Kite Flying Society

I saved Latin. What did you ever do?

[8-bitfiction]

[yuppppppimgone-deactivated20150]

do you ever wonder if u have a reputation like people u dont even know could have opinions about u 

[oldshows]

[hohoehoes]

the floor is a shelf for everything

[crystalwestbrooks]

[macrolit]

Giveaway Contest: We recently reached 50,000 followers, and as a way of thanking you, we’re giving away FIFTY (50!) vintage paperback classics by Albert Camus, John Steinbeck, Carson McCullers, Toni Morrison, George Orwell, Ray Bradbury, Jane Austen, and so many others! Won’t these look lovely on your shelf? :D To win these classics, you must: 1) be following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblog this post. We will choose a random winner on January 20, at which time we’ll start a new giveaway. And yes, we’ll ship to any country. Easy, right? Good luck!

[targent]

you, a boring prole: *calculates the angle and magnitude of a vector algebraically*

me, god of SOHCAHTOA, yet doesnt even know the law of cosines: *draws 5 more triangles on top of the one given in the problem, solves it with Ease and Finesse*

[dasfreefree]

what does this say?

[targent]

sorry i dont explain my poetry much also im a STEM major i dont know what poetry even is

[kisslikefruit]

what’s a triangle 

[targent]

Something Only Handsome, Creative And Heavenly Teens Obviously Apprehend

[wnq-quotes]

You fool – you are afraid of being alone with you own mind. You just better learn to know yourself, to make sure decisions before it is too late. Your room is not your prison. You are.

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals

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[incompletepupet-blog]

Voices Carry

[surreal--memes]

[Src]

[beyonslayed]

GOODBYE

[rubyvroom]

This was the crossword puzzle in the New York Times yesterday. 

Tausig’s crossword is a so-called Schrödinger puzzle, named for the physicist’s hypothetical cat that is at once both alive and dead. In a Schrödinger puzzle, select squares have more than one correct letter answer: They exist in two states at once. “Black Halloween animal,” for example, could be both BAT or CAT, yielding two different but perfectly correct puzzles. Only 10 such puzzles have now been published in Times history.

It’s the theme of Tausig’s puzzle, though, that makes it special. Four entries in Thursday’s crossword can include either an “F” or an “M.” Both are correct; neither is wrong. For example, “Part of a house” can be either ROOF or ROOM. The long “revealer” answer, tying those select entries together and spanning 11 squares smack-dab in the middle of the puzzle, is GENDER FLUID.

This puzzle, with “M”s and “F”s that aren’t fixed, is a masterful blend of subject and structure. “It potentially really evokes what gender fluidity is, which is not moving back and forth between two poles, but actually not being committed to either pole, and potentially existing in many states at different times,” Tausig said.

[mournjargon]

This is … really cool.

[glumshoe]

High school cliques: the jocks, the theatre kids, the anime fans, the stoners, and the motley crew of weirdos who don’t seem to have any discernible commonality but are all inexplicably drawn to one another and feel a strange sort of kinship, who will all independently experience epiphanies a few years later when they realize they’re LGBTQ.

[madilik]

all LGBT events (“such as LGBT … cinema, theater performances, panels, interviews and exhibitions”)  have been officially banned in Ankara, capital of Turkey on November 17, 2017 on the grounds of “public sensitivities”, “public health” and “social morality”. the country had been experiencing a regression in civil rights, the attempts to hold the annual pride parades had been met with bans, police violence and the arrest of activists. this is only made worse with the state of emergency in effect since July 19, 2016 following the coup attempt, and the referandum of April 2017 giving the president unprecedented powers. 

sources (politico.eu, independent.co.uk, cnn.com)

[swarnpert]

[dappermouth]

strange omens gather at the end of the street

[amywinehousefan]

Visit Original Link

On 9th March 2008, historians have found what they believe is the first recording of a human voice. Predating Thomas Edison’s first phonograph recording of 1877. The “phonautograph”, created by etching soot-covered paper by Parisian inventor Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville, was played by US scientists using a “virtual stylus” to read the lines. The recording was initially believed to be the voice of a woman or adolescent, but further research in 2009 suggested the playback speed had been too high and that it was actually the voice of Scott himself. This is the original recording.