Quarks & Quirks

June / 23 / NYC physics dork, amateur engineer, professional procrastinator, chronic crocheter/knitter, random rambler, constantly complaining

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

To the tune of YMCA

Mothman!

Your a moth and a man

I said

MOTHMAN

Your a man whose a moth

[papallion]

I said

MOTHMAN!

your pretty wings are so soft

when you 

flap

against

my

lampshade!

[caramel-filled-kittens]

OH MY GOD YES

@heteroes-are-making-me-upsetero @interrabangarang @dahmersbeer @scuffed-tarot @jazzy-mcdurf

[scuffed-tarot]

MOTHMAN

There’s no need for a frown

I said

MOTHMAN

Put that man on the ground

He’s so

FRIGHTENED

So high up in the air

Won’t you

Please

Put

Him

Down

Gently

[braybray-craycray-deactivated20]

@moth-ver-ka

[most-depressed-optimist]

IT’S FUN TO YELL AT THE

M

O

T

H

THE MAN WHO’S ALSO A

M

O

T

H

[newsieofnj]

YES ITS BACK NON MY DASH

[cottagecori]

I’VE HAD THIS STUCK IN MY HEAD FOR TWO WEEKS

[solarcitrus]

(ง｡•ω•｡)ง still waiting for my U.A. acceptance letter

[prokopetz]

I’m not saying I’m definitely an NPC, but if I am a protagonist, the game I’m starring in is probably free-to-play.

[winterwombat]

Makes sense:

I can only do something useful once every few hours

Ads are everywhere

The pacing seems designed to be deliberately frustrating

A lot of the hassle would go away if had a ton of money

[andreii-tarkovsky]

Fresh Off the Boat - “Hi, My Name Is…”

[aj-elloo]

YES

[wumbawoman]

Why Uzo Aduba wouldn’t change her name:

My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means “The road is good.” Quick lesson: My tribe is Igbo, and you name your kid something that tells your history and hopefully predicts your future. So anyway, in grade school, because my last name started with an A, I was the first in roll call, and nobody ever knew how to pronounce it. So I went home and asked my mother if I could be called Zoe. I remember she was cooking, and in her Nigerian accent she said, “Why?” I said, “Nobody can pronounce it.” Without missing a beat, she said, “If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky and Michelangelo and Dostoyevsky, they can learn to say Uzoamaka.”

source

They can learn

[whitmanifesto]

I’ve worked with many exchange programs on campuses, and they still “encourage” Chinese students to choose English names for their stay in the US. I’ve adopted a rule for myself, I won’t address them with their English name until they’ve told me to stop trying their real name on at least three different occasions. My family is largely immigrant, and while we’ve never had this problem, I don’t think anyone should have to change who they are when them find a new home, even a temporary one. So far, only two exchange student actually wanted to keep their English name, and one of them, Alice, had had Alice for a nickname since she was little.

[neenorroar-deactivated20181203]

Don’t know if it’s okay to add this here, but I used to work with a Chinese woman who had changed her name to Angelina for the sake of ease. When she first told me that was what she’d had to do, I asked her for her real name and if she minded me calling her that. She looked so frikkin happy, and it only took about two minutes for me to say it right. It’s not that people can’t pronounce these names, it’s that they won’t. It’s lazy and it’s rude.

[tashabilities]

It’s also RACIST.

Say ‘racist’.

They pronounce Tchaikovsky and Schwarzenegger just fine.

[badgyal-k-deactivated20190901]

^THANK YOU. Babies of color,

MAKE THEM SAY YOUR FUCKING NAME. ALWAYS.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

ALL OF THIS

[junograms]

Back when I used to teach and TA, I made it a priority to learn to say every kids' names correctly, and if they told me "you can call me xyz if it's easier for you; my other teachers do," I immediately told them that their name is important because they're important, so it was important for me to get it right. Growing up, I had to go with people shortening my name because it was "too foreign," and I didn't want them to have to do the same.

[driflloon]

me sitting alone in bed at 5:30am watching the sun come up

[junograms]

I'M STILL ALIVE

call off the search party, I've just been in lab for the past...3 months??? I'M ALIVE.

[pixarsource]

The Incredibles (2004) // Incredibles 2 (2018)

[re-bee-key]

The lighting and shading in this new movie is insane. I saw some other gifs and was blown away by all the different light sources and colors that bounce of skin tones. Like shit is so good.

[pikagarden]

mutuals do this!

have a nice night! be nice to urselves, take good care of urselves

[evarma]

[powerburial]

most parents : afraid their child will find their gun and get hurt

me: afraid my son will find my protein powder and get too strong and then he has to be my dad

[mockwa]

🐯 🐯 🐯

[bunjywunjy]

good morning everyone have an absolutely furious mongoose

[ari-nemera]

It’s cuter when you recognize that the lion with visible spots is a juvenile. There’s a very high chance the other lion that runs over to investigate is the MOTHER.

The first lion is asking for comfort because she was given a big spook!!! and she needs mommy to tell her it’s safe and ok!!!! (What’s cuter is that mommy clearly reassures her, and goes on to take the parent role of ‘deal with the scream rat in order to protect my large and easily frightened daughter’)

this is all in all an adorable video 10/10

[cryoverkiltmilk]

Who Would Win?

Three apex predators

OR

One Screaming Long Boi

[evarma]

[rkeone208]

Top of the ten ver.

[nexya]

I love how humans have literally not changed throughout history like the graffiti from Pompeii has people from hundreds of years ago writing stuff like “Marcus is gay” “I fucked a girl here” “Julius your mum wishes she was with me” and leonardo da vinci’s assistants drew dicks in their notebooks just for the banter and mozart created a piece called “kiss my ass” so when people wish for ‘today’s generation’ to be like ‘how people used to’ then we’re already there buddy we’ve always been

[charlesoberonn]

The Hagia Sophia has inscriptions that were considered sacred for centuries until they were deciphered in the 70s to be Nordic runes saying “Halfdan wrote this”

[terminallydepraved]

my old english prof told us that theres a cave in Scandinavia where a viking gratified some runes like 14 feet up on the wall and when they finally reached it all it translated into was “this is very high”

[loremerchant]

Ancient Shitposting

Now on the History Channel

[self-critical-automaton]

‘People have literally just always been people’ is genuinely my favorite fact about the world

[skaletal-deactivated20190721]

“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.” - Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106 BC - 43 BC

[super-star-destroyer]

Common dog names have literally not changed in 3,000 years.

[ruinedchildhood]

[tastefullyoffensive]

Nailed it. (via hellocontrol)

[fckin-deactivated20171107]

I’m thinking about her

[eclipsebykimlipmp3-deactivated2]

forbidden fruit

[isaacmemes]

Why do grown ass adults want to eat Tide pods so much?

[kitswulf]

Because a ton of the visual/olfactory/textural sensory information these pods give me the match nutritionally-dense fruit. It’s got the oleic gleam of something high-fat like an avocado, but bright carotenoid-rich coloration like a berry that wants to be eaten by red-seeing primates and birds. It tends to smell sweet and slightly floral, enhancing that effect. Similarly, when you hold it, it is quite dense (denser than water), but very soft and liquid, once again reaffirming that this “fruit” has either high sugar or high fat content and almost no cellulose to it.

As a result, within me is a less-clever monkey just screaming to eat this delicious fruit in my hand about to go into the laundry, and it does in fact take willpower to tell him he’s a stupid monkey and this is a bubble of foul-tasting poison. But every time I do laundry, this fucking limbic monstrosity rises again and assures me it’s basically like a cherry but Even Better. I have legitimately debated just biting down on one in the hopes of inducing a deterrent memory to forestall this urge in the future, but that’s what my goddamn mammal-brain wants me to fucking do and I refuse to let it win.

[ciphercoyote]

Human Brain: Don’t eat the posion pod its fucking posion Monkey Brain: Eat the fruit pod its fruit Lizard Brain: The Washing Machine Is Vibrating Give It The Sex Fish Brain: Climb inside the washing machine it is safe.

[disgustinganimals]

Tag yourself. I’m the complex primate that wants to eat toxic chemical containers.