dotkrawl

Hi! I'm Kris and while I mainly do music related content, this is the place where you will either find aesthetics of mine, my gay ass ships or just shitposts! 20↑| he/him | ENG / GER / BUL OK!

[rydrako]

Incoming!!

Spikan from Spectrobes

[kaleidoscope-vol2]

[cricketcat9]

EVERY WORD HERE  👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼 IS TRUE. YOU ARE THAT FROG. 

I too have no space to worry about USA, already very worried about Poland and Ecuador, thank goodness Canada is still somehow holding up, but I’m horrified how far you let it go. FIX IT NOW or you’ll be sorry  - truer words were never spoken. 

[elfwreck]

Beware of requests for compromise when you are asking for justice and the other side is asking for consent to continue.

[anxietyproblem]

[the-a-j-universe]

[creatingaquietmind-deactivated2]

the speech impediment of the 21st century (by Marc Johns)

[lyctorgideon]

I’ll fuck you up buddy this is not a speech impediment it’s linguistic evolution!! the existence of the phrase “Aisha was like” allows the speaker to convey whatever Aisha said without making the listener assume they’re quoting Aisha directly while still maintaining the FEELING of what Aisha said.

ie, Aisha said she didn’t want to go out with me VERSUS Aisha was like, “I’d rather kiss a Wookie”.

the addition of “XYZ was like” lets the speaker be more expressive and efficient and it is a totally valid method of communicating information!!

[corvidaedream]

With the way language has evolved, this is one of the few ways I can even think of to express in casual conversation what someone said. 

“So I said to Aisha,” is certainly used, but if you remove the “so,” which implies casual tone (“and” can be used in the same way), you get

“I said to Aisha,” which is really formal in most English dialects/variations. I don’t know about all, but in New England dialects, you sound like you’re reading aloud from a novel.

“I told Aisha,” is really only used when you continue to describe, not tell, what you told her. Ex: “I told Aisha that James was too punk for her” works while, “I told Aisha, ‘James is too punk for you’” crosses the line back into formalness of the “I said.”

Things like “I asked” or “I answered [with]” are similar levels of casual and efficient to the “So, I said [or say, as many conversations about the past take place in present tense anyway, as if the speaker is giving a play-by-play in the moment]” but are specific to only certain situations. 

“I was like, ‘Marc Johns, what is your obsession with restoring archaic speech patterns and interfering with the natural progression of English from complex to efficient?’” envelopes all of these easily and is accessible and crisp, and allows for more variations on inflection than the others.

Of course, James is probably like, “I already fucking said that.” But eh, I tried adding on.

[axonsandsynapses]

#linguistics #a.k.a. how I learned to stop worrying and love the evolution of the English language without being a discriminatory elitist jerk (via crystalandrock)

[halosketches]

bumping the ocean waves au here ! it’s my first post idk how tumblr works pls be indulgent(*´-`)

[autoneurotic]

do u ever remember all the horrible offensve things u said when u were like 15 and u literally feel ur soul detach and turn 2 dust 

[icbiwf]

your fave is problematic: yourself

[disease-danger-darkness-silence]

Basically, yeah. That’s kind of the point – you always have to look back on yourself and be mortified and resolve to be better. Shit, the stuff I said just five YEARS ago (and I’m almost 33) makes me cringe like a motherfucker. Burn in mortification. Rise from the ashes and be better. Lather, rinse, repeat for the rest of your life.

[kieren-fucking-walker]

This is why purity culture doesn’t work!!! We’re all shit! We can all grow and do better!

[autoneurotic]

do u ever remember all the horrible offensve things u said when u were like 15 and u literally feel ur soul detach and turn 2 dust 

[icbiwf]

your fave is problematic: yourself

[disease-danger-darkness-silence]

Basically, yeah. That’s kind of the point – you always have to look back on yourself and be mortified and resolve to be better. Shit, the stuff I said just five YEARS ago (and I’m almost 33) makes me cringe like a motherfucker. Burn in mortification. Rise from the ashes and be better. Lather, rinse, repeat for the rest of your life.

[kieren-fucking-walker]

This is why purity culture doesn’t work!!! We’re all shit! We can all grow and do better!

[jeauxanne]

doing god’s work

[jeauxanne]

[trynpronounceit-deactivated2018]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[getitontheground]

kylie minogue :

[abteblu]

“a supporting character” I am DEAD

[ireallydontcare5]

[crookedcatperson-deactivated202]

[that-twink-over-there]

I can’t believe this website is free

[mosticonicposts]

certified iconic post

[jeauxanne]

doing god’s work

[jeauxanne]

[trynpronounceit-deactivated2018]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[getitontheground]

kylie minogue :

[abteblu]

“a supporting character” I am DEAD

[ireallydontcare5]

[crookedcatperson-deactivated202]

[that-twink-over-there]

I can’t believe this website is free

[mosticonicposts]

certified iconic post

[cypii-old-blog]

some valentines for your partner in survival ( ˘⌣˘ ✿)

[fakehistory]

PM Winston Churchill tries to convince President Roosevelt to join the war during the Battle of Britain (1940, colorized)

[justjames]

Concept: Being financially stable for your whole life

[festival-of-pudding]

ooh i love fantasy fiction

[fakehistory]

Rat whispering to the man he bit to spread the pleague all over Europe (1340 colorized)

[slightmood]

me in 2025 about to go for a nice waddle through the debris of my neighborhood as i sport the latest government issued depression outfit

[you-had-me-at-e-flat-major]

english: nitrogen german: S U F F O C A T I O N   S U B S T A N C E

[paskariu]

Let’s not forget:

english: oxygen

german: A N G R Y  S U B S T A N C E

[fakehistory]

Amazon starts with international shipping circa 2009

[avengersandlovers-old]

@staff are you fucking kidding me right now?! You’re limiting text posts to 100 text blocks (aka paragraphs). What the absolute fuck.

Since you couldn’t take out fanfic writers with the purge so you’re just fucking up formatting for text posts until they leave? Is that your plan?

[avengerscompound]

Would this count as a text block?

100 is a lot unless you write a lot of dialogue.  I wonder if just linking fics on my word press would work because god damn this site is making things difficult.  It’s like they’re trying to have people not use it.

[pegasusdragontiger]

[touchmoremelenated]

I’m so over this shithole

[crazinessgraveyardsandcartoons]

Does Tumblr just have it out for Fanfic writers? Is the Tumblr staff secretly Anne Rice or something?

[feelmyroarrrr]

Heads up writers

@kittenofdoomage @captain-rogers-beard @siren-kitten-his @angryschnauzer @maeve-curry-writes @deandoesthingstome @impala-dreamer @outside-the-government @star-trekkin-across-theuniverse @plumfondler @blacktithe7 @supernatural-jackles @impalaimagining

[kittenofdoomage]

FFS you’re joking me?

[carnationsinjanuary-deactivated]

@noona-clock @xtemptaetionx @bisexualstevierogers @5sosdrfluke

[bisexualstevierogers]

yeah I noticed this, and I completely hate it lmao because I do write a lot of dialogue and I write small paragraphs for easy readability ): I might have to post everything on AO3 and just link it on here :/

[wckdmazes]

Well, this is the new tea and I hate it.

[trickster-grrrl-deactivated2019]

Gettin’ real tired of your shit, Tumblr.

@staff @support

[slasherlove420]

FUCK YOU @staff

[purple-possibilities]

Welp. So this is a thing now.

The title apparently counts as one line since it wouldn’t let me go past 99.

Seriously @staff ????

[kiruharukorohara]

Disgusting

[screamintotheend]

They’re doing what now? Good going, staff, you’re going to loose a lot of users.

[dorimei]

oh fuck you @staff fuckers

[smooththegoofyshark]

WHAT THE FUCK

@wrenweasly you seen this?

[thebibliosphere]

What in the actual good fuck is going on. What the fuck.

[just-a-jumbled-writer]

Well, fuck! I guess I’m gonna link to my original stuff on blogspot then!

[bookishdiplodocus]

This means long masterlists of writing resources as well.

[bookishdiplodocus]

This 100-block limit doesn’t show on the browser, only on mobile.

@wordsnstuff @avengersandlovers @sj-flemings-writing @thebibliosphere @biggest-gaudiest-fish

[thebibliosphere]

Thankfully you’re correct, it is only on mobile and not desktop being affected by this, but as I already mentioned in my edit to my initial reblog, just because it’s only affecting mobile, doesn’t mean it’s not shitty and infuriating for those of us who rely on mobile.

Some folk rely primarily on mobile app for using the site, either because they don’t have access to a laptop or computer, or for other reasons. For me it’s a case of physical accessibility. There are some days I cannot sit up and type, which is a problem, cause my entire livelihood is rooted in my ability to make words. I can however, remain lying down and use my phone, however slowly, to reply to things, and write the long info posts people request from me. Hell, I’ve written entire fics on mobile cause I didn’t have any other choice, but I still wanted to write so I made do with the app.

And now it seems like sometime around about 6 months ago (when this change was initially implemented) it looks like that ability was taken away for a large portion of tumblr users who primarily use the app as their man means of interacting with the site. And the thing is, I had no idea this change was implemented. Maybe I missed the initial screaming and flailing, but honestly seeing this post tonight made me have an absolute “wait WHAT” moment, because there are times recently when I’ve typed up a long post, or a reply, and the whole post just…vanished into the void, or it would tell me there was an error and the app would try again later and then never did. The post just died, taking all my work with it. And I had no idea why. It was incredibly frustrating and made it exceptionally hard to interact with my readers in a way that didn’t worsen my chronic pain.

Now I’m wondering if I was approaching this text post limit, and the mobile app just killed the post I often spent over an hour or longer writing. If I’d known this, I would have conserved my mental and physical strength and waited to reply to certain things for when I had the physical capacity to sit at the computer (like now). But then again maybe not, maybe the app is just broken garbage. Who the hell knows anymore. But between this and posts with links being hidden from search results, it’s getting increasingly difficult to showcase written work or original content.

Meanwhile I’m still removing anywhere from 10-100 pornbots from my follower list on a daily basis, and my recipe posts keep getting flagged and hidden as inappropriate content cause their algorithm has the functional depth and complexity of a teaspoon. But hey, that’s Tumblr™ *jazz hands of despair*