I love the clothes from Volante Design (“Superhuman Streetwear”); their latest is the “Starfleet 2364” line of men’s and women’s jackets inspired by Star Trek: The Next Generation uniforms.
The jackets are made of heavy denim and are basically extremely well-styled/tailored biker jackets (like Volante’s excellent Hacker
jackets), partially or fully unzipping them and folding down their
lapels takes them from “cosplay” to “cosplay adjacent” in an instant.
They’ve got loads of interior and exterior pockets, and are
double-stitched and come in “Command Red, Operations Gold, or Sciences
Blue,” sized 37 – 51, 55 (men), and 33 – 45 (women). They’re made in
Chicago, retail for $315, and will ship by December 14th.
105. The different Hogwarts houses celebrate birthdays differently:
Hufflepuff:
On their birthdays, the Hufflepuffs get woken up with cake in bed before breakfast
The night before the other students prepare the celebration and the cake, and they visit the kitchen for ingredients
The Hufflepuffs make sure to never forget any birthday, and it’s a priority to celebrate every birthday equally much, even for students who are not their closest friends
The students who have their birthday in summer or during the Christmas break gets celebrated when they come back in autumn, no one is forgotten
The student is presented with little surprises throughout the day, like all the portraits wishing them a happy birthday
Gryffindor:
The Gryffindor students have the loudest celebrations
The day starts with all the other students in their dormitory singing happy birthday
During the day the students will randomly burst into song, and they can be heard singing everywhere in the castle
The birthday girl/boy/person is sometimes given a crown or hat to wear during the day, and every time they see someone wearing one, they all start singing
Once, Fred and George Weasley enchanted the statues and suits of armour in the school to sing every time she/he/they walked by
The singing always drives the professors crazy, and all except Dumbledore, Lupin and Hagrid give out detentions to anyone who sings in their class
“You’re SO OLD!!”
Slytherin:
The Slytherins plan their birthday celebrations for a long time, with organised teams within the house for each part of the celebrations, like music, cake, decorations etc.
It’s important for the Slytherins to throw the perfect birthday celebrations, and the students pride themselves in having the best parties and surprises
Every student gets their own little party, sometimes with only their closest friends and sometimes with almost every student of the house
The parties are often supposed to be surprises
But the birthday girl/boy/person almost always figures it out beforehand
Every student gets a personalised verse of happy birthday or their own short song, prepared by the students in the “song group”
Ravenclaw:
Every birthday the birthday girl/boy/person has to complete a treasure hunt, and are given clues and riddles to find the treasure throughout the day
The clues are given written down on pieces of paper or in other magical ways
Each riddle leads to another clue and they eventually lead to the treasure that is hidden somewhere on the grounds or in the castle
The treasure varies for each student and is personalised for that specific person by their friends
The students of Ravenclaw always makes sure to prepare small but clever surprises for birthday girl/boy/person to discover throughout the day, all leading up to the big gift
I love how humans have literally not changed throughout history like the graffiti from Pompeii has people from hundreds of years ago writing stuff like “Marcus is gay” “I fucked a girl here” “Julius your mum wishes she was with me” and leonardo da vinci’s assistants drew dicks in their notebooks just for the banter and mozart created a piece called “kiss my ass” so when people wish for ‘today’s generation’ to be like ‘how people used to’ then we’re already there buddy we’ve always been
The Hagia Sophia has inscriptions that were considered sacred for centuries until they were deciphered in the 70s to be Nordic runes saying “Halfdan wrote this”
my old english prof told us that theres a cave in Scandinavia where a viking gratified some runes like 14 feet up on the wall and when they finally reached it all it translated into was “this is very high”
Ancient Shitposting
Now on the History Channel
‘People have literally just always been people’ is genuinely my favorite fact about the world
“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106 BC – 43 BC
so not nearly as old but, this is a 12th century stave church in lom, norway (one of less than 40 left in the world)
it’s hard to see, but in the top left corner of this photo where the light comes in from the window, there’s a runic inscription
these photos show it more clearly, it’s easier to see in person. so of course one of the people i was travelling with asked what it said, and we were told it basically translates to:
“on this day, I climbed to this point, in the corner of the church”
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