Can I plant my roots in your life?

“Hi dr captain ryland grace, I’m asexual, I love being asexual and my best friend is a rock! We did some science stuff, now I live in a biodome on his planet and I’m happier than ever!”

or,

“Hi im Grace, sometimes I’m ace, sometimes I’m in a qpr with my best friend and his spouse, but sometimes we’re just in a gay polyamorous relationship, and also I have a twin brother, well I actually have like 17 brothers and we all look alike, also I’m Spider-Man sometimes? But depending on the day I also am a normal guy that never got sent to space- And- HOLY SHIT IS THAT MARKIPLIER COVERED IN RECORD BREAKING AMOUNTS OF BLOOD?!? (They kiss a lot and are gay for each other)”

and I'm like....... okay that is a perfectly normal way to describe energy and reads totally clear to me, but I KNOW you don't mean hit points/health points which is the first place my brain goes, so what are YOU using hp to mean

and it's not explained in-text, which means it was common enough to not warrant explanation to the 1908 audience, so gotta look elsewhere

horsepower. turns out it's horsepower.

and I'm absolutely FASCINATED that a commonly used initialism from 1908 now stands for something different AND YET the contextual meaning is still the same to a 21st-century reader

I could hand this guy my nintendo switch and he'd be like, ah yes I understand, this ''''pokemon'''' loses horsepower throughout the fight

Some AAVE speakers pluralize 'child' as 'childrens'. People get racist about this ("It's already plural!"), but 'children' actually comes from Middle English speakers doing the same thing: slapping their plural marker on word already pluralized by an extinct plural marker.

To oversimplify: in Old English, 'childer' ('ċildra') was the plural of 'child' ('ċild'). Middle English developed an '-en' plural marker, which we see in 'oxen'. Instead of updating to 'childen', people slapped their preferred '-en' onto the end of 'childer' - so now we have 'child-er-en'. AAVE carries on this tradition with 'child-er-en-s'.

"Pure" language is just impurity obscured by the passage of time.

pnf revival challenge day 35: Baljeet!

Hosted by @howtonerdoutovereverything! ✨

I pitched this comic idea to my sister in the morning as a joke and she said I have to commit to it because she found it hilarious nvndjhbd

He varies intensely but he’s still the same ol Eridian!!

Adam Savage - Behind the Scenes of Project Hail Mary

I love how much of this was practical and how much thought and care they clearly put into it. <3