korrigu:

itssummaawilum:

japan-magpie:

typhlonectes:

It took 90 years to complete. But, in 2011, scholars at the University of Chicago finally published a 21-volume dictionary of Akkadian, the language used in ancient Mesopotamia. Unspoken for 2,000 years, Akkadian was preserved on clay tablets and in stone inscriptions until scholars deciphered it during the last two centuries.

In the past, we’ve published audio that lets you hear the reconstructed sounds of Akkadian (Hear The Epic of Gilgamesh Read in the Original Akkadian and Enjoy the Sounds of Mesopotamia). Now, should you wish, you can download download PDFs of U. Chicago’s Akkadian dictionary for free. All 21 volumes would cost well over $1,000 if purchased in hard copy. But the PDFs, they won’t run you a dime…

@summa-awilum  !!!!  Do you know of this??? :DDDD

@japan-magpie Yup!! The final volumes were completed just a couple months before I took Akkadian. The dictionary is super convenient, and even better, it’s free….!! I’ve redownloaded the volumes each time I’ve switched computers/harddrives, too. <3 

@bodaciousbanshee

fuckyeahwarriorwomen:

spockslash:

skyywalkerfen:

legobiwan:

stars-inthe-sky:

A wonderful piece about fandom history, friendships, and legacies.

Dee called AO3 a “candy store,” and said the fan art she has seen, in particular, has been overwhelming. “I cannot get over the art,” she said. “We would have jumped at this. I would’ve given my right tit for all this art when I was in my twenties. Because you couldn’t reproduce it, you couldn’t send it out, but [now] there’s this fabulous art coming out every single day.”

Yes. Yes. Yes.  This is how it happened.  Excellent article.

Thanks to the author for permission to share this here, and for being just a really nice human being, and big thanks to the artist who did my mom’s portrait, above. -Zachary

we all start young and we all will grow old and we all still deserve to belong

elucubrare:

Where now are the base and its owner? Where the snake that was creeping?
Where is the rat with its pizza, or the lad for Britney weeping?  
Who then was phone? Where are the man and the hook and the hand and the door?
Where are the Caremelldansen of old, and the lava that covers the floor? 
They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow;
The memes have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow. 
Who shall gather the smoke of the dead wood burning,
Or behold the ancient jokes from the Net returning?

yieldsfalsehoodwhenquined:

technician: good news, doctor!  we’ve successfully captured and/or created a deadly mutant space creature.

scientist: fantastic work, recruit.

technician: thank you, sir!  what do you want us to do with it now?

scientist: put it in my hollow glass cylinder filled with blue-green fluid and connect one or more thin plastic pipes to its body.

technician: do you want us to occasionally blow some air bubbles upward through the liquid?

scientist: abso-fucking-lutely i do

gallusrostromegalus:

Homestuck: Like oompa-loompas leaping out of the woodwork at the drop of secret words or phrases.  Generally Amiable to nonHomestucks, but often vicious with each other, so the trick is the same as when visiting the lands of the fairfolk: Never Actually Consume The Wares Offered.

Star Trek: By Osmosis, I know three (3) Star Trek Memes, but only know how to spell 2 of them (Tarmac Angel Lard Et Tokugawa?).  Massive, old and rife with hidden politics and some very exotic deviances.  Not Unlike my expiriences with the Catholic Church.

Transformers: Star Wars’ dumpsterfire of canon issues looks like a smoldering wastepaper basket compared to the chernobyl-like meltdown of Transformers Canon.  Fandom is somehow extraordinalrity polite, well organized and pleasant.  Like they’re having High Tea with the Fine China and Cucumber Sandwiches whils illuminated by the burning of Rome.

Steven Universe: The Show is like a coming-of-age tale set in the thunderdome, but the fandom is Thunderdome set in a McDonald’s Playplace. 

Supernatural: *Viva Lad Vida faintly plays on the sad winds that echo through the ruined throne room, but the cockroaches picking at the moldering buffet seem to be having a great time*

Discworld: Listen. Listen I wholly admit to worshipping at the Altar of Sir Terry, but after a while, comparing things to discworld starts to feel like the dreaded art “compliment” of “It looks just like Disney!”.  Let people have thier own creations.

Warhammer 40K: For people working with the Grimmest and Darkest of AUs, everyone here is spectacularly jolly and irreverent, at least until you bring up the price of miniatures.

Dr. Who: It comes and goes with wildly different actions and discourse every time, like the haploid and diploid generations of plants.

Star Wars: Is omitted from this list because I’m deep enough in the fandom that I’ve been through all five stages of grief and seven more stages of emotions that do not have names in the tongues of men, and have achived the nirvana of “The Fandom is those 12 people in your chat group”

cherry-blossomtea:

because it’s fantastic. When I notice

The name for the infamous lobster tank scene track

Are you fucking kidding me.