simulatedfloridiansnow:

My cat does the same to bugs, spiders, amphibians, and reptiles in our backyard.

My cat would bitchslap frogs until they died then throw them at you.

you-had-me-at-e-flat-major:

the-inverted-langblr:

I love discovering etymological links between languages, like today I was talking to someone about how a circumflex in French indicates a lost s after the vowel and they were like “so même used to be mesme then?” And I was like “WAAAAH THAT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE BECAUSE IT’S MISMO IN SPANISH THIS IS SO EXCITING” and this is probably why I don’t have friends

i know I’m not the first person on tumblr to talk about this but how about this for etymological tea

gu- in french is cognate with english w- like guerre/war (or middle english warre)

ê denotes a lost es like in bête/beast (old french beste)

so

guêpe is related to its english equivalent wasp

i’m not done bitch okay let’s take a trip east

chleb is polish for bread and it’s cognate with
russian and belarusian хлеб, czech chleba and lots of more slavic stuff

here’s the cool bit it was borrowed in the proto-slavic period from the gothic
𐌷𐌻𐌰𐌹𐍆𐍃 as
*xlěbъ

so it’s actually cognate with the word for bread in the extinct gothic language and with everything else that comes from proto-germanic *hlaibaz including but not limited to english loaf, german Laib, swedish and danish lev, norwegian leiv,

AND

through more borrowing, finnish and estonian leipä and leib, and samic languages such as northern sámi láibi, southern sámi laejpie and a whole lot more

in conclusion: bread, yo.

i made my first photoshop thing

defilerwyrm:

crazycathylian:

i love it

never have i seen anything that more perfectly encapsulates the personality of a betta fish

willkommen-in-germany:

A cat in Otzberg-Hering, Hessen, Central Germany

Source: flic.kr

venuselectrificata:

venuselectrificata:

not sure if this will make sense to anyone besides me but: the antidote to negativity is not positivity, its warmth

positivity tells a sad person that there is no reason to be sad. warmth asks the sad person if they want to go get some ice cream

Nice!

I didn’t even notice the date before I got it home and opened the box to heat it up. Not really in the habit of checking dates on frozen stuff.

Not seeing any obvious freezer burn or anything, and that wouldn’t kill me anyway. Somebody could do better at the stock rotation, though 🙄

tilthat:

TIL Phil Spector repeatedly pointed loaded guns at Leonard Cohen while producing one of his albums. At one point Spector shoved a revolver into his neck while holding a bottle of kosher red wine and said, ‘Leonard, I love you.’ Leonard Cohen responded by saying ‘I hope you do, Phil.’

via reddit.com

5 Artists Reportedly Held at Gunpoint by Phil Spector

(Though, with the other example I was initially thinking of: Marky Ramone: ‘Phil Spector didn’t hold a gun to us’. OTOH, sounds like it was enough of a habit to make a totally plausible rumor.)

patronsaintofmonsters:

““We’re all monsters,” I said. “Being a monster is not the same as being a bad person. It just means you’re willing to eat the world if that’s what you have to do to keep yourself alive.””

— Mira Grant (Seanan McGuire), CHIMERA (via sonnywortzik)

Month: August 2018

Why nobody ever wins the car at the mall

AND

i made my first photoshop thing

Fault Right