I always assumed he just didn’t age during the curse, because of the painting, which he rips immediately after being cursed, and it being clearly of him as an adult - or, as the adult he is after the curse being broken. The line at the end of the prologue is (thanks, youtube!) “the rose...would bloom until his 21st…

Sign me up for the emotional pain train, express stops directly to I’m Not Crying Shut Up It’s Just Raining Indoors On My Face.

There’s a sort of variant Kelpie called the Aughisky that shows up in some early studies on Irish folklore (mostly, I’ve seen it referenced in late 19th/early 20th c. studies) but it’s less angry and all-around terrifying than the Kelpie, for sure.

And at higher levels, a huge part of the jobs of deans/presidents/etc. is fundraising - because big grants equals a jump in profile and prestige, even if they don’t actually always help the aspects of the university most concerned with students (finaid, teaching positions, etc.)

Fantastic article - reminds me I’m past due for a TNG rewatch. I’ve called upon Picard’s quote from Peak Performance more than once, when a need to overcome hesitation is required: “It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life.”

My vote for ‘better upon successive rewatches’ would be Mononoke - the 2007 12-episodes occult-mystery-horror series, that is. I don’t think it’s that widely known, but it’s a fantastic show.

The art direction and style are something else, just fantastically lush, and details jump out when watching a second time. But…

Naomi Novik’s Uprooted would have my vote. You’d have to do some finangling or go harvest moon for the first third of the book or so, but amp up the political factions a bit, you get Kasia to come in as one hell of a brawler character mid-game, and the Wood can degrade your sanity the longer you’re forced to stay in…

But what about Boomer?!

I didn’t realize Jóhann Jóhannsson was doing the score. Excitement for this film intensifies! (Also, excuse to post one of my favorite songs of his)

What’s this? The matriarchy at it again!

Very much this. It’s apparently why none of the Night’s Watch or Wildlings in Game of Thrones wear hats of any kind, despite being in all of the winter - hats shoot pretty terribly, the actor’s face is always shadowed, etc.

My tiny blackened heart grew three sizes in reading your comment. A barn I used to ride/work at had a some former track rescues (mostly boarders’) and they were all so crazy. I remember working with some of them and they really seemed like they no longer knew how to be a horse (or do anything that wasn’t ‘run very…

Selfie! It got so much better a few episodes in. I thought they wrapped it up the best they could, but man, I miss this show.

Kings! Forever sad about this show being cancelled.

If they stick at all to the spirit of the original, I think it should do pretty well! I’ve also been really excited to see these trailers - my interactions with linguistics proper is much more from the philology side of the fence, but my abundant enthusiasm has clearly decided it is close enough.

Also, because…

As has been mentioned in other comments, megaraptors are not the same family as dromaeosauridae. But! The largest of the deomaeosauridae, Utahraptor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utahrapto…) does approach this size at 7m/23ft in potential length for the largest known specimens.

Any loss of life is tragic, but most of the particular mention of the number of children who lost their lives in this terrible incident is in light of the fact that, since the locations were near shopping/eating areas where families were celebrating the end of the school year, many children were killed.

I was wondering how to sum up how stupid the design of this knife was, but I doubt I can top your quite apt, “metelworking masturbation” description, which is really on the nose. This thing is designed to look cool and not much else.

I suspect others have posted this, but all the same: the Tyrion vid by this same vidder is also pretty amazing:

Another day, another reminder that fatal familial insomnia exists and is terrifying.