Harpsichordical

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Public transport is a type of horse and I'm a teenage girl who no one understands

The bus fucking bit me

Also i hope people know that a Pow wow is a specific type of intertribal Native American gathering with its own genre of music & dances that sometimes incorporates other ones that typically weren't originally associated with the first modern pow wows (like Gourd Dances or Smoke dancing), and it doesn't just refer to any kind of Native American gathering where there's dancing and singing. Like a Haida community hosting a potlatch isn't a pow wow, Iñupiaq doing a Yuraq isn't a pow wow, etc

There's always a moment of intense cultural whiplash whenever I realize I'm talking to someone who thinks "legal" and "illegal" are meaningful categories and ascribes innate goodness to following the law. It's like meeting a space alien.

i think the angriest ive ever made someone on reddit was when they used an emoji while arguing and i said "What is this tiny yellow picture"

what's that one thing where they asked how ripely from alien was so realistic and believable as a female character in scifi for once and they were like "well we just took the dude from the original script and made him a girl and changed nothing else. it works bc men and women are the same?" and people were like "woah no way" and then didn't learn anything from that for 20 years

"how do you write such believable men as a woman?" "how do you write such believable women a man?" and the answer people who are good at it always give is "i just write people. were literally the exactly the same. do you think the opposite sex is some sorta totally different animal???" and people respond "woah that's wild. yea i do. and im not gonna stop thinking that goodbye :)"

formative years? aren’t they all?

show me a permanent self and i will show you a facade or a corpse

People really go around claiming that swearing indicates a lack of creativity when actually the ability people have to fit curse words into so many phrases and its endurance despite so much judgement and censorship is incredibly creative

Next chapter is on body parts and the entry for hymen contains a paragraph explaining that despite etymologically coming from a word meaning "membrane", it's actually stretchy tissue within the vagina and it's rare for it to actually cover the whole vaginal canal. And I quote, "people with vaginas are not juice boxes". I fucking love this book.