Half a Hendertwin

I’m Danielle, I’m 22, and bios suck.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[yayfeminism]

🤔

[funnystories]

funny story

when I was little, I would go on Nickelodeon.com all the time and they had this game similar to club penguin except it was called Nicktropolis. and if you forgot your password, a security question you could choose was “what is your eye color?” and if you got it right it’d tell you your password. so I would go to popular locations in Nicktropolis and write down random usernames who were also in those areas, and then i would log out and type in the username as if it were my own and see which of these usernames had a security question set to “what is your eye color?” (which was most of them, since it was easy and we were all kids). i would then try either brown, blue, or green, and always get in, then I would go to their house and send all of their furniture and decorations to my own account’s. and if it I didn’t want it, i could sell it for money

[khanos-deactivated20170219]

I love robbery and fraud

[pupu-platter]

[danielletheblizzardwizard]

I fucked up I fucked up i fucked up I fucked up i fucked up I fucked up i fucked up I fucked up i fucked up I fucked up i fucked up I fucked up i fucked up I fucked up i fucked up I fucked up i fucked up I fucked up i fucked up I fucked up

[drunkromanogers]

It’s impossible to read that guy + bonus

[self-harm-addict]

[writterings]

whenever a young kid joins our staff at work im just like huh. guess im a father now.

[writterings]

these kids will be like “can you drive me home? i don’t have gas money but-” and im already pullin out my keys and am like. sweetheart, you are a child. i am not charging a child gas money.

[writterings]

i literally almost lunged across the counter to throw hands with some old hag who yelled at and insulted one of our 16 y/o girls but instead i threw her sandwich at her and told her to never fucking come back

[writterings]

old dudes will flirt with our young girls too and i’ll be like ay man this is a truck stop, normal customer service rules dont apply here. i can and will call the cops on you.

[writterings]

im the only manager that actively tells them to steal food because these are teenagers and they are HUNGRY

[rexrattorum]

You are the only valid manager

[beefstrugglenoff]

Bagworm Moth caterpillars collect little twigs and cut them off to construct elaborate tiny log houses to live in (photos: Melvyn Yeo, Nick Bay)

[vegannerdgirl]

I had to look this up because i thought there was no way these little faerie cabin-building caterpillars were real

Theyre magical

[roach-works]

hey so, as a man who works with other men, here’s a quick relationship tip: if he doesn’t much like cats, that might be just a personal preference. if he hates cats, if he tells you he hates cats as soon as he hears that you have a cat and love your cat, he’s an asshole. he’s telling on himself.  

every guy i’ve ever worked with that makes a point of telling me how much he hates cats as soon as i mention that i have a cat and love my cat, is always someone who is regularly cruel for fun and who laughs in the breakroom about the mean things they do for fun to their girlfriends and children. 

[villainous-queer-deactivated202]

I wish I could articulate all the ways this makes sense and why it makes sense and stuff but it’s just like… something something misogyny something something resentment of creatures that don’t need you and don’t hang on your attention and approval all their lives.

[prince-luffy]

@anerdyfeminist Where is that article you wrote about misogyny and cat hate?

[anerdyfeminist]

Here tis! 😁✌️

[literallyaflame]

dude this is random but like. my mom works at a credit union, and a while ago, this totally domestic, collared dog came up to their door and was like.... barking to get in?? it’s a small credit union so they brought the dog inside to keep it safe while they got in contact with the owner

anyway, the owner showed up, looking haggard, and was like “yeah, she keeps managing to get loose. i’m surprised she came here, she usually goes to Wells Fargo.”

and my mom was like.... what?? and the dog owner was like “yeah ever since she started getting loose, she.... always goes to banks. we can’t figure out why.”

anyway the dog is fine and (they’re gonna crate train her or something) but how bananas fucking Wild is it that this dog escaped, multiple times, specifically to go to the bank???? what the fuck

[walrusofdoom]

They needed to make a depawsit

[literallyaflame]

every day i hate you more and more, asad

[serialjekyller]

Not to be a fucking nerd or anything but writing academic papers is actually super fun when you have a genuine interest in the topic!

[corvid-shmorvid]

Not to be a fucking nerd or anything but reading academic papers is actually super fun when you have a genuine interest in the topic!

[immortalsins]

Not to be a fucking nerd or anything but finding an academic paper that you don’t have to pay £80 to access is actually super fun when you have a genuine interest in the topic!

[luststarrr]

Not to be a fucking nerd or anything, but finding free academic papers to access is actually super fun, with the help of ResearchGate, when you have a genuine interest in the topic.

Access 130+ million publications and connect with 15+ million researchers. Join for free and gain visibility by uploading your research.

[immortalsins]

Not to be a fucking nerd or anything but that site is super helpful!! And so is Unpaywall which will search for a free version of the paper for you AND it’s super fun when you have a genuine interest in the topic!

https://unpaywall.org/

[lynati]

Also, whether you’re reading and writing academic papers or not, it’s 100% okay to be a nerd!

[anxietyproblem]

[oak23]

We forgot about it

[dickheaddutch]

[valilihapiirakka]

I once signed up to participate in a study on how depression affects memory, forgot I was meant to go do it, and when I emailed to apologise to the PhD student running it she basically told me that a) she was very used to this happening and b) the weird irony of her theories’ correctness making it very difficult to arrange proving them had by now gone from infuriating to hysterical

[sleepbby]

PSA: no name is impossible to pronounce. no name is too hard to learn, no name is justifiably butchered. kids with 'different' names should be taught again and again that being called by their name is a right, not a privilege

[untilitdoes]

there are over 2000 unique phonemes (individual sounds) in the world’s languages, and each language has anywhere from around 20 to 60. you stop learning new phonemes it’s theorized at around age 12. this is where accents come from -- using your own language’s/region’s phonemes to speak

so no name is impossible to pronounce world-wide, but it is very easy to not have the linguistic archive necessary to pronounce a given name entirely correctly. it is a simple case of physically not knowing where to place your tongue, whether or not to vibrate your vocal chords, etc. the only one of the dictators of sound you could be shown is how to position your lips

that being said... obviously you should still try. saying a name as correctly as you physically can goes a long way for making someone feel respected and humanized, and dismissing a name entirely as too hard goes a long way to disrespect and dehumanize people. just also accept that someone’s accent interfering with their pronunciation isn’t a sign of lack of trying, but a sign of physical limits

[prismatic-bell]

This is very true. I met a baby at my old store whose name was Navajo. I did my best and actually got a bit frustrated because there was a syllable I could NOT get, and her dad was like “it’s very hard if you don’t actually speak Diné, but thank you. Most people won’t even try.”

Be the one who tries.

[datasoong47]

Yes, there’s a big difference between getting as close as you can with your native language’s phonology, and just not even trying

[linguisten]

"Be the one who tries."

[millennial-review-deactivated20]

[midnight-femme-deactivated20201]

“oh i love your name” “thanks i picked it out myself” is an A+ trans joke 

[carpebutts]

me, making fun of cis people: “nice name, did your mom pick it out for you?”

[beaft]

i’ve put on the first harry potter movie to keep me company while i draw, and can i just say: the way that harry+co immediately jump to suspecting snape of Nefarious Evildoings simply because he’s kind of a dick will never not be funny to me. they don’t even know he used to be a death eater at this point. they know literally NOTHING about him they’re just like “well he was mean to me in class the other day, so he’s probably a spy for voldemort” “yeah that seems legit. let’s set him on fire” 

[beaft]

my other take-away from this rewatch is that hogwarts library apparently has a restricted section to ~Protect The Children~ and it’s full of like, all the books that are too edgy or too crammed with Arcane Knowledge and you need a fucking permission slip to go in there? what the fuck. i tell you if i went to wizard school i would be in the restricted section every fucking night and if they punished me i simply would not care. expulsion for a good cause

[beaft]

while i’m at it: do we ever get any explanation for why the staircases move, or is it purely to create an atmosphere of irrational, random terror?

[beaft]

you know what, i’m on a roll now, and i’m going to address the elephant in the room: the entire plot of the first book was clearly a calculated ploy by dumbledore, designed to test harry’s suitability as future Saviour of the Wizarding World. like… we all know this, right? i’m not going out on a limb here, am i? let’s look at the facts.

step one: bring an artefact capable of bestowing immortality to school, fully aware that this artefact is being coveted by an evil wizard

step two: hire shady guy to work at school, who may or may not be concealing said evil wizard underneath his turban

step three: set up series of puzzles with a difficulty level appropriate to, say, three eleven-year-old students, and put the artefact right in the middle. sit back. twiddle thumbs. get out popcorn.

step four: when all’s said and done, destroy artefact as planned and use this sequence of events as an excuse to award many, many points to own house, thereby winning House Cup and pulling a “haha gotcha!” on all the other houses, which you don’t particularly care about

step five: profit

[beaft]

i’d also like to point out that quidditch is the most ridiculous game ever invented and makes absolutely no sense. harry potter: a fun series, and a great example of how not to do worldbuilding.

[beaft]

HOW COULD I FORGET TO MENTION the immortal moment of

quirrell: troll! troll in the dungeons!

dumbledore: this is a very serious matter. all students must return to their dormitories at once

slytherins: but professor…. our dormitories are in the dungeons

dumbledore:

[lycanthrop-ee]

Why do I understand this

[skyguyandsnips]

“The name Hitler does not offend a black South African because Hitler is not the worst thing a black South African can imagine. Every country thinks their history is the most important, and that’s especially true in the West. But if black South Africans could go back in time and kill one person, Cecil Rhodes would come up before Hitler. If people in the Congo could go back in time and kill one person, Belgium’s King Leopold would come way before Hitler. If Native Americans could go back in time and kill one person, it would probably be Christopher Columbus or Andrew Jackson. I often meet people in the West who insist that the Holocaust was the worst atrocity in human history, without question. Yes, it was horrific. But I often wonder, with African atrocities like in the Congo, how horrific were they? The thing Africans don’t have that Jewish people do have is documentation. The Nazis kept meticulous records, took pictures, made films. And that’s really what it comes down to. Holocaust victims count because Hitler counted them. Six million people killed. We can all look at that number and be rightly horrified. But when you read through the history of atrocities against Africans, there are no numbers, only guesses. It’s harder to be horrified by a guess. When Portugal and Belgium were plundering Angola and the Congo, they weren’t counting the black people they slaughtered. How many black people died harvesting rubber in the Congo? In the gold and diamond mines of the Transvaal? So in Europe and America, yes, Hitler is the Greatest Madman in History. In Africa he’s just another strongman from the history books.”

— Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (via christymtidwell)

[westafricanbaby]

ALL OF THISSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!

[black-geek-supremacy]

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