Jay, they/them. Hello. This is the tumblr of a thirty-something former English student with a continuing interest in literature and linguistics. I'm a queer nonbinary book/film/tv/comics geek. I also like cute animals, badass people, interesting fashion, and...
A truth window (or truth wall) is an opening in a wall surface, created to reveal the layers or components within the wall. In a strawbale house, a truth window is often used to show the walls are actually made from straw bales.
obviously this is biased towards my age range and stuff
I wore a black Oxford shirt, black jeans, black dress shoes, and white socks for every single day of my life from the minute I had control over my wardrobe til the day I came out as trans at work, a literally had a closet of 10 identical shirts and ten identical pants and as little other clothes as I could get away with. I’m not sure what to call that maybe severe gender repression core, but also it kind of fucked because I was the only one doing it at the time.
This well in North Yorkshire near Knaresborough has the ability to turn anything it touches into stone. For years the locals thought the well was cursed by the devil and were afraid to touch it themselves. There is nothing supernatural about the well at all. Due to its high calcite mineral content, anything that touches the water for several months turns to stone. The petrification process is similar to what happens when stalactites or stalagmites form, but just at a much faster pace
Notice: not only do your friends actually like you, they secretly like you twice as much as they let on
An experience that made me feel much more assured in my friendships was at college, a friend and myself were talking about a third friend of ours and how cool and knowledgeable and smart she is and how we feel like we could never be that cool. The next day I was working with a professor on some paper presentations we were about to have and when I came out of the staff room I was informed that these two aforementioned friends were having the same discussion about me. And it turns out we spent a lot of time thinking about our friends who aren’t currently in the room and gushing over how cool and smart and talented they are without being able to say all of it to their face.
Your friends secretly love you a lot more than they already express, just like you love them so intensely that saying it all to their faces would sound clumsy to your own ears. It’s true though
God damn I want more of these impressions. It reminds me of 1995’s Fighting Baseball, in which a Japanese developer needed some American names for the game but could not be bothered to look up actual names, and just came up with ones that sounded American, giving us this beautiful shit:
And goddamnit Todd Bonzalez is the funniest fucking name I can imagine.
So please, non-usamericans, keep giving your best yankee impressions. We deserve to be mocked and it’s funny as hell.
Just look at the sheer number of materials and textures that go into making this costume, from the ornate breastplate to the padded shoulders and studded sleeves. The designer for this show, Ann Bruce Aling, had a background mostly in theater design, and it shows in the bold design work. Combined with the prosthetics that turn the actor into an alien, the whole effect is a great example of worldbuilding through costume.
