ask me about the difference between leopard/cheetah/jaguar print, it’s my field of expertise
What is the difference? Please learn me a thing
cheetahs got dots! little dot dots i want to bop
leopards got filling. it’s cheetah 2.0. Cheetah on meth. look at that leopard shit.
then there’s jaguar. Jaguar is madness. it took leopard print & decided wait. what if–MAW DOTS. it’s just leopard print with dots in the middle, it’s chaos
look at this bullshit
i’m angry just looking at it
so in ascending order: Cheetah < Leopard < Jaguar
C.L.J. someone come up with weird mnemonic for that, i’ve done enough work for you greedy bastards
That’s the point. These are artificial colors, most night vision systems are monochrome, which takes away a lot of detail, specially when you want to use them to read anything, like that road sign.
Holy fuck thats night time
Hold my pancakes THIS IS NIGHTTIME??!?
why’s there glitter in the sky- *reads reblogs* oOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHH THOSE ARE STAAAAAARSSS!!!!!!
For those wondering, my url comes from a famous post by @copperbadge, discussing depression & patronuses:
I struggled with major depression from about age 12 onwards. Reading this brought me joy and a spark of light in a dark place. I thought of it often to encourage myself during the dark patches. Now that I’m in the best health of my life, it gives me no small degree of satisfaction to look back on this.
I can’t tell you how pleased I am to see your ongoing progress & survival and to know I’m a part of it 😀
As for the ask, I think it’s been adequately answered, but when I said “gaudiest” in the sense I used it, “gaudy” as in “gaudy night” implies “joyful”. Gaudiest is the most beautiful and joyful!
I’m nearly 40 and I have clinical depression. I still grapple with it sometimes, but I know my own power and I I love that I have dragged others up out of the worst of it with me.
Gaudium is Latin for Joyful. The word gaudy came to mean something about appearance in the middle ages/Renassaince, and eventually meant tasteless as the pendulum swung against bright colors.
i’m gaudy, joyful, and garish!
oh my gods it got better
this is it this is the most wholesome post on this blog
gaadee means car in hindi
what make am i? i’m guessing a gaudi
Aaaand then it broke into puns.
gaudi means fun in austria and bavaria
This was really nice until we started making fucking puns.
He looks back at the guy like, “SEE THAT? SHE SAID YES. YOU’RE SO FUCKED.”
Like, guys. Sparta was so kick ASS sometimes when it came to women. Spartan women were given these small knives so that if their husbands came home and tried to hit them or assault them, they had a weapon within reach. That weapon was for CUTTING THEIR HUSBANDS’ FUCKING FACES so that when he went out in public everyone would know he was an asshole, abusing jerkface and they would publicly shame him.
LET’S JUST TALK ABOUT SPARTAN WOMEN FOR A SECOND.
In Sparta, women could own land and were considered citizens. THAT IS A HUGE BIG FUCKING DEAL. Why? Because that was RARE AS FUCK and there are lots of places TODAY where women don’t even get that much.
Divorce was totally fine, and a woman could expect to keep her own wealth and get custody of the kids because paternal lineage wasn’t very important. And it didn’t make her a pariah! She could totally remarry, no big deal at all.
Spartan women participated in some fuckin’ badass sporting events, too. And because they were expected to be as physically fit as the Spartan menfolk (who all had to serve compulsory military duties, btw, and couldn’t marry until they finished them at thirty) they didn’t have time for lots of swishy dresses. So they wore notoriously short skirts. According to some accounts, their thighs were visible at all times. HOLY SHIT.
Also, In Sparta men only got their names on their graves if they died in battle. And women? Women only got their names on their graves if they died in childbirth. THE SPARTANS COMPARED CHILDBIRTH TO FUCKING BATTLE AND IT WAS VIEWED AS A GODDAMN BADASS AND HONORABLE WAY TO GO OUT.
FUCKING SPARTAN WOMEN. THIS DUDE HAD FUCKIN’ BETTER MAKE SURE SHE’S COOL WITH WHATEVER HE’S DOING, IF HE KNOWS WHAT’S FUCKIN’ GOOD FOR HIM.
^^ I throughly enjoyed the history lesson dashed with the colorful adjectives.
I mean, he knew she was Cersei… lol
And the women were trained the exact same way as men were. As children they were equals ; they were not allowed to wear clothing until a certain age and at that point they were sent away to a training camp until they were 18. It was only the men who were sent into the wilderness for an extra two years to ensure their strength for battle.
Plus the women could marry whomever they pleased and the men weren’t allowed to live with the women in their house until she said so. And they were tough in Sparta but also all about family. To have male offspring was good luck, to have female offspring was an honour.
This part of the movie was true; King Leonidas really did kill a man because he insulted his wife and he always ensured that he had his wife’s approval. And while Leonidas was away in battle she did rule Sparta on her own.
Sparta knew what was up.
#Hiccstrid
As a historian I can confirm all of this is totally true and amazingly badass.
It’s also worthy of note that people like to romanticize Athens because of its democracy whereas Sparta was a hardened monarchy. But Athens was nowhere near as open for women as Sparta was.
I’m sharing this here for those writers who need a touch of history or inspiration
1) We weren’t allowed to accept tips when I worked at McDonalds.
2) I have had people literally in tears in my drive thru because someone ahead of them paid for their order. They went back through the drive thru and were able to get each of the kids their own burger. I had a homeless guy get an absolute feast that would last him several days because of pay it forward.
3) The majority of pay it forward recipients that I saw either turned around and payed for the next car (no net gain for them) or were clearly in need of the extra food. There was no in between.
Always pay it forward if you can, especially at fast food places. For some people it’s the difference between going hungry and having a full belly.
IMHO, Ivy Lou is a privileged idiot.
Okay but Starbucks and McDonald’s are two very different places, okay? Like McDonald’s is super cheap, easy for poor people to be able to afford, paying it forward is probably easier and a nice thing to do.
Starbucks on the other hand, Ivy Lou is usually right about. Like each drink is seriously overpriced. It’s for a “higher class” of people (I say this sarcastically). Like you could probably get three burgers at McDonald’s for the price of one Venti drink (idk I’m probably exaggerating) and also the Starbucks Employees can accept tips.
What I’m trying to say here is when it comes to “higher class” places like Starbucks or fancy restaurants, pay it forward to the employees, but when it comes to fast food, pay for the next person in line.
I can see both of these points, but I’m gonna jump in with a story:
Thuri and I live paycheck to paycheck. We struggle a lot. We barely make ends meet sometimes.
And sometimes, we need an indulgence. Like Starbucks. Sometimes we just desperately need that treat that makes the struggle feel worthwhile.
A few months ago, we were taking just such an indulgence–more than we could afford, really, but what’s one small coffee in the scheme of things, right?–and Thuri noticed the gas cap on the car in front of us was open. The line was moving pretty slow, so Thuri hopped out of our car, ran forward, knocked on the window of that car to let the lady know what she was doing (so she didn’t get freaked out by some random person approaching and messing with her car), closed the gas cap and came back. No big deal, just a nice gesture.
When we got to the window to pay for our coffee, we learned gas-cap car lady had paid $5 toward our purchase.
Not a huge gesture either, but it made our day. It legit did. And it DID help us out.
I guess my point is an act of kindness is never wasted. Even if it IS rich people taking care of rich people, it might inspire them to be more generous. It might inspire further good deeds by reminding people that there ARE those who can be selflessly generous.
And sure, maybe if you’re feeling like being altruistic, tip the barista too. But if you have no cash and want to throw something extra on your card, paying for the person behind you isn’t a bad thing. It’s still putting kindness and generosity into the world. And who knows what might come of it?
Be generous when you’re moved to be, and never assume what it might mean to the person receiving your generosity. You have no idea how badly they might have needed that gesture of kindness, Lexus or not.
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