#facetiously

[fnord888]

I can’t believe Musk announced he was calling off the Twitter deal on a Friday, so I need to wait for the WHOLE WEEKEND to hear Matt Levine’s take.

[samfodo]

kumie speaking

Can somebody with a chemistry degree work with me to make our own nail polish? I swear we could make some really unique AND good combos

over

[sufficientlylargen]

favorite word?

I have several; here are a few:

Qat

This is a type of shrub in Eastern Africa, the leaves of which contain stimulants; it's also spelled khat, but part of my love of the word is that it's a great way to use a Q in scrabble, ideally playing something like QI in the other direction and with the Q on a multiplier of some sort.

Ucalegon

I saw Will Shortz give a talk once and he mentioned this as his favorite word, and I can see why. Ucalegon was the name of one of the Elders of Troy, in the Iliad, whose home is burned down when the Achaeans attack. People then started using it metaphorically, as poets are wont to do, to refer to someone whose house is burning or has burned down, and now the word appears in major dictionaries as a word that means "A neighbor whose house is on fire", and I just find it delightful that we have a word as specific as that.

Eunoia

Eunoia comes from the Greek Eu- (good/beautiful) and Noia (mind/thinking), and so might literally be translated as "good thinking" or "beautiful mind", but generally refers specifically to goodwill between a speaker and their audience. It is also the shortest English word to contain A, E, I, O, and U (excluding some proper nouns like the obsolete sponge genus Iouea).

Facetiously

Continuing with the vowel theme, facetiously is one of very few words in English to contain A, E, I, O, U, and Y in alphabetical order. There are a few others (e.g. arseniously, abstemiously), but they're all very rare.

I learned this word from Cliff Johnson's incredible metapuzzle computer game 3 in Three, which was a very formative part of my childhood.

Smock

It's just fun to say.

[violsva]

It is a sad but indisputable fact that in this imperfect world Genius is too often condemned to walk alone—if the earthier members of the community see it coming and have time to duck.

-- P. G. Wodehouse, Leave It to Psmith

[thepig]

is there gambling in pokemon btw can i hit the casinos instead of doing all this animal bullshit

[onewomancitadel]

One of my favourite things I've written about Cinder is in Bunny Heart when she stamps on the foot of a drunk guy who gets in her way at house party (in her home) that she's stormed in on. I don't know why it's such a funny detail to me, I just like her mean.

I also don't enjoy totally anaesthetising her character in non-canon, defanged settings, but I think that does also apply to canon. Of course, that goes back to my broader theory about redemption not necessitating total character overhaul - otherwise they would be unrecognisable.

She can be little a mean, as a treat.

[thelifetimechannel]

So how long before tavros tuns evil and the dancestor prospit floats into the session?

Roughly the same time that Dave Scratches himself out of existence and Dirk/Gamzee becomes inexplicably canon. 

[zmiyina]

My new blog is Better Living Through Slavic Paganism.