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[thememedaddy]

[sweeetestcurse]

Leon Kennedy in Resident Evil Requiem 11/??

[catasters]

[the-big-mood]

Treat your feet to these hilarious and super soft Gengar Plush Slippers. Featuring the iconic mischievous grin and a long red tongue that acts as the footbed, these slides are the perfect mix of "scary" and comfortable.

GET IT HERE

[the-big-mood]

[punkrock-bottom]

If you stay up late to hang out with friends I don’t think you should have to be tired in the morning. I think it should be a freebie

[i-will-write]

how i sleep knowing i write shitty fiction but at least don’t use chatgpt

[twinklecupcake]

Suddenly thinking of 1989’s The Little Mermaid and you know what, give Eric some props here because he had the weirdest fucking hour of his life—

Wakes up from hypnosis where he was about to marry a woman he’s never seen before with his mystery girl’s voice, the instant he wakes up then the cute girl he’s actually fallen in love with now has that voice. Then she drops to the floor and has a fish tail, and then the first girl is suddenly cackling “too late!” and bursting out of her skin. So it turns out she’s actually an octopus woman who drags herself over to the real mystery girl - who’s a mermaid?! They’re real?! - and taking her back into the ocean. And Eric has no idea what’s going on here but okay, one of these women is clearly evil and he needs to go after his mystery girl.

And all of this happens/he realizes what he has to do within like, a single minute.

Prior to this he was just living out a sweet romance after having a Meet Cute with a shipwrecked girl, but okay, guess he’s involved in whatever the fuck this is. Acting first, questioning later.

And this is all before the kaiju attacks.

[twinklecupcake]

And let's also remember that Eric is one of the few Disney heroes who actively, deliberately murdered the villain.

He went "Okay then" and killed.

[disgruntledexplainer]

I would say killed the villain, not murdered. Murder implies that it was premeditated and out of malice. Eric was defending his girlfriend's life while Ursula was attempting to murder her. He was well and fully justified in his actions.

[angelfishcake]

In legal terms, 1st degree murder is any murder that is premeditated, even if the premeditation was only for a minute. 2nd degree murder involves no premeditation but resulting in a deliberate action to cause harm. 3rd degree/manslaughter is purely accidentally and/or a result of gross negligence.

With this in mind, it's safe to say that Eric did murder Ursula, as he deliberately steered the ship to impale her with the bowsprit, but would be pardoned on account that he was defending the life of another (Ariel).

[twinklecupcake]

THIS IS ALSO TRUE.

[rederiswrites]

Just watched Adam Conover (of Adam Ruins Everything) make such a solid point that I think we should spread far and wide. Yes, having AI write your emails is lazy, sure, but people love being lazy. We need to really emphasize that sending AI emails (or using AI responses on social media, or publishing AI flyers, or or or) is rude.

It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.

It's rude.

[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

[prokopetz]

I'm not sure what's more concerning here: the idea that the Tumblr vernacular, a principally written idiom, is discernible in spoken communication, or the fact that if you click through to the original post, its contents appear to have been replaced at some point in the last two months with Minecraft YouTuber fanfic.

[eshesmites]

This is me, a linguist, being pedantic but what you’re describing (a particular pattern of speech/grammar/vocabulary indicative of a defined group) is technically a dialect; an idiom is a turn of phrase that means something other/additional than the literal meaning of the words (“raining cats and dogs” or “see the light” etc etc). You may have been thinking of an idiolect, which is the particular dialect of a single individual.

And if I, a linguist (an intellectual 🧐), hear Tumblr English out in the wild, I get so excited. Genuinely, I seriously considered writing my masters thesis on tumblr english and only didn’t because my advisor was a bit of a stick in the mud. This is a VERY Exciting Time™️ for linguists because the advent of the internet (and more specifically areas of the internet that encourage communities to form among people scattered across the globe) has created an era of exceedingly rapid language change, and gives us a huge opportunity to study how language changes on a much shorter timeline than usual. Throughout human history, geography has been a huge limiting factor in language bleed, transmission, and change; but now we have the ability to talk to people from all over the globe regularly enough that we are picking up vocabulary, grammar, and linguistic markers from all over the world.

Like, do you get how fucking cool it is that english speakers who have never visited Asia are able to use borrowed words like isekai and honorifics like -san fluently?? Do you get how many idioms and weird little grammatical constructions we’ve created that are unique to OUR dialect of english? Think of pissing on the poor or (like I used earlier) me, an intellectual. Our dialect, here on this hellsite, is the only one I can think of that has created a significant catalogue of complex tone markers specifically for the written form to compensate for the shortcomings of the written word in communicating meta-linguistic information like sarcasm or mockery or excitement. This dialect, primarily created in the written form (which is nearly UNHEARD OF), exploded onto the linguistics scene in 10 or 20 years when normally it can take centuries for dialects to distinguish themselves. It's academically BONKERS and I am HERE FOR IT. It's in the same realm as Nüshu, the Chinese written script only used by women.

TLDR: As linguists we are collectively shitting our pants about this fucking dialect and are OVER THE MOON to hear it 'in the wild.'

[avidreaderffn]

Linguists in the wild wearing shirts that say 'if you were also at the devil's sacrament, join me for an hour in the ballpit'

And booty shorts that say 'you know where i got my shoelaces' on the ass

[janmisali]

here's another idea for a poll! I think this will have some interesting results. this sentence is here to pad out this paragraph so people who don't read posts will be more likely to accidentally miss these instructions. if you're reading this, please select option eleven. here's another sentence to make this block of text look longer. anyway here's my fun poll idea!

try to create a normal (bell curve) distribution

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Remaining time: 2 days 15 hours

[greatlordfluffernutter]

Now, one might look at these numbers and be lead to believe that half of all tumblr users don't read posts. However, in the replies to this post you will find over a hundred users who will happily clarify to you that actually the reason why they voted the way they did isn't cause they didn't read the post but actually because they didn't bother to look at the words in the post and process them as language, a technique commonly referred to as reading the post.

[dndmultiverse]

It is time we faced the true evil!

[writemeasandwich]

but yeah, no, I'm the evil one for calling on the unforgivable black magic of *checks spellbook* recycling

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Ya can't blame them, who doesn't want free gas? And, they didn't specify.

[rivy31]

Happy Pride Month

[inkskinned]

you know what? fuck it, man. the world is held in the fists of people who like to break things. at this point i’m saying who gives a shit. wear that victorian dress you don’t have an excuse for. dress up like a witch, pointed hat and all. who cares anymore. why worry about it when there’s bigger stuff to worry on. i’m saying. yeah, this lipstick is too dark, wanna share? i’m saying go talk to her, tell her that you like her hair. i’m saying she’s out of my league but i’m still swinging, i’m saying yeah i’m in a ballgown and it’s a pta meeting. what about it. eat the extra brownie, tell her your feelings. i’m saying if nothing matters than we might as well give nothing meaning.

[inkskinned]

#i’m saying if existence is a void at least i’m going down screaming.

it’s been 9 years since i wrote this. i was experiencing 24/7 anxiety so badly that i needed serious medication. these days in the back of my car is an “emergency party box.” when people admit they no longer really celebrate their birthday; i tell them to put the sash on and queue up kesha, we’re going bowling or something. these days i can’t spin around without finding something i am enamored with. these days i list 3 things i’m grateful for before i fall asleep. you’re probably one of them, just by virtue of you existing.

at the time i wrote this, i was suffering through a severe panic attack literally every night. i tortured my brother with constant 2 AM calls just to hear someone else breathing, because i couldn’t be alone in the silence.

i rarely wish i was still 23 even though ironically i had more hope back then. what i can tell you is this: i love the same way, but bigger now. i’ve worn the velvet cape to several business meetings. i spent thursday in a crop top without caring what my stomach looked like.

i told her i like her; i often dress as a witch. i still got glass in my foot this morning. i’ve kissed maybe a thousand people since then and met a million more than that; passing like the shadow of a hammerhead in trains and planes and buses.

i saw you, beloved, there, maybe, on platform in south station. you didn’t speak, but you said: i struggle to give the nothing meaning. the nothing fills up everything. it is just loud and yellowed panicked silence. i can’t stop shaking.

on the roof, birds curl together against the chilled spring wind. the sky outside of the craft store was an iridescent pink. the nothing already had meaning; you are giving it meaning by witnessing.

the act of living, beloved: it’s just decoding how to translate it.

[brightlotusmoon]

[punkitt-is-here]

Hello person having transgender thoughts but convinced they aren't trans because they don't have the requisite amount of dysphoria they think they need

Hi I transitioned without even thinking I had dysphoria. Like later in hindsight I can go "oh that's probably what it was" but for the first year of my transition I was straight up like "I like being a guy but I like being a girl WAY more" and you can do that!! There is no prerequisite amount of suffering needed to make yourself happier.

[punkitt-is-here]

Gonna include these tags cuz they're good

[brightlotusmoon]

LGBTQ+ policy advocate, Navy veteran announces at-large County Council run

If elected, Josie Cabellero would be the first openly transgender person to serve on the Montgomery County Council.

Caballero is the director of voting and elections for Advocates for Trans Equality, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit focused on LGBTQ+ policy. She was also the director of the nonprofit’s national transgender survey from 2022 through 2024. Prior to joining Advocates for Trans Equality she worked as a private political consultant.

She also is vice president of the Transgender American Veterans Association and was appointed by Gov. Wes Moore (D) to the Maryland Commission on LGBTQ Affairs in 2023, where she serves as the chair of the commission’s policy committee.

[brightlotusmoon]

County executive candidates field questions about Montgomery Co. issues ahead of June 23 primary - WTOP News

The five Democrats and one of the two Republicans vying to be the next Montgomery County executive fielded a variety of questions Sunday.

Peter James, the owner of a robotics and artificial intelligence business, said if he were elected, he would “create a paradise.”

“There will be no traffic. I will eliminate that,” he said, adding that he’d generate “hundreds of billions of dollars of income” for county residents.

[presidentkamala]

I was uhhh NOT tracking this guy until now

[brightlotusmoon]

His interview is...uh.

Montgomery County Executive

Meet the candidates running for Montgomery County Executive. Read their backgrounds, priorities and responses to The Banner’s 2026 voter gui

[presidentkamala]

Wow we haven't had such a whackadoo candidate in a while!

[brightlotusmoon]

"It is not what I believe that matters. I will implement a high-fidelity 3D digital twin, Sim City-like, gamified online citizen-control urban planning system where citizens can design their own communities. Neuroevolutionary algorithms will help them optimize infrastructure capacity and inform them of infrastructure capacity constraints and related costs needed to add any additional infrastructure. All proposed projects will be rendered in the system and all community members and stakeholders are automatically notified of any proposed changes."

Absurdly written comic book villain, is that you?

[borgevino]

so fucking stupid that meds literally work. "swallow this pebble it makes you think" hateful

[royalhempress]

herbs, too!

"hey brew this leaf to gain +10 focus, +5 energy, +5 healing mana" what kinda video game shit is that