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When Hei Xiazi showed Xie Yuchen his name could it have been a milk name? Aren't those supposed to be terrible to ward off bad luck? I vaguely recall something about him coming from a noble family pre Republican Era that was massacred.
Are you referring to the part in Ultimate Note where he wrote his name in the sand? As far as I know, it was unscripted, and the actor wrote his real name. That's why the other started laughing, but he played it off to stay in character.
I don't know much about milk names, but yeah, I believe they are meant to ward off evil.
From what I remember about his past, his surname is Qi, but he is not related to the Qi in the M9. He was a bannerman (?) or something and is from some kind of aristocratic system. NPSS also said he is of Mongolian descent—I believe it's Manchu if I remember correctly.
I know in my heart, in my very soul, that athelas is related to mint. I just KNOW that kingsfoil is in the lamiaceae family.
There are hobbits who recoil in genteel horror when some innocent little baby hobbit gardener proudly says they planted kingsfoil in the herb garden because it smells nice.
The houses of healing at Minas Tirith do not challenge the king about having it in their medicinal gardens, but they do side eye him very hard.
Someone decides to plant it in Mordor
ooOOOHHH I HAVE OPINIONS ABOUT THIS
First: YES athelas is absolutely mint family, not just because of the good smell text clues but because Tolkien probably based it on field woundwort (Stachys arvensis) which 1) as you might guess from the name was used for treating wounds, 2) commonly grows specifically along Roman roads in the same way and for the same reason that athelas grows along Númenorean roads, and 3) is also in the mint family (but does not smell good; one can imagine Tolkien learning this lore and going okay but what if it was Better)
Second: absolutely fucking set that weed loose on the Gorgoroth plateau. Mints are fantastic for aerating dense but nutrient-rich soil (like, yk, volcanic areas) so that other plants can get their lil roots in there and actually make use of those nutrients, so they're a solid front line soldier if your goal is aggressive restoration of a dead area. They're also really good at removing toxins like pesticides and heavy metals from the soil so I would like to formally recommend to Elessar Telcontar that he plant heavily in the Morgul Vale as well to combat whatever the fuck is happening in the curséd soil and water there. 🌿🫡
So what you're telling us is that when the Ring was tempting Sam with "the vale of Gorgoroth became a garden of flowers and trees and brought forth fruit [...] a garden swollen to a realm" is not "a mere cheat to betray him" but an acutal possibility?
Otherwise those are facinating thoughts on kingsfoil!
I would 1000% deploy mint against Mordor any day of the week and expect it to win, let alone actual athelas (imbued with Special Powers Against Darkness, and also, I firmly believe and backed up by info above, is also in the mint family)
Mint routinely breaks through pots and sneaks its way into the ground through rhizomes. Add in Special Powers Against Darkness and absolutely no competition for space and nutrients in volcanic soil, frankly they’ll have to prune it with fire in a few years
This is the bilogical warfare of Hobbits, in't'it? ["Isn't it?"] Nah like I mean this, using magic plants to heal the world after the Enemy razed it, is exactly what Sam goes and does to the Shire, so like I can absolutely see that he'd get King Strider to do it to Mordor or advise him to.
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tumblr users love to say "we don't censor things here like on Twitter" and then type things like "r3ylo" and "jk r*wling"
if you say "and then this fucking r3ylo-" that implies that "reylo" was the bad word in that sentence
tiktokers do it because they have to, we do it because it's mean ☺️
Okay I know this was mostly a joke but I just feel the need to point out - this didn't start out as being mean, it started - and largely continues - as the opposite.
For a long time, tumblr had tags and no other search function. You wanted to find a post that wasn't tagged, you had to go to Google and type in your query and add "site:tumblr.com" and hope for the best.
As it is now, that method is STILL better than our native search function most of the time, but the quality of tumblr's native search function isn't really what's important here, what's relevant is how they implemented it.
See, the search bar in the upper left corner of the site - you used to type in something there, and it would take you to posts tagged with whatever you searched. Then, one day, they quietly rolled out an update that instead brought you to a search page that pulled up nearly every post that even mentioned your search term.
This...did not mesh well with the site culture.
Because, see, we had an etiquette guideline - do not post your negativity in the public tags. Why? Because people go into the public tags to find content about things they LIKE. Posting hate in a public tag was basically seen as being a raging dramamongering pissbaby troll LOOKING to start a fight over petty nonsense.
So imagine, suddenly, you log in one day, and someone's sending you anons angry about you allegedly posting hate in the tags, when you have NEVER done so. You use what you THINK is the tag search function to prove it, and - what the hell? Your UNTAGGED post about how annoyed you are with your notp...is appearing there???
So people started censoring things like that. Usually not because we all think the thing we're complaining about is profane (though sometimes it does get a giggle to think of it as such), but to keep it from showing up when people are searching for what they love and to prevent pointless drama. To avoid looking like some asshole troll going onto a fan forum specifically for The Blorbo Show and making a thread entitled "THE BLORBO SHOW SUXXX AND YOU ALL SUCK FOR LIKING IT!!"
And now it's just part of our site culture, for both peacekeeping reasons and petty glee.
The more you know.
On tiktok, you censor for the algorithm. On Tumblr, you censor for the users.
Anything with cavalry pre-gunpowder was really one big game of chicken.
I know that at Waterloo, the Scots Greys advanced more at a trot than full charge.
Not everyone has been around a horse to realize just how large and powerful (and fickle) animals they are. Even fewer have seen a few, let alone one, horse charge at them.
You are pressed to find a soul alive today that can testify to the experience of several hundred horses charging at your direction and you know they intend to charge past, over, and through you. The realization is alone enough to shake your will.
But then there is the sound. Imagine the space in your mind that 5 horses take up, then expand that to get close to what a charge might be sized at. 10 horses isn't enough. not 50 horses. 200 horses? That is not enough either. Imagine 1,000 horses coming your way with 4,000 steel hooves thundering, and you know nothing can change their minds heading your way - and the one thing that is expected to stop them are your and your friend's bodies.
This is a gap in recorded/presented/easy-to-imagine history in which you can imagine the shape of a role of the “Irish” Hobelar as a fighting unit.
Hobelars were mounted on small gaited native pony-horses called hobbies; carrying no gear and wearing no armour and riding practically bareback, a feat made possible by the fast smooth pace of the hobby (whose gait would presumably resemble the Icelandic pony’s tölt or the Mongolian war pony’s joroo.) the Irish Hobby is now extinct, but the name is where we get the word “hobby” from - an activity done for pleasure. This sounds made-up, doesn’t it? You can read a long post by myself and contributors here, which includes this poem from someone describing their fighting style and how annoying it was:
And one amang, an lyrysch man, Uppone his hoby swyftly ran; Hyt was a sportfulle sygthe, How hys darttes he did schak ; And when him lyst to leve or tak, They had fulle gret dispite.
There are a few reasons why you haven’t heard of hobelars (god forbid people have hobbies). It is important to the imperial construction of the myths of the British Isles (and the French) that Celtic people be negligible and subjugated in any narrative of medieval warfare. They did not correspond to a social class outside of warfare: you can spin so MANY sexy aristocracy-reinforcing tales of chivalry around knights that we’re still doing so today. Sexy tormented superhero with his ARMOUR and his SWORD and his big HORSE - let’s roleplay this 5 million times, and for political comfort, rather than trampling the peasants he now rules, we shall enshrine and repeat the safe metaphorical image of the “dragon” for him to fight as well…
Guy Who Just Caught A Wild Hobby From A Bog And Doesn’t Wear Armour (and runs around bareback, throwing stuff and being incredibly fast and annoying, and vanishing when you tried to kill them back) is just… less sexy. They literally weren’t superheroes. There is discomfort as well - if we kept their imagery, we couldn’t give them fictions to fight; hobelars were not romantic, they had no fixed honour; they were always a scrambling skirmishing fighting unit for killing people. As an academic puts it:
The hobelar is very much the poor relation in the study of the English armies of the fourteenth century, eclipsed by both the man-at-arms and the archer. Our understanding of his origins and role has been wholly based on only two major studies of this troop type: J. E. Morris’ ‘Mounted Infantry Warfare’ in 1914 and J. Lydon's ‘The Hobelar: An Irish Contribution to Medieval Warfare’ in 1954. The lack of interest might be considered surprising, given that Morris saw him as the precursor to the mounted longbowman, while Lydon called him ‘the most effective fighting man of the age’, referring to the hobelar as ‘an entirely different type of mounted soldier’. Yet other historians have been happy to accept the conclusions of Morris and Lydon, considering the hobelar only in passing. Perhaps the reason that so little work has been done on him is that he is always considered in comparison to the man-at-arms – the elite warrior, in his shining harness, doyen of chivalry and a core element of the medieval political and social elite – and the longbowman – the almost super-heroic, Hundred Years’ War-winning, nationalistic symbol of medieval English, and Welsh, martial prowess. By contrast, there is little if any mention of the hobelar in the battle narratives of the middle ages; they have no great role to play in the successes of the English over the French. They do not form a political and social class within medieval society and there is no way, therefore, to discuss their impact outside of the military sphere. It is also almost certain that their Irish origins have counted against them too. Medieval Ireland has been considered militarily backwards by most historians of warfare, who seem to have inherited something of the dismissive tone of their English sources…
Right. 
You’ve read the posts above. You have dutifully pictured the mental image of being a pikeman, Just Some Guy with a big pointy stick, while thousands of pounds of steel-armoured horseflesh ridden by braying Tories comes at you. You have understood that this is inherently alarming, even if you understand the military theories involved, and are prepared to make horse-kebabs.
Now picture being that pikeman when hobelars turn up. First off, the hobbies are WEIRD. They’re fast and tiny, and they move Wrong:
Rather than lining up to be kebabs, as you expect, they feint - dance up to you like weirdos and turn away. They show off how - unencumbered and in good control of their hobbies - they can pretend to do the scary charge thing, breaking your will, but not get kebabed. They are not wearing armour; they’re not using saddles or stirrups, but some of them appear to be archers (?!) sometimes the hobelars get off and wind you up a bit and then jump back on their stupid hobbies. Psychologically they seem more like YOU, but then there’s the horses. They throw spears, or arrow-spears called “darts.” They laugh at you. They have amazing control of their hobbies, who turn away from pikeheads on a dime. The sight of hobbies skirmishing was described (above) as “a sportful sight” - presumably if they weren’t doing it at you, when it would be SO annoying.
There is zero expectation that Celtic mounted skirmishers will break a wall of pikemen. The hobelars have been sent to annoy you. What if this is part of their function, a natural activity in their wheelhouse, and they have perfected it. What if it’s working. What if, by the time the big shiny horses with their big shiny nobles come, you’re already a bit shaken…
Not saying this scene ever happened in history, but you can see from this a bit of how these histories are constructed: here is a unit that was effective and influential in its time and gave its name to “hobbies.” Here are the places where it would seem logical to use them. We have lost much of what would have been known about how they fought at all. The primary source for the quote of the “iyrysch man upon his hoby” is preserved in one single corrupted document in a corner of the internet that took me a morning to find. We will never forget knights, but with a strategically placed EMP, we would probably lose our ability to remember and connect over hobelars (why would anyone care.)
but care when you find yourself thinking that the entire system is pikeman vs knight, one vs the other, an armchair system that plays out like an RPG, rock-paper-scissors: care because so much of history is a spectrum of forgotten people.
oh... That's why the toy is called a hobby horse. I ... Thought the name came from "hobby" like a thing you do for fun.
The other way around! The toy “hobbyhorse”, a toy horse that gives you pleasure and lets you play pretend but clearly isn’t a real horse, gave its name to “hobby,” “activity for pleasure.”
The etymology of “hobby, a thing you do for fun” comes directly from “hobby, a little horse”. Which was once a real sort of little horse. Isn’t that great! We all need more hobbies.
The other thing to remember about mediaeval cavalry is that knights carried lances - big pointy things designed to hit you before the horse does, and held in a way that it has all the weight/momentum of the horse behind it. If it hits you, it either goes right through your chain mail, or dents your plate armour so much that your ribs get equally dented.
And then the horse arrives.
One must always pay the cheese tax
WAIT SKYRIM GLASS ARMOR IS MADE OF WHAT???
*THROWS A BUCKET OF WATER ON AN ELF WARRIOR AND THEY JUST FUCKING EXPLODE*
Wait... refined malachite explodes when it comes in contact with water?
IT RAPIDLY MELTS INTO HIGHLY TOXIC FUMES
IN TERMS OF STUPID SHIT TO MAKE ARMOR OUT OF MALACHITE IS UP THERE WITH ACTIVE URANIUM OR SODIUM ARMOR
Well, they do make bathtubs out of it to this day. (In the Phryne Fisher novels, she is repeatedly described as having a malachite bath, presumably because Greenwood encountered one while doing research.)
This made me curious. I'm not a rock hound, but I do think it would be dramatic if all these expensive bathtubs killed people. It is actually quite difficult to find out where the belief that "a polished finished malachite item is toxic upon contact with water" comes from, as it would appear that the polished stone is entirely uninterested in dissolving in water. There are many discussions about this on Reddit, where people who claim to be geologists are fairly upset about this belief, claiming that it originated in its turn on websites dedicated to crystal healing. I don't know enough about geology to pursue this to the end, and I tend to only notice chemistry that interacts with the living world, so I can't comment further. I would certainly consult a specialist for safety before making products out of malachite or any other unusual material. But it does appear that malachite can be used to make some household items, and presumably the same treatment process that makes it safe for bathtubs and children's rock collections could also be applied to armor.
I don't know much about Elder Scrolls, but they DO mine ebony. Ebony in our world is a black wood. In Skyrim, where they have like 2 moons, cheese is medicine, horses report crimes and you can recover from near fatal injuries by eating wheat and lavender (!!!!!!!!!), ebony is a mineral that they dig it out of the ground. I think they are all very strange in that place and maybe they got the word for it wrong
“It is actually quite difficult to find out where the belief that "a polished finished malachite item is toxic upon contact with water" comes from,”
. . .
Please read the full post if you don't know the deep lore, it's so good
George Takei was so excited to do this shirtless episode. He spent all his free time doing push-ups for a week before they shot this.
they were going to give him a katana and have him be a samurai, but he didn’t want to be stereotypical, so he told the execs that he could fence and they wrote in references to the three musketeers instead
he could not, in fact, fence
he spent the weekend before shooting learning how
Not only that, but he found he liked fencing, kept it up, and became a master fencer.
When I had the privilege to hear him talk at AwesomeCon 2015, he informed us he is a master fencer. It was a very clear implication that he is still fencing at his advanced age. No wonder he’s so healthy.
He had far too much fun with this episode and it shows.
Hikaru Sulu, our first Space Pirate.
Reblogging for all this cool trivia
And also for George Takei running through the Starship Enterprise with a sword and cackling sinisterly
Reblogging for ALL of this, and for the coolness of George Takei still kicking butt with a sword to this day!
Reblog if you trust George Takei with a sword to protect you
“In the end, [Takei] loved his sword-fighting scene so much he held onto the rapier for several hours, poking stage hands with it and engaging in mock duels off the set.” – IMDB’s trivia

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Y'all for real please do these. Even if you're certain your posture doesn't suck. One day you will wake up with impinged shoulder pain like I did and let me tell you it fucking HURTS. Do these exercises even just once a week and it will make such a difference. Especially my fellow creatives out there, stop shrimping over your work and go do these right now. RIGHT NOW.
“There aren’t enough hours in a day.” There are actually. The problem is that we think 40 hour work weeks are an unavoidable fact of life.
The problem is that everyone has to work 8 hours, pretty much no exceptions, and with getting ready time + (unpaid) lunch + commute, “8 hours” is actually anywhere between 9 and 12, every single day, with more work to do when you get home because our society and culture was built around having one member of the household home full time and nothing has changed now that almost everyone works.
No wonder Americans are reliant on DoorDash and fast food, there’s no time or energy to cook. No one wonder mental and physical health are in shambles, many just spent all day sitting in fluorescent lights with little to no stimulation. “Just wake up earlier” “Just meal prep”… these are ok short-term, individual solutions, but the broader, systemic issue is obvious. We aren’t built for this. There’s no work-life balance. Genuinely, I think if our culture could normalize a shorter work week, many individuals’ biggest problems would simply evaporate.
genuinely find it fascinating how much fantasy writing discussion/advice online is centered around the struggle of making a dndish/tolkien rip off fantasy world stand out and feel different than the others, and regularly comes to the conclusion that to succeed at this you should focus even harder on realistically detailing the cultures of the elves/humans/orcs/dwarves/whatever random group of fantasy races are hanging around (the thing most of these projects already massively focus on) in the hopes that yours is simply the most vivid and evocative ever, as opposed to, like, just writing anything else
sorry @tearlessrain I have to share your tags they're just so good
#look the whole reason tolkien and other fantasy writers of his caliber are so well received is that they were doing something they loved#tolkien had multiple detailed conlangs because he was really into linguistics#he wrote about the themes he did because they were important to him#so find something you love and write that instead of trying to write like someone else#if you want to build a complicated fantasy world build it around your interests#if you're into astronomy than draw up star charts and write a whole history of your world that highlights the significance of them#if you're really into the history of textiles then use that to add flavor to the cultures and characters#you gotta fall in love with the thing you're making at least a little bit that's the key
your tumblr avatar is who you are on the outside, and your discord avatar is your true self
sorry in advance
imagine the following: postcanon, after getting married, wei wuxian and lan wangji find out that madam lan, lan wangji's mother, was actually the long-lost sister of wei changze, wei wuxian's father. this means that wei wuxian and lan wangji are cousins.
how do wang and xian feel about this?
WWX is troubled, LWJ is troubled
WWX is troubled, LWJ doesn't care
WWX is troubled, LWJ is into it
WWX doesn't care, LWJ is troubled
WWX doesn't care, LWJ doesn't care
WWX doesn't care, LWJ is into it
WWX is into it, LWJ is troubled
WWX is into it, LWJ doesn't care
WWX is into it, LWJ is into it

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What's a book written by a woman that changed your life or that you consider a classic? Any genre, any language.
ok i am curious. how long is the longest song in your library (not counting tracks that are like several songs in one file like a full album mix or symphony recording or whatever) (also if it is longer than 20 minutes say the name in the tags i am curious)
how long
< 3:00
3:00–3:59
4:00–4:59
5:00–5:59
6:00–6:59
7:00–7:59
8:00–11:59
12:00–15:59
16:00–20:59
21:00–24:59
25:00–30:00
≥ 30:00
ok i would like to clarify it has to be music and it can't just be a short song that's been looped a bunch. that still counts as several songs in one file, it's just several of the same song in one file. no audiobooks no podcasts no plants vs zombies theme 2 hour loop