the tiles i drew for the ds9 2048 game. my wrist is killing me for this
are cafeterias a real thing like do those actually exist in america you just line up and get given gross food and then eat in the same room as your entire school??? if that happened at my school there’d be a riot imagine how loud that would be are cafeterias a myth
…do you…do you
not have cafeterias elsewhere?
Wait, seriously? CAFETERIAS are an Americanism? I. What.
They’re basically unheard of in Norwegian schools, where packed lunches dominate. There’s been a lot of rumbling about implementing it based on the successes of it in Sweden or something like that, but the last time I heard about it no public schools (ones operated by the government) offer lunches.
The giant cafeterias of US schools with their horiffic-looking food are fundamentally an alien concept here in Norway. (For one I expect there would be riots if a government institution tried to serve unappetizing food to children.)
Packed lunches are big in Norway. Even big high-tech engineering firms can expect people to pack their own lunches.
… I had legit forgotten that packed lunches were a thing. Despite having had them for a time.
Wtf, brain?
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We’re big fans of the bigfin reef squid in our Tentacles special exhibition! See how our cephalopod aquarists raise them from eggs.
Pip is back and she loves you and is excited she’s a tumblr celebrity! I had to send you what I call “the evolution of Pip”. Pip was found in a parking lot by her mommy @schneezusweiss when she was 2-3 days old. My sister named her Pip, aka Pipsqueak, because she was so incredibly tiny! And now the last picture pretty much sums up how chunky she is now :) I post “Piptures” on my blog @itsmeblackberry all the time or on my Instagram @emilieazorr as her aunt/manager :) thanks for loving Pip as much as we do! Also if you’re the blog Floozys I’m feeling star struck and I love you but even if you aren’t I still love you too 😍
Can we all just take a moment to appreciate this please
I AM OPTING TO TAKE MANY MOMENTS
CAN’T YOU JUST SEE HER AS THE DOCTOR THO
So one day a dwarf is talking to a human and finally realizes that when humans say woman, they generally mean “person who is theoretically capable of childbirth” because for whatever reason, humans assign social expectations based genital differences. (What a fucked up culture, the dwarf thinks.) But hey, better communication! So the next time the dwarf introduces theirself, they say, oh, by the way, I am what you call a “woman.”
And the trade negotiations just stop. They just stop cold. The tall people insist on speaking to the man, they insist on talking to the lady dwarf about all sorts of irrelevant bullshit, like recipes and childrearing and perfume
so the dwarf goes back home, enraged
and is like “BTW guess what happened, we’re all just going to be men forever now as far as the tall ones are concerned”
and everyone is justly horrified at this barbarism but they all agree to do whatever it takes to squeeze those tall bastards for all the resources they are worth
and the dwarves get surlier, and the trade agreements less generous
and the tall people are all “what a miserable and greedy race”
but really they’re just still nursing a grudge about how goddamn backwards and sexist the tall people are
because their best negotiator, one of their sacred cave people, got snubbed the instant she said she was capable of childbirth - and a mortal insult like that can never be forgiven
Because Pi’s tags are great:
#yes good #personal headcanon: dwarves have fundamentally misunderstood human pronoun usage #and gender roles #they are very perplexed by it #eventually they went ‘fuck it apparently ‘he’ is the correct word’ #‘it’s their language and they keep using it for us’ #so then you have this situation where dwarves are cognizant of the words ‘mother’ and ‘wife’ #but not the usual use of ‘she’ secondary headcanon specific to Tolkien dwarves #dwarves that choose to bear children are held in high regard #because they are making new dwarves it is the ultimate craft #that’s what mahal did you made a new person #it is very impressive #everyone is impressed
Just as an additional thought, we hear that women dwarves generally stay within the mountain and are a protected, guarded subset of the dwarves. There’s not many of them, so there’s an implication that women dwarves are too precious to be allowed out.
But what if this too is a mistranslation? What if the dwarves were talking to the Men and when asked “where are all your women?” they hit a wall. They whisper amongst themselves, and eventually come back with a question, “What’s a woman?” The Men are incredulous.
“Why, the members of your race that bear children, of course!“
More dwarven whispering.
They reach the conclusion that Men mean dwarves who are currently pregnant. Well! Of course those dwarves are currently safe within the mountain, well cared for and generally loathe to travel until the child is born. The Men take this to mean that all dwarven women are discouraged from traveling, and that their primary purpose is childbearing. Dwarves find this a satisfactory outcome, especially with the way Men treat their women, and so even when the misunderstanding becomes clear to them they never correct it.
I have never converted to fan-canon so hard before.
Every once in awhile I see that a post I added commentary to has BLOWN UP, and of course get no notification since I’m not the OP. Still a cool discussion worth re-sharing I think.
Dwarves being very confused when humans go “that’s a woman? How can you tell?”
And the dwarves know that the human word for woman means “those who are currently bearing children” or “capable of bearing children.”
The man comes out of that conversation very confused about dwarvish reproduction. He concludes that dwarves must cleave their offspring directly from mountain rock
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