Brain Words

Dawn, 26, she/her, happily married, professionally employed, surrounded by friends. Life is good. Likes: Harry Potter (I'm a Ravenclaw), Marvel (Captain America and Ms Marvel are my faves), Discworld, Disney, Historical fiction, bright colours, playing with kids, sunshine, and singing

[dankmemeuniversity]

[nicodranas]

Wizard: Oh, I like your Goblin detecting sword! That's funny.

Goblin who thought they just had a cool glowing sword: ... My what now?

[benryhenson]

[thatlittleegyptologist]

'Pondering the orb' this, 'pondering the orb' that. Reality is you're just a cat looking at baubles on a Christmas tree.

[radioheadbf]

cats r like Omg what the hell is this foreign object *sniff sniff sniff* ahhh ... makes sense now

[ocean-time]

Alternate ending: *smack smack smack*

[bluef00t]

Tobey Maguire Spider-Man "it's a hard knock life" fancam hours

[boastmalone]

How does it feel to have conceptualized the perfect Spider-Man trailer op

[chongoblog]

Bad Mario Joke: What if Mario gets the mushroom and it was Drugs?

Good Mario Joke: What if Peach was Red/Green Colorblind?

[chongoblog]

[everythingfox]

(via)

[kadzhi]

one good thing about december on this hellsite is that this gif will be making its rounds again

[pouring-midnight-rain]

It’s baaackkkkkk :’D

[most-likely-shadowhisker]

Nine rings were made for men. Seven for the dwarves, three for the elves, and one for the big guy himself. One, three, seven, nine. There is but a set of five missing to complete the sequence of odd numbers. I propose that this missing set of rings of power was gifted to a mysterious someone by their true love, along with a partridge in a pear tree (among other things). In this essay I will-

[clickbeetle]

i love seeing cardinals and bluejays together i’m always like “hehe.. evil siblings”

[clickbeetle]

this is what i’m all about babyyyyy

[brydeswhale]

They’re not even related. Jays are a type of corvid, like crows and magpies, and Cardinals are a grosbeak.

[watcherscrown]

well you see, they are both birds and they both have fun hats. hope this helps

[xeduo]

Okay so I’m an elementary school art teacher right, and I have this really fun game I made a PowerPoint for to teach like, emotions and intent and looking at the whole picture to first grade.

The idea is, when we count down and change slides, kids have to mimic one thing in the painting as best they can, whether it’s animate or inanimate. If there’s nothing in the shot for them to mimic (because I threw some contemporary abstract stuff in), they have to show me how the painting makes them feel. Easy enough, gets them excited to move around and vocal about their feelings regarding art, it’s very chaotic. I can tell pretty fast who’s got the emotional maturity to mimic things in a complex way, and who’s just enough of an abstract thinker to mimic inanimate objects early on in the game...

So the first picture is this:

Napoleon Crossing the Alps. My favorite reactions are usually the kids who pretend to be the freaked-out horse, but 2 memorable occasions were the one where a student immediately scrunched up to be the rock in the foreground, and the one where a pair of girls, without any communication on their parts, decided to be Napoleon riding the horse with one as Napoleon and one as the horse. Basically one of them fully tackled the other apropos of nothing, it was hilarious

I’ll add more if y’all want or if I feel like it lol I have a bunch of stories from this one game

[xeduo]

Okay so later in the lineup we get to Dalí’s Persistence of Memory, which is very funny because it’s preceded by several pieces that have like, obvious people in them, so everyone’s gotten a bit complacent in their mimicry

In case you’ve forgotten, this is Persistence:

And I swear every time, there’s a beat right before everyone either becomes a tree by t-posing for their life, or goes boneless like some kind of child-shaped pancake over the nearest flat surface

Highlights from this one include a pair who decided to drape themselves pancake-style over the same desk and banged heads, resulting in 2 ground pancakes, and someone who fully just stood there staring, and explained that they were expressing the hatred they felt as soon as they saw it

[xeduo]

Last installment: one of the pictures is The Scream, and everyone very quickly just makes a 😱 face, but then we get to talk about my favorite “throw spaghetti at the wall” topic, why is he screaming? (The answer is Existential Dread, but it’s not appropriate to tell 1st graders that so instead we all put out other ideas lol)

In case you haven’t looked at it recently, this is The Scream:

My favorite guesses from the kids to Why Is He Screaming:

-those guys behind him are going to arrest him

-he missed his boat and it’s one of the ones in the background, he just noticed

-the sky’s all wiggly

-he just wanted to scream

-HE CAN SEE THE CLASS OF FIRST GRADERS LOOKING AT HIM AND HE DOESN’T LIKE IT

Children are bonkers

[kirksfattitties]

w

[kirksfattitties]

water tribble

water tribble

[lacefuneral]

water tribble

[distracted-kirk]

d

desert tribble

[lacefuneral]

desert tribble

[talaxian]

d

dessert tribble

[gayquark]

dessert tribble

[thesadchicken]

dessert tribble

[plant-dad-sulu]

h

hot tribble…..

[katpurglar]

hot tribble

hot tribble

[humunanunga]

c

cold tribble..

[thesadchicken]

cold tribble

[mckittericks]

cold tribble

[official-lucifers-child]

d

dirt tribble

[tundraroo]

dirt tribble

[leg-stealing-bee]

dirt tribble

c

crystal tribble

crystal tribble

[mythicalbinicorn]

crystal tribble

[willow404]

r

rubber tribble

[katzs-current-obsession]

rubber tribble

Rubber tribble

[untitled12573]

g 

garden tribble

[ah-shit-i-burned-down-the-house]

garden tribble

[awkward-finger-guns]

garden tribble

[sirfroggerspennyworth]

s

stone tribble

[awkward-finger-guns]

stone tribble

[e-the-village-cryptid]

stone tribble

s

shiny tribble

[bleeemper]

shiny tribble

[sunnythebunny2]

shiny tribble

[imaveryevilgirl]

l

light tribble

light tribble

[kkshowtunes]

light tribble

[eyess]

c

cat tribble

[kkshowtunes]

cat tribble

[multifandomg4m3rg1rl100]

cat tribble

c

cloud tribble

[hoonkus-deactivated20230701]

cloud tribble

[detective-dr-curious]

Cloud tribble

b

bubble tribble

Bubble tribble

Bubble tribble

[prismatic-bell]

T

Tumblr tribbles

[nick-is-kinda-dum]

Tumblr tribbles

[gayteensupreme]

Tumblr tribble

[amateur-artist]

What the hell is a tribble

[thewolfwaitsbelow]

Man, you just got a whole lot of examples

[luminarai]

*david attenborough voice* truly the most dangerous predator in the animal kingdom

[slavery]

How does anyone hate kids they are so funny I sold tickets to incredibles to this little girl and her mom and she’s like mom are we sitting next to each other and the moms like ya and the kid screamed YES so loud it broke my ears

[pkslider]

The other day I was bringing an older gentleman up the hill in a golf cart and we drove past this huge YMCA group of kids like 100 kids and driving past the first chunk like 10 of them yelled out “let me on” in unison and then since I’m driving so slowly to be safe, halfway in some kid leaned up and said “do you play fortnite” and I told him I played a little and he just pointed and shouted “THIS GUY PLAYS FORTNITE” and then like 20 kids started talking to me all at once about fortnite

[low-budget-mulan]

A kid asked me if I lived in the ambulance. I said yes.

[patron-saint-of-smart-asses-dea]

The hero we deserve

[treerot]

When I was on register at Kohl’s a little girl came through with her grandma and she was so very excited to tell me the meaning of her name (I think it was like warrior of god) and she begged her grandma for her phone so she could google to find out what my name means too

[newterjuice]

i wear two spinner rings on one finger and one time at my last job a young girl (probably 6-8) said “your ring is very pretty” and when i showed her it was two rings she GASPED and said “does that mean you’re marrying two people?!”

[siren-singing]

I have this necklace with a mermaid on it that I wear to work a lot and I got asked by a kid if it gave me magic powers. I leaned in real close and told her in a low voice it gave me magical girl powers but it was a secret. She got this real serious look on her face and said to her mom “that lady has superpowers, don’t tell anyone or the government will take her away”.

[business-pug]

The other day i had to give a speech at my school despite my horrific fear of public speaking and afterwards i had kid come up to me and say well done to me. It was so cute.

[mcr-minivan-deactivated20200108]

god I love tiny kids

[uberfluss]

there was a kid in one of our science camps and he spent the whole week in a lab coat and goggles screaming “CHEMICALS” at the top of his lungs. he wouldn’t even tell us his name for the first two days just screamed CHEMICALS instead.

[moth-doe]

I was watching these kids at church today and one of them screamed and threw a toy car into the wall and it broke and the other one looked over calmly and said “does your insurance cover that?”

[armandyke]

I was taking the drink order for a family at work and I asked their kid what he wanted to drink and he just looked at me with a completely deadpan expression and said “vodka” and me and the parents just fucking lost it

[bemusedlybespectacled]

kid I used to babysit asked why my lips were different (she was two), and when I told her that it was because I was wearing lipstick, she yelled, “MAYA, I WANT LIPITZ.”

[itsmydrink]

I work in a school and every time I draw anything on the board (I am a terrible artist and usually resort to stick men), the kids will all go ‘I love your picture, that’s a great drawing Miss’. So blindly supportive.

[the-stray-liger]

One time my younger brother ordered a “non-alcoholic fanta” at a hotel bar and the bartender lost his shit and I was never the same man

[swankivy]

When I was student teaching, I was taking my fourth graders back from lunch and noticed one little girl looking longingly at the playground, where the younger kids were having recess. She heaved a big sigh and said, “I used to be that free.”

[ibibibi]

oh my god little kids in the library are the BEST one time i was looking for a book and a little girl tried to help me cause we always help HER find the books she wants. sometimes when i’m helping them check out they’ll tell me about the books they’re getting. i know so much about dog man.

[ibibibi]

oh man! another hilarious thing kids in the library do! they will straight up TELL ON THEIR PARENTS!

mom: the book was like that when we checked it out

child, innocently confused: i thought (little brother) did that though?

dad: yes that’s our correct address and phone number

child, barely paying attention: we MOOOOVED!! :D

parent: we never checked that book out

child, trying to be helpful: yes we did, that’s the one we lost at grandma’s house, remember?

me, fighting laughter and trying to decide whether or not the enter the child’s testimony as official evidence or not

[beingatoaster]

I know I’ve told this story on Tumblr before, but one of my favorite retail experiences was when I was stocking shelves once and dropped a couple of small plastic toys, and a little girl ZOOMED up, grabbed them, held them up to me, and when I thanked her, said “I’m closer to the floor, so it’s TEAMWORK! :D” and zoomed off back to her mom

[cosmere-cremposting]

Stormlight Archive characters as tumblr text posts (part 2)

Kaladin

Jasnah

Wit

Dalinar becoming a Bondsmith

Shallan

Pattern (both of the posts)

Navani

Moash

Adolin

Heralds

[all-pacas]

god the way people talk to their pets

like i’m calling myself out here but i just uttered the words “you did the stretch and now the rare and powerful double pets” (two hands at once!!) to my cat without a trace of irony

like i do not believe my cat understands a word of what i am saying but he absolutely knows my voice and i think also my tone? but also all day i’m just randomly looking over at him like “good boy!” or “are you fluffy?” or singing little songs about his current fluff levels. to an animal. a wonderful animal but a creature who absolutely does not speak english and probably only vaguely is like “this creature is communicating with me” when the strange noises come from the person’s mouth

like i just think about this sometimes

i never wanted to baby talk this cat, i dislike the whole “i am a cat mom and this is my baby” thing, he is a cat, i am a person, and yet i just spend all day talking at him. while typing this he rolled over to show off his tummy and i had to restrain myself from saying “you got a tummy?” aloud. and then i did it anyway

(he is indeed in possession of a tummy)

[vaiyamagic]

[fruitviking]

Some internet language things I really like:

Phrases like “that’s certainly a thing”, “it’s so shaped”, or “one of the most animals” (is there a name for this?)

when people write with little to no punctuation like they are just so done

More specifically, asking questions without punctuation i.e. ‘what’ or ‘why’. It’s like, you want to know but also you are resigned to the answer?

When people capitalise The Thing for emphasis - particularly if they add a trademark symbol to really drive The Point™ home

How we use both bold and italic text for emphasis, but they convey it in different ways and I can’t quite explain how

Responding to things exclusively with punctuation, because sometimes words fail you and all you can say is !!!