Hey, I had a few questions about this as I was planning on getting it as a gift for a friend. I was wondering if it was a solid or adjustable band and how well it’d fit on a 6in wrist if you knew? Thank you if you get to this
It’s solid, you would need tools to adjust its size. It does not bend easily. I don’t know how big my wrist is but it’s pretty dang skinny. It’d probably be fine?
Both to @psych-is-the-name and to @vaspider – you’ve had your bracelets for 2-3 months now, would you mind telling me if the print is still intact (especially if you’ve worn it a lot)? I’m thinking of getting the bracelet, but not if the print is bad quality.
I have had mine for about 3 months now and it’s still in a perfect condition even with me banging it against metal machines in work all the time. The fact that it’s a solid piece of metal however doesn’t stop you from reshaping it a little. And yes, it takes aome serious effort, but i had squished mine using my hands alone to fit me better. It’s actually kind of funny how small that gap is now yet i can still put it on and off with ease.
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#what a world we live in #Tumblr: a User’s Guide #(sort of) #jewellery #Ea nasir #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
“These copper ingots,” the devil said, “are of sub-par quality.”
“You accepted them as payment,” the merchant said, “the deal is done.”
“Very well. I will uphold my end of the bargain,” the devil said. “Your name will live forever.”
“That is all I ask,” said Ea-nasir. (Source: Micro SF/F Stories)
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#I was double-checking whether I’d ever reblogged the previous post before #and it turns out that not only is *that* one not in here‚ I never reblogged *this* one #managed to dig it up on DuckDuckGo after a few tries #Ea nasir #that one post with the thing
#when news of this got out all of Tumblr just looked at each other wondering who was gonna say it first‚ right? #that was certainly *my* reaction when I saw it in the Money Stuff linkspam #adventures in human capitalism #Ea nasir
In the afterlife, souls can see how many living people still know you once existed. You, who had lived a fairly normal life, finally saw the count drop to 0 just 200 years after your death. 500 years later, 95% of the Earth’s total population suddenly knows about you.
And they all know I sold really, really shitty copper.
I laughed UNREASONABLY hard over this.
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#I saw this punchline coming but still #I didn’t actually laugh aloud but it still amused me enough to reblog #Ea nasir #death tw
I love Keanu Reeves and the recent surge of love and appreciation for him warms my heart but I dread to think what’ll happen the moment you demons have had enough of him and start digging up/making up “problematic” shit he did or said when he was like 20 or something
Keanu Reeves sold bad copper and was rude to messengers and sent them back empty-handed through foreign territory and I for one am sick of everybody just giving him a pass for the whole thing when we have over a dozen cuneiform tablets documenting his bad behaviour.
Keanu Reeves cut ahead of women and other children to get on the last Atlantean lifeboat.
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#Keanu Reeves #history #our roads may be golden or broken or lost #unreality cw #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #the humour of my people #discourse cw?
man this has been said before by cleverer folks than me, but sometimes you have to sit down and let the sheer size and age of the storytelling tradition just completely overwhelm you, ja feel?
like— think for a second about how mind-bogglingly incredible it is that we know who osiris is? that somebody just made him up one day, and told stories about him to their kids, and literally thousands and thousands of years later we are still able to go “there was a god whose brother cut him into pieces”, it’s so arbitrary, it’s so incredible
that in talking about scheherazade and her husband, you are doing something that someone in every single generation has done since it was written— you are telling stories that have lasted an impossible amount of time
can you conceive of telling a story, and then traveling into the future and hearing that same story told— with alterations, and through media that you could not possibly conceive of, but your story— in the year 3214?
the fact that we! as a species! have been telling the same damn stories for so long— the fact that we’ve seen homer’s troy and chaucer’s troy and shakespeare’s troy and troy with fucking brad pitt because we never fucking stop telling stories! never ever ever!
we never stop caring about stories, or returning to the same stories, or putting our own spins on stories. we never stop talking about the characters as if they were real, or asking what happened next, or asking to hear it again.
generation after generation, they never ever ever stop mattering to us.
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#history #my past self has good taste #yes this #I feel like also relevant is the post I reblogged a while back #in which somebody makes a joke that relies on knowing who Ea-nasir is #(for anyone who doesn’t already know: he was a merchant ~3750 years ago) #(the earliest surviving complaint letter we know of is complaining about his substandard copper) #(and now you too know who he is and can understand the abovementioned joke)
Your players are faced with an ancient Sumerian curse! However, since the early ancient Sumerian language was only used for recording tax debts, it turns out to actually be an ancient Sumerian bill.
and therefore they need to get hold of some ancient Sumerian coinage and bring it to the ruins of the ancient Sumerian tax office, because the Sumerians had a pleasingly direct way of preventing tax evasion, namely horrifying curses.
well I don’t have any coin but I have these copper ingots, lovely copper ingots, from a very reputable merchant, never heard a word said against him, very thorough with his paperwork, anyway they’re guaranteed pure copper and proper weight, so can I pay my tax with those?
I just want everyone to take a step back for a second and really think about how we’re using the most powerful knowledge tool in history to make jokes about a specific dude who lived almost 4000 years ago.
Brinens and Things 