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[carnelianfoxx]

linus takes a trip to the nether. birthday gift to my sister

[tainebot01]

High contender for the unintentionally funniest combination of title and thumbnail.

[deepfrieddeltarunememes]

pretty neat that Noelle mentions Susie "trying to scare her" as an attractive thing she wants her to do to her. who else is known for doing that

[sadhoc]

first year in fandom: omg i love these characters.... and the story's so well written.... so much cool fanart and fic, i think i'm going to write some of my own

eleventh year in fandom: au where the character is a little jingle bell for sale on ebay for 8.99

[fiollaigean]

if anyone feels bad that their fic might contain medical inaccuracies, be comforted to know that whatever creative liberties you take with your medical scenes can never be worse than the one I just read. where one character tries to stop the bleeding on their friend's head wound by putting a tourniquet around their neck

[duckbunny]

don't infantilise yourself. you are not a child who needs an adult to make your decisions for you. you are a splendid and magnificent autocrat and you are consulting your trusted advisors. you are exercising great wisdom by inviting an expert to give their opinion before making your ruling. often the path of wisdom is to say "good morning, I'm trying to [perform task] and I have a question about [aspect], can you tell me who I should speak to for advice?" before you do it. sometimes the path of wisdom is to hire a plumber. there are times when you cannot do things for yourself but that doesn't mean you are not an adult. you don't need a grown-up. you need a specialist.

[duckbunny]

this has come up a couple of times so let me be really really clear:

the path of wisdom is sometimes to hire a plumber.

the path of wisdom is always to hire an electrician.

[vulpine-dyke]

As a chronic "good heavens" sayer, and as a casual rhyme enjoyer, it's been really hard not to pepper in the phrase "good heavens six sevens" into my vocabulary. It would be so much fun to say, but it would immediately alienate both young hip people and old antiquated people and really only be enjoyed by whimsically autistic transgender women, so yeah :/

[prokopetz]

Strictly speaking, "ultimate" means "last", not "best". It's often figuratively employed in the latter sense to suggest that the thing so described is the final word on the subject, after which nothing more need be said, but if we're being real technical, describing a game or movie that was so bad it killed its entire franchise as the "ultimate" is in fact correct.

[prokopetz]

@ffoxer replied:

Now I'm thinking about the prefix "pen," which as far as I can think I may have only ever seen in "penultimate"

It's Latin for "nearly" or "almost", and it does pop up in a few other English words. "Penultimate", "penumbra" and "peninsula" are the only ones I can think of that you'd even remotely expect to encounter in everyday speech, though; the rest are all medical or mathematical jargon.

[prokopetz]

#so peninsula means what? #almost island? #lmao (via @actualanxiousswampwitch)

That is the actual etymology of the word "peninsula", yes.

[terrence-tich]

keep your FRIENDS close

keep your ENEMIES close

keep EVERYONE close

DONT LEAVE ME

[bishopony]

my really funny and original concept

[mismedleym]

toward the sun, from the sun

[oddarette]

H2Octopus is the layman’s term for this particularly unique creature. Somehow this octopus manages to maintain its shape which is comprised almost entirely of water; minus the lightly scaled membrane connecting its tentacles. If you try to remove it from its aquatic home it simply melts into nothing. So please don’t.

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[bpwpbshika]

[porridgeperson]

tags from user bedridden-victorian-child: "#pray for me my good brethren, for i should have to affix TEN needles to my candle each night, each the size of my fourth finger #and place upon my little silver plate, lest i remain unaroused upon the morn 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 #oh, how i wish i could be awakened by simple means such as the cock's crow or mine mother's call! #but NAY, the lord has seen to burden me with the truest love of deepest sleep 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 #pray for me, i beseech thee, for i must away to an early appointment on the morrow 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭"

how do they have commas in the tags

[elcorhamletlive]

Not to be a bitch but sometimes people engage with fiction in the most boring way possible, and nowhere is this clearer than in videogames. Like what you mean you hate a character just because they were kind of abrasive when speaking to the player character? "They were mean to me" and it didn't occur to you to wonder why? Like, what might their attitude toward you reveal about the world? About the social dynamics within it? About their own perspectives and backgrounds and personalities? Does it even occur you to ask? Would you only have liked them if they bowed to your presence and talked about how great you are? Like I'm sorry but you're so boring. How boring fiction would be if it cathered to you

[primaius]

[thepromiscuousfinger]

[dogpuppy]

[charlesoberonn]

Necessary and sufficient

[charlesoberonn]

[charlesoberonn]

Adding a second lock was not necessary.

[charlesoberonn]

Understanding the difference between necessary and sufficient is necessary, but not sufficient to earn a math degree.