The thing about Ian creating his own cartoon where he voices the main villain is that he is an R!Bill, and in the show Bill is voiced by Alex Hirsch, who created the cartoon, and that makes me irrationally happy.

tkdancer:

advanced-procrastination:

anghraine:

lisa-franck:

gregthyst-is-real:

cannibal-rainbow:

“they” (1 word) is shorter than “he or she” (3 words)

“they” is more inclusive than “he/she”

“themself” flows more naturally than “him or herself”

“they” is less clunky than “(s)he”

it’s time to replace the awkward “she or he”

“hey can you go ask they what does they want for dinner, and when is they coming over to watch movies with they?”

“Hey, can you go ask them what they want for dinner, and when they’re coming over to watch movies?”

Step one is learning how to talk like a human person.

Friendly reminder:

“I shouldn’t like to punish anyone, even if they’d done me wrong.” —George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss (1860)

“A person can’t help their birth.” —William Thackeray, Vanity Fair (1848)

“But to expose the former faults of any person, without knowing what their present feelings were, seemed unjustifiable.” —Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813)

“Every Fool can do as they’re bid.” —Jonathan Swift, Polite Conversation (1738)

“So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.” —King James Bible, Matthew 18:35 (transl. 1611)

“God send every one their heart’s desire!” —William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (~1600)

“Now this king did keepe a great house, that euerie body might come and take their meat freely.” —Sir Philip Sidney, the Arcadia (1580)

“If … a psalme scape any person, or a lesson, or els yt they omyt one verse or twayne…” —William Bonde, The Pylgrimage of Perfection (1526)

“And whoso fyndeth hym out of swich blame, / They wol come up and offre a Goddés name” —Geoffrey Chaucer, The Pardoner’s Tale (~1380)

“þan hastely hiȝed eche wiȝt on hors & on fote, / huntyng wiȝt houndes alle heie wodes, / til þei neyȝþed so neiȝh to nymphe þe soþe [Then hastily hied each person on horse and on foot / hunting with hounds all the high woods / ‘til they came so near, to tell the truth]” —William and the Werwolf (transl. ~1350-1375)

“Bath ware made sun and mon, / Aiþer wit þer ouen light [Both were made sun and moon / Either with their own light]” —Cursor Mundi (~1325)

We’ve been using they/them/their pronouns to indicate a person with unspecified gender for a long ass fucking time. The only reason it’s become a big issue lately is because it can be used as a semi-respectful term for trans and non-binary folks and we can’t have that can we

These fucks are literally trying to change our language to hurt trans/nb folks, and claiming that’s just the way its always been

how did that person forget the word ‘them’

crazy-pages:

comicgeekscomicgeek:

babyanimalgifs:

I think I know how to raise my own puppies if you don’t mind, becky.

She is their mommy now!

Something which strikes me when I see animals adopting outside their species. Interspecies adoption is a behavior which is emphatically not an adaptive behavior (intraspecies adoption is, inter- is not). So why do animals do it then? Why do they ‘waste’ (from an evolutionary perspective) resources on animals from other species? Why hasn’t this impulse been long since bred out? 

Well. The answer is quite simple.

Compassion is worth it. 

Global, giving-without-receiving compassion within a species is such a powerful fitness mechanism that it is worth the evolutionary cost of extraneous children. (Which is about as big of an evolutionary cost as you can get, short of death). The urge to care for others, without receiving anything in return, is that important. More than that, it’s apparently important that it be a unconditional urge, or else evolution would have long since pared it down to only apply in more specific scenarios. 

So yeah. I like seeing stuff like this, because it reminds me that unconditional compassion is an effective strategy. That it is more valuable than the alternative. It has to be, or videos like this couldn’t exist.