I have cute babies & a tenacious spirit

22 bisexual female, USA, the evergreen state

[andhumanslovedstories]

Do you ever eat popcorn out of the palm of your own hand with such ardent desperation that you feel like both a wild horse and the gentle schoolgirl feeding it treats to gain its affection 

[beauty-in-healing-deactivated20]

this is the funniest thing i have ever read

[snorlaxatives]

@ the water that drips down my arms when i wash my face and makes a big ass mess: fuckin fight me

[healerorkiller]

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[promethean-dread-deactivated201]

[wordsbymymind]

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[wordsbymymind]

[haleyincarnate]

“There is no ‘faint hum’ between us now. All there is, is noise. White noise. A megaphone blast. A nuclear siren. Maybe there will never be quiet. Maybe I’m okay with that.”

— 3:45 AM // Haley Hendrick

[pre-party]

[aestheticacadema]

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[memewhore]

[doriangaymer]

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The feline equivalent of a healer facing off solo against a tank. 

[doriangaymer]

@voidbat This is important

[voidbat]

some cats are ten thousand percent not fucking around.

[necrofuturism]

“THAT IS UNNECESSARY!!!” HOLY FUCKIN SHIT I LOVE THAT LIL KITTY

[cattgirl]

I think all cats view each other as equals & this supports my theory

[twilight-theater]

[ham4harrypotter-blog]

Way too many parents need to learn the difference between “a child being disrespectful” and “a human person expressing an opinion that differs from theirs”

[jumpingjacktrash]

my mom had a nice technique for this. when i’d give her sass, she’d say, “i don’t speak rude, what’s that in polite-person-ese?”

basically, she’d encourage me to rephrase my opinion without the attitude. so “UGH, you NEVER let me do ANYTHING!” would (often after quite a bit of bitching and grumbling) turn into “it feels like every time i have a fun idea, you say no, and i just end up sitting around the house.”

and at that point we could troubleshoot like civilized people. she could explain that she didn’t want me to go to jimmy’s sleepover because jimmy’s dad creeps her out, and i could suggest maybe i could have andy over instead, and she could say sure, why not call peter and stacy and brianna and have your own party, i’ll pop some popcorn and rent a movie, and i could add what if we put up tents in the back yard and have a bonfire and roast marshmallows, and she could laugh and say don’t push it.

[hermioneindisguise]

I really like this technique because it addresses the OPs comment but recognizes that the two can coexist. The problem is often the child is expressing their opinion in a rude or disrespectful way. And as humans we automatically become adverse to opinions we feel are aggressive toward us.

[kidouyuuto-deactivated20140411]

how did they learn to translate languages into other languages how did they know which words meant what HOW DID TH

[brigwife-deactivated20240426]

English Person: *Points at an apple* Apple

French Person: Non c’est une fucking pomme 

*800 years of war*

[agentverbivore]

Fun fact: There are a lot of rivers in the UK named “avon” because the Romans arrived and asked the Celts what the rivers were called. The Celts answered “avon.” 

“Avon” is just the Celtic word for river.

[thejazzykittykat]

Fan Fact #2: When Spanish conquistadors landed in the Yucatán peninsula, they asked the natives what their land was called and they responded “Yucatán”. In 2015, it was discovered that in those mesoamerican languages, “Yucatán” meant “I don’t understand what you are saying”

[xyxul-deactivated20201020]

W H E E Z E

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[libertarirynn-deactivated202006]

I love etymology so much because so many words kind of happened by accident or by a native speaker trying to say “WTF are you saying?“