Полуулыбка, полуплач

И полумесяц над вокзалом

[transpar3nt-bitch]

transparent deer sitting on your blog aw

[yellowlartdump]

UN MINUTO, STO CERCANDO DI FARLE BENEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[akeyhiko-deactivated20140715]

[ryanphantom]

I apparently reblogged this in 2012 and someone just reblogged it from me this post is so fucki g cool and fu.nny

[micromontage]

shout-out to all my friends i like youj

[boybeetles]

I hate ethics because what the hell is this.

Real slide in my real college level ethics class

[midnight-soulless-system]

I- what the fuck

How is this even a question. This is not troles problem level shit, this is just "will you save a child for 0 consequences or are you an asshole"

[thedouglastrap]

Because I see enough people saying this and being confused: that is, in fact, the point.

This slide is meant to be an extreme example to demonstrate where act utilitarianism falls apart. Act utilitarianism is ultimately measuring how much a given single act increases happiness/reduces suffering, and saying that the most ethical choice you can make for that action is the one where that increase/reduction is the highest. It's often used as a "man ethics is easy I got this shit solved, we don't have to talk about this"

So if, to assign an arbitrary number for the sake of example, saving a drowning child is a +100,000 Happiness Units, but giving a bunny a slight feeling of happiness is only +1, then of course you save the child. But if you're giving slight happiness to 100,001 bunnies, that brings more happiness than saving the child, and act utilitarianism says you should let the kid drown. Any evil can be the ethical choice given sufficient numbers of mildly pleased bunnies. This is, obviously, kinda insane. It's an example to show that while this kind of utilitarianism can work in most scenarios (the typical trolley problem, for example), there are times where it doesn't work, so it cannot function as a universal system of ethics.

[lyry19]

oh I get it

[mikkiaru-art]

made a whole au where they got married...

i swear im not insane

[kosmogrl]

they should invent a yourself you can forgive

[bpd-dylan-hall-deactivated20190]

“our teeth and ambitions are bared” is a zeugma

and it’s a zeugma where one of the words is literal and one is metaphorical which is the BEST KIND

[tuesdayisfordancing]

I didn’t know about zeugmas until just now! That is so awesome, everybody: 

zeug·ma ˈzo͞oɡmə/

noun

a figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses (e.g.,John and his license expired last week ) or to two others of which it semantically suits only one (e.g., with weeping eyes and hearts ).

ISN’T THAT AWESOME??

[professorsparklepants]

#in english class in high school my teacher had us write our own zeugmas in class#and one guy came up with ‘he fell from her favor… and the window’#i am forever looking for opportunities to use that one

[siesiegirl]

She dropped her dress and inhibitions at the door.

[crumbvulet]

What’s this? My favorite rhetorical device showing up on my dashboard?

[thranduilland]

IT HAS A NAMEEEE!! OH MY GOD!!!

[candiikismet]

I LOVE THIIIIIS!!!

[orriculum]

One I’ve loved was “on their weekend trip they caught three fish and a cold”

I love these they’re like a pun and a metaphor wrapped up into one neat phrase

[storm-of-feathers]

tumblr is great bc its like a diary where I can take other peoples diary entries and glue them into my own diary

[newporters]

[chepeha]

I wanna throw up every time I see the new art with them 🤮 💗💓💞💕 moon cake × sweet tooth

[puddingandp1]

used a slightly self indulgent palette with this one lol

[the-punforgiven]

I'm just saying, if you're going to worldbuild magic being a "raw, primal force, akin to and interweaving with nature itself" you gotta explain to me why animals don't use it

[the-punforgiven]

I know the normal answer is "they just aren't smart enough for it" but idk I've seen enough media where a character uses a spell in a moment of brain-off panic ilI feel like animals could probably stumble into a spell or two like, accidentally

[the-punforgiven]

Also how funny would it be to see a completely normal regular bear cast magic missile outta nowhere

[the-punforgiven]

Also there is no way ravens wouldn't figure out spells, tbh

They're smart fuckin birds, I believe in them

Either through observing or just figuring shit out ravens could 100% learn how to cast spells I'm sure of it

[the-punforgiven]

Dogs can also cast Magic Missile but every time they do the projectile is shaped like a bone or a stick and they chase after it

[rathayibacter]

group of wizards who ask this in-universe, and after extensive study learn to their surprise that animals are casting spells all the time, just that their magic is so fundamental as to be unrecognizable to humans. turns out the only reason acorns grow on trees is because squirrels keep wishing for them.

[petewentz-]

It's fun being queer and weird and unconventional until you remember you live in a society

[memory--box]

to anyone who missed it:

blorbo - a favourite character

glup shitto - star wars names are fucking nonesense

eeby deeby - youre going to hell

plinko horse - a horse that was stuck in a plinko board

scrimblo bimblo - super smash bro fans can be very angry when characters aren't in a game

[feyariel]

Me, so I can view the original meme:

[thetum-blrdictionary-deactivated]

bonus:

[memory--box]

People keep tagging this as educational and I don't know what to do or think about that.

[thescaredfluid]

Glossary of Terms

[dovewithscales]

I don’t know if I should be amused or distressed by the realization that someday this post will probably be useful to linguists.

[necrxsaint]

reblog this to remind the person you reblogged it from that theyre loved

[mfdragon]

“HE TRIED TO FIX HIS BRAIN AND MAKE HIM HAPPY.”