Love-ring with play on grammar, made in France or England in the 15th century (source).
The inside of this broad hoop is engraved with a lady, amidst flowers and foliage, holding a squirrel (a symbol of inconstancy) on a leash, while the outside is covered with a black-letter inscription: This reads: UNE FAME NOMINATIVE A FAIT DE MOY SON DATIFF PAR LA PAROLE GENITIVE EN DEPIT DE LACCUSSATIF (‘a nominative report is given to me, the dative, by the genitive word, in spite of the accusative’).The inside is engraved: + M (ON) AMOUR EST INFINIT (V)E DE VEU ESTRE SON RELATIFF (‘my love is an infinitive which wants to be in the relative’). The verse with its play on grammar recalls fifteenth century French poetry, particularly that of Charles, Duke of Orleans (1391-1465). —from the British Museum description
Listen, the Exploring/Looking For Bounty Leads/Talking To Lots Of People montages are some of my favorite parts not just in Cowboy Bebop but anime/tv/film in general - they’re always so well-done and the interactions/story progression are so clear despite no dialogue, with gorgeously-drawn city backgrounds and diverse AF people, any of whom look interesting enough to have an episode to themselves. (The time they do this with space truckers is a freaking standout, as is the opening credits to the movie, set to the absolute jam of a song, Ask DNA.)
Just - Cowboy Bebop was Really Freaking Good on so many levels and I miss it every day.
New and Updated Career Options for 2019:
- Rakish dandy who spends three hours on his cravat every morning
- Romantic poet (who dies of consumption)
- Whaler c. 1850, in love with a harpooneer
- Late Victorian occultist
- Ambiguously gay Victorian/Edwardian groundskeeper
- Oxford student with a dark secret, c. 1910
- Bertie Wooster
- The subject of a J.C. Leyendecker illustration
- Climber in the Lake District during the Golden Age of Mountaineering
- Teddy boy
- Hermit who lives in the Mysterious Forest
- Dissatisfied Proconsul about to start a Civil War
- The Faerie Queene
- Dead poet guiding tourists through the layer cake of the afterlife
- Maîtresse-en-titre
- Goatherd
Lesbian Whose WWI Volunteer Work Doubled As a Path to Escape Her Stifling Upper-class Family
Bright Young Thing
Working-class Lad Turned Glamourous Cabaret/Circus Star
Autodidact Scientist
given the facts that 81% of 10 yr-old girls are afraid of becoming fat and young girls report being more afraid of becoming fat than of getting cancer or experiencing nuclear war, i think we can abandon the idea that public anti-obesity campaigns are actually about promoting health
Catholicism on paper seems like the perfect goth religion! Jesus the undead kween of drama and subterfuge! Them little round flesh crackers?? the blood drinking and chanting in dusty ass cathedrals at midnight?? The organ player?? Lady Gaga’s Judas??? Too bad about them people tho!
- jeff bezos didn’t sign a pre-nup
- and cheated on his wife of 25 years with a married woman
- and washington state is a community property state, meaning that all assets acquired during a marriage are divided equally upon divorce
- meaning that jeff bezos has to give his wife half of his net worth
- and he is presently worth $137 billion
- and half of $137 billion is roughly
- $69 billion