As I get older I’m finding that a lot of the “intellectuals” I used to admire are actually just condescending and pretentious. And also realizing how much more important it is to be present, considerate, and empathetic because nobody really knows what they’re talking about and anyone who claims to know everything about anything is feeding you bs.
“When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.”
- Rabbi Abraham Joshua HeschelYes. Much more succinct.
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Okay, this is in incredibly petty nitpick, but: if you’re writing a fantasy setting with same-sex marriage, a same-sex noble or royal couple typically would not have titles of the same rank - e.g., a prince and a prince, or two queens.
It depends on which system of ranking you use, of course (there are several), but in most systems there’s actually a rule covering this scenario: in the event that a consort’s courtesy title being of the same rank as their spouse’s would potentially create confusion over who holds the title by right and who by courtesy, the consort instead receives the next-highest title on the ladder.
So the husband of a prince would be a duke; the wife of a queen, a princess; and so forth.
(You actually see this rule in practice in the United Kingdom, albeit not in the context of a same-sex marriage; the Queen’s husband is styled a prince because if he were a king, folks might get confused about which of them was the reigning monarch.)
The only common situation where you’d expect to see, for example, two queens in the same marriage is if the reigning monarchs of two different realms married each other - and even then, you’d more likely end up with a complicated arrangement where each queen is technically a princess of the other’s realm in addition to being queen of her own.
You’ve gotta keep it nice and unambiguous who’s actually in charge!
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AU - Fifteen years after the events of the Labyrinth, Sarah is a thirty year old single mother to her three year old fairytale-obsessed daughter. Her daughter notices her loneliness and calls upon Jareth to find her mother’s first true love. Which was Jareth himself.
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as a general rule, if you’re seriously asking yourself “but what if I’m faking?” then odds are you’re not faking.
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What if oxygen is poisonous and it just takes 75-100 years to kill us?
My science teacher said he thinks that’s true actually
Yeah this is actually pretty much exactly what is going on. It’s why anti-oxidants are such a big deal. Bonus fact: oxygen oxidizes stuff in your cells or, in other words, it’s not toxic, just setting you on fire very very slowly.
What if there are aliens out there but they subsist on entirely different substances and they’re just scared as shit of us and our crazy ass hell planet? Once in a while some alien anthropologist type suggests checking out the people on this inhabited planet out towards the galaxy’s edge. The other aliens just look at the naive academic with horror. No!! We do not go to that world. That is where the DEATH BREATHERS live. They recreationally consume poisons and are more or less composed of biological fire. Their atmosphere is made of rocket fuel. We must leave the DEATH BREATHERS in peace. Do not go there. Do not.
I tend to always reblog posts about humans being terrifying weirdos to aliens.
okay but…that is actually what went down on earth about 2.5 billion years ago.
Earth was doing just fine with a mostly nitrogen/carbon dioxide atmosphere and everyone was happy to go on living in anaerobic bliss and then cyanobacteria suddenly hit the scene, altered the atmosphere composition so that there was a ton of oxygen gas and killed practically everything (97% or more of all species on earth).
We are literally descendants of the DEATH BREATHERS and cyanobacteria is our deadly mother.
The cyanobacteria holocaust is so big, it doesn’t even have a cool name; it’s just called “The Great Oxygenation Event”; the *second* most apocalyptic extinction event in our planet’s history is the one that’s called THE GREAT DYING (the Permian-Triassic event, about 252 million years ago).
This shit makes like the rock-throwing that wiped out the dinosaurs look like kindergarten.
OH HOW I LOVE THIS POST. It makes me so much happier about being alive. I AM BURNING VERY SLOWLY. *hugs it*
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HONESTLY
Can’t believe I’m gonna say it but I hate millennials ya’ll lied and tricked me
Because:
Young people are less likely to be educated about their rights and voting procedures, and despite efforts some of them may not have got registered in time.
Young people are more likely to be working two jobs or working a job while in school, and not all states tell employers they have to give them time off. Especially for primaries. And caucuses. Caucuses are a massive time commitment and happen at times that give privilege to people working “standard” hours, which young people are less likely to be doing.
The voting system disadvantages young people, and I don’t think it’s an accident.
Yeah I didn’t vote because I registered in the county my family lives in instead of where I go to school, and I didn’t find out how to do early voting or an absentee ballot or whatever it is in time.
That’s a big way young voters get disenfranchised, too. The school thing. There needs to be a better setup, but a lot of politicians seem to want the exact opposite. Can’t have the kids vote, right? :/.
Also why is voting in the middle of the fucking week? Like who’s more likely to be able to vote young people in college or working low paying jobs as their only source of income to pay for college loans or rent
Or older generations who already have a starting point (a house, a job they’ve been working at long enough they aren’t scared they’ll be fired asking for days off, a job that actually pays them well so they don’t have to work insane hours just to cover the basics or pay off small debt amount)
People saying shit like this act like Millennials just go to college and then home or can just tell skip work or take days off. Yeah you choose (should I vote or go to work) when you’re 40,000-100 and something thousand in debt with a shitty low level job cause you need 17 years of experience for a good paying job.
ABSENTEE BALLOTS!! PRINT AND MAIL OFF!!!
IMPORTANT
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