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Helen T. / Not a teen really, any more / North of Botany Bay
A tumblog with less impenetrable prose and more FANDOM SQUEE GIFS YAYY. Still hope to be cogent, though.
Opinions expressed by others in reblogged material not that of blog proprietor will be noted in tags by (at least vaguely) negative tags.
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Post reblogged from Batshit Moments in Australian Politics
Guys I’m screaming its been up there for less than 24 hours
Its gaining like 500 streams every time I check. This might actually chart in Australia at this rate 💀
Any profits are gonna go to an LGBT charity because the last thing the gay world needs more of rn is capitalism.
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Post reblogged from and the stars will wait;
“tiktok has massive problems that even if you don’t agree with a complete ban have to be addressed for all social media platforms” and “the Chinese government is doing pretty awful things” and “there is a lot of sinophobic fearmongering and double standards in the conversation about tiktok” and “people should exercise basic caution signing up to foreign or domestic social media” and “most Chinese citizens like US citizens are just people living their life and cultural exchange between them can be beneficial for both sides” and “some people being on the same social media site isn’t going to solve everything ” and “I want to study the linguistics happening there under a microscope” are opinions that can coexist
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Photo reblogged from Maps on the Web
Countries that celebrate Christmas on January 7th.
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Post reblogged from Live your life as you see fit
I’m reading this book at the moment, and did you know that shepherds had their own counting system in parts of Northern England, Wales and the Scottish Borders?
“… let’s start with a little known, deliciously quirky, remnant called the ‘shepherds’ score’, or Yan Tan Tethera. It’s an ancient way of counting, still used by some shepherds today, in northern England, Wales, parts of the southwest and lowland Scotland. The system is vigesimal, or base-20. It stops at twenty - once a shepherd had counted to this number, he’d mark it in some way (a notch on his crook, perhaps, or a stick placed in the ground) and then start again at one.
Linguistically, its origins are lost, but some scholars believe it may have its roots in Brittonic (or Brythonic) languages, those early versions of Welsh, Cornish and Breton spoken during the Iron Age. Individual words vary slightly from region to region, but they all share remarkable similarities. The Lincolnshire version goes like this:
Yan (1), Tan (2), Tethera (3), Pethera (4), Pimp (5), Sethera (6), Lethera (7), Hovera (8), Covera (9), Dik (10), Yan-a-dik (11), Tan-a-dik (12), Tethera-dik (13), Pethera-dik (14), Bumfit (15), Yan-a-bumfit (16), Tan-a-bumfit (17), Tethera-bumfit (18), Pethera-bumfit (19), Figgot (20).
The numbers above ten use a combination of smaller digits - so eleven is Yan-a-dik (one and ten) - it’s brilliant in its simplicity and rhythmic bounce when spoken aloud.”
— A Short History of the World According to Sheep, Sally Coulthard, p. 68
^ I referenced yan tan tethera just now so here’s a bit more about it. Bear in mind that a sheep counting language is inherently soporific, so do make sure that you’re in a good spot for a nap before practicing.
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Post reblogged from Yes, Honor is dead. But I’ll see what I can do.
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Photo reblogged from Narrow Road to the Exterior
I always have to start the New Years with this picture.
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happy new year to all the Americans late to the party, as per usual (it’s been nearly 21 hours by my phone’s count)
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Post reblogged from delighting in lightning
