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tethys, she/they, asian, minnesotan, twenty-something, forklift certified, gonna be a paleontologist. blm, acab, trans rightshow many people read these anyways? anyways, here are some assorted facts and opinions:my favorite metamorphic rock is gneiss • french horn is the best brass instrument • ophicleides are underrated • if toph wanted too i’m pretty sure she could bone-bend, and that’s terrifying • cheap synthetic diamonds would make amazing cookware • dental fricatives are my favorite consonants • violins and trumpets can sound nice but they need to chill • saxophones belong in the orchestra and are capable of more than just jazz • popcorn is best eaten with chopsticks • english already got rid of thou, it’s time we got rid of the rest of the singular pronouns and just have we, you, they • long s (ſ) is fun to use in handwriting • people should be nicer to violas • euphoniums should be called tenor tubas, and baritone horns should be called tenor cornets • technically cornet means small horn, but clarinet means small trumpet but we still keep the name for bass and contrabass clarinets
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we have an academy charged with creating the ideal philosophical language. sometimes the philosophical language is obv not english but other times it is. which creates problems. because english is the language of a culture, its words have their own definitions, etc. there are even mythological creatures that rely on the words. why wouldn't there be? people learn some words of the philosophical language in school.
sometimes the academy pushes an update to the philosophical language and deletes a mythological creature by accident. mythology is entirely outside their magisterium - they're philosophers, not priests or poets - but it's also downstream of it. so some inscrutable thing rolls over somewhere and deletes a minor god. of course people get mad about it! he was a minor god, but aren't all our gods worth protecting? our children won't grow up with our lore...
then other people get mad at the first people for not respecting the supremacy of natural philosophers, for thinking something as silly as myth could ever matter. for being so paranoid that maybe they don't like this business of a linguistic academy at all. words mean what their speakers say they mean, not what some academy somewhere wants it to mean. why should a hierarchy of people you've never met tell you what your words mean? why should we have an academy at all? what is this, the continent?
it's entirely inconsequential, of course, unless you have an opinion on myth, or on the supremacy of the philosophers, or on the relative merits of democracy and oligarchy.
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bathroom torment is very real ideally we would all just be allowed to go piss without worry but its not always so simple
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The fact that Tolkien realized he’d created inconsistency for LotR with the first published version of The Hobbit and then retconned it with the in universe explanation of “Bilbo is a liar,” is never going to stop being both equal parts brilliant and funny.
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Wilmer McLean is one of the funniest and unluckiest historical figures to me because his house got fucked up by a cannonball during the first major battle of the American Civil War, and so he moved to a completely different city to be safe from the war, but 4 years later, the very last battle of the war occurred in and his house was commandeered by the Union army as a place that Lee could formally surrender, after which the army just stole all his shit.
"The war began in my front yard and ended in my front parlor."
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i love it when ryoko kui draws the gang in a modern setting but they still have their armour on
like this one specifically. jacket over plate and chainmail armour. sweatpants. hiking boots. i wish people dressed like this for real
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LMAO THE "WOAH HEY" FROM MARCILLE HAPPY LESBIAN VISIBILITY WEEK
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Well you see minors under 25 years old should not be allowed to get gender reassignment surgery because what if they go to the clinic but instead of giving them a normal penis the nurses mess up and give them the evil penis. That's irreversible
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Elizabeth Bennet: I went to Accomplished Woman Island and nobody there knew you. In fact it was uninhabited.
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TM anime ad bumpers : o
(clips from TM49 and PAL22 respectively.)
the way austin says "the TWILIGHT MIRAGE" in PAL22 got stuck in my head & then i went on a search for a clip with a similar vibe to cut these together
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Some days I feel like Beowulf
Some days I feel like Grendel
Some days I have pea soup for lunch
And think of Gregor Mendel
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download killing upload pain. instant thousand deaths to brain. motherboard on murder spree. blood computer victory.
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If you need some good news today- you should know that the sea turtle nesting data for 2023 is in and it’s really promising. In Florida, both greens and loggerheads have reached record high numbers of nests. We’re really hoping this is a success story in the making for both of these species.
Almost half of the world’s loggerheads nest in Florida, meaning the state has a huge responsibility to conserve the species.
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