#decencybedamned

[boltlightning]

wait you're so right. WHY WAS SHE CRABS. i dearly love AWE but christ that is not a well thought-out movie.

it truly has the most happening ever and all of it is iconic but also ?????? if she must be crabs, calypso should've been one gigantic crab smashing ships with her claw

[biologyweeps]

Your last reblog had me thinking--in first grade (age 6) we kept pet snails in school and gave them sticks of chalk to nibble on for calcium. Was that like.....okay? Is chalk okay for snails?

Well that kind of depends?

Like, usually what we think of as ‘chalk’ IS the exact same chemical stuff than a sepia shell (which is what mine get sometimes), that being Calcium carbonate.

However, a lot of ‘Writing chalk’ these days is actually calcium sulfate, and honestly? I’m not sure if that will function the same way, or due to the sulfur be bad for the snails.

That said, it’s not like six year old you had any ways of knowing this. Frankly, not even your teacher might have known this, I don’t think writing chalk is advertised in its precise chemical composition.

[larkstonguesinaspicpart1]

"plo koon oviposition fic written in victor hugo's style" uhhhhhh hey what?

don’t worry about it 

[aly126]

Hi! Maybe you can answer a question I have about gymnasts at universities and such. On the Universiade website Larisa's school is "National University of Physical Education and Sports." Many of the gymnasts at Universiade are listed at similarly-named schools, particularly the Russians. What does this mean? I don't think Lari (or the Russians) is attending university, being a full-time national team gymnast, so what exactly is a Sport Academy or whatever?

Hey! Well, getting a degree from the University of Physical Education and Sports(it’s UNEFS in Bucharest, and I’m gonna use that cause it’s shorter) basically qualifies you to be a PE teacher, a coach, or a kinetotherapy professional, depending on your specialization. Now, I don’t know if you necessarily need a UNEFS degree to become a gymnastics coach, but I think most coaches have that, and it helps you get a bigger salary, as most higher education degrees do. I assume most gymnasts go to UNEFS bc it’s easier for them, they already know lots in the field, especially if they go there to become gymnastics coaches, so I assume they don’t necessarily have to attend every single class since they don’t have to be taught everything from scracth. Also, UNEFS, as a lot of Universities here, has a low attendance class/program (idk the English name for it, sorry), so they might do that, like study on their own without having to go there daily, or if they do go, they go for a few big classes, and then just take the exams with everyone else. I don’t know what the deal is in Russia, but I think it’s a pretty similar situation. Hope that helps!

[irishthings]

What is Gaeltacht, is it like language camp for Irish?

Pretty much! Well, a Gaeltacht is an area where Irish is the first language, they’re dotted around the country (mostly on the coasts). They’re generally host to a language camp of some kind.

[boltlightning]

have you ever read the hunchback book? i like to recommend it to people because victor hugo is genuinely one of my favorite authors and also because the disney movie is INCREDIBLY sanitized, i was laughing my ass off any time someone in the book did something fucked up (which is always) just thinking of the movie characters.

i have to be honest: it's been sitting unopened on my shelf for almost 10 years now, lmao. i tried when i was in high school and bounced right off. but i'm older and wiser now and i've tackled a few really long books this year already....what's one more on the pile after all..........

i've seen the musical 4 times live now and there is always a point after frollo starts burning down paris where i ask myself "...why the fuck did disney make a movie about this???" before i get swept away in the music again. lmao. truly truly bonkers and i can't wait to imagine a playful goat companion in the background of grim scenes from one of literature's most celebrated authors

[larkstonguesinaspicpart1]

it's ringo's birthday

i know. 

[biologyweeps]

for your amusement

Plaguemum bless, that’s amazing.