Words and Academia

MA Linguistics Student/Language Learner/24/A rogue cat worshipper/This body is an extension of pens and written violence. I want to die as pure as cats do.

[jauntylittlefrillyboy]

I will always take the cat's side. "she's drooling on me" you're so lucky "he always wants to be petted" then pet him "he's mad I won't let him on my desk" make room on your desk for him. I am your cat's defense lawyer and the cat is always innocent on the grounds of them being A Little Kitty Cat.

[eymurn]

don’t shorten your words, i like your details.

[abbiistabbii]

The Germans really cooked making "Hobbyless behaviour" an insult. It is both devastating, applicable to a wide range of people and behaviours, and doesn't resort to swearing.

Man ranting on the internet about the Superbowl halftime show or complaining that something is "woke"? Hobbyless Behaviour. Girls mocking another girl for not looking right? Hobbyless Behaviour. Mindless vandalism? Hobbyless Behaviour.

It is more powerful than "get a life" or the English "You're Sad" because it gets to the central point of the matter, and that is wonderful. Danke, Deutsch.

[thekidsfromyestergay]

This was on a post about how it's ignorant and privileged to wear headphones in public and I fear its already become a part of my vocabulary. Must everything harbor a moral failure.

[rottweilerr]

[lexxnova]

broooooooooooooo ur supposed to flirt with ya girl everyday like u still tryna pull her

[homunculus-argument]

There's a bizarre, very specific type of old people who'll occasionally respond to news with "hmm, no, I don't think it's like that", and simply wipe the concept from their minds because they disagreed with it. And sometimes they'll disagree with you telling them that some piece of news that they have decided to believe in is false, because they think that you do the same thing as they do.

They just flat-out refuse to differentiate between "multiple unrelated news sources confirm that the thing you just said is misinformation" and "the thought of that being true makes me sad, so therefore I have decided that it isn't."

[infectiouspiss]

can we kill the idea that yawning=bored because there's a million reasons to be yawning and being condescendingly asked "oh im sorry are we boring you?" because of something you can't control is really rude.

you're not boring me this is a side effect of my medication but thank you for deciding that my yawns are some sort of insult toward you and going on the offensive i loved it 👍

[thememedaddy]

[kunosoura]

I think it’s normal for people to be mad at each other sometimes even if they’re close friends or family or intimate with each other. Like I think that’s a normal and healthy part of relationships that can happen sometimes

[phantomtomes]

I prefer to be curled up in the pages of a horror I know is only make-believe.

[wordsandacademia]

Empties

by Gabrielle L. Ricafrente There was a time when we were called many names. Grand and respectable names. For aeons, we could live in complete harmony with those we serve dear. Humans can say that we were almost synonymous with the Gods of old. Powerful. Respectable. Vigorous. We were given everything that we need to exercise all of these for the betterment of mankind. And, in return, we were put…

Empties

[wordsandacademia]

And even if the stars are mine to tinker with, I will only carefully arrange them around the one you named.

[homunculus-argument]

There's people who have a religion, and there's Religious People. The first type is just normal people who happen to have a foundational structure they like to have their world built upon. The latter type are the kind that make me want to lean in and say "look, I would not even want to get into the kind of Heaven that would let you in."

[metamorphesque]

Fyodor Dostoevsky / At Eternity's Gate / Walt Whitman

[writeouswriter]

Perhaps I'm too tired to write right now

[juliaxyn]