Nerdlove and Lolz

If you know me in real life, please just go elsewhere. Thanks. My blog is cute animals, feminism, funny things, random fandoms (Buffy, Who, Trek, Sailor Moon, MST3K, etc), pretty pictures, and so on. I am critical of or at least careful about many things. I'm totally going to do a real pull-up someday.

[galileosballs]

I like the expression new-fangled. I don't know what it means for something to be fangled, but I sure as hell know it was recent

[maniculum]

It’s from the Old English word feng, which can mean “to take”, or also “to grasp, hold, or embrace”. So something that’s newfangled is something that was taken up recently.

The reason it’s using this pretty archaic root is that it’s an older word than a lot of people think. Here it is in the Canterbury Tales.

[maniculum]

Minutes after posting: "Why did I write archaic when I could have gone with old-fangled?"

[a-book-of-creatures]

Reblog to fangle this post

[justseventeen]

March 1997. 'PROM. Let the moment... the last dance... last forever...'

[nerdloveandlolz]

I graduated high school in 1996 and wore a dress a lot like the white one in the bottom center row of the second photo, but in a bright sapphire blue. But no scarf or gloves. Or maybe gloves? Gloves would have appealed to me but would be impractical and uncomfortable.

[mariacallous]

[greatpoetryfun-deactivated20260]

Friendly reminder as we head into tax season (for US Americans), that the major tax preparation companies are fully prepared to lie and mislead you into paying for their tax preparation software when you might qualify for free software through the IRS.

Don’t fall for their bullshit. Visit IRS Free File and see what services are available to you. The requirements vary depending on your household status and income, but if you make less than $79,000/year (which is nearly everyone I know), you probably qualify for something.

[bunnyhugs22]

⬆️ This ⬆️

[bunnyhugs22]

🍉 CeasefireToday.com 🍉

[naivan]

[nerdloveandlolz]

Reference

If you've gone villain, then I know my role is heroine. I'm Rose to your Dimitri, Buffy to your Angelus. And we define each other, darkness bounding light. Evil villains need their heroines. They're addicted to the ones they hate. And now your fix is me, it's breaking me.

When I look at you my throat closes.

But I draw strength from what you're doing now. Don't think I didn't notice how you showed up at the station on your skateboard right on time, only to ignore me. I turned to watch the mountains for a moment, then blinked a couple times to clear my vision. Rose and Buffy didn't cry. Much.

At least they had the option – no, the righteous moral duty – to kill the ones they'd loved, the ones who sank in darkness, rose again, victim, tormenter, and desideratum all at once. That's you. I see the darkness welling up in you, and know that anger now is pointless. You're gone, and I can't save or stake you, kill or kiss, repair or break you, so I won't even try. My lone heroic option now is stepping on the bus and getting gone.

[nerdloveandlolz]

[fruity-arsonist]

Emily: Why do people say "don't be a pussy" when talking about weakness, more like "don't be a man's ego" because you know there isn't nothing more fragile than that

Spencer: Uh, because "pussy" is the shortened form of the word "pusillanimous" which means "timid, cowardly" and not the slang word for the female genital region?

Derek: Literally nobody else knows this, nobody

[nerdloveandlolz]

The reason no one knows this is that it isn't true.

I guess this is the hill I'm dying on, on this site?

But yeah. Not fucking true. Wrote a long take down about it a few years back. No energy to link to it. But try looking it up on an etymology site rather than trusting randos on tumblr. Even me.

[fruity-arsonist]

???

[nerdloveandlolz]

That post about "pussy" being short for "pusillanimous" pisses me off so fucking much and I'm going to tell you why. (PS: Masters degree in

What you looked up was a dictionary site that shows that pusillanimous means cowardly. That doesn't mean that the word pussy is related, in etymology, to the word pusillanimous. (Etymology means the study of the origin of words.) I linked you to a thorough explanation that you are welcome to read or to ignore; if you'd like to go through life believing something that isn't true, you are welcome to do that.

[nerdloveandlolz]

cartoon by Branson Reese

[nerdloveandlolz]

Christ! It must be exhausting to live every day of your life desperate to correct literally everyone alive on, like, the smallest detail of linguistics ever. I think you need a new hobby. A productive one.

Well, I do think it's funny that you think I can reach "everyone alive" via Tumble. I mean... um... look around.

Anyway.

I wrote that post in 2014.

It blew up a year later.

I dwindled off using the blog after that, and every time I peeked in all I got was messages and comments about this shit. Then I stayed away from this blog for FIVE fucking years. I came back to start a totally different tumblr, which is my main interest at this point. But even now, almost ten years after I wrote this post, people send me these things and ask me to comment on it. Check the time stamps on my blog if you dont believe me. Scroll through. I wrote one post that went semi viral and now this is what I have to live with.

I agree with you. Life would be dull if this were my only interest. Here are some of my other hobbies:

True crime

Music

Improv comedy (I do this professionally! People pay money to watch me do make-em-up funnies!)

Learning chemistry

Gardening

Baking

Escape rooms

Snarky recaps of reality tv

Hiking

Weightlifting

Mst3k

Travel

Learning languages

Honestly, it is exhausting to keep on dealing with this shit. And people like you make it more exhausting. But at least I am trying, sporadically, to make the world a better place by teaching people something.

It must be exhausting to make assumptions about people based on 0.01% of the posts on their blog, btw. You're every bit as pedantic as you accuse me of being, but your only goal with this ask was to insult me -- not to teach, help shed light, etc. Just make the world a little bit worse for a stranger. I hope you have other hobbies too. You probably do. Maybe you're just having a shitty day. Hope it gets better.

[respawner-deactivated20260414]

WHAT THE FUCK I JUST LEARNED THAT “PUSSY” AS A TERM FOR COWARD DOESN’T MEAN THE SAME AS LIKE. SEX PUSSY. IT’S SHORTENED FOR PUSILLANIMOUS WHICH IS A TIMID PERSON. WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[nerdloveandlolz]

It's not true. Pussy isn't short for pusillanimous. You learned something that isn't true.

[askfallenroyalty]

Actually unless I'm mistaken pussy started as slang for pusillanimous

// oh neat! but still,, in modern times people associate it with the obvious connection. so despite it's actual rooting, it's still seen as sexist

[nerdloveandlolz]

Nope. Not true.

People send me these posts now. Whee.

[phoebusbridgers]

[angelsaxis]

[nerdloveandlolz]

So, who's got the MA in English Linguistics? Is it the person whose preferred intensifier is the f word?

Are you seriously implying that educated people don't use the word fuck? Also, grow the fuck up. <3

Why swearing is a sign of intelligence, helps manage pain and more | CNN

Oh the profanity! Swearing is a social no-no, but studies have shown that cursing can serve a useful place in our lives, especially when it

[nerdloveandlolz]

Dear Ms. Nerdloveandlolz, I have just come across your excerpt about the nature of the word "pussy". While I did find your writing to be informative, I was quite turned off by your choice of vocabulary. While it seems apparent that you are passionate about your writing, it might help to choose less profanity. As a mentor once told me, "Always strive for objective speech, for once you loose one's emotions, you lose their ear". This is merely a suggestion and I wish you a wonderful day.

Thank you so fucking much for your fucking comment to me.

PS: It's "lose" both times. Learn to spell, my love.

Have a great fucking day <3

[curt-n-curly]

This is wild, y'all

PLEASE click through and live through the horror of these real estate pics with me. PLEASE. 

[sotheresthat]

If you were willing to put in a lot of work, I honestly believe you could get your money back and then some just selling all the crap inside. It’s in great shape, it’s just insane. It’s gotta be somebody’s kid selling it all who just did not want to deal with the mechanics of that. 

[fancy-trashblog-deactivated2024]

Going through this slideshow, multiple times I thought it could not get worse, and then it did

[missandryifyourenasty]

All I could think about was what a nightmare dusting everything has to be.

[styro-sometimes]

Wow. What a … shitshow. 

[crowarmy]