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I JUST WANNA HELP.

SURPRISE GIFT FOR @cancelstrangerthings

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ULTIMATE SHIPS CHALLENGE - [3/10] Kisses ↳ “I’m not talking about the pancakes.”

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What’s it called when you’re so fucking exhausted that your eyes are burning and all you have to do is wash your face and tuck into bed but you

Can’t

Get

Up.

Hi, yes, my attempts at trying to sleep at a reasonable hour are failing miserably. How are you today?

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Tropea (Calabria, Italy)

Photos by @acriativelife on Instagram

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whats a gender neutral word you could use for your spouse? wusband?? hife?? wifesband?!?!?

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366 Days of Captain Swan [108/366]

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not to be sappy on main BUT one thing that i really loved when studying linguistics was that the more important a word is, the earlier the concept of this thing was given a word. for example, the word water is similar in many similar languages (aqua, agua, água). so, the more important a word is, the more languages it’ll be similar across and the older this word will be, theoretically and generally speaking (many other things also affect this)

AND SO in my years studying linguistics, there was one word that was nearly identical across so many regionally different languages (though there are outliers of course), from europe to most of asia to subsaharan africa to indigenous languages. across nearly all languages this is the first word people learn how to say and maybe the first word humans in general officially named and defined:

mamãe - portuguese 

妈妈 (māmā) - chinese

ਮੰਮੀ (mamī) - punjabi

mamah - mayan (yucatec)

мама - bulgarian, russian, ukrainian

ماں (mäm) - urdu

মা (mā) - bengali

mẹ (may) - vietnamese

ママ (mama) - japanese

అమ్మ (am'ma) - telugu

mama - quechua

મમ્મી (mam'mī) - gujarati

അമ്മ (am'ma) - malayalam

amá - navajo

엄마 (omma) - korean

eme - native hawaiian

onam - uzbek

aana - yupik

mema - tagish

μαμά (mamá) - greek

mama - swahili

أمي (umi) - arabic

mayi - chichewa

माँ (ma) - hindi

mam - dutch

ម៉ាក់ (ma) - khmer

แม่ (mæ̀) - thai

அம்மா (am'mā) - tamil

අම්මා (ammā) - sinhala

amai - zulu

ama - basque

आमा (āmā) - nepali

အမေ (amay) - myanmar (burmese)

mamá - spanish

mom/mum- english

this isn’t actually the first word because we teach babies this word (most likely), but because the “mama” or “ama” sounds are the easiest things for babies to say, and it’s nearly always the only thing they can say at first, and adults across all languages defined their language around that.

babies all over the world for thousands and thousands of years all started out blabbering sounds like “mama” and mothers everywhere were all like Oh Shit That’s Me! I’m Mama!

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I really enjoy just existing in hotels. The long identical hallways. The soulless abstract art. The weird noises the air-conditioner makes. Strange city lights in the window. Six stories off the ground. Strangers chatting in the hall. Nothing in the dresser. No past, but an infinite present. 

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i made a uquiz to answer the age-old question:

are you the sun, the moon, or the stars?

reblog with in the tags what you got!!

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Gradients of Thick Petals by Artist Joshua Davison Are Layered Precisely with a Palette Knife

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reblog this and put the year you were born and the first social media you had an account on in the tags

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I must admit that “shit-ass” is not a word I ever thought I’d see in a 19th century letter… but here we are.

“This is kind of a shit-ass of a letter, but I just wanted to let you know I was alive.”

- Gilbert Patterson to Jack, June 16, 1896.

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YOU CAN DO HOBBIES JUST FOR FUN!!!

YOUR NOVEL DOESN’T HAVE TO BE FOR PUBLISHING!!! YOUR ART DOESN’T HAVE TO BE FOR SELLING!!! YOUR MUSIC DOESN’T HAVE TO GO ON YOUTUBE!!! YOU CAN JUST FUCKING DO THE THING BECAUSE YOU ENJOY IT AND NEVER EVEN SHOW ANYONE!!! THAT’S VALID AS HELL!!!

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I was talking to a friend the other day and we were discussing sexism as you do and I just suddenly got hit with this urge to make a list of “sexist things my “feminist” ex boyfriend has said to me”

Mainly for catharsis.

But also, for comedy.

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