Curiosity
i like that the maned wolf and the bush dog are each other's closest living relatives. they're like cartoon henchmen
Anonymous asked:
What would a Yankee Candle go for in ancient Greece?
what-even-is-thiss answered:
tbh the most confusing thing about it to them would probably be the glass that the candle is contained in. They might try to buy information about glass from you.
Yeah basically
Yeah I should’ve clarified (pun intended). They had glass in the ancient world especially in Rome and Egypt but it was basically super heated sand and color additives put in a mold and often looked opaque and kinda lumpy. Even if it was blown like it was in some regions it wouldn’t have looked like modern glass.
Clear blown glass like you’d see a modern scented candle contained in wasn’t invented until the late Middle Ages and certainly wasn’t mass produced until the 1500s and even then places like Venice that had knowledge of these techniques literally forbid their glassmakers from leaving their city or region so other people couldn’t make it, forcing artificial scarcity and making it a very expensive material.
So if you showed a yankee candle to an Ancient Greek, especially one from a city or something, they’d be like burning scented wax okay not something I’d do but it makes sense. Also how the fuck is that glass transparent.
Like imagine if someone brought you something weird but understandable contained in a material that they said was made out of wood and you could tell that it’s clearly made out of wood they’re not lying about that but it was also completely transparent and see through with no visible flaws. That’s about the level of weird we’re talking about here.
It isnt flawless, but transparent wood does already exist actually
What the fuck I feel like a medieval peasant seeing an iPhone
Who goes there
AU - The honmoon decides the Sunlight Sisters need a second chance and decides to return all of them (yes ALL of them) to their teenage selves and drop them on the streets of Seoul.
"Hi, im kang Rumi, your daughter."
"Kang, Kang Rumi?" Kang Celines asks
"Whos your dad?" Third jumps in.
"We dont talk about that..." rumi
"Well, who raised you" Ryu Mi-yeong
"Well, Celine did"
Third amd Mi-yeong nodded
😂
Third (Eun Ji) and Miyeong silently agreeing that “yeah. This kid is Celine’s in all but blood”
But that does bring up a good point of whether or not they have their memories. Given that the honmoon wants them to get another chance I think it makes since that they have their memories so they can remember what not to do.
In that case it would be funny is celines confusion is beacuse she didnt know Rumi changed it, Mi-yeong thinks theyve all gone back to a gew hours after she gave birth/in an alternative timeline and Eun Ji is trollying.
Rumi thinks shes talking to actual teens tho
hc that milly alcock's supergirl decides to live in metropolis and ends up like. flatmates with phd student lena luthor who's rejected her family's money
tbh if you wanna know how much you’ve learned/acquired of a particular language, saying that you’ve been learning for X number of months or years just doesn’t really tell you anything.
A person who studies for 10 minutes a day for 10 years has like 600 hours put into the language whereas a person who listens to/reads/studies the language for 2 hours a day for one year has 730 hours put into the language.
How does a person who has been learning for one year know more than you when you’ve been learning the language for ten years? Because they’ve been putting a lot of time into acquiring a language and you’ve been maintaining a Duolingo streak.
I’ve put about 300 hours into acquiring Spanish. That tells you more than saying that I’ve been learning it on and off for about three years now.
Is that slow? Yes. I’m very easily distracted. I’m still learning faster than the guy with the Duolingo streak though.
If you are Duolingo guy you can more than double your speeds by just watching an episode of the Simpsons or reading one horny fanfic a day in your target language. You don’t need that owl. Start reading porn novels in Swahili or something. Listen to some German rap music. I believe in you.
I think strange horrible things should stop befalling my friends
I think strange wonderful things should start befalling my friends
rb to give prev strange wonderful things
I collaborated with the Human Artistry Project to make this strip alongside other web cartoonists to make the point that “Stealing isn’t Innovation” when it comes to A.I. usage. It seems to be doing numbers on instagram and elsewhere, so you may also read it here, tumblr.
May the discourse that ensues be long and unhelpful.
