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@painfullymeta / painfullymeta.tumblr.com

90% links that I texted to someone I know, 8% links I'm sending to someone who's following me, 2% unspecified nonsense. (I made those percentages up just now.) I've been on tumblr since like 2012 and figured out how to fill in this section in 2024, and I read it via RSS because I'm an old and I don't have the spoons to figure out how Tumblr actually works.
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Reblogged frozencapybara
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"don't assign human morality to non human things" is so true except when it comes to printers. they know what they are, they understand dilemmas and ethics and morality. they choose to be how they are, they choose to be evil, at their very core they are rotten

#patrick from starbucks
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Reblogged madgastronomer
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"this post transcends language XD" but it's a post with no english cognates at all

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The tweet is indeed intrinsically funny without knowing japanese but I also want to say this because I think it makes it even funnier: this tweet says "AAAAAAAAAHHHH GARLIC TOASTTTTTTTT"

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not "AAAAAAAAAHHHH GARLIC TOOOOOOOOAST"?

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[Image: A Tweet with a photo of a loaf of bread that's actively on fire inside what looks like a toaster oven. The Japanese does indeed translate as "AAAAAAAAAHHHH GARLIC TOASTTTTTTTT". End ID.]

Definitely with the extra "t"s at the end instead of elongating the vowels in the middle; my Japanese is rudimentary at best, but what's here is the "Aaaaaaaaahhh!" in hiragana (simplified sounds, as opposed to kanji, which are ideograms (IIRC)), followed by "garikku toosutu" in katakana (also simplified sounds, but usually used for foreign words). At the end of "toosutu" and repeating to the end of the Tweet is another hiragana symbol that, like the one in the middle of "garikku" that turns one "k" into two "k"s, turns the t at the end of "toosutu" into multiple "t"s.

Someone who knows more can explain it better, I'm sure, but that's the gist.

#questionable food decisions#language tricks
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Reblogged madgastronomer
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The Silmarillion fandom is genuinely insane. Like, you hang out on tumblr, read fic on AO3 and you think, yeah. Lots of people have read the Silmarillion. It’s Tolkien. Everyone’s read Tolkien. Barnes and Noble has a whole bunch of the HoME and also a bunch of books by people writing about the legendarium. This is mainstream, surely.

But then you actually touch grass and talk to normal people. Not even that, you talk to people who self diagnose as hard core Tolkien fans. And. None of them have read the Silmarillion. The Silmarillion is famously a book that nobody reads.

And yet. On AO3 The Silmarillion and Other Histories of Middle Earth has more works than The Lord of the Rings. Think about that. That’s baffling. It’s ridiculous. Like I realize that LotR fandom is split a bit by the movie, but still. The Silmarillion has almost four times as many fics as the LotR movies. Everybody has watched the movies!

I need to know what percentage of people who actually read the Silmarillion went on to write fic or draw fanart about it. Because it must be insane, surely. Like, I’m pretty sure the Silmarillion wins some kind of record in this department.

Thinking about the fanfic bell curve where on one end you have “Perfect, needs no improvement or elaboration” (LotR sits here) and on the other you have “So bad it’s no fun to even think about” with the middle being the fanfic zone. But I think there may be a secret fourth Silmarillion option. Which is a book that is perfect* but simultaneously non existent. It’s not even a real story! The language is super pretty and deeply incomprehensible (especially to people who, unlike me, were not raised from early childhood on both the Bible and classic literature). And it’s more of an outline and an abstract painting of cultural and world building vibes (not cultural and world building facts and information) than an actual narrative. There are story hooks galore. There are vivid and fascinating characters, but their lives are glossed over and you only get one or two paragraphs of prose that will reorder your brain chemistry and haunt you forever. There are countless more characters who only exist as names, the implication of whose existence is fascinating. All of this is deeply frustrating, both to casual readers who just want a Normal Enjoyable Book, and super fans who want All the Lore. But it is catnip to anyone who engages in transformative work.

*I am aware that not anyone who is a fan of the silm thinks it’s perfect

#tolkien
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Reblogged minnowshell
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Murderbot diaries is really just a bunch of horror/thriller plots from the perspective of the Deus Ex Machina. Except it has anxiety. And 100% believes they are all going to die. And it has an eldritch horror bff that rides shotgun in it's brain. Wonderful

#murderbot

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