once you learn about pseudoscience you're forever doomed to get angry when people talk about like. love languages or stockholm syndrome. but forced to stay quiet lest your lose your mind trying to correct millions of people
Laws of attraction and meyers-briggs
I wish more fantasy settings had the stuff discworld does. I don't mean the big themes, although I do wish more books had those too. I mean fantasy settings where there are newspapers, birth control, pizza, vibrators, crisps, unions, dog biscuits, fan clubs... just normal stuff that turns up when you have a lot of people in one place. A lot of fantasy seems to take the view that you won't have any of this stuff if you've got magic, but why wouldn't you? Some fantasy settings don't even have pencils. And what about toilet paper? Food that isn't enormous, elaborate feasts? Literacy rates? Pop culture? It feels like Ankh-Morpork in particular is just ticking over as usual when we're not looking and that it really does have a million people in it. And yet sometimes other fantasy just... doesn't bother with any of this stuff at all.
Yes, this! Ancient Rome had take out. Ancient Sumerians had complaint letters about folks who shorted them on substandard copper. People wrote stupid graffiti on the walls of Pompeii. There were children who doodled dogs in the edges of their books as far back as children had books. The monks illuminated manuscripts had cat paw prints where they got into the ink. People have been people for all of history and sure, there are grand sweeping empires, but inside the empires are little stories about the actor who messed up his line in Orestes.
Discworld Heritage Post
namesakes of temperature scales and how real they sound:
- Anders Celsius: yeah sure that's the name of a scientist I'll believe that
- William "Lord Kelvin" Thompson: there's something really british going on here with that title but I suppose it checks out
- Dan Fahrenheit: literally shut up
tumblr users will see a post structured with the classic rule of threes and say op are you aware that you could have included a fourth example
funniest art interaction i’ve ever seen
the thrilling sequel
"Sex is what makes us human" is stupid. Almost every species fucks. Humans are the only species that jumps motorcycles over school buses that are on fire. Some other things too probably
love how when people go to europe they'll say the country and when people go to the usa they'll say the state and when people go to asia they'll say the country and when people go to south america they'll say the country but when people go to africa they go to africa. like ok bru. wow. the entire thing? impressive
"when my dad was in spain last summer..." ok "when i was backpacking around thailand..." cool "back when i visited florida...'" nice "my sister's in africa right now--" BROTHER WHERE
My favorite thing about this topic as an African is when people ask me where I’m from and I say I’m from Cape Verde (then I usually have to explain that it’s an archipelago near the Senegalese coasts) and then they answer with something along the lines of "omg my cousin did a road trip in Kenya!" And I just have to stand there are try to explain to them that the distance between CV and Kenya is around the distance between the USA and Bolivia or Pakistan and f#%! France. Westerners just know nothing about African geography and/or cultures and it often leads to awkward or racist situations.
Sounds hot
theres a whole album of song titles you can make just from the words of this tweet
check out my next stoner metal ep, featuring such classics as:
- Marijuanification
- Complete Derangement
- Stoned Sex Drive
- Derangement Manifests a Literal Sex Demon
- Monstrum Incarnate
- Narcotic Parody of Sex
this makes smoking weed sound so much cooler than it is
“Cleaning the House” painting by Sally Welchman.
(via Instagram)
Man, tacos like this without the coriander would make me feel so much better
"Coriander"
would be fun if language acquisition echoed language evolution a la recapitulation theory. kids going through an indo european phase.
fuuuuuck there really is an xkcd for everything
Quick put an animal book in front of him and ask him what this guy is
there's an xkcd for that also
Thinking back to the first story I ever started writing down (I was 7 or 8) about a group of stray cats who, every full moon, took the form of human kids. They actually were human kids, who had been killed (all at different times/by different people). Their bodies were each dumped by the side of the road where a cat had been hit by a car previously, and their souls landed in the cats' bodies. Eventually they all found each other and decided that every full moon, when they shifted, they'd try to solve each other's murders one by one. It was going to be a series, with each book focusing on a different kid's murder mystery. I told my mom about it once, briefly, and she said "Those cat books (warrior cats) are making you creepy."
Just finished writing this manuscript, the first story I ever started. 23 years in the making. Never give up, even if your mom calls you creepy 🖤
NEVER GIVE UP PEOPLE WE’RE GONNA GET THE STRAY CATS AND DEAD KIDS STORY
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New post, gonna use this to document my journey as a trans woman
Going to the store
never has an image spoken to my soul as much as this one
me and miss piggy have one thing in common.....