Don't Bother The Moss

Pisses me the fuck off when people reblog this post and tag it like “yeah sorry but they’re right I like Spike cause he’s sexy and cool while Dawn is soooo annoying.” Motherfucker you are literally who this post is complaining about.

once you learn enough about evolutionary biology you start seeing ghosts everywhere

my favorite celebrity non-controversy was when lorde wanted to express her love of baths so she posted a picture of her bathtub captioned “and iiiiiiiiiii will always love youuuuu” not realizing that whitney houston died in a bathtub

this is the type of thing my anxiety thinks is gonna happen every single time I say something

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

UNMUTE!!

POV u are delicious

europeans be like “omg north americans are so racist it’s horrible” and then elect fascists

This post made racists angry enough to harass me over it, which all that's going to do is make me bring this post back and reblog it more.

(sweating nervously) (opening a private browser window) (whipping my head around to make sure nobody is watching) (shakily typing into my search bar) bunnies playing