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'While I must admit your ... revolutionary additions to Remembrance of Things Past added their own certain je ne sais pourquoi to the tale, I will bring to your attention the Hamlet fiasco of ’73.' ~Remus Lupin to Sirius Black, The Shoebox Project, Chapter 1
I don't want to be perceived the way I am I just want to be perceived the way I am
~Chapstick and Chapped Lips and Things Like Chemistry (by Relient K)
Cuz a small town is like a small stage for teenagers and their dramas
~Hoopes I Did it Again (by Relient K)
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
lol remember when all the haters swore it would be a miserable failure?
(Source: whypairodocs)
- # BBYS
- # you know what i am making the executive decision to get emotionally involved with the company of this show
- # because they are producing the highest quality tv content i've seen in ages
- # Elementary
- # Lucy Liu
- # Jonny Lee Miller
- # ELEMENTARYStaff
- # awesome
- # Elementary company
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Russian shorthand. 19th c.
I know that the Speech in canon has been described as being “arabic looking,” but tbh these look a lot more like magic writing that describes the universe than arabic does. Ok, my current language of study is definitely making me biased, maybe if we mushed them together with the arabic alphabet there would be something canon-compliant and magical?
#it jsut looks like the Speech to me ok cousins? #what do you all think?
okay, so i know the Speech has been described in canon as being “arabic-looking” too, but i always kinda pictured it as looking a bit like tengwar so can it basically be somewhere between the russian alphabet and tengwar and arabic maybe?
YES PLEASE THAT SOUNDS PERFECT
The funny part is though, this isn’t even close to actual modern Russian handwriting. If I tried to work these into my handwriting it would be so colossally illegible (well more so than it already is). Russian block letters don’t scream magic to me, and cursive all looks the same. I’m not even kidding. Picture a line made entirely out of cursive “u” and you’ve got it.
But yes this. Arabic and Tengwar and obscure Russian shorthand. Sometime I’m going to sit down with all three of these and write some stuff out and see how it looks. Also mess around with how it would fit together, and whether three alphabets would actually be enough. Because I’ve always wondered if the speech is at least somewhat pictographic? The books do mention there being a kinda scrawly shorthand you can use, but remember the part in I think WoM where Nita is giving Carmela the list of questions to make sure she gets Carmela’s name right. There’s a lot of information going into “Carmela Rodriguez” and I wonder if the final product reflects that. How many characters are in the speech alphabet anyways?
NO BUT SHE IS NOT KIDDING ABOUT THE Us
EVER SEEN SOMEONE WRITE ПИШИШЬ IN CURSIVE?
IT LOOKS LIKE nuuuuuь
No, but this looks awesome. I really want to volunteer to help, but I need to work out some other YW-related stuff (and writing) first.
419 characters. I remember from Dairine’s keyboard.
This is a Holmes knocked from the pedestal of the dispassionate gentleman detective. His relationship with his addiction forms the core of his character, of secondary importance only to Watson in his development throughout the season. And Jonny Lee Miller’s fantastic incarnation of Holmes makes sure we feel the weight of addiction in a show that takes it seriously. He suffers the aftermath, and must face the realities of recovery — no easy thing for a man who trades on the illusion of invincibility with all the gusto of the Conan Doyle original.
Also keeping him humble: his supporting cast. There’s a popular misconception — the fault of many an adaptation — that Holmes is a supergenius accompanied by an admiring everyman and surrounded by dunces. Conan Doyle’s Watson and Gregson would beg to differ, and so this Holmes lives in no such vacuum; he’s never the only clever person in a room. When he reveals his addiction, Gregson (not unkindly) points out that as a detective, he had that covered. His sponsor Alfredo’s skills in the repossessionary arts outclass Holmes’s by a mile. He acknowledges Moriarty as more than a match for himself. Even housekeeper/librarian Ms. Hudson has the effortless memory to which Holmes aspires.
And in Watson, he’s found an equal — and that’s what the show’s not-so-secretly about.
from io9’s excellent analysis of the first season of Elementary - Elementary Demonstrates the Right Way to Update a Classic Hero (via gallifreygal)
- # IF YOU ARE NOT WATCHING THIS SHOW AND FALLING IN LOVE WITH ALL OF THEM
- # YOU ARE WRONG
- # (as ever i mean that quite superficially
- # and you are welcome to watch and like whatever you want
- # but this is literally the best show i have ever watched
- # with maaaaybe the exception of the West Wing)
- # Elementary
- # Sherlock Holmes
- # Joan Watson
- # feels feels feels feels feels everywhere
- # the little engine that queued
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Psst, Captain “No Fatties”! Customers can hear you. And, you know, see you.
The 4 Most Weirdly Outdated Corporate Policies
#4. Abercrombie & Fitch Hates Ugly People
Back in the day, you could keep your “no uggos” policy a dirty little secret, and some people might genuinely be fooled into thinking that “only the most attractive people wear those clothes that look like the bottom drawer of an unemployed surfer’s wardrobe; I must join them.”
But those were the good old days of consumer ignorance. How did you think that the Internet wasn’t going to spread this story everywhere the very second they realized that your CEO looks like he’s allergic to his own face?
Seriously, he looks like the shit Ron Perlman took after he ate a plateful of Gary Busey…And this is the guy insisting that only beautiful people wear his clothes?
The HBO one tho. What the???
i want there to be an angel that descends from the heavens only when someone is being stupid
and the angel just gently places their hand over the person’s mouth
and whispers in a voice filled with heavenly beauty and love
“no”
ANABIEL
LOOK IT UP
IM SCREECHING LOOK LOOK AT THE ART LOOK HOW PRETTY IT IS OH MY GOSH <33333333333
(chuckle) Loving this to bits.
Talk about embarrassing baby pictures..
Elements by Cathrine Langwagen
am I the only person who doesn’t wash their hair every day
cause
when I tell people I don’t wash my hair every day they look at me like I’m some disgusting hobo
washing your hair every day dries it out and is bad for lots of kinds of hair, especially if you’re black but actually it’s not great if you’re white either.
(Source: sloth-satan)
The Headquarters of Ultimate Blue: okay, so question
that post that’s been going around, how to write in tengwar? while it’s mostly right the way I learned Quenya mode, (which I absolutely admit I don’t know as well as Sindarin mode,) several of the letters are completely different from what I’ve thought was correct for years.
I started to answer the question about “what if there are two vowels in a row” I’d seen a few people asking, but then realized about the letters, and now I’m not really sure what to do. :/
Quenya/Classical mode is only for writing in Quenya… if you’re wanting to just write in English then you don’t need to worry about it. In the different languages the tengwar have different phonetic values to suit the language (Quenya has very strict phonetic rules).
Anyway, the best place to look is Amanye Tenceli.
Okay, thanks for the link, but what I was trying to say (and obviously didn’t do a good job saying) was that I know tengwar, in Quenya/Sindarin/English modes, and what the post is isn’t quite any of them, although the way it’s teaching is closer to Quenya than English mode.
#Jenny is amazing #this makes me so happy
YOU STOP THAT i’m blushing now okay i just get overly passionate about fictional languages
gosh dangit, xkit deleted the actual text i added to that post!
it was supposed to include that YOUR DEPTH OF KNOWLEDGE AND ENTHUSIASM FOR LOTR CONLANGS IS PRETTY MUCH THE GREATEST AND I AM ENVIOUS <3
YOU NIQQAS WANNA LEARN ELVISH?! HERE YA GO!
is this legit?
This is legit. My husband, sitting across the room, looks over and says, “IS THAT SOMEONE SHOWING HOW TO CONVERT ENGLISH TO TENGWAR? BECAUSE THAT’S THE WAY!”
Believe this man. He owns atlases of Middle Earth, the complete history of Middle Earth (leatherbound), and has read the books at least 150 times. Also: speaks elvish.
Yes.
What if there are two vowels in a row?
Does anyone know the answer to that last question?
so, this is the post i was talking about — don’t use it, please, guys; it’s really inaccurate. If you’re really interested in learning how to write in tengwar (the term for the alphabet — the Elvish languages are Sindarin and Quenya) try this page instead.
That link goes to the English mode explanation, so if you want to learn Sindarin or Quenya try the links at the bottom. Note there’s also links to Spanish mode/Latin American Spanish mode, two different modes for Scottish Gaelic, Hungarian, Portugese, and Welsh.
The Headquarters of Ultimate Blue: okay, so question
that post that’s been going around, how to write in tengwar? while it’s mostly right the way I learned Quenya mode, (which I absolutely admit I don’t know as well as Sindarin mode,) several of the letters are completely different from what I’ve thought was correct for years.
I started to answer the question about “what if there are two vowels in a row” I’d seen a few people asking, but then realized about the letters, and now I’m not really sure what to do. :/
Quenya/Classical mode is only for writing in Quenya… if you’re wanting to just write in English then you don’t need to worry about it. In the different languages the tengwar have different phonetic values to suit the language (Quenya has very strict phonetic rules).
Anyway, the best place to look is Amanye Tenceli.
Okay, thanks for the link, but what I was trying to say (and obviously didn’t do a good job saying) was that I know tengwar, in Quenya/Sindarin/English modes, and what the post is isn’t quite any of them, although the way it’s teaching is closer to Quenya than English mode.
