jadeannarose

[jadeannarose]

Suddenly struck with a need to explain to you how boat pronouns work (I work in the marine industry).

When you're talking about the design of the boat, you say "it".

When the boat is still being built, your say "it".

When the boat is nearing completion, you can say "it" or "she".

When the boat is floating in the water you probably say "she", unless there is still a lot of work to be done (e.g. no engine yet) then you say "it".

When the boat is officially launched and operating, you say "she". If you continue to say "it" at this point you are not incorrect but suspiciously untraditional. You are not playing the game.

If you are referring to a boat you don't really know anything about you may say "it" ("there's a big boat, it's coming this way"). But if you know its name, it's probably "she" ("there's the Waverley, she's on her way to Greenock").

If you are talking about boats in general, you say "it" ("when a boat is hit by a wave it heels over")

If you speak about a boat in complimentary terms, it's "she" ("she's a grand boat"). If you are being disparaging it may be it, but not necessarily ("it's as ugly as sin", "she's a grotty old tub").

If she has a boy's name, she's still she. "Boy James", "King Edward", "Sir David Attenborough"? The pronoun is she.

If it's a dumb barge (no engine), you say it. But if it's a rowing boat (no engine), you say she.

I hope this has cleared things up so that you may not be in danger of misgendering floating objects.

[jadeannarose]

[jadeannarose]

Smart girls are the fucking best

[jadeannarose]

The old school lack of transparency on tumblr is amazing because you assume the people you follow must all be equivalent to you and then you see someone write “I brought my youngest to college today” and someone else write “my mom wouldn’t let me listen to Ariana Grande when I was a kid” and then your head explodes

[jadeannarose]

thinking that poor people shouldn’t reproduce is in fact still eugenics

[jadeannarose]

this is the single best picture of an eclipse I've taken ever. it's not even close

bark bark bark bark

[jadeannarose]

Reading a book about slavery in the middle-ages, and as the author sorts through different source materials from different eras, I am starting to understand why so many completely fantastical accounts of "faraway lands" went without as much as a shrug. The world is such a weird place that you can either refuse to believe any of it or just go "yeah that might as well happen" and carry on with your day.

There was this 10th century arab traveller who wrote into an account that the fine trade furs come from a land where the night only lasts one hour in the summer and the sun doesn't rise at all in the winter, people use dogs to travel, and where children have white hair. I don't think I'd believe something like that either if I didn't live here.

[jadeannarose]

I’m just thinking about how many times I’ve heard my dad on a long call with an obvious scammer and I’ll start begging him to get off the phone because I always think he’s a very easy mark and he’ll just keep going and then after a while he’ll say something like “I died 20 years ago” and hang up.

[jadeannarose]

It teaches you a lot about a person when you learn whether their "I've never heard of that before" means "thank you for teaching me something new" or "I don't think that's a real thing."

[jadeannarose]

It's called Tumblr because it works like a rock tumbler. We all put out brilliant minds together and then give it a spin, beating and banging them together in a hellish onslaught of swirl until it's done and everyone's brains come out perfectly smooth.

[jadeannarose]

i mean this from the bottom of my heart: no one is impressed by your loud ass car. actually we talked about it and we all want you dead.

[jadeannarose]

My nordic ass does not believe in non-walkable cities or non-drinkable tap water. If I die, I die, and that counts as a death in battle. Valhalla awaits, good luck with disposing my corpse.

[jadeannarose]

Jim: are you sure this is where the distress signal came from, Spock?

Spock: yes, Captain. the message said they were dealing with a creature called the Unknown

[jadeannarose]

Amethyst stalactite 28 cm. Complete all around. Artigas, Uruguay. Inquire for details

[jadeannarose]

[jadeannarose]

[jadeannarose]

hate it when I'm eating and my stomach starts growling