nicos-knife-trick asked:
what the fuck does gaudiest mean
biggest-gaudiest-patronuses answered:
it means i’m beautiful
For those wondering, my url comes from a famous post by @copperbadge, discussing depression & patronuses:
I struggled with major depression from about age 12 onwards. Reading this brought me joy and a spark of light in a dark place. I thought of it often to encourage myself during the dark patches. Now that I’m in the best health of my life, it gives me no small degree of satisfaction to look back on this.
I can’t tell you how pleased I am to see your ongoing progress & survival and to know I’m a part of it :D
As for the ask, I think it’s been adequately answered, but when I said “gaudiest” in the sense I used it, “gaudy” as in “gaudy night” implies “joyful”. Gaudiest is the most beautiful and joyful!
I’m nearly 40 and I have clinical depression. I still grapple with it sometimes, but I know my own power and I I love that I have dragged others up out of the worst of it with me.
Gaudium is Latin for Joyful. The word gaudy came to mean something about appearance in the middle ages/Renassaince, and eventually meant tasteless as the pendulum swung against bright colors.
i’m gaudy, joyful, and garish!
oh my gods it got better
this is it this is the most wholesome post on this blog
gaadee means car in hindi
what make am i? i’m guessing a gaudi
Ok hold on a diddly darn doo dang second-
You are more than just a sh*t-post blog.
Like seriously people may think you are just some joke of a blog, but your posts- be it some are mostly just jokes- can be very sincere and wonderful. I know for a fact that just scrolling through your blog, just reading your posts has cheered me up on some darker days. There are some posts that are very thought provoking and make me- and most likely others- realize some very heartfelt things. So I guess this is a thank you for all that you’ve done and also some motherly pride thrown in there.😊❤️✨
Gaud you are in fact the biggest gaudiest patronus for all your followers
that is perhaps literally the most inspiring feedback i’ve ever received???!!!!!
why do super villains always have the fancy designer cats? why do they never adopt from a shelter…
These tags tho
go on a graveyard date with your boyfriend. smooch across the tombstones. take pictures of each other and count the ghost orbs you see in the photos.
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I did my master’s thesis on emergency contraception and I used gender-neutral language throughout. Most people didn’t notice. My supervisor occasionally asked me to use the word “women” instead of the word “people” but didn’t care enough to follow up when I ignored him. None of the people who reviewed and marked my thesis made any comment on the language I chose to use.
Using gender-neutral language was easy and I suffered no consequences for doing so as an academic, even when writing a detailed thesis on human reproductive biology.
