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When my mother forgets a word, she is the queen of coming up with new words. Words that would take a third National Treasure movie to fully decipher. I was talking to her yesterday, and she said this: “You know the time for los jibbities is coming up. You must be so excited!” Oh, is it time for los jibbities already? I must have missed it on my calendar. Are we celebrating something? “Of course! We should all be celebrating, shouldn’t we?” OK, so los jibbities is a happy thing. It’s not like something is giving you the heebie-jeebies, which would have been my one and only guess. “Los heebie-jeebies? Now you’re making things up...and this is my show.” You’re right. The time for los jibbities is coming up. Is this a season? “Yes, the season for love. The season for pride.” OK, los jibbities. “Yeah, sound it out.” Los…jibbities. LGBTs! “Sí, mira cuz you’re gay!” “You couldn’t just say pride season? You couldn’t just… *laughs*

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I am looking neither respectfully nor disrespectfully. I gaze without recognition of your form, and without understanding.

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Just saw a post asking how tall people are and now I want to make it a poll. Apologies to people in the fringe height categories, you do not get specifics.

I had to consult a chart for this

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I continue to run into people that are confused as to why Americans have screens on our windows and it’s really quite simple.

Bugs

Diseases carried by bugs

Other assorted wildlife such as dogs and teenagers

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Legolas pretty quickly gets in the habit of venting about his travelling companions in Elvish, so long as Gandalf & Aragorn aren’t in earshot they’ll never know right?

Then about a week into their journey like

Legolas: *in Elvish, for approximately the 20th time* ugh fucking hobbits, so annoying

Frodo: *also in Elvish, deadpan* yeah we’re the worst

Legolas:

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does the 69 button have a name or are we all calling it the 69 button.

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anne carson asks antigone, “your name in greek means something like ‘against birth’ or ‘instead of being born’/ what is there instead of being born?” and i think she means dying, in the sense that that antigone is born to die and that her birth is no real birth at all

but really more than “instead of being born,” ‘antigone,’ ἀντί-γονή, means “instead of children,” “in place of the next generation,” and she says it herself, she laments that she goes to her grave having never known marriage or motherhood– 

καὶ νῦν ἄγει με διὰ χερῶν οὕτω λαβὼν ἄλεκτρον, ἀνυμέναιον, οὔτε του γάμου μέρος λαχοῦσαν οὔτε παιδείου τροφῆς and now he is taking me by the hands and leading me away, unwedded, unbedded, allotted no share of marriage and the raising of children

but she also says that she would not have done what she did for polynices if it had been for a child because she could bear more children but a brother gone is irreplaceable–

οὐ γάρ ποτ᾽ οὔτ᾽ ἄν, εἰ τέκνων μήτηρ ἔφυν οὔτ᾽ εἰ πόσις μοι κατθανὼν ἐτήκετο βίᾳ πολιτῶν τόνδ᾽ ἂν ᾐρόμην πόνον. τίνος νόμου δὴ ταῦτα πρὸς χάριν λέγω; πόσις μὲν ἄν μοι κατθανόντος ἄλλος ἦν, καὶ παῖς ἀπ᾽ ἄλλου φωτός, εἰ τοῦδ᾽ ἤμπλακον μητρὸς δ᾽ ἐν Ἅιδου καὶ πατρὸς κεκευθότοιν οὐκ ἔστ᾽ ἀδελφὸς ὅστις ἂν βλάστοι ποτέ no not ever, not if i were the mother of children, not if it were my husband lying dead, i would not bear this burden against the will of the people. what law do i say these things to fulfill, you ask? if my husband died, i would have another, and a child from another man, if i lost this one, but since both my mother and father are dead and in the house of hades, no other brother of mine can ever grow back

she chooses a brother instead of children, the burial of the generation past in place of the bearing of the generation to come

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not to be an american but like. air conditioning is the greatest invention of all time.

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me, unloading a fitted sheet from the dryer: *squinting* what's that you've got in your mouth

fitted sheet: nothing :)))))))

me, prying open its twisted jaws: na-ah!!! give it to me RIGHT now!!

fitted sheet: *resentfully spits out a wad of 3 very damp dishtowels, a pillowcase, and a pathetically sodden washcloth*

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Me: I promise I won’t get drunk and mess up the marriage contract

Me a few drinks in:

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now this is an ancient greek word i can really get behind

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kitty car 🐱

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https://vm.tiktok.com/ZTdQuxw52/

I think I found my new favorite rabbit hole. This voice actor does Shakespeare scenes in a southern accent and I need to see the whole damn play. Absolutely beautiful