my scattered thoughts

[weepingwidar]

Wenzel Hablik (Czech, 1881-1934) - The Cloud (1910)

[6vcr]

hello!

[bevismusson]

There's a particular skill in creating pixel art that I don't think gets as much credit as it should, because stuff like this is just so good

[manny-jacinto]

ZOMBIELAND: DOUBLE TAP (2019)

[victusinveritas]

[the-etcetera-archive]

This is one of the most popular theories on how tonal languages developed! In other words, the natural pitch of a vowel in different contexts is reinterpreted as meaningful to subsequent generations. The consonant is also dropped during this development, leading to canonical CV syllable structures.

Onset voiceless consonant -> high tone

Onset voiced consonant -> low tone

Final glottal stops -> rising tone

Final fricatives (especially /h/) -> falling tone

Creaky voice -> falling tone

[pathos-logical]

[ID: A text excerpt which reads:

""For example—knight used to be pronounced kuh-nich-t, c-n-i-h-t. If it lives long enough, English isn't going to say knight, night, nigh, and nine, they're all going to be nye; I can already hear it in your English. You rarely say a final t, unless you're enunciating, you—it's called a glottal stop, you just sort of finish the vowel sharply where the t used to be. But you do say that same sound differently already. Knight is usually a high tone, and nine is usually low, because 'knight' finishes right up against your teeth and 'nine' doesn't. And that's what's already happened, in tonal languages. A tone is the fossil of a dead consonant."" — The Mars House: A Novel by Natasha Pulley. End ID]

[oneminutefiftysixseconds]

are you a male ski jumper alleged to be pursuing marginal gains that could yield up to a 5-8 metre increase in flight distance or are you just pleased to see me

[sewerfight-deactivated20250114]

Imagine a bee rn in a hive muttering "the beekeeper is not real because he is not intervening or helping me at all with this disastrous relationship I have with another bee". now imagine that's you talking about the good lord. now imagine a dog with a propeller hat on

[xenobotanist]

[61below]

Filing this in my memory right next to this thread:

[flowerbleedme]

is anyone imagining a dog with a propeller hat on

[strawberryblondebutch]

[despazito]

[cpericardium]

[kivanos]

[beholdingslut]

this from the guy who wrote the sting pain index, a scale he constructed after letting himself be stung by insects

[beholdingslut]

“why did i start this list” pleaseeeeeee this is so funny

[caracalliope]

his descriptions were extremely on-point, and frankly inspiring when writing a hurt/comfort scene

Instagram poets could never!

[lobautumny]

For those who want it, here is the entire list:

Anyways, dude's 1,000% a huge masochist. Nobody just describes pain like this unless they're enjoying it.

[glumshoe]

if a werewolf dies but they were an organ donor does someone get a new kidney that turns into a wolf kidney once a month

[causual-unknown-hideout]

imagine having a feeling of pure bloodlust radiate from one side of your mid-back approximately every 28 days

[glumshoe]

I don’t need to imagine

[wiionme]

[storyhearts-journey]

Flask, USSR. A ceramic flask fearing the faces of Belka and Strelka, who survived an orbital flight three years after Laika's flight.

[budutinahrobnositmandarinky]

it's them!!

[pure]

neil gaiman is what happens when you proliferate the snake oil industry of psychology and give men the language of retrograde sex positivity, i fear

[pure]

he was using therapyspeak to groom everyone around him, both his victims and his audience, and he’s still doing it in his fake “apology” post smh lol

[pure]

you see, every sexual practice or act is morally neutral if you consent. you can’t criticize my kink. violence is permissible if it results in an orgasm. if you consent to degradation and violence, then abuse is impossible. #SexPositive

[heystephen]

putting into motion the ban on an entertainment app that’s popular with the youth and young adults in your country just so you can swoop in at the last minute and play the hero who saves the day and actually brings the app back for everybody is such a cartoonishly supervillain plot, you’d think it came out of the children’s tv show. but no, it came out of the brain of the president-elect of the united states

[parkchanwoohoo]

I need to do this

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Those clothes look so fucking comfortable

[papayajuan2019]

emotional neglect didnt even affect me that much. it was the being born inherently without value that did most of the work

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

OP: My boyfriend said he's eating alone and it's not convenient for him to take my call, and he took one picture, can you help me see if he's cheating on me

Cnetizens: Contemporary Sherlock Holmes