#stolid

[j-august]

This steadiness, this quality of tough-minded tranquillity which could sometimes seem stolid, was balm to the disease of danger and unrest which was preying on them all. In this was Culter's great strength. Now in his mid-thirties, quiet, stocky and unremarkable, he was still nearly unique for his time in that he was perfectly reliable.

Dorothy Dunnett, Queen's Play

[daily-cool-words]

Today's word of the day is...

Stolid

[Adjective]

Definition: Calm and dependable, showing little emotion or animation.

Example Sentence: Jade's commanding officer was an imposing, stolid man.

[shotbyshe]

Words of the Day

diatribe:

A bitter, abusive denunciation.

A continued discourse or disputation.

macher: An important person, often in the negative sense of self-important; a bigwig.

vicissitudes:

A change or variation.

A usually unforeseen change in circumstance or experience that affects one's life, especially in a trying way

The quality of being changeable; mutability.

obfuscation:

The act of obfuscating or obscuring; also, that which obscures; obscurity; confusion.

The act of darkening or bewildering; the state of being darkened.

The act or process of obfuscating, or obscuring the perception of something; the concept of concealing the meaning of a communication by making it more confusing and harder to interpret

To make so confused or opaque as to be difficult to perceive or understand.

stolid:

Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; impassive.

Hopelessly insensible or stupid; not easily aroused or excited; dull; impassive; foolish.

Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility

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A "medical professional" went on a diatribe about his past experiences with "people like me" (black women) instead of looking at my fucking chart and seeing that I'm like no other. After his diatribe, I told him that I neither had nor did any of what he spoke of and he felt really dumb. He ended up not even knowing what to do with me and just blamed everything on me being a black women 'cause I don't do anything but eat and sleep, so he couldn't find anything to blame my issue on. It was really funny and really sad.

I was watching Succession (b/c of course I was) and remembered how YouTube treated me for making reactions to it, EVEN THOUGH OTHERS ON YOUTUBE DO IT WITH NO PROBLEMS (I'm not bitter). Anyway I was hearing these words out of Kendall's mouth, and the way he's been using them in sentences is interesting.

~~ Oct. '23

[literarylondonhq]

Christmas is coming…!

Yo-hjo-Hic! Our first Christmas present! From Stoke-on-Trent. 🎄📚🍺

[kzn-spd]

What do you get when you cross Wes Anderson’s aesthetic with the plot of Knives Out and the result is produced by Shonda Rhimes? Black Girl Magic aka The Residence!

[fluentisonus]

btw I got my results & passed everything :^) thrilled to become a masters-degree-haver (although not actually in paper yet)

[cctinsleybaxter]

Comments that physically harm

[starry-kattz]

Tfw you don't know what the Wordscapes word is so you make some shit up and it turns out to be a real word.

[thegear]

old art, just the 547th cog in the klok

[ramblingsofnobody]

AlphaSmart gang represent

[leafatlaw]

one thing about me is that I will love always love character that has really bad luck

[tinygameralec]

Phinn knows he's lucky that he's never really had any problems with his gender. He was raised as a boy and felt comfy and happy in that. Doesn't stop him occasionally dressing up, of course, but he's secure enough in his masculinity that wearing something feminine doesn't bother him. He likes to look fancy sometimes! (And likes the way certain people go very very red, mwaha.)

There were a couple of trans men in the Buduga, who had come to them from other clans who aren't as... accepting as other places. The Mol are another clan that is well known for being very welcoming to trans people whose own clans aren't kind to them, and the Qestir will welcome anyone who follows their rules without reservation. A few trans women have left the Buduga in his lifetime too, but they're always viewed as still part of the family. It doesn't matter who they are, once Buduga, always Buduga. As some people have learned to their detriment.

12/26/24

What are your wol(oc)'s thoughts on their gender?

[coffeeastronaut]

this isnt anything but also i do think its weird how many go fans view crowley as like some etherial gender fiend and then aziraphale as like. hes a man but im woke and say hes nonbinary. but hes a man. but both of them [in the show] dress like masculine mostly? and between the two of them aziraphale is the one with more obviously ‘feminine’ gestures (which is because he is a gay man on purpose but i digressss). anyway. my point is that i think it happens because crowley is skinny and aziraphale is fat + the fat gender bias. thanks

[notmuchtoconceal]

Spend some quality time outdoors with your brother-dads, lads!

Votive stele of Cernunnos - Apollo - Mercury - Private Park near Reims - France