— Robin Wall Kimmerer, “The Intelligence of Plants”, from the podcast On Being with Krista Tippett (via peatbogbodyhasmoved)

@palaquinn

Time for a new Jelly, new good vibes! Good luck everyone, it’s gunna be good soon

The Creature: You made me, therefore you must bear the consequences of my creation.

Victor Frankenstein: Nuh-uh

The Creature: fym nuh-uh?

@big-ol-bumble-bee relevant

May the Supernatural money come your way

Sam’s face tho

He wants them money

Always reblog this

Reblog for good fortune in your future

This is the money Sammy, reblog and much moneys will come your way

Dolla dolla make da moose holla

Come on Sammy. We’re going to hunt down some Dollars

Dad’s on a dolla trip…and he hasn’t been home in a few days.

there aint no me if there aint no dolla

I need Dolla

Saving up, Hunting dolla, The family bank.

I’m done with this fandom

Dolla stack so fat make a moose go…

Remember fandom children: A dolla a day make a moose say heyyy

Dear god

So that’s where we are On the bank so far Saving dollars Hunting cash, the family business back in swing

Driving down the road so far (scaping from the police)

What’s wrong with this fandom

Everything

[hiatus intensifies]

may you be gripped tight and raised from bankruption 

Crowley: king of Debt Castiel: angel of the Wealth

#we’re all on drugs

What the fuck is even going on here

The fuck did I just walk into

I pray to Cashiel to get his feathery ass down here

Did somebody say, *Dolla hunting!*

Team free dolla $2.0

what they don't tell you is that a well-written fic can get you to ship anything, and i mean ANYTHING. notp? not anymore. you will stay up late thinking about and crying over them for the rest of your life. characters you don't even know from a piece of media you've never engaged with? fuck it, they belong to you now. problematic ship that you loved to hate and now just love to love, that you must never tell your friends about? don't worry, ao3 knows how to keep a secret. like. a well-written fic will have you acting UP and that's a fact baby !!

@cakeisnotpie

This is absolutely true. I had no interest whatsoever in Phlint until I read your work. None. And now they're an OTP for me.

For all those "nu-uh, academic texts need to use complex words for complex concepts" - I agree, and yet I have read papers as needlessly pompous and inaccessible as the parody above. Two things can be true at once

The worst thing is I understood that tweet without difficulty. I swear I have read some papers that make that parody look clear and succinct.

The proper terminology is needed to be specific, yes, but wording should never be complicated just because it can be.

I just can't help but disagree with academics' need to use jargon and complexity. Look. Being a lawyer means using a lot of jargon and trying to explain complicated concepts. But good legal writing means trying to make those concepts accessible. You can have a dialogue with experts within your community while also being clear and concise. It's literally my job to do that.

As someone who now gets to edit other people’s formal writing, I think one of the main issues is when people are trying to be fancy they use extremely lengthy, complex sentences. You can use jargon without being opaque if your sentence structure is clear and straightforward. But people with legal/academic backgrounds put so many asides in their writing in the name of specificity that it’s difficult to understand them in the first read through. I’m a huge proponent of footnotes and bullet points to add clarification without bogging down the point.

Example edit of the above:

The opacity of academic prose perpetuates exclusion to the detriment of academic research.

Key drivers:

Outcomes:

You obviously wouldn’t use this style for a paper, but I am confident the structure makes it more accessible without changing the jargon.

This is brilliant. When I can't use bulleted list, I will: (1) separate things internally like this, or (2) just use short sentences.

@palaquinn relevant to your project with your former coworker and to the stuff you're dealing with right now

Me: can’t find my glasses most days (they’re usually on top of my head)

Also me, memorized what type of mast cell mediators cause which symptoms and how they are liberated after a doctor snidely asked me if I “knew what half those words meant” or if I just “read about it on Google.”

fucker.

May that guy always get exactly all and everything he deserves.

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HEY.

Yes. It's a nice daydream.

Every once in a while, and then I remember just how much I snagged by accident from other authors -- their worlds became my headcanon -- and I get over myself and leave them alone.

If you live in Ohio, today is a good day to check your voter registration, and to consider booting JD Vance into the sun.

Check and recheck. They'll steal your vote if they can.

Even if you have made the choice for yourself not to vote, ask yourself: are you okay with others having the right to vote stripped from them?

If the answer is 'no,' then you may want to reconsider the first part.

This is current btw, OP is dated June 18 2024

Just mentioning so no one assumes it’s and old post and ignores it

I know unicorns in modern media are kind of regulated to cutsie, MLP, rainbow plastic toys, or shitting rainbows, 'lets go to candy mountain' but man. I WISH more fantasy media would put them in unironically. There is so much symbolic and narrative potential in a creature that is, depending on your mythology:

Had to make a meme to describe me currently

I still have the scene. I wrote the scene.

I will never write the book the scene goes into.