Hello! The name is Carthix ♤

Technically an adult. I post practically anything here so don't expect anything in particular (though I'm currently obsessed with Voltron and have a tendency to post whump sometimes and it can get GRAPHIC but tag it dw) Icon by kirito-potter, who seems to be my husband now.

[valenalentine]

[todays-xkcd]

NGS and IERS are complaining that they left CLEAR instructions to set the washing machine to WGS84 (G2296) instead of WGS84 (G730).

Latitude and Longitude [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

[An image of the Earth showing most of Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Indian Ocean, with horizontal latitude lines and vertical longitude lines looking like a balloon tied tightly with string - like the lines are squeezed down into the surface.]

[Caption below the panel:] Bad news: NASA accidentally shrank Earth's latitude and longitude lines in the wash.

[dear-ao3]

[chvvy]

how the straw hats insulting zoro sounded to me

[dragon-in-a-fez]

personally I'm annoyed by the socioeconomic conditions that made words like "unalive" necessary but simultaneously impressed by the linguistic adaptations young people have made to continue talking about important things while subject to those conditions and I think if you can't hold both of those thoughts in your head you might just be old man yelling at cloud

[a-wild-embubble]

Two of my niblings (10 and 7) self-censor like this in real life during actual conversations. I tried briefly to explain to the 10-year-old that they didn't have to do that in real life after they said "unalive" out loud in casual conversation, and they just said they preferred to. On the one hand, I'm sad to see them unconsciously and fully without awareness succumbing to the panopticon. On the other... this post.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

it's not unprecedented in the evolution of languages to see euphemisms adopted as synonyms or even supplanting earlier terms. lots of people say "passed away" even in situations where there would be no particular social cost to saying "died".

for a particularly strong version of this kind of replacement: the word "bear" comes from a proto-Germanic word meaning "brown one" because there was a taboo against saying the animal's actual name. the taboo is gone but it was so strong in the past that we have no record of what the proto-Germanic word for "bear" even was.

maybe in 300 years the word "die" will be archaic and kids will dig it out of an etymology textbook and start using it because "unalive" is getting censored.

[luggifer4]

die has actually already undergone this process. die originally meant "flow" (i guess it's like you're flowing out of life or something? or maybe your life is flowing out of you idk). it was (probably) loaned from old norse to displace the now obsolete "swelt". and yes, that is the root word of "sweltering"

[dragon-in-a-fez]

[zedif-y]

aroace ryland grace gets me So Bad because it's so. unbelievably painful. to think about the line "you don't even have a dog." the implication that loving your own life no matter what, that being afraid of what the mission asks of you, that loving beaches and enjoying the muddy fog that dilutes the sunrise and teaching kids and wearing stupid shirts that are only really for you to laugh at than anyone else isn't enough for someone to go ah, your life is so valuable. we can't possibly send you on a suicide mission. it's fucked up. it's horrific. his last memories of the planet he loves is one where he dug his nails into the dirt and clung until he rooted up grass. how tragic. how unbelievably harrowing.

mind you, i know that no matter grace's circumstances he would've been sent to space regardless, family or children be damned. he could have had a whole fleet of dogs and it wouldn't have been enough to save him. but something about that line. something about it.

project hail mary, the movie that you are.

[brellstudiosart]

ok i guess i’m strattposting rn

[melancholygirls]

I passed a flower shop next to a tattoo shop and at first I laughed because I thought it was ironic and then i freaked because IMAGINE YOUR OTP IN A FLORIST/TATTOO ARTIST AU

[stillalittlekid]

OMG I COULD TOTALLY IMAGINE THEM LIKE THAT IT WOULD BE SO PERFECT

[christ-with-a-why]

[melancholygirls]

I cannot BELIEVE a post I made when I was 13 is circulating! And also apparently started this trope? I thought somebody had the idea separately and it blew up that way😭

[what-even-is-thiss]

Actually witches grow from the bottom of the cave up while wizards grow from the top of the cave down

[what-even-is-thiss]

Also wizards will try standing on the broomsticks like a surfboard and fall off while witches will sit on them and not fall off but definitely feel extremely stiff when getting off

[what-even-is-thiss]

There are actually a lot of men who are witches but they are rarely seen flying south for the winter because of the damage the brooms do to their balls and so they prefer to go on foot.

Women wizards wear fake beards as part of standard council uniforms.

[starrydoglover]

VOLTRONNN

[hobinsu]

Secret Santa drawings for the_arthipelago, mjntmango & bkbsart on twitter

don’t repost anywhere

[o0kawaii0o]

Hero of Time

[hero-of-eating-rocks]

UNDERTALE REFERENCEEEEEEEEE

ASDHWAHUSDHWASD

[elumish]

I honestly think Gen-Z and younger simply does not understand how recent widespread smartphone adoption is.

I am not that old, and I didn't have a smartphone until probably late high school. For most of my life, many if not most people were not walking around with a magic internet machine in their pocket that they pulled out and used constantly for everything.

[sandumilfshous]

reblog if you remember having to ration your text messages and accidentally opening the internet on your phone was the end of the world

[post-to-poll-pipeline]

How old were you when you got your first smartphone?

Younger than 10

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Older than 60

Never had a smartphone

Remaining time: 2 days 14 hours

[zoctopode]

im so used to tumblr that i forgot some troglodytes on reddit wouldnt be even surface level familiar with the concept of the robot lesbian

[zoctopode]

[sarcasmprodigy]

Making women up like it's a job

[manicpixiedreamkiller]

how many sharks does a tornado need to be considered a sharknado

1

2

3-5

10 ????

more ??????

other ????????????

Voting ended onMar 27

[manicpixiedreamkiller]

this is the level of analysis we’re looking for here people

[kominfyrirkattarnef]

Have you guys noticed how much the internet/technology just does not listen to you anymore? I click “don’t show this artist” on Spotify and I get recommended a music video by them on the front page. I click “skip this update” on a pop up every time I open a file organization app and it’s right back there every time. O click unsubscribe on a newsletter and it keeps showing up in my inbox!! I click “delete my account” and the next time I open the website they suggest I “reactivate”.

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Power is a funny thing.