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*opens my laptop and cracks my knuckles*……..*takes a shot*……….*stares really intensly at my blank word document*……..this is about to be the shittiest most unprofound essay my professor has ever seen
Feel free to stop here and rest before journeying to the posts below.
spreading these occasionally would be nice…
As someone with major anxiety who can’t fucking stop themself from scrolling, i appreciate posts like this
*sits by the fire*
*puts down sword*
I was told recently about a school that was shamed into changing its school motto. The motto was “I hear, I see, I learn.” Nothing wrong with that per se. Unfortunately the motto was in Latin, and the Latin for “I hear, I see, I learn” is “audio, video, disco”.
What the fuck that’s the best school motto ever change it back
“Scio” is Latin for I learn, 90% sure disco isn’t Latin at all. Sorry to kill the buzz
Buzz killed, but I don’t mind. That motto, even if wrong, is great
buzz has been revived. disco, first person active singular, from disco, discere. scio, on the other hand, is know/understand.
disco, discere also gave us “disciple” and “discipline” while scio, scire gave us “science”
disco comes from discotheque, which originally meant “record library” on the model of “bibliotheque” - but the disco in this context seems to have just been a combining form of “disque” (see also compact disk) and is thus from Latin discus/Greek diskos (see also the sport) rather than discere.
audio and video do have straightforward links between the technologies and the Latin verbs.
discovered disco discourse
reblog to give the person you reblogged from the strength to complete The Task™
Reblog if you or someone you know is ace… I’m trying to see something
There is no joy like the joy of a writer who has just figured out that a throwaway line they put into the first few paragraphs of a story is actually the key to a major plot point and possibly even the theme underlying the entire thing.
Just…yesssssss.
like to charge rb to cast
Look, with very few exceptions no one sets out with the intention of being a shitty abusive parent. A lot of shitty parents think they're doing it right. A lot of shitty parents think they're doing their best. A lot of shitty parents think that abusive shit they do is not really abusive and for the greater good of their child.
A lot of shitty parents love their kids, and would die for them, but they can still be abusive and shitty parents because they do shit they learned from their parents and don't pause a moment to think they may be doing it wrong because "I love my kid, abusive parents don't love their kids, so I can't be an Abusive Parent, not me, I'm good". A lot of shitty parents have their good moments, their good sides, and their kids can love them for it and then be doubly hurt when the good moment ends and things are shitty again.
Shitty parents are complicated people, the kids they raise are complicated people, and human relationships as a whole are a complex hot mess. There is not one right or wrong way to respond to abuse or choose how to handle the relationship to a shitty parent. No we don't wanna hear how you'd personally handle it in our shoes. You're not in our shoes. STFU.
BTW this is not some weird defense of shitty and abusive parents but for Christ's sake, this attitude that Shitty Parents - either real or fictional - are monsters out of a scary story who are contractually obliged to be shitty 100% of the time, all around, in every aspect of their lives, is actually harmful. It's untrue. It's stupid. It will lead kids of Shitty Parents to think that well, THEIR parents are not 100% evil and dastardly all the time, therefore they're not Actually Abusive, I must be exaggerating.
Shitty parents are not old school Disney villains breaking into song about how they love to do evil deeds to hurt their own children. They're people. Learn to tell the two things apart, for fuck's sake.
This has been fucking with me all week because my coworker has a friend from California who said that if you have a basement it means you're rich??? So
In Texas the only people with basements were bougie as hell because in the city I was in, you had four inches of solid clay, then you were into the limestone. AND the frequent microquakes would slowly start to undo the structural integrity of your house if you blasted one out of the bedrock anyway.
Now in Minnesota everyone has basements and frankly I love that for us. I'm standing in my nice cool basement right now.
In Florida, the only homes with basements are carefully preserved historic homes. They were built by people who didn't yet know the water table was too high for basements, or with too much money to care. They're fragile and need continuous pumping, occasional expensive repair, and you can't even just fill them with concrete or something because it would eventually eat your foundation; you have to keep them dry once they're there, or tear down the house.
Bougie? Oh yes.
i live in california and i've never once been to a house that has a basement
I think most homes in Arizona don't have basements because we live in a giant sand pit.
Remember when Terry played the Joker like a fiddle cause I sure do
Joker status: [ ] Told [ ] Told like a bitch [X] Batman: The Brave And The Told
Terry is literally what bruce would’ve been if his parents didn’t die. Well either that or terry got his sense of humor from his mom.
I love Batman Beyond because it’s basically Spider-Man as Batman with a healthy dosage of cyberpunk.
The best part is this isn’t just Terry fucking with Joker, Terry realized after bats told him “Joker likes to talk” that he likes to talk too. So he decided to answer joker back with something Joker was never expecting. Joker could easily deal with the typical hero “you won’t get away with this” talk or someone being absolutely quiet. But mockery? taking the piss? Telling joker straight up “you ain’t shit?”
He can’t take a joke
^Same energy
hey if you have a pet or pets you need to reblog this rn and tell me in the tags what their names are. bonus points for including what kind of animal.
fuck of a lot of you named your pets Loki
I am Ever-Powerful, One Who Protects, One Who Smites
If I go full birth name it’s “Fair Featured, Joy, of the Untamed.”
I think I like it.
I am the Pure, the Exalted One, son of the son of the Furrowed
I am Earthling, from the River-Junction, Descendent of the Orator
Strong one bitter sea hill, high, or noble
Fandom is not about cancellable opinions it’s about sharing and spreading art and fics and gif sets and poetry and showering each other in praise and tearing up because someone said something nice about a thing you made and writing posts that say reblog to give the person you reblogged this from a kiss on the forehead actually
words of power do exist…. i can walk out of my apartment wearing the most fuck shit, e.g. swim trunks as shorts w a zipped up hoodie and no shirt underneath, and just say the words “laundry day” and suddenly it’s way less weird
“laundry day” spell: decreases target’s judgment of outfit by 80%
I picked up a banana print shirt in Vietnam - were talkin LOUD - and the first time someone commented on it I said “It’s banana shirt friday” which stunlocked them and blocked any followup questions.
Turns out that saying “it’s banana shirt friday” enough actually created a holiday at my office where everyone would wear fruit print clothes on fridays! So yes, words of power exist. :)
@cryptotheism relevant to your interests
Spell of Banana Shirt Friday
future archaeologist: these people must have done this for ritual purposes the ritual in question: banana shirt friday
the “pleasure to have in class” to overly active tumblr user pipeline
Reblog if you were a pleasure to have in class
Imagine The Fellowship all sitting around the campfire halfway up Caradhras retelling the events of the Hobbit to Boromir and Aragorn Rashomon-style with Gimli going "my dad tells it this way" and Legolas going "well, my dad tells it this way" and the Hobbits all going "but Bilbo tells it this way!" and, even though Gandalf was fucking there for half of it, he refuses to weigh in on anything because watching them argue is more fun and also he doesn't remember because it was over 75 years ago.
Even better: Gandalf remembers it perfectly fine but he keeps making shit up and agreeing to multiple different versions just to throw everyone off
Too good to hide in the tags!
some people think writers are so eloquent and good with words, but the reality is that we can sit there with our fingers on the keyboard going, “what’s the word for non-sunlight lighting? Like, fake lighting?” and for ten minutes, all our brain will supply is “unofficial”, and we know that’s not the right word, but it’s the only word we can come up with…until finally it’s like our face got smashed into a brick wall and we remember the word we want is “artificial”.
I couldn't remember the word "doorknob" ten minutes ago.
ok but the onelook thesaurus will save your life, i literally could not live without this website
REBLOG TO SAVE A WRITER'S LIFE
