[pipshinwhatever]

what they dont tell you about strategy based games is that its hard if you’re stupid

[nemmica]

I met a baby the other day who taught me that kids aren’t learning the thumb-and-pinky-out gesture for “phone” anymore. She puts her flat, open palm up to her ear and babbles into it, simulating a flat and rectangular smartphone.

[marzipanandminutiae]

It’s so interesting that a lot of seemingly obsolete hand motions still exist, though

very few people wear wristwatches, but tapping one’s wrist is still a nearly universal gesture for “what time is it?” or “hurry up”

I used classic corded phones for only a very brief time in my life (before we got those more rectangular-shaped cordless ones for my parents’ landline) and first saw a car without power windows when I was in college, and yet I’ve always used the pinky-and-thumb gesture for “call me” and the circling-fist gesture for “roll down your window.” I’m 24, so my childhood was the late 90s and early 2000s, but I still use gestures that indicate technology either gone or on its way out when I began forming reliable memories

it also makes me wonder how people indicated time or hurrying before wristwatches. did they somehow pantomime a pocket watch? what gestures have we lost as technology marches on? and since video didn’t exist for most of human history, how might we learn what they were? like the contents of the third Georgian spice jar or the location of Punt, nobody would think to write any of it down

I just love history so much

[datasoong47]

The ASL sign for phone is based on the pinky-and-thumb gesture. Presumably that will continue on for a while, with future generations seeing it as an arbitrary sign.

And then there are words like “rewind” that no longer make literal sense. Filmmakers still use “cut” long after actual physical film that can be cut fell out of use. We talk about cutting and pasting on computers and use a floppy disc icon for “save”.

Fossilized metaphors are the best.

[henycavil]

LANA PARRILLA as REGINA MILLS Once Upon A Time (2011 - 2018) | Smash the Mirror - Part 1

[reallifepotato]

[timelordgifs]

[thoodleoo]

homosexual? oh no, you misheard me. i’m homersexual. im only attracted to the abstract concept of a collection of oral poets who can recite thousands of lines about the rage of achilles and the journeys of odysseus from memory

[wizardshark]

Oh thank God I thought you meant Simpsons porn

[lacefuneral]

one fear

[cosmicallyavg]

clara going back to gallifrey to finally have her last heartbeat only to find out that it was destroyed by the master after he found out about the timeless child

[berrytart]

i wish life was like that carl sandburg poem about fog

[berrytart]

[cloud--atlas]

[image ID: Fog by Carl Sandburg The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.]

[bloominflowers]

the iconic fairies from my childhood

[zoepumpkinhead]

[improbabelle]

[panicattthetardis-deactivated20]

so uhhhh official doctor who magazine, hmmmm???

[timellord]

[pitbolshevik]

"parasite in chief in her idiot hat" still makes me fucking cry laughing

[pitbolshevik]

[bellamysgriffin]

favorite doctor who quotes: 32/?

[sjdsjkdlskdas-deactivated202012]

i know it’s like not 2013 but the doctor’s reply to rose confessing her love for him being “quite right too” remains to be one of the most tragically stupid things in the world. was maintaining a sense of levity worth it, king?

[sjdsjkdlskdas-deactivated202012]

rose: i love you🥺

doctor: quite right too

the tiny hole between their dimensions: okay well if you’re going to be a smart ass about it

[tennant]