hotmolasses:

mauve-moth:

stomatium:

just-shower-thoughts:

Blind people must save a lot on electricity.

They do actually!

I had a blind professor, last semester, and I swung through his office to make up an exam. It was a while before I knew he was in there because he was sitting with the lights off. I finally went in, apologized, and took the exam by the light of a nearby window (which was fine). Forty-five minutes into dead silence he panicked and yelled in this booming voiced, “WAIT, YOU CAN SEE!!!” before diving across his desk to turn on the lights. I’m sure he was embarrassed but I thought it was endearing and it highlighted a large aspect of disabled life that I hadn’t previously considered.

Sort of relatedly I once had professor who was deaf, but she had learned to read lips and speak so she could communicate easily with hearing people who didn’t know sign language. One day she had gotten off topic and was talking a little about her personal life, so that one of the students said “Oh, I know, I grew up in Brooklyn too.” 

She stared at him for a long time and then said “How do you know I’m from Brooklyn?”

And he said “You have a Brooklyn accent.”

She said “I do?” and the whole class nodded, and then she burst out laughing and said “I had no idea!  The school where I learned to speak was in Brooklyn.  I learned by moving my mouth and tongue the way my teachers did.  So I guess it makes sense that I have their accent, I just never thought about it.”

gendersnaps:

bigbigtruck:

hippity-hoppity-brigade:

scribefindegil:

And speaking of pronouns, flat-out my favorite part of the LOTR Appendices is when it’s revealed that the Gondorian dialect of the Common Speech differentiates between formal and informal second-person pronouns but the distinction’s been lost in the Hobbit’s dialect, so Pippin’s blithely been using familiar terms of address with the Lord of the City, and thus helps to explain both why the Gondorians are so ready to assume he’s a prince and why Denethor finds him so amusing to have around.

not what i expected from a post that began with “speaking of pronouns,” but an a++ show of the versatility and surprise daily available on tumblr dot com

are you telling me Pippin says “y’all”

“can you pass the mead fam”

end0skeletal:

Death’s Head Hawkmoth Species:

1. Acherontia atropos, known as the greater death’s head hawkmoth, is the most widely-known of the three species. It is found mostly in Africa and Europe and has the ability to emit a loud squeak if irritated.

2. Acherontia styx, known as the lesser death’s head hawkmoth or bee robber, is found in Asia. It is very fond of honey and can mimic the scent of bees so that it can enter a hive unharmed to get honey.

3. Acherontia lachesis, also commonly known as the greater death’s head hawkmoth, is found in India, Sri Lanka and much of the Oriental region. This species, also fond of honey, has a stout and strong tongue, enabling it to pierce the wax cells in bee hives and suck the honey out. It, too, is capable of emitting a loud squealing when disturbed.

Source: end0skeletal

mayflame15:

lvtro:

africanaquarian:

octopusalive:

lenimph:

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

africanaquarian:

amaimomochu:

demho3zhatinq:

lilboujevert:

90svigilante:

africanaquarian:

chocahontas:

africanaquarian:

when you realize strawberries aren’t berries but bananas are and you’ve been lied to your whole life. yet again

Raspberries aren’t either. But kiwi and pumpkin are. 😑

Why must y’all do this, let me live in ignorance

^ literally

Also, watermelon is not a fruit. Its actually a vegetable. It belongs in the cucumber and squash family

I am so tired

I have learned Too Much

Pumpkin isn’t a squash?

Okay I’m intruding bc I am a Botanist and I am Upset:

Bananas are berries: confirmed.
Strawberries not actually berries: confirmed. They are aggregates of achenes on a fleshy receptacle.
Raspberries aren’t berries: not entirely. Aggregates of drupes (single-seeded berries).
Kiwis are berries: confirmed.
Pumpkins are berries: false! They are pepos, diagnostic of their family, the Cucurbitaceae.
Watermelon is not a fruit: SUPER FALSE. They contain seeds, they are fruit. They are also pepos and are related closely to pumpkins.
Squashes, gourds, cucumbers, melons, pumpkins are all fruits, all pepos, all in the Cucurbitaceae.

I’m less upset now bye

plant geek tumblr has saved us all

today i learned ‘pepo’ is a word and cant stop saying it

If it is a part of a plant that contains seeds, it is a fruit. 

12drakon:

piefanart:

a-trashcan-made-out-of-fandoms:

captsiimba:

the-catholic-geek:

tgmember:

just-shower-thoughts:

It is an unspoken rule that if a little kid is hiding under a blanket or couch cushions, you are required to comment on how lumpy the blanket is and pretend to sit on it to try and “smooth it out.”

Also, if you’re playing hide-and-seek with them, it is critical that you search every other possible (and impossible) hiding spot, all the while wondering out loud how they managed to disappear just like magic, before walking right past their hiding spot.

And if a baby starts playing peekaboo you are required to act surprised when they show their face again

If a kid hands you a phone, you answer it

If a kid shoots you with a Nerf Gun you are supposed to Die a dramatic death and explain “ugh you shot me blaahh”

If a kid hands you fake food you must pretend to eat it. Even if its a baby doll they took out of the plastic microwave because the kid is messed up. You eat that baby doll and you enjoy it.

How to write kids well.

Look, little kids are weird. Even if you don’t really like kids, play along with the weirdness, you’ll make them really happy.