener shewed us the Serres and orangery and garden ground immediately around them – the building called orangery handsome but no orange trees to be seen there or near there, a few in the serres the man said and the tubs outside filled with our common and Portugal laurels – ivy in pots outside – will no do well out of doors! yet common sorts of palmiers seemed healthy in the orangery larger and healthier than what we saw in the serres – a thing very common hereabouts and forming a low hedge at the botanic garden is Spiraea calcifolia, flowerlike sweet stock 

Spruce firs planted at 2 foots, hedgewise –  and others cut into cones or looked better as obelisks or a parcel of 2 rows of them just below the chateau (in the part of the botanic garden between the museum and chateau) – these spruces looked just as well as if they had been yews and might be got up in 1/2  the time – the museum Thunberg’s collection a poor concern – birds etc. ill stuffed and not in the best preservation – the specimens (an infinity of supports) in spirits locked up in dark cupboards – many duplicates and bad arrangement – the statue of Linneaus sitting – book in his hand – contemplating his favourite flower, Linnaea borealis, not a chef-d’oeuvre, but interesting –  2 or 3 specimens of gigantic elk – caught near here 6 or 7 years ago as I understood – but one of John’s (Winter) friends shot one last winter about 1 1/2 mile from here – salted it – the meat a delicacy – some left –  we are to taste it – this animal in all the forests here – the horns covered with a sort of down – as  also the horns of the rein-deer. Can buy here the salted tongues and hams of rein deer – Fringa, several species of, found in the isle of Gothland sur le bord de la mer – curious sort of ruff round its neck do not recollect having seen this bird anywhere before –  Platalea pygmaea     caught near here      pigmy spoonbill said to be the only specimen of the kind to be found in any museum –  Tetrao generic name of moor game common barn-door fowl classed Phasianus gallus. Heron, genus ardea. from the musée sauntered to the chateau – the governor resides in one part – prisoners before the trial are confined in another part – many rooms unfurnished – the 3 or 4 towers (one at each corner) look well – but the modern parts – one front with a pediment, are terrible –  fine commanding situation – the views from it have excused us the trouble of going to the top of the cathedral – Old Upsāla full in view from the chateau – nothing worth seeing says our courier John at Mora – merely a few stones with no inscriptions at all – then walked down thro’ the town to the Steamer that plies daily between Stockholm and here in 5 hours – deck passengers 2 dollars rigs – salon double that John thinks –  nice vessel enough – deck covered with awning as usual –  Upsāla a nice town – the most livable we have seen – not so low and water girt as the towns in Sweden in general in which one fancies one could not breathe for damp and fog – the castle cathedral university buildings library etc. on high ground – fine fresh air, and agreeable –  our Inn comfortable – the first house just below the new library and nicely situated – a drop or 2 of rain about between 4 and 5 and afterwards but held off till we came in at 7 1/2 – then a shower – till then very fine day –  no supper – no wish for anything since dinner excellent veal cutlets, carbonnade, and preserved gooseberries and fried morsel of potato – then Soup – then fritters – such is the order here –  all good – had just written so far (inked all over accounts and all) now at 10 p.m. at which hour Fahrenheit 60 1/2º –

Anne’s marginal notes:

off from Stockholm to the mines.

Upsala

only English ladies see Dannemora

no fire in the hot houses

Ivy a greenhouse plant here

Spiraea calcifolia

Spruces cut in shapes, yew-wise

gigantic elk.

Fringa Platalea

Swedish towns low and water-girt

WYAS Catalogue:  SH:7/ML/TR/13/0007    SH:7/ML/TR/13/0008

View of Uppsala, by Elias Martin:

Uppsala Botanical Garden (around 1770):

View of Uppsala Castle and Cathedral, by C.A. von Scheele (1797-1873):

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[bakugouscentedcaramel]

Southern Sweetheart

Here's 2.5k words of Southern S/O X Bakugou, enjoy the feast my darlins.

The smell of freshly tilled dirt just made you even more eager to see your family. The way the wheat fields moved like waves in the ocean eased your nerves and just proved you were finally back home. You finally convinced your boyfriend to tag along with you for the weekend, but he might've underestimated the extent of what was to come. This here land was your Homeland and he was in a strange alien world.

"Tch, I still don't know why we gotta come all the way out in the middle of nowhere to meet your fuckin family." Katsuki grumbled as he sank deeper into the passenger seat of your Wrangler.

"Cuz Hot Stuff, you've only met em once and it were only for bout 20 minutes. Besides they love ya as far as they can throw ya." You shifted gears to accommodate the transition from road to backroads, causing him to grip his seat a bit tighter.

"You good babe? I'm only goin' 50. Do you want me to slow down ya city slicker?"

OH BOY CAN YOU

"Fuck you, I'm just not used to these fuckin pothOLES" he reached for every handle your car had to offer and braced himself as he felt the wheels slam inside a crater.

You purposely hit a monster pothole head on to shut him up. Evoking a glare from your normally badass lover.

"Oh yer fine Katsu, if Ole Bessie here can handle a ragin' cow in heat she can handle a little pothole. Just try to relax and think of it like a rollercoaster." You slapped the side of your car door and gave him a wicked smirk.

"Only thing ya gotta worry bout is the rogue buck, so keep an eye out. It is deer o' clock after all."

"Tch I thought 'Ole Bessie' could handle a 'ragin' cow', you're telling me she can't handle a deer?"

"Not at 67 miles per hour, Katsu."

"WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU GOING SO DAMN FAST"

"It's an unspoken rule to fly down these roads." You shifted gears and smirked as he sunk deeper into the seat due to the force of Ole Bessie claiming the road.

"Goddammit Y/n stop trying to fuckin scare me."

"Ah so it's workin then? Admit it Katsu!" You shifted again causing the speedometer to jump to 86.

"GODDAMIT YES OK IM FUCKIN SCARED OF YOU GOING THIS DAMN FAST ON A DIRT FUCKIN ROAD OK??" His were hands uncontrollably creating small Sparks out of sheer panic at this point.

"Fine, I'll slow it down a smidge. Jussa smidge though. How's 76?"

"GODDAMMIT Y/N!!!"

----

You smirk knowing what was coming up ahead. You knew Katsuki has probably never smelled farmland or even seen a real actual cow in flesh n blood and you couldn't help but giggle.

"THE HELL IS THAT?" He covered his nose and fanned the air staring at you accusingly.

"Well, roll up the windahs darlin', you're bout to smell some good ole dairy cows."

"What the fuck do you mean."

You point to his window and he looks out it to see a whole herd of dairys just grazing and swatting flies. You couldn't help but love his expression. You were right, he's never personally seen cattle before.

"Why are there so fuckin many."

"How do you think we fill up entire tankers full o' milk Katsu. We gotta have a bunch of em. You're lookin at this year's yearlin's. They ain't even fully grown yet and they're already built like tanks."

He pretended not to be interested but you could see him sneaking looks out of the corner of your eye.

Oh if only he knew what you had in store for him.

----

The sunset peaked over the crest of a corn field, you both were in the car for about 4 hours now and you still had a small bit to go still. You glanced over at him and he was sound asleep. His right hand propped his face against the doors' armrest and he was manspreading. His face was relaxed and showing you a softer side of him only you knew about. His gentle breaths putting you at ease. You couldn't help but keep stealing glances at him wondering how you could snag this piece of man.

You turned down the radio for him and you reached out to his left hand and rubbed the back of it gently. You were so blessed to have him by your side, especially since his family loved him to death even if they knew him so little. You truly were-

"FUCKIN CHRIST-" you slammed on the brakes causing you both to nearly fly into the dashboard.

Katsuki instinctively went into fight or flight and almost blew your windshield up before-

"MOVE OUT THE FUCKIN ROAD YOU GOTDAMN FUTURE VENISON BURGER" You slammed on your horn and the deer bounded back into the woods.

"WHAT THE FUCK JUS-"

"It's just a goddamn deer, fucker came outta nowhere I swear to Christ. Sorry to wake you up darlin'."

"Get out, I'm driving."

"The fUCk you are?! We're almost there anyway Katsu. Fucker probably came from out gotdamn land anyways." You pressed on the gas and continued your journey.

He huffed as you kept going, pretty much just blowing off his offer. At least he could collect his heart from the floor and relax a bit before finally getting to your place.

"Katsu, fair warnin, my family is well, out there."

"Really? I couldn't tell based off of you 'Darlin'"

"Heh, you gonna learn today then."

You whipped into the driveway causing Katsuki to glare at you for throwing him around. He looked to see what was your house, a seemingly picture perfect two storied ranch house fitted with an extended porch and a white picket fence. He would've made a comment about it being cliche before you rolled down the windows and nearly put your whole torso out of the window before-

"SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOEY"

Katuski flinched at your loud outburst seemingly at random before realizing what that meant.

Out came your parents who replied with their own pig call and rushed down the steps. Your brother stood at the porch and just waved at you two.

"What in the fuck is going on."

----

After introductions and a night's rest Katsuki woke up to a rooster.

His eyes shot open and he flinched before he realized where he was. You were in the same bed and were snuggling into his bicep, he brushed some hair behind your ear and smirked before holding you closer to him. He was about to kiss your forehead before that damned rooster crowed again. You shifted in your half awake daze.

"Babe, there's an uncooked chicken nugget that's about to be deep fried, get up."

You mumbled incoherently.

He shook you awake gently, "babe I'm gonna roast that fuckin bird if you don't get up."

"mmm -Jerry alone…"

"What was that my lasso?"

"Leave Jerry alone.. he's a jackass but hnn…" you groaned reluctantly. "Wait… YOUR LASSO?? IS THAT A NEW NICKNAME KATSU??"

"Fuckin hell that's what got you up?"

----

After you two got dressed and made your way downstairs for a deliciously cooked southern breakfast of ham, bacon, eggs, and some buttermilk toast, you got your boots on.

"Where are we going now babe, I thought we were going to spend time with your family."

"We are. But if we're gonna stay here, we're gonna help round the farm. Besides I gotta force ya to meet some other family members."

He huffed and started putting on his sneakers before you stopped him.

"Uh uh, darlin' you need workin boots, not those. Good thing I already bought ya a pair." You shove him some cowboy boots and he nearly laughs.

"You're fuckin joking me right?"

You stare at him with a dead serious glare, "We both need em if we're gonna be doin the work that needs ta get done babe."

"What the fuck are we doing that needs these fuckin things?" He shakes the boots in the air

"Oh you'll see, sugar. Now c'mon, Curly's waitin."

-----

You lead your frustrated boyfriend out to the pasture and honestly you could barely keep your eyes off of him. The steel toe boots you got him, some blue jeans, and Lord have mercy on that plaid shirt he had on. He was the spittin image of a country boy, but-

"Where the fuck are we going. Who the hell is Curly?"

His question was soon answered when he was toppled over by a horned goat.

"THERES MAH BOY" you patted the goat and it bleated happily to finally see you.

"A FUCKING GOAT?"

Curly took this as a challenge and attempted to ram into Katsuki again only to have a palm stop his head.

"Yeah Katsu, Curly's a boer goat. He was supposed ta be a meat goat but we all kinda got attached. He's got a fiery attitude just like ya too." You shove Katsuki teasingly and Curly saw an opening, he rammed at the back of Katsuki's knees causing him to fall over.

"You really gonna let a lil goat push you round like that?" Your boyfriend growled in response.

You pull him back on his feet as you coddle him "Now c'mon, you're gonna learn how to ride a horse Katsu."

----

"I take it you've never ridden a horse before?" You leaned against the fence watching him scan the pasture

"Show me the nearest horse in the city and I'll be more than happy to ride the fucker." He glared at your stupid question before going back to panning the meadow.

"Don't be like that Katsu, our horses are two sweethearts, I think you'll like em."

"Well I don't see them so I guess we're not riding today babe"

You grab him by his hand as you lead him to the barn to pick up a square of alfalfa.

"Now when they come barrelin down to get this don't be scared of em. They can sense fear and your fear will make them scared. Horses are very emotion sensitive animals, so that means no yellin neither." You break the square in half and give him one before walking back over to the metal gates.

He climbs up on the first rung of the fence and just looks at you smugly, "I don't think they, want to see us today Y/n, can't we just-"

You bang your heel on the gate causing the lock chains to jingle loudly.

You've rang the dinner bell.

You smirk at Katsuki's face when he hears the thundering of hooves. Sure he thought he knew you had horses but not monsters.

Two horses came sprinting to the gate, one Belgian Draft and one Clydesdale.

Bakugou was so entranced by their sheer power of them just running that he didn't even realize they were coming in hot.

The Belgian nearly charged at Katsuki causing him to flinch and nearly fly off the fence.

"HO, Waffle that's 'nough now you damn dummy, you both best be kind to poor Katuski here. Ya damn near scared 'im to death with yer eagerness. Katuski, mere."

Katuski dusted himself off and picked up his dropped alfalfa, "damn fuckin overgrown donkey."

"Katsu I need you to stick your hand out and let ole Waffle smell ya first, don't face directly at em neither, they're a pretty animal so ya gotta not act like a predator." You patted the Clydesdale's neck as it ate the alfalfa out of your hand.

"Tch, you're practically attacking that one's neck and you're telling me not to act like a predator?" He huffed.

Waffle huffed and took a step towards him as an attempt to scare off your boyfriend.

"Waffle Ho, stop bein spunky. Katuski don't let him walk over you like that, side step to him and extend your arm out, but keep it at a downward angle."

He groans and does what you tell him. The horse smells him and he can't help but feel a rush of excitement when he feels the horses powerful exhale on his skin.

"Heh, you big bastard." Katsuki slowly holds out the alfalfa half and offers it to the horse.

Waffle takes the bit gently from his hand and trots off with it to eat it in the grass.

Katuski has a smile on his face and an idea crosses your mind.

"Wanna ride him Katsu?"

----

You saddle up both horses on your own despite Katsuki offering to carry the saddles for you. He could really appreciate their size when the seemingly tiny saddle complimented their sheer amount of muscle.

"So, you'll ride Waffle, and I'll ride Hades. Do you need help gettin on em?" You tug a bit on Hades' saddle girth.

"Are you sure you aren't the one who needs help?" He smirks and starts to make his way over before you fling your foot in one of the stirrups with seemingly unknown flexibility.

You fling yourself over on top of the saddle seat with ease and gently plop down, shifting a bit before flashing him a grin.

You watch him struggle for a bit before pointing out the mounting block and he cusses at you a bit before finally getting on.

"Now, these boys are work horses so they listen to direction pretty well. If you need any help just let me know darlin." You click your tongue and Hades starts walking, his hoof fall echoing in the barn before stepping outside.

You turn him around to face the barn to look at a very confused yet impressed Katsuki.

"M-move." He gently nudges Waffle with his stirrups to no avail.

"Katsuki these are workin horses, they got iron sides. Just click your tongue twice and he'll move."

He clicks his tongue and nearly falls out of the saddle when Waffle takes his first step. Then his second. And third.

You can see the excitement on your city slicker boyfriend's face as he realizes the meaning behind the best seat in the world is in a saddle.

He takes some getting used to the commands like Ho and Woa, but he's a surprisingly quick learner.

----

You start your car to head back home. Katsuki fully enjoyed himself and you couldn't have asked for a more supportive boyfriend.

Before your car lurches forward your brother runs to the passenger side and slaps a cowboy hat on Bakugou. He acts like he hates it but he doesn't take it off.

You two take off to head back home before you see him roll up his sleeves up to his elbows and fix his hat.

"You embracin the cowboy life now Katsu?"

"Never, but I can see the charm in it." He smiles genuinely at you for a split second before, "you do act a lot like Curly, are you sure you ain't related to him?"

"Oh ha ha Kat- DIDJA JUST SAY 'AINT'"

"No I fuckin didn't."

"KATSUKI 'YEE HAW PUT EM UP' BAKUGOU HAH"

This was going to be long trip back home for him.

#bnha imagines #bnha x reader #bakugou x reader #mha imagines #bnha headcanons #mha headcanons #mha x reader #mha bakugou

[sciencespies]

Bones Tell the Tale of a Maya Settlement

https://sciencespies.com/nature/bones-tell-the-tale-of-a-maya-settlement/

Bones Tell the Tale of a Maya Settlement

The jungle isn’t kind to bones. Acidic soils and warm temperatures often accelerate the rate of decay compared to cooler places, rapidly erasing the organic signatures of the organisms that lived in these lush places. But it’s difficult to entirely erase a shell or bone. Fragments can remain for thousands of years, and it’s a collection of these tiny pieces—more than 35,000 of them—that has offered a new perspective on what used to be a thriving Maya settlement.

The area is called Ceibal. Located in present-day Guatemala along the banks of the Pasión River, this place was part of the Maya civilization for more than 2,000 years. And while there are certainly markers of human presence here, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute archaeologist Ashley Sharpe and colleagues looked to a different set of evidence. When they dug into what remains of Ceibal, they were looking for traces of animals.

The site of Ceibal was occupied from about 1000 B.C. to 1200 A.D.

(Ashley E. Sharpe, STRI)

Located in present-day Guatemala along the banks of the Pasión River, Ceibal was part of the Maya civilization for more than 2,000 years.

(Ashley E. Sharpe, STRI)

Zooarchaeology doesn’t get as much attention as archaeology itself does. Yet no understanding of humanity is complete without knowledge of the animals we lived with. “Zooarchaeology is a branch of archaeology which focuses on how humans and animals interacted in the past,” Sharpe says. By analyzing non-human remains from archaeological sites, researchers can piece together a sense of foodstuffs, if people kept domesticated animals, if certain creatures were important to human culture, and more.

“A lot of the objects we use every day, like clothes, jewelry, tools, musical instruments, and so on, were made out of animal parts in the past,” Sharpe notes, with animals inextricably tied to our culture.

From early excavations, it seemed that Ceibal held a rich zooarchaeological record. The researchers who began the Ceibal Archaeology Project noticed that animal bone and shell pieces were much more common at Ceibal than at other places. Sharpe joined the project in 2010 to dig into why.

“I helped excavate at the site for a few years after that,” Sharpe says, “and the experience working at the site and seeing where the animals were located in the grand scheme of this huge ancient city was really important for making interpretations.” This place was occupied for century after century, with layers of history stacked on top of each other.

Prior to about 2,000 years ago, the people of Ceibal relied on freshwater mussels and apple snails as a major food source.

(Melissa Burnham)

To find the bony shards of antiquity, Sharpe and colleagues suspended soil samples from their excavations in water. Bone and shell pieces separated out and floated to the top. These fragments were then identified—sometimes only to a broader family, but often down to species. Each piece formed part of Ceibal’s record.

“The advances in analysis and interpretation have been made possible by exacting methods of faunal recovery,” says Florida State University archaeologist Mary Pohl, who was not involved with the study. Given the timespan the site records, sorting all the bones was a huge task for Sharpe and her colleagues. “The excavation at Ceibal stands out for the long depth of time covered, 2,200 years,” Pohl notes, “and that gives an excellent view of changes over time.”

The zooarchaeological collection, documented in a new PLOS ONE study by Sharpe and coauthors, outlines aspects of Maya life through their relationship with animals. Most of the animal remains were found in residential areas, Sharpe says, indicating that these were animals utilized by people and not just happenstance burials.

“In societies like the Maya, where we have very few written records,” says the Smithsonian’s Ashley Sharpe (above), “any clues concerning events in history are incredibly valuable.”

(Sean Mattson, STRI)

Prior to about 2,000 years ago, for example, the people of Ceibal relied on freshwater mussels and apple snails as a major food source. Shells of these animals have turned up in the thousands. One individual was even found with hundreds of apple snail shells—what may have been the core of a burial feast in their honor.

But something changed. In sediment layers after 2,000 years ago there are fewer mussels and snails. Fish, turtle and deer bones become much more common. People at Ceibal shifted their diet. The reason why isn’t yet clear. Perhaps local ecological changes made the invertebrate morsels less common. Maybe there was a cultural shift in the foods people wanted to eat.

In fact, what the people of Ceibal wanted to put on the dinner table might have shaped the nature of the area. In sediments dated after 200 A.D, for example, the researchers found an increase in bones from a river turtle called Dermatemy mawii. The turtles weren’t from here. It seems the Maya imported them from a place in modern day Mexico called the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.

“In societies like the Maya, where we have very few written records,” says the Smithsonian’s Ashley Sharpe (above), “any clues concerning events in history are incredibly valuable.”

(Sean Mattson, STRI)

“I think most people, even if they don’t consciously think about it, know that cows, horses, chickens and a lot of other animals originally came from Europe, Africa and Asia,” Sharpe says, “and those animals were moving around quite a lot for thousands of years.” But experts know relatively little about how animals were moved around the Americas, she notes, and these people moved animals and animal parts around for food, ritual purposes and even as curiosities just like other cultures.

Turkeys are another example. The birds were likely imported to Ceibal from areas in Mexico, and analyses of the chemistry inside the bones indicates that some of the birds were eating corn. Even though turkeys were originally raised for their feathers, in Ceibal they were likely finding their way to the table.

“The fauna coming from beyond Ceibal allow us to hypothesize about different kinds of human activities that would be invisible otherwise,” Pohl says. The story of the animals records the shifting culture.

The consistency of these patterns through time was striking, Sharpe says. The decline in shells tracks across the remains of the city, as well as the rise of turkeys hundreds of years later. “Certain marine species, usually shells for beads, only appear at certain times, almost like temporary fads,” she notes. The animals help set the tempo for how society itself evolved.

“In societies like the Maya, where we have very few written records,” Sharpe says, “any clues concerning events in history are incredibly valuable.”

#Nature

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