it's just your voice learning for once to stand up tall

hi!! connie, she/her [Profile Pic ID: digital art by @colorful-noircats of Hornet riding the Bell Beast from Silksong. End ID] [Header ID: the painting 'The Sun' by Edvard Munch. End ID] [Title text: "it's just your voice learning for once to stand up tall," a lyric from the song 'Inkpot Gods' by The Amazing Devil

[absolutely-existing]

IF IT’S TRUE HADESTOWN

[arctic-hands]

When I was a teenager and still on Neopets I was part of a pretty big Star Trek guild and eventually became part of its council, with the solemn duty of creating weekly polls. Well one day I created the poll "Which would win in a fight? Borg Cube or Death Star?". Naturally, since this was a Star Trek guild, the answer was overwhelmingly "Borg Cube", but someone did have the rationality to point out we were biased.

So I look up a pretty prominent Star Wars guild and message one of their council and ask them to poll the same question and get back to me in a week. They do, and naturally the fuckin geeks said "Death Star".

So then I look up a Stargate guild and messaged the lead council member, saying the same thing, and they get back to me almost immediately saying that the Death Star would immediately one-shot a Borg Cube but they would never be able to do it again to another Cube. And I took that wisdom back to my guild and we were mollified, and for one moment the Nerd World was peaceful.

[evilsoup]

[gilliagandy]

Truly thrilled to finally find this post on my dash.

[stlamb]

decay choker, atelier pierrot, 2021

[cobrabones]

can i have this?

edit: holy fuck this choker is *literally* over FIVE THOUSAND dollars??? like i have a sewing machine. get the fuck out of here. im mad now

[stlamb]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

It's *literally* over THIRTY ONE dollars

[itsdappleagain]

[itsdappleagain]

people in my replies arguing for their fav white guy???

[indigosfindings]

how do you pronounce the honourific "Ms." in english

"miss"

"miz"

other

unsure/see results

Voting ended onMay 21

[mortalityplays]

really good "shocking number of people are confidently objectively demonstrably completely wrong" poll

[3liza]

i am losing my fucking mind

[avocado-moon]

#we dont use honorifics in my first language so whenever i have to select options (usually for flights) im always so confused#like what is actually the difference between miss and ms#i like miss bc it sounds more historical and im a historian so

"Miss" means an unmarried woman. "Mrs." means a married woman. (both of these have origins in the word "mistress" as in "mistress of the house".)

"Ms." - prounounced MIZ, btw - is a third option popularized by gloria steinem in the 70s - mainly through her feminist magazine Ms. - which is meant to be a neutral term, usable for any and all women regardless of marital status (hence the soul destroying irony of the tags above). it gained wider general acceptance when geraldine ferraro, the first woman to be nominated as VP on a national major party ticket, started using it widely to avoid confusion, since she was married but used her maiden name professionally. eventually over the years it came into common use though i do think the brits are a little more critical of it than americans (as far as i'm aware lol)

[avocado-moon]

"obscure facts only a tumblr user would know" and it's one of the most influential institutions of second wave american feminism. PLEASE open the schools

[onbearfeet]

Hi. I'm an unmarried woman in her forties. I use Ms. and pronounce it "miz", though I don't correct people who accidentally use a soft S. I use Ms. because it's no one's business but my own whether I'm married, to a man or anyone else, and that's what Ms. means. It means fuck off, my marital status is irrelevant, just as it is for every man who uses Mr.

I've had people (usually children) ask me at work if I'm a missus or a miss. I have replied that I am a miz, full stop. And when they pressed for which one I was REALLY, I have replied, "Why? Are you going to treat me differently depending on whether there's a ring somewhere?"

That's what Ms. is for. That is its linguistic function. It says, "This is an adult woman," and nothing else. Nothing else is necessary, and in my case, nothing else is desired.

I also use miz for other women unless and until they express a preference for something else because I don't magically know everyone else's marital status when I meet them. That's a courtesy—I'm declining to assume marital status and allowing them to decide whether they wish to declare it.

Also, I've taught English and worked as an editor for twenty years. I am quite literally the grammar police. This use of Ms. is a standard construction. If you didn't learn it in school, someone failed you.

[squeeful]

“Obscure facts” Boo boo I was taught it in elementary school. One with a state standardized curriculum.

Ms. is marriage-neutral and it’s pronounced Miz. It is deliberately different from Miss.

[sadclowncentral]

i had a dream that time travel was invented and too many people choose to travel back in time to save the titanic from sinking (the question of whether unsinking of the titanic deserved so much attention in the face of human history was the subject of both heavy academic and online discourse), which caused a rift in the space-time-continuum that led to the titanic showing up indiscriminately all over the world’s oceans and sea in various states of sinking.

this caused a lot of issues both in terms of fixing said space-time-continuum and in terms of nautical navigation, and after a long and heavy battle in the international maritime organization it was decided that the bureaucratic burden of dealing with this was to be upon Ireland, much to their dismay. the Irish Government then released an app for all sailors and seafarers so they could report titanic sightings during their journeys, even though they heavily dissuaded you from reporting them given the paperwork it caused.

anyway i woke up with a clear image of the app in my head and needed to recreate it for all of you:

[sadclowncentral]

no you don't understand. i do international regulation of emerging technologies for a living. this WAS me stress dreaming about work

[lexalovesbooks]

Ohhhh my god new white whale of knitting projects found.

[lexalovesbooks]

i NEED to make this. It has like twenty different colors. It’s intarsia knitting. The thought of choosing that many colors and figuring out what configuration to put them in is making me feel a little sick let ALONE actually knitting it and yet. I don’t think i will know peace until i have this for myself. Look at it oh my god.

[twofoursixohjuan]

Updating my tattercoat for this winter and found a good spot for my @prideknights pin.

[gloamglozerglam-deactivated2022]

only the true king could remove the sword from the stone…. no one else could…… they didn’t have…. arthurization

[annabelle--cane]

you know I think I WILL bet on myself for a change [is mysteriously losing dog shaped]

[huh-well-thats-awkward]

I had an idea of Edvin reading to Ingvar abs I absolutely couldn’t get it out of my head. Ingvar would love books but I’m sure they’d give him massive headaches! I love Edvin’s and Ingvar’s relationship, especially in the first few books

[kedreeva]

There's something so good about the wild type.

[ambiguouspersonhood]

What are those cool spiky feathers?? (Sorry I know nothing about these cool gals!)

[kedreeva]

You've been!! BAMBOOZLED!!

Those are actually not spiky feathers at all! They sure do look like it, though, and that's likely the point- if I were a raptor looking down upon a pincushion, I would think twice about grabbing it with my bare feet.

However, it's a ruse! Just a marking on a feather

Pretty neat, yeah?

[lesbianshepard]

one of the funnier incidents of me assuming someone knew a meme irl was when a new coworker was talking about some woman who got arrested for tax fraud and I went "God forbid women do anything" and he got scared and thought I was accusing him of being sexist, so he started apologizing and saying how tax fraud isn't even bad, actually.

[sygneinl]

Do not repost please !

[drdaanvondutch]

an old con gag that will always be funny is someone cosplaying spy from tf2 in a group of people and they've got a different cosplay taped to their face to blend in

[imgonnaeatthatglitter]

[crapussy]

Hi there! Top 3 sexiest bikes if possible. I always wondered.......

okie!!!

no. 1, firefighter bike. love an object in uniform ❤️

no. 2, cargo bike! this one specifically is a yuba fastrack, i love how shapely she is 🩵

and lastly but not leastly, the humble treadle! this gal is from the early 1900's, when people were figuring out the best shape for a bike. an oldie but a classic.

the tumblr preview is cropping her horribly but i'm going to ignore that and believe she will be shown in her full beauty when it's posted. please.

[crabussy]

FUCK. FUCK. SAW THE FIRST IMAGE IN THE 'RECOMMENDED BLOGS' TAB WHILE SCROLLING and my VERY first thought was "wowie that's a good looking bike" AND THEN I SAW THE USERNAME. UNREAL

[absolutely-existing]

do you ever look at a friend and feel soooooo affectionate

[absolutely-existing]

i’m glad this is the post of mine to get a degree of notes, fuck yeah friends