NothingSpecialHerern

Those groups of misfits, am i right?

[perfect-puppy]

[capitaobarba79]

[dramatic-dolphin]

since there is such an "english speakers who don't even try to pronounce a foreign mame correctly" epidemic, native english speakers often try to overcorrect and end up thinking they have a moral imperative to pronounce every foreign name correctly at all times. so i'm gonna hold your hand and look into your eyss as i say this: you can't. you can't pronounce every sound in a language you don't speak. and that's fine. it happens to the rest of us too. we won't be mad so long as you try your best.

[apricops]

“I did some research to pronounce this name correctly” = 👍 great! even if the pronunciation was still off (and learning to pronounce a foreign language correctly takes a lot of practice) people generally appreciate it when someone goes the extra mile for accuracy, and honestly, languages are cool

“I’m probably not saying that correctly”/“sorry for my pronunciation” = 👍 understandable! foreign languages often have sounds that aren’t used in English and learning to correctly pronounce unfamiliar phonemes is genuinely difficult even with help

“lol I’m not even gonna TRY to pronounce that 😂” = 👎 THIS is the problem, if treats languages other than English like they are inherently ‘weird’ or ‘overly complicated’ just because you aren’t familiar with them

“One thousand apologies for my butchering of this beautiful effervescent tongue, I will now flagellate myself as punishment for my crimes” = 👎 chill

[acanfullofspiders]

Old habits die hard...

[girlrandomstuff]

cant stop thinking about how stratt turns to look at grace when one of the scientists says "doctor grace was right", he is like "uhg" and she like "see, you were right" with a smirk on her face

she believed in him when everyone thought he was a joke, she believed in him before anyone else in the universe and i cant be normal about that

[caesarsaladinn]

RUN! RUN!!

[galacticsabc]

a series of really dumb doodles

[melonsharks]

promise???? 😳😳😳

[sycamorality]

spring is a warm kind of cold and fall is a cold kind of warm. you understand

[sycamorality]

i made a spreadsheet to illustrate my thoughts. like so

[sycamorality]

spreadsheets are useful in every situation

[churchyaoi]

50 minute Carl study

[friendlyfrankenstein]

the scariest thing about old tv isnt really the racism or the sexisim because you kinda go in braced for that it's all the scenes where suddenly an actress is holding a lion cub or a chimpanzee is in the same room as a toddler, or suddenly theres a lion, or there's a chimpanzee again but it's driving a car, or holding a lighter, or holding fireworks. You just kind of watch in horror as over and over an actress performs with only 1960s tv film shootings best animal handling between her and the opening to Nope.

[retroactivebakeries]

[kiradical]

This is how I learn that the famous chimp my dad got my nickname from tried to kill Reagan. Fuck yeah.

[the-real-ryland-grace]

It’s the first time since arriving on Erid that Grace has decided to use the beach for its “normal” purpose—a beach day.

He grabs a towel and sits on the sand, letting the waves wash by his feet. Grace doesn’t bother with the sunscreen, since he doubts the Eridians had been so detail oriented that they added a UV radiation feature to his fake sun. After a few hours of relaxing and playing in the water, Grace heads back to his house to relax. A few hours later, Rocky and Adrian come over to see Grace standing rigid in his living room. He is bright red all over, but obviously Eridians can’t see that. Rocky and Adrian can sense something is off though.

Rocky: “Why Grace standing like figure, question?”

Grace: “Rock…when you and the team were making my sun, did you by chance add artificial UV radiation…?”

Rocky: “Oh, yea! Read that it can cause humans to have an enjoyable tan. Set it to 400 nm so Grace can have most enjoyable tan!”

Grace is freaking out in his mind. 400 nm?! And there’s no atmosphere to protect him from most of the rays. He just got blasted with a radiation gun. He has the worst sunburn EVER.

Grace: “How about we turn that wayyyy down…okay?”

[kyoukorpse]

Someone to be brave for.

excerpt is from chapter 29 of the novel.

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[ryan-sometimes]

I love how Zohran Mamdani is wearing a suit everywhere. And if he has anything else he puts it ON TOP of the suit. A basketball jersey. A high-vis vest. All worn over the suit. He’s like the mayor character in a cartoon who’s always dressed as The Mayor. If I didn’t know who he was and he biked past me in NYC I’d be like holy shit was that the mayor

[werewolf-transgenderism]

he jumped in a pool in the suit yesterday to celebrate the public pools opening for the summer btw

[recurring-polynya]

me (crazy eyes, covered in blood): I NEED to finish writing my fanfic. so I can start writing a different fanfic.

[teaboot]

I live in the northwest coast of Canada so we walk everywhere and do stuff outside in the rain and swim in whatever lakes and rivers we find so imagine my smug sense of Canadian superiority when I met a USAmerican Midwesterner who was horrified at the very thought

And then I went to the USAmerican Midwest

And I understood

[teaboot]

What I mean to say is that it's very easy to delude yourself into believing you are more in tune with your environment when your environment is not actively hostile to your existence in every conceivable way

[teaboot]

BC, Canada:

Rains frequently, but the worst is like standing under a bathroom shower. Genuinely inhospitable rainstorms are uncommon.

Along the coast, it's pretty easy in most areas to walk to at least one store, or else there's usually a bus or shuttle available. There are sidewalks and bike lanes everywhere.

It's a temperate boreal rainforest, so while there are many freshwater lakes and rivers, they're usually pretty cold. The biggest danger is typically getting caught in a strong current, and the most dangerous animals in swimming distance are on land.

Earthquakes happen almost every day, but the vast majority go unnoticed. Buildings are designed to withstand bigger seismic activity, so unless it's a 5 or higher it just kind of feels like having low blood sugar for a second. There are no tornados

Rural Illinois, USA:

One minute it's sunny, then ten minutes later that distant smudge on the horizon has swallowed the entire sky in black clouds and the water is coming down like waterfall and you literally CANNOT SEE. Then there's a crash like cymbals and you need to get indoors because the thunder and lightening are on TOP of you

No sidewalks until you are in the smack dab center of town, which is a three hour walk or twenty minute drive from wherever you are.

There aren't many natural bodies of water other than small ponds and creeks, and because the environment is so much warmer, those are filled with snapping turtles that can grow bigger than a nine year old child and water snakes that are incredibly venomous. These are paired with leeches and mosquitos for that sweet umami flavor.

Sometimes Jupiter, Lord of the Heavens decides to jam his finger into the side of your house just to fuck with your whole shit and throws your truck a thousand yards into the nearest church

[wayba3]

A teacher and his aquarium

[notatzimisce]

I will never shy away from the word goon. goon is the only way to describe a particular type of henchman, lackey, or thug. look at these guys. they're goons.