i'm gayer in spanish

for references, they named our cat “ski into a pine tree” or “ski straight into a tall tree” depending on who you ask. It’s a “get lost” in Finnish. very useful saying

i was training a young person at work, and she referred to sexual assault as "SA" out loud, and i immediately was like, "no, it's sexual assault, call it what it is," bc idgaf if the algorithm overlords have taught y'all that you should fear direct language, how tf do any of you expect to ever address real issues with any amount of seriousness if you can't even say the words? imagine an advocate looking a sexual assault survivor in the eyes and asking "did he grape you?" it's absolutely fucking absurd, but these young interns and new hires are coming into an environment where we deal with survivors of all different kinds of abuse, and they're coming with the mindset that the words are as bad as the actions, and that makes them shitty at the job and look juvenile af

At first glance: ‘lol this is going to be one of those hilariously cheap animations’

Wonderful voice acting in this production.

me tongue-deep in a sandalwood candle: 🤤

nosiest duo ever in the world

If the Witches books taught me anything, it's that the mortifying ordeal of being known doesn't mean the person doing the knowing is going to automatically run for the hills. I just got to the line in Witches Abroad where Nanny says 'There was no talking to Granny when she was in that mood', whereupon she left. There's no talking to me in certain moods and it's reassuring to imagine that there's people who may tolerate that and still want to hang around.

I was thinking about how Stronginthearm is a common dwarf surname in Discworld, and then I thought "it's as common as 'Smith' in the real world" and then I realised...