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itsm0onshine

saved this with the message "telling my friends who dont gaf about the sfth episode coming out today"

#shoot from the hip

soulren

“Ghosts are real” I can see how you could believe that

“Ghosts aren’t real” it’s very fair and rational that you believe that

“Ghosts aren’t real anymore” I’m about to hear a poem or very sad story

“Ghosts aren’t real yet” the fuck are you going to do

#random stuff

ola-na-tungee

love me some random cruise ship horror thank you SFTH boys

#shoot from the hip

scrimbum

HE LOVES BULLYING HIS BALD FRIEND

+ sam's reaction

#shoot from the hip

Wait, so Batman is a Londoner? I thought he was Scottish!

#shoot from the hip #sfth

corvid-zone

(Batman voice) I am vengeance. I am the night. I am a Londoner. I love getting my toes sucked off.

#shoot from the hip

ola-na-tungee

now Tom we talked about this

Birkenstock sandals are utterly unsuitable for carrying another Homo Sapiens backwards across a stage and are therefore by no means part of "correct harness fitting" in this particular context you want your draft improviser to keep working well for a long time don't you TOM?

#shoot from the hip

dragon-in-a-fez

personally I'm annoyed by the socioeconomic conditions that made words like "unalive" necessary but simultaneously impressed by the linguistic adaptations young people have made to continue talking about important things while subject to those conditions and I think if you can't hold both of those thoughts in your head you might just be old man yelling at cloud

a-wild-embubble

Two of my niblings (10 and 7) self-censor like this in real life during actual conversations. I tried briefly to explain to the 10-year-old that they didn't have to do that in real life after they said "unalive" out loud in casual conversation, and they just said they preferred to. On the one hand, I'm sad to see them unconsciously and fully without awareness succumbing to the panopticon. On the other... this post.

dragon-in-a-fez

it's not unprecedented in the evolution of languages to see euphemisms adopted as synonyms or even supplanting earlier terms. lots of people say "passed away" even in situations where there would be no particular social cost to saying "died".

for a particularly strong version of this kind of replacement: the word "bear" comes from a proto-Germanic word meaning "brown one" because there was a taboo against saying the animal's actual name. the taboo is gone but it was so strong in the past that we have no record of what the proto-Germanic word for "bear" even was.

maybe in 300 years the word "die" will be archaic and kids will dig it out of an etymology textbook and start using it because "unalive" is getting censored.

luggifer4

die has actually already undergone this process. die originally meant "flow" (i guess it's like you're flowing out of life or something? or maybe your life is flowing out of you idk). it was (probably) loaned from old norse to displace the now obsolete "swelt". and yes, that is the root word of "sweltering"

dragon-in-a-fez

#linguistics #interesting

opal-bee

Favorite form of non-sexual intimacy: someone who has lived in a dangerous, stressful situation for years falling asleep on someone because they finally feel safe.

#tropes

alex-e-thymia

#toe math is hard #shoot from the hip

bavovniatko

#war in ukraine

I'm seeing a pattern of most "First Date" games being actually secret "Let's see how many _____ AJ knows!".

Car brands AJ knows:

Ferrari

Dog breeds AJ knows:

German shepherd

#shoot from the hip #sfth

sparrowlucero

its kind of distressing how you can tell a lot of people see popular indie artists and writers and such as like "a Celebrity but one which i stand a half decent chance of bullying to death"