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[witch-crip-is-this]

[ID: A photo of a small white cat with orange spots, sitting on a scale at the vet. She has wide eyes and is looking around with mild suspicion. I’m holding her for her comfort, with only my arms in frame. End ID.]

This is Caper.

She’s a sweet, goofy cat who we recently learned was abandoned by the previous owner of our home. She's adorable and getting along well with our other cats, but she also came to us very injured and needs surgery. Even just sharing the word helps a lot!

The link below takes you to our go fund me page, Caper says thanks for reading!

Help a Disabled Cat Get Needed Surgery!, organized by Jaden Haun

This is Caper. She's a sweet, cuddly kitty who squeaks instead of meows and gets a… Jaden Haun needs your support for Help a Disabled Cat G

[so-over-ableism]

the way that being chronically ill just drains your money in ways that feel almost ridiculous in how insulting they are is truly one of the worst experiences.

going to the doctor? at least a copay that could be reduced by insurance but never fully gone if not an entire multi-hundred dollar bill for them to say eh idk and maybe run tests that also cost money. oh, and you’ll probably pay double for a specialist that you wait months for a five minute appointment

get prescription medications to manage symptoms from said doctor? again, might get reduced by insurance but could be in the thousands per month. but hey! they want me to hold on to hope of meeting my deductible

can’t get prescriptions? that’s money spent on OTC pain meds and allergy meds and GI meds and supplements and mobility aids and so on

need a special diet? gonna cost you an arm and a leg to keep it up because the generic brands aren’t going to stock them/won’t have them without other ingredients that trigger symptoms

and you know actually? groceries in general costs doubled from when i moved out last year so a weeks worth of food has been upwards of $200 even with generic brands and cutting corners

too symptomatic to cook and no one to help?delivery costs add up rapidly and you’ll be judged by everyone for not eating healthy and feeding the corporate system

add on the rent, utilities, car bills, student costs if you’re in school, time spent at work and school that makes you feel worse, and maybe getting a small treat once and a while because you fucking deserve one coffee once in a while and you’re fucked!

and then getting official government disability benefits takes forever and probably needs to be challenged by a lawyer if initially denied (court costs) and even then it barely covers everything and you can’t save any money without getting the benefits taken away!

imagine me adding a witty ending to this post but honestly i’m just frustrated and in pain

[velartis]

“what radicalized you” bro EMPATHY

[puppygirllaika]

"what radicalized you" well in kindergarten they told me to share things and be nice to people.

[christianstepmoms]

awesome

[cosmonautroger]

capybara

[moniquill]

Guinea big.

[uncahier]

[toskarin]

you know, I've been thinking, after this trail of carnage, I might just hang my sword up. just gotta slay these last few villains and I'll have evil solved, and there will be a place for me in this peaceful world I've created. with the sword.

[the-uncanny-dag]

[kuromi-hoemie]

me when i see an animal that is known for being in my area

[northshorewave]

'I Can't Believe It's Not Butter' rebrands to 'They Don't Want You to Know it's Not Butter', to better reflect the 21st-century consumer mindset.

[meowdoww]

Shirley Temple

[millionsknives]

can you curry anything else or is it just favor

[millionsknives]

tim

[sufficientlylargen]

So "currying" a furry animal means grooming or brushing it with a currycomb, which in turn comes from the Old French correier meaning "to prepare [something]", because you prepare a horse for riding by brushing it; it's most commonly applied to horses but you can get e.g. currycombs for dogs.

If I understand correctly, medieval French folk tales considered chestnut-colored horses to be deceitful and tricky; the Old French word for a chestnut or dun horse was fauvel, and so the Old French expression correier fauvel, literally "to brush the chestnut horse", meant lying or being hypocritical for personal gain. This turned into "curry favel" in 15th-century English, and then mutated into "curry favor" over the next few centuries as people forgot about the horse.

So "currying favor" is really "brushing the Horse of Lies", and the reason you can't curry goodwill, or love, or hatred, or even disfavor is that we didn't have Horses for those.

And it follows that we can gain the ability to curry other things by assigning them to Horses.

[sufficientlylargen]

#google is backing you up on this (via @oldguardians)

I realize, looking back on this post, that regular readers of my blog may have thought I made this up. Making up a ridiculous etymology is certainly the sort of thing I might do; in fact I've been meaning to start a sideblog dedicated solely to sufficiently accurate etymologies, and have a notebook with dozens of them jotted down, I just haven't had the time to do anything with them.

But I want to stress that this is not one of those cases. This is, to the best of my knowledge, the very real etymology of the phrase "curry favor".

The Old French fauve or falve referred to the light-brown color that's sometimes called "fallow" in modern English, but since it also sounded similar to faux, meaning "false", it was also associated with deceit and trickery ; the idiom estriller Fauvel literally meant "to groom the fallow one" but idiomatically meant "to lie or trick people".

Then in the 1300s we get the French poem Roman de Fauvel, a satirical poem about a fauve horse, whose name is derived both from the color and from the fact that FAVVEL is an acronym of Flaterie, Avarice, Vilanie, Varieté, Envie, Lascheté (Flattery, Greed, Vileness, Fickleness, Envy, and Cowardice) - all the different vices that this horse embodies.

Fauvel (purportedly modeled after Enguerrand de Marigny [source], an advisor to King Philip IV) is a sinful, conniving, and very rich horse who has various religious and secular leaders fawning over him and brushing him; it was well-known enough that "grooming Fauvel" came to mean "sucking up to someone powerful" more than just "being evil", and when it was translated into English the grooming was translated as currying, which specifically is grooming a horse with a curry comb [wiktionary]. From this we got the Middle English expression "currying Fauvel", which then mutated via folk etymology (in the "reinterpretation of unfamiliar words as more familiar ones" sense, not the "people are wrong about etymology" sense) into "currying favor".

Curry favor in:

Wiktionary: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/curry_favor

Merriam-Webster: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/curry%20favor

Etymonline: https://www.etymonline.com/word/curry

[nonbinaryjudean]

made you some graphics to help you remember

[transmutationisms]

printers groupchat

printer 1: lets crumple up paper and jam on it and make a ton of noise

printer 2: yay

printer 3: yay

printer 4: yay

[eternal-fractal]

yall are coming up with new, more creative ways to express frustration

[jazetallo-art]

pov: you're making history. you're working with the most advanced technology in the world. outlook still doesn't fucking work.

[arctic-hands]

When I was a teenager and still on Neopets I was part of a pretty big Star Trek guild and eventually became part of its council, with the solemn duty of creating weekly polls. Well one day I created the poll "Which would win in a fight? Borg Cube or Death Star?". Naturally, since this was a Star Trek guild, the answer was overwhelmingly "Borg Cube", but someone did have the rationality to point out we were biased.

So I look up a pretty prominent Star Wars guild and message one of their council and ask them to poll the same question and get back to me in a week. They do, and naturally the fuckin geeks said "Death Star".

So then I look up a Stargate guild and messaged the lead council member, saying the same thing, and they get back to me almost immediately saying that the Death Star would immediately one-shot a Borg Cube but they would never be able to do it again to another Cube. And I took that wisdom back to my guild and we were mollified, and for one moment the Nerd World was peaceful.

[evilsoup]

[panteneprovcommercial]

[toetagsandbowties]

[yorickless]

there's this account on bluesky that just randomly samples the last reply someone made before getting blocked by the person they were replying to and it's a really good gimmick blog concept. I don't think tumblr data is public enough to make this possible here unfortunately. some samples:

[isoddtosay]

[honeybeetlejuice]

every disabled person should get a free pass to jump one ableist medical professional of their choosing with absolutely no consequences