commonly confused words

accept: to receive except: with the exclusion of

advice: recommendation (noun) advise: to recommend (verb)

adverse: unfavorable averse: opposed to

affect: to influence (verb); emotional response (noun) effect: result (noun); to cause (verb)

aisle: space between rows isle: island

allude: to make indirect reference to elude: to avoid

allusion: indirect reference illusion: false idea, misleading appearance

already: by this time all ready: fully prepared

altar: sacred platform or place alter: to change

altogether: thoroughly all together: everyone/everything in one place

a lot: a quantity; many of something allot: to divide or portion out

angel: supernatural being, good person angle: shape made by joining two straight lines

are: plural form of "to be" our: plural form of "my"

accent: pronunciation common to a region ascent: the act of rising or climbing assent: consent, agreement

assistance: help assistants: helpers

bare: nude, unadorned bear: to carry; an animal

beside: close to; next to besides: except for; in addition

boar: a wild male pig bore: to drill a hole through

board: piece of wood bored: uninterested

born: brought into life borne: past participle of "to bear" (carry)

breath: air taken in (noun) breathe: to take in air (verb)

brake: device for stopping break: destroy; make into pieces

buy: to purchase by: next to; through the agency of

canvas: heavy cloth canvass: to take a survey; a survey

capital: major city capitol: government building

choose: to pick chose: past tense of "to choose"

clothes: garments close: to shut; near cloths: pieces of fabric

coarse: rough course: path; series of lectures

complement: something that completes compliment: praise, flattery

conscience: sense of morality conscious: awake, aware

corps: regulated group corpse: dead body

council: governing body counsel: advice; to give advice

dairy: place where milk products are processed diary: personal journal

descent: downward movement dissent: disagreement

dessert: final, sweet course in a meal desert: to abandon; dry, sandy area

device: a plan; a tool or utensil devise: to create

discreet: modest, prudent behavior discrete: a separate thing, distinct

do: a verb indicating performance or execution of a task dew: water droplets condensed from air due: as a result of

dominant: commanding, controlling dominate: to control

die: to lose life; one of a pair of dice dye: to change or add color

dyeing: changing or adding color dying: losing life

elicit: to draw out illicit: illegal, forbidden

eminent: prominent imminent: about to happen

envelop: to surround (verb) envelope: container for a letter (noun)

everyday: routine, commonplace, ordinary (adj.) every day: each day, succession (adj. + noun)

fair: just, honest; a carnival; light skinned fare: money for transportation; food

farther: at a greater (measurable) distance further: in greater (non-measurable) depth

formally: conventionally, with ceremony formerly: previously

forth: forward fourth: number four in a list

gorilla: animal in ape family guerrilla: soldier specializing in surprise attacks

hear: to sense sound by ear here: in this place

heard: past tense of "to hear" herd: group of animals

hoard: a hidden fund or supply, a cache horde: a large group or crowd, swarm

hole: opening whole: complete; an entire thing

human: relating to the species homo sapiens humane: compassionate

its: possessive form of "it" it's: contraction for "it is"

knew: past tense of "know" new: fresh, not yet old

know: to comprehend no: negative

later: after a time latter: second one of two things

lead: heavy metal substance; to guide led: past tense of "to lead"

lessen: to decrease lesson: something learned and/or taught

lightning: storm-related electricity lightening: making lighter

loose: unbound, not tightly fastened lose: to misplace

maybe: perhaps (adv.) may be: might be (verb)

meat: animal flesh meet: to encounter mete: to measure; to distribute

medal: a flat disk stamped with a design meddle: to interfere, intrude metal: a hard organic substance mettle: courage, spirit, energy

miner: a worker in a mine minor: underage person (noun); less important (adj.)

moral: distinguishing right from wrong; lesson of a fable or story morale: attitude or outlook usually of a group

passed: past tense of "to pass" past: at a previous time

patience: putting up with annoyances patients: people under medical care

peace: absence of war piece: part of a whole; musical arrangement

peak: point, pinnacle, maximum peek: to peer through or look furtively pique: fit of resentment, feeling of wounded vanity

pedal: the foot lever of a bicycle or car petal: a flower segment peddle: to sell

personal: intimate; owned by a person personnel: employees

plain: simple, unadorned plane: to shave wood; aircraft (noun)

precede: to come before proceed: to continue

presence: attendance; being at hand presents: gifts

principal: foremost (adj.); administrator of a school (noun) principle: moral conviction, basic truth

quiet: silent, calm quite: very

rain: water drops falling; to fall like rain reign: to rule rein: strap to control an animal (noun); to guide or control (verb)

raise: to lift up raze: to tear down

rational: having reason or understanding rationale: principles of opinion, beliefs

respectfully: with respect respectively: in that order

reverend: title given to clergy; deserving respect reverent: worshipful

right: correct; opposite of left rite: ritual or ceremony write: to put words on paper

road: path rode: past tense of "to ride"

scene: place of an action; segment of a play seen: viewed; past participle of "to see"

sense: perception, understanding since: measurement of past time; because

sight: scene, view, picture site: place, location cite: to document or quote (verb)

stationary: standing still stationery: writing paper

straight: unbending strait: narrow or confining; a waterway

taught: past tense of "to teach" taut: tight

than: used to introduce second element; compared to then: at that time; next

their: possessive form of "they" there: in that place they’re: contraction for "they are"

through: finished; into and out of threw: past tense of "to throw" thorough: complete

to: toward too: also; very (used to show emphasis) two: number following one

track: course, road tract: pamphlet; plot of ground

waist: midsection of the body waste: discarded material; to squander

waive: forgo, renounce wave: flutter, move back and forth

weak: not strong week: seven days

weather: climatic condition whether: if wether: a neutered male sheep

where: in which place were: past tense of "to be"

which: one of a group witch: female sorcerer

whose: possessive for "of who" who’s: contraction for "who is"

your: possessive for "of you" you’re: contraction for "you are" yore: time long past

commonly confused words part 2

rb to tell prev they're being so brave right now and pat their head a little please

IDGAF if the women in my fiction are empowering or aspirational, I'm an adult, I don't need role models, I want the women in my fiction to be interesting, and if that involves being pathetic, hypocritical, amoral, or trapped in a delightfully dysfunctional relationship so be it

#'this is so illegal/toxic/unhealthy'#yeah bestie thats why im reading about it instead of doing it

Actually that no punctuation plot hole ooc wattpad fanfic written by that 12 year old will ALWAYS be better than character ai. And I love that 12 year old btw

matt just fired half the remaining tumblr support staff lmao

from my sources adjacent to tumblr--from which i can spread rumors and insider information freely because i dont give a fuck about ever working in the tech sector--im hearing this round of firings was focused on purging the senior staff, and not just from support but from the entire remaining tumblr workforce. i'm hearing there are about 25 people left.

The United States Disappeared Tracker is “tracking persons politically arrested, detained, or disappeared by the Trump regime since March 9, 2025”.

sorry- not done-

its so indicative of a greater issue too, because so much of that app is just people interacting with content that upsets them CONSTANTLY. why?? why do you feel the need to let people know they've upset you? the artist didn't post this with the intention to make you mad!! thats so fucking clear!!

and when you interact with shit its just pushing more of it into your feed!!! you could keep from ever seeing this again if you just minded your own business!!!!

its so fucking infuriating!!!!!

ALSO IF I DIDNT MAKE MYSELF CLEAR- ITS NOT ABOUT THE OBSCURITY OF THE FETISH OR THE CONTENT IN GENERAL.

YOU SHOULDNT REACT THAT WAY TO ANY KINK BECAUSE ITS WASTING YOUR FUCKING TIME.

Everyone wakes up with a limited amount of energy for each day right??? Why are you using that energy to police ANYONE AT ALL??? You’re not getting paid, there’s no compensation to being weird and mean to people who have an unorthodox fetish

AND MOST IMPORTANTLY OF ALL I CANT STRESS THIS ENOUGH:

THEY DIDNT PUT THE FETISH ON YOUR TIMELINE!!! THE ALGORITHM DID!!! DOG THE LAST THING I OR ANY OTHER PORN ARTIST WANTS IS FOR OUR ART TO END UP SOMEWHERE ITS NOT WANTED!!!

I need everyone to think critically for five seconds! Do you go out and post regular fanart to specifically make people who hate the property angry or upset or uncomfortable on purpose??

NO!!! YOU DONT!!!

YOU MAKE IT FOR THE PEOPLE THAT LIKE IT!!!!

NEWSFLASH: PEOPLE WITH FETISHES ARENT TRYING TO RUIN YOUR LIFE BY MAKING FETISH ART. THEYRE TRYING TO JACK OFF. YOU ARE THE ASSHOLE FOR WALKING INTO THEIR PRIVATE PORN THEATRE AND YELLING ‘OH MY GOD ARE YOU JERKING OFF TO FEET RIGHT NOW?????’

LIKE FUCK ME!!! WHY DO YOU LET THE THINGS THAT MAKE YOU UNCOMFORTABLE RULE YOUR LIFE???? WHAT PURPOSE DOES MAKING YOURSELF UNCOMFORTABLE BY INTERACTING WITH SHIT THAT MAKES YOU UNCOMFORTABLE SERVE????

And also before you go into the tags of this post to say ‘well *I* don’t have any of those weird, immoral, gross, creepy, nasty, gross fetishes, but I don’t comment on people who do because I’m a good person :)’, I need you to consider what it is about those fetishes that are so ‘gross’

posting this for no particular reason

UM GUYS. I JUST NOTICED A CRAZY ISSUE W THE TUMBLR UPDATE.

YOU CAN SEE THE ICONS OF ANONS SOMETIMES.

The way I was able to recognize several anons in one of my inboxes bc of this error. Oh my god. Guys. This isn’t supposed to happen.

Weighing in to say:

YES, I SEE THIS ON MOBILE. HOWEVER I DO **NOT** THINK IT'S SHOWING THE ANON'S REAL IDENTITY.

The profile pictures I see next to anon asks are profile pictures that belong to other, non-anon asks in my ask box also. Some info

I think the bug is the inbox INCORRECTLY attributing anons to neighboring, logged-in asks.

Which is still a bad bug! Considering it makes it look like a long-time follower of mine sent me a spam ask.

And is worse if, say, one of these was anon hate.

But it's NOT the anon's real identity. It's a neighboring ask asker's identity

So if you have anon hate in your inbox that looks like it's attributed to your dear friend, who sends you lovely asks all the time, it was Not them.

CONFIRMED THE BUG IS INCORRECT ATTRIBUTION.

Thanks @thepatchycat for being a test subject. As you can see the icon being attributed to this ask is NOT the patchy cat

The pictured icon belongs to @watchingforcomets who sent me a nice ask about nail polish yesterday which I have not yet answered!

“ooh i’m getting all my tattoos removed bc tattoos aren’t cool anymore they’re out of style and no longer match my aesthetic” i’m not gonna mince words anymore if you got tattoos because they were a cool aesthetic and not because you actually wanted them then you’re a fucking idiot

It's also important to note that this is happening alongside a wave of conservative rhetoric that views tattoos as "unclean". I don't think it's a coincidence that being "anti-tattoo" is coming up at the same time as the "quiet luxury" and "clean girl" aesthetics which are inherently (whether you are intending it or not) virtue signals to the white upper/ruling-class that conservatives love to tout around.

My lack of tatoos has more to do with my tendency to devlope skin sensitivities and alergies otherwise I'd have ink. If nothing else a semi-colon. However with my incredibly shity health luck I'm not taking rolling that dice.

The second points checks out so dang hard.

) <- super parenthesis. reblog to close all parentheticals you opened and forgot to close in your life and return to equilibrium

DCxDp idea.

Danny does Science

Danny is a chemist who posts videos online of random experiments he does. Each video is a little unhinged, he says some out of pocket stuff and the editing is gold. (I’m thinking like NileRed on YouTube but mix it with that funny cooking guy from TT)

He does all of his experiments in his parent’s lab when they aren’t using it.

Most of the videos are educational, entertaining and just an interesting watch. Giving how he explains the components, process and uses of each and every experiment he does.

Sure every now and then he gets shot at or attacked by automated weapons or the giant doors open behind him to show off a swirling void of green that comes with ungodly sounds. And yeah maybe his science comes to life when he isn’t looking and tries to ambush him from behind.

But it’s still educational. Just very interestingly educational.

(I have a vision. Here it is.)

The video starts with a lab devoid of any occupants. The main focus of the frame is a metal table stacked with papers, tools and beakers and bottles of unidentified and unlabeled chemicals.

Behind the table is the rest of the lab viewers have come to love. Industrial metal plating bolted to walls, tools and equipment lying around on more tables and counters. A controlled chaos that the channel owner seems to know like the back of his hand.

Then the channel owner comes into view. Walking to be behind the table dressed in a simple pair a star themed pajamas with a lab coat thrown over top.

“Hello everyone.” He greets cheerfully, placing a clay looking statue on the table that’s between himself and the camera.

“This is a priceless artifact made out of clay.” He gestured to the small statue in front of him. “It may or may not be cursed by a ghost.” He then puts on nitrile gloves and grabs a Blow torch from a storage space beneath the table.

“Either way, let’s destroy it.” He lights the torch and starts holding the flame to the figure. In human screeching can be heard from some muffled place.

Tim: Watching this video for the First time on -69 hours of sleep

Tim: Huh? Maybe I should go to bed?

Time skip to when Tim finally wake up After sleeping~

*find the video*

Tim: IT WASN'T A DREAM?!!??

Ok so this is just asking for Danny to end up on justice league radar. They have programs that scan for stuff like this so they can get advanced notice of potential new mad scientist they most likely will end up dealing with. The only reason they haven’t found him yet is because the phone he upgraded to work in the ghost zone is also transmitting it through the zone and into other dimensions.

Flash, Blue Beetle (Ted kord), and (whatever the name of that Atom guy who shrinks) is going nuts trying to find this kid and that gods forsaken unsafe lab. So are the other league members but they’re particularly upset about the state of the lab. And the things Danny says and the videos that are cut short when one of the ghosts attack is not helping whatsoever. And to make matters worse they are hearing rumors that there are several mad scientist in the villain community are also looking for Danny to recruit him.

Taggies @confusedshades @chaos-bringer-13 @kizzer55555 @megasweetbones

YEEEESssss

I feel like his channel would be called something like Science Time with Danny. It looks all normal and educational from the outside but if you skip to far into the video without paying attention you get treated to absolute chaos.

Imagine if at one point he creates something that attacks him cause he wanted to see what would happen if he added Ecto to it. Then he opens the portal that’s been closed behind him in all the videos and just chucks the thing in.

Closes the portal, then looks at the camera.

“That’s a future Danny problem now :)” then he just goes back to what the video was supposed to be about like nothing happened.

Absolutely! A future Danny problem.

Cut to a video a few months later. And something bursts into the room. Gooey, radioactively glowing and Danny goes: Oh fuck past Danny he always does this shit to me.

And/or Danny gets Bill Nye level loved and he makes a side comment of if I go missing it's either the government or justice league. Suddenly that's a phrase that's used a few times in episodes. His fan base thinks it's odd. But then he does go missing. The riots. The demands to release him. Justice league goes it's not us but then they start looking into Danny more and see he is being tracked by an unheard of government agency.

Him being tracked means he hasn't been captured. Yet. Or he escaped really quick.

What if he's been saved by villains?

More specifically, what if H.I.V.E Academy students came and saved him? Then, offered asylum? This is their idol! He's so cool! The teachers and professors had been playing his videos to the class to learn from. The students are 100% ready to throw down with the Justice League and the Government the second he goes missing.

(Imagine his handle is Nightingale, but on his channel he goes by Gale? And the students chant Gale, like when Bill Nye gets brought up?)

Definitely got captured but escaped. Then he’s not using his ghost side like at all just the power of science, wacky gadgets he made on video and the absolute mob he’s created out of his fans.

He’s an icon and they’d lay waste to any government that is gunning for him.

What if Danny was completely oblivious to the fact that he’s like the face of an entire riot of viewers? Like he knows he’s getting a crap ton of attention online but he thinks it’s just cause he’s funny and science rules. Not that he’s gained the adoration of nearly everyone watching him.

Justice League getting so much shit for Danny being captured by the government. But the JL has to say how they don't work for the US government and are for the people. Had no clue that there was a section of the governor hunting Danny.

Red Robin, Spoiler, and Signal all coming out on their socials, and on TV, to say how they also watched Gale, the inter-dimesional scientist. No way they would have stood by and let that happen.

There's also Wally and Bart for the Flash family, backing them up. Impulse literally is so distressed at Gale almost being experimented on.

Even villains like Poison Ivy, who were or are scientists and have seen his videos in passing, are in an uproar. What do you mean he was potentially a villain? The kid has been doing everything in his lab! He's even made things that help people! And he isn't patenting anything so everyone can use it!

No touching the teen scientist! No touchy! He's already traumatized!

(Accidentally reblogged the wrong one. Have this lil exert I thought would be funny)

The channel ‘Nightingale Science Time’ had been inactive for months. The channel owner’s other social medias having gone with the radio silence. The last anyone had heard from the creator of the channel was a single text post reading.

‘Sorry guys, next videos going to be late! The government found me :( I’ll post when I can!’

Then nothing. For months people speculate. Fans and casual viewers alike, coming together to chat online about what could have possibly have happened. Where he had gone and who he was talking about.

Then, without warning, a video is uploaded to the inactive channel.

A video one hour and some change in length, the thumbnail of Danny and two others in a new lab, and titled: ‘Watch us make a new portal in our new borrowed lab!’

The video starts with Danny cheerfully smiling and waving at the camera. “Hi everyone! Sorry about the long wait! The GIW were like really hard to escape from then I had to keep running after that. But hey! Upside! This group of viewers found me and my great assistants here and offered us a place to stay and continue playing with science!”

He gestured around him in vague motions. “They even got their school or whatever to give me an entire lab! Like the whole thing! So now I don’t have to sneak around my parents to entertain you all!” His smile was like star light, his eyes gleaming with wonderful joy.

“Though it’s great, really it is. It’s lacking in one aspect that I like really need.” He points to a big open cavern in the wall, a space still under construction.

“And that would be the portal to the Ghost Zone. I may kinda need it to live. So! Come with us while we build a newer and better one!”

The video continues with the three other them working in tandem to build a portal that took his parents his entire childhood to build. He makes out of pocket comments here and there. Something about adding a filter and a button on the outside so no one has to die this time.

The get the portal fully built near the end of the video, when Danny goes to turn it on the video shorts out and cuts. Only to come back to show Danny, covered in soot and smoking but still standing. A person stands just out of frame with a fire extinguisher pointed at Danny.Behind him is the glowing green portal he had in his previous lab.

“Alright guys! I’m going to end the video here. Thanks for watching and please don’t replicate anything you see on this channel. We are trained professionals and don’t fear the outcomes that could come from a failed experiment. Bye bye!”

Danny accidentally lets slip in the video that his old lab aka the Fenton Lab aka Gale's OG lab was actually his parent's lab. And the fan base catches on and blows up. Dis boy, this benovlant mad lad, needs the portal to the Ghost Zone to live?

Gale is a child of careless mad scientists, and he's being hunted by a super sketchy government agency? That isn't ARGUS? The GIW and the Fentons are suddenly being investigated by not only various JL members and afronted costumed villains but also the arguably probably villainous Amanda Waller.

But it only gets worse for them when John Constantine shows up to headquarters for an administrative meeting. Doesn't matter if he was bribed paid for consulting, threatened, or lured in by a promise of snu-snu from Zatana for bein good and showing up. He walks into a break room to make himself a cuppa beforehand and Tim has NST up on the TV. Constantine gets to see a Ghost Zone Portal switch on. Oh no, oh no, no, no, no, no... This is why his luck has been suspiciously good of late. Tim dropping Nightingale Science Time Channel Lore ™️ only confirms his suspcions. John can be heard muttering oaths comprehensible only to Alfred as he stalks to the conference room.

The rest of the JL members show up to see the conference room has been transformed in to a JLD situation room. There goes the quarterly finance meeting...

Cory Booker has been talking in the senate for over 20 hours now

He’s not filibustering. He’s protesting the current administration.

For those of you from outside the US or those of you who didn’t pay attention in government class, in the US senate there’s really no limit to the amount of time a senator can speak. So sometimes if they don’t want a bill to pass they just. Don’t stop talking. To hopefully get past the deadline to vote on a bill. This is called filibustering.

Senator Cory Booker isn’t doing that. He’s disrupting “the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able”. Just in protest. This doesn’t usually happen.

He’s less than 20 minutes away from breaking the record of the longest speech given on the senate floor

Cory Booker has officially broken Strom Thurmond’s record for longest speech on the senate floor and he’s still going

For those of you wondering what he’s been talking about this whole time, his staff wrote down a bunch of stuff for him to read like stories from people across the political spectrum opposed to what the administration is doing. He’s also been telling personal anecdotes about meeting important civil rights leaders and other democratic senators have been pausing him for “questions” but the questions have been as long as a small speech and have both served the purpose of giving him a second to sit down and updating him on the news that he’s been missing while he’s been talking.

More Info: Cory Booker breaks a 68-year-old Senate record with a 25-hour speech (NPR - April 1, 2025)

aura

unfortunately no eclipse photography can ever outdo the waffle house one from 2017

@witchofthesouls this is the vibes of your Cyberformed Other!Earth

unfortunately no eclipse photography can ever outdo the waffle house one from 2017