There is no great revelation, no great secret.

this is helpful to getting started on anything regardless of what you call it (from this post)

me and a friend had a running joke about editing the gif of kermit and christian bale nodding at each other for a number of years, and i found the folder of edits and feel like this is maybe a place for them.

incredible pompeii book fact that i will think about forever:

Here is a source for this! See "stamps on jars of garum" at the bottom of the page.

it's not that unusual, in translation, to come across something that has a dedicated word or expression in the source language but requires a lengthier explication in the target text. sometimes, however, it's the other way around! not so much found in the process of translation as found waiting for you in translation.

I have never read or watched Death Note and i know the whole ‘book that kills people’ premise but from all the shit i see on here it seems to be two teenaged boys acting out this scene over and over