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I love them and this game too much smh

I give Thanatos like- all my damn nectar man

Kids often have difficulty asking the questions they want to know the answer to. They might not have the words to phrase their questions clearly, so, as an educator, you have to rely on context clues and guesswork to figure out what they’re really trying to ask.

For instance, last week a little boy looked at a concretion I was explaining and asked, “Is it real?”

Yes, it’s “real”. It’s not imaginary, it’s not synthetic, and it formed as an encrustation on corroding metal, without human interference in the process. But what he actually wanted to know was if it had ever been alive—specifically, if it was a coral, and if so, a freshly dead one, or a fossilized one.

He couldn’t articulate this. He simply continued to ask “Is it real?” over and over again with increasing frustration, and I had to keep trying different angles and answering in different ways before I managed to figure out what he wanted to know. It’s like… charades. Sort of. Without the “silence” part. So… not like charades at all.

queerdirkroxy

i’ve noticed this too, working in an aquarium, kids seem to use ‘real’ as a sort of strange way of seeing if something is alive. especially with things its harder to understand as living, like sea snails, sand dollars, or anemones. i honestly find it really interesting, seeing how their brains, which are still working to form these concepts, interpret these creature even grown adults have trouble understanding are real, living things.

(especially sand dollars. adults are BAFFLED by sand dollars)

penumbraphantasm

hourly comic i posted on twitter

thestardazed-deactivated2020072

| get off the roof |

zipscribs

a comic about someone who gets a visit from the reaper a bit sooner than expected, but has someone whos been waiting for them

Hey, do you like my art? Help support me and buy me a coffee! ko-fi.com/zipper ❤️

zipscribs

shibbabes

rebelflet

cenkrett

Half of the people on tumblr: “I talk pretty tough for someone with a soft, fluffy bunny heart full of feelings.” Me, unable to relate: “I talk a lot about tolerance and understanding for someone who is always 2 seconds away from serious violence.”

#I’m both

michonnegrimes

Your heart is so full of hatred, you are not fit to be a king.

Danai Gurira as Okoye in Black Panther (2018)

armandyke

Me: Minimum wage jobs are essential jobs

My dad: That’s not true

Me: If nobody worked those minimum wage jobs we’d have no supermarkets or restaurants, no factories, and everything would be filthy because nobody would be cleaning it

My dad: Then somebody else would do those jobs

Me: So you’re saying those jobs need to be done? So they’re essential jobs?

My dad: They’re not essential

Me:

hundondestiny

I really hate how “your partner shouldn’t be a psychic” has evolved into “you cannot expect your partner to be intuitive to your needs or wants at all” because that’s… quite frankly ugly and a really good way to make your relationship feel like a chore.

I pay attention to the things my partners like and Store That™ in my little brainspace until it becomes useful. My bf likes tea. We were cleaning out an office full of stuff yesterday and they had some tea leftover they would’ve thrown out, so I took it home to him. Wow! He didn’t tell me he needed or wanted that, but he appreciated it because it’s something he likes.

Not everything has to be some grand gesture to show your s/o that you’re into them and you’re paying attention to them. I recall someone saying they wrote down things about their S/O and their interests so they could look back and remind themselves since their memory sucked. Things like that matter.

And I think it’s really cruel to tell people, and especially women who this type of shit is always put towards, that they aren’t allowed to want romance or spontaneity because it’s an “unreasonable” expectation. It really isn’t. Healthy communication does not inherently mean constant hand-holding.

gahdamnpunk

Yoooo lemme bless your dashboard

(Feel free to add your pics too 😏😏)

affectionate-anarchy

I AM A FAN

fozmeadows

dear white male writers: DO NOT DO THIS

These horrific, sexist, racist paragraphs - screenshotted and shared for posterity by James Smythe, to whom we are all indebted - are the work of one Liam O’Flynn, a writer and English teacher. Evidently, they come from his book Writing With Stardust: the Ultimate Descriptive Guide for students, parents, teachers, and lovers of English, and are intended as examples of good writing.

UM.

Dear white male writers: DO NOT DO THIS SHIT. IT IS SUPER GROSS AND FETISHISTIC AND ALSO TERRIBLE WRITING. THIS IS WHY WE CAN’T HAVE NICE THINGS.

Like I just. “Her virility-brown eyes -” WHAT DOES THIS EVEN MEAN? How can you have an “Amazonian figure” ON a “wafer-thin body” when “figure” is a word that describe’s a body’s shape, and Amazonian means pretty much the DIRECT FUCKING OPPOSITE of “wafer-thin” in the first place? What the shitting fuck does ANY of this mean, apart from “I am only nebulously familiar with the concept of women and completely at a loss if I can’t compare their various bodyparts to jewels, animals and footstuffs”?

STOP

GO TO WRITING JAIL

GO DIRECTLY TO WRITING JAIL, DO NOT PASS GO, DO NOT COLLECT $200

the-thorster

tag yourself i’m the two beryl-green jewels in the snow

count-di-luna

if her ears frame her nose do they like, grow directly beside her nose? how does she see from them?

*facepalm*

captainlordauditor

“ Writing With Stardust: the Ultimate Descriptive Guide for students, parents, teachers, and lovers of English “

lovers of english

oh my goddddddd

captainlordauditor

i can’t get over this fucking post

“I loved her nebulous, eden-green eyes which were a-sparkle with the ‘joie de vivre’. They were like two beryl-green jewels melted onto snow.”

1. what the fuck is joie de vivre

2. melted jewels?

3. beryl green

eden green:

WHICH ONE IS ITTTTTTTTT

thatgirlonstage

@laughlikesomethingbroken “Joie de vivre” is a French phrase that literally translates to “joy of living”, while it IS one of those phrases that gets used in English in this context it is SO EXTRA AND UNNECESSARY OH MY GOD. Don’t use French to make yourself sound sophisticated when you’re NOT I don’t know where to even START. Curvilinear waist? Sugar candy-sweet? What the FUCK are seraph’s ears? Voguish clothes? What the everloving fuck is “constellation blue” supposed to mean??? Like forget the objectification, this writing is horrifying enough before we even get to the embedded sexism

captainlordauditor

seraph’s ears are ears that you can’t see bc they’re hidden behind her 6 wings

geekandmisandry

Oyster white teeth?

catsfeminismandatla

holy purple prose batman

emeraldmercury

Female writers do this too. Have you read a Mills and Boon novel? Have you read high school girls’ yaoi fanfics?

geekandmisandry

Uh oh, we were focusing too much on how a grown man is selling this shit and not enough shitting on teenage girls. Egalitarians here to put an end to that shit.