If you exclude my disability from your discussions with me then you have excluded me. I am unable to separate myself from it, and you aren’t allowed to either.
no man will ever be as attractive as aragorn during his first appearance on lord of the rings: the fellowship of the ring (2001)
i nominate aragorn opening those giant doors in lord of the rings: the two towers (2002)
Can I also nominate Aragorn raising his sword and running towards orcs with masses of ghosts behind him in Lord of the Rings: The return of the king (2003)?
lmao on the edinburgh zoo site it says “there is a daily penguin parade at 14:15 but it may be cancelled last minute as it is a voulntary parade, we do not coax the penguins with food, and they may not want to go out” lmao anarchopenguinism
this is the cutest goddamn thing i’ve ever heard
I saw the penguin parade. It was a very slow parade, because the
pingüinos take their sweet time and aren’t very fast walkers to begin with.
can I volunteer to be a penguin
I feel like the world needs to know the context of the edinburgh zoo penguin parade, becausr I’ve been going there my entire life and I only found out about this the other year.
So a while back (I can’t remember exactly when but I think it was some time around the 40s/50s), a bunch of penguins escaped. A keeper left the gate open so a bunch of penguins just… followed them. And the people loved it. Look at these adorable birds outside their cage just following that guy around! So they get all the penguins back inside and realise that none of them really ran off, they just followed the keeper and went back inside and crowd thought it was amazing, so why not make it a regular thing? Get enough people there that if one of them goes to make a run for it (which at least one has in the past), they can’t get past the people, and let the ones who want outside have a little wander. So every day, they get a crowd, they open the gate, and whatever penguins want to get out can go, waddle about, squawk at people, and then hop back inside.
Also, one of those penguins is Brigadier Sir Nils Olaf III, Colonel-in-cheif of the Norwegian King’s Guard. This isn’t really related to the parade at all, I just love the fact that there’s a penguin in the Norwegian army
Reblogging with Brigadier Sir Nils Olaf III inspecting his troops.
Carry on …
so i had to look up this penguin in the norwegian army to find out WHY there’s a penguin in the norwegian army and so, some choice info from his wikipedia page:
in 1913 norway gave the edinburgh zoo its first king penguin
in 1972 the norwegian kings guard visited edinburgh for a drill display, and adopted a king penguin. the penguin had not done anything special, penguins were not meaningful to this regiment, they just wanted a penguin. so they got a penguin. they named him after the man who had this idea, nils egelien, and the at-the-time king of norway, olav v
the penguin pictured is nils olav iii, as the original penguin adopted in 1972 is no longer with us
each time the kings guard visit the zoo he gets promoted. he started as a lance corporal and is now a brigadier
when he was knighted a citation from the king described him as a penguin “in every way qualified to receive the honour and dignity of knighthood”
nils is the only knighted penguin in the world, and the only knight of norway
Bockstensmanen, a medieval person who happened to die in a bog which preserved his clothes (and more), clothes like hella comfy??
Like seriously. Comfy and warm wool clothes!
(yes this are pictures of his actual outfit, not reconstructed clothing. They were very well preserved in all except colour. The bog gave everything that yellow shade, i suspect)
It goes around the entire body! So perhaps not quite a mantel but.
A got a little hood with a fashionedble long thingy at the end
Warm that too! There is no openings for wind or anything, so like. Just pull hood over head, get warm!
Warm socks! Gotta keep em feets warm (and just like in english, the swedish words for trousers, byxor, is in plural in its normal form, just because the medieval version of trousers consisted of two separate peices like here.
Somewhere, there should be something for hos upper legs but idk were that one is)
Anyway! I do think one can tell that keeping warm was an important part of the logic behind bockstensmannens clothing. Not odd that, when he lived in Scandinavia and all…
When we already at it, with listning his entire outfit. Here his this shoes
Reconstruction in how he might have looked like in life. The musuem points out, that his skull was very smashed when found, werehas it might be a bit so so with this dolls facial similiarity with bockstensmannen in life. And his hair colour we know not, the bog will colour most hair red with enough time.
But that hairstyle! That he really had! Bockstensmannen wore like Peak Fluffy Medieval Hair Fashion in life
The entire doll wearing bockstensmannens reconstructed clothing
What’s with the obsession with calling food or recipes “better than sex”…I tried your pintrest risotto Sharon and frankly I’m wondering if your needs are being met
2 cute girls. apple’s love of gradients definitely comes through but it doesn’t ruin the cute sapphic vibes. probably middle school girlfriends who braid each other’s hair at recess. 8/10 the blue one did the red one’s pigtails
they look like they’re power posing. stiffer than apple’s and their legs are triangular, but they still look happy to be here. no unique hair but they coordinated shirts today and that’s cute. 5/10 let them bend their arms
microsoft’s harsh black border makes them look sad and trapped. where are their necks? where are their mouths? at least they got cute bangs. 2/10 free them
lego heads. I appreciate the hair highlight, but their eyes are wide and unseeing. probably have seen unspeakable things. is it just me or do the red shoes clash with the pink dress. 3/10 for the ground shadow
some very smol wlw. cute femme businesswomen who love and support each other. nice color scheme but main drawback is that the details are hard to see. 7/10 let me appreciate their lipstick game
they aren’t holding hands!!! what’s this weird wrist-crossing thing?? I can’t get on board with the shapes for a face but they got their own haircuts at least. 4/10 I asked for handholding
cute angle distracts me from the soulless eyes. I feel like I’m staring into the void and the void is wearing a purple t-shirt. they look like they take on challenges together (by unhinging their mouths and devouring souls???) 2/10 coraline flashbacks
what are they hiding? they look exactly the same. are these the twins from the shining? did emojione turn wlw into cousins a la sailor moon? are lesbians just clones? we may never know. 0.5/10 half point for cute purple dress
aw! they’re looking lovingly into each others eyes. the oversized heads just make room for a little blush. I love their little boots and they each got their own haircut. 10/10 anime but it works!
different heights, hair, and outfits? messenger really put some detail into their sapphic emojis. just like emojidex the ladies get to look at each other, but where are their faces? 9/10 I have to imagine the heart eyes
their dresses are cute but their faces are haunting. appreciate the colors and the hair but can’t shake the feeling that they’re watching me. 5/10 adequate yet unsettling
htc these are just shapes. where are their necks? why only one arm? the legs are just trapezoids. heads aren’t circles! touching points of arm-blocks is not handholding! 0/10 this design is homophobia
also super small but keeps it simple. cute colors and a unique design for each of them. they probably go mountain biking on the weekends. 10/10 they met at a roller derby
