tuiliel:

twilight-blossom:

autistic-zuko:

bisexualmorgana:

So I found this cool website for learning ancient languages

go wild

holy fuck

I just did a quick perusal of the Coptic resources on this site, and it has all the resources I’ve personally found worthwhile and then some. These are resources that took me months, if not years, to discover and compile. I am thoroughly impressed. The other languages featured on the site are:

• Akkadian
  
• Arabic
  
• Aramaic
  
• Church Slavonic
  
• Egyptian (hieroglyphics and Demotic)
  
• Elamite
  
• Ethiopic (Ge’ez)
  
• Etruscan
  
• Gaulish
• Georgian
• Gothic
• Greek
• Hebrew
• Hittite
• Latin
• Mayan (various related languages/dialects)
• Old Chinese
• Old English
• Old French
• Old Frisian
• Old High German
• Old Irish
• Old Norse
• Old Persian
• Old Turkic
• Sanskrit
• Sumerian
• Syriac
• Ugaritic
  

For the love of all the gods, if you ever wanted to learn any of these languages, use this site.

Likely helpful for various recon-oriented polytheists.

(Source: witchofeindor, via sidrakkon)

stardate2553:

decepticonsensual:

gallusrostromegalus:

jewishdragon:

frosttrix:

bigscaryd:

animatedamerican:

rainaramsay:

argumate:

gdanskcityofficial:

collapsedsquid:

argumate:

If space travel doesn’t involve sea shanties then I think we’ll have missed an opportunity.

You see though, for sea travel you want big strong people who are capable of managing rigging.  For space travel you want small low-mass people who are technically educated, as they are called, nerds.  Your space shanties are going to be less booming and more squeaky.

in so far as there will be space shanties, they’ll be filk

I call shenanigans on the big strong people; sailors were young and malnourished by modern standards, and climbing around the rigging is easier if you’re small and light.

Like, I am 100% in favor of shanties in as many situations as possible, but I’m having trouble coming up with a mode of space travel that would require multiple humans to move in concert, thus necessitating songs with a strong beat to move to.  

Sea chanties were for providing a strong beat to move to.  Space chanties might very well arise just because we’re bored, out there between point A and point B for so long.

(Also yes, @gdanskcityofficial up there has the right of it.)

Space shanties are for warp piloting. Under warp drive, human time perception and time as measured by crystal or atomic oscillators don’t match. Starship pilots listen to a small unamplified chorus singing a careful rhythm while keeping their own eyes on a silent metronome that the chorus can’t see, linked to a highly-precise atomic clock. How the chorus and metronome fall in and out of sync tells the pilot how to keep the ship safely in the warp bubble and correctly on course.

Depending on route, a typical warp jump can last anywhere from one to ten minutes, and most courses consist of five to fifteen jumps before a necessary four to six hour break to check the engines, plot the next set of jumps, and give everyone a chance to recover. A good shanty team, with reliable rhythm, a broad, versatile, and extendible repertoire, and the stamina to do 3-4 sets a day over the course of a voyage, is just as vital to space travel as a pilot, navigator, or engineering team.

@tmae3114

YESSSSS

Other reasons Shanties will experience a revival in the space age:

• We will sing for any freaking reason, or no reason at all, and Shanties are FUN to sing.
• Deep Space is a lonely place and recruiting people suited to long periods of isolation might be a good idea.  People from Newfoundland/Labrador, for instance.
• SPACE WHALES
  
• THEY’RE DEFINITELY REAL I FEEL IT IN MY SOUL
• “What Do We Do With A Drunken Sailor” is basically a revenge fantasy against your most incompetent co-workers and if there’s something humans love doing, it’s being petty.
  

Plus, no need for work songs in space?  Tell that to all my colleagues who’ve come up with little ditties they’ve sung under their breath while at the computer.

“The Printer Song” and “I Will Fucking End You, Google Chrome” are my favourites.

Also want to note that the original concept of “they’ll be smaller people” isn’t necessarily true/relevant to this conversation; astronauts need to work out and exercise CONSTANTLY to counteract the degradation of muscle and bone while in micro/zero gravity environments, meaning regardless of natural size of the person they gotta be RIPPED. It’s unlikely we’ll have developed simulated gravity environments for a while, especially by the time we’re officially traveling to new planets (originally was gonna be 2020ish for Mars, but under the Trump administration they’re putting a greater focus on the Moon and I’m Mad About That but I digress) so anyone traveling WILL need to be extremely fit. Also, small people can definitely still belt a song; body size doesn’t really have an effect on vocal ability.

More so, it’s already been stated countless times by astronauts that they DO have to find creative ways to handle boredom, and many of them rely very deeply on music. The International Space Station literally has it’s own small collection of instruments that gets added to slowly over time (as well as ridiculous costumes for parties, which I find hilarious), including a ukulele, guitar, and many percussion instruments. Chris Hadfield performed Space Oddity on the ICC as the first ever music video in space! 

All of this is just to back up the argument that yes, it is definitely possible and LIKELY that Space Shanties will be a thing. As they should be. 

And if anyone wants to hear a conceptual one, a band called The Senate made a song called Space Shanty with this exact concept in mind!

So reach for the whisky boys

Reach for the stars

they won’t stop us drinking on Venus or Mars

So reach for the whisky boys

Reach for the sky

For the vacuum of space sucks the bottles all dry!

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glumshoe:

I’m trying to crate train Crime Dog, so I crawled inside myself to show her that the crate is a Yes Place that is fun to be in. My mother thought it would be very funny if she closed the door on me.

Crime Dog… doesn’t know what to think.

peoplegettingreallymadatgay:

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psychoetheric:

straight dude: what if my d&d character was like really violently homophobic. not because i am but like it would be dark and edgy

me: (internally) oscar wilde was right

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blueberrys:

paparazzied:

pacificrim:

misogynistmomota:

tinyfruitbat:

and the #1:

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gay-physicist:

Person A: GO FUCK YOURSELF

Person B: FUCK ME YOURSELF, YOU COWARD

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