maybe write a poem

anthropology, literature, linguistics, mythology and the Addams family. all the puns are intended. honestly, they're just a bunch of things that made me smile, laugh or i found interesting 🇦🇷🇺🇸

[macgyvermedical]

Took me until about halfway through college before I realized “study” means “play with the material in a variety of ways until you understand it” and not just “read the assigned chapters and do the homework” and I think that probably should have been discussed at some point prior to that.

[catchymemes]

[eldritchbauble]

A lot clicked for me when my mom said the reason she was so reactive towards me as a kid was that she assumed intent behind things I did, rather than recognizing my behaviors for being normal kid behaviors or normal autism behaviors. So I got treated as if I was an adult who was intentionally doing things to upset her. She'd react to me like I had the maturity and wherewithal to do things in a cruel or manipulative way, making her life harder, when I was just existing. Just trying to learn how to cope and be a person myself. When she told me this I stopped in my tracks trying to process. Why would anyone's default assumption be that a kid is trying to antagonize them instead of like, struggling with something they're experiencing? But she was also raised the exact same way, treated like everything she did carried the weight of adult responsibility, not seen as a kid.

[assaultsofthought]

As a child therapist who focuses on audhd kids THIS!! So often parents put intent behind kids actions when it’s just “kid trying to feel safe and comfortable”. babies are not trying to “manipulate “ you, kids and teens are just pushing back to figure out the boundaries of their world, if a kid doesn’t like something don’t force it on them. Stop expecting better emotional regulation from your child than you’ve ever shown them.

[eldritchbauble]

Stop expecting better emotional regulation from your child than you've ever shown them.

[strawberry-crocodile]

there's a post where someone said "can you respect trans women who look like men" and someone responded something like "hell yeah I love people who fuck with gender!" and like... yeah that's cool, but in a lot of spaces "trans woman who looks like a man" is a lot less likely to be someone who is intentionally comfortably presenting masculine, and a lot more likely to be a girl who hasn't started transition, or can't safely, or just didn't or couldn't put in the effort to pass as fem today, and a lot of them will just look like schlubby dudes and not a radically presenting queer person. and you should be able to respect that.

[gobbochune-deactivated20241018]

can you respect a trans girl who is balding/has a masculinized hairline and cant do anything about it, who applied overly severe makeup poorly becuase this is her first time femme presenting in public, and her girl clothes obviously dont fit right because she ordered them online and hasnt had a lot of opportunity to find out what looks good with her body type yet.

if the answer is no, then shut the fuck up.

[origin-of-orbits]

*points to this*

[femmefatalevibe]

Being hot is a mindset. Decide you're the hot girl. She's yours to claim.

[the-haiku-bot]

Being hot is a

mindset. Decide you’re the hot

girl. She’s yours to claim.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[humanismo-nostalgico]

Es por culpa de mi niñez, sabes. Nunca supe lo que era el amor.

—Charles Bukowski.

[perfectquote]

“There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

[maccreadysbaby]

Some of my favorite words and phrases to describe a character in pain

coiling (up in a ball, in on themselves, against something, etc)

panting (there’s a slew of adjectives you can put after this, my favorites are shakily, weakly, etc)

keeling over (synonyms are words like collapsing, which is equally as good but overused in media)

trembling/shivering (additional adjectives could be violently, uncontrollably, etc)

sobbing (weeping is a synonym but i’ve never liked that word. also love using sob by itself, as a noun, like “he let out a quiet sob”)

whimpering (love hitting the wips with this word when a character is weak, especially when the pain is subsiding. also love using it for nightmares/attacks and things like that)

clinging (to someone or something, maybe even to themselves or their own clothes)

writhing/thrashing (maybe someone’s holding them down, or maybe they’re in bed alone)

crying (not actual tears. cry as in a shrill, sudden shout)

dazed (usually after the pain has subsided, or when adrenaline is still flowing)

wincing (probably overused but i love this word. synonym could be grimacing)

doubling-over (kinda close to keeling over but they don’t actually hit the ground, just kinda fold in on themselves)

heaving (i like to use it for describing the way someone’s breathing, ex. “heaving breaths” but can also be used for the nasty stuff like dry heaving or vomiting)

gasping/sucking/drawing in a breath (or any other words and phrases that mean a sharp intake of breath, that shite is gold)

murmuring/muttering/whispering (or other quiet forms of speaking after enduring intense pain)

hiccuping/spluttering/sniffling (words that generally imply crying without saying crying. the word crying is used so much it kinda loses its appeal, that’s why i like to mix other words like these in)

stuttering (or other general terms that show an impaired ability to speak — when someone’s in intense pain, it gets hard to talk)

staggering/stumbling (there is a difference between pain that makes you not want to stand, and pain that makes it impossible to stand. explore that!)

recoiling/shrinking away (from either the threat or someone trying to help)

pleading/begging (again, to the threat, someone trying to help, or just begging the pain to stop)

Feel free to add your favorites or most used in the comments/reblogs!

[the-haiku-bot]

Feel free to add your

favorites or most used in

the comments/reblogs!

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[poetinyourlife]

A Poet’s Advice To Students

ee cummings

A poet is somebody who feels, and who expresses his feeling through words.

This may sound easy. It isn’t.

A lot of people think or believe or know they feel-but that’s thinking or believing or knowing; not feeling. And poetry is feeling-not knowing or believing or thinking.

Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel. Why? Because whenever you think or you believe or you know, you’re a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you’re nobody-but-yourself.

To be nobody-but-yourself-in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else-means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

As for expressing nobody-but-yourself in words, that means working just a little harder than anybody who isn’t a poet can possibly imagine. Why? Because nothing is quite as easy as using words like somebody else. We all of us do exactly this nearly all of the time-and whenever we do it, we’re not poets.

If, at the end of your first ten or fifteen years of fighting and working and feeling, you find you’ve written one line of one poem, you’ll be very lucky indeed.

And so my advice to all young people who wish to become poets is: do something easy, like learning how to blow up the world-unless you’re not only willing, but glad, to feel and work and fight till you die.

Does this sound dismal? It isn’t.

It’s the most wonderful life on earth.

Or so I feel.

[sm-baby]

you heard him

[salvadorbonaparte]

Call for Linguistic Study Participants

Are you a Native English speaker? (of any dialect/variety)

Are you over 18 years old?

Do you want to help my best friend with their MA study?

Can you spare 20 minutes to do an online experiment where you learn some words in a new language? (preferably on a Windows laptop)

For more information follow this link:

please also reblog this if you can!

[thirddoctor]

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[ayeforscotland]

The Onion’s journalism is the only journalism that matters. Holy fuck.

[frvent]

i live for older girls who take care of you and give you advice on weird things w/o judging bc they’ve experienced it and are just so warm. my only goal in life is to be that for others one day

[birdluvr1993]

masculinity is so funny to me bc men deprive themselves of the best things in life in order to achieve it like ….fuzzy socks, fun fruity pink drinks, spa days, lifetime movies,  expressing positive feelings in a healthy way, being a warm genuine person

[forsakenblog33333-blog]

im pretty sure bromance is the perfect example of how embarrassingly fragile masculinity is. you know what a female bromance is called? a friendship 

[strangebiology]

Decent journalism takes so long because it takes so much fact-checking. Like there can be 10 things I check in a sentence. For example:

“Dr. Andrea Exampleson and her team study the protein APOE at Fakename University in St. Louis.” 

I have to check: 

-Is Exampleson a Dr., or still a PhD candidate? 

-Does this outlet use Dr., Doctor, or nothing? 

-Andrea is a unisex name, have I misgendered Exampleson? Where can I find another reference to them and am I sure that has the right pronoun? 

-Is APOE the correct way to write the protein, or is that just how you write the gene that codes for the protein? 

-Am I sure they study the protein and not the gene, or both? 

-Am I formatting the name of the University right, is it “in” or “at” or just a comma? St. or Saint? 

-This is in the present tense; has the team completed their research or are they actively continuing? 

Fact checking is a good skill to have and it’s fun IMO. But it’s funny to realize how many mistakes you can make and how much work goes into every decent article. Also I’m sorry for any time I have made a mistake like that.