What most people don't know is that Milli Vanilli was short for Milliam Vanilliam.
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What most people don't know is that Milli Vanilli was short for Milliam Vanilliam.

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you got the job you really wanted as a kid! how is it going?
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bad
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already in that field!
pretty much impossible to happen
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My top three desired jobs as a child, in order of how much they'd suck now: 1. Actor - Would be bad for the same reasons that being a musician in real life didn't go well with being immunocompromised during a global pandemic. 2. Cake decorator - This would probably be fine? I'm not as passionate about it now, but it'd potentially be an ok job. 3. The Next Jim Henson - Potentially the best, because I was never sure exactly what I was going to create that would be as good as the Muppets -- but assuming that I succeeded, that'd be pretty awesome.
ugh. on the one hand tumblr introducing age verification for people in countries where thats come into law recently was probably inevitable and outside of their control. on the other hand the fact tumblr is so bad at identifying mature posts IS within their control and it really adds insult to injury. like idc if its a faulty algorithm or malicious user reports or shitty admins, at least when bluesky asks for my ID its because i clicked on a post with sex in it. the last mature marked post i saw on tumblr was a photo of megan thee stallion in cosplay. dont piss me off.
Reblog with what the last post you saw marked "mature" was. Mine was a gif from a PG-rated film!
utterly delightful family of words and things
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A Guide to Historically Accurate Regency-Era Names
I recently received a message from a historical romance writer asking if I knew any good resources for finding historically accurate Regency-era names for their characters.
Not knowing any off the top of my head, I dug around online a bit and found there really isn’t much out there. The vast majority of search results were Buzzfeed-style listicles which range from accurate-adjacent to really, really, really bad.
I did find a few blog posts with fairly decent name lists, but noticed that even these have very little indication as to each name’s relative popularity as those statistical breakdowns really don't exist.
I began writing up a response with this information, but then I (being a research addict who was currently snowed in after a blizzard) thought hey - if there aren’t any good resources out there why not make one myself?
As I lacked any compiled data to work from, I had to do my own data wrangling on this project. Due to this fact, I limited the scope to what I thought would be the most useful for writers who focus on this era, namely - people of a marriageable age living in the wealthiest areas of London.
So with this in mind - I went through period records and compiled the names of 25,000 couples who were married in the City of Westminster (which includes Mayfair, St. James and Hyde Park) between 1804 to 1821.
So let’s see what all that data tells us…
I was just reminded of this amazing post, which (in the event you TL;DR'd) ranks real Regency names in tiers of popularity from S+ (your Marys and Anns) to H ("Technically possible but virtually non-existent"), and decided to look up the names from Stephanie Laurens' Four in Hand, the 1993 regency romance novel that Julia Quinn liberally cadged from for the first Bridgerton book* and compare them against some Bridgerton names.
Y'all, it's not even close. ALL of the girls in the Bridgerton family have H-tier names, whereas the main four girls in Four in Hand includes two S+-tier (Sarah and Elizabeth), one B-tier (Caroline), and one E-tier (Arabella). That's E-tier at the lowest, mind you, whereas The Duke and I never gets higher than E-tier (and only if you count the Featheringtons, Penelope and Prudence). If you extend to the love interests in later books, you do get an S-tier (Katharine) but also Sophie, which didn't rank at all ("Sophia" is A-tier, at least).
Where the men are concerned, it's a little more even. Laurens' duke is named Max and never says what it is short for, but he has a maternal aunt named Maxwell and yeoldenews considered the entire practice of "mom's maiden name as first name" in the A-tier. Quinn's duke is firmly B-tier (Simon), so I'd say that's a draw. The other male love interests in Four in Hand are Martin (D-tier), Hugo (E-tier), and Darcy (arguably A-tier if it's supposed to be a family name but let's be fair, it's just an Austen reference), and the Bridgerton boys are a C, an E, and two Fs, so it's fairly comparable (a little worse than the girls in Laurens' case, much better for Quinn's)**.
I feel so justified in being a one-woman "give Stephanie Laurens a writing credit on Bridgerton" soapbox***.
*Seriously though, there's just way too many similarities for it to just be genre overlap. Read the book if you don't believe me. **I'm not looking ul who Eloise and Francesca marry and you can't make me *** jk, as the kids used to say
Religious italian child: the Lord was above the Angel of Death upon the butcher that slaughtered the bull that drank the water that put off the fire that burnt the stick that hit the dog that bit the cat that ate the mouse that my father bought at the market.
Atheist italian child: death is an inescapable and irreversible process so no one could possibly be above the Angel of Death upon the butcher that slaughtered the bull that drank the water that put off the fire that burnt the stick that hit the dog that bit the cat that ate the mouse that my father bought at the market.
Agnostic italian child: no one knows if someone or something was above the Angel of Death upon the butcher that slaughtered the bull that drank the water that put off the fire that burnt the stick that hit the dog that bit the cat that ate the mouse that my father bought at the market.
Saint Thomas Aquinas: the perfect chain of dependency on each other of animals and elements, exemplified by the Angel of Death upon the butcher that slaughtered the bull that drank the water that put off the fire that burnt the stick that hit the dog that bit the cat that ate the mouse that my father bought at the market, is an example of an efficient cause that regulates the world and could be understood as an a posteriori proof of the existence of God.
Edward Said: the idea of the eastern fair at which my father bought a mouse was orientalist in nature.
Today I learned that there's an Italian version of Chad Gadya. And it's about a mouse I guess? Is buying mice at markets an Italian thing, or was this guy more concerned with cats eating reasonable animals for their size than fathers buying reasonable animals at markets? I have questions.
Kay Francis in a promotional still for Behind the Makeup (1930).
i hope this email kills us both instantly
This new Mountain Goats song is a little weird
The World's News, NSW, June 13, 1942

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the plot of the last book you read is now real! are we doomed?
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piece of media you feel crazy about at formative age is truly like the hotel california. you can check out but you can never leave
I would have said it's like herpes in that it never fully leaves your system, but I guess Hotel California is a bit more whimsical.
...sorry, Ned and who now?
Suggest Beths who should have been in this book, I'll start:
Beth Riesgraf (Parker from Leverage)
every time someone brings up famous people they share a birthday with I have to begrudgingly tell people that I share a birthday with war criminal george w bush. so now I’m asking - who do you begrudgingly share a birthday with?
This post is how I found out that Claire Danes has been banned from entering the Philippines since 1998.

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i got a 100% on this bostonian-to-english quiz but i grew up near boston..... i'm curious what you guys get. there's a couple things in here i didn't even know are regionalisms + a couple things i hadn't heard before but could parse pretty easily from context. tag/reply with what you got and if you're familiar with the area or not!
#didn't know these were regionalisms? i've never heard any of these phrases in my life (via @worldwarthree)
GENUINELY before today i thought fluffernutter and american chop suey were part of National American Culture (TM). i was so puzzled by those questions that i googled both bc i was like "ohhh, this quiz maker thinks some american things aren't as widespread as they are..... they're assigning regional markers to things that aren't regional...... every american will instantly recognize these...."
and then i discovered both of these things are, in fact, particular to the new england region.
& went. What.
This summer, I will have been married to a man from Massachusetts for 25 years. You learn things.
I…know a lot of people from Boston?
I don't think I've ever had a close friend from Boston in my life, and I've spent all of it in the PNW (minus two years in the Midwest), but I got 12/14 (I missed "jimmies on the hoodsie" and "candlepin in the hub," and for both of those the right answer was my second choice). I only definitely knew 4 of them, and some I knew half of (grinders but not tonic, for example). The rest were educated guesses, like I would have been more wrong without multiple choice but given the options I knew which one made more sense.
However: surely calling a U-turn a "u-ey" is common all over the country?? I grew up with people "flipping" them rather than "banging," but the u-ey part has to be broadly American.
I don't think some people realise how easy it is for personality-type frameworks to become tools of abuse. lol. here I am talking about astrology, but also mbti and the enneagram
my parents were always really into the enneagram. here's the thing about it: once you're told from a young age that you're the "emotional, melodramatic type", it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy in the worst way. every time you have an outburst (because your parents are abusing you) it's "oh sweetie this is just you being a classic type 4". any kind of complaint, no matter how reasonable it is, is framed back to you as a consequence of an innate set of personality traits, rather than a response to your environment. this is possible no matter what personality type system you use. including 'personality disorders' as described in the dsm
ESPECIALLY including the dsm
cough astrology cough