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Pretty boys, pretty girls, pretty things. And anything else that takes my fancy. Most things get added to the queue so I can be pleasantly surprised when they cross my dash again.

[loonyloopylisa]

2000: Doesn’t share personal information online so online people can’t find me in real life.

2020: Doesn’t share personal information online so real life people can’t find me online.

[stoogle]

[aelizel]

trying to steer dialogue towards a certain plot point while trying to make it sound natural

[fixyourwritinghabits]

The struggle is real. 

[sour-about-life-deactivated2018]

This is unrealistic. My car always seems to explode and destroy everything.

[oreliel-from-valinor]

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”  

[sawasawako-archived]

people really just read books like “no thoughts head empty 🤪”

[sawasawako-archived]

between white women on tiktok saying they only read books for the romance and people on tumblr forcibly applying ao3 tropes to narratives i’m beginning to think maybe you all should’ve paid more attention in 10th grade english class

[bernard-black-books]

I was talking to this girl on hinge and we got onto the topic of books (i work in a bookshop), and she asked me if i had any favourite tropes to read? And for the life of me i couldn’t figure out how to respond? Like Ms, i dont read fanfic, i dont understand what youre asking. I dont think ‘tropes’ can be used interchangeably with ‘genre’. We dont have a section at work for shit like ‘enemies to lovers’ im sorry thats not how real literature works

[werewolfmack]

I thought this post was gonna go somewhere relevant and interesting for a full second, but I guess not. Tropes are older than dirt. The idea of a trope has existed as long as humans have been making things, and it’s not empty-brained to ask what tropes someone might enjoy reading. For example, someone could answer: haunted houses. rivalries that span decades. tales of revenge. generational family dramas. coming of age stories. stuck in a snowstorm with a killer. The word trope is just a way people currently talk and think about concepts in literature that we’ve been thinking and talking about for ever. It just adds a layer of specificity. If you can’t comprehend someone asking you what tropes you like to read, you might not totally understand what a trope is, and that doesn’t make the other person dumb.

What I was hoping this post might touch on is how people cling to book reading as a hobby that will make them automatically smarter or more superior than those who aren’t, no matter how little mental engagement they actually put into reading. There are people who shit on novels like Things Fall Apart, The Jungle, and Invisible Man for not being “entertaining enough.” There are people who base their entire personality on being an avid reader who chose to never think critically or challenge themselves. There are people who think reading makes you more empathetic by default, when in reality anyone, even terrible people, can project themselves onto the hero if they can’t think critically about their own life and choices.

People can just be into romances, that isn’t inherently stupid. Nor are knowing what tropes they enjoy. That’s just how some people engage with books, and we shouldn’t be looking down at people for that. I have way more issue with the white goodreads users who rate Things Fall Apart as two stars and start their review “I guess I’m racist for not liking this.” I too am annoyed at the failure of public education, and I too was flabbergasted when someone on reddit asked “what’s the point of comparing two very different books to each other” when I pointed out that American Psycho kinda has Lovecraftian themes. But you’re falling off the mark here, to go on about how you hate tropes because they can also be applied to fanfiction tags. 🙄 This attitude is how people start calling themselves sapiosexual.

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

Also just because you add “white” to the beginning doesn’t make “eww women are brainless readers who only care about romance and nothing actually REAL or IMPORTANT”. a suddenly Hot Take rather than the most basic, misogynist bullshit that has existed since men locked women out of libraries because they might read a murder book and do a murder.

People are allowed to just read for fun. Not everything has to be for their enlightenment and edification to prove themselves in the eyes of nosy strangers. Yes, you read a few nonsensical and racist opinions because people are dumb and racist sometimes but that doesn’t make “you must read in the exact manner I prescribe or you aren’t a Real Reader” anything less than gatekeeping nonsense that exists solely for your own snobbery.

[detectivedirks]

[matialonsorphoto]

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[mapsontheweb]

The Strait of Gibraltar.

Data: Landsat Imagery Data + SRTM Shaded Topography (Exaggerated)

by eastofnowhere

[lsleofskye]

One of my favorite works | maocool

[allgirlghostbusters-deactivated]

[stars-bean]

My Fair Lady (1964) dir. George Cukor

[unwastelandunbaby]

I honestly can’t stop thinking about an au in which the immortals start dreaming when another immortal is born instead of when they die and I’m making myself emotional over it

[unwastelandunbaby]

Andy, thousands of years old and oh so lonely, starts dreaming about this random little girl out of nowhere, and night after night she watches her grow up until one day that girl, now a strong and beautiful woman, dies and Andy wakes up terrified and sad because she’s gone until she falls asleep again and finds out she’s not. Andy and Quynh deciding to stop fighting for a while while Lykon grows up because no child should have to see that. Andy and Quynh debating whether or not to find Lykon before he dies and revives- if he dies and revives. Nicky and Joe who have dreamt of each other since childhood… experiencing twice as many scraped knees and runny noses… getting what their own childhood lacks from the other’s… Booker who grows up thinking he’s truly lost it because you don’t get it there are these people, some living but another drowning and it doesn’t add up at all, 42 years seeing them again and again and he’s still not sure if they’re real or not until they find him half buried in the snow… Andy who is reaching the end of a truly awful century and thinks she might be heading into an even worse one when she dreams of the tiniest baby…

[my-russia]

Abandoned church in the settlement of Budimilovo, Tver Oblast. Built in 1819-1827.

[inthetags]

reblog and put in the tags: how can people from your country tell what region you’re from ? ( ex: the way you pronounce certain words, superstitions, specific behaviors etc. )

[billiewena]

okay judgemental free zone here because I'm genuinely curious: how much of supernatural have y'all ACTUALLY watched

[j-k-i-ng]

“Untitled“ by | Kai Yhun

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

[funnelcloudd]

How come semi trucks in Europe look like “toot toot :)” and in North America they look like “HONK HOOOOOOOONK >:|”

[funnelcloudd]

“Henlo I am big twuck pwease give me wots of woom tank u :)”

“I WILL FUCKING PANCAKE YOUR CUCK ASS”

[spontaneousmusicalnumber]

@trainwreckgenerator why did you hide these in the tags

[digitaldiscipline]

This suggests that Maximum Overdrive was Jurassic Park for motor vehicles.

[cheesedemon]

I’m sorry, but that is misleading as hell. American and European trucks are bred for different purposes.

American trucks are bred for long hauls on largely straight roads. They can go for hours without a break. A European truck needs more breaks and a lighter load, and they would indeed take great internal damage if they tried to keep up with the Longsnout.

The European Shortsnout is not bred for looks, but for agility! They navigate the windy roads of Europe in a way that would be way too risky for the powerful, but more clumsy American truck. It is true that the European overheats faster at high speeds, that is the very reason that breaks every 4,5 hours are mandatory for both the truck and the handler and a day of driving can never be longer then 9 hours.

So, all in all, appreciate all of our trucks and our shared history, and be the responsible owner that gets the right breed for the right job.

[kedreeva]

To be fair, the US does have shortnose trucks as well, they’re just a breed kept mainly for very local work where, like the above says, they are working in places with lots of turns, shorter drives, and plenty of stops. I see them used for garbage pickup a lot, where a longnosed Mack wouldn’t be able to fit much less maneuver, and the short nose prevents them from getting rubs (raw skin or even open sores) on their snouts.

I would also like to point out that the tags have got it backwards. The wild trucks (which I’m pretty sure are extinct in the wild now) that all modern breeds stemmed from were shortnose trucks. We had known about automobiles and domesticated several species, but the truck species was not discovered until close to the start of the 1900’s, in Germany, which I BELIEVE was the first country to breed them in captivity, although England was the first country to really start using them for work. I managed to find a photo of taxidermied specimen

As you can see, it resembles both long and short nosed breeds, as well as the far more common house truck used by individuals instead of for commercial work.

As to the aggression, while the mack longnose LOOKS aggressive, they’re generally gentle giants (although please do give them space on the road! not seeing you in their blind spot is NOT the same as aggression!), it is actually the smaller house truck that is often trained by their handler to be aggressive: the keyword being TRAINED, they are also not naturally aggressive. The only time I have seen a mack be commonly aggressive is when they are pulling 2 gravel trailers, and I would be cranky if I was being overworked, too. If you see them hauling that kind of load, just give them space, and you’ll be fine.

[ub-sessed]

I feel like somebody should add something about the Australian variants.

[nudityandnerdery]

From my understanding of Australian wildlife:

[dreorzen]

Does anyone know if/how American School Busses are related to trucks? 

Pics for reference:

The classic long-nose schoolbus

But short-nose varieties exist, I remember when they first started appearing in my district!

[kedreeva]

@dreorzen While school buses ARE in the automobile order, they are actually part of the Van family, not the Truck family, due to their passenger capacity. As you can see in the photos, they have no cargo bed or hookup, and are not really built for object transport. But they DO excel at carrying passengers, particularly children (although certainly not limited to just children)

They’re known to be exceptionally protective of any passengers, and if you look closely on that second image you can actually see a specialized appendage that is (I think) unique to school buses- a small, red, octagonal fan, which they extend when there are small creatures around them that they are acquiring or releasing. Much like an angler fish’s bioluminescent bulb appendage, this fan (along with several bioluminescent patches on top of their faces and on their hindquarters) works to mesmerize any other vehicles in close proximity, to where those vehicles will cease movement until the bus lowers the fan. It’s super fascinating behavior, and little wonder why we trust our children to these gentle, protective giants.

[silirial]

@bunjywunjy this seems like a post you need to see

[justlookatthosesausages]

This post is exactly what I like about tumblr.

Informative? Useful? Interesting? Yes. Explained in a silly manner? Also yes. In the end, are you delighted to have learn stuff? YES!