twistedingenue:

digitaldiscipline:

carrigerpigeon:

sonneillonv:

carrigerpigeon:

‘Ulf’  derives from the Old Norse word for “wolf” (Ășlfr). Saldalius is Latin for “true wolf”.

So we’ve literally got Mr. Wolf Wolf from Messrs. Wolf, Wolf, Wrendofflip, and Wolf fighting Randolph Lyall, whose first name derives from the Old Norse “

RannĂșlfr” which literally breaks down to shield + wolf, and his last name “Lyall” also means wolf. 

So basically the fight in Blameless was Professor Wolf Wolf vs. Mr. Wolf Wolf and Professor Wolf Wolf only won because his Alpha, Lord Wolf Wolf of Woolsey (Conall meaning strong wolf and Maccon meaning son of a wolf), came to fuck Mr. Wolf Wolf’s shit up in a drunken backyard brawl. 

Gail Carriger, everybody. 

This is just a blatant attempt to outdo JK Rowling

It gets better. Pretty much all the other werewolf characters in that series have Wolf Wolf names, too. 

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Major Wolf Wolf of the Chesterfield Wolves (Channing means Wolf)

Noble Wolf Bluebutton (Adelphus is a variant Old German ‘Adalwolf’)

Hemming: derived from hamr “shape”, and possibly originally a nickname for a person believed to be a shape changer.

Phelan: anglicization

of an Irish surname for “wolf" 

Rafe:  English name meaning “Shield wolf

Ulric:  Middle English form of the Old English name Wulfric meaning “wolf power”

Jury is out on Quinn and Riehard, but I think Riehard is a pseudonym anyway, and his last name has the word bark in it, so let’s be real

Zev: Zariation for the Hebrew for Wolf

Sandalio de Rabiffano: Sandalio is  the latinized form of the Gothic name Sandulf which meant “true wolf”

and NOT PICTURED, werewolves Sidheag Maccon and Vulkasin Woolsey, whose full names both also mean Wolf Wolf.


 of what am I the youngest member?

The London werewolf pack, of course.

oh
.we need to introduce you to Gail’s books, don’t we.

thatsnicebutimmarried:

berenshand:

some highlights from my students’ romeo and juliet modern interpretation projects:

– someone made a username for friar laurence with 420 at the end
– the same kid who put 69 in romeo’s username like i wouldn’t know what either of those things mean
– the girl who added ‘clean’ at the end of all the songs on her juliet playlist like lmao girl i know spotify doesn’t have the clean version
– the kid who said romeo and juliet killed each other
– the weird dichotomy of kids who put love story on their playlist vs the kids who choose bad blood
– the kid who wrote ‘get a room’ as tybalt’s comment on romeo’s couple pic
– the kid who said ‘romeo is probably one of those douches who follows a ton of people so they follow him back and then he unfollows all of them’
– the one who legitimately used the word ‘alrighty’ do kids say this in their text messages???? i thought i was the one talking like an elderly person but okay
– the one who made romeo’s username ‘montagoose’
– the only kid who acknowledged that posting about your secret relationship on instagram was a bad idea
– the girl who wrote that romeo would unironically say ‘#blessed’. she’s right.
– the one single solitary girl who wrote mercutio as gay as shakespeare did (she’s also the only one who used mercutio at all which is a tragedy but whatever)
– the one who wrote romeo’s insta bio as ‘thus with a kiss i die
 LOL RIP ME 😂💀’
– the one who made benvolio’s username benvoliYO

You are an excellent teacher