Words are just noises

the 20s are soon upon us

captainlordauditor:

certainslantedlight:

things to include

• flapper dresses
• jazz music
• sex positivity
• women’s rights
• renewal of arts & culture
• increased immigration & cultural sharing
• sequins
• eyeliner

things to leave behind

• racism & nativism
• consumerist culture
• white guys writing “the great american novel”

more things to include

• black/jewish solidarity
  
• short hair of all textures
• suspenders
• beaded & embroidered dresses
• subtly homoerotic advertising
• masculine women, feminine men

things to leave behind

• ineffective prohibition laws
  
• wealth gap

(via adoctorwithtwohearts)

ambular-d:

jackhawksmoor:

sawsbuck:

“Pet crows give their owners names. This is identified by a unique sound they make around specific people that they would not otherwise make.“

oh my GOD

well shit

Clearly, to the crows, we’re the pets.

(Source: sailoruranus-archive, via mickeyrowan)

prolifeproliberty:

studentlifeproblems:

As a teacher I always do this with my students’ “silly questions,” aka the ones meant to get us off track or just get laughs from classmates.

Once we were talking about the effects of erosion and how to prevent it (our specific example was erosion of a cliff side by waves).

Student suggests soaking up the entire ocean with sponges. Kids laugh.

I ran with it. We found an estimate for how many sponges it would take, assumed a cost per sponge, and determined there was not enough currency in the world to buy the number of sponges necessary.

Halfway through this process the original student was trying to take back his question and the rest of the class was yelling at him and me because they found the whole situation so ridiculous. I’ll tell you though, I had 100% student engagement.

I always establish with my students that they can ask silly questions, but I’m going to treat them like serious ones.

Beware.

(via simple-crabman)

Famous novels, broken down by punctuation

vox:

Princeton scientist Adam Calhoun decided to strip the words from his favorite texts to look at the punctuation alone, and noticed a few significant differences among great works of literature. Pictured below, for instance, is a passage from Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian (on the left), compared with one from William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!

Calhoun also surveyed the frequency of various punctuation marks in several different books. He found, fittingly for Ernest Hemingway’s famously straightforward, declarative style, that A Farewell to Arms is short on the exclamation points and generous with the periods. And the oft-misused semicolon seems to get less popular over time; comparePride and Prejudice (originally published in 1813) with Blood Meridian (1985).

Additionally, Calhoun turned his findings into “heat maps” by representing periods, question marks, and exclamation marks in red, commas and quotation marks in green, and semicolons and colons in blue.

(via thewriterash)

silverskings:

kiaranator:

sheriff-haught-sauce:

Greek dude: But…but I brought you a bouquet of olives to win over your heart!

Sappho, lounging on a couch with her girlfriend on her lap, popping grapes into her mouth: Oh muse, singeth to us Despacito.

i let my little sapphic hands do all the work

This is perfect.

(via brainlesstroll)

slab-o-meat:

dykeonic:

straight people will listen to somebody to love by queen and be like “i understand this” but my hot take is that they don’t and they never will

for your consideration:

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