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will byers stan first human second
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
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Jules of Nature
shark vs the universe
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Love when cats do that grift where they're not supposed to be on the Thing and they know they're not supposed to be on the Thing but they do a biggie stretch and just casually rest a paw on the Thing and look at you like 'hm? oh? am I? on the thing? I had no idea, I was just doing a stretch'
I got to marry my wife, and our pupper was our flower girl. 2.5 years ago this wasn’t possible, as it wasn’t legal in Australia. It rained our whole wedding day, but was so worth it in the end with our phenomenal photographer.
op this looks absolutely magical
I forgot homophobia was a thing and i spent about 5 seconds wondering why it was ever illegal to have a dog as a flower girl
This photo looks like a fairytale I can never not reblog it
Owlevator
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Bad owls get put in the bastard hole
minigolf
If I’m not mistaken, these are baby burrowing owls! So really, it’s good little owlets get to find a home already made for them!
“UNHAND ME! HOW DARE YO—-oh okay then.”
I’ve watched this several times on loop now and I love that, with the way the hand grabs the third one and pulls it out, I think it was on its back/upside down in the bucket
And the expression on its face leaves me unsurprised at the idea that it was spending its time in the bucket upside down
me when i see a cat: CAT! cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat
Fun fact: when I see cute animals, I forget English and automatically revert to my native Hungarian. I don’t know what bystanders make of me, reciting guttural gibberish to rabbits.
But the real question is, what are you SAYING to the rabbits? Is it ‘RABBIT! rabbit rabbit rabbit rabbit rabbit rabbit bunny bunny bunny awww cute bunnyyyyy’?
Well, I usually say the Hungarian equivalent of ‘bun bun bun lil bun look at your tiny spoon-shaped ears awww bun brave little lawnmower bun’, but sometimes I say ‘hey rabbits, my sister’s gonna go to med school’ because I think everyone should know.
I live in Japan, and I always revert to English to talk to small animals, and I was cooing at this tiny little fluff machine of a puppy in baby english like “hello you’re so cute such a cute hello hello yess you’re good” and the 70 year old Japanese lady that was walking him started to *translate the baby talk english into Japanese* for her pup. She wanted to be sure he understood it too.
https://xkcd.com/231/
World Heritage Post
How can anyone hate Junji Ito
this made me love Junji Ito
Now me and my husband have something else to bond over and I can’t wait to show him what turned me onto this nightmarefuel generator
Adhd means spending 80% of your time thinking about what you have to do, while you miserably procrastinate and try not to think about the stuff you have to do
Things I read that remind me I should go try to get checked for ADHD
and what is “translate truthful to the time it was written” even supposed to mean like there’s no way a translation now in the US could be read the same way it was a couple thousand years ago in Greece when english didn’t even exist yet
Yep, in the original Odyssey, in the scene where Telemachus murders the slaves who were “sullied by” Penelope’s suiters, he refers to them with a word that roughly just means “the female ones”, however most translations will use words like “whores”, “sluts” and “creatures”, these were all choices of the translators. The original text did not refer to them that way. Dr. Wilson refers to them instead as “girls”, to highlight their age and the brutality of the action. She also fixed all the times the previous male translators dodged around the existence of slaves in the text. Where they call slaves anything but slaves (housemaid, nurse, cook, ect.) Dr. Wilson’s translation correctly calls them slaves as in the original texts. It’s really a great translation, it doesn’t soften anything, and lays bare the reality of the story. One thing she did too, was she refused to make the descriptions of the women in the story more palatable to modern western beauty standards. The original text, for example, describes Penelope’s hands as “thick”. Most male translators change this to “steady” but Dr. Wilson’s translation calls them “firm, muscular hands” to correctly portray the original intent, that Penelope, as a character who weaves every day and every night undoes her weavings, has strong hands, as weaving does make one’s hands more muscular, and that was clearly what was originally intended to be said given the context of her character and the weavings. Of Odysseus himself, the original epic calls him “polytropos” poly, meaning many, and tropos, meaning turn. Some male translators used this to say the story itself had twists and turns, other ignored the word completely to write in a way that made Odysseus seem as though a straight up hero, a man “skilled in all ways of contending”, but Dr. Wilson uses it to mean “complicated”, because Odysseus isn’t a straight up hero, he does some really shitty things. So her translation got a lot of men very very mad, because they said that her being a woman has caused her to translate with bias since her translation is so different to others. She pointed out that perhaps people should have suggested that bias in the inaccurate men’s translations. Anyway, go read Dr. Wilson’s version of The Odyssey. It’s very good.
God though it’s just a perfect example of how men think they’re devoid of any biases whatsoever when a woman translating the text as it was written is “an agenda” but men adding stuff that wasn’t in the original and completely changes the context is making it “truthful to the time it was in”.
To the esteemed office of the Southern District of New York,
We the people, with great respect, do humbly request that you now hastily, but with dignity
GET HIS ASS.
“Call me Annie. Everybody, call me Annie, please.”
Anne Hathaway about her name
Annie* Hathaway. ffs theatre nerds
….*googles*….what the FUCK
… shit, sorry, I didn’t tell you about that.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/15/world/europe/dutch-government-resignation-rutte-netherlands.html
Jan. 15, 2021: A parliamentary report concluded that tax authorities unfairly targeted poor families over child care benefits. Prime Minister Mark Rutte and his entire cabinet stepped down.
really gotta stop learning about world news through memes
You can’t go to the circus and then complain when a clown pies you in the face
Why dont ppl talk abt how adhd affects hygiene and cleanliness more?
I dont have the motivation to brush my teeth every night and I feel like i'm glued in place
I can't shower at least every other day because of the same reason
I wait until I'm out of clothes to do my laundry because it's so many steps and takes sooooo long
And I can't clean my room because its soooo muchhh workkkkkk except not actually it takes 5 mins and I hyperfocus thru it but before I actually start it feels impossible to do
Like?? Adhd isnt just hyperactivity and spacing out and talking fast and all those quirks, it's an actual illness too!!!
someone in a fanfic: s-stutters in embarrassment
me, closing the tab: sorry I must go
Unrealistic Stuttering: “S-sorry I-I d-d-didn’t m-mean t-to…”
Realistic Stuttering: “Sorry, I uh… I didn’t mean- I didn’t mean to do that…”
When people stutter, they usually reword what they’re saying as they speak, and subconsciously insert “filler words” such as “uh, like, you know,” and etc.
*puts on speech therapist hat*
ACTUALLY! It depends on why they are stuttering.
A Nervous Stutter results in what is called Mazing, or rewording the sentence. That is the classic “I, um… well I… look it’s just that… so we…” that @hellishhues is talking about. When someone is mazing their words you’re seeing a form of Speech Apraxia where the brain is having trouble forming verbal speech. This can be brought on by brain damage, memory loss, anxiety, nerves, and several other things.
The root cause of a nervous stutter is a disconnect between the mouth and the brain.
With this you will also sometimes see the classic “S-s-s-sorry…” especially if the person has been training to speak clearly and is now at a point of fatigue or stress where they are not mentally capable of forming the words.
The other kind of stutter is a Physical Stutter, sometimes referred to as slurring, and another facet of Speech Apraxia. This stutter is caused when the muscles of the mouth, tongue, and throat are physically unable to form certain sounds. This is most often seen in the very young and victims of brain trauma.
Sounds are acquired at different ages, so a 2-year-old will probably not be able to clearly pronounce certain words (which is why toddler sound so off when they’re written with developed dialogue). These mis-pronunciations are sometimes referred to as lisping, but only if the sounds are run together. If the person starts and restarts the sound because they got it wrong, it can also sound like the classic sound stutter.
But it all depends on why the character is stuttering!
Do they have Speech Apraxia, Audio Processing Disorder, muscle dysfunction, or another medical reason to stutter? (1)
Are they stuttering because of anxiety, stress, or fatigue? (2)
Does the stutter stem from intoxication or blood loss? (3)
All of those will sound different!
1 - Will have mazing, repeated sound stutters, and be the classic stutter that annoys OP.
2 - This is where you’ll see the repetition stutter, mazing, rephrasing, and filler words.
3 - This is where you are more likely to see starts and stops and slurring of words.
My mum has apraxia and I just wanted to say that’s one of the most concise and clear ways I’ve seen it explained, thank you!
The fact that I understood all this bodes well for my future career
