maybe the real cask was the friends we led into the basement and trapped in a wall along the way
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my favorite thing about the cask of amontillado meme (which I LOVE) is that it displays, yet again, how difficult millennials on the internet are to predict. oh, giant company, you want your advertisement to go viral? well this week the kids are obsessed with a short story written in 1846 good fucking luck
oh my dear marketing man,you want me to explain how to track this? well, I could show you a chart that indicates the next five big memes. it is down in my basement, though it is quite cold, and surely you have another engagement to attend.
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So in my research for my thesis, I learned a thing, and it’s not useful for my thesis so I’m posting it here instead.
Okay, so, everyone knows that the words canon and cannon are not synonyms, and if you’re like me it kind of makes your teeth grind when people talk about firing the canons or historical cannon. BUT HERE’S THE THING. The word canon is a direct lift from Latin, and it means law or rule. And so when heavy metal guns were developed and needed to be called something other than ‘that big murder machine over there’, the word cannon developed directly out of canon in the sense of “to lay down the law,” the same way Samuel Colt’s gun got called the Peacemaker. Likewise, ordnance comes directly from the Latin ordinance, which also got transferred directly into English as another synonym for ‘rule.’
And that is your totally useless historical fun fact of the day.
Hmmm, do we have a source for this? Because according to Etymonline, cannon is related to cane, roughly means “tube”, and goes back to Latin canna (reed).
Etymology is a vast and complex field, and it’s of course possible that Etymonline is only reporting one of several purported derivations, but he’s usually really good at listing various theories and I’ve never heard this one before soo….
(similarly, ordinance as in weaponry seems to come from the notion of organising it in an armoury)
Yes I do, but the page presenting the theories (although well-cited and reputable to the best of my research, and as this thesis is what’s going to dictate whether I get a BA I’m being rather choosy) is about three hours of reading. It’s about halfway through, and if you want to Ctrl-F it you can just search ‘Peacemaker’. I suppose a better way to phrase it would be that, yeah, cannon is related to canna for ‘reed’ but was introduced with significantly strong associations to bind it to the word canon on an implicit level. This is, generally speaking, why I don’t write posts while distracted late at night–ADHD doesn’t play well with those things if I’m trying to be coherent and weird connections start to appear. And now that it’s a respectable hour I’m kind of wondering how I even managed grammatical sentences.
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Yes, please reblog
Do it. Now.
You never know if someone needs this. Reblog this, even if its not your ‘blog type’. Just do it.
Blog type doesn’t matter. Caring for people does.
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drop a number and a fandom in my askbox and I’ll answer:
- things that inspire you
- things that motivate you
- name three favorite writers
- name three authors that were influential to your work and tell why
- since how long do you write?
- how did writing change you?
- early influences on your writing
- what time are you most productive?
- do you set yourself deadlines?
- how do you do your researches?
- do you listen to music when writing?
- favorite place to write
- hardest character to write
- easiest character to write
- hardest verse to write
- easiest verse to write
- favorite AU to write
- favorite pairing to write
- favorite fandom to write
- favorite character to write
- least favorite character to write
- favorite story you’ve ever written
- least favorite story you’ve ever written
- favorite scene you’ve ever written
- favorite line you’ve ever written
- story you’re most proud of
- best review you ever got
- worst review you ever got
- favorite story/poem of another author
- hardest part of writing
- easiest part of writing
- alternate title for (insert story title)
- alternate ending for (insert story title)
- alternate pairing for (insert story title)
- single story or multi-part story?
- one-shot or multi-chaptered story?
- canon or AU?
- do you reread your own stories?
- do you want to be published some day?
- which one of your stories would you most like to see as a movie/series
- one song that captures (insert story title)
- do you plan or do you write whatever comes to your mind?
- would you ever write a sequel for (insert fic title here)
- do you write linear or do you write future scenes if you feel like it?
- share the synopsis of a story you work on that you haven’t published yet
- share a scene of a story that you haven’t published yet
- how many unfinished ideas/stories are you working on at the same time?
- three spoilers for (insert story title)
- writing advice
- open question to the writer
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I have bipolar mood disorder and I get worried that I’m too reliant on my medication especially if the dosage goes up
Then I realized
NEUROTYPICAL PEOPLE ARE JUST AS RELIANT on the neurochemicals in my medication, it’s just that their bodies produce it and mine doesn’t, it’s not that I’m a bad person and idk this realization seems to have really helped me understand and not feel so bad about it?
Exactly!
#if you can’t make your own neurotransmitters storebought is fine
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can we consider an assassins au where allura and shiro are both after zarkon’s head and they join forces to kill him?
(Source: miritama, via shiroallura)
“Why do you take politics so personally.”
What if I told you
that these policies
affect me personally?
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aelx:
daily reminder to click a button so you can give free food to a shelter!!
if every one of my followers did this, we could give more than 85 meals to less-fortunate animals. for free.
AH HHA ITS BACK YES PLEASE IT TAKES A SECOND OF YOUR TIME AND A LIFE OF AN ANIMAL
If my followers did this there would be 676 clicks
If all my followers did that there would be 1,351 clicks!!
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