Hello

Linguistics, animals, and really anything I find funny or interesting

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[cerastes]

[midden-maiden]

This is how archaeologists hunt

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hozier is literally the only valid man

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triangles are the most futuristic shape

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not to seem rude but have you seen hexagons?

[glumshoe]

hexagons are just six triangles kissing

[glumshoe]

Ha ha! Get a room, triangles!

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polygony

[estradiol]

Due to personal reasons I will be disappearing under mysterious circumstances

[sindar-princeling]

- Bilbo Baggins

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[turing-tested]

when baby cats haven’t learned to be baby cats yet and don’t respect the foot scoot thing

[turing-tested]

regular cat, respectable: oh! im bering pushed with a foot, i should move

babie cat, insolent: I Am Very Alarmed But I Will Remain Here Nevertheless

[nocoolname123]

History memes…because I’m a nerd. 

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I’m sorry but I fucking love history memes

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Are you just gonna scroll past without saying hi?

[babyanimalgifs]

A dream

[degenezijde]

Oh Charles, you drama king.

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I love that move Jim Kirk uses in fights that’s like a one-man version of Get Help

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this

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Never Seen

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john mulaney as broadway musicals:

[dogposts]

It’s always a hole in one when you have a puppy to help. 13/10  great job

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this is in my history book about prohibition in the 1920s and i’m laughing so hard oh my gooooood

[vardaelcntari]

That’s it, the Professor is truly the King of Sass

[nimium-amatrix-ingenii-sui]

The letter didn’t come from the Nazi party, but from the publishing house which had expressed an interest in the German translation of The Hobbit. Tolkien’s response really is a thing of beauty, though, so it deserves to be quoted in its entirety:

25 July 1938                                              20 Northmoor Road, Oxford

Dear Sirs,

Thank you for your letter. … I regret that I am not clear as to what you intend by arisch. I am not of Aryan extraction: that is Indo-iranian; as far as I am aware none of my ancestors spoke Hindustani, Persian, Gypsy, or any related dialects. But if I am to understand that you are enquiring whether I am of Jewish origin, I can only reply that I regret that I appear to have no ancestors of that gifted people. My great-great-grandfather came to England in the eighteenth century from Germany: the main part of my descent is therefore purely English, and I am an English subject - which should be sufficient. I have been accustomed, nonetheless, to regard my German name with pride, and continued to do so throughout the period of the late regrettable war, in which I served in the English army. I cannot, however, forbear to comment that if impertinent and irrelevant inquiries of this sort are to become the rule in matters of literature, then the time is not far distant when a German name will no longer be a source of pride.

Your enquiry is doubtless made in order to comply with the laws of your own country, but that this should be held to apply to the subjects of another state would be improper, even if it had (as it has not) any bearings whatsoever on the merits of my work or its suitability for publication, of which you appear to have satisfied yourselves without reference to my Abstammung.

I trust you will find this reply satisfactory, and remain yours faithfully

J.R.R. Tolkien.

(Letter 30)

The Hobbit wasn’t published in German until 1957.

[correspondingnerd]

This might just be the politest “fuck you” ever written.

[geekandmisandry]

W.h.a.t.

[bramblepatch]

Not just “I wish I had Jewish ancestors, but I don’t,” but also “you do realize that’s not what ‘Aryan’ actually means, right,” and “you guys are making it pretty hard to be proud of my German heritage.”

[justbadpuns]

6:30 is the best time on the clock, hands down