throwback to that time in 2013 when i made a text post that said “i would die without weed” and someone reported it to my college as a suicide threat and they pulled me out of class and made me see a counselor who had the text post printed out and highlighted on a piece of paper
I had a dream that unless the teacher told us class was over, we were forbidden from going out the door. Our teacher was very forgetful, and maybe even malicious. After being forced to stay past sunset many days, my class decided we were going to break out every night. Eventually our attempts led us to discovering rifts in space-time where we could warp. So we never used the door. Checkmate.
the window
what? you going to critique my dreams? my subconscious creations, that I did by accident, while asleep? the chemicals in my brain? are you going to use your foul eyes and dissect all of the plotholes in my dreams? you going to critique the weather? harass the clouds? make fun of thunder for being off key? remind me to come to your house and shred your shoes
That response is fucking Shakespearean.
i know this isn’t really original but im obsessed with how english words that refer to the bodily, the tangible, the elemental etc are so often of anglo-saxon/germanic origin e.g. (heart, blood, jaw, flesh) or observable phenomena, like adjectives describing light (glisten, gloaming, glitter, gleam, gloom, glow, dark, fire) or places (hearth, hall, hill), and the most stark, primal emotions or states (hate, love, life, lust, death) and of course fuck, shit, bitch, cunt etc– these often monosyllabic, consonant heavy words…and then you have the lilting, limpid romance/latinate, words like acquiesce and exacerbate and agrarian and pellucid and clemency and lucidity…and how maybe the secret of all great english language poetry is a textural balancing of the push-pull of the germanic and the romantic/latinate, a balancing of these two energies. like some of the most powerful moments in shakespeare are where the verbosity falls away and you have these plain utterances (“to be or not to be” or lear’s dying “look there look there”– all anglo saxon words) that are so powerful precisely because the language is so ornate elsewhere. i once came up with an elaborate wildly incoherent theory about this in the pub with some drunk american masters student who was dressed like harry styles
Well there’s a fair bit of French in embroidery as well. Metal smithing and sailing are probably better examples. Farriering too. Class divisions through different parts of history layer up source languages like parfait
One of my French teachers pointed out the divisions between French and German root words in English and how they are stratified along class and power lines as well: “house” and “kitchen” are Germanic in root, while “mansion” or “etiquette” are French in root and the French term for kitchen, “cuisine,” has a totally different meaning in English. Also French origins are found in military terms like “Lieutenant”. Anyway yeah I don’t have anythig to add I just love how you can dissect a language and see the story of how people interact
The Germanic root/ French influence post Norman invasion is a theme in food and consumption in English. Like in cow versus beef, deer versus venison, sheep versus mutton. It’s interesting how these have different words for what they are once we eat them and how the ruling class French speaking got the finished product of consumption. The history of how we designate tone and meaning to language is fascinating.
I wonder if this is a possible cause for why so many English speakers consider French, and the French, as romantic (not just Romantic lol) and think of German, and the German, as harsh/angry. Our words with French origins are high-brow and sophisticated our words with German origin are common and blunt. We may subconsciously be applying our biases about the languages to the people that speak them.
Well, it kinda goes both ways. If you read Mark Twain’s essay “The Awful German Language” he goes on and on about how wimpy German is, how it doesn’t have any good curse words, it’s sort of mealy-mouthed and fussy, etc. That essay was written in 1880, when Germany had only recently been become a unified state and German was something you studied to become a philosopher or a scientist. Today, by contrast, most of us still have as our dominant association with the German language “Adolph Hitler shrieking about Lebensraum” or “generic villains in war/action movies,” hence the associations of harsh/angry.
Similarly, a lot of the the “romance” of French comes from its associations with luxury goods and the arts – and that really only applies to Parisian French. Quebecois French doesn’t sound that much different, and its lexical base is nearly the same, but Anglophone Canadians tend to stereotype Francophones as illiterate rednecks rather than sophisticated arbiters of culture. Two types of the same language, wildly different associations.
seduce me with ur history knowledge
vikings made their woman handle the finances because they thought math is witchcraft
During a military campaign, Vlad the Impaler, the basis for Dracula, once pulled his troops out of a major engagement in a valley at dusk so that the sun was in their enemies’ eyes. Once they were over the hill, they set loose a bunch of rabid bats who flew away from the sun (towards the enemy) and attacked them, leading to significant infection in their ranks, and Vlad’s eventual victory. Because of how the bats appeared from where Vlad’s soldiers appeared to be at dusk, myth stated that the soldiers turned into bats at night, which is where the “Dracula can change into a bat” thing came from.
raphael, the renaissance painter, literally fucked himself to death
during the Ottoman Empire, the Sultan Ibrahim I had 280 of his concubines drowned in the ocean after ONE of them slept with another man.
The earths carbon levels fell by 700 million tons because Genghis Khan killed so many people
King James (the one known for revising the Bible) liked to watch women give birth. That’s where the “tradition” of women laying on their backs to give birth comes from.
Previous to that it was common for women to have chairs with holes in them and straw underneath, so they could sit on this special chair and let gravity help with the birthing process.
Spicy foods were thought to increase libido and cause children to masturbate. To prevent kids from touching themselves at night, a man named Kellogg invented the blandest combination of cereals, marketed it at kids, and called it Corn Flakes
At the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War, a small group of Union soldiers had run out of ammo against a large group of the Confederate Army. In a panic, the Union soldiers sprinted at them, screaming, with only bayonets drawn. The entire Confederate Army that was present turned and ran away in fear, not knowing that they had literally no ammunition.
When the Roman Emperor Caligula went to invade Britain he stood on the coast of Gaul with his army and suddenly declared war on Neptune, God of the Sea. He had his men collect sea shells from the shore as “spoils from the Ocean”.
Oh and he appointed his horse to the senate.
During the Austro-Prussian war of 1868, Liechtenstein sent over an army of 80 people, but ended up coming back with 81 people because they befriended a guy on the other side.
People refused to send art and sculptures to be displayed at the Chicago World’s Fair because of Chicago’s history with fire. They had to fireproof the Fine Arts building to get people to agree to loan them their art. A year after the fair closed most of the grounds were destroyed by fire but the Fine Arts building survived. It’s now the Museum of Science and Industry.
The carbon emissions thing from Ghenghis Khan is not the whole story. He also planted trees wherever he conquered land because he liked trees and thought they were important. He conquered enough to make an impact on the global climate.
Radu III, brother of Vlad III( Vlad the Impaler) nearly killed Mehmed II, the future Sultan of the Ottoman’s, after Mehmed invited him up to his chambers. Radu, seemingly unaware that the offer was sexual in nature, was startled when Mehmed embraced and then tried to kiss him. Radu stabbed the prince in the leg, then ran and hid in a tree. They later became lovers, and maintained a relationship for the rest of their lives
Just googled the last one because holy shit that’s magnificent and seemed to good to be true, but not only did it actually happen, but I also learned that radu was known as “radu the beautiful”
fun date idea: stab him in the leg
People are replicating the feeling of a Bethesda game IRL so well that I’m scared someone’s going to get caught clipped through the floor
ive never played a video game in my life and this is so fucking funny
idk what’s funnier, pets with stereotypical human names like bryan and mckayla or pets with completely ridiculous names like hamburger and concrete
I am so ready for the first of Halloween.
Give a ghost the right pair of shoes and they’ll conquer the world.
Super hot where I am today, so have a summer spook.
Send me pics of your ghost costumes :>
Why is everyone into dom ghosts…?
They’re single and ready to mingle~
if I ever reblog a long as shit post, it’s this
sorry
notreally
It’s ONLY October 1st and already y’all are reblogging the weird shit!!???
This is the longest set of cursed images I’ve ever seen
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