leafstranger:

goddamnshinyrock:

my current favorite bizarre folk song plot is Willie o’ Winsbury:

A king comes home from war to find his daughter pregnant, and demands to know who knocked her up. She tells him it was Willie of Winsbury, so the king sends his men to arrest him and declares that he will hang for this. But when Willie is brought before him, the king is so impressed by just how dang hot Willie is that he tells his daughter “…wow, you know what, fair enough, if I were you I’d have totally hit that. Here’s some land and wealth, get it girl go ahead and marry him.”

(To cross the streams a bit here, this is a GBS / Newfoundland version of the above folk song plot.)

I just discovered the delights of the 2007 Northanger Abbey movie, thanks to @amarguerite‘s enthusiastic promotion of Henry Tilney, best Austen beau. Catherine Morland is the most convincingly teenage teenage girl I’ve seen on screen in years, and Henry is as delightful as advertised. 

fanficanatomy:

“He swept his tongue into B’s mouth, thoroughly exploring the warm cavern. He growled when B’s tongue mated with his.”

In this episode of Planet Earth, we get a rare glimpse of the reproductive cycle of tongues. A cave-dwelling species, the human tongue is found in humid equatorial areas. Though the courtship behavior of tongues has been frequently documented, the mating itself has proved more elusive, and appears only in the purplest of prose.

my current favorite bizarre folk song plot is Willie o’ Winsbury:

A king comes home from war to find his daughter pregnant, and demands to know who knocked her up. She tells him it was Willie of Winsbury, so the king sends his men to arrest him and declares that he will hang for this. But when Willie is brought before him, the king is so impressed by just how dang hot Willie is that he tells his daughter “…wow, you know what, fair enough, if I were you I’d have totally hit that. Here’s some land and wealth, get it girl go ahead and marry him.”