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but Tolkien draws such cute dragons, omg

like look at Smaug, look at his ears, DON’T YOU JUST WANT TO SCRATCH BEHIND HIS EARS AND TELL HIM HE’S A GOOD BOY

and look at this guy, I guess he’s supposed to be ferocious but it looks more like “whoa man chill out, I’m just saying that those shoes with that helmet was maybe not the greatest fashion decision, just a little friendly advice, no need to get defensive.”

THIS LITTLE BB ALL CURLED UP AND TAKIN’ A NAP

I want this one to live in my pocket and be my sassy talking dragon sidekick

SO SMILEY!! “gonna go terrorize some helpless villagers aw yiss”

but my favorite is this little doodle here

just look at him

LOOK AT HOW HAPPY HE IS

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Obligatory‘I volunteer as tribute’

Endeavour + Battered and Bruised, Season One

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I'm calling this one "The Thinker..."

THURSDAY: ...Just don't go making something out of nothing, that's all. MORSE: That’s what we do, isn't it? THURSDAY: That’s what you do. —S4E1: Game

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Ok now I know where my obsession interest in men with rolled shirtsleeves comes from.

Also men who can dance are fucking hot.

SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (1952) dir. Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly

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Mandatory reblog, Now With Even More Black

Feral Fidget Friday: Back To Black Edition

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Throwback Thursday: A bit of history on the story behind “The Scandalous Lady W”

(accompanied by this ⬇️ delicious photo of Evans, for the curl-deprived among us)

Story for paywalled folks ⬇️

The need for the legal concept of criminal conversation — a typically discreet Victorian term for a specific type of sexual intercourse — ended in the mid-19th century with the arrival on the statute book of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1857.

Indeed, the term was wholly misleading as the action was not a crime and there was precious little conversation involved. Instead, the tort — which seems to have surfaced at the beginning of the 18th century — was the mechanism by which men could obtain damages from bounders who seduced their wives.

Damages could run high and juries, which were composed of “gentlemen of fortune”, tended to fix awards that the defendant either settled, or resulted in his goods being seized, the defendant being jailed — or alternatively, fleeing to Calais. No appeals were allowed until 1805 — and it was not until 1836 that those jailed for the offence could apply for release after 12 months.

In the 1750s, in the early days of cases involving the tort, Lord Mansfield had refused to allow a retrial when £500 damages were awarded against a clerk earning £50 a year.

Likewise, bad behaviour by the plaintiff was also frowned on. When Sir Richard Worsley sued his friend George Bisset for £20,000, the jury awarded him a shilling. Worsley had allowed Bisset to perch on his shoulders so he could see a naked Lady Worsley in the bathhouse.

Actions involved the aristocracy — with Lords Melbourne and Cardigan both surviving suits — and the middle classes, provided they had sufficient money.

The evidence was usually that of dismissed maids and coachmen, but August of 1857 saw one of the last of these actions with rather different evidence when an upholsterer — referred to only as Mr Lyle — brought a well-reported action in the High Court against his business partner, referred to in the records only as a Mr Herbert. Lyle alleged that Herbert had “seduced and debauched” his wife, who was the daughter of an Indian officer, and therefore, “probably in a condition of life somewhat above his”, said E James QC, Lyle’s counsel.

The barrister John Parry appeared for Herbert. It was one of those cases more enjoyed by the judge, counsel, the jury and the public than the parties.

Lyle had an expanding business in Charlotte Street, central London, and in 1856 advertised for a partner. Herbert put up the money and soon after asked if he could live with the pair as it was an inconvenient commute to his home in Croydon, which in the mid-19th century was a Surrey market town.

At first things went well, with Herbert and Mrs Lyle attending a masked ball together. But by May 1857 Lyle had become suspicious of his wife and arranged with his next door neighbour to borrow a room.

He drilled two holes in the wall through which he could spy on the pair. He had a friend, William Taylor, a cabinet maker-turned-inventor, who had developed a device — dubbed by the judge to much general amusement as a “Crimconometer” — which tested how many people were in a bed at the same time.

Amid more laughter Taylor explained to the jury how it worked. As with all good inventions it was a simple process — a piece of string with a lever and weight attached that dropped to a level when one person was in the bed and another when there were two.

On June 18 he watched the lever while Lyle looked through the hole. It took some time before anything happened and he and Lyle drank several glasses of gin from a bottle stolen from Herbert.

After about an hour and a half the lever dropped and Taylor — armed with a bull’s-eye lantern and allegedly dressed in women’s clothing — climbed over the roof to the Lyle matrimonial bedroom and shone the light on the erring couple. Lyle followed.

The question was: what to do with the pair? It was decided to leave them where they were, take away Herbert’s boots and retreat to a nearby public house.

Clearly Lyle was entitled to a verdict and the jury, after a “most able, humorous speech” by Parry, awarded him a farthing in damages. Taylor the inventor never benefited apart from £20 expenses that Lyle had paid him.

However, the Crimconometer did have a short-life outside the courtroom when a horse of that name raced in Ireland later that year.

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🎶 Just another Morsetache Monday 🎶

(Bonus toddler T-shirt)

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Inaccurate Google search results 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

And this…gem 🤢

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I love you I hate you I thought this was real 😳

I got excited and had to quickly whip up a pretend logo. 😂

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Hey @staff still an issue…🤨

Hey @staff that stupid Royal Match ad is still automatically playing audio. Have reported it several times and still an issue

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Who is this? Wrong answers only

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So, how is everyone doing after yesterday’s flailing?

I could get used to seeing BTS scenes on a weekly daily basis…

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Hey @staff it’s still an issue today 😠

Hey @staff that stupid Royal Match ad is still automatically playing audio. Have reported it several times and still an issue

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Hey @staff that stupid Royal Match ad is still automatically playing audio. Have reported it several times and still an issue

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Adding a few more via the Daily Mail…

I’ll be in my bunk

And here's all the pics from the artice...

Credit: Manchester Evening News

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It’s 97F here today but this is waaaaay hotter 🥵

And here's all the pics from the artice...

Credit: Manchester Evening News

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TV Appreciation Week: Day 7 (27 July): Newfound favourite character / recently discovered fave: The Dept. Q detective team