embers setting fire

going on a guilt trip do yall want anything

if you really cared about me you wouldn't have to ask

Stratt trying to recruit the molecular biologist who cursed out a man at a UNESCO conference and finding mild-mannered Dr. Ryland Grace stumbling all over his words and himself, and there's this split second where she's, like, "yeah, fuck, i don't know about this" and then she realizes. this guy. all fun facts and fiddlesticks, believed in his theory so staunchly that he'd curse out a man at a UNESCO conference. it's not much of a backbone, it's a small but very sturdy backbone, and it's just enough that having him and his politeness around will comfort all the right people and his mild eccentrics will piss off all the ones Stratt doesn't care for. bonus, he's a teacher, so she can delegate the task of keeping everyone around her informed to him--and he'll do it, too, because he's nice like that. he's perfect. there has never been a more perfecter guy to just have around for convenience's sake. get that nerd in the back of a van right this second.

Ryland Grace would have the craziest authors notes. "Hello, guys. Sorry I haven't updated in 11 years I just got sent to space and I didn't know they put me in a coma. Anyway, here's chapter 23. I hope you enjoy :)"

It’s the same in Irish! bóín Dé!

in hebrew it’s “our rabbi moses’s cow”

Oh I love this news!!!!

Multiple cultures upon seeing a ladybug for the first time: “Who’s cow is this????”

in German they’re Marienkäfer which also pretty much means “Mary’s Beetle”

in conversation about white people who go to Japan and expect their knowledge of anime to culturally carry them, I was once posed with “it’s like if there was a Japanese guy who was obsessed with spongebob and came over here and thought he could get by just communicating in spongebob quotes.” This is a false equivalence because if such a man existed we would crown him king. We’d love him. Americans would fucking love that. sometimes I get sad that this isn’t a real guy I can invite to a party.

Ok the last one got me laughing actually

I honestly don’t know why people think that Katniss would tell us that Effie Trinket has a sister even if we assume that she knows this information. Katniss barely told us that Peeta has brothers. As in, we never learn the names of Peeta’s brothers. Katniss isn’t telling us a damn thing about Effie’s family members unless it is directly relevant to the plot.

I love maysilee donner bc she knew she was probably gonna die so she just bitched at everyone that deserved bitching, had a picnic, and punched the capitol in the face. Literally. No one has ever done it like her