Cyril Power (British, 1872-1951), The Tube Staircase, 1929. Linocut printed in yellow, cobalt blue and black on thin oriental laid paper, block: 444 x 258 mm.; sheet: 532 x 320 mm. Numbered 30/50
I’ve been watching a lot of Youtube videos of seals lately!
Into the Spider-Verse, 1:36:17, Frame 138517
Gaby Soto is a gift
adding to this, kudos to all the animators and artists that chipped in to make these happen, they're legitimately some of the funniest people at BioWare
(not all have public-facing socials, but they appreciate the love all the same 💜)
Before we all leave the internet for good to go play this game, I want us all to give another HUGE shoutout and standing ovation for the one and only @felassan, who has not just been holding the fort for all those years in which the fandom was dormant and hope for Veilguard to ever come out seemed so slim, they've been a true cornerstone of the fandom throughout all of it, and of course this entire crazy marketing campaign, providing everyone with every information, minor or big, regarding BioWare and amazing analysis and summaries and I know I speak for everyone when I say THANK YOU SO MUCH, you're incredible and I hope you'll have a great time with Veilguard and that it is all you've wished for (and our favorite elf Felassan to make a glorious appearance of course!!! Seriously, there should be an entire questline or something dedicated to him just for you and what you've done for the fandom in all those years! 🙇🙇🙇) 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜
thanku so much for this really lovely post, i'm just
shirt that says "i love redundancy!" on the front and on the back it says "i love redundancy!"
before this reaches 1k notes i would like everyone to take a moment to appreciate my position of seeing it over and over again as i scroll thru to try to find notes on literally any of my other posts
Across the Spider-Verse, 0:19:51, Frame 28579
Today's Seals Are: Cup Of Baja Blast
Into the Spider-Verse, 1:40:27, Frame 144508
Eyvind Earle
do you have any opinions of conlangs like at all
I think studying conlangs has been edifying because it's helped to put into perspective that a lot of the things that annoy me about the English language are probably just inherent features of the act of communication. It's one thing to be told in academic terms that all communicative acts will necessarily express certain shortcomings, and quite another to see it illustrated via demonstration that, oh, a lot of people who are way more autistic than I am have been trying for hundreds of years to invent a language that doesn't have these problems and met with comprehensive failure!
Like, it's legitimately difficult to hang onto that whole "I bet The Neurotypicals™ do [thing] because they're just evil" business when you're staring down the barrel of a centuries-long track record of people trying to devise a way of talking to other people that doesn't do [thing] and hilariously fucking it up each and every time.
got any good conlangs that try to do the opposite. "communication sucks lets make it worse" type beats.
Oh, yeah, there's a whole recognised category of conlangs for that. One of my personal favourites is Oou, a (quoting Wikipedia) "deliberately ambiguous and polysemous language whose writing system is made up entirely of punctuation marks and whose phoneme inventory is made up entirely of vowels".
Kay(f)bop(t), a constructed language in which each syllable is modified by one of four hats. Speaking kay(f)bop(t) involves rapidly swapping between these hats
some folks really took this as a challenge, huh
JON JUAREZ SHOP → paa.ge/harriorrihar
SOCIAL NETWORK → mas.to/@harriorrihar
DEMON SOCIAL NETWORK → instagram.com/harriorrihar
He’s viewing his legacy
The Princess Bride (1987) dir. Rob Reiner
This is one of the greatest, most understated comedic moments in the entire film. And what makes it art? It's Inigo's last line. The "Get used to disappointment" is great...but then Inigo's resigned little "mmkay" with that facial expression is just...10/10, no notes.
Easiest choice in the history of choices. 🇺🇸 🌴 🥥