#palindrome nice

[heslikefireandiceandrage]

tumblr moment

[deer-a-day]

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happy palindrome day (4/20/24)

[lumiidragon]

WIP of my latest IZ obsessions, 2K and Palindrome~

[camembertlythere]

Potato is a crazy word if you think about it

[vimbry-moved]

it only took me a week to remember these

that's no problem at all if you excuse me seeing this ask, going ooohh!!! and then Also forgetting and taking a week to respond sorry !!

AND it was apollo 18? sweet! I mean just look at that booklet design. cds are.. Still so good tbh

[brightlotusmoon]

Oh hey, I almost forgot about today, 5/25/2025!

oh shit, it's 3/21/23, 32123, palindrome day

[eatdrinkandburyme]

looking forward to when it gets to be 4:20 on 21/12/2024

[jtimu]

I am full speed ahead on the paperback binding train. This weekend's binds - Heal Thyself (Astolat) and isn't a kingdom and palindrome (@garagepaperback).

The details:

I made these with the intention of having a few things to show for myself when I sign up for the FTH bazaar. The typesets are quick and dirty, adapting @citrusses' Affinity files and popping in the particulars of each fic. The covers are designed in Canva, after extensive staring at a google search and trying to figure out what makes a book cover look commercial. They're all legal quartos, which makes for a nice pocket-sized book.

The cover construction itself I'm quite pleased with. They're printed on an inkjet printer (I'm currently abusing a free HP instant ink subscription) on 80lb cardstock and coated with a satin finish laminating sheet. The end result feels under the fingers like something you'd pick up in a bookshop.

The things that went wrong:

I'm still working on my double fan technique. I'm having more success with balancing the block on binder clips rather than transferring it into a press, but for each of these there were a few pages where I needed to go back with a very small paintbrush and a dab of glue.

I love my guillotine. I do. The edges are delightful and crisp, but it does leave an indent on the spine where I squish the book into place. This may be unavoidable.

The grain direction is off. That's actually unavoidable because I don't feel like buying new paper right now.

Sometimes your title is off-center and that's just a thing that happens because math is hard.

For the sake of completeness, here are the back covers:

[elancholia]

What I love about this article is its perfect comedic rhythm. It sounds exactly like something from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Like, this could be an excerpt from the Encyclopedia Galactica. The little punch lines rounding out each paragraph..."he has been credited with the invention of the palindrome." Or Monty Python. Stabbing at the platonic ideal of Some Greek Guy You've Never Heard Of.

What really rounds it out is the burst of extreme and unusual cruelty that finishes his life. "For this, Sotades was imprisoned, but he escaped to the city of Caunus, where he was afterwards captured by the admiral Patroclus, shut up in a leaden chest, and thrown into the sea." "2000 years after a man was nailed to a piece of wood for suggesting that people should be nice to each other..."

And the little cherry on top, where some guy, some caricatureish artifact of the callous and absurd process of human history, comes along and names a racist biogeographical explanation for pederasty after him, out of all the infinite possible candidates, for absolutely no discernible reason — that last unasked-for and unanswerable injustice. This article, possibly more than any other I've seen, realizes the dream of Wikipedia. The future is finally here.

[five-rivers]

Teehee, look at my nice round number and number palindrome before I mess them up posting more words.

[tmbgareok]

Just finished the first episode of season 2 of Poker Face.

What a nice surprise they played I Palindrome I as soon as the credits rolled!

Such a fitting song for this episode.

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[shivadh]

@dignitywhatdignity said regarding this post:

I have it in my head that everyone *knows* Prince Edward ben Gregory and nomadic food writer Zack Rambler are the same guy, but no one says so.

Even better --

So, the Rambler surname is pretty unique and Eddie's brand is strong enough that it's still pretty well known in the 2040s. If Zach wants to go incognito he's going to have to pick another surname.

He could go with Johnson, that's Tully's birth surname, but Zach Johnson isn't that marketable. Nobody knows Ceece's birth surname, she won't tell. So he could go to his other father's side -- Miranda was a Daskaz before she was crowned, but Zach Daskaz looks like some kind of attempt at a palindrome. Michaelis never had a proper surname, Ben Jason is more like an honorific and wouldn't be passed down. But King Jason was just a guy before he was elected. And his surname is perfect -- interesting but not super weird, and a nice way to honor Zach's grandfather.

Zach Michaelis, award-winning travel and food influencer for his innovative web series See You On The Road, will be releasing his first book this fall. Part travel memoir and part cookbook, "King of the Road" details his food-driven ramblings from rural Wales to the seaports of New Zealand, meeting chefs and surfers, artists, fellow vagabonds, royalty, and con men along the way.

[potato-lord-but-not]

“There’s something aesthetically pleasing about the word noon. Its palindromic spelling feels appropriate for the middle of the day, when the sun is directly overhead and the hands on the clock are pointed upward in a straight line. It’s even spelled with letters found more or less in the middle of the alphabet.” (“What Time Is…” par. 1)

Perhaps unfortunately for my argument, this article goes on to explain how the word ‘noon’ originally referred to the ninth hour of the day, that of course being 3 o’clock; because the sun and with it the people rose at six. It is derived from the Latin word for ‘ninth’, ‘nonus’. The word’s meaning apparently shifted during the twelfth century, because of the prayers of monastic orders. The second of three daily prayers would occur at noon, and the time of this prayer eventually became earlier, landing at twelve. This is believed to have been so the monks could break their fast sooner. Of course, this is not universally agreed upon and other theories include shifts in seasonal daylit hours, and European Medieval people’s struggles to have accurate timekeeping.

None of my sources suggest that three o’clock was considered the middle of the day at any point in time, therefore I would like to argue that the word noon did not originally refer to the middle of the day, but eventually, when it was given to the time that is more deserving of that title, came to do so. I believe that the denotation “middle of the day” is something that is both scientifically and culturally awarded, and that for whatever reason the people (however unknowingly) creating the Old/Middle English language believed twelve o’clock to be so. If you wish to create your own cultural norms, by all means go ahead, just remember that the word culture refers to a group, so you’ll need to find some people who agree with you. (Which, hey, maybe you already have, maybe most people agree with you and I’m just being pedantic.)

Anyways um hi, sorry about this, I did in fact make a tumblr account solely to send you this, because the idea of doing so was too funny to me to not.  Also, I just discovered that the Oxford English Dictionary website has a pay wall these days and I am DEVASTATED I tell you, devastated. But yeah, I’ll stop, have a good weekend, I love you, I hope your morning spent on public transit hasn’t been too boring.

Works Cited

“Culture Definition & Meaning.” Merriam-Webster, Merriam-Webster, www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/culture. Accessed 2 Mar. 2024.

“Noon (n.).” Online Etymology Dictionary, www.etymonline.com/word/noon. Accessed 2 Mar. 2024.

“What Time Is ‘Noon’?” Merriam-Webster, Merriam-Webster, www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/noon-history-ninth-prayer-hour-nones. Accessed 2 Mar. 2024.

OFC you’re leaving citations on A TUMBLR ASK OH MY GODDD anyway I do believe I’m starting a cultural shift because everyone I’ve asked so far has NOT said mid-day is noon they’ve ranged from 11-1 to 1-2 (albeit a bit earlier than my 2-3 answer but STILL)

Yknow what fuck it let’s do a poll bb

anyywayyyy everyone say hi to my girlfrienddd give them a nice warm welcome to tumblr <3

[garagepaperback]

writer interview game ~

ty to @citrusses for the tag. god i love myspace bulletins

how many works do you have on ao3? 11

what's your total ao3 word count? 303k

your top 5 stories by kudos?

ready, able

this heaven of mud

palindrome

objection

a barely lit path

do you respond to comments? yes, late, but hopefully the accusations of better than never are true

what's the fic you've written with the angstiest ending? probably coyote. lousy root to tip.

what's the fic you've written with the happiest ending? u know, delusionally, they are all equally happy to me

do you write crossovers? nah

have you ever received hate on a fic? no! looking forward to crumpling under some one day!

do you write smut? aw. yeah ::)

have you ever had a fic stolen? lmao that would be wild

have you ever had a fic translated? same answer as above

have you ever co-written a fic before? no but honestly this sounds dreamy and nice. i would like to do this.

what's your all-time favorite ship? tried and true h/d

what's a wip that you want to finish but don't think you ever will? oh i wandered through my notes app and forgot i wrote two starts to an mcd? thing? where draco lives in a lil shack on the razed grounds of the manor and has an orchard and different? harry's? keep showing up but then also dying, the former of which somehow happens bc draco's trying to see his parents and buried? a journal? anyway no i will absolutely never write this look how many question marks there are. i just wanted to write about draco with peaches, for sure. i have several ideas that are images and you know not ideas lmao

what are your writing strengths? funhouse mirror metaphors. sensory shit

what are your writing weaknesses? dialogue, not breaking up dialogue to wander off on my lil tangents, when a character has to move, things happening, the things that happen doing plot stuff later, not going off on my lil tangents

what are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic? oh i love it! i'm a true fucking luddite so i'd love to bother a native speaker and beg 'em to read through for me, if i ever work that in

what's a fandom/ship you haven't written for yet but want to? FLINTWOOD

what's your favorite fic you've ever written? javelin ::) i love ::) divorce

tagging: @eleadore @yiiiiiiiikes25 @kamaela @tackytigerfic @sweet-s0rr0w @dryrsheet @jtimu + anyone else who wants in <3

[shadowgast-recs-weekly]

Hidden Gems 8: A Shadowgast Rec List

This week, we have hidden gems! Check under the cut for five fics that have less than 150 kudos, and don't forget to comment and kudos if you like them!

lend me your mettle by royalgreen (allyoop) (3186, Teen) Reccer's Content Notes: No Content Notes

The Mighty Nein and a day at the beach

Reccer says: It's a lovely thing to read at the end of summer (in the northern hemisphere, currently) - the vibes are immaculate

grasp at every ray of sun by quinn_of_aebradore (1107, Teen) Reccer's Content Notes: No Content Notes

While on vacation with the Nein on Rumblecusp, Beau overhears Caleb having a conversation with a surprise visitor.

Reccer says: Soft and lovely, with a great characterization in the Beau POV

All Over the Place by daintylemonsquare (2660, Explicit) Reccer's Content Notes: No Content Notes

Caleb and Essek get a new house. They have to break it in somehow.

Reccer says: Funny and sexy, and a bunch of short little scenarios of Caleb and Essek fucking in their house

Palindrome by dawl_and_dapple (3890, General) Reccer's Content Notes: No Content Notes

A thief steals into the tower of a reclusive and ancient mage from another world on a mission to steal magic secrets. An extra-planetary scientist finds himself the unwilling host of one of the planets' barbaric locals who thinks he is some sort of magician. They can make the most of this situation.

Reccer says: A fun and interesting AU concept! Great worldbuilding and a nice dynamic between Caleb and Essek

Playing Chicken by NKMLN (1771, General) Reccer's Content Notes: No Content Notes

In a panicked moment, Essek polymorphs Caleb into a chicken

Reccer says: Such a fun concept with hilariously brilliant execution

Aeor is for Lovers is an 18+ Shadowgast Discord server. The above fanfic recommendations were pulled from our community for this weekly event. All fics, unless otherwise specified, will primarily feature Shadowgast. Have any questions about what this is? Check out the FAQ! Next week, we’ll be back with shadowblumendrei (Essek/Caleb/Wulf/Astrid)

[cowsuponcows]

Hello, They Might Be Giants and Inanimate Insanity fans! May I present:

ii characters as tmbg songs!

Under a read-more because this is LONGGGG I cover almost every character

Lightbulb - Wearing A Raincoat

Pepper - She Thinks She's Edith Head about Salt and Museum Of Idiots

Salt - Your Racist Friend but it's about her. She's the friend's racist friend. And Bills, Bills, Bills

Mephone4 - I Am Alone and Kiss Me Son Of God and Cage And Aquarium

Paintbrush - You're On Fire

Baseball - I Should Be Allowed To Think

Balloon - Put Your Hand Inside The Puppet Head and Lazy

Nickel - Dead

Pickle - How Can I Sing Like A Girl? if you're not a coward. I Lost Thursday if you are

OJ - Let's Get This Over With

Paper - Ana Ng

Evil Paper - Operators Are Standing By, with 'go home' referring to fronting again and the lines about 'their portrayal on tv' being paper fronting instead of E.P.

Apple - Mr Hughes Says

Marshmallow - Bee Of The Bird Of The Moth

Bow - Super Cool

Mephone4s - She's Actual Size

Knife - An Insult To The Fact Checkers (warning for flashing in the video)

Bomb - Empty Bottle Collector it's a funky instrumental and I think it fits him

Synopsis For Latecomers is literally just people skipping season 1

Suitcase - Where Your Eyes Don't Go and Careful What You Pack and Snail Shell and Shape Shifter and Trouble Awful Devil Evil

Fan - Erase

Taco - Haunted Floating Eye for s1 because it's nonsense. Fits her facade. Canada Haunts Me mostly because of the beautiful sound to it and Taco being (metaphorically) haunted by her past. Also I Am A Ring to Pickle and This Microphone

Steve Cobs - Kiss Me Son Of God alternative version and Hate The Villinelle and Yeah, The Deranged Millionare

MePad - Mrs Bluebeard

Toilet - Now Is Strange

Mephone3gs - Push Back The Hands

Box - Am I Awake? and I Left My Body

Prime Shimmers - I'll Be Haunting You

Test Tube - Hall Of Heads or the entirety of Here Comes Science as a copout
Cherries - Violin

Microphone - All Time What

Tissues - I Like Fun

Cheesy - Boss Of Me

Yin - My Evil Twin

Yang - The Shadow Government

Trophy - Prevenge

Soap - Memo To Human Resources

Dough - The Biggest One

Bot - I Palindrome I and Re-PETE offender

Cabby - I Can't Remember The Dream

Goo - Aaa

Blueberry - I Broke My Own Rule

Tea Kettle - Feel Good Sublet

Clover - Experimental Film

Silver Spoon - Lucky Ball And Chain and ECNALUBMA

The Floor - Brain Problem Situation

Life Ring - Mrs Train about Tea Kettle

Candle - Say Something Nice About Detroit

Spoiled Lemon - The Mesopotanians

Walkie Talkie - Piece Of Dirt

Springy - Marty Beller Mask

Payjay - Pet Name

Thank you for reading this!! "Wow some of these are deep cuts!" Yep! I am autistic. I'd appreciate a reblog this took like a week