My Unknown Musical Existence

Nineteen year old female. I'm from South Texas, going to University of North Texas. Yup. The life.

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Photographer Tanto Yensen takes unique photos of frogs during some of their most random, striking, and humorous moments. Source Source 2

All photos by Tanto Yensen

[jackpearscn]

💪💪💪💪👌👌👌👌👌👏👏👏👏👏🙌🙌🙌

[panharmonium]

watching trump slowly figure out what the presidency actually entails is a lot like what i imagine gilderoy lockhart looked like when the hogwarts teachers called his bluff and sent him into the chamber of secrets

[cyanideself-archive]

alright story time folks. this actually happened a few months ago, but i was just reminded by @yawpkatsi‘s FUBAR. 

i was sitting in the waiting room at my therapists, and this middle age man with a service dog walk in and sit down across the room from me. his dog has a service vest on and immediately lays down underneath the chair his owner is sitting in (not an easy feat as he was a pitbull mix of some sort). anyway, the man and i start talking, and he says his dog (can’t remember his name, so lets call him james), is for his ptsd. we keep talking and after a while james starts whining. i stop talking, cause idk what that means. but the man just smiles and asks me if i want to pet james. i, of course say yes, never turn down an opportunity to pet a doggo. he looks down at james and tells him to “go on then”, and immediatey james leaps the few feet seperating us and sits at my feet. he starts nuzzling at me and licking my hands, and i look up at the man, cause this doesn’t really seem like proper service dog behavior. i tell him that, he laughs, and says james is much better behaved when they aren’t here, cause james tends to get overwhelmed here. i’m kinda confused, its not like there are a lot of people or noise or smells in here? but he continues and says it’s because james’ primary job is to comfort ppl in distress and in a waiting room for a therapist, just about everyone needs some comfort.

so that’s the story of the dog that wanted to help everyone and almost made me cry cause he cared about me so much.

[yawpyawp]

OH MY GOD OH MY GOD WHAT A GOOD DOGGO

[trashybooksforladies]

Female Awesome Meme: [1/10] Women in a Movie » Mrs. White “Well, it’s a matter of life after death. Now that he’s dead, I have a life.”

[holtziesmckinnon]

This whole shoot is a blessing.

[unreconstructedfangirl]

Enjoyed.

[ghostcries-deactivated20161112]

also guys i think it’s time to start spelling ‘small’ right again,, it’s been long enough

[princeofdoomrps-archive]

see the thing is, at this point, smol isn’t even a “mispelling” of small anymore; it has its own connotations. while small is a regular adjective, smol acts more like a diminutive marker, which English has been lacking

in essence, a smol dog will always be a small dog, but not all small dogs are smol.

[nentindo-deactivated20210501]

what the fuck are you talking about

[daggers-drawn]

Linguistic evolution. Accept the smolness into your vocabulary and be cleansed.

[shwetanarayan-deactivated202504]

@nentindo, assuming you’re asking in good faith & not just trying to dismiss a perfectly accurate analysis, here’s an elaboration of what @princeofdoomrps said:

small and smol mean different things, so they’re different words. smol means something like “small in a cute way” & not just like both small and cute but the two are related. This is what makes smol more like a diminutive marker (c.f. -tje in Dutch, or -let/-ling/-ie [like in kidlet/kidling/kiddie] in some forms of English*)

note that: 1. not all small things are smol. Microbes and electrons? Generally not considered smol.

2. similar-sized things in the same category can be smol or not depending on cuteness. So, a tiny cottage may be a smol house, but an equally tiny tenement room that is an awful place to live? Not smol.

3. smol can refer to youth (e.g. the people I call my “smol frens” are mostly taller than I am but much younger)

4. It also can have implications of fondness/emotional attachment, especially, from what I’ve seen, in fandoms where people call characters things like “my smol son”, which doesn’t have to mean someone who’s actually young, short, or cute at all. Like, IDK if anyone uses that to refer to Hannibal but I wouldn’t be surprised?

So! There are contexts where you could call something/someone small but not smol, and contexts where you could call something/someone smol but not small. This is the textbook definition of “different words”. They are no longer the same word and op, you are very welcome to only use one of them! Anyone is! 

Just be aware that pretty much every part of your vocabulary, someone at some point has decried as “wrong” usage and complained about people mangling the language this way, and when you do this thing you’re carrying on a long tradition of pompous silliness.

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* English isn’t completely lacking in diminutive markers just kinda deficient. And some of those markers have become derisive or dismissive in usage, which i hope never happens to my smol word-child, smol.

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[rat-senpai]

My dad found a gif of a chihuahua being unrolled in bubblewrap and hes makinf a website just for it bc he loves it so much Im so proud of my dad

[rat-senpai]

http://chihuahuaspin.com i wasnt fucking kidding

[kidheartsss]

This is a safe site, I checked it!

[hey-im-little]

This is my new favorite site.

[leofitzo]

[livebloggingmydescentintomadness]

he’s trying to use a fucking Tide pen

[spacespectrum-deactivated202010]

my armenian father getting angry at a squirrel

[spacespectrum-deactivated202010]

my dad is famous

[alliluyevas]

“You bastard, what are you doing over there?”

*camera zooms in*

“You are STEALING my nuts. Hey. Hey!”

*becoming more strident*

“Are you listening to me?!”

*taps on wall, causing squirrel to startle*

“You. Are. A. Little. Thief.”

[communistbakery-deactivated2017]

this ones for all the porn bots following me:

tity

[incidentalcomics]

[positivityandpaperstars]

I kinda love this.

[middlenamebuckley-deactivated20]

Color Wheel rolling down the hill is my favorite.

[psych2go]

How cool is this?

[cityelf]

“We are so the new Batman.”

[uncawanwo]

Ryan Lochte and puppies (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

[winterqueenvasya]

The Olympics is definitely the time we all look at our parents wondering why they didn’t sign us up for a sport at an early age.

[rainbow-squirrels-7]

So I learned my new favorite history fact in my AP US class today. It’s hilarious and goes a bit like this

In 1989, President Bush sent troops to Panama to capture the dictator and drug lord, Manuel Noriega. But Noriega had fled to (I had to look up the full name) the Apostolic Nunciature of the Holy See. The troops couldn’t exactly get in, so they surrounded the place and has to wait him out, or somehow force him out. And it’s crazy how they did it. The literal United States Navy SEALs did this And it is real history

They blasted rock and roll music for days until he gave up

Apparently, Noriega only liked opera, so this annoyed him. But it gets better. The playlist was not only obnoxiously loud and obnoxiously American, it had a sense of irony. Here are some highlights:

Danger Zone Freedom Fighter Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down Give It Up I Fought the Law and the Law Won If I Had a Rocket Launcher Nowhere to Run Panama Paranoid Prisoner of Rock and Roll Rock and a Hard Place Stay Hungry They’re Coming to Take Me Away This Means War Wanted Dead or Alive

And my personal favorite, and a thing that actually happened: Never Gonna Give You Up

I just… Imagine the board meeting “Huh, how are we going to force this guy out of hiding?” “Oh, I have an idea! Why don’t we blast loud rock music?” “That just might work! And we should do it with a sense of irony, just to make it funnier!”

[dat-soldier]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Nifty_Package

[theoriginalmagitha]

WHO NAMED THIS OPERATION

[comtessedebussy]

OH MY FUCKING GOD

[yikyakapp-blog]