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Thinking thoughts of Jorah Mormont as a Jedi.

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The night sky on Mars

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‘We must do without hope,’ [Aragorn] said. ‘At least we may yet be avenged. Let us gird ourselves and weep no more! Come! We have a long road, and much to do.'

The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien

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not my art #Grogu #BabyYoda #Mando #TheMandalorian #fanart

Jackie Gross > Mandalorian Grogu World ♥️ FB

A little comic panel I made. Credit to Ralph Sutter for being such an excellent model!

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y'all wanna see a horror story in 2 pictures?

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I need everyone to know that the ship Götheborg, the world's largest ocean-going wooden sailing ship, answered a distress call the other day.

Imagine waiting for the coast guard or whatever to show up and instead a replica of 18th century merchant ship pulls up and tows you to the coast.

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reasons to love harrison ford

1. hates donald trump 2. got his ear pierced at claires because why not 3. legit asks people to beat him up in action scenes EVEN NOW AS AN OLD MAN 4. is arguably one of the most iconic star wars characters yet couldnt give less of a crap abt star wars 5. the universe tried to kill him (or at least permanently incapacitate him) twice in 2015 and it only mildly inconvenienced him 6. flies helicopters in search and rescue missions 7. was in his 40s for the majority of the indiana jones series which is insane when you think about all the stunts involved 8. quote “the director yells cut and harrison cracks open a beer and then builds a fucking shed” 9. arguably sexy 10. points angrily and its super effective

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AVENGERS - white tank tops

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So the other night during D&D, I had the sudden thoughts that:

1) Binary files are 1s and 0s

2) Knitting has knit stitches and purl stitches

You could represent binary data in knitting, as a pattern of knits and purls…

You can knit Doom.

However, after crunching some more numbers:

The compressed Doom installer binary is 2.93 MB. Assuming you are using sock weight yarn, with 7 stitches per inch, results in knitted doom being…

3322 square feet

Factoring it out…302 people, each knitting a relatively reasonable 11 square feet, could knit Doom.

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One of my favorite hobbies is thinking about the fucked up implications of this fantasy world map my parents got me for christmas

[Image ID: photo of a map. On the left side of the map is Middle Earth, with the Shire and Mordor labeled. To the direct right of Mordor is Whoville.]

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Interviewer: What some of the coolest mementos you guys have got from sets?

David Thewlis: I’ve got a sword from kingdom of heaven and I’ve actually got a ring, my wedding ring from Harry Potter. It’s the only thing I’ve got from Harry Potter. We weren’t allowed to keep anything, especially the wands, they were taken off us immediately. And there were two rings, there were doubles in case we lost one, so I managed to take one and keep it. And actually when I got married five years ago I had the ring copied in gold and that’s the ring (shows)

I’ve never told anyone that story but my wife obviously knows that. But uh yeah such a nice, it’s a bit battered and grungy looking so it’s not sort of perfect but I kind of like that so I had it copied in gold because it was silver 

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Jorah Mormont in Game of Thrones 1x06

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“The only Hebrew version of the perennially popular Arthurian legends was written in northern Italy in 1279. […] The 13th-century Italian Jewish translator’s literary methods are as fascinating as are the Arthurian stories in Hebrew dress. The scribe not only translates from Italian, [..] he also changed and Judaized the story. The scribe’s manner of Judaization is evident at the outset of the romance; the apology itself is filled with terms from a familiar Jewish world. Instrumental to the Judaization of the Arthurian romance are the scribe’s choice of plot (the seduction of Igerne by the king, with its parallels to the David-Bath-Sheba story), additions and omissions, use of language, and treatment of certain passages to stress Jewish ideas. For instance, the feast at which Uther meets Igerne is described in the Old French sources as a Christmas feast. In the Hebrew version, the statement “Then the king made a great feast for all the people and all the princes” (based on Esth. 2:18) conveys the aura of a Purim feast. Another example of such transference of concepts occurs when the translator takes the talmudic word tamḥui (“a charity bowl from which food was distributed to the needy”), with its uniquely Jewish associations, to describe the grail, an overtly Christian symbol. The constant use of well-known biblical phrases reminds the reader of religious literature and produces the effect of biblical scenes in the midst of the Arthurian narrative. In this fashion, then, the text and the language interact in polyphonic fashion.”

— Jewish Virtual Library |  King Artus: A Hebrew Arthurian Romance of 1279 (via bors-of-gaunis)