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Cal/25+/they/them — Here to sporadically post about whatever interests me at the time.

[classicalcanvas]

Among the Waves by Ivan Aivazovsky

[theriverbeyond]

honestly getting cozy in bed is one of the top experiences one can have on this green earth

[damnfool-of-a-took]

we hunt the mighty pasta BEAST

and breadsticks are its BONES

ALFREDO FLOWS inside its veins

its organs are CALZONES

[damnfool-of-a-took]

LASAGNA plates its armored hide

and should the hero dare

you'll find the noisome Jaws are strung

with garlic angel hair

[oscillatingheatpipe]

The poem is written in common hymn meter (alternating lines of 8 and 6 syllables, usually iambs), so there are many possible tunes you can use to sing it:

Amazing Grace

Pokemon theme song

Gilligan's Island theme

House of the Rising Sun

O Little Town of Bethlehem

Joy to the World

Feel free to add any favorites!

[i-scan-your-poems]

Full scansion:

◡ – / ◡ – / ◡ – / ◡ – we hunt the mighty pasta BEAST ◡ – / ◡ – / ◡ – and bread/sticks are / its BONES ◡ – / ◡ – / ◡ – / ◡ – ALFRE/DO FLOWS / inside / its veins ◡ – / ◡ – / ◡ – its or/gans are / CALZONES ◡ – / ◡ – / ◡ – / ◡ – LASAG/NA plates / its ar/mored hide ◡ – / ◡ – / ◡ – and should / the he/ro dare ◡ – / ◡ – / ◡ – / ◡ – you'll find / the noi/some Jaws / are strung ◡ – / ◡ – / ◡ – with gar/lic an/gel hair

metrical form: common hymn meter (iambic tetrameter + iambic trimeter, or iambic heptameter) rhyme scheme: ABCB

[beyondthisdarkhouse]

This is some Lewis Caroll-tier shit

[triplspacee]

Y’all. It’s a shanty.

Visit Original Link

[damnfool-of-a-took]

Sea Salt flavored Pasta Beast just dropped, come n gettit~

i get so hungry whenever this post starts picking up notes again RIP me

[tsunflowers]

you ever worry people won't be able to tell your book, movie, or video game takes place in space?

you see people use a capital A without a crossbar or a D without a stem but why not go further and just fuck up every letter. if there wasn't an obvious stroke to remove I just cut a big chunk out at random. these are letters of the far future if I've ever seen them

[mawofthemagnetar]

Cold take but all languages are beautiful actually. Every single one. Every single human language on earth is a collection of stories interwoven into the very fabric of the words that are spoken.

“Oh but this language sounds scary-“ have you heard a child speak it while pointing at a butterfly?

“Oh but this language sounds silly-“ have you heard someone’s grandma recite a recipe with such practiced ease it comes off as poetry?

“Oh but this language is really weird-“ and yours isn’t? Everyone’s language is weird, dumbass, it came free with your fucking humanity.

Every tongue that is spoken is a work of art. Every language a unique window into the world.

Isn’t it wonderful?

[velvetys]

How is bnha anime of the decade...... they aren’t even anime of the hour of the minute of the second

[grimeclown]

The notes on this post were so toxic that staff just axed em

[abraxasrinbalt]

1969.........

[harperhug]

Yes, when the original post is deleted from the server (not just the blog, but the Tumblr servers), there is no root post for notes to be added onto, and also no root post for time to be counted from, so it starts from zero. Most computer operating systems use Unix, which was launched in 1971 with t.he epoch date of midnight on January 1, 1970 as 1. Therefore zero is one second behind that date: December 31, 1969. Also, very unfortunately, this also means nobody except you and anyone you reblog it to will see this explanation, as you cannot open the notes to see comments when there are no notes.

[ti0mumu]

[nick-nonya]

Tumblr is truly one of the webbed sites ever

[solnight99]

ohmg

[aroace-ryland-grace]

[thegreatlazule]

post's haunted.

[seleneelune-deactivated20251014]

[lady-of-vitreous-sight]

ungrounding exercises.

[lady-of-vitreous-sight]

what are five things you can't see? can you breathe in and out really really quickly for me? what are your biggest fears and what are the fastest ways they might occur? slouch in your chair put your hands on your head and picture yourself using your psychic powers to kill everyone. shoot the nearest dog.

[cumvvelt]

"Guy" and "man" have different connotations with adjectival nouns. Like "tree guy" = arborist but "tree man" = he lives in a tree, or maybe he is a tree.

[thedupshadove]

"I know a guy" = "I have a useful contact."

"I know a man" = "I am about to tell you a story."

[turtletotem]

“He’s a great guy” = he is pleasant and fun and well-intentioned

“He’s a great man” = he has saved countless lives and changed the world irrevocably

[sgt-celestial]

idk why but i feel like being a punk is for he/hims and doing ballet is for she/hers

[sgt-celestial]

Bibliography

dykeparasite (2023) Barbie (2023) is to she/theys what The Lego Movie (2014) is to he/theys. I can’t explain it but it’s TRUE., Tumblr. Available at: https://dykeparasite.tumblr.com/post/714005432703877120 (Accessed: April 14, 2023).

finalgrrrl (2022) don’t ask me why but mlm belong in dark academia and wlw belong in cottagecore, Tumblr. Available at: https://www.tumblr.com/finalgrrrl/681884740465360896/this-post-is-killing-me-what-in-the-patriarchy?source=share (Accessed: April 14, 2023).

Joke (2023) Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joke (Accessed: April 14, 2023).

Lavigne, A. (2010) Avril Lavigne - SK8ER BOI (official video), YouTube. YouTube. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIy3n2b7V9k (Accessed: April 14, 2023).

[megafreeman]

[kitty-c4t]

[budugu]

[agnosticblowjob]

[likeafieldmouse-deactivated2015]

[ficklefandoms]

Tim Hawkinson - Mobius Ship (2011)

oh this is neat

[michaelmoonsbookshop]

just some of the the changes in design for the Penguin Symbol on old Penguin Paperbacks 

[dinkywinks]

he did a little dance and for this crime he was imprisoned in a bubble

[luxflora]

They liked his little dance so much they gave him a spotlight

[anasandorpygoscelis-deactivated]

family album

[delgrosso]

[sensationaltrainreading]

[bob-artist]

Brotherhood of The Orb

[bob-artist]

[starpeace]

i am. so sorry if i have ever used the phrase “i have an au where—” and led you to believe that there is an actual fic out there for you to read rather than, at best, a post where i explain the concept, and at worst it is simply something that lives in my brain

[starpeace]

if it helps i also wish there was a fic

[isabellaofparma]

robron + telling third parties they want each other

[jamiesfootball]

Huge shout out to all the people who read fics. Who actually take the time out of their busy days to open a fic and read it

Before I started writing in earnest, I did not understand how much writing was going to eat into my fic reading time. We joke about having too many tabs open, but I have a different problem: the amount of tabs I have open on new fics is way smaller than it used to be. My ao3 wrapped would be a sad affair. Unless I’ve subscribed to an author or come across something on my dash, I basically don’t see it

Which has really driven home for me how much fandom cannot just be creators. You have to have people who want to read fic and meta discussions and joke posts. You have to have people who want to look at art and gifs. It has to be mutual.

Community thrives on flow. You have to have that movement of people sharing things with each other for a community to exist

Thank you fic readers. You keep things flowing