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nephilid · 21 hours
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Suddenly hit with the vivid memory of when a cat had kittens and I was maybe four years old, and an older kid (I think a cousin?) kept saying with disgust and horror that she was "eating the afterbirth" (as mammals do), but I didn't know what that meant and started asking, only to be ignored or dismissed by the adults, who also wouldn't let me see no matter how FRANTIC I got with my questions, even when I started bawling my eyes out. Because, see, my interpretation of that sentence was that she was eating the kittens. What else would you conclude if you don't know the word "afterbirth," you're too little to know anything else comes out with the babies, and everyone is acting like it's something too nasty to explain to you in words? I don't remember when I figured out that they meant something else but I remember four-year-old me being devastated all day and terrified the next morning that all the kittens would be gone. All they had to say was "it's yucky stuff that was on the kittens, so she's cleaning up!" but no they could evidently not come up with anything more creative than just "it's nothing!" And worse yet my questions made them laugh. They LAUGHED at the unfathomable violence I was sure had happened in that cardboard box. Can you even imagine how demented I thought these people were. I was four years old already thinking I was the only rational compassionate being in a house full of sick sadists. Please try to entertain the questions of children, especially if they seem upset. You never know when they just think you're a fucked up asshole hiding a kitten massacre.
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nephilid · 21 hours
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The 'hyperspecific situations' polls are really once again highlighting that native English speakers tend to forget that 'foreign' doesn't mean 'non-English' or 'non-American'
"Did you watch a foreign language movie in the past three days?" Yeah I watched the foreign movie "The Martian" with foreign actor Matt Damon
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nephilid · 21 hours
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It amazes me how many teslas I see out and about. Like you guys bought one for real? On god? No joke?????
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nephilid · 21 hours
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oh fuck this is a really good hill i gotta die on this
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nephilid · 21 hours
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sign brendan saw last night
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nephilid · 21 hours
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Anyone else think the “phantom cat shaver” might be an inside cat vigilante trying to send a message? This is already making some Brits say they’ll keep their cats indoors.
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nephilid · 21 hours
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fucking obsessed with the uni town i live in
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nephilid · 22 hours
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nephilid · 22 hours
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General tumblr reminder, since some people don't know: If the person's URL has "deactivated" plus a string of numbers (a date) after it, that means that they manually deleted their own blog. It doesn't mean they were banned. Banned blogs don't have "deactivated" after them and will just be the normal URL you can't click on or interact with. They look very similar and function the same, but they were caused by two very different things.
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nephilid · 22 hours
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Your moral ocd is lying to you and tumblr is lying to you. you do NOT have to reblog any post you dont want to and you dont need to justify it and youre not prejudiced against a certain marginalized group if you dont reblog an Upsetting Post about a Current Issue said group is facing
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nephilid · 22 hours
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they should do this for tumblr so you know when a lot of picrew icons are gonna be filling up your notes
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nephilid · 22 hours
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idk if im actually bi or nit but i have an 8 am class tomorrow cant worry about that
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So a friend of mine made this based off a fb status I made and now it’s *everywhere*
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nephilid · 22 hours
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IM WEEPING AGAHAHAHAHAGAHA
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loving the lord of the rings so far
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