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quinndolyns:

quinndolyns:

itwashotwestayedinthewater:

itwashotwestayedinthewater:

whats wrong with you? you got some sort of……..some sorta syndrome? you got a syndrome or something? youre tryna tell me youve got like, a syndrome

[goes to doctor]: whats wrong with me doc. tell me the ‘prognosis’
doctor: well, its looking as if you have some kind of syndrome
[thinking] hmm.. thats not good

i diagnose you with symptoms syndrome

sorry to say but it seems you’ve got problems disorder

partykris:

morwytch:

cephalotodd:

cephalotodd:

“good intrusive thoughts” i know you all get your entire scientific education off random tumblr posts but please for the love of god read even just one psych paper. im begging

or even just take an english class. “intrusive” means you don’t want them. they’re unwelcome. they can NEVER be fun or quirky or funny because by definition they are unsettling, unwelcome, and INTRUSIVE. jesus fucking christ 

Maybe there should be an alternate term for thoughts that randomly show up in your mind but they’re actually good??

Idk what they’d be called, but. Who knows.

theyre called thoughts

why are bats called bats?

bloodlooksblackinmoonlight:

elodieunderglass:

linguisten:

awed-frog:

because they look like flying mice [Danish: flagermus, German: Fledermaus, Luxembourgish: Fliedermaus, Swedish: fladdermus]

because they look like half mice and half owl [French: chauve-souris]

because they look like half mice and it’s not 100% clear what the other half is [Ladin: utschè-mezmieur, Catalan: rat-penat, Lombard: mezzarat]

because apparently they make a flap flap noise [English: bat]

because they’ve got badass leather wings [Gaelic: sciathàn leathair, Old Norse:

leðrblaka]

because they look like cute nocturnal butterflies [Maltese: farflett il-lejl]

because they’re probably, like, blind mice [Serbo-croatian: sismis, Portugese: morcego, Spanish: murcíelago, Arabic: khaffash]

because they fly at night [Italian: pipistrello, Slovenian: netopir, Polish: nietoperz, Greek: nykterides, Farsi: shab parreh]

So bat literally means flapper. You’re welcome.

This, my friends, this is true etymology. Explaining why something is named the way it is, finding patterns and principles of meaning, not just tracing a word’s form back through time (which, admittedly, is oftentimes a prerequisite for exploring the former).

This exact conversation is how I became friends with @pipcomix

SKY FLAP FLAPS

devxtchka:

bixbiboom:

therealeggdeity:

sharklord:

mechanicuscat:

gifsandsound:

Doot doot doot doot doot doot doot- doot doot doot- dooooo

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In the hall of the mountain king

the floofiest munchkin

why would anyone think its ok to breed a cat to look like this?

munchkin cats are a result of a naturally occurring genetic mutation, it’s not a result of cats having their legs bred down for their short size as is the case for daschunds. munchkin cats experience no physical deformities or abnormalities in their legs or as a result of their legs

I absolutely refused to believe that comment and went to look for myself. Turns out it’s true, munchkins are extremely healthy breeds. The mutation only affects health in the fetal stage, which means unhealthy kittens don’t survive to be born at all and never suffer. Rarely they experience a curvature of the spine called lordosis, and cats with this condition are very short-lived, but this isn’t unique to munchkins and can affect cats of all sizes.

So I’ve been railing against the breeding of munchkin cats for years for no reason, apparently. Sorry, cats.

Justice for munchkin owners