Gay as in happy AND Queer as in fuck you

I really appreciate how the sociolinguistics of compounds mean that we have one suffix -vore, -vory meaning "to eat", and another suffix -phage, -phagy meaning "to eat (fucked up)"

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"there is no way you're not using chatgpt for at least a few things here and there no matter your stance on it" what the FUCK are you talking about

My mom kept complaining that all of a sudden the Beatles are back and they're fucking everywhere and they're so obnoxious and were practically having an orgy in her garden under a cucumber leaf and that's when I realized she meant spotted cucumber beetles and not Paul McCartney

Should go without saying but never date a cop and christ never marry one. Rule of thumb if he's legally untouchable he's ethically unfuckable. You don't like that cop, you like buff men in tight clothing. I can show you more of those, better ones. Take my hand.

Having beef with the horse cobbler is objectively hilarious

every farrier wants to be the next famous boeing engineer. You'll always come second in their book, and no one should put up with moving to enumclaw, even if "business is better there".

Made so many errors they accidentally added up into something sort of right

Guy freezes his hair and it stands tall.

sound on for his adorable gremlin giggles and commentary in a lovely accent

There is a standard media depiction of a "healed" person. Someone who has Gone To Therapy. I've noticed this in a few works recently. We often see them at the end of a story, maybe in a "ten years later" epilogue. They speak in a soft, serene voice. They have Accepted what they cannot change. They have let go of a lot, including most of what we see them actually care about in the story itself. They are Happy, At Peace, in some non-descript way. They bare little resemble to the person we were actually shown. They bare little resemblance to any person. We were shown, as we usually are in stories, an agent, a desirer, someone becoming. Now they have Become. And they look back on all that silly becoming as something childish that they have moved past. Fire, you know, fire is for children who don't know any better. To be Healed is to have your fire rightly extinguished; to not even miss it.

"DSM-5 seems to have no definition of happiness other than the absence of suffering. The normal individual in this book is tranquilized and bovine-eyed, mutely accepting everything in a sometimes painful world without ever feeling much in the way of anything about it." — Sam Kriss's review of the DSM-5 as a piece of surrealist literature

It's really simple. If you're born with a vagina and you naturally have elevated testosterone levels, you're a man. If you have a vagina and you take testosterone, you're a woman. But also if you have a vagina, you'll never be a man. But also if you have higher testosterone then you were never a woman. Woman never yes man a vagina testosterone no was an elevated. Vagina man.

reading ancient pompeian graffiti is a fun way to practice language partly because the grammar and spelling of graffiti is a whole different beast than literary language but also because the words themselves are delightful. anyway i've just discovered the cobbled-together adverb ceventinabiliter which means something along the lines of "buttshakingly (with the implication of "in a bottom sort of way")

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guiltfree snacks are such a concept. i dont feel guilt for having a pastry. I'm not catholic