#but you didn’t :)

[darkxsoulzyx]

Just Another Statistic

(Happens probably distant future kind of thing— Drabble of sorts hehe)

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[goldensunset]

advice i think we should tell children is that when adults say stuff like ‘now that i’m an adult i get really excited about stuff like coffee tables and bathrooms and rugs etc’ they don’t mean ‘and now i don’t care about blorbo and squimbus from my childhood tv shows anymore’ bc your average adult still loves all the same pop culture stuff they always did; they just have a greater appreciation for the mundane as well. growing up just means you can enjoy life twice as much now. you can get really excited about a new stuffed animal AND about a new kitchen sponge. peace and love

[jellyjamheadobb]

[tuttle-did-it]

David Tennant for Prime Minister, please.

edit- Since this is getting so much attention, edited to include descriptions of screenshots.

This woman has lost her fucking mind.

Jo, are you okay?

[gumy-shark]

made a beautiful google slides infographic in 60 seconds on why u should Fucking Vote

[bruciemilf]

Batman isn’t a mask; It’s a leash. In this essay I will—

[thatsbelievable]

[doctorsiren]

Gravity Falls AU where everything is exactly the same except Bill’s parents are alive and well, and they’re just so proud of their chaotic dream demon son

[noodles-and-tea]

I am once again back with my Stan Pines is smart agenda

[whump-it-like-its-hot]

So earlier in art class today, someone drew a characters hands in their pockets and mentioned that hands are really like the ultimate end boss of art, and most of us wholeheartedly agreed. So then, our teacher went ahead and free handed like a handful of hands on the board, earning a woah from a couple of students. So the one from earlier mentioned how it barely took the teacher ten seconds to do what I can’t do in three hours. And you know what he responded?

“It didn’t take me ten seconds, it took me forty years.”

And you know, that stuck with me somehow. Because yeah. Drawing a hand didn’t take him fourth years. But learning and practicing to draw a hand in ten seconds did. And I think there’s something to learn there but it’s so warm and my brain is fried so I can’t formulate the actual morale of the lesson.

[dragengyrr]

STAB! STAB! STAB!

[fckbatmanhiskidsareminenow]

no capes au dick and jason referring to tim as gala kid, before he’s adopted because he was the only other kid at the galas and they forgot his name.

jason post coma: what the heck bruce you adopted gala kid??

dick: his name is tim

jason: oh fr?

bruce: jason please be more sensitive his parents died

jason: omg welcome to the club

dick laughing: that’s what i told him!

[millificent]

Every Nico Di Angelo fan focusing more on the background of the episode than the actual plot

[pixiemage]

Please, for the love of god, please don’t be this person. No matter how long it’s been since an update, no matter how many unfinished stories are sitting on their account, no matter what - do not be this person.

Not only is it insanely rude, but you also do more damage than you think be being such a self-entitled ass about something someone created for free and for fun. “This author” can see what you say.

RIP decency indeed.

[the-one-eyed-seer]

I saw an intersex person in the reblogs of a post saying basically that “technically forcefem would apply to me better if it wasn’t a kink term, I don’t wanna use transfem because if I was actually transfem and my parents did what they did I’m sure they’d love it (and given the context of the prior post, this is why it’s inappropriate to do generally)” which is reductive for several reasons I’ll get into in a moment, but it’s also just.. hm. I feel bad. Because this is projecting an experience you didn’t have onto the situation. They didn’t dote on this person gender affirmingly.

1) Intersex people (and perisex trans people tbh because this argument can be made about them too) don’t have to be grateful for alternate versions of them that would’ve given anything to be treated that way, because we didn’t. In fact, I gave everything not to be treated that way. Just because a transfem may (or may not) have liked being treated that way doesn’t mean I should police myself about it. I should just use the terms that make the most sense to describe my self. Which is fine if forcibly feminized works for them, but it shouldn’t come from feeling guilty for existing or like you should be grateful in some way

2) it’s giving abusive or just deeply ignorant parents too much credit to assume that a hypothetical transfem would like to be treated the way a forcibly gendered intersex person is, because for many of us nobody would like to be treated that way, but even in the better circumstances, they might just not be that effeminate. Like what if they’re butch. What if they’re very fem but nonbinary. What if they still don’t match expectations. What if their gender does match but they don’t like being policed so heavily. There’s a lot of assumptions being made about this hypothetical person. It’s very easy to say “in this imaginary situation my parents would have respected that person” or “y would’ve loved to be treated like that, so i should let that influence my self perception” but it’s much harder to face that you disnt like being treated that way, and you don’t know if they would have if you were different or someone else, but in all likelihood, parents that don’t respect their children probably wouldn’t.

[therainbowwillow]

hbomberguy’s latest video on plagiarism has made me completely rethink literature and writing. I have never once so much as considered intentionally plagiarizing anyone or anything, but I think there’s something more that has come out of this: the names of the people who created the works Somerton (and others) ripped off.

Plagiarism isn’t only bad because it is lazy and disrespectful, it’s bad because it buries the truth. If you can’t find a source, the conversation is over. Somerton’s sources are fairly easy to find by simply searching his plagiarized lines, but that isn’t true in most cases. Most of the time, the line from statement to source is a lot less clear.

Today, I was writing a report on English Ivy, which is an invasive species here in the US. I wanted to know when it was introduced and I at last found a source claiming it was introduced to the Americas “as early as 1727” on a .net website that seems quite reputable (it has multiple major universities credited in its home page), but there is no citation for where this date came from. I dug deeper and found a pamphlet created by a city government in Virginia that made the same claim, only to discover the first source linked in their bibliography. Another website (a botanical garden’s page) gave the same date with the same source hyperlinked. Of course, I have classes to attend and things to do and probably not enough time to follow the lines back to where this 1727 date came from, but if I had not just watched this video, I wouldn’t have given that date a second thought.

Of course, it doesn’t matter in the long run exactly what year hedera helix was introduced to the Americas, but it makes you wonder how many facts have been so vaguely attributed that it becomes completely impossible to figure out where they originated (and further, whether or not they’re true at all).