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The fabulous Target Troll strikes again!

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Bravely Default & Bravely Second: Model Comparisons ⸻ Agnès Oblige, Tiz Arrior, & Edea Lee

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puberty strikes with an iron fist

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anti smoking ad

me: *smoeks* Really creepy clown: hey what the fuck man

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Watch: Ahmed Mohamed speaks out about being arrested 

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:’)

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[ndnickerson]

COLLEGE FIRST.

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I love how the Addams Family has ZERO slut-shaming. Like… honey you can dance naked and enslave someone with your womanly charms if you want to, I don’t fucking care, but so help me you’re going to get a college education first.

A+ PARENTING

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The Addamses are what every family should aspire to be like (you know; without the dismemberment and electric chairs as play time).  Honestly, have you ever seen more unconditionally loving and supportive parents than Gomez and Morticia?  And not just with the kids, but with each other.  I think what’s especially unique about them is how open they are with everything.  They don’t treat their children like children.  They treat them like they treat everyone else; direct, and to the point. 

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It’s creepy how many good examples of parenting and romantic relationships there is in these characters, especially considering they are supposed to be the antithesis of the stereotypical American nuclear family.

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They were more of the antithesis to American sitcom families. Sitcoms in the 50s and 60s acted like they were portraying perfect, wholesome families but you’d see a husband spanking his wife on I Love Lucy or threatening to punch his wife on The Honeymooners. Even today, the humor in family sitcoms comes largely from people being rude to each other. The Adams Family used off the wall humor like playing with electric chairs instead of getting laughs through family members insulting each other. 

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European accents (and in general white people accents) are commonly perceived as attractive and endearing, while accents from basically any other part of the world are considered to be signs of laziness and disrespect and get routinely made fun of.

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My whole family is Korean. My sister and I have grown up in the US so we can pretty much speak English. However, our parents speak very broken English. It makes me mad though because my mother has taken ESL classes at our local university and my father graduated from the University of Washington with a PhD in mechanical engineering, yet I constantly see them being made fun of by their coworkers or other people in general because “they’re too lazy to try to understand English.” My mom has spent countless nights crying whilst taking her classes because of the stress wishing she could speak half as fluently as I can. If you don’t know what it’s like trying to learn English as a second language, then you have no room to talk.

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As someone who’s been trained to teach English to non-English speakers, allow me to inform you that English is an eldritch Frankenstein-esque abomination of borrowed words and mismatched grammatical rules.

Structurally, English is as convoluted and obtuse as any aspect of governmental bureaucracy, and it’s similarly societally entrenched in a way that makes people believe, and even insist, that’s just “the way of things.”

Here’s the facts: English is fucking hard. English doesn’t make logical sense. English is weird and horrible and inconsistent and makes common use of unusual phonemes that most adult speakers of other languages have to be mechanically taught to differentiate from similar sounds that are distinct in the English language. Without mechanical introduction and proper instruction, a lot of people cannot actually hear the difference in sounds you are mocking them for.

In some languages, [p] and [b] are indistinguishable. This is why you heard that gentleman say he would like a “can of Coke or Bebsi” with his order. It has nothing to do with laziness.

In some languages, [l] and [r] are indistinguishable. This is why you’re an asshole for going “me rikey” like the substitution is somehow comical. You’re a dick, and also most likely racist.

In the vast majority of languages, [θ] and [ð], known to English speakers as the voiceless (thing) and voiced (there) versions of the th sound, respectively, straight up does not even exist. This is why she says “teef” or “toofbrush,” why he keeps saying “ze” or “de” in place of “the,” and why they said “sank you very much” when you held open the door for them. 

There are sounds in English that a hell of a lot of speakers of other languages cannot teach themselves to recognize and recreate without assistance.

And, y’know, even if you get the screwy grammar and troublesome pronounciation down, English is a language in which very slight changes in intonation and word stress can completely change the meaning of a sentence. 

Like so:

But how are you doing? (Flamboyant pleasure to see someone, eagerness to catch up.)

But how are you doing? (Deflection from inquiries about self, moving conversation in a new direction.)

But how are you doing? (Concern, request for further or more accurate information.)

These are all totally different statements.

It’s incredibly easy to come across in a way you did not want or intend to when you’re not familiar with the particular ways in which saying something can change what it means to other people. 

Don’t you ever give people shit for not achieving or approaching fluency in English.

Repeat after me: English is a terrible fucking language and speaking it does not make me tangibly superior to anyone else in literally any way.

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Portrait of a Young Woman, Jean-Etienne Liotard 

Girl with a Pearl Earring, Johannes Vermeer 

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they look like theyve been having a chat about u and u just walked in

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[captainthief]

How about for once we have some support for socially anxious people who are also outgoing or extroverted?

Shout out to socially anxious people who talk too much and regret every word they say

Shout out to socially anxious people who have a habit of word vomiting because they’re nervous

Shout out to socially anxious people who plan out exactly what they’re going to say but get too excited and end up going overboard

Shout out to socially anxious people who get in fights and arguments but later feel ashamed for showing so much passion and scared that people with differing opinions will target them

Shout out to socially anxious people who try to listen and be a good friend, but they talk so much that no one acknowledges that they listen, too

Shout out to socially anxious people who boldy dance in front of people or wear what they want or express themselves, only to get overwhelmed and go hide later

Shout out to socially anxious people who have a constant war in their heads because they both love and hate being the center of attention

Shout out to socially anxious people who are well aware that their voice is really loud, thank you very much

Social anxiety isn’t limited to being shy and quiet. You can be a socially anxious person even if you’re loud and rambunctious. Anyone can have social anxiety; you don’t have to fit the ‘classic introvert’ profile to be valid.

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Myriam Catrin     -     http://heritagecharlie.typepad.com

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inside out

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i didn’t do anything for levihan week this year like did i ever???? but i got these!!!!no one asked for this but hey i’m having way too much fun with this re-draw things lmao

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kingdom hearts 32 electric boogaloo

tbh

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