cierra

Cierra | ENTJ | 3w4

[herbgerblin]

THANK YOU FOR 5000+ FOLLOWERS!!! You guys are great!!

I have lost so much of my life force to this goof. Apologies to the folks who have no idea whats going on. Please listen to The Adventure Zone by the McElroys. That’ll explain 50% of what’s happening here.

If someone could write the description for this, I’d appreciate it. I’m still roughing it in fever town, and I’m swamped :0

[penicillium-pusher]

me? I’m a simply guy, I see a pigeon with even the slightest difference in color or pattern than the average pigeon, and I say “wow look at that pigeon!” it’s just who I am

[thenordroom]

Cozy home in Stockholm

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[thenordroom]

Scandinavian apartment | styling by Rydman & photos by Ozollapa

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[colehersch]

do u watch Podcast But Outside

[certifiedboob]

nat 20 on deception

[mimimar]

rewatched barbie as the princess and the pauper for the first time since i was a kid and cried 3 times???? 

prints here

[janmen-portfolio]

Fall of Icarus/Hubris of Man

2019, colorised

(And reference)

[janmen-portfolio]

people have tagged this as life imitates art, and I need you to understand that no, I saw this picture of my friend falling off the got dang swing and thought it represented human hubris so well that i went into a made haze of acrylic paint and when I awoke I was holding this finished canvas.

[deadali]

[maccaulfield]

[s-trip-tease]

Threshold

[retrogamingblog]

[medusagirlfriend-blog]

Walt Whitman, “Song of the Open Road”

[39533953]

[stabsinthe-archive]

what if we’re all minecraft creations and the blocks are just really really tiny

[coldbrewblooded]

Atoms

[glumshoe]

question: what's your opinion on atlas moths?

I am pro-Atlas moths and believe they should be granted suffrage.

[hilarioushumorfromouterspace]

[cfluffiness]

Someone in facebook also posted this too

[xmagnet-o]

Omg

[halcyonjester]

Mediglyphics

[klubbhead]

This shit’s infuriating

[pseudonymsobriquet]

Oh, this is a type of shorthand!

There are 3 main types, but from my research, this looks to be American Gregg Shorthand.

As you can see, there are set symbols for every letter.

Let’s break one of the words down:

Using the Gregg Alphabet as reference, we can see most of the letters in “atrophied” are present. But why no “o” vowel, and why is “ph” written as “f”?

Simple. In shorthand, you cut out all vowels in a word when writing it down, with the exception of words that BEGIN or END with a vowel (hence the “a” at the start being present), or like in the “i” in “atrophied”, to make it more readable when the sound could be harder to distinguish if it isn’t written. In “atrophied” if the the “i” isn’t written, it could be hard to tell if the writer meant a “fud”, “fad”, “fod” or “fid” sound, for example.

Also, since Shorthand is a phonetic writing system, you are encouraged to write down the phonetic sounds of words rather than the actual letter blends - in this case, write an “f” instead of a “ph”.

So in actuality, these aren’t just meaningless scribbles - it’s Gregg Shorthand, a writing system developed to take down notes more quickly than when written out in full, which is very useful in a medical or journalistic environment.

Some people can even write over 100 words in a minute! And, it’s been in use since John Robert Gregg invented it in 1888! Wow! So old!

Isn’t language amazing~?

[cookdi]

[cookdi]

[hxasinthus]

being naked is not sexy. wearing a white 18th century shirt with poofy sleeves tucked into a pair of black high waisted trousers is sexy. there are no exceptions