reblog for noises
TURN THE SOUND ON FOR THE LOVE OF EVERYTHING GOOD TURN THE SOUND ON
*dry food crunches*
Ridiculously small kitten: “Myam myam myam. Njam njam njam njam njam njam njam! Myam myam myam nyam nyam myam. Mmmam. Mrrrrram. Meep!”
reblog cuz captions amazingly accurate
This made me laugh for a couple of minutes it is so hilarious and cute!
This made my day:33
MY GERMANS DO THIS WHEN THE PHONE RINGS
There’s a lovely old English myth that if someone who truely loved and trusted the werewolf called it by name that it would turn back to human.
Others include throwing their human clothes at it and it’d turn back but that’s a bit less romantic
#ok i understand ppl would take the romancey route here#but imagine the werewolf’s mother#or grandmother#some wizened old woman or middle aged woman#with wrinkles or hands toughened from years of labor#just going out into the woods#where even the men with axes won’t go anymore#and facing down the ravening beast#and saying#it’s time to come home
Or the grandmother throwing the werewolf’s clothes at it and being all “God damn it Jerry, put your fucking clothes back on.”
I am right here for the grandma vs werewolf stories.
All I can think of is the mom pulling the middle name out.
LEONARD JAMES LUPIN JR YOU STOP RAMPAGING RIGHT THIS INSTANT
The werewolves best bro running into the woods with the clothes and smacking him with it .
“YOU BITCH YOU SAID WE WOULD STUDY TONIGHT DUDE I NEED A GOOD GRADE IN ENGLISH AND YOU OWN THAT CLASS GET YOUR CLOTHES ON GET YOUR ASS IN MY CAR AND WE ARE STUDING!”
Just because……. Best friend platonic love
@thelastpilot ~Cough Cough~
A BIG OLD LIST OF MEDIEVAL HISTORY & LITERATURE RESOURCES.
y’all knew this was coming. the resources I especially recommend are bolded, and I’ll probably update this periodically.
HISTORY, SOCIETY, & POLITICS.
- the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (modern English translation). begun in the late 9th century and added to until the 12th.
- clear map of the Norman Conquest.
- English medieval history from the BBC.
- Terry Jones’s “Medieval Lives” documentary series. yes, the one from Monty Python.
LANGUAGES.
- OLD ENGLISH
- Anglo-Saxon dictionary.
- Introduction to Old English. (with exercises; click on the “aerobics” link on the left; you may need to make an account.)
- massive compilation of O.E. resources. I mean it, it’s massive.
- Middle English dictionary. note: when searching dictionaries, use the first few letters of the word followed by an asterisk - spelling wasn’t standardized! so if you’re looking up the word tonnen, search ton*.
- Anglo-Norman dictionary.
- READING & PRONUNCIATION
- Reading Middle English. a really thorough group of lessons on basic (Chaucerian) language, pronunciation, and analysis.
- basic/general Middle English pronunciation guide.
- scholars reading Chaucer aloud.
- History of English podcast.
ART.
- MANUSCRIPT IMAGES
- Discarding Images (facebook). hilarious/beautiful manuscript marginalia.
- the Getty’s open content program. (they also have a tumblr). you’ll have to do some searching but they’ve got a ton of gorgeous manuscript pages.
- the Book of Kells online.
- all of Mallory Ortberg’s posts about the two monks.
- POC in medieval art history.
- medieval drama. includes resources for mystery cycles, art, and music.
LITERATURE & SCHOLARSHIP.
- TEAMS manuscript editions. scholarly editions of medieval texts with great footnotes, accompanied by extremely well-researched introductions.
- BLOGS
- In the Medieval Middle. this is one of my absolute favorite medievalist blogs - it’s run by a group of (well-known) scholars, but is based more on their personal interests than any single overarching theme.
- the British Library’s Medieval Manuscripts blog. a fabulously eclectic (and really active!) selection taken from the BL’s holdings.
- the Wellcome Library’s blog on early medicine. does what it says on the tin.
- MedievalBooks.nl. Erik Kwakkel’s blog - provides some well-curated blog posts about books, binding, etc.
- Andreas Capellanus’s De Amore. a guide to courtly love - important to know if you’re going to be reading anything medieval, especially romances.
- Chaucer resources.
- ARTHURIANA
- basic overview by Judy Shoaf.
- big list of Arthurian legend academic resources. includes some really good bibliographies.
- the Camelot Project. makes the above list look small.
MANUSCRIPTS & MANUSCRIPT RESOURCES.
- MS REPOSITORIES
- SPECIFIC MSS
- Making Parchment. a short animation by the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.
- Making Manuscripts. a really lovely series of videos (20 mins total) from the Getty that show the actual ms production process.
- Late Medieval English Scribes. a database of scribal hands with examples of letterforms.
- Sexy Codicology. collaborative blog dealing with paleography & codicology.
a concept: Harry Potter with his mother’s hair and father’s eyes instead of vice versa.
Harry with fiery dark red hair and soft hazel eyes please and thank you
i imagine this is how harry and draco’s first meeting would have gone then haha
can you imagine how much more confused arthur would have been in that scene where he first meets harry 😂
his eyes would probably sweep right over harry at the breakfast table, and then he would freeze and have to do a mental tally of his children
I can see Fred and George really going with it too…
“Come on Dad, don’t you remember Harry?”
“Next you’ll tell us you don’t remember Craig”
“Or Ethel”
“Or Annie“
“Or Ryan”
Don’t feel bad if you’re sensitive to negative feedback because apparently after one particular bad review Hans Christian Andersen was found just sobbing while lying face down in the dirt
Based on genital structure men should really be the ones wearing skirts and women should be wearing pants.
The Scots were right all along
The Scots did it to hide more knives on their bodies.
the Scots were right all along
All hail Macbeth and Banquo
Tumblr - Expectations Vs Reality
I love her.
This is so freaking fantastic… LOL
No models needed. Please replace them with her.
This is Celeste Barber, she’s an Australian Icon!
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