Gotta Kick at the Darkness 'Till it Bleeds Daylight

Old. Fandom-hopper. Nature-lover. Excellent at curating my online experience. Gender: ehn, no, thanks. They/she/whatever.

[bodhimcbodeface]

I love the term “loanwords” because it implies that you intend to give them back.

[bodhimcbodeface]

*dumps a box full of words on French’s front porch* You never came back for your shit.

[cipheramnesia]

Loanwords, loaned to the British Museum so

[nothing-an-iratze-cant-fix]

Would everyone like to know the best thing??? There are two types of borrowed word - loan words and calques. Loan words are words taken directly from the language i.e. tattoo, sushi, guillotine. Calques are words literally translated from the language before being borrowed i.e. beer garden, scapegoat, killer whale (incorrectly calqued, the original actually means whale killer which is a whole other post).

Did anyone notice the fun thing?

Loan word is a calque (German lehnwort lit. Loan+word) and calque is a loan word (French calque - tracing or imitation). Have a good day!

[gummybearattacktheworldofdespair]

[oranberryblissey]

This is the definition of Chaotic Evil.

[alberts-infinite-abyss]

[goth-slush]

oh it’s perfect in every way

[araccoonthatlikesmurder]

I absolutely hate it

[mabel-but-slytherin]

You’ve seen rube goldberg, now try rude goldberg

[pansy2025]

goo goo dolls if they were in dune: and i don’t want the worm to see me

[mezzodical]

[jn3008]

[lupusbaby]

Say it with me! Wheelchairs aren’t sad! Mobility aids aren’t sad! Mobility aids are instruments of freedom!

[goth-princess-gwennie]

Forgive me if this is inappropriate but

So are

colostomy bags

Diapers

insulin pumps

Oxygen systems

Braces

[cuntpunkop-ed]

catheters

rollators

hearing aids

compression garments

prosthetics

FREEDOM AIDS

[seraph1c-mo0n]

- canes

- service animals

- noise cancelling headphones/ear defenders

- wheelchair attachments

- fidgets

IT’S DISABILITY PRIDE MONTH YALL

BE UNAPOLOGETICALLY DISABLED AND TAKE UP ALL THE SPACE AND TIME YOU NEED!!!!!

[penandinkprincess]

#MyShane uses 2in1 and dude-moisturiser from the same drugstore brand (and has done so since high school). However because this is hockey in the early 2010’s he gets labelled as metrosexual, and this later evolves into everyone thinking he has a 15 step skincare routine

Meanwhile #MyIlya imports his skin and hair-care products from three separate continents

i see The Vision, but shane also outsources as many decisions as possible to get The Best answer.

so i see this but raise you: shane has an elaborate, detailed routine, and he does not fully know what any of them do. he doesn't especially care to learn. dr. carter said to do these things and then naomi the aesthetician he hired after one (1) iffy comment about his skin on a commercial shoot early on said do these things also, so he will do these things (and these things also). what does this do? couldn't tell you. what could he sub this for? no idea. what happens if he skips this? there's no way to know. he simply will not dedicate precious Hockey Things Storage Space to it. The Professionals told him exactly what to do. he will continue to do it.

meanwhile ilya who has a routine because he is a liiiittle vain (and because sveta would ROAST his ass if he didn't put in effort) does have good products, but he also has a streamlined routine that he understands.

and he DELIGHTS in getting on shane's nerves by asking about his when he KNOWS shane doesn't know the answers.

"hollander, what does this do?"

"make me catch a murder charge if you don't put it the fuck down and leave me alone, rozanov."

[omghotmemes]

No, no it isn’t.

[moonlit-aura]

this gif is perfectly timed because it gives you enough time to read it, comprehend it, and still have this too-long-for-comfort moment of suspense before being punched square in the solar plexus

[she-is-autiblogging]

sometimes abuse victims will think they were/are not being abused. sometimes abuse victims will think it's okay they were/are being abused for whatever reason.

sometimes abuse victims will insist to others that they were/are not being abused. sometimes abuse victims will insist to others that it's okay they were/are being abused for whatever reason.

in fact, leading a victim to believe that what is happening is normal and fine and even good or righteous for whatever reason is a common feature of abuse, whether the abuser did it on purpose or not.

if an abuse victim in your life...

questions whether they were abused

goes back and forth about whether they think they were abused

tells you they weren't being abused, and then later says they were

...these can all be very normal parts of living with abuse trauma and don't mean someone is lying or exaggerating about being abused.

[dailywomen]

ROSAMUND PIKE photographed by Grace Difford for GQ Hype (2026)

[sitronsangbody]

Half the backlash to fat lib content essentially boils down to "I can't believe you're FORCING me to not be mean to you"

[sitronsangbody]

Thin people are absolutely relentless with this. "But I have to TELL them!" "I can't just not SAY something!" "We can't just PRETEND it's fine to be fat!"

They really seem to think the main reason people are fat is because we're simply drowning in approval and no one has been brave enough to inform us that it's better to not be fat, actually

[specialagentartemis]

I genuinely think it's related to what I observe about singleness, virginity, and ace/aro topics: people's entire worldviews are threatened by fat liberation. And having your worldview challenged is scary... especially because so many people have put so, so much personal effort into Not Being Fat, so much self-hate into gaining weight, so much self-denial of food they like and forcing themselves into activities they hate, to avoid being fat.

And fat liberation says "It's okay to be fat!" and fat people say "I'm happy being fat and I don't try to become skinny!"

And it scares people that that is an option. It scares people to think that they have sunk so much time, so much effort, so much misery into avoiding being fat. And this person in front of them is just... not even trying. Rejecting the game. Saying You Don't Have To Do That.

If they accept that they didn't have to do that... then they made themselves so unhappy, for so long, for no reason.

They want their effort, their unhappiness, to have been worth it. To have meant something.

So they have to believe that being fat is wrong, bad, gross, a moral failing, and the only reason anyone would be happy that way is if they just don't know better. Because the other option is to realize and admit that they suffered unnecessarily for years and it meant nothing at all.

[naamahdarling]

This is also why people violently resist the reality that weight loss dieting does not result in sustainable significant weight loss for the vast majority of people who attempt it.

[unbfacts]

Long before the introduction of color film, a Russian chemist and photographer named Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky used an innovative technique. He took three individual black and white photos, each through a colored filter (red, green, and blue), to create fully colored, high-quality pictures. The photo of this woman, taken by him, is around 107 years old!

[redladydeath]

No wait I looked this guy up and this shit’s amazing

It’s so incredibly humanizing to see people from the very distant past in such authentic color

And like. look at these landscape shots!! They’re so vivid!! Even aside from the historical value, these are just legitimately beautiful photographs

[featuresofinterest]

i want you all to know that today i saw someone with a tuba get into a subaru with the license plate "tubaru"

[couldntbedamned]

If you come across anyone who starts off with "Scientists don't want you to know..." you need to understand that they're lying. They're completely full of shit and working a grift.

Because they've never met or spoke with a scientist.

Scientists WANT YOU TO KNOW. Scientists want you to know SO MUCH. Scientists would be THRILLED to teach you EVERYTHING they know in EXPLICIT DETAIL. Scientists LOVE to share information and their findings and their theories. They don't want to hide anything, ever. They are SO HAPPY to share.

[parkchanwoohoo]

This whole series is so goddamn funny

[bedupolker]

I'm scared of bugs/spiders but working on ways to overcome that fear! = cool!

I'm scared of bugs/spiders, I don't think that will change and would prefer to keep my space, but i appreciate their role in nature and think theyre an important piece in the puzzle of life = cool!

ARGH MY EYES!!! KILL IT W FIRE!!!!!! = one thousand years in the dungeon

[orthoscheme]

supermarkets should have benches

[orthoscheme]

everywhere should have benches

[my-castles-crumbling]

boyfriend - hollanov - @hollanovmicrofic - word count: 434 - click here for my hollanov microfic archive on ao3

“You should know something…”

They’re laying in Shane’s bed, the sun slowly disappearing behind the trees outside, their legs intertwined. Shane’s never felt more relaxed in his entire life.

Or…that was how he had been feeling a second ago. Until Ilya said that.

“What?” he asks suspiciously, sitting up and rolling to half lay on top of Ilya, his stomach bubbling with anxiety a little.

“Relax, Hollander,” Ilya chides him, reading his mood instantly. “I am not confessing to murder. Just…you should know. I have never been a boyfriend before. I will maybe be awful at it. Maybe first time ever I suck at something.”

Shane blinks, sensing Ilya’s underlying nerves. But also, he has to enjoy the fact that, for the first time, he has the upper hand in something that has to do with them. 

And he has to, of course, fuck with Ilya about it. “It’s okay,” he says lightly, keeping his face neutral. “I’ll help you out. I know what I’m doing.”

This has exactly the effect he intends. A grumbling Ilya flipping them in the bed so Shane is suddenly pinned, gasping a little, biting back a smile as the other man glares down at him, a mixture of confusion and jealousy settles on his face. “You mean because of Rose Landry? Or you have other–?”

“I’ve had a couple girlfriends, yeah,” he answers, forcing himself to be calm even through his amusement. “Y’know, in high school and stuff.”

Pouting.

Ilya Rozanov is pouting. 

“What did you do with them? You–how long was it for?” Ilya demands, obviously trying and failing to simply sound curious rather than desperate.

And this is why Shane’s not embarrassed when he says, “Well, the one that lasted the longest was this girl named Michelle. We, uh, dated a few months. Fucked once or twice. And I was a total dick to her because I broke up with her right after I got drafted. See, I met this guy in the hotel gym that night and couldn’t stop thinking of him after that, so…”

Finally, Ilya relaxes on top of him, his expression turning sheepish. “Oh.”

“Oh,” Shane repeats, smirking. 

“Poor Michelle. You are terrible boyfriend, Hollander, maybe I should be worried,” Ilya grins, leaning to kiss his jaw.

“Oh shut up, you were jealous as fuck two seconds ago. Plus, it doesn’t matter. I am the more experienced one here, you can’t den–”

But Shane is cut off by a smirking Ilya grinding their hips together and making him gasp, effectively stopping their conversation completely as Shane gasps.

Yeah. Maybe it doesn’t matter.