Nice Job, Skeleton

MY biggest fear as an artist: thunderstorms. thunder loud and scary

my biggest fear is that i will become too popular and cool 😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔

the "language is a social construct, therefore linguistic misinformation is impossible. any claim about language is true if enough people say it is" misconception is of course annoying when applied to stuff like grammar because it's wrong in a nuanced way that's important to explain correctly to avoid spreading even worse ideas about language. but with etymology it's like. no that's not even the part of language that's a social construct, you're making a claim about history. this is something that you really shouldn't think you can just make up

language changes over time but a popular tumblr post claiming that a figure of speech from the bible is actually the short version of its own comeback isn't language changing

btw one of the main tells for false etymology posts online is that they often are presented as something the poster "realized", as opposed to "learned". as though historical facts about how language has evolved are things that you can figure out on your own by thinking about words hard enough

fascinated by jeff the killer tbh. everyone in that creepypasta has generic white usamerican names (jeff, keith, barbara, billy, etc.) except for jeff the killer's doe eyed little brother liu. why is he liu. is liu chinese? it's okay if he's chinese. is jeff also chinese? has jeff the killer been chinese this whole time? am I a bad person?

okay. breathe. listen to my voice. can you tell me five things in this room you can fuck?

okay great. now list me four things in this room you can kill.

beautiful. there you go. okay. now: tell me three things you can impose unjust taxes on.

almost done. can you list two things you could shove in a pipe and smoke?

last one: one thing you could use as a makeshift weapon?

why are you still crying

im at the end of my rope with my pirate friend. ive tried again & again to connect with him but all he wants to do is complain aboit landlubbers. it always comes back to the fucking landlubbers with him. and if it's not the landlubbers then it's the scalawags. i dont think he even realizes that saying shit like that is hurtful... some of my closest friends are scalawags. and if you say anything about it he makes you walk the plank. im having a dinner with my best friend this week.... the thing is, she's a scurvy blaggard. im thinking of inviting my pirate friend but like, im going to tell him he needs to be on his best behaviour, and if he says anything rude im just going to keelhaul him on the spot.

Ive said this before but swear the biggest skill to learn as an adult is how to resist high-pressure sales tactics. You do NOT have to answer questions with anything other than "Sorry I'm not interested." No matter how nice they are or no matter how many follow up questions they ask or even how agitated they get when you stand your ground. Just keep saying I'm not interested. Don't answer their questions. Don't give them an opening to try to push back on your reasons. Be a fucking brick wall of I'm not interested.

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