the thing about writing fantasy stories is that language is so based on history that it can be hard to decide how far suspension of disbelief can carry you word-choice wise - what do you call a french braid in a world with no france? can a queen ann neckline be described if there was no queen ann? where do you draw the line? can you use the word platonic if plato never existed? can you name a character chris in a land without christianity? can you even say ‘bungalow’ in a world where there was no indian language for the word to originate from? is there a single word in any language that doesn’t have a story behind it? to be accurate a fantasy story would be written in a fantasy language but who has the time for that

Tolkien had the time apparently

LIsten. Linguistics Georg, who invented over 10,000 conlangs each day, is an outlier and should not have been counted. 

グラディウスちゃん

At the time of this posting, it is now 37 days until the final two original Sherlock Holmes casefiles written by Arthur Conan Doyle enter the public domain.

#it took this long?! (via @auxiliary-riley)

There are a couple of reasons for that.

First, for works created by non-corporate authors and first published prior to 1978, the duration of copyright is determined based on the date of first publication, rather than the lifetime of the artist. Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories were published serially over a forty-year period spanning 1887 through 1927 (inclusive), so there’s been a long stretch where some but not all of them have resided in the public domain. Works first published in 1927 will enter the public domain on January 1st, 2023.

Second, back in the 1990s, Disney engaged in a major lobbying push to prevent cartoons featuring Mickey Mouse from entering the public domain. The result of this lobbying was the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998, often informally known as the Mickey Mouse Protection Act. Because obtaining an exemption for Mickey Mouse in particular wasn’t politically tenable, the effect of this act was to institute a twenty-year extension of all extant copyrights at the time that the act went into effect. The public domain in the United States was thus “frozen” for twenty years, with no new works whatsoever entering the public domain between January 1st, 1998 and January 1st, 2019.

In the absence of the Mickey Mouse Protection Act, the final Sherlock Holmes stories would have entered the public domain in 2003.

This account will likely be unused until it’s needed. I appreciate those giving me a follow.

How to prepare a house for defense.

this is important guys need to know how to defend yourself @gruene-teufel @enrique262 @british-eevee @das-blut everyone needs keep safe

I think i’m pretty safe out in the countryside 

Reposting for those folks in Taiwan and Ukraine, in the crosshairs of Authoritarian Kenetic Conflicts.

Sometimes you just gotta draw a shrimp dragon 🦐

things sherlock holmes has canonically done:

feel free to add to this

oh i almost forgot

WHERE ARE YALL GETTING THIS/1!!1!!!????!?

Leaped over furniture like a gazelle.

•Shook hands with a baby :,}

Let a jewel thief off one time because: 

a, the thief cried 

b, the case had been really easy & if the Yard couldn’t solve it then frankly fuck em

c, it was Christmas

And People ™ still think he was an unfeeling, cold man of reason. Honey that man probably slept with a fluffy stuffed bee.

Made a BIG drama about killing a jellyfish with a rock

There are only four Irish folk songs:

1. I had too much to drink and I regret nothing

2. I met a fair bonny lass and she was bonny and fair

3. We will fight the British for ever and ever and ever and ever and

4. I have left Ireland and I shall never be happy again

O god, What Remains of Edith Finch fucked me up way too hard. Now I’m afraid to sleep because what if I have nightmares. I did this to me.

That’s Louis Rossman, a repair technician and YouTuber, who went viral recently for railing against Apple. Apple purposely charges a lot for repairs and you either have to pay up or buy a new device. That’s because Apple withholds necessary tools and information from outside repair shops. And to think, we were just so close to change.

Follow @the-future-now

Reblog if you:

No one will know which is it

important!!!!!

What’s worse is Apple has inspired other companies to be just as big of jerks. Have a look at John Deere: https://www-wired-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.wired.com/story/john-deere-farmers-right-to-repair/amp?amp_js_v=a2&amp_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQECAFYAQ%3D%3D#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Fstory%2Fjohn-deere-farmers-right-to-repair%2F

Porn blogs still posting porn until December 17th is the equivalent of the band playing while the Titanic was sinking.

your heart is a muscle the size of a rat

SPONGE BOB SQUARE PANTS

Your brain’s about four times the size of a cat’s

SPONGE BOB SQUARE PANTS

Your lungs can hold 5.5 liters of air

The soles of your feet can never grow hair

SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS

SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS

SPONGEBOB…

SQUAREPAAAAAAAANTS

*~deedlee-doot-dee-doot doo-oot~*

@big-kaiju

Shmebulock gets me

if you’re american and coming to australia, I’m gonna go ahead and say that you should be 100 percent way more worried about being king hit by a dude named “dane” in a bintang singlet than any fucking spiders that exist here

what does this say in english

“Good sir, if you are a resident of the United States of America and coming to visit the sunny land of Australia, allow me to inform you that you should be rather more concerned about being sucker punched by a gentleman named ‘Dane’ who is likely to be seen wearing a wifebeater with a beer company logo on it than by any of the dangerous spiders that exist on this lovely continent”.

ok so what does it say in american

“You’re more likely to get sucker punched/cold-cocked by an asshole than you are to be bitten by a spider”.

thank you

Well rattle my spoons, that don’t make a lick of sense. Wot in tarnation does this hootenanny say?

“If ya mosey on by Australia, you best be fixin’ to get to some fisticuffs more'n checkin fer spiders.”

This is a Rosetta Stone for a single language

Which of course means I now have to ask, what about the Irish dialect of English?

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MSA Release

I know many people were waiting for this: We’re excited to say that Mystery Skulls Animated: Hellbent is officially scheduled to be released in October!  @mysterybensmysteryblog​ will be announcing the exact date when it gets closer to release! Thank you all so much for your patience, we’re nearly there. :)

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