Bobby Hill is super excited by that dinosaur.
Posted 3 weeks ago
Destroyed For Comfort: So, Fuck It, I Just Compiled A Whole Stack Of Literary References To The "Singular They" Pronoun.
This is by no means exhaustive (hell, it’s not even a fraction), but hopefully it’s enough to get the pedantic d-bags in your life who wanna claim “grammar” as an excuse to marginalize your identity to shut the hell up. Enjoy.
“According to the number that yee shall prepare, so shall yee doe to…
Dear former English professor: Fuck you. Singular they is awesome.
Posted 3 weeks ago
Okay, it looks like 9pm is the best time to engage my followers. Good to know!
Posted 4 weeks ago
I think I’m gonna start doing stuff with this blog again. Too bad everyone who started following it left!
Posted 4 weeks ago
TINY FERRET
OMG
I think it’s actually a baby mink or mongoose, but still d’aw.
(Source: serendipitousrelease)
Posted 4 months ago
I don’t use this blog for its intended purpose. Here is a cat eating pancakes.
(Source: prismspalette)
Posted 5 months ago
Really liked your article, "5 Mind-Blowing Academic Theories as Taught by Classic Movies", but wonder where you draw your conclusion "The movies... Men in Black and Harry Potter are with Plato. People either won't believe you or they won't be able to deal with the truth, and they should be allowed to stay praying to shadow puppets." Up to this point, the article remained light, fun and stayed accurate in its representation of the source philosophies. The return of the enlightened is important.
Anonymous askedBoth skip the return of the enlightened (probably for pacing purposes and because from a storytelling perspective it’s kinda cliche to have a “no one believes me” scene these days), but they still agree with Plato’s stance that the unenlightened aren’t worth bothering with.
Neither Agent Jay nor Harry tries to explain the aliens/wizarding world to the outsiders because A) they’re told not to and B) they wouldn’t believe/wouldn’t be able to deal with it, just like we said.
They pretty much do the math on the return of the enlightened off-screen. All introducing the aliens/wizards to the populace would really do is cause more problems by making them feel insecure, like any minority group does to the majority on a day-to-day basis (observe the gay rights movement of the last few decades), which in turn simply makes the big, stupid majority want to stomp them out.
Any kind of fantasy story that deals with a world on top of the “real world” goes through the exact same motions anyway. It may not follow Plato’s scenario blow-by-blow, but the intent is still there.
Posted 7 months ago
New article on Mental Floss and my first Halloween article for 2012! 13 Disturbing News Stories You Probably Missed!
I wrote a thing.
Posted 7 months ago
New article on Mental Floss! 11 Book Sequels You Probably Didn’t Know Existed!
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