Rainbows, Rambles & Randomness

Gaming, cats, food, recipes, and various adventures.

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Rainbows, Rambles & Randomness turned 5 today!

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Peter S Beagle, author of “The Last Unicorn,” is in dire need! Here are three ways you can help.

Peter S. Beagle, the author of three novels that were foundational for me (The Last Unicorn, A Fine and Private Place and The Folk of the Air), and many other novels and stories, is having financia…

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Tarman – the legendary zombie

I’m sure you have seen Tarman yet, but you probably didn’t know his name. Well Tarman is the zombie found in the lost barrel in The Return of the Living Dead (1985) movie. Who is he and why is he so famous?

Tarman from the gas container

As you know Tarman was accidentally released from the military container with 2-4-5 trioxin gas that can reanimate dead people (and also make alive people zombies). He was a human but it isn’t known who he was before exactly. We can assume Tarman was soldier hit by trioxin or maybe some victim of a military experiment.

After the container was damaged Tarman’s petrified body has been partially liquefied. So the zombie with dripping skin and flesh looks like covered by tar. And that’s how his nick name tar-man was born.

Tarman loves brains

You’ve probably seen many pictures and other stuff with zombies that demands brains. Yes, everyone knows that zombies eat brains. But only a few people know that Tarman was the first zombie who ate a brain in movie history.  It was him who popularized the quote: “Braaains!” and “More braaains!”.

Who played Tarman?

Tarman wasn’t created by CGI effects or animation. In fact Tarman is a costume worn by – Allan Trautman, actor and puppeteer. His motions skills created that special Tarman style of walking, which looks so realistic.

The Tarman costume consists of two parts – the body poured with molten vinyl which looks like dripping flesh and the partially robotized head that helps Tarman’s mimics. Beeing all day on stage in that costume wasn’t a cakewalk for Allan Trautman.

Except The Return of the Living Dead (1985) Tarman also appeared in The Return of the Living Dead Part II (1988) and Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave (2005). But it’s first appearance has never been overcome.

Information and picture sources: More Brains! A Return to the Living Dead (2011) The Return of the Living Dead (1985) http://livingdead.wikia.com/wiki/Tarman

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the worlds most under appreciated meme is John Kenn pictures with captions

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This appeals to my sense of humour far more than any written words can communicate

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Pixalry Giveaways: 2016 Christmas Card Collection

We’re giving away a free set of the 2016 Christmas Card Collection created by PJ McQuade! The full set of the collection includes the variety pack of 12 cards shown above and envelopes, including Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings and more.

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starting over sonic adventure 2 because I lost all my data

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also guys i think it’s time to start spelling ‘small’ right again,, it’s been long enough

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see the thing is, at this point, smol isn’t even a “mispelling” of small anymore; it has its own connotations. while small is a regular adjective, smol acts more like a diminutive marker, which English has been lacking

in essence, a smol dog will always be a small dog, but not all small dogs are smol.

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what the fuck are you talking about

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Linguistic evolution. Accept the smolness into your vocabulary and be cleansed.

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@nentindo, assuming you’re asking in good faith & not just trying to dismiss a perfectly accurate analysis, here’s an elaboration of what @princeofdoomrps said:

small and smol mean different things, so they’re different words. smol means something like “small in a cute way” & not just like both small and cute but the two are related. This is what makes smol more like a diminutive marker (c.f. -tje in Dutch, or -let/-ling/-ie [like in kidlet/kidling/kiddie] in some forms of English*)

note that: 1. not all small things are smol. Microbes and electrons? Generally not considered smol.

2. similar-sized things in the same category can be smol or not depending on cuteness. So, a tiny cottage may be a smol house, but an equally tiny tenement room that is an awful place to live? Not smol.

3. smol can refer to youth (e.g. the people I call my “smol frens” are mostly taller than I am but much younger)

4. It also can have implications of fondness/emotional attachment, especially, from what I’ve seen, in fandoms where people call characters things like “my smol son”, which doesn’t have to mean someone who’s actually young, short, or cute at all. Like, IDK if anyone uses that to refer to Hannibal but I wouldn’t be surprised?

So! There are contexts where you could call something/someone small but not smol, and contexts where you could call something/someone smol but not small. This is the textbook definition of “different words”. They are no longer the same word and op, you are very welcome to only use one of them! Anyone is! 

Just be aware that pretty much every part of your vocabulary, someone at some point has decried as “wrong” usage and complained about people mangling the language this way, and when you do this thing you’re carrying on a long tradition of pompous silliness.

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* English isn’t completely lacking in diminutive markers just kinda deficient. And some of those markers have become derisive or dismissive in usage, which i hope never happens to my smol word-child, smol.

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