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Anniversary of APOLLO 11 MOON LANDING

On July 20, 1969, 109 hours and 42 minutes after launch, Neil Armstrong and Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin entered the lunar lander ‘Eagle’, made a final check, and the Eagle undocked from the lunar orbiter ‘Columbia’, where the third member of the crew Michael Collins, stayed in orbit around the moon. Partially manually piloted by Armstrong, the Eagle landed 0 degrees, 41 minutes, 15 seconds north moon latitude and 23 degrees, 26 minutes east moon longitude. Armstrong stepped out, and Aldrin followed 20 minutes later: human beings stepped on the moon for the first time. The two men spent 21 hours and 26 minutes on its surface. One of the astounding aspects of the mission was the seeming simplicity of the technology used to get man to the moon. According to Oliver Gassmann, professor of Technology Management, the mobile phone in your pocket has one million times more memory than the Apollo 11’s computer. Same about the procesor: the latest phones typically have more than 100,000 times the processing power of the computer that landed man on the moon 50 years ago.

“It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.” –Neil Armstrong

(gifs from the documentary Chasing The Moon, 2019)

genuinely so tired of the male love interest in every m/f romance being the most hugelarge tallman to ever growth spurt. I need to see some women swooning over little five foot five rat dudes who need to be tucked in their gf's pocket lest they blow away like a napkin in the wind.

important personality test: mario kart main, gas station order (candy, drink, chip), animal you were obsessed with when you were 8, lightsaber color, and lastly: vampires, werewolves or dragons?

controversial take mayhaps but it's actually funnier when stories dance around swearing instead of actually including the swear

alternate coloring

favourite or most interesting wenglish quirks non-welsh people might not know about?

I have no idea what people would be likely to know about or not, so I’m just going to list a bunch, I think.

Inversion! I.e the thing Yoda does! Welsh allows a degree of syntactic fluidity for emphasis, and Wenglish carries this over. “Look at Boris Johnson. An absolute clown, that man is.” “I saw EEAAO on the weekend! Magical, it was, just brilliant.” This one sometimes can sound almost… wrong, actually, when used by an actual Welsh speaker. A totally normal sentence I have heard my husband say is “So cute, the cat!” instead of “The cat is so cute!” He once looked at a Pomeranian and said to me “So small, the dog!”

Doubling up on the verb to be! Similar to ‘innit’, but… more. “I’m going to give him a piece of my mind, I am.” “He’s all tired out, he is.” She’s been on the go all day, she has.“ Sometimes this becomes inversion if the speaker drops the first part. So, that last one might be “Been on the go all day, she has.”

Double dipping with adjectives! Specifically, adjectives that mean the same thing. English, being a Frankenstinian mash up of eight others, has a much bigger vocabulary than Welsh, and Welsh speakers in the 1700s being forced to assimilate were fascinated by it. So “There he goes, driving around in his big huge car” - a totally normal and not redundant description in Wenglish.

Double dipping with nouns! Same reason. “Whose coat is that jacket?” “Whose shoes are those boots?”

The negative question! I love this one. When asking a shopkeeper, you might say “Have you got any milk?” Not in Wenglish! In Wenglish you say “You haven’t got any milk, have you?” (Grammatically, the correct answer to that is probably “Why, don’t you want any?”, but in reality the answer is “Yes we do” and that’s linguistically correct.) Something something Welsh people expect to be disappointed something something.

Expanded words! ‘Where’ is usually ‘where to’. “Where to am I going?” “Where to am I taking the kids?” “Where to have you put Mam Gu’s medicine?” Sometimes it can be ‘where by’, “Where by does she live in Cardiff?”

‘Do’ gets added in before verbs in some parts of the south east. This comes from a method of Welsh verb shortening, actually. 'Cerddais i’ means 'I walked’ - 'nes i gerdded’ means the same thing, but literally is 'I did walk’. And that’s how they roll in Abertillery! “Whenever I go to town I do buy a cake.” “Gareth do play rugby on the weekend”. (For clarity’s sake, that last one would otherwise be 'Gareth plays rugby on the weekend.’)

'Look’ and 'see’ as verbal tags! Used at the end of a sentence for emphasis. “He’s done fucked it up, look.” “It’s easier not to bother, see.”

And a whole bunch of Welsh loanwords that get sprinkled in. Plus some English ones that we liked and used indiscriminately; the biggest and best example of that is 'tidy’, which is the most overworked word in all of Wenglish. How much did you sell your car for? A tidy amount. Did she hand in the wallet she found? Yeah, she’s tidy. How was your blind date? Tidy, yeah, might go for a second with him. Did you enjoy your meal? It was tidy, yeah.

Welsh ones:

Dwt (n) or dwti (adj). Very tiny. “He’s a dwt of a boy.” “Look at the kittens! I love the little dwti one.”

Cwtch, my beloved. Best word. Closest English analogue is 'hug’, which we also use, but a cwtch has connotations of being a little fluffy animal tucked cozy and safe into a comfy little space all happy and warm. Can be a noun (a cwtch), a verb (cwtch him up all nice) or an adjective (I love this room, it’s cwtchy). There is safety, security and comfort to a cwtch. Lesser used, but it also applies to a method of wrapping your baby into your arm with a shawl (traditional Welsh childcare method: baby stays warm, your arm doesn’t get tired, and you keep one hand free), and the small cupboard under the stairs.

Bach - small. Used as a term of endearment. “How are you, bach?” Generally used by someone older to someone younger.

Byt/byti - mate. Possibly where the American English 'buddy’ comes from. Used like bach, but between peers rather than older to younger.

Titles. Especially for grandparents! We’re still recovering from the lost generation of the seventies and eighties, so it’s not uncommon for people to have Welsh speaking grandparents who didn’t pass on the language but use the titles. Mam-gu and Tad-cu in the south (abbreviated to Gu and Cu), Nain and Taid in the north. But also Mam instead of Mum.

That’s all I can think of offhand, anyway! There will definitely be more.

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New sticker design!

Left to right: Mira, Jack, Rio (above), Veri (below), Sorcerous Quigley (in Veri's arms), Mick, and Mr. Conductor (in Mick's hand)

Wow. Goncharov came out fifty years ago. It feels like it was just a year ago that I first laid eyes upon it

why cant i read a book and watch a movie and play a game and clean all at the same time

i'm just curious bc i'm watching How to Train Your Dragon and i always forget how happy and calm it makes me feel. i mean, i did name my cat after Toothless the dragon. but i also love Lion King, that's my Disney comfort movie. and my Ghibli comfort movie is Spirited Away. watching any of these when i'm in a foul mood or my anxiety is high always helps 🥰 but i watch them just for fun too, not only when i'm in a mood. what about you?

Do you curse/swear?*

-yes, a lot

-yes, moderately

-no, never

-sometimes

-just in my mind

-yes but never in my first language

-more than one/a combination

-results

*using your own definition of cursing/saying bad words

*using your own definition of cursing/saying bad words

like birds perched on a streetlight

A trip to Arizona-- sketchpage from 2022 that I decided to color.

I think we as a society should bring back brotps. I think we should be weirder about characters being friends the same way people are weird about ships. Make those two characters who interacted once or twice besties. Make it difficult for them to get rid of each other even if they want to. Go nuts

Pippin Took as text posts

one thing i never get tired of in songs is when they include some sounds from the recording booth like a laugh at the end, a ‘was that good?’ or like, the sounds of the guitar being put down, a chair creaking. it’s nice how music can be used as an escape but also something that ties you right back down to earth. it will affect you so deeply & then ur like wow… you just played that. it’s grounding & magical & just one of my fave things ever!

i miss him (guy who i never met and died before i was aware of him)

Random Animal Generator - Perchance

Based on true events.

made myself poached eggs and I'm having them on toast and I save the prettier one for last but they're really slippery. so I get the first one on the toast alright but the second one I try to flip it on there and it slides around and I try again and it flies into the air and the cats are watching me and I cry "mein œuf!" in shrill dismay as it plummets to the floor and lands under the chair

Three college friends apparently trying everything on Taco Bell’s menu, 1988

guy who has chronic pain and fatigue: man why can't i do more stuff