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Missing all the gossip

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[ID: youtube comment from Hal Sawyer:

My favorite relic English still used everywhere is the word "the" used in phrases like: "the more I look at this, the stranger it seems, or "the bigger they come, the harder they fall". This "the" is not the article of any noun, it is a different word, a conjunction descended from the old English "þā", pronounced "tha" which means either "when" or "then". Back in early Middle English the structure "if - then" had not taken over and if you wanted to express an if - then relationship you said "þā whatever, þā whatever", meaning "when such-and- such, then such-and-such". "þā" sounds almost the same as "the" and the spelling of the two converged, but the meaning remained totally different. "the more, the merrier" literally means "when more, then merrier" or "if more, then merrier'; same as centuries ago.

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this is so cool

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The dog went in to be neutered and the vet took a picture of the dog and sent it to his owner as soon as he woke up.

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#HELP???????

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Always thinking about the spell Link has on the Zora Royal Family

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I get to draw Sidon and Link again in the year of our lord 2023

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my magnum opus

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I lose it every time I realize that The Amazing World of Gumball and Dark Souls use sound effects from the same sound library. So many like stone crumbling and metal clanging sounds are shared between them

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#we all know the correct answer #okami

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I just don’t get it. How can our society act so goddamned normal about seahorses. How can anybody so casually accept that that’s a fish???

This is one of nature’s most anatomically perverse of all beasts. A FISH, like a carp or a bass or a beta is a fish, but it bent its body straight up only to bend its head permanently back down. It stretched its skull into a pipe. It tapered its tail like a lizard, specifically like a chameleon. It can also move its eyes independently by the way, you know, like a chameleon. Fun fact, it can change color to express its mood, like you know whatever does that. It doesn’t properly swim anymore. It buzzes its few remaining fins like an insect’s wings to float itself around at a snail’s pace. It lives its whole life clinging to coral branches or seaweed, which means it decided to become a “tree dweller” in an environment where gravity didn’t even matter anyway. The males get pregnant. They make noises at each other by rubbing some of their neck bones together. Every day, EVERY DAY a mated pair does a little dance and a little neck bone song so they remember which two seahorses they were. They’re a beautiful precious obscenity. Nothing so adorable ever made such a strong case against a logical creator.

They have as little skin and meat as they could get away with. Their skeleton is almost all they are.

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Cant stop thinking about this comment under a video about stardew valley rabbits foot drops

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are they… you know… [trying to die for each other while adamantly refusing to acknowledge their feelings] soulmates?

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Tattoo!

I feel like Delia would get this tattoo after being on the cover of "Pokémon Pals" to commemorate the moment

[All comics in order here]

From Takeshi Shudo's Pocket Monsters: The Animation!

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every time i see slur discourse i think about this post

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hey jun i remembered tumblr existed so i want u to look up lego piece 32557

oh this is Epic.

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