A Broke Fairy Godmother

My name is Destiney! There is literally no cohesiveness to anything I post. I'm a Netflix and movie addict, as well as a book addict, and I also have a weird family. So if you try to follow me for a specific genre, you're basically screwed. And if you want to talk, message me. Because I like to talk.

[straightpeoplereceipts]

when your spouse catches your child in a ridiculous lie such as claiming they didnt eat the entirety of a bag of sugar despite the evidence, it is YOUR job, as co-parent and a bringer of chaos, to say: i believe her. she didn’t do it. that sugar could’ve came from anywhere. let’s go baby, let’s go find the criminal who framed you. what a dastardly crime to commit against a child.

[straightpeoplereceipts]

now…as someone who raised their younger sister: 9 out of 10 times, this will end in a tearful confession. your faith in her will be it. and you have to act HEARTBROKEN. you have to look at the dog and ask, mournfully, “did you know? did you know?”

[grumpycapt]

For a guy that once took a girl on the “cheapest date possible”, Jake Peralta’s romance game is strong

[taliabobalia]

when i was really little, my babysitter only spoke spanish with me so i became bilingual but i never knew when i was speaking spanish or english. one time i told my mom i wanted an avocado & she understood but then when i said the same thing to my babysitter later that day, she burst into tears with laughter because i was saying “quiero abogado” which means “i want a lawyer.”

imagine a two year old repeatedly saying “i want a lawyer!” as an adult laughs at her.

[abaddonsbabe]

[findingfeather]

Reminding me of also funny story: So my piano teacher of many years when I was a kid had a baby when I was in my teens. This little girl was super bright, and also bilingual in Mandarin and English from her first word. 

I do not speak Mandarin. At all. 

One day as I’m waiting for my mom to pick me up after the lesson, Baby Girl is playing in the kitchen and hears me sneeze! And she runs over and says, “You need [incomprehensible]?” 

Now here’s the thing: I knew she was not speaking Mandarin. I don’t speak it, but my aunt and uncle both do, and a close family friend’s family growing up would code-switch quite comfortably around us. I was old enough and it was sufficiently different from English that because there was no formal teaching, I never derived anything from it? But I was very familiar with how it sounds to an uncomprehending ear. 

What she said did not sound like Mandarin at all. It sounded like gibberish. Like English baby gibberish. 

As I clearly didn’t understand, Baby Girl repeats, “You need [gibberish]!” and then, when I still don’t understand, she stamps her foot and makes Angry Noise at me, which attracts her mother’s attention. 

Bewildered, I relate what’s going on. Her mother covers her face and says, “She wants to know if you want a kleenex.” 

And then my piano teacher explained that Baby Girl had figured out that some people didn’t speak English and some people didn’t speak Mandarin and she needed to confine herself to one language around them. 

But sometimes, as is very natural especially for quite young children, she’d run up against realizing she didn’t know the word for something - and sometimes she knew the word in one language, but not in the other! 

And it seemed intuitive to her that the way to fix this was to say the word from the other language … with the right accent. 

So what she’d been doing was taking the word for “tissue” or “kleenex” in Mandarin and saying it like an Anglophone would: no tone-change and different vowel shapes and all. And it made Baby Girl VERY FRUSTRATED when this did not solve the problem, and at that point she seemed to believe that the adults around her were being stupid on purpose. 

[ironwoman359]

children are amazing

[niggazinmoscow]

I learned in a history class that because Einstein was an immigrant none of the US (white) colleges or universities would let him join their faculty but black colleges and universities welcomed his brilliance with open arms.

[persian-papii-deactivated201905]

it wasn’t because Einstein was an immigrant, it was because he was Jewish

until the late 1940s most American universities including harvard and other ivy league colleges had quotas limiting the number of Jewish students and staff, Yale’s quota only ended in the 1960s

[la-laborista-republiko]

[the100-news]

The 100 | Serpent Trailer | The CW

[susiephone]

one of my favorite things about b99 is how jake is best friends with not one, but TWO women, and not only are his relationships with both of them fleshed out, unique, and 100% platonic, but it never even occurs to amy to worry about it. there’s no episode where amy thinks jake is cheating on her or secretly has a thing for gina and/or rosa. no one jokes that amy should watch out for them or keep an eye on jake. after jake starts dating amy, his friendships with rosa and gina are as tight as ever. because contrary to what 95% of tv would have you believe men and woman (gasp!) really can be just friends.

this shouldn’t be as remarkable as it is, but there you have it

[1-800kanye]

u know whats wild. everyone on here like 20 and when i first joined everyone was like 14 15. u ask anybody n they been here for years. nobody new on here. staff locked the doors n were all Stuck Inside

[momma-rose]

here’s a fun reminder

bees do not suffer from humans harvesting their honey, as they produce it to a level of excess that they cannot hope to use.

not only that, but without people deliberately breeding them for honey, they would have died out by now.

this especially goes towards you vegans who don’t eat honey thinking it’s animal abuse. don’t go out and buy agave nectar, which is so frequently made using inhuman labour policies. use honey, the best way to save bees.

[exqueensofbael-blog]

The overharvesting of agave is actually harming the animals that naturally feed off the plants such as certain types of bat. Protesting honey is killing bees and harming the livelihood of beekeepers, aka people who chose their job, not who were forced into it.

[trapcard]

and this isn’t like…a revolutionary statement but someone being 18 doesn’t mean it’s like…ok for your old, dusty, ancient, prehistoric, elderly, geriatric worn out, run down, senior citizen discount at golden corral getting, fossilized, decrepit, senile, exhausted, tired, antique, CRUSTY ass to date them because it’s ‘legal’

[markv5]

Идеальный мир там, где для тебя твой кот жарит на огне сосисочки…

[madmaudlingoes]

“The ideal world is where your cat makes sausages for you over a fire.”

[petermorwood]

The assumption that the sausages are “for you” is both charming and slightly naive.

[blond-shell]

+ Bonus:

[sacredkarcram]

[bromojumbo]

she’s about to risk it all

[thetalee]

Wait no stop, this brings up a good question: HOW does Thor fit in within the christian worldview!?!?

[metal-gear-samus]

Oh I think sister Marjorie can fit him in just fine

[allaroundnerd]

[asroarke]

Murphy: I have come up with a three-step plan to get Clarke to marry you.

Bellamy: Okay, I’m listening.

Murphy: Step one, get her to play truth or dare.

Bellamy: Oh God, stop.

Murphy: Step two, wait until she picks dare.

Bellamy: Murphy, no.

Murphy: Step three, dare her to marry you.

Monty, shouting from the other room: It could work!

[just-shower-thoughts]

People without glasses are really out here seeing for free

[maplesugacookie]

Oh my god I really do have to pay to see what the fuck

[allegroc]

[incredifishface]

#yoga#where is this dude’s romance novel#THE SCOTTISH LORD’S SECRET#his secret is yoga#YOU MUST TRY IT MISS DUNTHORPE#he enthuses at the heroine#over kippers#YOUR HEADACHES WILL VANISH#uh huh says miss dunthorpe#who had kind of been hoping#the secret was vampirism#anyway then he demonstrates#just like this#miss dunthorpe regards his thighs#and his biceps#and reconsiders her opinion (fahye)

[amandalasubfosaanaso]

the boots are the best bit

(reblogging for the tags which made me hoot with laughter and startle the cat)

[rustandruin]

I’m dying.