#Left-Hand

[indigobloom531]

YOU GUYS!!!! Veneer is canonically left-handed, like me! shoutout to all my fellow lefties (don't worry righties and ambies, y'all are awesome too :D)

(dunno why this makes me so excited, it's such a small detail lol)

[stealingpotatoes]

there is not a single task on earth that's more important than cat cuddles (source: my cat told me)

[salamispots]

it got turned into a 17" x14" pillow instead haha

[ikuzeminna]

I need your help with a hypothesis!

For context: My linguistics professor and I got into a discussion after a test she did with us, and I was of the opinion that the reason for the results was different from the one she offered, so she encouraged me to test my theory.

What I need

All you need to do is draw a coffee cup (with a handle, not the disposable stuff) and then answer three questions.

I don't need to see the coffee cup. You can draw it wherever you like; on a piece of paper, digitally, in the sand, on a foggy window. Anything works. It does not have to be good. A doodle is fine.

You have to draw the coffee cup before you see the questions. This is very important. If you decide to help me with this, please doodle the coffee cup before you keep reading.

Assuming you have drawn the coffee cup, I now need you to answer these three questions:

On which side did you draw the handle?

Are you right-handed or left-handed?

Do you primarily write using the Latin alphabet or a different one? (please specify which)

More context

Most people will draw the handle on the right side. My professor says it's because most people are right-handed, so they draw the handle in the direction that would be comfortable for them to pick up.

I said drawing it on the right side just felt more comfortable to my hand and argued it's probably because we write a bunch of letters like that. B, b, D, P, p, R all look like a tiny "handle on the right side" and are all a straight line followed by a round one (so "cup first, handle second," like most people draw cups). The Latin alphabet doesn't have letters like that that face the other way, except maybe d, depending on how you write it, so it makes sense to me that people writing mostly Latin letters would go with the handle on the right side.

Which means that I need to know what Asians, Arabs and Greeks do and if the distribution of left and right sides of handles differs from the Latin alphabet group. Cyrillic seems to favor right, too, though it'd be interesting to see if there are differences.

If there are, my theory is right. Doubly so if there is a sizeable increase in a group whose alphabet has letters that benefit the left side choice.

So feel free to spread this to as many people as you like and put the answers in the comments or the tags of a reblog. The more answers I get, the better I can assess whose theory is better.

Thank you for your help!

[supine-ly]

Natural selection at its finest

[theurbanrishi]

बायें हाथ का दर्द..

मीलॉर्ड मैं आपका बाया हाथ हूँ। मेरी संरचना, बनावट, रंग-रूप सब मेरे साथी दाएं हाथ की तरह ही है। सदियों से मुझपर जुल्म हो रहा है मीलॉर्ड। और मेरे अपराधी सिर्फ ऊंची जाति के ठाकुर ब्राम्हण नही। सिर्फ सनातनी नही अपितु दुनिया के सारे धर्म और जाति है सरकार मीलॉर्ड। दायां खूब मजे कर रहा है साब। भोजन का रस वो ले रहा, वो कविताएं लिख रहा, यहॉं तक कि इन पापी मनुष्यों ने स्कूटी में एक्सिलरेटर भी दाई तरफ…

[parwatisingari]

South Paw Survives

August 13th marks World Left-Handers Day, a time to celebrate the uniqueness of being a leftie in a world designed for the right-handed majority. This day holds special significance for me as it brings back memories of a session I had with Mr. Rajesh Singh of HappinessSoulutions. After an intense age regression therapy, I had an epiphany—I was back to using my left hand, and it was an incredibly…

[tarantula-hawk-wasp]

mycenaean miku

she was there singing on the beaches of llion. homer copied the catalogue of ships from her.

[stinglesswasp]

Self-care (bonus scene)

[martyfive]

SHHH… ma’s looking for you!

[cutetanuki-chan]

a little Anastasia sketch I did while was on the trip

[leskylentils]

Anyone else play with those paper doll fashion activity books? I used to love making my own clothes : )

[sw4gg1e]

Rodeo Tango :D

[fairsweetlonging]

something i wanna say on shen yuan taking over shen jiu's body is that i often see mentions that while everyone knew, nobody did anything because they liked shen yuan better, and i think it's important to say that they did do something about it, but just couldn't find the cause.

shen qingqiu went to wei qingwei's sword trials terrace three times to try to pull hong jing, yue qingyuan himself tested him on demonic qi and mu qingfang did ample research to try and find the reason behind the sudden change, but none of them could find anything. only after all that did they consider the option that it could be amnesia, and then they decided that it might be better not to actively reinstate his memories because they thought the new shen qingqiu was more pleasant. but, again, that was only after they couldn't find any evidence that this wasn't shen qingqiu. it's still pretty tragic that they decided they liked someone else better, but in their defense, they didn't know this was actually someone else.

i think it's not so much a case of "we like this version of shen qingqiu better so let's not look into it too deeply", it's more like "we tried every test we have and nothing came of it, so the only explanation left is that this is the real shen qingqiu, but with amnesia"

it reminds me of this meme:

[ID: An edit of a post by @/tockthewatchdog which says, "i mean they did also test sqq, that was a pretty significant thing that happened. like i understand where you're coming from here but they very much did test shen qingqiu". End ID]

ID made by @nebulations thank you so much!!

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

sometimes you have a thought so stupid you need to pause for a moment and put your brain in Time Out. this is an essential and necessarily humbling part of the human experience