AU where the odyssey takes place entirely in ikea
Odysseus spends like an hour in the bed section being aggressively cuddled by some strange drunk woman who fell on top of him while he was testing out mattresses and has too strong a grip for him to pull free
Meanwhile Penelope is sitting behind the checkout with the bed they bought eating ice cream with Telemachus and trying to ignore the pack of dudebro frat boys trying to hit on her
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Selected pages from The Witch’s Christmas by Norman Bridwell (1970)
Wish I could find a copy with the original illustrations!
these are some mini chocolate cream tarts with a shortbread crust, some with coffee whipped cream and some with peppermint whipped cream.
This is what heaven looks like???
“Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” in Anglo-Saxon meter, by Philip Craig Chapman-Bell. Via Etymonline on Facebook, who says “An Internet classic; but I can no longer find it where I first found it (Cathy Ball’s Old English reference pages).”
Incipit gestis Rudolphi rangifer tarandus
Hwæt, Hrodulf readnosa hrandeor –
Næfde þæt nieten unsciende næsðyrlas!
Glitenode and gladode godlice nosgrisele.
Ða hofberendas mid huscwordum hine gehefigodon;
Nolden þa geneatas Hrodulf næftig
To gomene hraniscum geador ætsomne.
Þa in Cristesmæsseæfne stormigum clommum,
Halga Claus þæt gemunde to him maðelode:
“Neahfreond nihteage nosubeorhtende!
Min hroden hrædwæn gelæd ðu, Hrodulf!”
Ða gelufodon hira laddeor þa lyftflogan –
Wæs glædnes and gliwdream; hornede sum gegieddode
“Hwæt, Hrodulf readnosa hrandeor,
Brad springð þin blæd: breme eart þu!”Rendered literally into modern English:
Here begins the deeds of Rudolph, Tundra-Wanderer
Lo, Hrodulf the red-nosed reindeer –
That beast didn’t have unshiny nostrils!
The goodly nose-cartilage glittered and glowed.
The hoof-bearers taunted him with proud words;
The comrades wouldn’t allow wretched Hrodulf
To join the reindeer games.
Then, on Christmas Eve bound in storms
Santa Claus remembered that, spoke formally to him:
“Dear night-sighted friend, nose-bright one!
You, Hrodulf, shall lead my adorned rapid-wagon!”
Then the sky-flyers praised their lead-deer –
There was gladness and music; one of the horned ones sang
“Lo, Hrodulf the red-nosed reindeer,
Your fame spreads broadly, you are renowned!”
Current sexual orientation: Idris Elba decorating a Christmas tree in space
I think I reblogged this already, but it must be done again.
Every Christmas LBR.
Oh my god I’m glad I’m not the only person that sees this
digging how all of them are a face of some sort except for one that is a vacuum.
A hidden-message ring, from the 1830s.
There are 2 groups of people who will use this: the first for romance, the second for espionage. Pick a side.
Romantic espionage.
top moments in early american history
- jefferson and madison tour the countryside in pursuit of the hessian fly
- aaron burr literally getting painted out of trumbull’s depiction of the death of montgomery even though he was like the only person there
- jefferson delivers his inaugural address and no one can hear him
- ‘delenda est carthago’
- when new york city celebrated the election of 1800 by lighting up two huge hearts in the sky with colored lamps to represent burr and jefferson
- the time peter irving tried to defend burr from accusations that he had worn bulletproof silk during the duel by arguing that it was actually a cotton-bombazine blend and james cheetham responded with ‘lmao ur gay’
- the reynolds pamphlet
- john marshall forgets his pants
someone explain “delenda est carthago” to me, who was that?
please explain it to me I will give you a thousand cookies with fake names.
(in the context of early American History. I know about Cato)
also, bulletproof silk, a thing?
Kimchi and Justice 