Life of Jo

[sciogli-lingua]

What I love about languages is that you’re never really done learning them.

I’ve been living and breathing in Italian from the moment I could talk and even long before that, and nevertheless a word yet to be discovered in a book somebody lent me still has the power to mesmerize me. I still find myself staring at the page, sounding out the term, trying to gauge whether I’m placing the stress on the right syllable.

I started learning English so early on in my life that I don’t even remember a time when such words as “hello”, “friend”, or “age” didn’t make sense to me. Simple words, small blocks to build solid foundations with. A brick house turning into a palace turning into a lighthouse, from which to gaze at your newly expanded horizon. A whole world unfolding before you, unlocked by a set of sounds and letters slowly becoming clearer and clearer. And yet I still mix up my prepositions. The fact that I’m now able to enjoy complex novels in French doesn’t mean that someone’s rapping skills won’t leave me dumbfounded. Boludo and posta may be familiar concepts to me now; which doesn’t stop me from being completely puzzled by Spanish slang.

Some might find this frustrating, but I think the endless learning potential is what really makes languages fascinating. They’re like old friends that you’ll get to know better as the years go by, and that will never cease to surprise you anyway.

[modernwitchesdaily]

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[clarkslex]

we need more books that are written like YA novels but have characters in their 20s… like I can’t keep reading books about teenagers but I’m also not ready for the weird adult romance section of the book store

[thecitylook-deactivated20200401]

preach

[literallyaflame]

if u kill a bug that’s cool, i kill bugs all the time, but if a person says, “hey, i am going to be upset if you kill that bug, please let me take it outside,” and u respond by killing the bug just to hurt and ridicule them, i’ve got some bad news for you

ur a fucking asshole

[literallyaflame]

this is it. this is the most controversial post i’ve ever made on tumblr dot com. i’m getting actual hate for this. people are arguing with this.

literally all i said was “don’t be purposefully malicious to hurt another person’s feelings, because if you do, that person will think you’re an asshole.” this is some grade school shit right here. this is kindergarten. god, this is pre-school. if you’re purposefully mean to people? you’re an asshole. you’re the bad guy. i get that you think you’re edgy and interesting, but actually you’re the most boring person on the planet.

i fucking hate all of you. you think you’re intellectually superior because you’re rude, but actually, you’re just rude. congratulations on letting everyone know that you’re a rude annoying asshole. god. you’re all four years old. i literally feel like i’m explaining the concept of ‘bullying’ to a class of four year olds right now.

[fructoseold-deactivated20240216]

Bugs TERRIFY me. But if someone says “hey don’t kill that bug” always let them remove the bug kindly!!

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

It’s the nice thing to do!

[ristay]

She is obsessed with him. (Btw her name is Petunia and my black beast is Atreyu).

He’s given up trying to get away from her. They sleep like this almost every night.

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[ristay]

Since everyone liked that photo so much, here’s the last two weeks of their love 😂😂

[purplebuddhaproject]

“I wasn’t put on this planet to be like everyone else.”

— (via purplebuddhaquotes)

[witchochick-deactivated20220629]

Witch Tip:

when celebrating the Pagan holidays and cycles of the moon, the main focus should be on seasonal activities and having fun! 

If your rituals seem empty because you simply memorize words and perform activities that have no meaning to you, there is not much benefit in doing them.

[bansheecarol]

LISTEN UP MOTHER FUCKERS

SEE THIS WEBSITE? 

ITS CALLED WOLFRAM ALPHA

THIS IS THE BEST GODDAMN WEBSITE FOR ACADEMIC SHIT. FUCK GOOGLE. 

THIS MOTHERFUCKER WILL LET YOU SEARCH “HOSPITAL BEDS IN CHAD VS. IRAN” 

AND IT GIVES YOU A STRAIGHT GODDAMN ANSWER 

MAYBE YOU’RE NOT INTERESTED IN DOCTORNESS OF THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES COOL SHIT 

HAVING TROUBLE WITH MATH?

HOLY SHIT

OR MAYBE YOU WANNA DICK AROUND

WHATEVER THE FUCK YOU WANT

[awesome-august]

Reblogging to save a life and a gpa

[mysharona1987]

I’d be lying if I said I’d never attempted telekinesis.

[psyducked]

please raise your children to wash their hands after they use the restroom I’ve watched too many men walk straight out of the bathroom from the stall without a second thought and it’s keeping me up at night

[pon-raul]

I mean if you taking a piss who cares if you don’t wash your hands, unless you just like go full power and spray yourself like a out of control fire hose

[nutsacktorturer]

stay the fuck away from me

[hardboiledoldman]

people who wash their hands after peeing are weak and must be culled

[ua86]

The only excuse for not washing your hands after you piss is mastering the art of pissing without touching your genitals.

[youre-a-fucking-human-being-dea]

You wash your hands every time you touch your dick? How grimy is your dick?

[blackshuckofficial-deactivated2]

I’m literally never shaking a man’s hand ever again in my life y'all need jesus

[pronounrespecter]

remember how i told y'all?

(they don’t wash their hands after shitting either)

[fall-and-shadows]

What I’m learning is that men are the reason for “employees must wash their hands” signs and why I never put 2 and 2 together is beyond me

[tyst-kampar]

Just out of curiosity, do yall wash your hands every time you touch your arm or the back of your hand or any other part if your body?

[eelpatrickharris-deactivated202]

wash your fucking hands, dickfingers mcgee

[yellowjuice-deactivated20190512]

what the fuck is wrong with these dudes bruh

[mango-thot-deactivated20190520]

I want to spray this post with Lysol

[lilnasxvevo]

AHEM.

“According to epidemiologist Richard T. Ellison III, it doesn’t matter what you do in the bathroom when it comes to keeping your hands clean. ‘The rationale is that when toileting, it’s possible to have fecal material and fecal bacteria get onto your hands … So it’s wisest to always wash with soap and water even after urinating. Neither plain water nor alcohol hand sanitizers are effective at removing fecal material or killing bacteria in fecal material.’ 

“According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, handwashing can prevent various illnesses and infections. Ellison added that it can also keep us from coming in contact with E. Coli and hepatitis.This is especially important for men to bear in mind because of perianal sweat. This type of sweat forms around the perianal area, which is the patch of skin outside the rectum. It can then spread to one’s underwear and to other parts of the body like the penis. Biology professor Pat Fidopiastis explained, ‘The point is that simply touching the penis in an effort to direct your urine flow can be more than enough to transfer harmful microbes to your hands, and then on to the pretzels sitting in bowl on the bar.’“

WASH.

YOUR.

HANDS.

[d-mondaze]

A Christmas Carol is so wild to me because it takes not one, not two, but like four fucking ghosts to convince this dude not to be the biggest douche in the universe. Like, four fucking ghosts came back from the dead, rose from the Goddamn grave to be like, “I came back from the dead because you need to quit your shit.” Fuck. How big of an asshole do you have to be to have four fucking ghosts tell you to stop?

[moon-crater]

Have you ever met a rich capitalist

[mirrorfalls]

Also, one of those ghosts was a rich capitalist douche. He needed to reform Scrooge to work off his own sentence, didn’t he?

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

Marley’s ghost basically told Scrooge that if he kept being a greedy douchebag he would go to hell and Scrooge still needed convincing and that honestly is 100% believable to me

That an old rich white guy being told “Your going to hell unless you help the poor” would respond by going “I still kind of want to NOT help the poor tho?”

[scots-dragon]

Charlie Dickens knew what was up.

[badgrapple-deactivated20220614]

Dickens had to work in a factory hos entire childhood. His father was thrown in a debtor’s prison. Thats why all his stories are about rich fucks getting owned.

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

The thing I love about A Christmas Carol is that at the time he wrote it, Christmas, as a holiday, was on par with our Arbor Day. And Scrooge held the Majority Opinion. 

 Dickens originally set out to write a Very Serious Pamphlet About the Plight of the Poor in Modern Times, with numbers, and statistics, and gruesome details about the state of debtors prisons. And he realized that it would probably not change a single thing, in the end.

So he changed it to fiction, and made it emotional, and focused on the lives in one specific family.  And he also self-published it, because he realized that a for-profit publishing house wouldn’t want to touch it.  And gave it to friends.

Not only did it help change people’s attitudes toward charity organizations and help reform labor laws, it also (pretty much) revived the whole custom of celebrating Christmas at all.

That, my friends, is the power of a well written ghost story.

[mad-march-hares-tea-party-deact]

I just looked up this to see if this was true and it is!

The pamphlet was going to be called ‘An Appeal to the People of England, on behalf of the Poor Man’s Child’

He decided to write the story because he realised that soap-boxing factory workers and their employers on the importance of educational reform wasn’t going to work on a society-wide scale.

A Christmas Carol is literally a leftist/socialist story about not being a dickwad to your employees because they’re human too, your ‘fellow man’

[oceanicgf-deactivating-deactiva]

cats be like: ok im gonna radiate serotonin now

[limerancy]

[alternativemlm]

Billie Joe Armstrong literally wrote a song about coming out as bisexual as a teenager, and then like two years later wrote one that was pretty much all about dressing up in drag and getting fucked by/fucking guys, and y'all STILL say he’s a “straight ally” because he married a woman??

[pavelchekovswig]

[coldwarfem]

The same goes for Freddy Mercury and David Bowie. Both were openly bi. Both wrote (multiple) songs about their queerness. Both are pigeonholed as either “gay” or “straight”. They were both neither of those things.

[mandaloriandragontrainer-deacti]

Our world does not welcome wild things.

As a zoology student, this is a brutal truth I must face. We slaughter keystone predators, leaving ecosystems to rot, then ponder why we are so overrun by the animals they hunt. We destroy forests, jungles, prairies and marshlands, then wonder why these pests dare encroach on our land. 

We hunt rare creatures for their tusks, for their horns, for their skin, for their bones, forcing those that remain onto reserves, culling them when their populations grow beyond our control. Our highest-ranking political figures publicly delight in murdering endangered species for mere thrill of the hunt. If a creature is fierce, or frightening, or mysterious, or beautiful… we kill it. 

This is why How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World is important. Grimmel is a trophy hunter. He kills dragons for the fun of it. Because Night Furies are beautiful and rare and dangerous and the world heralds him as a hero for it. He doesn’t need another reason for it, anymore than any of the trophy hunters of our world need a reason for shooting an elephant and proudly posing with its bloody tail other than it boosts their egos. 

“Our world doesn’t deserve you…”

…because our world destroys all that which is fierce and beautiful and wild. So until the day comes when mankind stops desecrating, polluting, and exploiting the natural world we are meant to protect, I hope the dragons stay hidden, where man cannot reach them. 

[neyruto]

Cowboys are witches and horses are their familiars

[istillfuckwithdemilovato-deacti]

guns are their wands and they only know one spell (bullet)

[omnybus]

Rootin’, tootin’, toil n’ shootin’

Fire burn and cowboy bootin’

Eye of newt and spicy beans,

Toe of frog and denim jeans,

Whiskey, grits, n’ demon spittle

tossed into my iron griddle

With the tannin’ of our hides,

Somethin’ wicked this way rides

[luidilovins]

This is better than the entire harry potter series

[everythingstarstuff]

[spaladoon]

everyone who reblogs this before March 20th will get either a moodboard that I think describes their blog, list of aesthetic things that describe them, or a general vibe I get from them and their blog before the end of the school year (june 16th)