23. MS elementary ELL teacher. linguistics boner constantly hard. i like things. sometimes enthusiastically. this blog is a hot mess of literature references, fictional characters who think they're superheroes, and things that make me laugh
This is how your mouth pronounces words. It’s an international Phonetic Alphabet in English. GO AHEAD, TRY IT! [Tyler Neyens via Reddit/interestingasfuck]
Random Headcanon: The reason the Wizarding World in Harry Potter uses such arse-backwards technology isn’t cultural elitism. (Well, not entirely.) Rather, it’s because if you enchant anything more complicated than a screwdriver, it tends to become sentient over time. Devices that use electricity are particularly bad for this, and almost always “wake up” eventually. Arthur Weasley’s car going rogue and running off to live in a forest is actually a fairly favourable outcome; the students still tell horror stories about what happened to the guy who smuggled in (and subsequently enchanted) a digital wristwatch.
this is the best answer to this plot hole i’ve ever heard
When out with friends or at dinner parties, I frequently get asked, “So
what do you do?” My ”I’m a biology multi-classroom leader” response
receives perplexed looks, so my boyfriend usually pipes in, “It’s kind
of like the science department chair”—and then I have to kindly say,
“Well, sort of, except that I do all this other stuff…”
what she means: SIMON NEVER KNEW THAT HE'S THE ROSEBUD BOY. HE'S LUCY'S ROSEBUD BOY. HE NEVER KNEW THAT LUCY CAME BACK TO VISIT HIM AND NEVER KNEW THAT THE MAGE WAS HIS DAD. WHY
Jonathan Groff, Brian D'Arcy James and Andrew Rannells perform “The Schuyler Sisters” with Renee Elise Goldsberry as Burr for the #Ham4Ham lottery crowd today (video) (2/?)
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