too lazy for a title

I'm a dinosaur. Rawr.

[rvllybllply2014]

Now he’s just peacocking for us

[scramratz]

A big issue with online queer discourse is you never know what queer level your opponent is. You could be arguing about he/him lesbians with someone who thinks men can’t be bisexual

[askthesongstress]

The notes on this post are telling me that many people have not yet reached queer level "pronouns and gender aren't the same"

[shithowdy]

hey. if someone tries to smear you on the internet for something asinine, what you need to do is block every single person engaging with the post and remind yourself that absolutely under no circumstances are you obligated to draft a PR response defending some out-of-context screenshot or kink fanfiction or thing you said when you were 15 or whatever put your blood in the water. you are not a public figure or a brand. you do not have to respond to something if you know in your heart it is bullshit.

[soobieni]

obsessed with these illustrations of Pride and Prejudice by C.E Brock, 1895.

[panelshowsource]

Angela Barnes: We’re back baby 🎉 Sunday 1 Feb 9pm 🌍

[askthesongstress]

WAIT WHAT

[voidandradiance]

the most disorienting thing thats ever happened to me was when a linguistics major stopped in the middle of our conversation, looked me in the eye, and said, "you have a very interesting vernacular. were you on tumblr in 2014?" and i had to just stand there and process that one for a good ten seconds

[booksandchainmail]

#i was in a car with a linguist i had never met before the car trip and like half an hour in he looked at me#after i finished describing a geology thing that was happening out the window and asked if i'd ever spent much time on tumblr#the fuckor of it all#and then we spent six more hours driving#it sure does leave linguistic markers! i'm not sure i'm good with it (tags via @thoughtsformtheuniverse)

[issela-santina]

it is one thing to be a linguist and another to be a linguist who knows enough of 2010s Tumblr to spot one of its enjoyers

[lierdumoa]

Oh! @meret118 see above comment! The use of the word "enjoyers" instead of "users" or "bloggers" -> You left a comment a while back asking, "Does this just mean vocabulary words? Other than blorbo and sweet cinnamon roll etc, I can't think of what a Tumblr accent would be." I almost never see anyone use the word "enjoyer" anywhere outside of tumblr, but I see it on tumblr fairly frequently.

Another one is the verb "perceive" i.e. "don't perceive me" "I am perceiving" "I am being percieved." That's something that feels very specific to tumblr parlance.

There's the thing where people on tumblr have an emotional reaction to something and instead of, or in addition to telling you how they feel about it using emotion words, they will narrate a fictional action in the present progressive tense. "I am gnawing at the bars of my enclosure "I am kissing you on the mouth" "you are going into the soup" "you are getting all of the awards"

I once saw someone use that response format in ... I think it was a restaurant review, or a doordash review, or something like that. It was very unexpected seeing it outside of a tumblr post.

There are a lot of other tumblr linguistic quirks I can't currently remember off the top of my head, but I'll instantly recognize them if I see/hear them outside of tumblr. It's always a bit startling to see them out of context.

[pacificnorthwhore]

[i-wear-the-cheese]

when I was in university one of my modules was about internet slang and for our grades project we had to compile and analyse a small database of 100 words used by a specific community of our choice. I chose tumblr and that's how I stumbled across Gretchen McCulloch's research and discovered that yes not only did tumblr have its own vernacular and syntax (as @lierdumoa demonstrates), it was at the time a crucible of slang and memes probably unrivalled by any other part of the internet. and it's stayed that way! even the very title is McCulloch's book because internet is an example of this specific phraseology.

sadly my project is lost due to the website being wiped from the university database after graduation and my then laptop having a major hardware failure. backup your backups people! but the crux of the entire module was that the internet is full of communities using language not only as jargon for specific purpose but also to signal membership in said community. I even wrote a bit about non capitalisation and punctuation useage as a visual cue on tumblr and how including information in the reblog body or the tags indicated different levels of importance or intimacy of thought

I am holding the side of your face and looking deep in your eyes and telling you that love is stored in the syntax, and that we are rotating words together all at once as we all nod at their new and baffling meanings. if the devils sacrament be tumblr then the devils gospel is our collective voice. thanks for coming to my tedtalk

[weirdchristmas]

I am being perceived.

[atinymekanie]

I literally heard someone say blorbos out loud in a group of people I was with, and immediately turned around and mentioned their shoelaces. Yes, they did steal them from the president.

[askthesongstress]

@vocabulary-altering-posts (both as a summons and a shoutout)

[his-own-kingdom-deactivated2026]

“I believe he (Rochester) is considered a just and liberal landlord by his tenants: but he has never lived much amongst them.”

(Jane Eyre, Chapter 11)

“The villagers affirmed Mr. Heathcliff was near, and a cruel hard landlord to his tenants”.

(Wuthering Heights, Chapter 18)

[princesssarisa]

An always-important clue to whether the wealthy, complex male lead is ultimately a good person or a bad person – how he treats the tenants.

[askthesongstress]

“He [Darcy] is the best landlord, and the best master,” said she [Darcy's housekeeper], “that ever lived. Not like the wild young men now-a-days, who think of nothing but themselves. There is not one of his tenants or servants but what will give him a good name.” (Pride & Prejudice, chapter 43)

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

ao3 turns 16 today.

reblog if you’re older than archive of our own

[shymagnolia]

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

[shymagnolia]

okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post

[flagellant]

…..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment

likes charge reblogs cast, folks, this is the good luck post

[coffee-or-hot-cocoa]

i need all the help i can get for finals

[finnglas]

Hey so

the last time I reblogged this post right before I got a great job, in a permanent work-from-home position, with benefits, retirement, and a salary literally 3x what I was making before, doing something I really like. 

So you know. 

This might be the real one, y’all.

[ladyadrasteia666]

Reblogging to spread the luck and the good fortune

[mariacallous]

[amemait]

This. THIS. I never understood the whole Americans with dates to memorise thing in media, that’s just a fact where’s the meaning where’s the explanation and the insight?

[askthesongstress]

Because those are the easiest questions to put on an exam

[askthesongstress]

Easiest I mean from the teacher's perspective. Simplest to write up and fastest to grade

[mariacallous]

[amemait]

This. THIS. I never understood the whole Americans with dates to memorise thing in media, that’s just a fact where’s the meaning where’s the explanation and the insight?

[askthesongstress]

Because those are the easiest questions to put on an exam

[im2tired4usernames]

Trump supporters losing their shit over Metallica, My chemical romance, Green day, Lincoln park, and twisted sister for being very in your face anti Trump and crying because "when did these bands go woke when did they let politics into their music' 😭😭😭😭 like morons you can't be punk and fascist these bands have always been political you've either grew up stupid or a Nazi probably both to be frankly honest.

Anyhow here's a list of musicians who are either Anti Trump or are VERY adamant that he is NOT allowed to use their music and loud of their dislike of him.

ABBA

Adele

Aerosmith

A-ha

Andrew Lloyd Webber

The Animals

The Beatles (the Harrison estate said Trump was not allowed to use "here comes the Sun" to announce Ivanka at the Republican convention but if they wanted they could use "beware of darkness"

Beyoncé

Bruce Springsteen

Celine Dion

Creedence Clearwater revival

Earth wind & fire

Eddy Grant

Elton John

Everlast

Foo fighters

Free

Guns N Roses

Green day (no trump no kkk no fascist USA!)

Issac Hayes

John fogerty

John legend

Johnny Marr

Lady Gaga

Leonard cohen

Linkin Park

Luciano Pavarotti

Madonna (claims he's a weak pathetic man who's bent on dismantling all the freedoms Americans have fought for)

Metallica

Neil schron(journey)

Neil Young

Nickelback

Nico vega

Nik Kershaw

The O'jays

Olivia Rodrigo (who commented "ew don't use my sound ever" and refused permission to trump to use one of her songs)

Ozzy Osbourne

Panic at the Disco

Pharrell Williams

Phil Collins

Prince (the estate of Prince refused to let trump have permission to use their music and went after him for copywrite when he used it with it permission)

Queen

R.E.M.

Rihanna

The rolling Stones

Rufus wainwright

Semisonic

Sinèad O'Connor

Spinal tap

Taylor swift (trump is weirdly obsessed with this woman because she's a proud childless cat lady with a career?)

Tom Petty

Twisted sister

The white stripes (after the Trump campaign used their song seven Nation army Jack White said “Oh….Don’t even think about using my music you fascists. Law suit coming from my lawyers about this)

Yoanne Lemoine

[qualitymoonsuit]

I'm most curious about the ABBA one. What, did Trump try to use "The Winner Takes it All" as a campaign song? Because it is most definitely NOT a victory anthem!

[askthesongstress]

I don't honestly think most of these folks listen to songs beyond the title considering the literal decades they've spent comically misunderstanding Born in the USA

[ahsteria]

“the arts and sciences are completely separate fields that should be pitted against each other” the overlap of the arts and sciences make up our entire perceivable reality they r fucking on the couch

[scienceraccoon]

Art vs STEM is a lie created to stop us from turning on the real enemy: business and economics

[sidhewrites]

Arts vs STEM is a lie, the computer that put us on the moon was a loom of woven wires, our space suits were made by hand sewing, we need chemistry to mix paint and we need biology to raise the sheep who make the wool we spin into yarn and crochet or knit or weave and the world is beautiful

[spacefinch]

Reblogging as a science enthusiast and an artist

[askthesongstress]

"Words and numbers are of equal value, for in the cloak of knowledge one is warp and the other woof. It is no more important to count the sands than it is to name the stars. Therefore let both kingdoms live in peace."

- the princesses of Rhyme and Reason

(if you have read this book you are awesome)

[beardedmrbean]

[ah0178]

that’s nowhere near Detroit, plus Lake Michigan the third largest lake in the country, second by volume, there’s already a ferry going across the lake as a part of US-10, the lake is also one of the deepest, no way you’re building that bridge

[askthesongstress]

Also it literally sometimes completely freezes over solid like to the point where you can drive across it

[homunculus-argument]

tumblr post: I went to the library today and there was a fucking full-grown adult bull moose running around in there. It was in panic and knocking over furniture and attacking people and being a danger to itself and everyone around. That sucked. I can understand urban birds and rabbits and stuff but I draw the line at massive megafauna. Wild animals like that do not belong inside public buildings. reply 1: "Wild animals do not belong in public" wow OP those are the exact same words that my father once said to a blind woman before punching her in the face for having a guide dog. I have now decided that you agree with him on every other thing also and will now proceed to attack you for being an evil incarnate. reply 2: If you assume that "wild animals" is a dogwhistle for white people, as I naturally do, this sheds a completely different light and context on posts like this. I have already informed my +500 discord group called Paranoia Lynch Mob that you support the Russian invasion of Ukraine. reply 3: A bull moose? Do you seriously hate men so much that you automatically assume that a random wild animal is male just for being destructive and inconveniencing you personally?

[frownyalfred]

couldn’t have said it better myself.

[emeraldmercury]

Not me distinctly remembering that DLDR was originally meant for GAY ships because homophobia in the 2000s was so bad that gay fics would get mass flamed if you didn’t put that disclaimer.

[charity-angel]

Does anyone remember the fact that gay ship fics used to receive higher age ratings than straight fics? Just because it was a queer pairing? No other reason?

Absolutely ridiculous, and I outright refused to do it. I used to say this explicitly at the start, so the "warning" was there, but... yeah...

[askthesongstress]

Oh yeah, you'd see a ton of fic summaries on ffdotnet that said like 'rated for slash' but by slash not meaning any kind of explicit content just that the gay couple held hands and maybe kissed a little. It was literally nothing you wouldn't have seen on the fucking Disney channel except that it was happening between two boys

[animentality]