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Your rich aunt in the 80s

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Round Table of the Ancient Kings

So, the internet informs me that the inscriptions engraved on the Round Table in the Castle of the Ancient Kings were as follows (at least according to the production designer):  

bargu = main king (Arthur) 

drylic = magic (Merlin)

maegen = bodily strength (Percival) 

raesbora = leader in thought (Gaius) 

scamu = modesty (Lancelot) 

sósfoestnes = fidelity (Elyan) 

aeoeling = chief prince (Sir Leon) 

ellerweorc = heroic deed (Gwaine) 

éadlufu = love (Gwen)

These could use some tweaking, in my humble opinion, so I’m going to leave my alterations below for use in future fic.

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hey. don’t cry. crush four cloves of garlic into a pot with a dollop of olive oil and stir until golden then add one can of crushed tomatoes a bit of balsamic vinegar half a tablespoon of brown sugar and stir for a few minutes adding a handful of fresh spinach until wilted and mix in half a cup of grated parmesan cheese and pasta of your choice ok?

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The following description was written by Sloane Angel Hilton, the creator of the facebook group for this aesthetic: Its rise and fall between the years 1996-2002 - a movement in pop culture that is spawned from the research of The Y2K Aesthetic Institute. A notable shift in the visual mood of pop culture happened during the turn of the millennium, but it wasn’t Y2K Aesthetic. One thing I have found is that it was en vogue to be between 25-35, the prime age of Gen X at this time. I think of the “Music First” era of Vh1 programming. Contrary to contemporaneous Y2K Aesthetic, and also McBling style of the early 2000s, Gen X Y/AC models in editorial fashion or artist marketing were much more "natural". You will see tons of nude lipstick, hair parted down the middle or natural textured hair, natural leathers, knee high boots, duster jackets, natural and muted colors - especially greens, beiges, tans, greys, and black. Design and fashion was moving from 60s revival into early 70s. Retro-futurism was Y2K Aesthetic, but Gen X YAC was more terrestrial. Its futurism was a mix of sterile and organic. McBling was a full blown disco revival, but here, we just see hints of the 70s. Depictions of city life through a colonialist lens. First wave gentrification. Urban life influenced graphic design, such as in the use of Helvetica as inspired by the NYC subway signs. The rise of a minimalist design revival. On the runway, the rise/peak of the modern supermodel - Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss, and Linda Evangelista, who were all peaking at 25. In photography and film, prevalence of bleach bypass, cross processing, “Lomo effect”, and other color grading trends. Hit music in the US was heavily influenced or even imported from the UK and Europe. Notably, we saw a surge in french house/disco, big beat, electronic, trance, uk garage, and “easy listening”/adult contemporary marketed for Generation X. Less Pure Moods and more Cafe Del Mar. Pop artists were reinvented to fit, like Madonna (Ray of Light). "Soft Club" refers to club culture trickling down into mainstream culture. As the style shifts into McBling, club culture becomes so huge that only the rich can enjoy it in Ibiza. R&B + hip hop had a marked shift in production, due to producers like Soulshock and Karlin, Trackmasters, Darkchild/Rodney Jerkins, in addition to many more who formed top of the millennium sounds working with both these genres. Pop music was equally transformed by club music, R&B, and Latin pop. Rock, pop and poetry were put over trip/hip-hop & breakbeats. Songs that may not have been written for the dance floor were produced as club music. See: soft club. Get X young adults were into entrepreneurship, which supposedly fueled the 90s economic recovery, especially via tech industry. This is why they have been considered a generation which "sold out". Discussion is much deserved regarding the nature of media diversity, both genuine (largely POC in leading production roles across mediums) and as a marketing tool, and the start of gentrification as it would come to be known in post-industrial cities.

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foggy night

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(via mak! ↯ op Twitter: "gerard trying to search for mastas lyrics and all of them being wrong is so fucking funny actually https://t.co/UJwE4sgmrn" / Twitter)

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1. they googled their own lyrics 2. girl then ENUNCIATE

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character in a fight scene: *restrains their opponent by pinning them against the wall by their wrists*

me:

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I’ve decided to stop “getting in touch with my emotions” and instead focus on being sexy and cool like god intended

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Hildegard von Bingen’s Happiness Cookies

The nutmeg has a greath warmth and a good mixture in its powers. When a human being eats nutmeg it opens his heart, and his sense is pure, and it puts him a good state of mind.

Take nutmeg and (in the same amount) cinnamon and some cloves and grind them up. And then, from this powder and some water, make flour - and roll out some little tarts. Eat these often and it will lower the bitterness of your heart and your mind and open your heart and your numbed senses. It will make your spirit happy, purify and cleanse your mind, lower all bad fluids in you, give your blood a good tonic, and make you strong. (Hildegard von Bingen, Physica, I, 21)

Cookies for Preventing Sadness (Based on a recipe by Hildegard von Bingen)

2.2g ground nutmeg 2.2g ground cinnamon 5g cloves 500g spelt flour 150g cane sugar 250g butter 2 eggs A pinch of salt 100g almond pieces

Bake cookies at 350 F (180 C) for 5 to 10 minutes.

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The White Gems of Lasgalen

“Thranduil is very old, but that immortality came with a sadness. I have allways thought about it in the sense that he was spoiled by his immortality.

He lost his wife years ago, and all he thought he had left of her were the jewels that ended up locked inside the Mountain - the white Lasgalen gems which were part of the Dragon’s hoard.

So at the centre of his cold character was profound heartbrake, knowing he was destined to live an immortal life without her.”

- Lee Pace, The Hobbit Chronicles

Canon or not, I couldn’t care less. This is the sad story behind Thranduil I want to believe. Even if it brakes my heart.

*my pics*

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The white gems of Lasgalen, The Lasgalen Necklace

Those jewels were all that Thranduil had left of the woman he loved so deeply.

Daniel Falconer, Weta Workshop The Hobbit Chronicles, The Art of War

#elfweek *my pics*