cpericardium:

whispers-and-waves:

atinymekanie:

weirdchristmas:

i-wear-the-cheese:

pacificnorthwhore:

lierdumoa:

issela-santina:

booksandchainmail:

voidandradiance:

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.

I literally heard someone say blorbos out loud in a group of people I was with, and immediately turned around and mentioned their shoelaces. Yes, they did steal them from the president.

penumbraphantasm:

robinparravel:

robinparravel:

robinparravel:

penumbraphantasm:

ordering a pup cup for my chikorita in lumiose

ALT

I love this thing so much I printed it out and put it on my wall.

I put it on a pin :)

My friend drew the Thing on my arm!!! :D

drtanner:

tallymali:

tallymali:

remember go nuts show nuts whatever

this wasnt a suggestion im talking abt tumblrs old nsfw policy

jamjarblues:

i truly think that this recent trend of “if you relate to a post about a different identity than your own you are ~derailing~ and taking over the conversation” is incredibly harmful.

i recently experienced some pretty severe transphobic abuse in my workplace (children’s home) that included having food thrown at me, being called slurs, being told i was a pervert because i am trans. one of the managers talked with me afterwards and shared that he had had a similar experience as an Asian man. this wasn’t him derailing my experience, or talking over me, or making things about himself. he was communicating “hey, i know how it feels and how much it sucks. you’re not alone.”

THAT is what solidarity IS. i don’t know what it’s like to be Asian, he doesnt know what it’s like to be trans, but we both had a similar experience and we were able to turn a horrible experience into an opportunity for bonding and comfort.

stop looking at people’s attempts as solidarity as an attack. and hey, you never know - you could find an opportunity to grow closer to other people.

kosmogrl:

b33tlejules:

zegalba:

artsekey:

s-h-a-s-e:

artsekey:

artsekey:

artsekey:

artsekey:

artsekey:

artsekey:

artsekey:

reblog to microwave them faster

the speed of 20 reblogs… what could 100 do…

THE POWER OF 100 REBLOGS…!

GUYS STOP THEY’RE GETTING DIZZY

[it might be a while before the power increases because the microwaver (me) didn’t expect y'all to want to rotate them so badly lolol]

THIS IS TOO MUCH

OH GOD

The people demand more rotation!

ALT

YESSSSSS THANKS @s-h-a-s-e !!

totally-cis-offical:

brawltogethernow:

alexseanchai:

woolandflax:

countess-of-edessa:

insaneostyle:

Shocking how many people don’t know that hens lay non-fertilized eggs and think the yolk they’re eating is a baby chicken

once tried desperately to make my friend understand that yolks were not, like, a liquified potentiality of chicken, and she looked at me for a while and then said, “but they’re both yellow.”

Behold

A chicken

[image: a lemon.]

Image descriptions that incidentally make the joke infinitely funnier.

It has no feathers, therefore it is a man

#making the joke worse

magikus-miccentyu:

habkeinb0ck:

hearteyedraccoon:

araxoolie:

inthefallofasparrow:

blobbiemorph:

Hamsterdam

Kontent

Theres no fukin betterer way zum flyen.

pokemaniac-mattuz:

I seriously don’t understand why people love ZA’s characters so much.

Yes, their designs are brilliant. No, that’s not what I’m referring to when I say that they are mediocre characters. Good character design doesn’t save them from being rather one note.

Ivor is loud.

Gwynn wants quiet.

Corbeau is shady, but not really. Ha ha such a funny bit.

Jacinthe is entitled.

Lebanne I actually like, the tone shift when she gets into battle is interesting. Too bad that’s still all there is to her.

Jett is a boss lady.

And I can’t be bothered to remember the name of her bodyguard because he does nothing besides let you skip through the ranks.

If they do get more to them in the DLC I haven’t played it so I wouldn’t know, and giving depth to your characters shouldn’t be reserved for Goddamn DLC.

malkshake:

The last installment of pokey commissions