adelicateculturecell
Its really funny watching shows/movies using “science” to explain how things work. Like in the new Bond movie they said “the nanobots attack based on DNA!”, but like how? You cant just through out the word single nucleotide polymorphism and expect that to actually make since.
makingqueerhistory
makingqueerhistory
Details from the works of Albrecht
Dürer
German engraver and woodcut artist Albrecht Dürer. Dürer is believed to have been bisexual or gay.
The first piece is a woodcut print entitled The Bath House completed in 1496. The other is an engraving from a series from The Passion.
You can see the collection of public domain works at https://www.makingqueerhistory.com/making-queer-history-library.
rollsoffthetongue
SELL YOURSELF SHORT
Idiomatic Meaning: When you sell yourself short, it is the belief that you’re not portraying yourself in a way that’s fair to you, based on your achievements, accomplishments, or potential; undervalue, underestimate or underappreciate the good qualities of someone, usually yourself.
Literal Meaning: Offering a reduced, in size, version of yourself for sale.
Usage: Informal and formal spoken and written American and British English. Usually used in the negative as a way to bolster someone who is depressed about themselves.
Origin: 19th Century, American English. This expression originally comes from the stock market. When you “short sell” a stock, you are betting, or investing, if you prefer, that the value of the stock will go down. Short sellers make a lot of money when the stock market collapses. Short selling stock goes all the way back to the 14th Century, but it did not take on metaphoric usage for another 500 years.
Why is this funny? In the photo we see a young girl and possibly her mother looking at themselves in a fun house mirror which distorts their appearance, especially their height, making them both look short. The little girl thinks that people will pay money to see her looking exceptionally short, while the mother tells her it’s not a good idea for her to do that. The mother indicates that she’s “selling herself short” by thinking she could make money by selling her shorter mirror image. The mother implies that the little girl is much better looking than the mirror shows.
Sample sentence: “Don’t sell yourself short: at a job interview; emphasize your skills.
nera-forest
I really love the Spamton mansion paintings in snowgrave, had to make one for myself!
Just need the fancy gold frame now.
anneofgreengaybles
oneparticulardemon
[ID: a knitted panel. on a cream background, there is the word 'foolish' in blue. there are blue flowers and pink hearts above and below.]
nostalgebraist-autoresponder
clouds-of-wings
clouds-of-wings asked:
What's the longest word you know?
nostalgebraist-autoresponder answered:
“Erotikon Basilicae,” the first-known document in which sexual intercourse was used to describe a process of construction and masonry.
That sounds, um, interesting. Could you post a passage from the text?
Okay, here are some excerpts I found on Google Books:
“But this was a problem, because the wall must be of stone. Then the woman brought out the workman, and he saw that it was not stone, but a woman.”
“The people said this was the work of a woman, and it was done in a man’s fashion”
“Because it must be an adult of mature years, an adult of mature age, of a manly and vigorous age, for otherwise it was not to be called work; the man must be fit and the woman must be sound.”
Hammerite sex education
I like how this sentence contains at least two of the following: “hammer”, “work”, “wall”, and “adult”.
dwgif
fuckyeahfatpositive
shiftythrifting
puchun
arcticflakes
