Cosmic Machinations

[tamamita]

pray for jigglypuff… ;(

[scottlava]

“If you think this has a happy ending, you haven’t been paying attention.“

GoT Edition - (9 of 20)

[moistlyafk]

[moshingtothesherlocktheme]

"Straight couples shouldn't be at pride"

Well uh…

1.) one or both of people you see as a “straight couple” could be pan/bi/poly/ace

2.) one or both of them could be trans or non binary

3.) you could be misgendering someone

4.) or *gasp* allies that want to show their support

[rootkit]

[spangledshieldsandsilverwings]

Gif stands for Graphics Interchange Format. when graphics is pronounced “JAFFICKS” Then I will pronounce Gif with a “J”

[karolinedianne]

^ This

[rougaroucojones]

It’s followed by an R of course it would be a hard g. But Giraffe is a soft g. Genius is a soft g. Gin is pronounced with a soft g too. GIF is I following a g, it would be pronounced with a soft g.

[radarmatt-deactivated20160828]

It aint Jif peanut butter though.

[rougaroucojones]

It would still be pronounced like that. The general rule is if the g is followed by an e or i, it’s soft g. U or a consonant is generally a hard g.

[dxscostick-deactivated20170429]

I will DIE WITH MY HONOR

[joosh-actual-deactivated2018092]

Gear =/= Jear

Get =/= Jet

Gift =/= Jift

Give =/= Jive

In English, words with a ‘G’ followed by an ‘e’ or an ‘i’ can be pronounced with either a hard ‘G’ or a soft ‘G’.

Words with Germanic roots such as ‘gear’, ‘get’, ‘gift’, ‘give’ (see above) are pronounced with a hard ‘g’ while words with Latin or Greek roots such as ‘gem’, ‘general’, ‘giraffe’, ‘giant’, are pronounced with a soft ‘g’.

So no, it’s not exactly a “general rule” that ‘g’ followed by an ‘e’ or an ‘i’ makes a soft ‘g’ sound. 

Additionally, “GIF” is an ACRONYM starting with a word that begins with a hard ‘g’ sound, so “GIF” is therefore pronounced with a hard ‘g’.

[dxscostick-deactivated20170429]

We fight with honor

[macleod]

[escsokovia-deactivated20151216]

[dinofarts]

TODAY IN BIOLOGY CLASS WE LEARNED THAT WHEN YOU MOW THE GRASS THE BLADES RELEASE A CHEMICAL THAT MAKES THAT GLORIOUS SMELL BUT THE REASON WHY THEY RELEASE THE CHEMICAL IS TO WARN OTHER GRASS BLADES OF DANGER SO WHEN WE SMELL THE FRESHLY CUT GRASS SMELL IT’S NOT JUST A GOOD SMELL IT’S THE SMELL OF THE BLOOD AND SCREAMS FOR HELP OF THOUSANDS OF GRASS BLADES

[real-faker]

warning other grass blades of danger hahaha what are they gonna’ do they just grass

[stariceling]

So a lot of plants produce volatile chemicals in response to something damaging their leaves that are basically the plant version of screaming to everything around them AAAAH SOMETHING IS EATING ME SAVE YOURSELF! And then other plants make all kinds of nasty chemical compounds to stuff into their own leaves to deter things from eating them.

Other plants have an approach where they use those chemicals to scream HEY SOMETHING IS EATING ME SOMEONE COME EAT IT BACK! Like: are aphids eating at you? Announce to all local ladybugs that you have a big fat buffet crawling on you and they will remove your problem.

And IDK what response grass is hoping for but it seems tragic because no amount of I-am-not-for-eating chemicals or calling for backup will deter a lawnmower.

[nyaa]

[murdererbyproxy-deactivated2016]

The Hissing Wastes

[archillect]

[teesadutta]

5.4.15

[weloveshortvideos]

[desidrake]

“do your little turtle thing my g”

[ladiscutee]

absolute fav

[tinybro]

so we have a conversational safeword in my group of friends and it’s great, idk why more people don’t do this. whenever someone wants a subject to be dropped immediately no questions asked we just say “spleen” and we stop immediately and it’s a really good way to avoid crossing the line between teasing friends and genuinely upsetting them by accident, or stopping debates from turning into actual arguments

[gothhabiba]

you all do realise that “Allaah” isn’t “the Muslim god”… like you do realise that “Allaah” is literally just the word for “God” in the Arabic language and that Christian and Jewish Arabic-speakers also say “Allaah”… like you do realise that right

[ahnyala-deactivated20180301]

I’ve tried to explain this so many times

[buggirl]

Look at the gold borders on this one!! 

Maquipucuna, Ecuador

[outofcontextdnd]

A rogue who has less blades than limbs is no rogue at all.

(via outofcontextdnd)

[ryannshannon]

Some comics I made based (practically verbatim) off of a pretty wild day in my 9th grade math class.  Looking back on it now is funny because of the cartoon-level absurdity of it all, but at the time it was extremely frustrating. I guess that’s reminiscent of a lot of high school experiences in general, but it also reminded me of some pretty gendered standards I was expected to uphold as a 14 year old girl who wasn’t even very good at algebra in the first place!

[zambiunicorn]

THIS IS DRAWN SO CUTE AND HAS MANY CUTE EXPRESSIONS AND I LOVE IT and it also makes me SO ANGRY LOL

[phreequea]

“girls mature faster than boys” but that’s cause we’re expected to though

[imgross-ok]

its bc we’re not seen as forgivable, we’re not allowed to make mistakes and grow through them, our immaturity is unattractive and annoying, whereas a boy’s immaturity is a respected stage. we’re held to a higher standard not bc we are respected more, but for the exact opposite, we just arent worth the trouble. we’re shoved into the role of care taker and door mat since day one. our purpose is to not stand in the way of male development or happiness. our health and happiness is not the priority. 

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

“I expect that from the boys, but not from you” — I heard that so. often. as a kid. But you know what? I probably would have told you that gender inequality wasn’t a thing anymore, if you’d asked me as a ten-year-old. Because I was so fucking inured to the countless microaggressions I dealt with as a girl that I didn’t even notice them. When teachers said shit like this, it was unfair like rain on your beach day was unfair - it was unfathomable that this kind of unfairness could be changed. How many little girls are being told right now, in how many different ways, that they are expected to be a pleasant-looking backdrop, a sweet-tempered supporter to the boys around them? How many little boys are being told right now, in how many different ways, that they can do whatever the fuck they want at the expense of the girls around them? And how is that affecting them and the kind of people they’ll be as adults? How is it shaping their instinctive beliefs about how women should be treated?

[lectorel]

It’d be hard, but I really feel parents should teach little girls the following phrases to be deployed in these situations and be prepared to back them when other adults complain:

“I’m [age], I’m not anyone’s parent.”

“I’m a kid, It’s not my job to set a good example.” (Possibly with “that’s your job,” attached.)

“Then you’ll have to be disappointed.” (In response to any variation of ‘I expect better of a girl’)

“You’re being unfair and sexist, and I’m telling my parents.”

[aerialsquid]

Well, this just happened.

[coelasquid]

See, this is a situation where it would be perfectly appropriate.