Love I give freely; respect, however, must be earned. [previous url - southernfriedweird]
Plot twist: The next companion is a normal girl/boy who only dies once in their lifetime and has no remarkable back story but he thinks they’re wonderful because they are human and the Doctor needs reminding that you don’t need to be a mystery to be remarkable.
#and the doctor never has to kiss them or sexualize them at all #in fact they are not even attracted to the doctor
I finally got a possible job lead! It’s at an all-day preschool at a church in town. I’m going to get an application tomorrow and hopefully leave a good impression with the director. Fingers crossed!
Buzz Lightyear’s knee is bent.
One of the little boys I keep has this Buzz Lightyear doll (or at least a huge one like it that talks and karate chops). This kid swore up and down that his Buzz was THE Buzz, and he was really talking TO HIM. So he wasn’t connecting his constant button-smashing with Buzz’s constant kung-fu action. He would squeeze the doll, Buzz would yell and chop the little boy in the face, little boy would cry and beg Buzz to stop. This went on all night, because he didn’t dare put Buzz down because it was obviously THE REAL BUZZ LIGHTYEAR.
Morphological Typology (illustrations from SpecGram)
Descriptions adapted from The Lingua File:
Analytic languages: also known as isolating languages because they’re composed of isolated, or free, morphemes. Free morphemes can be words on their own, such as cat or happy. Languages that are purely analytic in structure don’t use any prefixes or suffixes, ever. However, it’s rare to find a language that is purely analytic or synthetic since most languages have characteristics of both. Morphological typology is like a spectrum in which languages fit in somewhere from analytic to polysynthetic (a subtype of synthetic languages we’ll get to in a moment).Mandarin Chinese and Vietnamese are good examples of analytic languages. […] English, on the other hand, is one of the most analytic Indo-European languages, but is still usually classified as a synthetic language. […]Types of synthetic language (i.e. languages that have prefixes/suffixes):Fusional Languages: Similar to agglutinating languages, except that the morpheme boundaries are much more difficult to discern. Affixes are often fused with the stems, and can have multiple meanings. A prime example of a fusional language is Spanish, especially when it comes to verbs. In the wordhablo ”I speak”, the -o morpheme tells us that we’re dealing with a subject that is singular, first person, and in the present tense. It’s difficult to find a morpheme that means “speak”, however, since habl- is not a morpheme. Fusional languages can be tricky!Polysynthetic Languages: These languages are undoubtedly some of the most difficult to learn. They often have verbs that can express the entirety of a typical sentence in English, which they do by incorporating nouns into verbs forms. For example, the Sora language of India has one word that means “I will catch a tiger”. Many Native American languages are polysynthetic.
This is so cool!
You know how it is, right, ladies? You know a guy for a while. You hang out with him. You do fun things with him—play video games, watch movies, go hiking, go to concerts. You invite him to your parties. You listen to his problems. You do all this because you think he wants to be your friend.
But then, then comes the fateful moment where you find out that all this time, he’s only seen you as a potential girlfriend. And then if you turn him down, he may never speak to you again. This has happened to me time after time: I hit it off with a guy, and, for all that I’ve been burned in the past, I start to think that this one might actually care about me as a person. And then he asks me on a date.
I tell him how much I enjoy his company, how much I value his friendship. I tell him that I really want to be his friend and to continue hanging out with him and talking about our favorite books or exploring new restaurants or making fun of avant-garde theatre productions. But he rejects me. He doesn’t answer my calls or e-mails; if we’d been making plans to do something before this fateful incident, these plans mysteriously fail to materialize. (This is why I never did get around to seeing the Hunger Games movie. Not to name any names, but thanks a lot, Tom.) Later, when I run into him at social events, our conversations are awkward and lukewarm. This is because the moment we met, he put me in the girlfriend-zone, and now he can’t see me as friend material.
I must say that I find this really unfair. I mean, I’m a nice girl. I have a lot to offer as a friend, like not being a douchebag and stuff. But males just don’t want to be friends with nice girls like me. They can’t help it, I guess; it’s just how they’re wired, biologically. Evolution conditioned our male hominid ancestors to seek nice girls as mates and form friendship bonds only with the other dudes that they hunted mammoths with. It’s true—I know this because I studied hominids in my fifth-grade science class.
So what’s the answer? Should I take up mammoth-hunting in an attempt to appeal to the friendship centers of men’s primal lizardbrains? Should I keep making guy “friends” and then prevent them from making a move on me by subtly undermining their self-confidence? Should I just give up on those manipulative, game-playing, two-faced bastards once and for all? I don’t know. I mean, I’d really like to have a true friendship with a guy someday, but it’s so hard to trust and respect them when they never say what they mean—and you never know when you might be relegated to the girlfriend-zone.and that is why straight men and women usually can’t be friends.
#missing the point
Loaded-in-owls mentioned that she nests in old textbooks.
Well, I couldn’t leave that unillustrated, could I?
emilytuscaloosa asked:
+1 for Vergil.
I nest in my old textbooks. Makes these things rather interesting.
Use the PC with your name on it to store mail held by Pokémon you traded.
“A close relationship will also mean protection from other members of the pride”. - Life of Pi
This oddly makes sense.
I had two lol
“I will dare to hope that he is growing fond of me, that he is glad we are married.” -The Girl of Fire and Thorns. Actually makes some sense.
“My mother taught Prim and me to eat properly, so yes, I can handle a fork and knife.” -Hunger Games. Not so much haha
“The moment the door opened, Jace seized up a yellow pencil lying on the desk and threw it.” Hahaha am I the only one who finds this to be pervy in this context?
Hahaha I think you are. I have the dirtiest mind ever and I didn’t get anything pervy from that lol
“Losing weight is great, but it’s the inches that really count!”
- Les Mills Combat, Stay With The Fight Fitness GuideOh ho you know me well, Les Mills…
“In a fully charged batter, the density of the solution is about 1.30 g/cm^3”
…I need to stop leaving text books by my bed.
“Tell her to go to hell.”
Fuck you too, Hemingway.
But in the attic tonight I’m sweating and sweating and sweating, and through the darkness, suddenly I hear the sexy synthesizer chords.
“The processing portion is the magical part - you can’t see it happen.” (So… the closest book to me was my CompTIA A+ Certification book, eighth edition.)
Surprisingly, I’ll bet that’s pretty accurate.
Protinus aerii mellis caelestia dona exsequar:
