"A Pink Hairless Dolphin With Lots Of Teeth"
I have wonderful news about the existence of the Amazon River Dolphin aka Boto:
Our friend has 48-56 teeth in there, all the better to gobble up Piranha with!
my favorite genre of bird picture
sometimes I think about how the Yiling Patriarch is Hanguang-jun’s morality chain and I have to laugh-scream into a pillow for a couple minutes
#it’s about the REPUTATION/GOSSIP/TRUTH/VICTORS WRITE THE HISTORY BOOKS #and the DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE ORDER/CHAOS AND RIGHT/WRONG AXES #and the /DRAMATIC GODDAMN IRONY/ #THE SWEET SWEET DRAMATIC IRONY #‘ah yes this archvillain has come back from the dead and now he’s following this heroic bringer of justice around like a(n embrassingly #flirtatious) lovesick kitten and only doing good deeds even if sometimes he uses dark powers for them #i see what’s happening here!’ #YOU DO NOT! #YOU DO NOT MY FRIEND THE RANDOM CITIZEN AND/OR CULTIVATOR OF THIS WORLD! (Tags by @tanoraqui)
Ok but like. What the fuck is there to do on the internet anymore?
Idk when I was younger, you could just go and go and find exciting new websites full of whatever cool things you wanted to explore. An overabundance of ways to occupy your time online.
Now, it's just... Social media. That's it. Social media and news sites. And I'm tired of social media and I'm tired of the news.
Am I just like completely inept at finding new things or has the internet just fallen apart that much with the problems of SEO and web 3.0 turning everything into a same-site prison?
Long collection of resources under the cut.
ALSO you should consider browsing Virtual Pet List and seeing if there are any pet sites you might be interested in playing. There is a whole genre of browser games right under your nose
Another one that I just found recently is this, which is a whole collection of blogs, organized by topic!
Look guys the real internet IS STILL THERE I'm going to cry
try Radiogarden
And it's amazing that you can find information that you looked for, just in the off chance, never expect ing that it would really be there.
Are you a word nerd like me, and my father before me?
Then may I introduce you to...
Thank you @headspace-hotel
When you’re at the bus stop on time: bus schedules are more like guidelines than hard rules, really. You will sit in the 90 degree heat for an extra 15 minutes past the scheduled arrival time wondering if the bus has decided to just skip today and you will like it.
When you are running even a single minute late: the noble city bus has a schedule to keep and it will dally not a single second longer. Be better
*crouches to go into stealth*
the cracking of my knees alerts the guards, I am immediately killed
the most disorienting thing thats ever happened to me was when a linguistics major stopped in the middle of our conversation, looked me in the eye, and said, "you have a very interesting vernacular. were you on tumblr in 2014?" and i had to just stand there and process that one for a good ten seconds
#i was in a car with a linguist i had never met before the car trip and like half an hour in he looked at me#after i finished describing a geology thing that was happening out the window and asked if i'd ever spent much time on tumblr#the fuckor of it all#and then we spent six more hours driving#it sure does leave linguistic markers! i'm not sure i'm good with it (tags via @thoughtsformtheuniverse)
it is one thing to be a linguist and another to be a linguist who knows enough of 2010s Tumblr to spot one of its enjoyers
Oh! @meret118 see above comment! The use of the word "enjoyers" instead of "users" or "bloggers" -> You left a comment a while back asking, "Does this just mean vocabulary words? Other than blorbo and sweet cinnamon roll etc, I can't think of what a Tumblr accent would be." I almost never see anyone use the word "enjoyer" anywhere outside of tumblr, but I see it on tumblr fairly frequently.
Another one is the verb "perceive" i.e. "don't perceive me" "I am perceiving" "I am being percieved." That's something that feels very specific to tumblr parlance.
There's the thing where people on tumblr have an emotional reaction to something and instead of, or in addition to telling you how they feel about it using emotion words, they will narrate a fictional action in the present progressive tense. "I am gnawing at the bars of my enclosure "I am kissing you on the mouth" "you are going into the soup" "you are getting all of the awards"
I once saw someone use that response format in ... I think it was a restaurant review, or a doordash review, or something like that. It was very unexpected seeing it outside of a tumblr post.
There are a lot of other tumblr linguistic quirks I can't currently remember off the top of my head, but I'll instantly recognize them if I see/hear them outside of tumblr. It's always a bit startling to see them out of context.
when I was in university one of my modules was about internet slang and for our grades project we had to compile and analyse a small database of 100 words used by a specific community of our choice. I chose tumblr and that's how I stumbled across Gretchen McCulloch's research and discovered that yes not only did tumblr have its own vernacular and syntax (as @lierdumoa demonstrates), it was at the time a crucible of slang and memes probably unrivalled by any other part of the internet. and it's stayed that way! even the very title is McCulloch's book because internet is an example of this specific phraseology.
sadly my project is lost due to the website being wiped from the university database after graduation and my then laptop having a major hardware failure. backup your backups people! but the crux of the entire module was that the internet is full of communities using language not only as jargon for specific purpose but also to signal membership in said community. I even wrote a bit about non capitalisation and punctuation useage as a visual cue on tumblr and how including information in the reblog body or the tags indicated different levels of importance or intimacy of thought
I am holding the side of your face and looking deep in your eyes and telling you that love is stored in the syntax, and that we are rotating words together all at once as we all nod at their new and baffling meanings. if the devils sacrament be tumblr then the devils gospel is our collective voice. thanks for coming to my tedtalk
I am being perceived.
Bracket B Round 3 Matchup 1
Peeta Mellark from The Hunger Games vs Avra Helvaçi from Running Close to the Wind
Peeta Mellark
Avra Helvaçi
Propaganda is allowed and highly encouraged!
Winner moves on to round 4!
Friends, enemies, unknowable extraplanar entitites, let me tell you about Avra Helvaçi. My evidence is under the read more, as some of it is textual. Though I will be avoiding any large spoilers.
