I feel like I am the lion in this gif. I say this to a lot of people…
I’m a lion! raaaawwwwrrrrrr!
(Source: shitshilarious)
I wish I could be there to witness all the people who don’t know how to pronounce Les Miserables getting their movie tickets
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I’ve tried to get up and grab my bag from my bed several times, but then I get all… “I’ll get it in a moment.”
I’ve done this for about half an hour. So. This is me, motivating myself to get up and get my bag.
I know you’re thrilled to have read this. WHATEVER.
Today In History
‘Harriet Tubman, abolitionist, author, and engineer of the Underground Railroad, led Union Army guerillas into South Carolina and freed nearly 800 slaves on this date June 2 1863. Tubman was the first woman in U.S. history to command an armed military raid.’
“I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.” - Harriet Tubman
(photo: Harriet Tubman)
- CARTER Magazine
But now it is still light and the blackbirds are singing
as if their voices are the only scissors left in this world.
Jennifer Grotz, from “Poppies” (via the-final-sentence)
Let’s face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren’t invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren’t sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write but fingers don’t fing, grocers don’t groce and hammers don’t ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn’t the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn’t it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?
If teachers taught, why didn’t preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which an alarm goes off by going on. English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race (which, of course, isn’t a race at all). That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.
BLESS.
THIS.
POST.
^^^^^what s/he said^^^^^
That’s pretty true, actually.
Lynn, honey, you should read this.
And everyone else should too.
DAMN GOOD POST.
FUCKING THIS
FUCKING
THIS
Reblogging because it’s necessary.
AAAHHH!
Thank God!Good post!
I’ve never been able to put my finger on it, I’m always on RP sites and I always see “No Mary-Sues” in their ‘rules’ section and it always makes me uneasy/angry. I. Can’t. STAND. People. Telling. Others. What. To. Create! PEOPLE CAN CREATE WHATEVER THEY FUCKING WANT BECAUSE, hold the phone, IT’S THEIR FANTASY!
If. You. Don’t. Like. It. Piss. Off. Stop shaming people for taking that small break from reality to create what they want. They might not be ‘original’ or ‘creative’ (by this I mean your particular definition!) but LOVE creating! Life’s hard enough without having your free time and fantasies MONITORED AND SHAMED!
No thank you!
(Source: fanaticality)
