#Uncommon Words

[laughingblue12]

Good Words We Never Use

My attempt to draw “synesthesia” Xanthophobia (from Greek xanthos, “yellow”) is fear of the color yellow. In China the color yellow was feared, specifically receiving the yellow scarf, which was an imperial order to commit suicide. http://phobia.wikia.com/wiki/Xanthophobia Yes, “xanthophobia” is a word I have never used in my life before now.  I have no doubt that I will never need that word…

[cosmos-fudge]

I have no coherent thoughts about this but boy howdy do I have a LOT of feelings about it

[swhhdr-wthhr]

one headcanon i have about sanders sides that i think is perfectly plausible but is never directly confirmed by the show is that a lot of the time when patton says stupid childish stuff—like that babies come from storks or that he eats play doh—he's actually joking. but none of the other sides or thomas understand that it's a joke and he just lets them believe that it's not

also part of it probably comes from the lack of fourth wall that this show has. he knows kids watch sanders sides and he's trying to make it age appropriate

[rochellehassan]

The Spell for Unraveling (book 3 of The Buried and the Bound trilogy) has a cover! behold!

i think this is my favorite one yet! i love the stained glass background so much <3 the artist is helen mask, who's done an amazing job on all three covers for this trilogy.

[shaissa]

IZZIE TAYLOR & CASEY GARDNER

Atypical 3x07 “Shrinkage”

JACKIE TAYLOR & SHAUNA SHIPMAN

Yellowjackets 1x07 “No Compass”

+ bonus

[vero-niche]

what's bóbita ? because you use that frequently

like my first reflex was to search it on google and what came up is Spanish, so i'm like, okay maybe you don't mean "little silly one" even though it makes a LOT of sense to use that word here so i added "Hungarian" to my search which made me even more confused because two things came up; my dear and love Wiktionary who said that it's linked to fucking bird or plants and this fucker

and like, i'm there, watching a children's song (that's great to be honest), and the only conclusion i have is that y'all saw a word in Spanish, thought "wow it's really fucking cool" and used it ???? which, totally valid, every language goes and looks around and takes words that think it's cool and uses it, but Spanish ?????

spanish hater here i got forced to learn spanish for seven years and i can only say my name and insult someone

hdhdhshdtdttszs oh this is amazing, didnt know bóbita meant that in spanish 💞

yes it is in a children's song (originally a poem by weöres sándor) but it is also a legit valid name you can give to a girl, because of this very poem. the first verse of the poem goes like "bóbita, bóbita is dancing / angels are sitting around her / armies of frogs are playing the flute / armies of locusts are playing the violin." it is a very popular work that most hungarian kids are familiar with.

and i use it a lot bc that's my dear mutual @g0om's chosen name 😊

[kisforkerosene]

gave one of my friends an aneurysm today by using "y'all" and "innit" in the same sentence

[non-un-topo]

*chef's kiss*

[sapphiclittlecryptid]

I've been incredibly starved for verbal connection this year. In the replies, could yall please share an odd fact you think is cool?

I don't care if it doesn't seem worth bringing up or if you think it's not cool enough.

Please fill my silence. I'm so lonely, and even if it's just words on a screen, it feels like my hand isn't empty when I'm learning.

(If you don't have the spoons, don't feel obligated but... I just wanted to hold hands in this lonely cold world for a minute.. for morale...))

[please-let-this-work-oh-my-god]

1.9 POSTER 1.9 POSTER 1.9 POSTER

[roseofhybrids]

forgot how to spell "squawk" for a full minute today

suffering accordingly as a result

[gennsoup]

"If you feel that strongly about your truth, then there is no reason to worry about your existence, is there?"

Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars

[a-most-beloved-fool]

minor tragedy: the version of a post that's circulating is the one with a typo instead of the one you corrected a few hours later

[shepardstone]

sometimes i think its weird that my mother knows like internet stuff. like she is a fnaf fan. but then i realized shes like 40. shes jerma age its not that weird. on another note i will never let my mother find out who jerma is i feel like she would like him TOO much tbh

[eroticcannibal]

"80% of homeschooling resources are produced by fundamentalist cults" is an absolutely stupid brain dead thing to say. Saying "Homeschooling resources" as if it means something. Yes something labelled specifically to appeal to people in fundamentalist cults will be made by them. Everyone else is using EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES.