hi.

2cool5scool/23/INTJ/they/she I'm a slut for Limoncello LaCroix

[rovermcfly]

proud to say that I have never once in my life figured out the whodunit in any crime story I've read or watched. I just let the facts and clues wash over me, absorbing absolutely none of it. I am the audience they think of when they throw in red herrings, in case you've ever wondered "who would fall for this obvious false lead". it's me. I am the idiot viewer/reader. not once has an obviously framed clue revealed anything to me. my head is completely empty when I consume these stories.

[emptyjunior]

The darkness made him say that

[dotjade]

put those awesome boobs away dude now isn't the time

[wagamaggot]

aplatonic aromantic asexual polycule

[wagamaggot]

coworkers

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

i'm begging you guys to start pirating shit from streaming platforms. there are so many websites where you can stream that shit for free, here's a quick HOW TO:

1) Search for: watch TITLE OF WORK free online

2) Scroll to the bottom of results. Click any of the "Complaint" links

3) You will be taken to a long list of links that were removed for copyright infringement. Use the 'find' function to search for the name of the show/movie you were originally searching for. You will get something like this (specifics removed because if you love an illegal streaming site you don't post its url on social media)

4) each of these links is to a website where you can stream shit for free. go to the individual websites and search for your show/movie. you might have to copy-paste a few before you find exactly what you're looking, but the whole process only takes a minute. the speed/quality is usually the same as on netflix/whatever, and they even have subtitles! (make sure to use an adblocker though, these sites are funded by annoying popups)

In conclusion, if you do this often enough you will start recognizing the most dependable websites, and you can just bookmark those instead. (note: this is completely separate from torrenting, which is also a beautiful thing but requires different software and a vpn)

you can also download the media in question (look for a "download" button built into the video window, or use a browser extension such as Video DownloadHelper.)

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

if the "Complaint" links are not visible for you:

Option 1: try the DuckDuckGo search engine instead (bonus: dedicated to privacy! doesn't track your data!)

Option 2: go directly to LumenDatabase.org (the website that collects the complaints--and therefore the removed links) and search for the title you want. look for results titled "DMCA (Copyright) Complaint to Google" featuring the media you're looking for. Proceed to Step 3 (above).

[huffylemon]

damn ok lake superior

[songsofwaterandnight]

Ok yeah that lake is superior

[foundfamilynonsense]

Had a dream where mini golf was added to the Olympics. And one of the Olympic mini golf athletes lost the gold because she hit the windmill.

And she tweets with a picture of the windmill and the caption “bout to go through my Don Quixote phase” and honestly I think that’s the funniest thing my brain has ever come up with.

[inthefallofasparrow]

[uncanny-tranny]

Not feminine, not masculine, not androgynous, but a secret fourth thing

[aristia]

How to pronounce Celtic words and names

Step 1: Read the word. Step 2: Wrong.

[literary-potato]

A REAL LIST OF ACTUAL NAMES AND THEIR (approximate) PRONUNCIATIONS: Siobhan — “sheh-VAWN” Aoife – “EE-fa” Aislin – “ASH-linn” Bláithín - “BLAW-heen” Caoimhe - “KEE-va” Eoghan - Owen (sometimes with a slight “y” at the beginning) Gráinne - “GRAW-nya” Iarfhlaith - “EER-lah” Méabh - “MAYV” Naomh or Niamh - “NEEV” Oisín - OSH-een or USH-een Órfhlaith - OR-la Odhrán - O-rawn Sinéad - shi-NAYD Tadhg - TIEG (like you’re saying “tie” or “Thai” with a G and the end)

[rubyvroom]

I work with an Aoife and I have been pronouncing it SO WRONG

[breelandwalker]

As someone who is trying and failing to learn Gaelic, I feel like is an accurate portrayal of my pain.

[prettyarb]

This is the Anglicized spelling of a people who really fucking hate the English.

[madmaudlingoes]

No, no, this is the orthographic equivalent of installing Windows on Mac.

The Latin alphabet was barely adequate for Latin by the time it got to the British Isles, but it’s what people were writing with, so somebody tried to hack it to make it work for Irish. Except, major problem: Irish has two sets of consonants, “broad” and “slender” (labialized and palatalized) and there’s a non-trivial difference between the two of them. But there weren’t enough letters in the Latin alphabet to assign separate characters to the broad and slender version of similar sounds.

Instead, someone though, let’s just use the surrounding vowels to disambiguate–but there weren’t enough vowel characters to indicate all the vowel sounds they needed to write, so that required some doubling up, and then adding in some silent vowels just to serve as markers of broad vs. slender made eveything worse. 

They also had to double up some consonants, because, for example, <v> wasn’t actually a letter at the time–just a variation on <u>–so for the /v/ sound they <bh>. AND THEN ALSO Irish has this weird-ass system where the initial consonant sound in a word changes as a grammatical marker, called “mutation,” so they had to account somehow for mutated sounds vs. non-mutated sounds, which sometimes meant leaving a lot of other silent letters in a word to remind you what word you were looking at.

And then a thousand years of sound change rubbed its dirty little hands all over a system that was kind of pasted together in the first place.

My point is, there is a METHOD to the orthography of Irish besides “fuck the English.” The “fuck the English” part is just a delightful side-effect.

[prettyarb]

I love it when snarky quips lead to real info.

[asparrowsfall]

Language mutation!!! Love it.

[twit-of-the-year]

NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!!!

[capillaryspice]

alright this one wins we can all go home

[dilf-patton-deactivated20220806]

I was completely in awe, and now I’m cackling. 10/10

[lovely-abeille-deactivated20241]

glass, irony and good, anne carson // margaret atwood // enough, suzanne buffam // linnea paskow // in conversation: kathleen turner, david marchese // haunted womanhood, heather havrilesky // where to begin, sue zhao // the stream of life, clarice lisepector

[dct239394cvvd098dffgggp]

last night was crazy we were passing around a jar of honey taking spoonfuls each till 4 am

[dct239394cvvd098dffgggp]

smiling real big like this :D rn love and light

[sorryforthebonyelbows]

Yves Olade, Bloodsport (When Rome Falls)

Silas Denver Melvin

I confuse instinct for desire—isn’t bite also touch?

Natalie Diaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

Yves Olade, Slaughterhouse

Saeed Jones, How We Fight For Our Lives

Richard Siken, Crush (Little Beast)

You haven’t kissed anyone for a while now.

To you, everything tastes like blood.

Warsan Shire, from “Souvenir,” Our Men Do Not Belong to Us.

[dirtreally]

[transhuman-priestess]

[transhuman-priestess]

Ah yes, the quiet part, out loud.

[failure-to-adult]

[dailyskeletonreminders]

sorry yeah, you're actually not allowed in the grocery store anymore. yeah, everyone thought it was super weird when you were rummaging in your wallet for your debit card and it was making everyone super uncomfortable and taking a long time. sorry

[fckmypssywtharakemom]

[kushblazer666]