b00bstone:

cockyhorror:

so at my US college they make the freshmen take maths and i have questions

1. is this standard across the US?

2. what level of maths is that? like name me some theories or techniques or something ygm

I mean to transfer from community college to university I had to take at least algebra. Which is the worst math out there. It’s like logarithmic equations and inverse functions.

anyway Hot Take™ but if it’s right & polite to trust people when they talk about their relationships and experiences?

that includes friendships

if people say they’re just friends?

then unless they OUTRIGHT SAY OTHERWISE at a later date you should accept their word. no buts, no excuses.

no raising eyebrows

no ‘ah ah! but you blushed/looked awkward/stammered!’

no talking behind their backs about how they’re Obviously Not Just Friends

no treating them like a threat to other relationships

unless you have hard evidence to the contrary, and/or the relationship is obviously going to get somebody hurt?

…it’s none of your business. and sure, maybe they are going to get together with this person. maybe they DO like them and just don’t want to tell you. maybe they aren’t comfortable with moving into a romantic relationship yet and don’t want to push things too fast.

maybe you should still respect their privacy.

 and frankly? kind of gross that you’re so willing to mistrust a friend/have such a low opinion of their self-awareness that you’d put your assumption that they can’t or won’t accurately report their own attraction or lack thereof above basic courtesy

byjoveimbeinghumble:

To say that every Friendship is consciously and explicitly homosexual would be too obviously false; the wise-acres take refuge in the less palpable charge that it is really—unconsciously, cryptically, in some Pickwickian sense—homosexual. And this, though it cannot be proved, can never of course be refuted. The fact that no positive evidence of homosexuality can be discovered in the behaviour of two Friends does not disconcert the wiseacres at all: “That,” they say gravely, “is just what we should expect.”…

Those who cannot conceive Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend.

C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves (1960)

cityandking:

Personally I hc that while mages don’t need anything specific to do magic––Cassandra will point out that a mage inquisitor doesn’t need a staff to cast spells in the prologue––a lot of Circle-taught magic is based around the concept of needing stuff to control it. It makes sense: it’s a roundabout way to teach discipline and focus (which is, of course, what it’s really about), plus it keeps mages dependent on the Circle and the stuff only the Circle can provide: “proper” staves, spellbooks, incantations, components, all that material crap that would be hard (or harder, anyways) to get if a mage ever decided to try and run. (Diminishing stores have always been a key to tip off the Templars that someone is planning something: few mages are bold, foolish, or powerful enough to cause trouble without needing some sort of stuff they’ve always been taught they need to protect themselves, to control their abilities.)

(The Circle also teaches that barebones casting is a way to invite possession, because a lone caster has nothing to protect themself, but that’s false too, or carefully spun anyways. Drawing from the Fade is always about focus and control first, and the other stuff second. But the other stuff can provide avenues of focus, and a false sense of control, and the Circle can be very crafty in the way it tricks its students.)

bogleech:

Before this catches on with miserable adult babies reblogging to only add “KILL IT WITH FIRE” or some other idiotic, unfunny meme:

This is a mature female spider of the Nephila genus. I’m not sure the exact species, but members of this genus are also known as “golden silk orb weavers.” Their yellow-orange silk can be used to make golden cloth, like in this tapestry.

The bite of a Nephila isn’t serious. Wikipedia describes the worst case scenario – localized pain or a more severe allergic reaction – but most bitten will only experience a little itching. Like any spider, they only bite in self defense or when forcibly pressed against skin, and these big females are especially docile. I’ve held a related species on two occasions, they don’t scare very easily.

They’re so laid back, in fact, and so insistent on remaining in the same web, that these are the spiders some cultures have used as mosquito guards, deliberately setting them up to spin webs in open windows or over the top of a baby’s crib.

You can trust spiders with babies. Don’t be an asshat about your phobia plz. (By which I mean it’s perfectly okay to have a phobia and be afraid, but you don’t need to hate all spiders and wish they were all dead they didn’t do anything but get born spiders)

Source: menthaaquatica