Words Nice Enough to Leave Scars

Did a research project on this in undergrad and the results are extremely alarming because it’s not just in imagery, it’s in language used even in the law making process and within our own communities in a completely different way than expected.

This ☝🏿

btw it's so fucking stupid you can be anxious physically in your body even after you've decided mentally you don't care. I'm supposed to be in charge here

finding a new doctor. applying for jobs. searching for apartments. messaging used car dealers. getting your health insurance to do their job. getting a pharmacy to do their job. getting the dmv to accept the documents they told you to bring. just listing things they probably make you do in hell

A WASP FLEW INTO MY MOUTH! And I was so brave about it! I couldn't panic because I am allergic and would have died literally. So I just exhaled really strongly and blew it right back out again! To anyone nearby it probably looked like I simply exhale live wasps. Like that's a thing I can just do. There's that.

Afterward I glanced to my partner who was like, "what the fuck?" And then I nonchalantly reminded them of all of the places I keep epi pens.

I can still feel all of its flailing legs in my mouth. Cannot recommend. You'd think the wings of a live wasp, in your mouth, would be the worst part but you'd be wrong. It's the legs.

What if this is my villain origin story? What if I wake up with wasp powers like Michelle Pfeiffer in the Batman movie? 🐈‍⬛

It was probably also a terrible experience for the wasp

What if silence is in fact a sound, but because its a universal sound we just adapted to it and dont notice it anymore

Advanced maneuvers

Schmovement

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I adore this.

If you're writing 18th century dialogue, this website lets you search words and phrases to double-check whether they were in use & meant what you intend. It doesn't include every period-accurate use of a word/phrase, but it certainly helped me separate genuine 18th century grammar from the vague tangle of 💬old-fashioned fancy-speak💬 I've internalized from TV and video games.

A dictionary of the English and Italian languages by Giuseppe Baretti is a bilingual dictionary from 1790!