Inkblabber

Geeking out about writing, books, movies, gaming and all sorts of things since about 5 minutes ago.

[artbyjasonleung]

Tony Tony Chopper from One Piece 🏴‍☠️

[prokopetz]

I was about to make a 4/10 shitpost about the Epic of Gilgamesh, but it's been entirely derailed by the discovery that my autocorrect dictionary recognises "Gilgamesh" but not "Enkidu", and one of the suggested corrections for "Gilgamesh and Enkidu" was "Gilgamesh and Pikachu".

[adhd-coyote]

I just. Love Mando’a so fucking much. It’s so great.

They have three different words to describe ways to be stabbed. Bikadinir (to stab with a broad blade; “run through”), chekar (to stab with a small blade, “shiv”), and kalikir (to stab with a narrow blade, “skewer”).

They have one pronoun. Kaysh. That’s it. Buir is just parent, there’s no mom/dad. No son/daughter, just ad, ad’ika, ikaad. Child. Vod can mean sibling, friend, comrade. All at once. Amazing.

They have dozens of ways to insult someone. Di’kut, someone who forgets to put their pants on. Utreekov, emptyhead. Najaat, no honor. Dini, lunatic. Kaysh mirsh solus, “their brain cell is lonely.” Skanah, “much hated person/thing.” Hut’uun, coward. Ge’hut’uun, not even notable enough to be called a coward (how insulting is that?). Demagolka, originating from Demagol, the name of a scientist who was so fucking shitty that his name became the worst insult a Mandalorian could call you. And that insult is child abuser, monster, war criminal, someone with no honor.

And then there’s “shab”, which we don’t have an official definition for, but the fandom collectively agrees it means “fuck.” Because we have shabiir (to screw up), shab’la (screwed up), shab’rudur (to screw with), and shabuir (jerk but much stronger, AKA asshole/motherfucker).

And Mando’ade don’t say “I love you.” They say “Ni kar’tayli gar darasuum.” I hold you in my heart for eternity. Like. Are you serious. That’s so much better than “I love you.” If someone said that to me I would die on the spot.

Mirshmure’cya means “brain kiss.” Slang for headbutt, which is a thing Mando’ade do a lot, apparently. And it’s a sign of affection, too. They show affection by gently bonking their helmets together. How adorable is that???

Oh, and shereshoy. A lust for life “and much more.” Represented by orange on their armor. “The enjoyment of each day and the determination to seek and grab every possible experience, as well as surviving to see the next day - hanging onto life and relishing it.” And that “oy” at the end of it, derived from “Oya!”

“Oya”, which can mean so many things. A war cry before a fight or hunt. A celebration. An encouragement. “Let’s hunt!” “Hoorah!” “Cheers!” “That’s the spirit!”

This post got much longer than I meant it to lol. I’ll stop here. But you get the gist. Mando’a is a wonderful language and I am in love with it.

[fettunfettered]

I think conlangs are so cool in general but I am particularly fond of Mando’a because it manages to be incredibly poetic and brutally blunt.

I’m partial to the way Mando’a will just smash words together to create new words or titles or nicknames. Like taking the first syllable (usually) of a child’s name and adding ‘ika or cute as endearment (Jango- Jan’ika, Boba-Bo’ika). Or how the titles of groups like the Haat Mando’ade will become Haat’ade. Or like in the construction of their actual words so even if you don’t know one you can look at the parts and make a pretty good guess.

And a lot of these are phenomena of real languages because that’s how conlangs are made, but how cool that we can pull the most interesting traits, phrases, structures, etc. from our own languages to create something so expressive and rooted in a totally fictional and yet vast and complex culture.

[acheaptrickandacheesyoneline]

....smooshing words together to make new words? Mando'a is German.

And now I can't get the image of them all speaking with a German accent out of my head.

[sebastianstansjawline]

my favorite part about reyes vidal is how everyone who romances him seems to be in a perpetual state of “wtf where did you come from i was planning to romance _____” and it cracks me up bc it’s such a reyes vidal thing in general just appearing from the shadows like what up i’m here to steal your heart

[himluv]

[nowhere-angel]

[importantcatpics]

[stickytuesday]

Sir a croissant escaped

[artphobos]

Ayy, that cat is advertising!

[donesparce]

you dont need the butter pillow you dont need the butter pillow you dont need the butter pillow

[donesparce]

all i'm getting from the tags and replies on this post is the butter pillow has cast a devious spell on most of you. you have fallen for the trap of the butter pillow.

[jinjeriffic]

@copperbadge

Something to butter the cats with ;P

[copperbadge]

Oh man I saw those when I was in Texas early in January. They had Chinese take out carton pillows too. I was insanely tempted by the butter but I have an almost unmanageable number of pillows already.

[pointnclick]

im going to post old cat images now

ceiling cat

monorail cat

long cat

the OG can i haz cheezburger cat

the lesser known graphix cat

invisible bike cat

my planet needs me cat

cat with the gat

[brunhiddensmusings]

[tzikeh]

Good lord we need MOAR of the original LOLCATS (or cat macros, as they were originally known)

[anarchistmemedistro]

the OG memes

[sailor-arashi]

[undefinedbehavior]

Ah, the ancient texts.

[macabre-muses]

vader every time he came across 3po and r2 during the war probably

[lamieboo]

current hyperfixation

Verso. It's Verso. Husband Verso. Wife Verso. Boyfriend Verso. Side fling Verso. Verso my love.

From the Original meme by @/Mhuyo here x

[drachenmagier]

MOOOM, TUMBLR IS CALLING ME OUT AGAIN

[incognitopolls]

Do you have any pets with human names?

Yes (NOT named after a fictional character)

Yes, named after a fictional character

My pet's name CAN be a human name but it's not usually, these days (e.g. Elmo)

No, my pet has a classic pet name (e.g. Rover, Luna, Spot)

No, my pet has a noun or adjective name (e.g. Pumpkin)

My pet's name doesn't fit any of these

Multiple pets, different answers

No pets

Voting ended onDec 10, 2025

Share your pets' names in the tags!

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[madgastronomer]

Current cats are verbs, Kern and Dither, but previous animals have included Charlie, Rikki and Uther. All of whom were named after fictional/legendary characters.

[yaki-science]

I have had pets with almost exclusively human names. The cats were Mike T. Cat, Tabouli (I didn't name that one), and Hello (named for the character on Battlestar Galactica).

My current pets are Lana Kanine (after Lana Kane of Archer) and Page McDoggell, named after actual human Page McConnell of Phish because I'm that big of a nerd.

[acheaptrickandacheesyoneline]

We have Rocket, named after the guardian of the galaxy, and Houdini, named after the magician.

[solarlotus]

My new head canon after the Obi Wan Kenobi series is that when Vader takes Luke to the Emperor in ROTJ instead of the journey being in tense silence, Vader interrogates Luke about every single interaction he’s ever had with Obi Wan, every word Obi Wan said about him, everything Obi Wan taught him. And initially Luke answers sincerely, but then he’s like wtf, he’s obsessed, this is weird and eventually goes, he’s a force ghost, ask him yourself. Cue, Vader screaming at Obi Wan to get here and show himself and Luke being, you can’t just make Obi Wan do what you want and Vader’s just like, I can and I have, OBI WAN! This is when Luke knows for sure Anakin is still there and Anakin was as obsessive as Vader. 

[kazoosandfannypacks]

i love that discord doesn't tell you if someone's read your messages. like genuinely. normalize others not needing every second of your time right away. normalize taking time to formulate a proper answer. normalize this.

[acheaptrickandacheesyoneline]

Mr. Cheaptrick and I have lived at our place for over 13 years. I moved in December 2011, and he joined August 2012.

Which means that packing our entire place for a move that neither of us really wants to make but kinda need to just....sucks.

So many memories, and so much stuff.

[antimony-medusa]

Btw, if you have not had tragedy dropped on you before, grief does fuck you up in unexpected and physical ways. If you can’t sleep or sleep more than expected or have more or reduced appetite, or energy goes weird— your brain just had a bunch of emotions dropped on it and sometimes it reacts by hitting every button in your brain. It will pass. Just try to not get too frustrated with yourself.

It’s also fine if you feel normal. Grief literally hits everybody differently, and some people are made to be able to to keep the farm going the day after a death, and some of us turn into sleepless gargoyles and get really into trying to help, and some of us are just unspeakably sad. Grief is weird. Be kind to yourself.

[antimony-medusa]

Something else I want to say is that grief is cyclical. It is very common to go "why am I just a wreck today/this week" and then you check the calandar and see that something awful happened at this time last year. Or a couple years ago. Or a decade ago (my decembers are a wash every year).

So if you find yourself having memory issues or unaccountably grumpy or anxious for no reason or however it hits you, be gentle with yourself.

[blumineck]

Is Pole Dance the same as Stripping?

I get a lot of comments saying something like “bro is a striper” (usually when a post breaks containment), so thought I might as well address the topic!

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[padawan-historian]

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