#vocab quiz

[canichangemyblogname]

Y’know, I really feel like I shouldn’t be surprised that 911 fans have begun to portray the show’s queer characters as “lizard-people,” a very well-known—and near exclusively—antisemitic conspiracy and caricature that has a long and storied history of dehumanizing Jews, given they’ve repeatedly shown their assess as racists, most recently when they started calling black and brown fans slurs and “race fakers” for supporting the show’s queer rep. (And I shouldn’t be surprised because of the long history of tying queerness to Jewish conspiracies, often blaming Jews for “deviances” in sexuality.) But I also shouldn’t be surprised because where did I think their “gay men are predators and monsters” rhetoric would lead if not the literal monstruization (monstruize, transitive verb: refers to the process of monster-making or the result of monster-making; to portray a person with monster-like qualities, often as a way to degrade them or strip them of human qualities; an aspect of dehumanization) of a good-faith portrayal of gay men on network TV? They’ve spent five months literally using dehumanizing rhetoric about gay men, I shouldn’t be surprised that translates to the depiction of us as lizard people. Especially given much of queer people’s monstruization; dehumanization, relies on arguments of deception, a key facet of the lizard-people conspiracy. Of course they’re gonna start leaning on right-wing lizard-people conspiracies!

And for people who seem to care *so* much about a gay man using the word “bitchiness” to refer to a woman’s “attitude” fifteen years ago, I find it incredibly hypocritical that they’d portray the employer who called that same woman a “diversity hire” (and suggested she’s an inherent failure) in a more positive light than that gay man, who she is now friends with.

[bestanimal]

Round 2 - Arthropoda - Pauropoda

(Sources - 1, 2, 3, 4)

Pauropoda is a class of small, pale, millipede-like arthropods. They are composed of two orders: the Hexamerocerata with eleven pairs of legs and telescopic antennae and the Tetramerocerata with eight to ten pairs of legs and short, non-telescopic antennae.

Pauropods live in soil and leaf litter worldwide, feeding on mold, fungi, and occasionally the root hairs of plants. They are small, soft-bodied animals, only 0.3 to 2 mm in length. They do not have eyes, though they do have sensory organs which detect light. Long, sensory hairs called trichobothria are located throughout their body segments. Their anal plate is distinctive, helping distinguish between species.

Like centipedes, pauropods do not mate directly. Males place a sperm packet on the ground for females to find. Females deposit the fertilized eggs on the ground and subsequently abandon them. Tetrameroceratans hatch with three pairs of legs and Hexameroceratans with six, adding a new segment after each molt in a process called anamorphosis. Pauropods will continue molting even after their adult number of segments is reached, without adding any further segments or legs.

Propaganda under the cut:

Gif comes from this video. Look at him sniffin around!

The first pauropod discovered was found by Lord Avebury in his own garden in London in 1866. He wrote of the creature: “Pauropus huxleyi is a bustling, active, neat and cleanly creature. It has, too, a look of cheerful intelligence, which forms a great contrast to the dull stupidity of the Diplopods, or the melancholy ferocity of most Chilopods.” (Which, kinda rude, but y’know)

Only one fossil species is known, Eopauropus balticus, which was found in mid-Eocene Baltic amber.

[frangipani-wanderlust]

Well, all right. 😁

I got I'm the top 0.01% on that vocab quiz, so it can be done. It's the same graphic, tho. You hit the top teir on scoring.

Pics or it didn't happen 😜

[comfymoth]

i think in honor of ace day they should have just let me automatically ace my damn exam. frankly a little aphobic that they didn’t

[anhonest-puck]

AAA HIIII NEEILL!!! :DD

havent sent you an ask in a while so here is one!!!

HOW ARE YOUUU???? hope life is treating you super well!! 🫶

AAHHH HELLO MIAAAAZZZZ!!! :D

i’ve been pretty good!! back still kinda hurts ngl but everything else has been pretty okay!! i’m currently answering this in art class and i like this class so yayyyy :3

how about you? how are you doing? :0

[livelist]

I feared that my vocab was getting worse recently. It seems I was unreasonable. I’m honestly quite proud of this.

Phew! It gets pretty hard near the end! 🤓📖📚

Online English Vocabulary Size Test

My Vocabulary Size is about: 【22385】! What about you? https://www.arealme.com/vocabulary-size-test/en/13939108

[nocturnal-phantoms-fandoms]

is anyone doing "we listen n we dont judge" here on tumblr?

ill go first

i cant be bothered to try and replicate remus's canon speech pattern. this might be an important part of his canon personality but i just. dont want to. ive read the translated books like 10 years ago (im pretty sure i read the whole series front to back just that one time) and im not sitting and reading half the series in english just to get this part of canon right in the fics im not even sure if ill ever post

[pnuk-r0ck]

History test was #cancelled 2mrw cuz we barley learned shit but I still got a test in Math, science and 2 in English

[asterdeer]

decided on a whim to take a coursera course on dino paleobiology and realized that even the free version has a quiz and that i will need to take notes and Remember things and just whispered delightedly "oh i need a notebook"

[mossyshadows]

told my mum this before and she just laughed at me and said i already complained enough as a kid (brat. I was a brat) but i really do think she should have channelled more asian mother energy and made me to go to sunday school with everyone else to learn mandarin properly, instead of letting me get away with ‘studying’ by reading one page of a textbook then watching this wacky dating show and the chinese live adaptation of a tennis anime. Life would just be easier if i learnt stuff as a kid u have to understand i don’t have the language learning perseverance in me at all

[asinglesock]

If you see me posting motivational memes in excess please forgive me

[that-was-anticlimactic]

so, now that the semester is over, we gave the kids a question on their final asking what they learned, and one of my sophomores said this:

“... I also learned not all teachers are mean and have no life. I also grew in my writing and spelling... (I also learned alot about Reki lol.)”

and i think that's the best response i received tbh

[comfymoth]

adding it to the list of words i will be abusing immediately

[phoebespenglers]

fuck i have to do my english revisions

[longroadstonowhere]

i am trying to be so brave and actually do some of my academic work for this week, instead of diving into my book

but i'm not sure how brave i'll actually be