#anyway. that's all

[amelikos]

To make my stance clear for my posts on here, this blog is stricly a spoilers yes leaks no zone.

[mademoisellesarcasme]

cuddling a sleepy just-fed baby on your shoulder really is a special thing

[peachcitt]

normally i never make resolutions because im of the opinion that you can change your life whenever you want and technically speaking any day of the year can be the start of a new year. that being said. my past year was kind of garbage.

so! i have decided to be more keen on new years resolutions, especially making ones that will hopefully make me feel better if something i can't control affects me negatively. i actually made a huge list of resolutions, more than i put here, that all kind of boil down to trying out ways to make my life more comfortable and fulfilling for myself and the people around me.

happy new year everybody i hope this year treats us all kindly :)

[para-psychopathology]

dunno if you're still looking for an answer but

1. grey: british* spelling; gray: US spelling

2. "blond(e)" is a loanword from french, and the ending changes depending on the gender of the person: a woman is blonde, a man is blond. (same with brunette/brunet.) however english doesn't inflect adjectives in this way, so essentially you can use whichever.

3. travelling vs traveling, dialogue vs dialog: also british vs US spellings, respectively.

for the first one: it seems that with verbs that end in /əl/, the british spelling adds another l to the end, where the us version doesn't. eg, channelling vs channeling

* really just anywhere that isn't the US tbh.

but also as you mentioned the way individual people spell things can be dependent on where they live / other external factors -- people outside of the US might spell it as gray, considering that much of the internet and popular media nowadays is predominately USAmerican, and so they might have seen that spelling more often.

it's a bit of a mess, and the differences are pretty arbitrary. ultimately there isn't one variation that's more "correct" than the other (except maybe the french one if you're extremely pedantic) and you can spell it whichever way you'd like, although the reason it'd be marked as incorrect by your phone or google docs is that the language is set to US english.

also keep in mind i'm not an expert on linguistics so absolutely take everything i say with a grain of salt lol. if you want more information i'd recommend etymonline or wiktionary.

From the US but i spell grey with an e because e just feels like a much greyer letter than a

[lrndvs]

compliments from girls go hard

[bookwyrminspiration]

I can behave normally around books

[kenapiece-main]

Can you believe I'm having to make this meme even after successfully finishing up taxes and applying to job

[riacte]

not romantic not platonic but a secret third thing [what would happen between earth and the moon if the earth stopped spinning as illustrated by xkcd randall munroe]

[wuntrum]

ripley :)

[muffinlance]

My baby daughter got her adorable puffin-print dress absolutely CAKED in mud crawling around the yard and my first thought was "oh no her beautiful dress"

And my second thought was "oh huh it really WOULD be easy to unconsciously steer her away from playing in the dirt. Unlike my son, whose outfits are usually some kind of solid dark easily washed pants plus a shirt that doesn't trail in the dirt like a dress does."

Anyway something something gender roles start getting shoved on kids from literal birth, but with a little time to think about things, YOU TOO can let your children of any gender absolutely destroy their clothes in the dirt pit they're digging in your garden

[s0up1ta]

toxic yaoi or something idk i haven't watched gravity falls

[eosofspades]

i didn't have "i'm broken" teenage asexual angst i had "i'm literally being the only reasonable one about this concept and the rest of you are behaving like fucking freaks" perception issues

[church-of-lilith]

what if you were GAY and your girlfriend was the personification of DEATH and then your SON died and she had to reap his SOUL or whatever because it was her JOB and then you never forgave her but she still LOVED you and then you projected your GRIEF onto a random teenager while battling through DEATH trials with PATTI LUPONE

[evgar]

i need them badly

[keymintt]

more public art! these fellas were printed on vinyl for the sides of a traffic cabinet

[liquidstar]

If my mom sees a significant amount of blood she gets lightheaded, and has fainted on some occasions. Once it happened when we were kids, I wasn't there to witness it but I heard the story from my dad. Basically my brothers, around 7 or 8 at the time, were playing outside while my mom was making their lunch, and she accidentally cut her finger. It wasn't anything serious, but it drew a fair bit of blood and she passed out. My dad saw this and rushed over, but he didn't really know what to do so he just sort of started slapping her to wake her up (not recommended, but he had no idea and panicked)

At that exact moment my brothers both came in from playing, and all they saw was our mom unconscious on the floor and our dad slapping her. So, like, without even saying a word to each other they both just INSTANTLY start whaling on him, like, full blown attack mode to defend our mom. Which obviously didn't help the situation, but she did wake up and everything was fine.

Now our dad says that he's actually really glad they attacked him over what they thought was going on, because it means he raised good boys. And I still think that's true, they're very good boys.