Something just occurred to me in the category of "experiences I feel are universal but are probably not." So here's a poll!
We're including any kind of tent, but not RVs, campers, or cabins. Open-air camping (with no tent) or with tarp tents counts as tent camping for purposes of this question.
Ship is copy editing a novel that was originally written in Japanese, and one line they had to edit for clarity in English was "the river was so big it could be considered a large river," which was so clearly the result of there being a specific term for "a river that's huge" in the original language and not in English that I was like why the fuck DON'T we have a word for that though ???
i have often wondered this, bc it threw me off enormously as a child, bc the rivers I had personal experience with were the Huron river in Michigan and the Soque river here in north Georgia, pictured:
And I was thus utterly baffled by stories where rivers were these massive and incredibly dangerous things that were impossible to ford. I was always like... like, I believe you, but I have no way of envisioning this based on the rivers I have met.
Now as an adult, the largest river I've met personally is the Colorado, which is indeed a different scale than the ones I'm more personally acquainted with, but also I have now seen footage of, for example, the fucking Yellow river:
...and it's absolutely absurd we don't have a specific word for "a river that is Fuck-off Huge" in English! We have a bunch for "a river that's Teeny Tiny" like creek, stream, brook etc... and I'm sure part of it is that rivers like the Yellow river (or Amazon, or Nile, etc etc) aren't present in the lands where English initially developed, obviously, BUT STILL... "river that you would have to be suicidal to try to ford" seems like a useful linguistic shorthand and it's weird that we don't have it. imo.
I grew up on the Columbia River in eastern Washington State and I was aware that small rivers (like the Yakima River, also a major feature of my childhood landscape) existed, I just didn’t consider them real rivers. Anything that you can walk across or lazily float down is more of a, I don’t know, recreational waterway. They’re nice or whatever, but they’re not really real rivers.
Pictured above: The River
Pictured below: a long bumpy pond or something, idk
Image ids: top- Columbia River flowing under the Cable Bridge and train bridge between Pasco, WA and Kennewick, WA. Bottom- Yakima River as it flows through a gorge with a gravel bed, tributary creek, and wildflowers in bloom.
I would have greatly appreciated a word to differentiate between “fuck-off huge waterway that carries commerce and requires specialized structures to contain and cross or else it’ll kill you” and “waterway that’s bigger and longer than a creek but that a horse could still reasonably cross”
right exaaaaactly!!! that's what I'm talkin about! rivers that are multiple miles across should be called a different thing.
Counterpoint: English does have a word for fuck-off river, it's just "river" and we've devalued it.
Hence terms like race, run, slough, stream, creek.
when she says she doesn’t send nudes
when guys objectify women and expect them to send nudes
when someone asks you about your nuclear plans for russia
When Russia sends you nudes
This is my favorite post in all of tumblr
reminder that this post is now illegal in Russia
reblog it, because Russia can´t
Thanks Obama
When Russia makes this post illegal
I HAVE ONLY SEEN THIS IN SCREENSHOTS
I will reblog this every goddamn time I find it on my dash
I have a piece of tumblr history on my blog now
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Closest match: Bombyx mori BmN4 cell DNA, chromosome 24, sequence Common name: Domestic Silk Moth
When the domestic silk moth sends you nudes
Domestic silk moth is just being friendly
Now the moth is banned in Russia
…well what the fuck is this
Art.
Old iconic tumblr posts gather gimmick blog comments the way DNA mutations accumulate over time
This is why I love tumblr
Degrees of secondhand fandom:
Amusingly, the first big boom in mainstream popularity for the YouTube video essay format happened circa 2018, so this post actually very slightly pre-dates the Video Essay Era.
[Image is tags reading, “#don’t forget watching video essays/reviews about it”. End ID.]
Hey, so many of you are familiar with fix-it fanfiction, the superglue which holds together the hearts canon has shattered, right? Well, I have a point to make. As of right now (1-28-2020), there are 6,659 fanfictions in the Leverage category on AO3. You know how many of those are fix-it fics? 25. A measly 0.38% of Leverage fanfiction is tagged as fix-it. For comparison, 2.20% of MCU fanfiction and 1.25% of Supernatural fanfiction are fix-its.
So yeah, Leverage is so amazing that hardly anything needs to be fixed. But we already knew that. No, it gets better. Of those 25 fix-it fanfictions, 16 (64%) of them are actually fix-its for OTHER fandoms. Leverage has been used in fix-its for White Collar, The Walking Dead, Coupling (UK), The Flash, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, Kings, Person of Interest, Pacific Rim, Once Upon a Time, The Losers, Merlin, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the actual 2016 US election (yeah, that).
The point here, being, not only is Leverage’s own canon one of the most perfect to grace television, it is so brilliant that it can literally bust in and fix everyone else’s canon as well.
The bit about fixing other fandoms literally made me laugh out loud. Maybe more of a cackle. I love this show so much
Parker: *to the heartbroken or otherwise traumatised characters of other franchises* You are suffering under a tremendous weight. We provide… leverage.
Eliot busting in to fix your canon
As Bed Bath and Above, so Bed Bath and Below
Yeah I'll reblog that
Chapters: 31/31 Fandom: 신입사관 구해령 | Rookie Historian Goo Hae-ryung (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Goo Hae-ryung/Min U-won, Yi Jin/Min U-hui Characters: Goo Hae-ryung, Min U-won, Min U-hui, Yi Jin Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Post-Canon, Established Relationship, Characters in Love, Falling In Love, Romantic Fluff, Fluff, Hurt/Comfort, Kissing, Slice of Life, Mentions of Pregnancy, Short Chapters, Drabble Collection, fluffy july 2026
When all it’s said and done and the unearthed secrets are resting in the past, a collection of drabbles narrating two love stories.
The one between Hae-ryung and U-won, where the love is confident and sure.
And the one between Yi Jin and U-hui, where the love blossoms on tiptoes.
Finally completed the challenge! ·˚ ༘༘⋆ˎˊ˗٩(^ᗜ^ )و ´-·˚ ༘༘⋆ˎˊ˗
the pros of reading ao3 fics in public is that their layout is so clean and simple that people would think you’re reading some academic researches when you’re in fact reading a 50k fic. the cons is that you need to control your face all the fucking time
An additional feature: the layout is clean and simple BUT anyone familiar with AO3 will immediately recognize it. Pro or con? You decide.
If they know it enough to recognize it on sight, they probably aren’t going to be judging me about it.
they were also at the devil’s sacrament
Do you ever lie awake wondering how the heck Gimli knows what a nervous system is
Clearly dwarves have medical knowledge far more advanced than that of the other races.
His Majesty Dr. Gimli, son of Gloin, Neurosurgeon, M.D.
gimli trying to explain his studies to legolas, a flat-earther
#*scroll down* #*remember that middle earth is canonically flat for elves and round for everyone else* #*scroll back up & smash that reblog button"
tired: legolas took gimli to valinor with him because they were bffs/in love/etc.
wired: legolas took gimli to valinor to prove the world was flat after arguing with him about it for decades
Sorry it’s what to elves
So, in Tolkein lore, the world was originally flat, with most of the land in the middle (hence Middle Earth). But the Numenorians (men who were rewarded with their own Atlantis-equivalent island for service in the first big war against Melkor, but eventually Power Corrupts etc) tried to invade the uttermost west which was basically Elf Heaven. To put an end to that sort of thing, the creator of the world Bent The World and made it a sphere…but left elves able to treat it like a flat disk. So elves can sail west and reach Elf Heaven, but a man or dwarf or hobbit who sails west will eventually wrap around to the east coast of Middle Earth.
Because I think the previous post immediately got some people defensive and this might be a better parallel:
I lived in a city that had literally 1/4 mile of bike lane. Total. And it was a few 1-2 block sections that didn't even connect. Absolutely fucking horrible bike/pedestrian infrastructure.
The city I live in now has some of the best bike infrastructure on the continent, and other cyclists here will be like "Oh, you think this is better? We still have people promoting metal bike lane bollards over cement, and you think our infrastructure is good??"
Yes? Fucking yes?? There even more cyclist deaths in the new city, but that's mostly a function of actually having cyclists, because it is obviously better. Sure, it can keep improving! Awesome! But it is so obviously better here??
After having an actual majority conservative Republican city council, sorry if I don't think that your barista supporting a different progressive candidate than you makes them a 'fascist'.
This is not a popularity contest of Bill Cosby vs. Nick Tahoe; unlike the illustrious Mr. Tahoe, Cosby was just a shill, not the recipient of an inspiration particle.
I am, however, deeply sorry to anyone who discovers what a garbage plate is due to this poll. That link goes to my favorite article about the hometown of the garbage plate, which is not the same place as the hometown of Jell-O. But it's close enough for my purposes, while beef on weck and salt potatoes are too far away.
me (crazy eyes, covered in blood): I NEED to finish writing my fanfic. so I can start writing a different fanfic.
i open and close tumblr like it's a fridge
words of wisdom from wikipedia this evening
much to consider
