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Mexican girl, 2000 years old. 

[peashooter85]

Sword, Korea, 17th-19th century

from The National Museum of Korea

[captainjonnitkessler]

Super fucked up that I can’t be a master-level expert in knitting AND woodworking AND silversmithing AND embroidery AND soap making AND spinning AND -

[stillunderyourbed]

a dog’s life

[kontextmaschine]

Our Japanese class found it funny that in common terminology "food" isn't very distinguished from specifically "rice" until it was pointed out to us that in English "meal" is "loose roughly ground grain"

[karcatgirl-vantas]

humans be like staple crop

[aletheiawriting]

My only real and valid writing tip is that you google every word you make up for your fantasy stories. That's It

[wizardpotions]

The concepts of NSFW is being cleared of the Internet under the false pretense of children’s safety when it’s really about the people in power sanitising for advertisers and pushing evangelical narratives AND that not enough is done to keep legitimately harmful content off of spaces that minors have access to are ideas that can coexist

[pageofheartdj]

can adults have their own fucking space?

[wizardpotions]

a lot of people are misunderstanding this post. minors arent taking away your spaces. the internet is not being made safer for children, it is being sanitised for advertisers.

[queenofthefaces]

And also: minors’ spaces are being taken away.

When I was a kid, “barbie.com” looked like this

But now, if you type “Barbie.com” you’re taken immediately to Mattel’s online shop, surrounded by nothing but “shop now” links and toy collections.

Disney channel’s website is now “Disneynow.com” which still has games and shows appropriate for kids, but is aimed towards a younger audience as it combines Disney Jr and Disney Channel properties, and the look of the entire site is very juvenile and not very appealing to kids in the tween and young teen demographics.

Nick.com has been similarly streamlined and is focused primarily on streaming its shows, and the only games still left are 10 apps that can’t be played on browser.

Kid-friendly sites like icarly.com, Poptropica, Club Penguin, Neopets, Webkinz etc used to be insanely relevant and popular spaces built for kids and tweens.

Now, kids are being funneled into less moderated, more exploitative, and more public spaces like Roblox (its dangerous and exploitative nature exposed in these videos from People Make Games: (x) (x)), Fortnite (known for its gambling and microtransaction issues), and social media sites like TikTok, YouTube, and Twitter.

My elementary aged cousins spend their time on Roblox, YouTube, and some less than reputable game sites that are full of ads and stolen/reposted/reskinned games. My sister was on Musically/Tiktok and Twitter in middle school. They don’t have the same options for having fun online that I did when I was a kid, especially not when they get too old for nickjr and disneynow.

The internet has been condensed into about 5 popular sites that are full of ads, and it’s not fair to anyone.

[micro-usb-deactivated20230625]

[kemetic-dreams]

[ddorrmantt]

Hidden colors is the best mf documentary ever ya better stop mf playin

[moominhands]

this is so cute

[moominhands]

can’t stop thinking about her… i love you tattie scone lady

[lazy8blog]

Completely random Fridge Logic thought I had: isn’t Inuyasha supposed to be half dog demon? So why does he remind me so much of a cat?

First of all, the eyes:

What’s more, that particular eye color seems to run in the family, since Sesshoumaru’s got it too:

Have you ever seen a dog with eyes that look like that? But do you know what species does commonly have slit-pupiled yellow eyes?

Then, there’s the fact that whenever Inuyasha wants to brood, he can usually be found up a tree, refusing to come down until someone comes over and gets him.

You ever seen a dog that could climb a tree in the first place, much less enjoyed spending time in one?

For being a dog, Inuyasha sure is a cat person.

A dog’s primary weapon is its teeth, but he and Sesshoumaru both prefer to fight with their claws—I can’t recall seeing either one of them bite anything. They’re incredibly agile, able to leap around high places without a second thought. Not to mention that cattitude they’ve both got going on where they never, ever want to acknowledge they actually care about someone and always try to maintain that persona of aloof indifference even with the one person in their lives they would actually die for, because what do you take me for, human? (Have you ever even met a dog?)

…is there something their parents weren’t telling us?

[square-enix]

trial by combat is such a funny concept. if youre not guilty then beat my ass

[kingofthegringos-deactivated202]

If you're truly righteous God would have blessed you with some hands

[pbs-r]

starting to think about happiness as something that could be attained every day instead of something you chase for years and years until the conditions are absolutely perfect

[whitepeopletwitter]

[overfalls]

IT’S NOT ‘PEEKED’ MY INTEREST

OR ‘PEAKED’

BUT PIQUED

‘PIQUED MY INTEREST’

THIS HAS BEEN A CAPSLOCK PSA

[owlbearcounter]

THIS IS ACTUALLY REALLY USEFUL THANK YOU

[ranetree]

ADDITIONALLY:

YOU ARE NOT ‘PHASED’. YOU ARE ‘FAZED.’

IF IT HAS BEEN A VERY LONG DAY, YOU ARE ‘WEARY’. IF SOMEONE IS ACTING IN A WAY THAT MAKES YOU SUSPICIOUS, YOU ARE ‘WARY’.

ALL IN ‘DUE’ TIME, NOT ‘DO’ TIME

‘PER SE’ NOT ‘PER SAY’

THANK YOU

[tassiekitty]

BREATHE - THE VERB FORM IN PRESENT TENSE

BREATH - THE NOUN FORM

THEY ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE

WANDER - TO WALK ABOUT AIMLESSLY

WONDER - TO THINK OF IN A DREAMLIKE AND/OR WISTFUL MANNER

THEY ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE (but one’s mind can wander)

[fairywails]

DEFIANT - RESISTANT DEFINITE - CERTAIN

[melancholicmarionette]

WANTON - DELIBERATE AND UNPROVOKED ACTION (ALSO AN ARCHAIC TERM FOR A PROMISCUOUS WOMAN)

WONTON - IT’S A DUMPLING THAT’S ALL IT IS IT’S A FUCKING DUMPLING

[proletariatbitch]

BAWL- TO SOB/CRY

BALL- A FUCKING BALL

YOU CANNOT “BALL” YOUR EYES OUT

[soggywarmpockets]

AND FOR FUCK’S SAKE, IT’S NOT “SIKE”; IT’S “PSYCH”. AS IN “I PSYCHED YOU OUT”; BECAUSE YOU MOMENTARILY MADE SOMEONE BELIEVE SOMETHING THAT WASN’T TRUE.

THANK YOU.

[everylineeverystory]

*slams reblog*

[leonawriter]

IT’S ‘MIGHT AS WELL’. ‘MIND AS WELL’ DOES NOT MAKE GRAMMATICAL SENSE.

[penbrydd]

SLEIGHT - DEXTERITY, ARTIFICE, CRAFT (FROM ‘SLY’) SLIGHT - VERY LITTLE, FRAIL, DELICATE

IT’S ‘SLEIGHT OF HAND’.

[maverlok]

[steftastan]

CAN I ADD TO THIS TOO?

IT’S NOT ‘COULD OF’, THAT DOESN’T MAKE ANY SENSE WHATSOEVER. IT’S ‘COULD HAVE’. SAME APPLIES TO ‘SHOULD HAVE’.

[oniongentleman]

And this is why my students look at me as though I’m the devil when I try to tell them that no i’m not lying this really is a thing

[hermoninee-granger]

IT’S ‘COULDN’T CARE LESS’ NOT ‘COULD CARE LESS’ IF YOU COULD CARE LESS THAT MEANS YOU CARE

[haiku-robot]

it’s ‘couldn’t care less’ not ‘could care less’ if you could care less that means you care

^Haiku^bot^0.4. Sometimes I do stupid things (but I have improved with syllables!). Beep-boop!

[miss-malaphor]

Please check out Homophones Weakly.

It’s a treasure trove.

And a goddamn delight.

[spicychestnut]

I laughed so hard

[toopuretobepink]

as a person whose native language isn’t English, I truly appreciate this

[dancinjanssen]

‘AFFECT’ IS THE ACTION. ‘EFFECT’ IS THE RESULT. SOMETHING DOESN’T ‘EFFECT’ YOU; IT ‘AFFECTS’ YOU. HOWEVER IT CAN HAVE AN EFFECT ON YOU.

[headless-horseboy]

It’s not delivery it’s digorno

[jedi-in-the-jellicle-junkyard]

Every time someone writes “ball your eyes out” I immediately picture a melon baller, just pop those suckers right out…

[nonotespepperwood]

About affect and effect: have any of y'all heard of the raven technique it literally saved me

® A(ffect)=V(erb) E(ffect)=N(oun)

To put it simply

What you are doing is the affect what happened after you did the thing is the effect

[thirsty-flygirl]

I appreciate this post with all my soul, but as a child of the ‘80s, “sike” as a misspelling of “psych” became part of the playground vernacular 🤷‍♀️

[naamahdarling]

YOU “POUR” SYRUP OVER PANCAKES.

YOU “PORE” OVER ANCIENT MANUSCRIPTS.

[morgynleri]

When you put an arrow to a bowstring, you are NOCKING the arrow.

If you are NOTCHING an arrow, you are using a knife to cut into it.

[hkvoyage]

You ROLL your eyes but play a ROLE.

[revangerang]

I agree though, a psych is a psychiatrist. “Sike!” is a an interjection/catchphrase for when you trick someone. Just like how fridge is spelled differently from refrigerator, etc.

[madeline-kahn]

Can you feel the love tonight? real life couples in film

Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart in To Have and Have Not (1944) Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz in The Long Long Trailer (1954) Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn in Desk Set (1957) Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward in The Long Hot Summer (1958) Annette Benning and Warren Beatty in Bugsy (1991) Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone in Bridesmaids (2011) Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon in Murder in the First (1995) Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft in To Be or Not to Be (1983) Emily Blunt and John Krasinski in A Quiet Place (2018) Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes in The Place Beyond the Pines (2012) Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith in Ali (2001) Zoe Kazan and Paul Dano in Ruby Sparks (2012) Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell in Overboard (1987) Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005)

[archerdiana]

Bellies are hot, actually

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]