nomadic soul

bug scientist chronic illness in nature advocate aspiring poet (@ancpoetry)

[piss-bong]

They/them pronouns are now acceptable in academic writing!!!

[solarmorrigan]

So. 10th grade English class. We all come in one morning to find a balloon and a perfectly sharpened pencil on each of our desks. No instructions, no explanation, which is strange, because our teacher is meticulous about that sort of thing. A couple of people try to ask her and she says we’ll get to it. She takes role and then announces that she needs to go to the copy room and she’ll be back in a couple of minutes

Kinda unorthodox, but no one is complaining because this is advanced English and the teacher usually goes kinda hard. So, y’know. Brief respite. We all sit and chat; one of the boys teasingly steals a girl’s balloon, but gives it back to her easily enough; it’s quiet and kind of a nice break. Then the teacher comes back, stops in the doorway, and just stares at us

After a long moment, she says, confused, “You didn’t pop the balloons.”

To which one of the guys about two rows over exclaims, “We’re allowed to pop them?” and immediately turns around and stabs his friend’s balloon with the pencil

There is a vicious revenge balloon-stabbing, and a few more people pop seatmates’ balloons or their own, and the whole time the teacher is just shaking her head. “I can’t believe you didn’t pop your balloons.”

Apparently we were starting Lord of the Flies that day and she wanted to demonstrate the basic concept of kids turning on each other when there are no authority figures present and it was basically my favorite failed social experiment ever

[loveharuokumura]

Back in my 10th grade we did a similar things around Lord of the Flies, where we had a test scheduled for that day, and when we walked in, the teacher took role by looking through the window of the door and never entered the classroom. On the board were three tasks written and the teacher had brought in donuts. At first we all sat around and waited for the teacher to come in, but eventually we just started tackling the list of tasks. Task 1- the test. Everybody took it silently, no one cheated, everyone turned it in and we went on to Task Two: tidy up the room. So we did, we split into a couple groups and each one cleaned an area of the room. Task Three: Hand out the donuts. There were 12 donuts, and 30 of us. So we split the donuts into thirds, each took a third, and left the extras for the teacher. After this, the teacher came in absolutely FUMING. She was so upset we had followed all the rules and completed the tasks. Apparently she had been texting kids telling them to start some chaos but they all ignored it because they were too nice. She tried to dock our grades for not going absolutely wild because it meant her class didn’t get the point across

[hookedonafeeeling]

That’s because lord of the flies isn’t representative of humanity it’s representative of rich white male shitheads

[sappho-and-the-lesbos]

[egax]

I have been saving this since last year. Happy Earth Day everyone.

[freefitty]

literally has been in my queue for an entire year. you just can’t miss reblogging.

[davidlowery]

[johnnyjoestarrelatable]

just found out today that moths can make their genitals vibrate to throw off a bat’s sonar

[venacavo]

we can too you’re just not skilled yet

[pileofknives]

Me helicoptering my dick so the cops can’t triangulate my cellphone signal

[sappyassmemes]

[catlips001]

5 little monkeys jumping on the bed. One fell off and

[catlips001]

Mamma called the doctor and the doctor said

[ask-cloud-skipper]

you might be entitled to financial compensation if he or a loved one dies

[lmaonade]

i am a vegetable medley and god is sautéing me on medium high heat 

[lmaonade]

idk why everyone took me saying this as a bad thing… it translates to “i am becoming delicious” 

[tamascotchi-deactivated20190101]

art is open to interpretation

[smalltonystark]

honestly it is SO goddamn funny whenever some straight man calls me a whore or a bitch or something like girl you think that shit hurts my feelings? my closest friend once told me i dressed like an accounting major going through her 2nd divorce while trying to get her oldest stepchild to call her once a month. THATS a real insult. try harder.

[theawesomeadventurer]

I love this post because one time my younger sister told me I looked like a turtle from one of the Ice Age movies and since then nothing has cut me deeper than that

[nojaminmycoffee-deactivated2020]

[theawesomeadventurer]

yea that’s him :/

[ninenine-brooklyn]

[divination]

i am all of them

[retrowaifu]

My fav sex position is actually when I have feelings for someone and they have the same feelings for me too

[arizonaconservativegal]

Fun fact: Arizona is the only place in the country where the state mine inspector is an elected position

Another fun fact: this is one of my favorite political ads of all time, straight out of 2014

[catparazzi]

I forgot vampire bats were a thing and thought they were referring to the folklore kind of vampire

[tacticalskirt]

the subtle advocation for kids to be playing in the abandoned copper mines is also not great

[fuckyeah2000s]

[gloomdocwife]

[whoismitski-deactivated20190304]

[catchymemes]

[unclefather]