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person #2 is labeled: filler baritone which nobody will here but adds gentle thiccness
it just keeps getting better
HE DOESN’T EVEN SOUND OUT OF PLACE WHAT THE FUCK
Of course he doesn’t sound out of place
He knows what he is doing
How dare u doubt him
Kermit was a famous pirate known for his tenacity and success.
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Can’t stop laughing 😹
For Hellsite Eyes only…,
Hello again, Tumblr. Now that our dashboards are back to normal (‘normal’ doing some heavy lifting here), the crabs are back in tropical paradise (for now), and Mr. Brick Whartley is back with them, we felt it was time for reflection.
In his opening statement on April 1, Mr. Whartley, our now-former Head of Viral Marketing and Exponential Growth and Front End Software Developer, outlined his ambition to “...increase clicks across the platform by any means necessary”. Quite the lofty ambition. And this got us thinking—how did we do? And by we, of course, we mean you. Well, you didn’t disappoint, and if you like unnecessarily large numbers, you’re in for a real treat.
Credit where credit’s due, folks. You did us proud, you did Mr. Whartley proud, and most importantly, you did yourselves proud. So give those index fingers a little rest—they deserve it. And you will need all your strength for April 1, 2023.
what other social media website, I ask you
I ask you
has their staff saying "what a success! y'all tried to crash the site!"
I have just discovered that there are 341 works in the ao3 tag “Canadian Shack”….. as a Canadian idek what to say. I can’t believe that’s like…. a trope
Oh! Oh! I know all about this!
As a Canadian, you are presumably familiar with the1990s buddy-cop TV show Due South, about a RCMP constable named Benton Fraser, who has come to Chicago on the trail of the killers of his father and for reasons that do not need exploring at this juncture has remained, attached as liaison with the Canadian consulate. Anyway, it's a buddy cop show about Fraser the Mountie and his Chicago cop partner Ray, who is a different person depending on which season of the show you are watching.
So dS fandom shipped Fraser/Ray, Fraser/Ray (the other Ray) -- and, yes, the ship wars were legendary -- and, for the truly daring, Ray/Ray. The series finale "The Call of the Wild" ended with Fraser and one of the Rays in the Northwest Territories, sledding off into the sunset together on an adventure. So naturally fandom wrote a lot of fic about what this adventure consisted of and how it very possibly involved Fraser and Ray together in a shack, in Canada. (Fraser does actually at one point have a cabin somewhere around there in canon, IIRC, so the fanon that he might at some point once again end up in a cabin somewhere in the Canadian north isn't actually coming out of nowhere.)
Anyway, so fic about Fraser and one of the Rays in a Canadian shack became a popular premise for a whole lot of post-series fic, and then the thing that happened was that a bunch of Due South authors looked around at the massive amounts of Canadian Shack stories in their fandom and thought, "Hey! What if we had a multi-fandom challenge where all of our other fandoms ended up in a Canadian shack too?" and that led to 101 Ways To End Up In A Canadian Shack, which as the name suggests is 101 ficlets by various writers in various fandoms (many of which are not set in Canada, or in North America, or even on Earth) all running with the Canadian Shack trope from Due South.
And then, as happens with fanon, other fans who might not have even been familiar with the Due South origin picked up the trope and ran with it because who doesn't want to stick their OTP in a shack together because hooray forced-proximity tropes, and it became a thing that took on a life of its own, and that's where we are today.
So, yeah. It's one of those tropes that maybe makes a little more sense in its originating fandom but that everyone else has subsequently adopted in their own fandoms -- like the daemons from His Dark Materials or the psychic wolves from the Iskryne series, or, for a certain value of "making sense in its original fandom," Sentinel/Guide tropes (which are based on a popular genre of very intricate AUs in Sentinel fandom and doesn't really have much basis in canon).
...I was wondering about this. :)
"I'm a freak. I'm a loud freak, and I'm proud of it, and I don't often feel like I belong. Then I think yeah of course you do, idiot, you're an old white guy"
- Andy Robinson, 2021
Advantages of buying hard-copy media instead of just relying on streaming is you sometimes get the Commentary Tracks™, and I was today years old when I realised my Blu-ray copy of The Mummy 1999 has a Brendan Fraser only natter track. And it is DELIGHTFUL. BF alone in a booth and so softly spoken. I’m 20 minutes in and so far he’s:
He is engaged with this process. I am CHARMED.
I AM IN.
What is your favourite small, painfully human gesture?
and also if we can just:
riot against the academie..... coin a word for fluffy and just relentlessly use it? how does wordage work with an official word body
Riot against the Académie! I want to protect it like a tiny, precious, pompous baby. Don’t get me wrong, they’re terrible. They have no actual power over the French language, they just give opinions, so they are blameless when it comes to our meagre cat vocabulary, but they did say feminising our language was a mortal peril back in 2017 and I bet they’d feel the same way about felinising it.
But I would miss them if anyone guillotined them; it’s hard to explain. The French Academy was created by Richelieu and its members are called The Immortals and instead of using the word 'hacker’ in French they want us to say fouineur. That’s just one example, but, a fouine is a weasel. An institution created by the villain from The Three Musketeers has an opinion about hackers and this opinion is ‘they should be called internet weasels’. They say the French equivalent of ‘comfort food’ is ‘un roboratif’ and they quote Victor Hugo and Caius Crispus Sallustus to corroborate their claims about correct usage. They genuinely asked ‘Why not say fallacious information instead of fake news?’ and their latest attempt to coin French words for social media neologisms ended with: ‘Acolyte des illustres, this would seem to be the best equivalent of follower.’ They’ve published eight books since 1634 and have been writing a new dictionary for the past 40 years. Their website has a page called ‘How to become immortal’. What would we do without them?
One of the ballsiest things Tolkien ever did was write 473k words about some hobbits called frodo, sam, merry, and pippin and then write in the appendices that their names are actually maura, ban, kali, and razal.
This just in: Eowyn and Eomer’s names actually start with the letter “L.” [source for other nerds]
No, they have Westron names and English names.
What you’ve got to understand is that everything Tolkien wrote was him pretending to merely translate ancient documents. He was writing as if the Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings were actually been written by Bilbo, Frodo, and Sam (or Bilba, Maura, and Ban) and he was just some random contemporary academic translating it all into English for us.
There are many languages in his books, but generally speaking, everything written in English in the books is a translation of the language “Westron.” Therefore any names that come from Westron, he translated. Names coming from other languages, like Sindarin, he left as they were. Why? IDK. Maybe because the stories are from a hobbit perspective and hobbits speak Westron, so he wanted the Westron parts to sound familiar and the other languages/names to remain foreign?
“But Mirkwoodest!” you cry, “The word ‘hobbit’ isn’t an English word! And the names Bilbo Baggins, Frodo Baggins, Samwise Gamgee, Peregrin Took, and Meriadoc Brandybuck” all sounds super weird and not like English at all!”
Psych! They are in English! (Or Old English, German, or Norse.) Once again you underestimate what a nerd Tolkien was. Let me break it down:
In Westron, hobbits are actually called “kuduk,” which means “hole-dweller,” so for an English translation, Tolkien called them “hobbits” which is a modernization of the Old English word “holbytla” which comes from “Hol” (hole) and “Bytla”(builder).
“Maura” is a Westron name which means “Wise.” Weirdly enough, “Frodo” is an actual Proto-Germanic name that actual people used to have and it means the same thing.
“Banazîr” is Westron for “half-wise, or simple.” In Proto Germanic, the prefix “Sam” means half, and wise is obviously a word we still use.
“Razanur” means “Traveler” or “Stranger” which is also the meaning of the word “Peregrin(e)” This one is a twofer because “Razar” means “a small red apple” and in English so does “Pippin.”
“Kalimac” apparently is a meaningless name in Westron, but the shortened form “Kali” means “happy,” so Jirt decided his nickname would be “Merry” and chose the really obscure ancient Celtic name “Meriodoc” to match.
Jirt chose to leave “Bilba” almost exactly the same in English, but he changed the ending to an “O” because in Westron names ending in “a” are masculine.
I’m not going to go on and talk about the last names but those all have special meanings too (except Tûk, which is too iconic to change more than the spelling of, apparently).
The Rohirrim were also Westron speakers first and foremost, so their names are also “translations” into Old English and Proto-Germanic words, i.e. “Eowyn” is a combination of “Eoh” (horse) and “Wynn” (joy/bliss).
“Rohirrim/Rohan” are Sindarin words, but in the books, they call themselves the “Éothéod” which is an Old English/Norse combo that means “horse people.” Tolkien tells us in the “Peoples of Middle Earth” that the actual Westron for “Éothéod” is Lohtûr, which means that Eowyn and Eomer’s names, which come from the same root word, must also start with the letter L.
The names of all the elves, dwarves, Dunedain, and men from Gondor are not English translations, since they come from root words other than Westron.
The takeaway from this is that when a guy whose first real job was researching the history and etymology of words of Germanic origin beginning with the letter “W” writes a book, you can expect this kind of tomfoolery.
Notes: Sorry I said “Razal” instead of “Razar” in my original post I’m a fraud.
Further Reading:
I’m having a stroke
Tolkien was the most extra son of a bitch my goodness
This is why C.S. Lewis wanted to punch Tolkien in the face sometimes.
In the great hierarchy of nerds, Tolkien remains at the very top.
No one can top Tolkien.
pretend? pretend to translate????
Does translating a language qualify as actual translation when the language being translated is a language created by the translator for the purpose of translating it?
Or should I just have had a second cup of tea before writing this comment…?
I agree that tumblr is objectively the best social media right now but we CANNOT let this go to our heads. If we act like this site is anything more than trash our hubris will lead to tragedy
love this site
Sid: “I don’t remember kissing any of them!” *Sid trying to remember and list all of Bashir’s love interests* Sid: “There was another kiss? With Garak? Did I kiss you?” Andy: “No, we never kissed.” Sid: “We never kissed. The cameras weren’t rolling.”
Please excuse my first ever attempt at making gifs, but I couldn’t not with this moment 😂 I promise to only use this newly acquired ‘skill’ for good…
War of the Realms Strikeforce: The Land of the Giants #1 (2019) pencil by Jorge Molina ink by Adriano Di Benedetto color by David Curiel
“I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it and I feel guilty saying that, but it’s the truth. I love my work but it ain’t easy.”
Happy birthday, Madeline Kahn! (September 29, 1942)
star trek be having episodes titled shit like “the city on the edge of forever” “who mourns for adonais?” “and the children shall lead” “is there in truth no beauty?” “for the world is hollow and i have touched the sky” and “let that be your last battlefield” and expect me not to go bonkers fucking yonkers
Yeah, and then the plot is “ a belly dancer is murdered and the suspects are Scotty and actual Jack the Ripper”
I AM ABSOLUTELY LOSING MY MIND AFTER READING THIS PLEASE READ IT
there is a VERY chaotic Cupid running around this village
The Original Man here
The literal embodiment of that “I’m sorry these are all the arrows I have left” meme
