chuckyzoopa:

thedaniverse:

thedaniverse:

I am a little high but what if people proposed with beautiful, intricate knives. Ladies would gather around the table and be like “guess what finally happened!!” And pull this beautiful, intricate dagger out of her purse and all the other ladies would gasp and congratulate her

Me: I’m a little high but –

Y’all rushing to that reblog button:

It’s an awesome idea tho

Ok but in Chinese and Japanese culture, giving a knife (or anything with a cutting edge, really) is the opposite of a proposal. It literally means you want to cut ties with them and never want anything to do with them again.

Can you imagine the angst/fluff potential.

badscienceshenanigans:

tinysaurus-rex:

not-regan:

ihateeverythingcomic:

twofingerswhiskey:

falling-towers:

mindfulwrath:

honestly “i’ll do whatever you want” “then perish” is the single most powerful exchange possible in the english language and it’s from some bizarre “hewwo” obama rp

And there was that other post where someone dreamt that Obama said “violence for violence is the rule of beasts” like what is it about Obama that makes people come up with such raw fucking dialogue for him

my mother had a dream where he lived in the forest and she had a cigarette with him and he said “to become god is the loneliest achievement of them all” and put it out and walked into the mist and i’ve never fucking forgotten that

I once dreamed that a giant meteor was headed for earth, and the government had set up loudspeakers throughout the cities so Obama could give a final address – I’ll never forget how strangely comforting it was when he said “there are places we’ve never been before. Some of us have never been to the Alps, some of us have never been to Marrakesh. The next life is simply another place we’ve never been before, and we’re all going to go explore it together.” 

I had a dream my family housed the Obamas for a weekend and one morning Obama made us oatmeal for breakfast and, looking at my disappointed face because I don’t like oatmeal, he said “regardless of what we taste, if we eat together, we are happy.”

Once I dreamt that Michelle Obama was running a campaign to give homes to all the feral pigeons and her husband came to my house and gave me a pamphlet that just had a picture of a pigeon on it and he looked me in the eyes and said “who would you be without them?”

One time when our kid was 20 months old, she woke up at 2 in the morning, as 20-month-olds are wont to do. When I go to check on her she says “I’m hungry!” Fair enough. I ask her what she wants, bc I’m not going through this nonsense of getting cheese and then she starts crying bc she was thinking crackers. She says, 

“Um, fried chicken?” (We’d gotten fried chicken for the first time that night and she loved. it. LOVED IT. And she remembered that we had leftovers, because she is a bright little shit.) There are, however, a multitude of reasons that you don’t give a toddler fried chicken in bed. Which I just couldn’t begin to process at that point. So what came out of my mouth was

“The President said no fried chicken for breakfast.”

and she was like “Oh! Ok,” and laid back down and went to sleep.

THANKS OBAMA

glumshoe:

glumshoe:

confession time: I STILL don’t know what the O RLY owl is supposed to convey

what inflection is his question meant to be read in? is he earnestly curious? excited? sarcastic? aggressive? is he doubting the truth of what you have to say?

Yeah, shortening “oh really?” to “O RLY” seems like it’s meant to be sarcastic, but that may be because that style of chatspeak has faded out of use. It seems like a precursor to “Sure, Jan”, i.e. suggesting a sarcastic and mocking dismissal of something.

And yet the owl’s eyes are wide and its beak is open, an expression that, on a human, would read as exuberance or tremendous surprise. Perhaps it’s meant to indicate mock surprise? If the owl had one eye partially closed to imitate an arched eyebrow, it might be more clearly sarcastic. I don’t know! This owl vexes and haunts me.

verymaedhros:

tilthat:

TIL that the Aztecs believed avocados were so sexually powerful that virgins were banned from eating them.

via ift.tt

ARE YALL FUCKIN KIDDIN ME OUT HERE

vicemirrored:

kgillsrpc:

Ah, manipulative people. Oh-so-fun to write, not so much fun when you encounter them in real life. Here are a few things you can implement when writing or roleplaying such a character.

Flattery

Manipulative people will often be incredibly nice and sweet to you, and shower you with compliments to get you to do their bidding; butter you up, if you will. Basically, manipulative people will can be the best friend you’ve ever had as long as that friendship gains them; and once they feel you’re useless to them, they will either be your worst enemy, or treat you like air.

Hidden agendas

Perhaps a manipulative person doesn’t have a hidden agenda when brushing their teeth, but it’s not unlikely for them to have one whenever they interact with others, and that they’re always thinking about ways to get their will through. Don’t pin what they do on chance, but instead consider the fact that there might be an underlying reason for whatever they do in the company of others—until proven otherwise.

Bullying and guilt-tripping

When flattery doesn’t work, manipulative people will often show a more negative side and turn to things such as bullying and guilt-tripping to get what they want. Instead of making you feel like the best person in the world, they will make you feel like the scum of the Earth; chewed on, spat out, and stomped on. Most likely you’ll end up agreeing to their demands; not because you want to, but because you have to.

Stealth

What makes manipulative people so tricky, is the fact that they’re usually rather suave and pretty good at covering their tracks. Chances are you won’t even know you’re being manipulated until it’s too late; if you ever notice at all. Don’t write the manipulation tactics as being used too obviously, but instead, try to slip it into the writing with a little bit of stealth.

That’s pretty much all I can think of right now, so hopefully you got something out of it. Here are some additional links you might find useful:

• Character Trait Entry: Manipulative
• Creative Writing Plot Ideas: Dealing With Manipulative People
• Television Tropes: Manipulative Bastard
• 5 Behaviors of Manipulative People

Good luck!

just-shower-thoughts:

If the wizards in Harry Potter really wanted they could create a society with unlimited food, space and energy that could vastly improve Humanity as a whole, instead they just hide like assholes.

Well I mean regular humans literally attempted to burn them alive, particularly lone women, but sure they’re assholes for taking a look at modern weapons, historical stupidity, and going “lol nope”