flopgoblins:

I know we did this once already, but having a shared sideblog meant we didn’t have a joint inbox and couldn’t like or follow people back. So this is the new and improved (and messageable!) blog for @imindhowwelayinjune and @thelioninmybed!

We’ve been pretty quiet on what, exactly, is going on with our novels (okay, pretty quiet in general lately) but we can promise that no news is good news (for us and our new friends at the Corvisiero Literary Agency) and we’ll have updates to share very soon. 

In the meantime, we’re going to do a better job of posting content to and interacting from this blog, so if you’d like to see more of us and what’s going on with our original fiction, please give it a follow!

lenyberry:

that-kid-in-the-drifloon-hat:

bertholdtbraun:

bertholdtbraun:

There are these little tiny fuzzy bugs that are flying around my pear tree and I kind of want to call them cute but I feel like the second I do someone’s gonna tell me they’re like the spawns of satan and they sting people and kill my trees

Nevermind they’re called “Woolly Aphids” and they’re literal fairies

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I feel bad for calling them evil now they’re so frickin cute

i saw one and nearly shat myself thinking it was a fairy

that IS a fairy

edenfalling:

owl-song:

animatedamerican:

janothar:

actuallyclintbarton:

animatedamerican:

taiey:

voximperatoris:

For most of its being, mankind did not know what things are made of, but could only guess. With the growth of worldken, we began to learn, and today we have a beholding of stuff and work that watching bears out, both in the workstead and in daily life.

The underlying kinds of stuff are the firststuffs, which link together in sundry ways to give rise to the rest. Formerly we knew of ninety-two firststuffs, from waterstuff, the lightest and barest, to ymirstuff, the heaviest. Now we have made more, such as aegirstuff and helstuff.

The firststuffs have their being as motes called unclefts. These are mighty small: one seedweight of waterstuff holds a tale of them like unto two followed by twenty-two naughts. Most unclefts link together to make what are called bulkbits. Thus, the waterstuff bulkbit bestands of two waterstuff unclefts, the sourstuff bulkbit of two sourstuff unclefts, and so on. (Some kinds, such as sunstuff, keep alone; others, such as iron, cling together in chills when in the fast standing; and there are yet more yokeways.) When unlike unclefts link in a bulkbit, they make bindings. Thus, water is a binding of two waterstuff unclefts with one sourstuff uncleft, while a bulkbit of one of the forestuffs making up flesh may have a thousand or more unclefts of these two firststuffs together with coalstuff and chokestuff.

At first it was thought that the uncleft was a hard thing that could be split no further; hence the name. Now we know it is made up of lesser motes. There is a heavy kernel with a forward bernstonish lading, and around it one or more light motes with backward ladings. The least uncleft is that of everyday waterstuff. Its kernel is a lone forwardladen mote called a firstbit. Outside it is a backwardladen mote called a bernstonebit. The firstbit has a heaviness about 1840-fold that of the bernstonebit. Early worldken folk thought bernstonebits swing around the kernel like the Earth around the Sun, but now we understand they are more like waves or clouds.

#this is science minus all latin derived words via @lyricwritesprose

I have seen this before AND I LOVE IT SO MUCH.

It’s not just Latin derivations that have been taken out and replaced by Germanic-English roots; it’s Greek and French too.  The source is “Uncleftish Beholding”, by Poul Anderson (full text here, Wikipedia article here).

What English might sound like if we didn’t beat up other languages in back alleys, then? 😉

Seriously tho I love this.

Eh, be fair, French and Latin were forced upon the English.

And so was Greek, mostly by the people who brought in the French and Latin.

But yeah, what English might sound like if its speakers had always been language purists but the language had somehow survived anyway.

Ok, why is oxygen sourstuff?

Literal translation: oxygen means ‘thing that creates acid,’ aka sourness. (Hydrogen and oxygen really should have their names switched, but it is centuries too late for that now.) You can find a real-world equivalent to Anderson’s terminology in German, wherein the name for oxygen is Sauerstoff and the name for hydrogen is Wasserstoff. 🙂