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cogentranting

Observed today:

Two little girls playing gently with a daddy long legs.

Girl 1: can it die?

Girl 2, in a calm happy even tone: of course. Like all living things it can and must die.

#a brush with nonsense

mylordshesacactus

I read etiquette and homemaking guides from the 1800s mostly because they're a FASCINATING insight into cultural norms that we often don't think about. I honestly really recommend people crack one of these open at least once--it goes way beyond, like, "what to wear to a ball!!!"

The best ones have advice on decor, how to select high-quality furniture, childrearing, fashion, etc--from a contemporary perspective, and the things the authors feel the need to clarify vs the wild shit that will just casually mention like it's something everyone knows and agrees on is REALLY revealing of the culture and how it's shifted.

And while a lot of the advice is WILDLY bigoted or just outright funny, you'd be surprised how much of it is...just genuinely timeless, and shockingly compassionate.

They ALSO, as a writer, have INVALUABLE resources--because, again, they're talking about things that are so MUNDANE that a lot of the time nobody really sat down to formally document what normal, everyday people thought or cared about--because that's boring! But a book written to provide advice and information to, say, a young woman who's never run her own home before? You can fully expect an entire chapter dedicated to The Types Of Oven, and which features are useful and worth spending money on, and which features are a huge hassle to clean and a waste of space, and what to spend that money on instead.

And like. As a writer who frequently works in the 1800s? Fuck inflation calculators, this is the kind of thing I need. This is absolutely priceless.

Now that being said.

My current favorite 'etiquette guide' in the world is actually like....70% purely practical advice, written by a gentleman the groupchat has affectionately dubbed History's Most Autistic Man In The World, and thank god they didn't have Aderall back then

Because the AuDHD is strong in this one and as a result, in addition to the deeply practical and useful everyday reference points, we also have:

mylordshesacactus

#a brush with nonsense

matineaux-deactivated20260222

kind of weird how parts of your soul are left in various locations without any warning… like yes i’m always at the top of that hill, sitting at the bus stop, in the cool light of the Japanese restaurant, standing at the pier etc etc

hi-im-ryn

nohoperadio

just saw a pigeon doing the puffed up courtship dance thing to another pigeon, and as he was strutting around he suddenly stopped for a split second to do a very brief preen-peck at his own side, then returned to the strutting around. and i surprised myself by instantly losing respect for the male pigeon in that moment, like come on man i appreciate you had an itch or whatever but how is she supposed to feel special when you're getting distracted by bullshit like that? which on reflection i don't endorse, i mean those are pretty harsh dating norms i'm imposing on these pigeons, from a total outsider perspective, for no reason. probably not all girl pigeons are as uptight about that sort of thing as i would apparently be if i was a girl pigeon, maybe she even found it endearing who knows, i don't know her. it's none of my business really. sorry pigeons.

#birds

tahthetrickster

did a bit of driving through the state of georgia today and wound up driving through a small town that i later discovered was called newborn, which is an odd name but doesn’t technically have anything wrong with it, except for the fact that i nearly gave myself whiplash doing a double-take at a building sign advertising NEWBORN TAXIDERMY

#a brush with nonsense

asteraws

#pokemon

sixthrock

please appreciate how Giovanni has a framed classical portait of his cat in his office

#pokemon #a brush with nonsense

olliemnjones

tommyssupercoolblog

Because the notes are full of people arguing over which game is better

okapiandpaste

Favorite things that canonically happened in the Pokemon games:

-Rival Green/Blue takes a picture with your HGSS character because he thinks you’re cool

-he’s also feeling pretty peachy

-Erika talks crud

-someone was like making out or something in Bill’s yard in GSC

-Giovanni literally ditches his son because he’s upset about a 10 year old beating his butt

-Silver tears a layer of your clothes off

-Children hate Steven Stone because his obsession with rocks is weird

-Prof. Birch runs away from his wife because he thinks she’s a pokemon

-There’s a tv show in Hoenn called the “Hoenn Rangers”

-There’s a magazine about exposed champions

-Characters who act attracted to you usually act the same no matter what gender you are

-Rival Barry gets distracted by a crogunk cutout when the world is ending

-Team plasma + stuff bad for team plasma= plasbad

-N knows the lyrics burn baby burn somehow

-N shouts “that’s an ugly formula!”

- Prof. Birch runs away from his wife because he thinks she’s a pokemon

(add your own bc this is just getting good)

tumblunni

- Cyrus randomly stands around monologuing at statues, a lake, a mountain wall, etc just so the player can hear his evil plans

- Cyrus adds space wallpaper to his office between D/P and Platinum

- Trash grandpa Charon has a secret room behind a false wall containing nothing but household appliances and a diary about hugging pokemon

- Professor Rowan beats up some galactic grunts and lectures them on proper manners when conducting an evil scheme

-Professor Rowan subsists entirely on candy bars

- If you refuse to take the pokedex, Professor Rowan gives you six dialogue boxes worth of “…” and says “I’m a very patient man, I can stand in one spot asking you this question all day”

- Looker is introduced running between lampposts over and over

- Looker refuses to let you leave the town until you get a Poketch, because its ‘secret police style’

- Looker gives you handmade tickets of his own face, covered in glitter

- Looker sits inside a giant paper mache rock for hours in a volcano, just waiting for Charon to come along

- Charon’s evil plan is foiled by being punched in the face by a small frog, commanded by a man in a rock costume

- Looker tells you that removing the Magma Stone summons Heatran, outside the mountain holding the Magma Stone.

- Pouring condiments on trees attracts hexagonal bees

- Actual playboy bunny pokemon

- Actual hedge hog pokemon

- A galactic grunt says “Cosmic energy for the win!”

- The galactic nap room. The entire existance of the galactic nap room.

- You have to talk to 32 people on wifi to turn a rock into 108 evil spirits.

- Everybody goes to hell.

darkeiya

- Looker dresses up as your mother.

- Team Flare’s employee roster includes Pitbull and a member of the Bee-Gees.

- A concerned NPC addresses Rowan as “old dude.”

- Taking a photo of yourself with a death weapon behind you.

- Your progress out of one city is impeded by a fUCKING CONGA LINE

weavileonmute-deactivated201606

- Whenever you beat rival Barry, he never runs toward a Pokecenter. He either runs to a Route, or towards the local Gym (in Canalave City)

lilac-mage

- Brendan denying that he bought dolls when seen at Lilycove Department Store, even though you never question him, only for a Swablu doll to be found in his room after you battle him

kingofdinosaurs

-Professor Kukui has a part time job as a wrestler

-Team Skull took over an entire town

-Nanu, the kahuna of Ula'ula island, lives in an abandoned police station outside this town with at least 8 meowth

-Colress’s hair

-Grimsley refers to himself as ‘Uncle Grimsley’

-Archie’s zipper unzips past his crotch

-When you beat Maxie his glasses fall off

-You can go on what basically amounts to a date with any of the kahunas

-Zinnia spends half the delta episode trash talking Steven

-An old lady refers to Steven as ‘that silver haired dreamboat’

baconflavouredshotgun

- The SuMo Rotom dex calls the trial captain Ilima a dreamboat.

- Nanu in the background of your champion party. He didn’t HAVE to be there, but he is. Doing the goofy dark z-dance, behind a tree somewhere.

- “Hey guess what?” “I know!” “I didn’t even ask you a question yet…”

- Professor Kukui, a man known to be shirtless all the time, can somehow survive on top of a mountain,still neglecting to wear a shirt.

- Team Skull are the only people in the series to make you pay for a Pokemon Center, and they only do it because they’re broke and have barely any power. They’re not being mean, they’re just low on funds.

- Multiple people have attempted to fuse with Pokemon.

galladevoirs

..Welcome to the world of Pokémon

lunarlapin

My favorite one hasn’t been added yet:

- “Where are your from?” Your options to respond are “yes” and “no”

- That woman in ORAS who can win every kind of contest with the same Altaria

pokemonheritageposts

Pokemon Heritage Post

#pokemom #a brush with nonsense

caecilius-est-pater

I was searching the Latin/Greek section of a used bookstore for some ~aesthetic~ antique Latin books, and I came across this beautiful 1889 tome:

This is going to look great on my “look at me I’m a pretentious twat” bookshelf.

But then… the first few sentences read:

“In 1875 delegates of the Oxford University Press proposed to me that I should undertake the compilation of a new Latin-English Lexicon, of something the same compass as the Greek-English Lexicon of Liddell and Scott. I acceded to the proposal in the expectation, for which I had at the time what appeared to be good grounds, that I should obtain adequate assistance in the work. My hopes were, however, disappointed.”

Ouch.

He goes on to detail how he spent 12 years working on A all by himself. Then the university asked him to publish what he had, so he threw together the rest of the book, clearly caring less and less the further he got in the alphabet - the entire Q section has four entries - and published… this.

Obviously this is going straight onto my pretentious twat shelf as a goofy conversation starter, but it is interesting and potentially useful if obscure Latin words are your thing. (Did you know “ramen” is a hapax legomenon meaning “a small chip or shaving”?)

So if you ever come across a really obscure Latin word or name that you can’t find anywhere, hmu… but only if it starts with A.

#a brush with nonsense