Author: mooncustafer

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dwellerinthelibrary:

Meanwhile at the Oriental Institute in Chicago, a demon is trapped at the centre of an Aramaic curse written on an incantation bowl. You can almost hear the tiny, indignant squawking.

If there’s anywhere I trust to keep that little Aramaic squawker in check it’s the Oriental Institute, tbh. 

Cool demon bowl but I’m 99% sure those letters are Hebrew. I recognize the letters but don’t know what it means, it could be written phonetically though.

Interesting! I checked the Oriental Institute’s online collection catalogue to see for sure, and I couldn’t find a photo of this bowl in their collection searching under either language (that doesn’t mean much, they haven’t fully photo-catalogued) but I did find several similar bowls in Aramaic. Intriguingly, one turned up in both the Aramaic Bowl and Hebrew Bowl searches I did, though the official catalogued language is Aramaic. Though a further Google search indicates that Aramaic and Hebrew are super closely related anyhow.

Well, there’s only one way to be sure. I’m going to have to make the ultimate sacrifice and go to the Oriental Institute to find this little demon for myself. 

Of Men and Matter – moon_custafer – People Will Talk (1951) [Archive of Our Own]

Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: People Will Talk (1951)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Dr. Noah Praetorius/ Professor Leo Barker
Characters: Dr. Noah Praetorius, Professor Leo Barker
Additional Tags: Friendship/Love, 1950s, Atomic Age, Countdown to OT3, You’ll Understand When You Meet Her, Everything Isn’t Atoms, Yes it Is
Summary:

“Noah, one of the differences between matter and mankind is that in matter all relationships can be stated; whereas between people they can rarely be put into words.”

Of Men and Matter – moon_custafer – People Will Talk (1951) [Archive of Our Own]

El Fantástico mundo del doctor Coppelius, part 2. More B&E

Exit, pursued by a bear.

Why does he even have that

Dr. C suddenly remembers he’s a sinister E.T.A. Hoffman character…

…for about ten seconds and then things get goofy again.

I swear that in context this is not quite as naughty as it looks.

“You’re lucky I bother rescuing you.”

“I’m not a RealDoll, I’m not even a real blonde.”

You do realize there’s an actual blonde in the village who’s, like, less than half your age and has a crush on you visible from space? Choose life, dude.

There follows the part of the ballet where the story’s all wrapped up but there’s still fifteen minutes of dancing.

THE END

weeb-potato:

there’s always that one mutual that becomes oddly obsessed with a B movie that no one cares about. if it hasn’t happened to you, it will. someone on here you hold dear is going to make fan art of Adam Sandler’s “Grown Ups” or like the live action Yogi Bear movie from 2010 and they’ll be the only one doing it

vampireapologist:

so i saw a discussion about feeling empathy toward children where an adult was explaining that they were worried something might be wrong with them bc they couldn’t feel empathy toward children and ultimately always sees them as “little adults” and didn’t want to comfort and nurture or protect them because all they saw was “someone who’d be an adult one day.”

and everyone went on reassuring them that nothing was wrong with them, they just weren’t a naturally parental person, which is fair and true!

but I didn’t see anybody making what I feel is the most important point, which is:

regardless, you still have to pretend empathy for the child.

No, you don’t have to have your own child, you don’t have to go out of your way to interact with children, and nothing is “wrong” with you if you largely find children annoying. you can tell your adult friends “I don’t have any patience for kids and prefer to not be around them,”

but if you view children as “little adults,” you HAVE to then logically say “but they’re not. they’re children, and I’M the ACTUAL adult, and it’s MY responsibility to treat them well and be nice when I’m around them.”

and I don’t want to see any comments like “must be nice to be neurotypical” on this, because I’m not, and there’s no mental illness that makes it okay to treat others badly, sorry. You have to be nice to children.

It’s just literally human decency. It’s one of the most simple rules of our species. Just be good to children.

kaijuno:

kaijuno:

Observation: I have never broken a bone
Hypothesis: I am boneless
Data: I appear to have broken at least two bones in my foot slipping on the ice
Conclusion: I have at least two bones. Strong evidence suggests the possibility of a third one. 

I’m an astrophysicist. 

reverse Poe’s Law