So I usually try not to ask for financial help because I'm aware everyone's strapped, but at this point, I'm looking at three straight months of being too sick to work my actual shifts and barely scraping in half a paycheck each time. Wifey is sick now too, and while she's tanking it better than I did for the most part, she's spent the better part of 24 hrs with a high fever and is starting to show some concerning dehydration. I would REALLY like to be able to take her to the doctor ($20) and get her some antivirals and cough medicine ($50), and a few days worth of BRAT diet* safe meals so that I can keep us both fed on my work days when I won't be able to cook ($50). Unfortunately I'm expecting not to earn a full paycheck for at least another month, and at this point we're fully running on fumes without enough to cover all the bills, let alone extra expenses like these.

*BRAT diet in this case meaning a bland food diet safe for people with severe stomach flu symptoms

$120 is both a LOT of money and not very much at all sometimes, and any amount of it yall can help with would be deeply valued. It's gonna be a while before I can genuinely repay the many favors this community has done for me and my wife over the years, but I really do have a lot of irons in the fire and they really are humming along in the background despite the challenges, so as always I appreciate yalls love and patience

Aww, thank you 💚

Also fuck lol, you're right, I was very tired writing this

I'm @morbidlyqueerious on Paypal, @morbidly-queerious on Venmo, and $RazTalks on CashApp

I may be too late on this, but I feel obligated to signal boost you as my evident doppelganger, because I got randomly amused by the unexpected tag and the least I can do is pay it forwards.

In 9 years, Joe Gonzalez will become a cowboy.

In 8 years, Joe Gonzalez will become a cowboy.

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In 9 years, Joe Gonzalez will become a cowboy.

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IT’S NOT ‘PEEKED’ MY INTEREST

OR ‘PEAKED’

BUT PIQUED

‘PIQUED MY INTEREST’

THIS HAS BEEN A CAPSLOCK PSA

THIS IS ACTUALLY REALLY USEFUL THANK YOU

ADDITIONALLY:

YOU ARE NOT ‘PHASED’. YOU ARE ‘FAZED.’

IF IT HAS BEEN A VERY LONG DAY, YOU ARE ‘WEARY’. IF SOMEONE IS ACTING IN A WAY THAT MAKES YOU SUSPICIOUS, YOU ARE ‘WARY’.

ALL IN ‘DUE’ TIME, NOT ‘DO’ TIME

‘PER SE’ NOT ‘PER SAY’

THANK YOU

BREATHE - THE VERB FORM IN PRESENT TENSE

BREATH - THE NOUN FORM

THEY ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE

WANDER - TO WALK ABOUT AIMLESSLY

WONDER - TO THINK OF IN A DREAMLIKE AND/OR WISTFUL MANNER

THEY ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE (but one’s mind can wander)

DEFIANT - RESISTANT DEFINITE - CERTAIN

WANTON - DELIBERATE AND UNPROVOKED ACTION (ALSO AN ARCHAIC TERM FOR A PROMISCUOUS WOMAN)

WONTON - IT’S A DUMPLING THAT’S ALL IT IS IT’S A FUCKING DUMPLING

BAWL- TO SOB/CRY

BALL- A FUCKING BALL

YOU CANNOT “BALL” YOUR EYES OUT

AND FOR FUCK’S SAKE, IT’S NOT “SIKE”; IT’S “PSYCH”. AS IN “I PSYCHED YOU OUT”; BECAUSE YOU MOMENTARILY MADE SOMEONE BELIEVE SOMETHING THAT WASN’T TRUE.

THANK YOU.

*slams reblog*

IT’S ‘MIGHT AS WELL’. ‘MIND AS WELL’ DOES NOT MAKE GRAMMATICAL SENSE.

SLEIGHT - DEXTERITY, ARTIFICE, CRAFT (FROM ‘SLY’) SLIGHT - VERY LITTLE, FRAIL, DELICATE

IT’S ‘SLEIGHT OF HAND’.

DISCRETE - SEPARATE, DISTINCT, PARTED

DISCREET - SUBTLE, STEALTHY, DIPLOMATIC

BORN= existing as a result of birth

BORNE= carried or transported by

LIGHTENING = to make something less dark in color or to lessen its weight

LIGHTNING = bright flash of light during electrical storms

{This is quite helpful. Thank you Rebloggers.}

((adm: I just want to add-

Loose- untight

Lose- opposite of winning))

((ALSO: A fun trick -  Affect = Action  Effect = End Result ))

There = In that place

Their = belonging to them

can’t = a contraction for cannot

cant = a tilt or lean at an angle, usually to accommodate accessibility

Me thinking that this is child’s play and that I know it all already:

Me realising there are some things I didn’t already know:

TO- GOING ONE PLACE TOWARDS ANOTHER

TWO- 2, A NUMBER BETWEEN 1 AND 3

TOO- A DESCRIPTIVE WORD, THE MUSIC IS TOO LOUD, THE SHIRT IS TOO LOOSE.

Trick for telling whether to use “me” or “i”

Drop the other subject(s) and if the sentence makes sense, you’re using the right one.

Examples:

Incorrect- Arthur and me are going to the mall//me am going to the mall -no

Correct- Arthur and i are going to the mall//i am going to the mall

Incorrect- they brought presents for Henry and i//they brought presents for i -no

Correct- they brought presents for Henry and me//they brought presents for me

Rogue - a scoundrel or disreputable person

Rouge - a kind of makeup

IT IS A TENET OF YOUR RELIGION

IT IS NOT A TENANT OF YOUR RELIGION

Vicious- mean

Viscous- sticky

Conscious- awake, mindful

Conscience- Jiminy Cricket

The affect vs effect thing is very useful!  Until you learn that you can effect (to cause to occur; bring about; accomplish) an affect (feeling or emotion, OR outward expression of same; yes, this is two nouns!) because English is a garbage fire.

In 9 years, Joe Gonzalez will become a cowboy.

In 8 years, Joe Gonzalez will become a cowboy.

In 7 years, Joe Gonzalez will become a cowboy.

In 6 years, Joe Gonzalez will become a cowboy.

In 5 years, Joe Gonzalez will become a cowboy.

and another thing: no child should ever be made fun of for things they love especially by their parents

it should go without saying but apparently it needs to be said over and over and over again because every time i hear my mom tease my sister for playing wolfquest, every time i hear a teacher tease a kid for doodling, every time i hear a babysitter laugh at a kid explaining the plot of a show they like, it drives a fuckin stake through my heart because i was that kid once.

i was made fun of enough times by adults, by peers, for liking something and wanting to share it that i just. didn’t. anymore. 

dont fucking tease kids for liking things. even if you think its cringe. ESPECIALLY. if you think its cringe. because the way you speak and act towards them when they are sharing themselves with you STICKS and they will think of it years down the line.

BE NICE TO KIDS. BE NICE TO KIDS. LISTEN WHEN THEY SPEAK TO YOU. BE. FUCKING. NICE. TO. KIDS.

I was a substitute teacher for a little while between grad schools, and one day I had a middle school math class for the morning. The work they were assigned wasn’t *especially* hard, and one little girl knocked it out in 20 minutes. She started drawing what was very obviously Sans Undertale, and when I noticed I wanted to be supportive, and had the following exchange:

“What’s that you’re drawing?”

*panicking* “It’s nothing, I’m sorry, I’ll put it away.”

“No it’s okay, I was just curious about it.”

“It’s nothing. I don’t want to get in trouble.”

“You’re not in trouble, I just thought it looked like a character from a video game I like.”

Her face *lit up* the second I gave her the smallest bit of approval. She started asking me if I’d heard of various AUs for Undertale, and I tried to follow along as she explained her favorites. I obviously had to keep an eye on the rest of the class, answering questions and helping with algebra, but each time I passed her desk she had more things to tell me.

Anyway, it was very cute, but also a little sad how obviously starved she was for someone kind to talk about her stories with. Kids deserve to have someone in their corner, and it takes no effort at all to smile and listen if they have something they want to share. Preserve the earnestness you want to see in the world.

biblically accurate worm on string

most people describing their guilty faves: yeah it’s a bit sexist and the plotlines are schlocky but sometimes you just need to turn off your brain

me describing my guilty fave: yes it promotes the exact economic policy that severely exacerbated the Great Recession’s effects on the EU, but the fight scenes are really well animated

This post has been gaining popularity lately, and I have no idea why?

you’re in a State of depression

In 9 years, Joe Gonzalez will become a cowboy.

In 8 years, Joe Gonzalez will become a cowboy.

In 7 years, Joe Gonzalez will become a cowboy.

In 6 years, Joe Gonzalez will become a cowboy.

One time I was DMing a campaign where the players walked into that tavern every campaign has and one of the patrons was a Mindflayer wearing a very bad human disguise who insisted his name was Johnald Humanman. And they were just like "Oh, okay. Well, that's his business" and didn't interact with Johnald Humanman at all.

I planned for a lot of eventualities but I never planned for a D&D party being polite

I once had a DM tell us that we completed a quest line about 3 sessions earlier than he expected because we got told by a group of lizardfolk that “nobody goes to that part of the swamp” and all went “huh, ok! Thanks for the warning” and just didn’t go

My wife would totally name an NPC that tho

Hey y'all!

I'm really curious if each individual pokemon has at least one person on earth where that Pokemon is their absolute favorite! If possible, reblog this and add your favorite in the tags and I'll try and compile the data in a spreadsheet or something!

If y'all are gonna be putting multiple Pokemon in the tags im just going to pick the first one i think, no double dipping >:(

I just found a website called stonesoup.com and for a glorious moment I was fully convinced that this was a website completely dedicated to the type of European folktales in which a poor traveller cons their stingy host into letting them cook “stone soup” by boiling a “magic stone” in water (and then adding all kinds of good stuff to make an actual good soup)

Sadly it turns out that Stone Soup is a literary magazine, but they do have a whole page on the history of stone soup folklore in print.

I wonder if all stone soup stories have a different recipe, the one I know goes like this:

Huh. The one “Stone Soup” story that I know of is the Russian one, and instead of a Definitely Magical Soup Stone it uses a Hatchet.

I’ve seen that one around too! Usually under the name “axe porridge”:

The one I know is called “Nail Broth.”  (first story at the link)

Served with brandy and sandwiches (made with butter, cheese, smoked salmon, and/or veal in any combination desired).

If a child is so afraid of getting in trouble that they don't come to their parents when they make a mistake that could possibly put their health or even their life in danger, then those parents have failed.

If something goes wrong, and the first thing that child thinks is, "oh god, my parents are gonna kill me," then the parents have failed.

If a child is afraid of their parents, if the child sees their parents as an active threat instead of a source of safety and guidance, then the parents have failed.

A parents job is to protect, to teach, to guide.

If a parent makes themself a danger to the child, in any capacity, then that parent has failed.