the sleepiest

They/them. MA in English Literature. Writer, voice actor, academic. Formerly ASealWithCheekbones

[trueshredguitar]

i love that post thats like “never trust how you feel about your life after 9pm” that shit changed my life. every time i feel bad i look at the clock and i’m like Aha It’s 10:26 PM You Cannot Fucking Fool Me

[twinicegiantorbiters]

i don’t know why but i’m really amused by the winner of some ‘new kanji’ contest:

compare with the real kanji

座 (seat/gathering), but the two 人 (person) radicals have been moved from next to each other within the 土 (earth) radical to diagonally from each other, making this “social distance(d seating/gathering)”

[jadethest0ne]

This is hilarious, but to further the hilarity, I’d like to point to the fact that half of the “A rank” (runners up) for this contest also are related to 2020 epidemic jokes

First up we have:

Compare with 太

The original kanji means “to gain weight”. But it adds the コ “ko” and ロ  “ro” katakana symbols at the top to represent the weight you gain while staying home due to the corona virus.

Then we have:

Compare with 会 

The original kanjij means “meeting”, but the lower radical is changed to look more like a “Z” to represent Zoom meetings. Thus, the new kanji means “web meetings” or “zoom calls”

And of course another social distancing one:

Compare with 話 

This means “to talk” or “chat”, but it’s changed simply to show the two radicals social distancing from one another as we should also while holding conversations nowadays.

At least we can have some fun language humor despite all of this!

[pissvortex]

fuck expensive funerals death shouldn’t be an industry just set my body in a cool looking chair so people see my skeleton sitting like a skyrim jarl in 200 years

[caffeinecardigan]

Tumblr used to be such a huge part of my life and now I come here every few months to shout something into the void and it’s great 

[caffeinecardigan]

Grading is infinitely more soul-killing than writing final papers or taking final exams

[hvlthgxth-deactivated20241124]

Allow me to de-introduce myself

My name is [redacted]

[nosez-moved]

im not a people pleaser anymore im a huge cunt now

[anarchogay]

me after setting one (1) boundary

[caffeinecardigan]

A weird thing about having been a tumblr college student who is now a college instructor is like I can still tell who the tumblr students are

[mooonbride]

The funniest part about unlikeable geek men is they really are fully convinced people don’t like them because of their hobbies. They cannot even begin to process the idea that comics and D&D and shit have in fact always been kinda cool and their personslities might just be repulsive. The combined unwavering ego/persecution complex is... unreal.

[mooonbride]

“I was socially rejected because I like video games” no tyler, you were socially rejected because you turn every conversation you have into a competition and you call women “females”

[maliciousindungeon]

folk punk music just be like “im too poor to afford a therapist so im going to sing about my trauma over the sound of the jauntiest fucking guitar playing youve ever heard in your goddamn life”

[maliciousindungeon]

the main response ive gotten to this post in peoples tags has been “and its good” and i just wanted to say that youre right, it really is

[caffeinecardigan]

I am so sorry

[sleepgrifter]

fellow tumblr users born in the 90's, we've entered the decade where we turn thirty! how are we feeling about this??

[pajy-moved-deactivated20240311]

hmm. dont like this post

[herbgerblin]

I’ve decided to be sexier in 2020. There will be with no actual effort on my part, l just intend to be perceived as such

[depsidase]

[nyctoheart]

i can’t believe superwholock existed as one the largest fandom(s) on this website. there hasn’t been a trace of it on my dashboard in years. No mention, no whisper. a ghost. i still follow people who reblogged it. i myself reblogged it. and yet here we are, not daring to ever mention it. im risking my life making this po

[sufficientlylargen]

For those new to this site, “Superwholock” was the crossover fandom for the overlap of three of the biggest individual fandoms on tumblr - soup, the Finnish municipality of Perho, and Enlightenment philosopher John Locke.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Guys listen. Listen. At the start of this year, the year of our lord 2019, I was chatting to an actor in this play I was stage managing and she mentioned offhand that she’s thinking of getting a tattoo.

“Oh,” I say. “Of what?”

She looks a bit awkward. “Um. Have you ever heard of this thing called Superwholock?”

Let me tell you I aged about twenty years in the span of the next ten seconds where she started to explain Superwholock to me like it’s some new thing that’s just spawned into existence and I know, instinctively, that I will not survive this conversation, I am not strong enough, so I cut her off. “Uh, yeah. I know of Superwholock. I’ve been on Tumblr for a while.”

“What’s Tumblr?” she asks.

Guys… I think Superwholock is still out there. They just changed home base. I didn’t ask where her Superwholock community was because there are some things beyond mortal ken, some things that would surely drive one mad should one attempt to find them.

[boygirlswag]

theyre on pinterest looking at screenshots of tumblr posts im not fucking kidding this is how i learned about tumblr in 2014

[miggylol]

#platos allegory of the cave……..

[beachdeath]

do kids these days know about grace kelly by mika

[beachdeath]

[emmorgzz-deactivated20180313]

WHAT. IS. THIS. SORCERY.

[kierpenta]

1. i can’t believe there are people in the world who haven’t heard this

2. go check out mika he’s great - important to note is that he’s mlm (he’s come out alternately as being gay, bisexual and ‘not interested in labels’ for a while) and a huge amount of his songs are about being mlm so in particular if ya need good mlm artists check him out

[thesylverlining]

Seriously Mika is a gift and sunshine unto this sick sad world

[postillfastill]

mika is wildly popular in europe but his north american fanbase is like, six people and a napkin, and it’s killing me. 

ALSO, he came out as bisexual/‘not interested in labels’ like a decade ago, but much more recently he came out as gay, so he’s gay! his latest album, No Place In Heaven, is almost completely about being gay. it’s got a song abt his sexuality and his religion, a song abt pining for your straight best friend, a song abt the music world that includes the lyrics “where have all the gay guys gone?”, a song abt gay and lesbian solidarity, a song abt heterosexual expectations from family, and two songs that are just abt being super ridiculously in love w your partner.

please listen to Mika’s entire discography because there are a LOT of classics that i’m 100% sure you’ve heard at some point in your life, all the love songs are implicitly gay, it’s great, but ESPECIALLY listen to No Place In Heaven (2015).

[stolligaseptember]

it always surprises me to remember that mika isn’t actually a part of the global populace’s general consciousness

because his debut album, life in cartoon motion, was such a huge part of my generation’s tween and teen years

like, i guarantee you, you can walk up to any swedish millennial, and they will still know every single line of his song lollipop

it was just a part of our upbringing;

become a crippling anxious mess

develop an attitude problem

and memorize all of mika’s lollipop

[kawaiimiraclecloud]

This is so strange for me ‘cause here in Italy Mika has a show on one of the main tv channel

I just love him sooo much ❤❤❤

[kurosmind]

I just want to point you all to this masterpiece: 

[nothing-mancer]

I’m American and he’s so obscure and niche here. Seeing people talk about how much they love him and how everyone around them knew him growing up makes me very happy. His music was honestly such an integral part of growing up for me but most people I meet don’t even know who he is.

Now everyone go listen to Mika immediately

[quellthefire]

I remember being 16 and dancing to Grace Kelly in my best friend’s living room and screaming the lyrics and just feeling so okay in that moment. Mika is one of my favorite memories of that era in my life

[random-fireworks]

He’s wiiildly known here in France (he’s now a coach for The Voice France btw) and most kids my age when I was a tween/teen knew his songs, if only because they kept playing on every radio (srsly I can’t even imagine that some people have never heard Relax, Take It Easy?????? It was literally EVERYWHERE here, you couldn’t escape it) and it was pretty awesome because his songs are absolutely wonderful and he is a pure ray of sunshine (also getting emo to Happy Ending and By the Time, that was an experience). 

He’s such an important artist who should be recognized outside of Europe too, because besides the fact that his voice is OUT THERE, he’s very vocal about minorities, about who he is, and about celebrating differences; plus his mother is Lebanese, his father is American, he lived in Lebanon, France and the UK in his youth and he speaks fluently six languages he’s a pure example of how being open to the world only makes us grow and makes it a better place 

Please, yes, if you don’t know about him go listen to his songs, you won’t regret it. I kinda want to link all his songs because they’re all different and amazing but the ones above posted by the others are very good to start with and y’know what, I’ll just add one of my faves ‘cause it can brighten one’s day (also look up One Foot Boy pls though)

(Also he made a song with Ariana Grande based on the song Popular from the musical Wicked, how do y’all not know about that?)

[becuzitisbitter]

Every time someone starts telling that they wanna supplement their body with computer parts I’m just like okay great but don’t cry to me when your memories of loved ones or your ability to run are locked behind paywalls.

[just-a-jumbled-writer]