It is customary in my house to offer a bowl of Zyggy* pudding on Christmas Day, as a treat
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*Zyggy, as in Zygoballus sexpunctatus
black locust / bur oak / can't tell but possibly musclewood (hop-hornbeam and elm also have similar leaves)
sassafras / tuliptree / hickory (does not appear to be shagbark hickory, but i can't tell the other hickories apart just from their leaf)
cottonwood / horsechestnut (or buckeye; i can't tell them apart by their leaf either) / some kind of willow
Fuck you, City of Ur!
If you're dumb enough to buy a cartload of copper this weekend, you're a big enough schmuck to come to Ea-Nasir's Imported Metals!
Bad deals! Low grade copper! Thieves!
If you think you're gonna find a bargain at Ea-Nasir's, you can kiss my ass!
It's our belief that you're such a stupid motherfucker you'll fall for this bullshit! Guaranteed!
If you find a better deal, shove it up your ugly ass! You heard us right, shove it up your ugly ass!
Bring your deposit, bring your sealed tablet, bring your messenger! We'll send him back!
That's right, we'll send your messenger back through enemy territory!Because at Ea-Nasir's, you're fucked six ways from Sunday!
Take a hike to Ea-Nasir's, home of challenge pissing! That's right, challenge pissing!
How does it work? If you can piss six feet in the air straight up and not get wet, you get no down payment!
Don't wait, don't delay, don't fuck with us, or we'll turn you into a eunuch!
Only at Ea-Nasir's, the only merchant that tells you to fuck off!
Hurry up, asshole! This event ends the minute after you make a donation to the palace, and it better not bounce or you're a dead motherfucker!
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just had a nice sudden cry thinking about the song "tempus est iocundum" and how much i wish i could meet the anonymous author of that song and many others from the remote past so i could tell them how much i like it, feeling sad that they may never know that even 800 years later someone sings their music every day in the shower and while opening at work and stuff... but i think my tears were tears of gladness too, because maybe through some mystery i will be able to speak to them someday! at times in my past it has felt really certain to me that one day all of time will be gathered up into one perfect moment and we will all get to greet each other forever
do you guys know about the internet roadtrip? right now somewhere between 500 and 900 people are collectively 'driving' a car on google street view trying to make it to canada. it's fun i recommend it
I love Golurk's looming, awkward appearance, and how it seems like it's held up by ancient magitek. All of its details contribute to an aesthetic of ruin and age. It seems like such a mournful, protective force. I particularly like the jagged crack in its chest that has been repaired with the same substance as its wristbands. Sometimes I wonder whether it repaired itself, or if another entity did -- and who created it in the first place?
Round 2 - Match 4
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the fact that pro-monarchy arguments have degenerated, over the past few centuries, from “the king rules by divine right and is accountable to nobody but god”, to “uhm the royals generate a lot of income from tourism” will never stop being extremely funny to me
Sometimes it blows my mind that there are people that don’t wear glasses/contacts. Like they can literally see with no aid. Like they wake up and just be out here seeing. What a wild concept.