Water me

Important addition: Maria Skłodowska-Curie was born during partitions, which means Poland didn’t exist, which means her insistence that she was Polish was a significant act of defiance against the occupation, which means that you should respect that instead of arguing that ‘well she had French citizenship’. She couldn’t have Polish citizenship despite being Polish, that’s kinda the point she was making by keeping her maiden name and naming a chemical element she discovered ‘Polonium’ .

Thank you for the pronounciation guide instead of the condescending guilt trip

Yeah, I literally never learned she had a hyphenated name, so........

 i recommend learning other alphabets if for no other reason than it’s very fun to see people replace latin alphabet letters with complete nonsense for Aesthetic

as brutus said, tase him again

the “PINE-GUINE” fucking killed me asfgashasfg

“NO!!”

Apparently it’s actually a really common combo? Like. We can’t do the thing because we know the thing will be imperfect, and at least if we do it in a rush at the last second, we have an excuse for the imperfection.

people understand that Spanish speakers speak different dialects of the Spanish language but don’t understand that black people speak a dialect of the English language

I just want to state for the record that this is completely uncontroversial among linguists. It’s the first day of sociolinguistics class.

Reblogging for ALL OF THIS

It’s so true.

this seems so obvious now that i think about it and yet i’ve never even been taught this or told this until now??? like i know all about the differences between spanish in mexico, the caribbean, and then spain, but this? kinda disappointed that it’s only been pointed out (for me at least) now.

I love b&w proper ladies breaking character with “sonofabitch”

For those wondering, the dance is based on a soul-switching scene from the movie Painted Skin II: The Resurrection and the music is Su Yunying’s Moment.

oh my fucking GOD