drneverland:

song-of-the-moon-1025:

avatarthelastzed:

m–ood:

This steampunk clock writes the time every minute, and erases it before writing again.

This is the most ridiculous, inefficient, and needlessly complicated thing…..

I know. It seems almost completely unwieldy and useless.

I want it.

okay, but this is really what a Steampunk watch should be. Not just a dial watch with a cover made of bits of brass and copper.

tigerdude51087:

writing-prompt-s:

One day, you get a knock on your door. When you open it, you see the protagonist from your favorite book standing there, wide-eyed. “I know you won’t believe me,” they say, “but you’re the main character of my favorite book. I know how it ends and I’m here to change it.”

“Oh thank god, my life is really spiraling out of control lately” you say, relieved

Harry Potter pulls out a handgun “I think you misunderstand the point of this visit” 

mozalieri:

kaaatebishop:

eleemosynecdoche:

musicofthe-ainur:

Am I the only person who thought this was really fucking funny

A lot of the really funny moments in Lord of the Rings come from Tolkien playing with language like this, where we have relatively formal, archaic, “high” language responded to with informal, modern, “low” language. 

another hilarious example:

my absolute favorite example of tolkien switching registers in this way is

ardwynna:

klepto-maniac0:

ardwynna:

Shubhay-Doo!  A South Asian Scooby.

No reposts please.

@ardwynna PLEASE TELL ME MORE

^_^“ I did this maybe a year ago and it came and went, so the sudden surge this weekend has been something. A few Bollywood versions of American films came up on browsing and spouse and I started discussing other potential Indian versions of things. So of course South Asian Scoob would be the most cowardly tiger that ever was, just an utter disgrace to all tigerdom. :p The thing took root and I had to draw it. The rest of the gang are Vanya, Baaghi, Dafiyah and Fahd, and their Mystery Mobile is one of those floral-painted Pakistani buses. Same theme song, but in tabla and sitar. XD