Red tallies appear for every person you’ve loved, black for every person you’ve loved that has died, and a white tally for when you meet your soulmate
A mark that matches, sometimes like a puzzle piece to someone else, and grows hotter the closer they are to you
You have a tattoo of what your soulmate is most passionate about
You have a tattoo of the first words they say to you
You have a tattoo of how old you both are when you meet
Changing tattoo that tells you the coordinates of where your soulmate is
Tree tattoo that changes with the seasons, but blooms pink in spring instead of white if you met your soulmate
Identical tattoos or birthmarks
Incomplete tattoos that complete themselves on your skin when you meet the person with the rest of your tattoo
Tattoos that change colour depending on what your soulmate is feeling
Eyes
Heterochromia – you have one eye of your soulmates eye colour and when you meet you get your own eye colour instead of having two different eye colours.
You only see in black and white until you meet your soulmate
Reverse black and white where you give up seeing colour when you meet your soulmate
You only see in black and white until you touch your soulmate
You only see in the different shades of your soulmates eye colour until you meet them
You can’t see the colour of your soulmates eye colour until you meet them
You see colour the first time you hear your soulmates voice directly and the colour spills from their lips
Ears
You can hear your soulmates voice in your head, but only when they sing
The secondary voice in your head is your soulmate speaking
You can speak once you meet your soulmate
You can hear once you meet your soulmate (the first thing you hear is their voice)
Time & Age
When you reach 18 you stop aging until you meet your soulmate
Watch countdown to when you’ll meet your soulmate
Reverse countdown, your clock counts up and freezes when you meet
You have a clock on your body that tells you what time it is where your soulmate is, it changes colour when they get closer to you
Body or Hair
At new years on midnight for a single minute you possess your soulmates body
Your chest glows when you look them in the eyes
Marks on your soulmate appear on your own body
You have your soulmate’s hair colour on a stripe at your wrist, when they dye or chance their hair colour the stripe changes
If you change your hair colour, your soulmates changes to the same colour (your hair goes to it’s natural colour when your soulmates does)
When you change your hair colour, your soulmates eyes change to that colour
You and your soulmate share all physical senses (I.E pain, heat, pleasure, etc…)
Other
Red sting to connect soulmates
Your soulmate is the only person you remember from your past life
Everyone is given a journal that they can use to write to their soulmate
When you sleep, if your soulmate is awake you can see what they’re doing
You dream your soulmate, but very basically (such as their silhouette or the view of their back)
Telepathy soulmates
Sharing skills and talents with your soulmate
When your soulmate eats something you crave what they’re eating
When your soulmate cries you cry
When you kiss your soulmate for the first time your entire body glows
I got a lot of ideas from this post so I recommend you check that one out too!
Italian comes from Latin and nowadays in the Italian language there are still phrases and idioms that come from Latin and that are widely used, either in their original Latin form or in their modern translation.
Ad litteram – Alla lettera: to the letter. Generally heard in the Italian form.
Alea iacta est – Il dado è tratto: the die is cast, the famous phrase attributed to Caesar while crossing the Rubicone river and declaring war to the senate. We generally use the translation, but the original form is just as famous.
Alma mater – Madre che nutre: nurturing mother. Many universities in Italy are called Alma Mater, the most famous of which is the University of Bologna, called Alma Mater Studiorum
Carthago delenda est – Cartagine dev’essere distrutta: Carthage must be destroyed.
Cum grano salis – Con un grano di sale: with a grain of salt, Pliny the Elder, both versions are used
Cui prodest? – A chi giova?: who benefits from it?, Seneca. Both versions are used, but I’d say that the Latin form is more used, for example in detective stories
Do ut des – Do perché tu mi dia: I give to you so that you give to me. The Italian translation is generally never used.
Dura lex sed lex – Dura è la legge, ma è la legge: The law is hard/strict, but it’s the law
Horror vacui – Orrore del vuoto: the horror of the void. Not widely used, but commonly known
In medias res – Nel mezzo delle cose: in the middle of things, used to talk about books that start in the middle of the story
In medio stat virtus – La virtù sta in mezzo (a due cose): virtue stands in between (two things), an invitation to moderation
In vino veritas – Nel vino la verità: in the wine, there is truth. Funny answer recently added: “in vino veritas e in scarpe adidas” (in vino veritas and in shoes adidas)
Labor limae – Lavoro di lima: smoothing out the details (lit. work of file), Horace. Both forms are known
Lapsus linguae – Un errore della lingua: a mistake of the language/tongue. Generally used only in the form of “lapsus”, word that has entered the Italian dictionary
Non plus ultra: ultimate/top object. The phrase has entered the Italian vocabulary as it is.
Pecunia non olet – Il denaro non puzza: money doesn’t stink. Generally, the Latin form is used
Sic semper tyrannis – Così sempre ai tiranni: lit. as always to the tyrants, the phrase usually attributed to Brutus after stabbing Ceasar.
Sic transit gloria mundi – Così passa la gloria del mondo: this way passes the glory of the world.
Tu quoque Brute, fili mi – Anche Tu Bruto, Figlio mio: Et tu Brute. In the English-speaking world, “Et tu Brute” is more used because it was used by Shakespeare in Julius Caesar. In Italy, on the other hand, we use “Tu quoque(..)”
Vox populi vox dei – Voce del popolo, voce di Dio: voice of the people, voice of God. Usually used only as “vox populi”
I’m sure I forgot to add plenty of phrases but there are literally hundreds of these that are either famous and known or even used in everyday life.
it is the most wonderfully made, historically inaccurate, giddily fun, perfectly paced, goofy horror movie romance novel bullshit bonanza that has ever blessed the silver screen.
i mean it is just so beautifully full of every genre without being overwhelming. we’ve got: comedy, action, suspense, horror, romance, adventure, ancient aesthetics, and it’s a period piece. all perfectly balanced and blended into one movie.
and the characters are so LIT
we got our main babe, evelyn “motherfucking” carnahan, a super-klutz librarian, total history nerd, and certified badass/damsel in distress. she raises the dead on accident, because she cannot resist books, and has the guts to put that motherfucker back where he came from and literally saves the world. evie’s greatest hits:
“what is a place like me, doing in a girl like this?!”
*after totally destroying the library* “i’ve just made a bit of a mess in the library.”
“no harm ever came from reading a book.”
evelyn:*upon opening the tomb* “i’ve dreamt about this since i was a little girl.” rick: “you dream about dead guys?”
“oops.”
then we’ve got rick“brendan fraser” o’connell, your not-so-typical battle hardened gun slinger with a heart of gold. he seems filthy, rude, and a complete scoundrel at first, but then he turns into a literal puppy, with massive heart eyes, that worships the ground evie walks on. rick’s greatest hits:
*screams at mummy*
*screams at sand*
*screams at things that are illogical to scream at*
*screams*
next is our Comedic Relief Character™, jonathan carnahan, who also rises above his trope. he’s there for the laugh sure, but is never useless. he actively helps to move the plot along and isn’t just there. he also is the farthest thing from brainless and annoying. jonathan’s greatest hits:
evelyn: “have you no respect for the dead?” jonathan: “of course i do, but sometimes i’d rather like to join them.” same.
oh and that time he was like “IMHOTEP” and saved his own ass like that was so smooth, y’all know what i’m talking about right??
then there is ardeth BAE. he is the audience rolling his eyes because *sighs* white people. he’s tired of these motherfucking mummies in this motherfucking desert. literally prettier than everyone. (he has a much bigger role in the mummy returns, but is still so fab here)
and of course THE MUMMY. imhotep. actual emo. literally carved some poetry into the back of his sarcophagus when he was buried alive with flesh eating bugs, because he is that Extra™. just wants to bring his girlfriend back to life so he can make out with her without it being treason.
and all the side characters are also gr8.
now i wanna take a moment to talk about the romance. because it is so BEAUTIFUL. like usually in action movies it’s macho man undermines girl and they bone. not here. no time for that shit.
rick and evie have such a great relationship based on mutual respect and affection. they both cater to each other’s strengths and cover each other’s weaknesses. they are the literally definition of: “those two. in a fight, they’re lethal. around each other, they melt”
what else, i could literally talk about this movie all day.
the special effects have held up pretty well. the music score is GORGEOUS. the costumes are amazing. the makeup, especially for anck su namun, OH WOW. the george of the jungle era brendan fraser sign me the fuck up. rachel weisz.
so many good things.
it’s just great.
#i secretly rate every action movie from 0 to the mummy
it’s a beautiful mess of a movie that can be enjoyed by people of all ages and transcends time and posterity as the alpha mummy movie, and to those who disagree i beseech you:
The only good thing to come out of 2017’s The Mummy was the resurgence of gif sets from 1999’s The Mummy.
The Mummy is the single most quotable movie of all time.
“The only thing that scares me, Mr O’Connell, are your manners.”
“They are lead by a woman. What does a woman know?” *cut to Evy proving that she knows literally everything ever*
Beni: *translating* “Come with me my princess, it is time to make you mine forever.” Evy: “For all eternity, idiot.”
*Evy has just destroyed the library* “Give me frogs! Flies! Locusts! Anything but you! Compared to you, the other plagues were a joy!” “I am so very sorry, it was an accident.” “My dear girl, when Ramses destroyed Syria, that was an accident. You are a catastrophe!”
*Winston steps in a fountain* “Some bloody idiot’s spilled their drink”
And you know what is the second most quotable film of all time? THE MUMMY RETURNS!
“You: lighten up. You: big trouble. You:…. get in the car.”
“What are we going to do?!” “You’re asking me?! I’m only eight years old, for Christ’s sake!”
“I take it that’s not a good thing?” “Oh, he’ll wipe out the world.” “Ah. The old ‘wipe out the world’ ploy.”
“Be quiet, Alex! If there’s going to be any hysterics, they’ll come from me!”
*Drives a bus through London, fighting mummies, crashing into bridges* “This was my first bus ride!”
“And none of them was ever seen again?” “How did you know?” “I didn’t. But that’s always the story.”
1. First write for yourself, and then worry about the audience. “When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story. When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story. Your stuff starts out being just for you, but then it goes out.”
2. Don’t use passive voice. “Timid writers like passive verbs for the same reason that timid lovers like passive partners. The passive voice is safe. The timid fellow writes “The meeting will be held at seven o’clock” because that somehow says to him, ‘Put it this way and people will believe you really know. ‘Purge this quisling thought! Don’t be a muggle! Throw back your shoulders, stick out your chin, and put that meeting in charge! Write ‘The meeting’s at seven.’ There, by God! Don’t you feel better?”
3. Avoid adverbs. “The adverb is not your friend. Consider the sentence “He closed the door firmly.” It’s by no means a terrible sentence, but ask yourself if ‘firmly’ really has to be there. What about context? What about all the enlightening (not to say emotionally moving) prose which came before ‘He closed the door firmly’? Shouldn’t this tell us how he closed the door? And if the foregoing prose does tell us, then isn’t ‘firmly’ an extra word? Isn’t it redundant?”
4. Avoid adverbs, especially after “he said” and “she said.” “While to write adverbs is human, to write ‘he said’ or ‘she said’ is divine.”
5. But don’t obsess over perfect grammar. “Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes. The object of fiction isn’t grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story… to make him/her forget, whenever possible, that he/she is reading a story at all. “
6. The magic is in you. “I’m convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. Dumbo got airborne with the help of a magic feather; you may feel the urge to grasp a passive verb or one of those nasty adverbs for the same reason. Just remember before you do that Dumbo didn’t need the feather; the magic was in him.”
7. Read, read, read. “You have to read widely, constantly refining (and redefining) your own work as you do so. If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write.”
8. Don’t worry about making other people happy. “Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second to least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway.”
9. Turn off the TV. “Most exercise facilities are now equipped with TVs, but TV—while working out or anywhere else—really is about the last thing an aspiring writer needs. If you feel you must have the news analyst blowhard on CNN while you exercise, or the stock market blowhards on MSNBC, or the sports blowhards on ESPN, it’s time for you to question how serious you really are about becoming a writer. You must be prepared to do some serious turning inward toward the life of the imagination, and that means, I’m afraid, that Geraldo, Keigh Obermann, and Jay Leno must go. Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.”
10. You have three months. “The first draft of a book—even a long one—should take no more than three months, the length of a season.”
11. There are two secrets to success. “When I’m asked for ‘the secret of my success’ (an absurd idea, that, but impossible to get away from), I sometimes say there are two: I stayed physically healthy, and I stayed married. It’s a good answer because it makes the question go away, and because there is an element of truth in it. The combination of a healthy body and a stable relationship with a self reliant woman who takes zero shit from me or anyone else has made the continuity of my working life possible. And I believe the converse is also true: that my writing and the pleasure I take in it has contributed to the stability of my health and my home life.”
12. Write one word at a time. “A radio talk-show host asked me how I wrote. My reply—’One word at a time’—seemingly left him without a reply. I think he was trying to decide whether or not I was joking. I wasn’t. In the end, it’s always that simple. Whether it’s a vignette of a single page or an epic trilogy like ‘The Lord Of The Rings,’ the work is always accomplished one word at a time.”
13. Eliminate distraction. “There should be no telephone in your writing room, certainly no TV or videogames for you to fool around with. If there’s a window, draw the curtains or pull down the shades unless it looks out at a blank wall.”
14. Stick to your own style. “One cannot imitate a writer’s approach to a particular genre, no matter how simple what the writer is doing may seem. You can’t aim a book like a cruise missile, in other words. People who decide to make a fortune writing lik John Grisham or Tom Clancy produce nothing but pale imitations, by and large, because vocabulary is not the same thing as feeling and plot is light years from the truth as it is understood by the mind and the heart.”
15. Dig. “When, during the course of an interview for The New Yorker, I told the interviewer (Mark Singer) that I believed stories are found things, like fossils in the ground, he said that he didn’t believe me. I replied that that was fine, as long as he believed that I believe it. And I do. Stories aren’t souvenir tee-shirts or Game Boys. Stories are relics, part of an undiscovered pre-existing world. The writer’s job is to use the tools in his or her toolbox to get as much of each one out of the ground intact as possible. Sometimes the fossil you uncover is small; a seashell. Sometimes it’s enormous, a Tyrannosaurus Rex with all the gigantic ribs and grinning teeth. Either way, short story or thousand page whopper of a novel, the techniques of excavation remain basically the same.”
16. Take a break. “If you’ve never done it before, you’ll find reading your book over after a six-week layoff to be a strange, often exhilarating experience. It’s yours, you’ll recognize it as yours, even be able to remember what tune was on the stereo when you wrote certain lines, and yet it will also be like reading the work of someone else, a soul-twin, perhaps. This is the way it should be, the reason you waited. It’s always easier to kill someone else’s darlings that it is to kill your own.”
17. Leave out the boring parts and kill your darlings. “Mostly when I think of pacing, I go back to Elmore Leonard, who explained it so perfectly by saying he just left out the boring parts. This suggests cutting to speed the pace, and that’s what most of us end up having to do (kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your ecgocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.)”
18. The research shouldn’t overshadow the story. “If you do need to do research because parts of your story deal with things about which you know little or nothing, remember that word back. That’s where research belongs: as far in the background and the back story as you can get it. You may be entranced with what you’re learning about the flesh-eating bacteria, the sewer system of New York, or the I.Q. potential of collie pups, but your readers are probably going to care a lot more about your characters and your story.”
19. You become a writer simply by reading and writing. “You don’t need writing classes or seminars any more than you need this or any other book on writing. Faulkner learned his trade while working in the Oxford, Mississippi post office. Other writers have learned the basics while serving in the Navy, working in steel mills or doing time in America’s finer crossbar hotels. I learned the most valuable (and commercial) part of my life’s work while washing motel sheets and restaurant tablecloths at the New Franklin Laundry in Bangor. You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons of all are the ones you teach yourself.”
20. Writing is about getting happy. “Writing isn’t about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it’s about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. It’s about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink.”
Italian trains are so paradoxical that my train was late but I got to university earlier
Trenitalia aesthetic:
– they announce a delay but then the train arrives exactly at the same hour as usual
– they do not announce a delay but the train arrives ten minutes later than usual
– Ticket inspectors who exist only for the first two days of the month and then magically disappear
– the announcer’s voice that becomes shrill by saying that one random word of the phrase, terrifying you, and than returns normal
-friendships born due to the disperation / anger at the announcement of the (umpteenth) delay
– the Angry Nostalgic Old Man ™ that “wHE the DuCE waS hEre The TRains Were PunctUAL”
– but the rest of the station is super calm bc they are blatantly used to delays
-first and second class interchangeable
– “how this window is supposed to work”
– the announcer that “the train will arrive with 30 minutes of delay” and then “no wait 25″ “40″ “15″ “100″ “60″ “120″ “the train is cancelleD”
– “we are sorry for the inconvenience”
trenitalia gothic
– a train arrives. it’s 90 years late. you notice that the passengers inside are ghosts of people who lived in the 1920s, listening to jazz music
– you are not sure this train stop existed before
– you are not sure this railroad existed before
– you were sure that a train had to stop at the station by this time but it disappeared
– why is the train stopping in the middle of nowhere?
– passengers in your wagon are now starting to open the train windows. it’s really hot inside. a kind of anxiety lingers in the air: no one knows exactly where we are and what time it is
– suddenly the air is chilly again. oh no, everyone is freezing. everyone rushes to close the windows
– as the mysterious staff members are announcing that you are currently approaching the end station, you notice that you haven’t actually moved at all from your first station. looks like a circular journey, but staring out of the window you can see something odd, the place anyhow doesn’t look familiar anymore…
@catholic followers: can we please relish the fact that apparently the trump’s family idea of ‘appropriate outfit to wear when meeting the pope’ turned out to be ‘have watched too many sophia loren films and subsequently dressed up for a funeral in southern italy sometime around 1965’, because i’ve been snickering since this morning and still can’t stop
for visual reference:
someone on facebook photoshopped this picture to look like an ad for a funeral business and i am LIVING!
please everyone tag yourself i am the pope
look there’s ppl saying that’s vatican dress code protocol but i can guarantee that it’s NOT, they’re just cosplaying mid 20th century italian villagers in mourning!
seriously that protocol stopped being enforced in the 80s (americans just haven’t gotten the memo, michele also wore black + veil but her faces were much less unfortunate) and nowadays if u dress like that for a vatican state visit NOT ONLY you’re not gonna get any points but u WILL be mocked. case in point: me
looks like the old rich sicilian grandfather died and his second wife, younger and pretty, is trying to hard to look sad when she’s actually just happy because she’ll get his money, her daughter isn’t even trying to look sad, because she’s the one who killed him, his brother, who was having an affair with the now widow, is smiling at relatives to greet them, but he’s actually the only sad one. the pope knows what has happened but can’t say anything, he’ll insert some phrases that will scare the murderer in the sermon tho.
i can get on board with ivanka as the killer.was it a mafia death? this is the only mafia AU i could actually get behind
it would suck being a new immortal. like it’d be 2109 and people would go, “what was it like seeing ancient civilizations rise and fall like that? seeing the pyramids being built? watching the expansion and growth of the new world?” and i’d just be like, “no…no i was born in 1991. so like, wow i’m gonna see some cool stuff, but, i mean i’m not that much older than just a really, really old person, you know? phones were big back then. so big. but only for like ten years, then they got like, as good as they are now. uh. rhinos existed. don’t think i ever saw one in person. cool, good talk.”
even worse, imagine being an immortal who keeps missing stuff. “What was it like seeing the pyramids being built?” “Fuck if I know, I was in Madagascar.” “Oh, okay. Well, how was the Renaissance?” “I fell down a hole in Scotland and people thought I was an enchanted well for four hundred years, it was over by the time I convinced someone to get me out.”
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