once you learn about pseudoscience you're forever doomed to get angry when people talk about like. love languages or stockholm syndrome. but forced to stay quiet lest your lose your mind trying to correct millions of people
BMI IS FAKE. BMI MEANS JACK SHIT. I AM GRABBING Y'ALL BY THE SHOULDERS THIS METRIC IS COMPLETELY USELESS AND IT WAS MADE BY AN EUGENICIST
A week in and we're heading towards the 50% mark on the kickstarter 🥳 For the curious, here are some of the shenanigans we are planning for The Wee Con 2!
Like TWC 1, we're going to have panels, but this time around, it'll be a mix of long-form or short-form, depending on peoples' preference. All panels will be streamed again, the same way as last year. Submissions will open once we get the funding sorted and know how much room we'll have.
(Special mention to the fact that this year will *not* be happening on one of the two weekends of the year when the UK/USA timezone difference is completely forked by daylight savings 😅 )
We're also planning on running workshops again due to popular demand, although we're still working on the fairest way to make sure the sign ups are available to everyone and not just our earliest birds.
Which leads nicely onto informal crafting sessions between panels. Since we'll have tables in our theatre this time, it's a fun way to let everyone have a chill now and then, we'll be setting up crafting tables with different kinds of media to dabble in.
Flag-making will be back of course, but we're putting together some other shiny things. And glue. So much glue.
There will also be Calypso's Market again because we as a fandom are known to be magpies. We can't confirm how many tables and/or slots there will be yet, since we need to do the usual room-tetris and work out where/when/how things will be set up.
And, of course, we'll be featuring a costume showcase and drag show because as much as we're magpies, we also love a bit of dress-up. The drag show will round out our closing-night party and hopefully, a fab time will be had by all and sundry :)
There is also a bonus special tea party in the offing! Do you want seven lumps of sugar and a dollop of milk? How about some orange cake? Stede's afternoon tea is being organised by Hayley at one of the delightful establishments in the city 🫖
And lastly, we're doing some comms updates through our website with a blog set up for any new developments, so any updates will be added here, there and on our tumblr as soon as hands and eyes coordinate: ourflagmeans.community/blog-list
I must be very strong to have all this vexation and still to be well. I was weighed the other day, and the gross weight of my large person was eight stone six! Does it not seem surprising that I can keep the lamp alight, through all this gusty weather, in so frail a lantern? And yet it burns cheerily.
Robert Louis Stevenson during a recurring bout of illness
Okay, actual question. do you enjoy salad? and by salad I mean a bowl full of greens with some sort of topping.
Honest opinion only, please don't answer one way or the other based on what you think you should say.
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The really funny part is that many modern sources that want to gas up Sparta will bring up this specific anecdote, but stop at the "if" and just not mention what happened immediately afterwards.
similarly, "μολὼν λαβέ" (come and take them) is a really cool thing to say, made significantly less cool by having them taken
I do think it's kind of nuts when people are like "the queer show that speaks to me personally is real representation that is changing the world and standing up for joy! the queer show that doesn't speak to me personally doesn't speak to anyone, obviously, and therefore doesn't count as truly queer"
This was a vaguepost yeah but it's also something that happens every single time anyone dislikes a queer media property. That's a kids cartoon and it isn't ABOUT being queer, so it doesn't count! That's a book written by a woman about men, so it doesn't count! That's a show with a straight showrunner so it doesn't count! That's a story that only has subtext and an unhappy ending so it doesn't count! That's a comedy so it doesn't count! AREN'T YOU TIRED
Hot off the presses: the Supreme Court just struck down the primary tool used by Trump to set tariffs
Hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs are now unconstitutional
Don't- I don't know what I was going to say. I am an abject idiot, which, all things considered, is not remarkable.
Robert Louis Stevenson concluding a letter in 1873
If you have forgotten the hand-writing - as is like enough - you will find the name of a former correspondent (don't know how to spell that word) at the end. I have begun to write to you before now,but always stuck somehow, and left it to drown in a drawerful of like fiascos. This time I am determined to carry through, though I have nothing specially to say.
Robert Louis Stevenson to a friend in 1871
I am so sleepy I am writing nonsense
Robert Louis Stevenson in a letter to his mother (September 1868)
I meant to have this out yesterday. Happy belated pride. :)
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I know everybodys talking about the article but its this tweet itself that makes me lose my shit
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*tapes scissors to my dick* why won’t anyone fuck me, edward scissordick?
I love going trough the notes every time bc there’s always someone in the notes insisting we’re all mean and that you can just wear thick dish gloves over your fake nails as if I wouldn’t assume you’re going to Patrick Bateman my ass if you walked into the bedroom with claws and yellow rubber gloves
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OUTTA MY WAY IM BOUT TO GE- ouchie. Ouch. Ouchie.
get back here and share that with the class
amuseoffyreReblogged fpwoperpangur-and-grimFollowI feel so insane about ai. I've had face-to-face conversations with people who use it for therapy, who use it to calculate the safety of pill interactions, who use it for all their emails and grant applications and legal documents and academic papers and finance sheets and for every single question they have about the world, and if you tell them about the ecological costs they just laugh and say "I guess I've used a lot of water." and I've been in multiple gatherings of 10+ people where I'm THE ONLY PERSON who doesn't use chatgpt. it's turning me into a ranting raving pariah, because how don't you people see??? why don't you understand??????? this bullshit didn't exist five years ago, you absolutely do not need it, and it is destroying everything#it's so infuriating#I had someone suggest I put my ingredients in and see what it recommended#lol no#I would trust my own brain over a machine that can't tell the difference between dressing (salad) and dressing (bandage)… See all19939,21270,521
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amuseoffyreReblogged trebornosnibormaxknightleyFollowthe etymology of "piano" is so fucking dumb I love it. yeah this is my cool new harpsichord. it has more volume control than a standard harpsichord so we call it a "loudsoft" for short. or a "softloud" if you prefer. but that's still a bit of a mouthful so I've been thinking of just calling it a soft.31,8263,553
amuseoffyreReblogged three--ringsmarzipanandminutiaeFollowI've said it before and I'll say it againwhile diverging from history IS a valid artistic choice for costumers to make in period dramas (as is any choice, really; nobody else beyond the production team can MAKE them not do anything), if the only or primary divergence is to bring the characters in line with modern beauty and fashion standards- even if it's modern runway fashion and not modern street fashion! -that is an equally valid axis for criticismbecause like. what, the extent of your creativity is neutering any elements that might challenge modern audiences' notions of beauty and fashion? why? why do you feel the need to make everything ultra-safe for them, and tangentially ultra-marketable for companies that benefit from the promotion of the current beauty standards and fashion ideals?some movies I like that play fast and loose with history while NOT doing this includeThe Favourite (2018):had loads of fun with monochromatics, exaggerated makeup, laser-cut trims, and Rachel Weisz in full menswear of the era. kept the silhouettes, hairstyles, and very non-Modern Sexy elements like men in wigs and ruffly fontange caps intact.Jingle Jangle, A Christmas Journey (2020):Used various types of traditional African printed cloth, and inspiration from both traditional and modern popular Black hairstyles, while keeping silhouettes, outfit components, and general hair volume concentration true to mainstream European fashion of the 1860s, and later the 1890s after the timeskipEmma (2020):"Marzi, they copied museum costumes!" YES BUT. the exaggerated prevalence of pastels, the ramen-noodle curls, and the preponderance of short sleeves for women's daywear (which may have been a thing, but was not nearly as universal as the movie makes it seem AFAIK), and men's collars that get into Fashion Plate But Not Real Life territory push it into "artistic liberties" land for me personally. and look! bonnets! imagine not being allergic to bonnets! WONDERS!Frankenstein (2025):Kate Hawley costumes are a bit of a cop-out, I know, because even with a two-movie period drama track record, she's shown a lovely tendency to just inherently respect history. But this movie plays faster and looser than Crimson Peak did, with a back-lacing 1850s day bodice that also has sheer sleeves, technicolor veils, improbable uses of silk tulle (although they did love their silk tulle back then!), and more. the skirt shapes, hair volume concentration, general outfit compositions, and HATS WHEN HATS SHOULD BE WORN are all on-point, thougha lot of times, in my experience, the audience WILL rise to meet historically grounded costumes! sometimes they even find styles they like and would otherwise have been unaware of! if trends were being allowed to occur organically, it could be a great way to spark some interesting revival movements, clothing-wise, and create fascinating new fusions of modern and historical fashion!...but of course that doesn't send people to Shein and Sephora (and laterally plastic surgeons), so. we can't be having with that. back to the land of safe iPhone Makeup/Hair/Brows, no hats ever, and party dresses you could find on fast fashion websites I guessmarzipanandminutiaeOK so this wasn't specifically about that movie, although it was partially inspired by it because social media won't stop shoving it in my face – I wouldn't use Instagram, but I have visual hobbies like sewing and doll collecting, so it's hard to avoid -and I have to see everyone and their brother being like "but it's not supposed to be accurate!!! I am being laid low by big clothing history!!!"But I do want to chime in here because this is similar to another take I've seen an absolutely hate. Namely "someone worked really hard on those costumes! You're being mean to them!"I say this with all respect: Emerald Fennell is not a 14-year-old doodling in her notebook anymore. Big budget Hollywood movies are not community theater productions. It WAS intentional because it HAS to be intentional – at that level, they had the money, manpower, and research capabilities to make different decisions. They just didn'tShe and her designers chose, intentionally, to stick to designs that fell perfectly into line with modern beauty and (runway/magazine spread) parentheses fashion ideals. And that's a valid choice to make! But "well they didn't intend it to be historical" should not be a criticism-ending argument here, because of the WAY in which they diverge from history. A way that does not challenge audiences or show them anything new and interesting based on their existing worldview, but rather props up a marketable status quoAnd it is so weird how directors, designers, and people on social media alike tend to treat taking historical movie in this direction as somehow radical or groundbreaking, like a bold rebellion against some paradigm of oppressive adherence to history. When historically, going all the way back to the origins of film in the 1910s and 1920s, it is MUCH more common to filter the whole thing very heavily through modern beauty standards. It's not fresh or new or creative – it's tired and done to death. And yet every single time you hear "this isn't your mother's period drama!" And" well, we didn't want to be tied down by history! We wanted to make it exciting and new!"Congrats, you did the same thing almost everyone has done for almost a century at this point. And I'm not going to hold you above criticism just because you had a cute story about reading the book when you were 14, because you're not 14 anymore, and you had a massive budget to work with #in historical films there needs to be some kind of consistency#black sails is a great example with a modernised leather-heavy wardrobe but across the board#likewise Rome took some dramatic liberties for the aesthetic but they kept it internally consistent with the characters and the story#everything I've seen of WH has been slapdash bits and pieces of everything#no pieces of their wardrobe match eras or aesthetics and it makes no sense visually#visual mismatches like that can throw people out of the film so hard#also major shout out to the most historically accurate film for costuming - Muppet Christmas Carol… See all88121,538
amuseoffyreReblogged ramsaybagginsasneakyfoxFollowreal people cannot queerbait you. real people cannot queerbait you. if you suspect that a real person might be pretending to be possibly-queer for clout the correct thing to do about it is assume they know their own life better than you do and it's none of your business anyway and then shut the fuck up about it foreverasneakyfoxif you think a real person might be secretly queer and pretending to be straight, or just dodging the whole subject entirely, the correct procedure is the sameasneakyfoxfrankly if i developed telepathy, read someone's mind, and discovered that they sincerely believed they were pretending to be gay for clout, i would still assume it was probably more likely they just had some stuff to figure out and "i'm just queerbaiting them, i've got 'em all fooled" was the excuse they were giving themself51,2182,122
amuseoffyreReblogged fpwoperalienfuckerdeluxeFollowAliens: Wow you guys sure are completely normal and not at all indescribably horny.NASA *beating the alien fuckers with a broom*: Yep. Just a completely normal species. no inappropriate lusting for extraterrestrial booty here, no sir. danny-darkoI couldn’t let this be hidden in the replieseyesofthesunflower[ID: reply by lusciouslusus that reads,“We zoom out slightly to reveal the aliens are ALSO beating their own alien-fuckers away with a space-broom.”End ID]gaynaturalistghostAs an asexual, I vibe with NASA on this one. It’s… a metaphor.tenchI don’t. Let them out dragongirldreams9988,17592,543
amuseoffyreReblogged indieninja92chongoblogFollowThe Steven Universe fandom might be “cringe” and “bad” but imagine a fandom so bad that a bunch of fandom members had ran a scheme to say “if you pay us money, your blorbo will know you’re valid” and the fandom permanently split over a 95 paragraph callout post of these people. chongoblogI cant do the story justice myself. Google “The Protestant Reformation” for more details, I hear a few people have done deep divestrickstertime16840,25652,737
amuseoffyreLetters of Robert Louis StevensonRLS is my favourite and I want to share some of his letters, because the man is a menace and a delight and more people should know about him 🥰Born in Edinburgh in 1850, he's most famous for his novels Treasure Island, Jekyll and Hyde, Kidnapped and more. He travelled a lot through his life, writing travelogues and books and many many letters. He was witty and snarky, liberal and anti-colonial in an era when it made people give him suspicious looks. He was chronically ill for most of his life and was only 44 when he died of a suspected stroke at his home in Samoa.But! To the letters.This is a letter he wrote his father when he was about 15:Respected Paternal Relative,
I write to make a request of the most modest nature. Every year I have cost you an enormous - nay, elephantine - sum of money for drugs and physician's fees, and the most expensive time of the twelve months was March.
But this year, the biting Oriental blasts, the howling tempests, and the general ailments of the human race have been successfully braved by yours truly.
Does not this deserve renumeration?
I appeal to your charity, I appeal to your generosity, I appeal to your justice, I appeal to your accounts, I appeal, in fine, to your purse.
My sense of generosity forbids the receipt of more - my sense of justice forbids the receipt of less - than half a crown. Greeting from, Sir, your most affectionate and needy son,
R. Stevenson#robert louis stevenson#scots wahey#letters of robert louis stevenson#RLS821
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amuseoffyreReblogged yukinojoukaiserin-erzsebetFollowThis semester I am TAing a class on Nazi Germany, and this subject always makes me reflect on the impossibility of communicating what Europe was like before the World Wars to undergraduates. kaiserin-erzsebetI can give them numbers. I can recount the facts.But how do I convey what life looked like before? How do I get them to imagine hearing Yiddish regularly in urban life? How do I paint the picture of whole Jewish rural communities? How do I explain that it used to be normal in so many major cities in Eastern Europe to have neighbors who spoke multiple languages? How do I convey the hole left in Polish intellectual life from the intelligentsia being shot en mass? A Mediterranean before the treaty of Lausanne? All the border regions where multilingualism was a fact of life?There's this world that just feels so hard to explain because it will have an alien, fictitious quality to people who've never thought much about it. I always return to this when I teach the 20th century.65641,032
amuseoffyreReblogged trebornosniborwriting-prompt-sFollowA Genie offers you one wish, and you modestly wish to have a very productive 2017. The genie misunderstands, and for the rest of your life, every 20:17 you become impossibly productive for just 60 seconds.flavoracle“Well, it was a nice day.” You kiss your sweetheart gently on the forehead and sigh as the last remaining seconds of 20:16 tick away. “See you at 8:18,” you say. Then it happens. Every ounce of fatigue or hunger leaves your body. The face of your beloved is perfectly still, their expression exactly the same. The ticking of the clock on the wall has stopped. Once again, it’s 20:17. You stretch your arms and walk to the table with the homework for the three doctorates you’re working on. The work is mentally stimulating and enjoyable, but it’s finished far too quickly. You check your pocket watch and see that not even one hundredth of a second has passed. You knew it was too soon to be able to see any movement on the watch, but you can never quite help yourself from looking early on every 20:17. Time to move on. You clean your home, do your budget, then go outside and fix a noise that your car was making earlier that afternoon. (Oh how you already miss afternoons.) Then you go back inside, boot up your computer (which magically speeds up to keep pace with you as long as you’re in contact with it) and check for any new orders. You’ve set up a website for the small business you started called “Magic Elf Services.” People in your area can pay a modest fee on your site to have different tasks and odd jobs done by “The Magic Elf” at 8:17pm every day. It was a little slow to get started, but word has spread and these days you have a steady stream of clients. The money that comes in from the business is nice, but you’re mostly grateful that it gives you a clear list of things to do. You print off your updated list of clients, step outside, and start making your way through the neighborhood with your to-do list. There’s the apartments down your street where several neighbors have hired you to tidy up, do the dishes, and mop the floors. You do the windows too, just to see if they notice. There’s the large house across town that paid the “Magic Elf” to clean out the gutters. After the first dozen jobs are done, you manage to stop looking at your pocket watch. As near as you’ve been able to determine in the past, 20:17 seems to last for approximately one normal year. But it’s not exact. For one thing, it’s hard to keep track of “time” when everything but you has crawled to an almost total standstill. For another thing, time seems to move differently depending on how “productive” your behavior is. One time you tried to spend all of 20:17 sitting at home in your pajamas, but that was getting you nowhere, so you eventually gave up and got busy. (Though you defiantly stayed in your pajamas the whole time.) During 20:17 your body doesn’t get tired, hungry, sick, or injured. You’re essentially tireless and immortal for the duration of the “minute.” So sleeping or eating away your boredom has never really worked for you. One of the houses on your list forgot to follow the instructions and leave a key for you to get in. At first you figure you’ll just send them an email telling them to pay more attention and that you’ll do the job tomorrow. Then you decide to go home, get your locksmith tools, and come back. After finishing up all the jobs on your list, you go into several other homes and small businesses in the area, performing tasks you hope they’ll find helpful, and leaving a hand-painted business card at each one. (The business cards don’t contain your real name just in case somebody thinks “The Magic Elf” should be subject to breaking and entering laws.) Speaking of laws, you head down to the local police station to pick up your case file. You’ve been in contact with a detective who’s been investigating corruption within their department, and your ability to investigate unseen and get in almost anywhere between the ticks of the clock has proven invaluable. You see that they’ve also added five missing person cases to your file this evening, which certainly raises your interest in the job. You make your way through town gathering evidence, and start making your way to the outskirts of town. Since you happen to be out that way (and you’ve already solved three of the five missing person cases) you decide to swing by the stone castle you’re building and do some more work there. The castle walls stand about 20 feet right now, but you know they’ll be much higher when you’re done. You’re far from any roads and pretty safely tucked away, so for now it’s your little secret. You’ve been excavating and moving all the rock yourself, which has been much easier than you first expected since your body doesn’t get tired or sore. You’ve also got a nice system of tunnels going underneath the castle, and you dig and build more of that network for a while. All that time spent underground has left you feeling rather lonely, so you walk back home to see the face of your sweetheart. Their facial expression has moved ever so slightly since you last saw them, which is a comfort to you. Looking at them gets your imagination going and makes you dream up a story you’d like to tell, so you sit on your couch, plug in your laptop, and write a book. After you finish editing the last chapter for the third time, you finally allow yourself to look at your pocket watch again. Three seconds have officially passed so far. It’s gonna be a long 20:17. stevishabitatHave we added this to the Tumblr Folk Tales masterlist yet? flavoracleThat last comment put a big old smile on my face 😁nonbinary-octopuspretty sure I first read this shortly after it was posted. I still think about it occasionally in my day-to-day life. I hadn’t realized it was already eight years old.9652,82460,661
amuseoffyreReblogged trebornosniborhomunculus-argumentFollowI think "The Hangover" movies would work better as a whole movie genre. The beginning is always the same: group of friends wake up hungover as hell, to start figuring out what the hell happened last night. Turns out a lot happened. As a tradition of the genre, there's always an animal in the house that has no logical reason to be there. But get this: The same premise every time, but in wildly different times and places. Victorian England, the gentlemen went fuckshit with some nice sherry, wrote some questionable letters, worked together to compose an absolutely idiotic thinkpiece essay and sent it to the local newsprint (the publishing of it must be stopped) and for some reason there's an ostrich. A troupe of travelling performers in the late Kofun period wake up in the stables of an inn, and the main plot point is the little beast sleeping on someone's chest. None of them have ever seen a cat before, but one knows enough to tell that those are imperial pets, and whoever's fucking cat that is will both be capable and willing to kill whoever stole it. So they'd better fucking return it. A Tepehuan group of youths find themselves way out of the place that they last remember they had been, for some reason someone's balls have been shaved and painted red, and the strange out of place animal sleeping at their makeshift campsite is some random swedish guy. The spaniards don't seem to know how the fuck he ended up there, either, but they clearly do not have a mutual language with each other.646,75213,798
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amuseoffyreReblogged ramsaybagginsuserfishFollowhey so I’m talking with my wife and I just realized she’s never felt an earthquake so uhand pls reblog i need to know!!!!!!!#yes#and I was woken up by it#and thought someone had put on a washing machine in the laundry room directly below me#despite the other people in the guest house running around yelling and screaming#I just thought everyone was being incredibly rude and went back to sleep XD7,2574,049
amuseoffyreReblogged whiteorangeflowerrunawaymarblesFollowReading Mockingjay as an adult is extra devastating because. Of course the plucky teenager and her ragtag friends aren't going to sneak into a government building to kill the president with a bow and arrow. That's absolutely ridiculous. It's the kind of thing that's only possible in the kind of propaganda that Coin developed. But she's so good at it that in some ways she tricks the reader into thinking that's the kind of story this is, too--even after 3 books reminding us that pretty much everything that Katniss does the second she volunteers is manipulated by adults pulling strings to make propaganda in some form or another. runawaymarblesI'm sorry I keep thinking about this. Madge gave her the pin. Haymitch told her and Peeta to act like friends. Peeta and Haymitch worked out the star-crossed lovers angle. Rue decided she trusted Katniss (because of the pin Katniss didn't choose) and saved her from the tracker jackers. Snow made her get engaged to Peeta. Cinna made her the mockingjay dress, and the mockingjay suit. Haymitch made Finnick&Co her allies. The rebels broke her out of the arena. She didn't know most of this was even happening!! Makes me insane. I feel like a case could be made that the only real choice she made without someone's life immediately under threat was to cover Rue in flowers. And maybe that's the only one that mattered. #Katniss choosing such a human action in covering Rue with flowers was *the* moment#Yes they could display her and manipulate her and everything else#But that moment with Rue was the spark that lit the flame#Common humanity in a game meant to divide and make enemies of the districts#reminding people that the districts aren't as different even if they are divided318,65617,896
amuseoffyreReblogged arianaderalteeonblueinmayFollowWhen we say cultural mosaic...358,67813,432
amuseoffyreReblogged arianaderaltefallonashFollow#deadloch#THEY'RE BACK#MY QUEENS ARE BACK4127118
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amuseoffyreReblogged yukinojoumist-the-wannabe-linguistFollowLevels of understanding other slavic languagesoh we also have X and it means the same!that looks like X but misspelledthat's just the archaic variant of Xthis sounds a lot like Y from another slavic language I know which means X in mine so this almost 100% also means Xthis word is completely different but I can kinda tell the meaning from the morphologywhatokay right now I'm gonna have to dissect the entirety of this language's history to figure out how the FUCK did y'all get to the point of calling X that and not something more normalI wanted to ask for X and accidentally called someone a whoremist-the-wannabe-linguistI don't even have to look at the blog and I just know this is from a Pole about CzechssufferingbyronsKAKAOVY CHLEBICEK???!!!??? mist-the-wannabe-linguisthissing growling scratching you etc etcmist-the-wannabe-linguistfor example(Polish: are you looking for a squirrel?, Slovak: excuse me, he is doing what to the squirrel?)(also "hladna pića" means "cold drinks" in Croatian. means "hungry cunt" in Slovak and Czech)("you're weird" in Czech is the same as "you're amazing" in Croatian, while "you're amazing" in Czech is the same as "you're terrible" in Croatian)poetkaMy favourite recent-ish example of #8:vislokaczto-nebud-blogDon't forget this:And of course pomoć (help) vs pomoč (ordering you to piss on something)czto-nebud-blogAlso remembered this shop from my trip to Croatia (piko means meth in czech and slovak)traumatic-butterfliesMy choir was performing in some Czech church in mid 2000s. We were about to start THE 2137 song in Polish.Conductor raises his hands and buddy whispers urgently "hey, the second line is 'he fucked people'!"Conductor goes pale "Hledal! We'll be singing HLEDAL ludzi!"We almost traumatized a bunch of Czech grandmas. Good times.sharknado-threeMy favourite non-edgy Czech-Polish false friend examplesdenne čerstvé (sounds like "boring and stale" in Polish, actually means "daily, fresh" in Czech)Dupetky (idk what it's supposed to mean, but sounds like "little asses" and that was probably not the intention, given how "dupa" (Polish for "ass") is not a word in Czech).mist-the-wannabe-linguistMy Ostravak ass forgot the average Czech doesn't use "dupa"littlecarjaflameYeah, the "szukat" problem... I watched Ogniem i mieczem in the original Polish. The whole movie is about a man trying to find his fiancée, who got lost in the war. Constantly talking about how he wants to try to find his fiancée. He is trying to find her in Kiev. Then his friends are trying to find his fiancée. Four of them. All talking about trying to find her.As a Czech, shit was weird...164,1014,996
amuseoffyreReblogged yukinojouderschleierfalltFollowsparkly#elisabeth#Mate Kamaras#seeing him in that role in that production after he'd done Japan and Vienna was fascinating#so different from his first ride as a wee baby Halál1439
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amuseoffyreReblogged mxmolluscasandersstudiesFollow“They’re just looking for attention.”Oh, a human being is seeking a social response? Human being, the social animal wired to make and track social connection? A human desires the vital blood that permitted their species to survive for millennia? The human being who was born completely helpless and primed in every way by nature to seek attention and help from their community? Wow that’s crazy. How embarrassing. Humiliating even. Should we isolate them from community? Should we call Wire Mother? 46536,01575,352
