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my three beautiful daughters doric ionic and corinthian

They should just rerelease megamind. Dont even remaster it just start advertising it again

After learning about what robots think of cats, I thought I’d look into what they’ve worked out about humans:

Jaskier after getting attacked by the djinn.

We used to have one like the Hunter S. Thompson one. Weighed a ton and was the color of cloudy piss. 

the fine folks in my patreon discord did NOT want me to have an easy time drawing this dragon

I'm going to Badwill. The evil thrift store.

This super cool life-size LEGO typewriter actually types

This motorized LEGO machine looks like the real thing, right down the the round letter keys. 

Read more in my CNET article here.

TIL that the English word “Lord” in the sense of the head of an estate comes from an Old English word of Germanic origins, hlāfweard, later hlāford, later lord. 

Normally I wouldn’t remark on my romps through etymology, but “hlafweard” is a compound of hlaf, or loaf, and weard, which means guardian (see also Ward or Warden, etc). Meaning that when you call someone a lord you are calling him an esteemed keeper of the bread. 

HEY THERE BREADBOX PETER WIMSEY. LOAF GUARD PALPATINE. BREAD CLIP VETINARI. 

Lady also derives from hlaf, but in this case hlafdige or bread kneader. She makes the bread, he monitors it. Women have to do all the work as usual. 

Now, the reason I was looking this up was that I wanted to develop a gender-neutral analogue to lord/lady; there are analogues already out there naturally, but the Shivadh must be different and anyway I didn’t like the ones I’d seen suggested online. 

Given that the origins of Lord and Lady aren’t all that strongly gendered anyway (they’re about what the person does, not what their gender is), I decided that if a woman is a bread-kneader and a man is a bread-guarder, a nonbinary person should be A BREAD EATER, which would be Hlafetan.  

Thus I present to you the gender-neutral analogue to Lord or Lady: Ledan.  

Here is the full version of my first comic for The Nib, which went up yesterday.

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