Like a tree, but not

the word cider is from french, the original pun doesnt work in old english. the oe word is æppelwin, literally apple wine. there isn’t a word for spider that rhymes with win, so i had to look around for some other options.

oe authors tend to be much more concerned with the alliteration of words rather than rhyming. poetry will sometimes rhyme a bit, but verse structure is much more focused on what alliterates. so, instead of finding a word to rhyme with win, i wanted a word that started with the same sounds and i settled on wiht

wiht means a thing or a creature. it often means stuff in general, but it also has a sense of animals and monsters specifically, which is the meaning i was thinking of here. so this means apple creature vinegar

rejected options:

wine, which means friend. sounds super close to win, but i decided the tone was too different from the original

31 Days of Bond Fashion

DAY 14: THE TERRYCLOTH ROBE as seen in Goldfinger (1964).

James Bond is held up the world over as a paragon of masculinity and gentlemanly style, and each Bond has his signature wardrobe piece. Roger Moore had the safari jacket, Pierce Brosnan had his overcoats, Daniel Craig had his knitwear, and Connery? Perhaps because of his background in bodybuilding, he loved wearing little more than a towel. His most memorable towelled resort outfit – even more memorable than his towel skirt in Thunderball – was this blue terrycloth playsuit. 

The outfit, which is widely considered Bond’s first fashion faux pas, might have come down to an error in communication. The script called rather ambiguously for “combination robe-trousers’ for the scene, but the costume department interpreted it as this: a belted onesie with a camp collar and three-quarter zip that took its shape from a jumpsuit. Underneath, and visible because of the playsuit’s very short shorts, Bond wore a pair of blue swimming trunks. The trunks were outshone by the playsuit and some other very famous blue swim shorts in the franchise decades later. 

Playsuits were typically worn by women at the time and the outfit hints at a few themes related to gender and sexuality across the franchise: dress and undress, the popularity of towelling in 1960s clothing, and Bond as an object, more Bond Girl than Bond. 

While the playsuit isn't considered Bond's most fashionable look, it has proved popular enough for Orlebar Brown to make a replica, albeit with slightly longer shorts. It's priced at £395.

Ahhhhhh so here I am… finally making content 10 days into @inceptiversary. I really want to participate in the festivities this year too, but I’m taking classes in the summer so I don’t have a lot of time to draw (´；ω；`)

Anyways, here is Day 10 of the 30-Day Challenge: Yusuf’s favourite chemical. Hopefully I’ll find time to do the ones I didn’t get to last year…

Abby

Week 2 results are in!

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The first place goes to @thestalwartheart , who wrote ‘dysfunction’!

Sadly, because this week was another double elimination week, we must say goodbye to @vex-verlain who wrote 'the unimaginable’, and @extravagav, who wrote 'one giant leap for man'. Thank you both so much for joining us!

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Snake: “He was at church when a bomb went off, got pierced by a crucifix, survived by drinking his family’s blood.”

Raiden: “So that’s why he’s called Vamp?”

I took the cargo ops class at school but my teacher explained that it doesn't give a certification and I'd only be okay for ship's crane and the school forklifts. she said I could take an online exam and get my cert. I paid 60 bucks.

I'm googling and I'm seeing a lot of resources saying that the online programs cover the classroom part of the exam but not the in person practical aspect.

29 CFR 1910.178 (l)(2)(ii)