it's been two years. hello.

piper | 20 | usa | she/her | bisexual | enfp I do the New York Times crossword in pen. Returning from a two-year hiatus. Feel free to ask me anything about me/my life. me | mine | music | wishlist

[qualitees]

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[silverinkwings]

I want one or maybe two

[joaquinterrero-archive]

now that john mulaney has a tumblr i can just tag him on things

[joaquinterrero-archive]

@mulaney what’s up slut

[jewishdragon]

(I understand he’s making a joke about accepting college admissions in general but his parents are both lawyers) 

[just-shower-thoughts]

Attractive nurses probably never get accurate pulse readings from their patients

[itsyearning]

I can’t wait until the day when it’s just us, music and the road. See you later Baby. All my love, Deborah.

[lyricallymnded]

fixin’ // walk the moon

[onlinepunk]

[did-you-know]

[endcetaceanexploitation]

Washoe was a chimp who was taught sign language.

One of Washoe’s caretakers was pregnant and missed work for many weeks after she miscarried. Roger Fouts recounts the following situation:

“People who should be there for her and aren’t are often given the cold shoulder—her way of informing them that she’s miffed at them. Washoe greeted Kat [the caretaker] in just this way when she finally returned to work with the chimps. Kat made her apologies to Washoe, then decided to tell her the truth, signing “MY BABY DIED.” Washoe stared at her, then looked down. She finally peered into Kat’s eyes again and carefully signed “CRY”, touching her cheek and drawing her finger down the path a tear would make on a human (Chimpanzees don’t shed tears). Kat later remarked that one sign told her more about Washoe and her mental capabilities than all her longer, grammatically perfect sentences.“ [23]

Washoe herself lost two children; one baby died shortly after birth of a heart defect, the other baby, Sequoyah, died of a staph infection at two months of age.

[sonyvegaspro12]

more about Washoe:

after the death of her children, researchers were determined to have Washoe raise a baby and brought in a ten month chimpanzee named Loulis. one of the caretakers went to Washoe’s enclosure and signed “i have a baby for you.” Washoe became incredibly excited, yelling and swaying from side to side, signing “baby” over and over again. then she signed “my baby.”

the caretaker came back with Loulis, and Washoe’s excitement disappeared entirely. she refused to pick Loulis up, instead signing “baby” apathetically; it was clear that the baby she thought she was getting was going to be Sequoyah. eventually Washoe did approach Loulis, and by the next day the two had bonded and from then on she was utterly devoted to him.

*information shamelessly paraphrased from When Elephants Weep by Jeffrey Masson.

[georgiejohn]

Even more interestingly, after Washoe and Loulis bonded, she started teaching him American Sign Language the same way that human parents teach their children language. It only took Loulis eight days to learn his first sign from Washoe, and aside from the seven that his human handlers learned around him, he learned to speak in ASL just as fluently as Washoe and was able to communicate with humans in the same way she could.

[death-limes]

now if y'all don’t think this is the tightest shit you can get outta my face

[dykejedi-deactivated20170430]

when i was little and i went to church people would talk about “fearing god.” they would use ‘’fear’ to describe like a way of respecting him while understanding his power and i never knew what that  meant until i met a fucking horse 

[tjmystic]

This… went in a completely different direction than I thought.

[emmy4keri]

“I feel so compelled to give a detailed answer to everything. People tell me over and over, ‘Jenny, you don’t have to say everything.’ But I forget. I straight-up forget, and I’m not sure how to change without completely silencing myself.” Jenny Slate for Marie Claire

[yellowcrayonwillow-archive]

[hollycrowned]

can’t imagine why Disney’s legal department would have an issue with this [x]

[hollycrowned]

[gaelgarcia]

Letitia Wright takes a selfie with fans at the premiere of Disney and Marvel’s ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ on April 23, 2018 in Los Angeles, California.

[jibril-deactivated20190420]

[knowledgeequalsblackpower]

i scrolled passed this several times before actually reading it. i’m not used to two white men talking sense…

[straggletag]

Alton Brown is no fucking joke a legend. 

[luvyourselfsomeesteem-deactivat]

Alton Brown definitely is a Culinary genius. I go to Culinary school and on assignments where I studied Southern cuisine I made a serious point to call it Soul Food or Black Southern Cuisine and emphasize that it’s entirely rooted in the black culture and slavery. I will never let ppl forget it is black people who educated white Americans to cook. There is a lot of of culture appropriation and whitewashing even in Culinary and they will have you believe whites are the masters of Southern food and Korean BBQ I swear ta gawd. 

[montypla]

A lot of Southern food also comes from Native American sources.

[bitchtoss]

Gwen Stefani

[love-interruptionn]

i really miss you

[pro-gay-deactivated20170112]

The gaydar is a multifunctional tool and the straights not only don’t have it, they also think its only for spotting gay ppl

[pro-gay-deactivated20170112]

Other settings:

- Spotting homophobes before they speak - Spotting gays to avoid - Spotting iconic songs - Spotting the safest and quickest route back home so you don’t get beaten or killed after school & many more

[pro-gay-deactivated20170112]

What the straights have is a cheap imitation which is really downgraded and has only 1 function called “stereotyping”