An Impractical Guide To Insanity

Devon (she/her). Canadian. Twenty-something so technically a grown-up. In possession of a frankly concerning amount of plaid clothing. The cat is Muffin.

[lesvegas]

[lesvegas]

Ok I think this might be funnier with context actually. This is a review for a strip club in Toronto.

[ratuszarsenal]

I really fuck with these arabic logos of ikea stylised to look like little house interiors

[durbikins]

[pending-trans-action-2]

[icarus-suraki]

[re-dracula]

Let's help Jonathan Harker pack!

important lawyer papers

photos of mina <3 <3 <3

solicitor outfits

jars of garlic wait why would he need-

extra envelopes for important mail

relevant maps

wooden stakes? how'd those get in

train tickets

crucifix for your mothers sake

Voting ended onMay 4

[trynot-moved]

MISS CONGENIALITY (2000) dir. Donald Petrie

[trynot-moved]

MISS CONGENIALITY (2000) dir. Donald Petrie

[trynot-moved]

MISS CONGENIALITY (2000) dir. Donald Petrie

[apolladay]

Which notorious English class short story fucked you up the most?

* I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

*The King in Yellow

* The Lottery

* The Masque of the Red Death

* The Monkey’s Paw

* The Most Dangerous Game

* The Nameless City

* The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

* There Will Come Soft Rains

*The Yellow Wallpaper

* The Veldt

* “you think those were fucked up? What about [X]!”

Which notorious English class short story fucked you up the most?

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

The King in Yellow

The Lottery

The Masque of the Red Death

The Monkey’s Paw

The Most Dangerous Game

The Nameless City

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

There Will Come Soft Rains

The Yellow Wallpaper

The Veldt

“you think those were fucked up? What about [X]!”

Voting ended onApr 30

[dankmemeuniversity]

[ariaste]

PLEASE explain the Latin fuck words. for science

Okay so. The Romans think that sex doesn't count as real sex unless Someone Is Getting Penetrated By A Dick Or Dick-Adjacent Object. Very sort of dick-centric system.

So Latin has six words for "to fuck", divided into three pairs: one pair for each of the possible Holes (ass, mouth, pussy). In each pair there is a word for topping and a word for bottoming.

Most people who know a little about Latin fuck verbs know 'pedicare' and 'irrumare' from the first line of Catullus 16 (Pēdīcābō ego vōs et irrumābō), which is a poem about saying "absolutely shut the fuck up and piss all the way off" to fandom antis and purity police who are making repulsive accusations about you personally, based on things they're reading into your work from a bad-faith perspective. Catullus was so real for that and it's incredibly endearing to me that he was dealing with the same thing we are still dealing with. I got a hater in my askbox doing this about The Wisdom of Emperors just the other day, but I took the high road and, unlike Catullus, did not tell them "I will assfuck you and I will facefuck you" So here sort of a chart about the verbs: Topping | Bottoming Mouth: irrumare | fellare Ass: pedicare | cevere Cunt: futuere | crisare

Another fun fact related to the fuck verbs was that the Romans didn't think about sexual orientation in terms of who you're attracted to, they thought about it in terms of "which is your favorite hole and what do you like to do with it." So you'll get graffiti (ancient roman subtweeting) about things like "Marcus is a fututor [cunt-fucker] and a pedico [ass-fucker] but omg girlies I also heard he's a fellator [cock-sucker] 👀👀👀👀" In the modern day we'd just call him bisexual, but in Ancient Rome it is not enough to know if someone is bisexual (they think it's kind of perverted if a man only fucks women, like do you have some kind of freaky pussy fetish???? you've never once even fucked a twink??? dat's gay, bro. gay to not be bi), you also have to know if he's being bisexual in a respectable sort of way

You will notice that pussy-eating is not on this list, because those words do not mean "to fuck", they translate more directly to just "pussy-licking" (cunnilingus), and because the Romans are sexist as all hell and think that's gross and filthy anyway. This is not ONLY because of pussy terror, it's also that the mouth is the most sacred part of the body -- so eating pussy or sucking a dick is actually considered slightly more "shameful" than getting fucked in the ass. (Please note as well that the fuck verbs are gender neutral -- if you're a roman man and your girlfriend owns a strap-on, she can [pedicare] you. but be careful because your sworn enemy in the forum will have a fucking FIELD DAY if he hears about that and will write a Mean Poem about you or subtweet you on a public wall)

The moral of this story is that the Ancient Romans were absolutely *GAGGING* for social media (see Martial's Epigrams, aka My Best Tweets), and the second moral of this story is that if this was a fun post for you, you should look at my kickstarter for alllllll of this kind of nonsense in the form of A Fantasy Novel That's Pretending To Be An Academic Paper With A Fake Bibliography And Foonotes aka The Wisdom of Emperors. And please signal boost this so everyone can know about Latin Fuck Verbs and Roman Subtweeting, we've really learned so much here together

[femmenietzsche]

YouGov doing the Lord's work yet again

[lukewarmbreadatamoderatepace]

Which of the following is your favorite dinosaur?

Tyrannosaurus Rex

Brontosaurus

Triceratops

Pterodactyl

Velociraptor

Stegosaurus

Brachiosaurus

Other

I don't have a favorite

Voting ended onApr 23

*We know pterodactyls and plesiosaurs aren't dinosaurs

[victusinveritas]

[the-big-mood]

Scientists at Cortical Labs have successfully trained a cluster of approximately 200,000 living human neurons, grown on a microelectrode array chip, to play the classic 3D video game DOOM.

[villainessbian]

ah sweet man-made gamers beneath my comprehension

[virtualgirladvance]

we made a brain from scratch, put it in a simulation of hell and gave it a gun

[thevaultofretroandvintage]

Cypress Gardens, Fl, 1954

[the-evil-skull]

This is not meant to sound hostile or vague anyone but this is bothering me. "Inshallah" means "if God wills it". If your intention is to say you hope the hips don't lie but whether the hips lie or not is up to God, then you say "Inshallah the hips don't lie" but if you're trying to say "wow, the hips don't lie" or something similar, which I think is what the op was getting at, then you say "Mashallah the hips don't lie" which means "God has willed it, the hips don't lie"

[bigmickswingin]

[doyouknowthisbook-poll]

Do you know this poem?

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I’ve read this poem before, and I like it!

I’ve read this poem before, and I don’t like it

This is my first time reading this poem, and I like it!

This is my first time reading this poem, and I don’t like it

I’ve read this poem before and didn’t like it, but I like it now!

I’ve read this poem before and I liked it, but I don’t like it anymore

~ poetic nuance ~

Voting ended onApr 22

Please reblog the polls, but KEEP IT SPOILER-FREE to make people read the poem with an open mind 💖📚 Title and author will be revealed after the poll's conclusion.

Thank you @pearlhoardingdragon for the submission! 😄

[a-book-of-creatures]

I SCREAMED

also tsk tsk not posting the coarser version