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generationexorcist:

Lemures: The Roman Parasitic Larvae Spirits

In ancient Roman mythology, the Lemures (lem’u-rez) were greatly feared evil spirits who caused disease and infection. They were thought to be malignant spirits, specters or ghosts who haunt the earth by night and to possess great power for evil over the living.

The reputation of the lemures really took off at the beginning of this 6th Age shortly first Pontifex Maximus of this 6th Age, Augustus Caesar had conquered the Gnostic Greek Hellenes, Cretans, and the Greco-Egyptian empire. It was at this time that many of the Gnostic philosophers from Greece, Crete, and Egypt were brought into Caesar’s inner circle.

These teachings would eventually develop over time to include religious rites, customs, secret magick and the ancient Roman festival of Lemuria or Lemuralia. Many of these rites would later be incorporated into the Catholic (Universal) Church.

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beccaland:

stut–ter:

idareu2bme:

lokidindeed:

i-deduce-youre-a-bitch:

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 Midle Earth (leatherbound), and has read the books at least 150 times.  Also: speaks elvish.

Yes.

Correction: A language is not an alphabet.

Tengwar is a script (ie an alphabet), not a language. It can be used to write any of the Elvish languages, but it is not Elvish.

It can also be used to write many other languages, including English, in much the same way that English can be written using the standard Roman alphabet that I am using now (and which is also used for other Romance and Germanic languages), or using the International Phonetic Alphabet.

If you “convert English to Tengwar,” you aren’t writing in Elvish. You are writing English using the Tengwar script. But it still looks really cool and you should totally still learn it.

Bonus: learning to write in Tengwar can help you learn all sorts of nifty stuff about phonetics, because the shapes of the letters correspond to the distinctive sounds they represent, so you’ll get to learn nifty stuff like places of articulation, voiced/unvoiced, stops and fricatives.

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suddenlykats:

I’ve been doing this thing lately where if I see a post that is obviously going to have discourse in the notes, I go in and start blocking everyone who’s clearly arguing in bad faith. and you wanna know something interesting? I keep seeing less and less.

“well duh, Kat,” you say, “obviously if you’re blocking people you’re not going to see their responses.” yeah I know. but this is between different posts. like I blocked a bunch of sockpuppet troll accounts on one post, and then when I looked through the notes of another equally divisive post about the same subject, there were far fewer. there were also replies from people addressing bad faith replies, even though I couldn’t see said bad faith replies in the notes–which I’m assuming means I already had the posters blocked.

kinda makes me think that it’s just the same noisy shitheads yelling on every post, and if we all block them, they won’t have a voice anymore. so echo chamber be damned, I’m just gonna keep on blocking.

geekinglikeaboss:

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dianasofthemyscira:

You are Superman, aren’t you? Lois, look, we’ve been through these hallucinations of yours before. Can’t you see what you almost did? Throwing yourself off a building 30 stories high? Can’t you see what a tragic mistake you almost made? I made a mistake? I made a mistake because I risked my life instead of yours. Lois! Don’t be insane! And don’t fall down ‘cause you’re just going to have to get up again!
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (2006)

This scene features one of the best things about Chris Reeve’s portrayal, which is that he physicalized his different choices between playing Clark and Superman. Like, look at the difference:

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He could go from Rick Moranis to Chris Evans with just his posture. It’s like his glasses are weighing his entire body down. Here it is, in motion:

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Acting.

This is a perfect example that proves that the Clark Kent disguise actually does work….and how it works….

Christopher Reeve was the best Superman and still is

Are we gonna discuss that Lois Lane rationalized that Superman wouldn’t even feel a bullet, thus wouldn’t even know he hadn’t been hit, causing Clark Kent to reveal himself for who he truly is without her having to risk anybodies life?

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katesattic:

what-even-is-thiss:

conversationswithamillennial:

fangirltothefullest:

what-even-is-thiss:

what-even-is-thiss:

what-even-is-thiss:

what-even-is-thiss:

Guys do centaurs have to eat both horse food and human food?

Centaur, eating out of a burlap sack of hay like it’s potato chips: So do you guys wanna get Chipotle later?

Centaur: *kneeling on the ground, ripping up bits of grass and eating it*

Nearby horse: *neighs*

Centaur: Well it’s easy for you to bend over, isn’t it?

Horse: *snorts*

Centaur: *through a mouthful of grass* Well goody goody for you, but some of us have two spines.

Human: Hey does somebody want the rest of my burger?

Centaur: Oh I’ll have it. I am starving.

Human: Didn’t you just eat like an entire barrel of hay?

Centaur: *snatches the burger* That was for the horse stomach not the human one. Don’t be racist, Carl.

DON’T BE RACIST CARL

That spine comment made me reevaluate my life

Two spines, two ribcages, and six limbs baby! And a tail! Four shoulders!

This is oddly unsettling.