Puffle Ponies

this is a way better model... you'll still get transphobic & intersexist drs of course but i prefer this to male / female or even having separate questions for gender & sex.

[we can't see the full form, but i'd suggest having a "something else" option and dominant hormone question too.]

as a cis woman who's had a hysterectomy and partial oophorectomy, this would be helpful for me, too! it'd be pointless to try to diagnose me for disorders that affect organs I don't have anymore, after all.

being inclusive helps us ALL. 💖

From the US but i spell grey with an e because e just feels like a much greyer letter than a

grey with an E is dusty neutral but gray with an A is bluish and darker

it really is, huh

Omg I’ve found my people

It's because GRAY is a West Saxon word for the quality of light, while GREY is an Anglian word for everyday objects. And everyday objects are typically earthy, warmer, or more neutral.

To explain: West Saxon and Anglian are both dialects of Old English. West Saxon was the politically dominant dialect, but Anglian was the more popular spoken dialect. So a lot of Old English texts are written in West Saxon, but what we know as Middle English and Modern English descended more from Anglian because it was spoken by more people.

So grey (the Anglian word) shows up when authors are describing everyday stuff. Like in this sentence describing a grey beard from Holy Boke Gratia Dei: "The hed of Petir is a brood face with mech her on his berd and that is of grey colour be twix whit and blak."

Any Middle English text you read, you'll find Anglian grey is the word the author prefers to describe everyday things. Grey wool, grey feathers, grey stones, grey horses.

By contrast, gray (the West Saxon word) shows up when authors are describing the qualities of light.

A gleaming gray sword, a deep gray lake, a misty gray morning, cold gray marble, sad gray eyes. Like in this sentence from The Siege of Jerusalem: "They glowes of graie steel that were with gold hemmyd." More often than not, gray describes an impermanent or glimmering quality of light.

There's even an instance where a Middle English author uses both, and you can see how one spelling is more about the quality of light while the other is more about the color of the animal: "The cerkyl or the roundel off the eye ys sumtyme graye lyke the ey off a catte, sumtyme blak grey lyke the eyn off doggys."

("The circle or round of the eye is sometimes gray like the eye of a cat, sometimes black-grey like the eyes of dogs.")

The reason Americans use gray and not grey is because Noah Webster hated the English. :)

so freakin cool

Very interesting to learn the origins of these two spellings!

(kelly link, "the specialist's hat")

There was a young man from Peru

Whose limericks stopped at line two

There once was a man from Verdun

There once was a man from the sticks Whose limericks stopped at line six. They were fine till line five Then they took quite a dive — But the problem is easy to fix If you just ignore the last line, it doesn't even follow the rhyme scheme oh god I've really lost control of this thing I'm so sorry...

There once was a man

From Cork who got limericks

And haiku confused.

There once was a man from the sticks

Who liked to compose limericks

But he failed at the sport

Because he wrote them too short

@limerickshere

There once was a fellow named Dan, Whose poetry never would scan. When told this was so, He replied, "Yes, I know-- It's because I try to squeeze as many syllables into the last line as I possibly can."

There once was a man from Darmstadt

Who lived in a house with his cat

When he'd try to write

His hands she would fight

And akfvakfiwvflsbr jfowvfjdkwbfbwkfvwbfowvfjsb

Exhausted Bacchantes, Robert van Vorst Sewell

*J.C. Leyendecker looking respectfully from the afterlife*

yesterday i was talking to a Guy and i asked what time it was and he git really excited and said "time for you to get aaaaa.... SUNDIAL!!" and then started talking about sundials and sounding like a fucking commercial and i pointed out that sundials have to be in one specific spot to work and he got all nervous and asked if i've tried a sextant. what the fuck

not to sound like Sundial Salesman Guy but … he’s lowkey right, if you’re in a place with a fair amount of sunlight. two weeks ago i was hanging out with a little kid when she wondered aloud what time it was. i looked at the sun, adjusted my body a bit, put my elbow on the ground with the arm up perpendicular, and told her “it’s about 12:45.”

then she had to get a watch to see if i was right (pretty much — it was 12:50), and then i found myself explaining cardinal directions and sundials to a preschooler

ANYWAY MY POINT IS that no, sundials don’t require a fixed place for efficiency, only enough sun to cast a shadow & awareness of your relative direction, and knowing this is great but going on about it makes you sound horny for ancient Rome

if you don't know how to make a sundial but need a guesstimate on how much daylight is left, hold your hand out at arm's length horizontally and count how many fingers fit between the sun and the horizon. it's about 15 minutes a finger.

literally all you people sound insane to me

#this whole post reminds me of the first day of geologic mapping; first class and we're all out in the woods looking at an outcrop#and the professor goes ''okay! now tell me which way north is'' to get everybody oriented with their map#and everybody starts milling around poking each other staring at blankly at the tress etc. but i'm like 'oh! i know how to solve this'#so i look at my watch and then the sun and then point (fairly accurately) north#and the professor looks at me with a bewildered expression and says ''you all have compasses''#i have never been so embarrassed to have the right answer (tags via @thoughtsformtheuniverse​)

holy shit based

“blue hair” this, “pronouns” that. find someone with flowing silver hair and spells

and big naturals

terribly charmed by my sibling sending me a voice message that just said “i just always take ibuprofen at the wrong time. i had a headache all afternoon, from three to eight pm and then i took an ibuprofen half an hour before the headache went away! i could have just saved an ibuprofen!”

Schiaparelli's 'Lobster Skirt' - Spr/Sum 2024

Item: Skirt of Junk Pinch; if the Command Word is spoken the wearer will be pinched on the junk by the lobster, and the skirt an only be removed by another Command Word (or the usual divine intervention or Wish spell). Created for use on prisoners but also occasionally found at clubs of a certain type

ANAGRAM GENERATED:

what do you have against terfs? if anything, it's misogynistic of you. → if a weird ghost is nasty, is it funny again? tch. you goofy math soviet

Anagram generator made me think about fucked up spectres, called me a commie, and left

@osha-official-the-sequel @osha-unofficial

Scissor lifts should never be operated in unstable conditions. Additionally, the floating platform would qualify as an extra piece of equipment being used to raise the scissor lift, which is a major safety hazard. Just... don't do this.

Obi-Wan wears like 53 layer of robes so everyone assumes he’s kinda soft especially compared to his ‘in the prime of his youth’ former Padawan but then one day he goes shirtless to spar and he’s shredded, he has an 8 pack. Clones and Jedi alike are choking on drinks and tripping into walls. Ahsoka is covering her eyes and screaming because that’s basically her grandpa. Anakin has to throw a robe over Obi-Wan like The Birth of Venus. 

I BLAME YOU ALL

This is canon. 🤣

PERFECT to have Kit Fisto giving the high five 😂😂😂 God bless you artists

PERFECT to have Kit

Fisto giving the high five

😂😂😂 God bless you artists

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

Alright so everyone knows white is the classic wedding color, with black suits being common too, but what if you want something more exciting for more than two people?

Ta-da!

Honestly I was just thinking about RGB for me and my gfs and then I started getting ideas for how to apply this farther

and if you have twelve, then-

something like this?

you jest, but I have yet to talk my wife out of this precise color scheme for our wedding. (…which is happening on april 13th.)

update: I couldn’t talk her out of it. this color scheme is described on our wedding website. guests are encouraged to wear the color associated with their astrological sign. ppl are telling me it’s “so cute” that we’re “building the rainbow” 😐 😐 😐

I deserve to be hunted for sport

YOU HAVE A HOMESTUCK THEMED WEDDING???

look, sometimes you’re a dumb nerd! with a crush on a cool person! and then that person makes a subtle insinuation that they understood your stupid homestuck reference and you think to yourself “well okay now I am in love forever” like a dumb infatuated nerd!

AND THEN maybe you and this cool person DO fall in love FOR REAL! and you want to get married to them in spring of 2024 and it JUST SO HAPPENS that 4/13/2024 is a Saturday and what am I supposed to do, defy the will of paradox space???

motion capture actress 曦曦鱼sakana shows how to move in games

Legitness!!

i enjoy how they didnt over sexualize their prince costumes. like esp with jasmine. she couldve totally been in aladdin’s vest, but nope. fully clothed. thanks. 

laughing because Mulan looks the same

things i loved more then i expected, this

this is honestly one of my favorite posts ever

Meanwhile the Princes:

Everytime I see that last pic I lose it when I see Eric. It’s just so perfect.