PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
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occasionally subtle
Claire Keane
cherry valley forever
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YOU ARE THE REASON
2025 on Tumblr: Trends That Defined the Year
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todays bird
oozey mess
we're not kids anymore.
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REVISED EDITION!
I was delighted to receive an email from June Casagrande last week, letting me know that there’s a revised edition of her book The Best Punctuation Book, Period coming soon! She wanted my snail mail address so she could ensure I get a free copy. This is, no lie, the reference I go to most often because all the mechanical questions and their answers are right here in its pages. No need to bother…
Lord Grey's Lisp: Or, how to write speech impediments (or not)
Readers of Dorothy Dunnett might already know where I’m heading with this. For them, I say “Stop now, if you wish. Nothing new to see, here.” For the rest of you: Current common practice in the copyediting biz is to minimize representation of speech impediments. This purpose is twofold: It simplifies the reading, and it avoids stereotyped speech. However, as they say, ’twas not always thus. In…
this is your gentle reminder to stop fighting against your adhd and instead structure your life around it
buy a pack of chapsticks and put one in the pocket of all of your coats and jackets because you always forget to bring one and chapped lips is sensory hell
leave important things where you can see them. if they go in a box or a drawer you will forget they exist
put any appointments or deadlines in your phone calendar As Soon As you get them. set a reminder for a week before, a day before, an hour before, as many as you need as often as you need them.
when that little voice in your head says "i dont need to write that down, ill remember it" that is the devil talking!!! write it down anyway!!
plan for down time. have a few hours at the end of every day to just do fun stuff like engage in your hyperfixations. even if you didnt get all of your work done that day, have the rest anyway. you probably spent the whole day beating yourself up for not doing what you Should be doing, so you still need the break.
if you never eat vegetables because its too much effort to chop and cook them, get the frozen or canned shit. it doesnt go off for ages and you just have to microwave it. theres no point buying fresh vegetables if they just keep going off and being left to rot in the bottom of your fridge
if you struggle to decide what to have for dinner every day, take the decision out of it. choose a set of meals and eat those on rotation until you get sick of them, then choose some new ones and do it again.
its not stupid if it works! our brains literally have a chemical deficiency. you are allowed to accommodate yourself. go forth and stop making your life more difficult than it has to be because "this shouldn't be this hard". it is hard, so make it easier.
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another iceland fact
tourists are posting pictures from several different places in the country and tagging them with the name "gjaldskylda". they seem to be under the impression that it's the toponym of the beautiful waterfall/lava field/mountain/etc. they're visiting.
gjaldskylda means "you have to pay to park here" and it's on an unreasonable amount of signs
I think the weirdest form of fatphobia I keep bumping into is writers suddenly becoming deeply concerned with physical realism when a fat character is involved even in contexts where everybody's physical capabilities are explicitly bullshit. "They're fat, it wouldn't make sense for them to have super speed" and it would make sense for the 98-pound twink to be able to run at Mach Fuck? That's something skinny people can do in real life, is it?
The one about the Mad Libs
Last month, when I visited my sister and her family, my nephew gave me a book of D&D Mad Libs.
I loved Mad Libs when I was a kid. When I couldn't get a Guess & Show book for a long road trip, I got Mad Libs. They tickle that part of my brain that enjoys clever surprises and really dumb jokes.
A week after I saw them, I went to a convention in ... I think it was Mississippi. When I got there, I noticed that I had my new Mad Libs in my backpack, and I had an idea: take it with me into my panel, and do a Mad Libs together with the audience. When someone asks me a question during my Q&A, I will ask them for a noun, a verb, or whatever is next in the thing. Then, at the end of my Q&A, I'll read the thing we made together.
It looks great on paper, but in practice, something isn't quite clicking. I'm not sure what it is. It feels like one of those things that will be so obvious if and when I solve it, and then this will work in practice the way it works on paper ... but I can't find it, so I'm going to retire this bit.
The ENTIRE reason I took the time to post about this, on Tumblr specifically, is so I can relate this moment that happened yesterday.
I was in my panel (in a room with the worst sound and lighting I have ever been in at a con) doing the thing. I asked the person at the mic to give me a noun. They thought for a moment, and said, "ship."
I said, "Oh, that's more of a verb for me," and there was DEAD SILENCE in the room.
And that's how I knew that nobody from Tumblr was attending my panel.
I'm in Atlanta for Comicon all weekend if anyone wants to come say hello.
i learned that actor Danny Trejo has the most on-screen deaths of anyone in Hollywood history, with 65. Followed by Christopher Lee (60), Lance Henriksen (51), Vincent Price (41), Dennis Hopper (41), Boris Karloff (41), and John Hurt (39). (x)
Yet poor Sean Bean is stuck with the reputation for dying in every movie. Unfair.
Give him time, he still has many years of dying yet to come.
Also there’s the question of density vs quantity. If you make a hundred movies and die in 50, and someone else makes 30 movies and dies in 30, the first one has died more, but the second one has died more often per movie.
It’s the DPM ratio that really counts, IMO.
65/402 16% Danny Trejo 60/282 21% Christopher Lee 51/259 20% Lance Henriksen 41/211 19% Vincent Price 41/205 20% Dennis Hopper 41/204 20% Boris Karloff 39/209 19% John Hurt 33/117 28% Sean Bean
I’m so proud of the statistical side of tumblr for coming through on this.
Call it what it is.
Do you want to be politically pure in theory or help your neighbor. Is it fruitless to help your neighbor because there's no Perfect Pure way to do it ?
Honestly I would rather be politically pure. Your neighbors would never help you, so why help them?
Youre who this post is talking about. Individualism and elitism is not going to help the revolution and grassroots activism and mutual aid.
When the pandemic hit this old church lady joined our tattooed queer leftist mutual aid group bc her church soup kitchen closed. We shrugged and told her she was welcome as long as she didn't proselytize.
That woman never gendered me right once, but she shut up about Jesus long enough to feed people next to us bc she cared more about action than ideology. She also had a whole network of other church people who helped contribute $ to ingredients. We provided more and better meals together than in our "correct" silos
That's how any of us get out of any of this
Born in the 1900s
Or: How old am I, really? I’m seeing this a lot of late, and it bugs me. It bugs me enough that I got out my trusty Chicago Manual of Style, 18th edition, and looked up “decades” and “centuries” (sections 9.34 and 9.35, for those playing along at home) to see whether I’m totally nuts. I’m not. At least not on this particular matter. Setting aside the question of words versus numerals, which is…
spending a lot of time in Anglosphere tumblr always gets me thinking about linguistics and translation and categories today I was think about eggshells and the skin of fruits and the bark of trees. in Portuguese all these things are called "casca" (casca de ovo, casca de fruta, casca de árvore). Casca (subst. fem.) in a broad sense means a hard outer layer or outer shell. When someone keeps a wall around their innermost feelings, we sometimes call them "cascudo". In the masculine form "casco", it means a turtleshell (casco de tartaruga) or a boat's hull (casco do barco), but also the hoof of a horse or a cow (casco do cavalo, casco da vaca). In English those are all separate categories. Meanwhile "shell" also refers to such disparate things as the shells of bivalves (conchas) and the cartridges of shotguns (cartuchos). And the skin of fruit is the same word as the skin of people and animals (pele), which conjures the image of a fruit being like a parson, or perhaps, of taking a bite of a person as of an apple. I wonder if someone learning Portuguese would think of similar images, such as a tree covered in eggshells, or a fruit being like a boat. We also don't have a separate word for peel. A peel is "casca". The word for peeling is "descascar", and you may descascar eggs, fruits, vegetables, even shrimp. But human skin also may descascar, on its own, when it's terribly sunburnt. So in the end, the categories aren't all that separate, after all.
Honestly, as a German I can not quite understand the obsession of the English speaking world with the question whether a word exists or not. If you have to express something for which there is no word, you have to make a new one, preferably by combining well-known words, and in the very same moment it starts to exist. Agree?
Deutsche Freunde, could you please create for me a word for the extreme depression I feel when I bend down to pick up a piece of litter and discover two more pieces of litter?
um = around
die Welt = world
die Umwelt = environment
ver = prefix to indicate something difficult or negative, a change that leads to deterioration or even destruction that is difficult to reverse or to undo, or a strong negative change of the mental state of a person
der Müll = garbage, trash, rubbish, litter
-ung = -ing
die Vermüllung = littering
ver- = see before
zweifeln = to doubt
-ung = see before
die Verzweiflung = despair, exasperation, desperation
die Umweltvermüllungsverzweiflung = …
This is a german compound on the spot master class and I am LIVING
#my german is still too basic for this but I desperately want a compound word for how much these compound words piss me off
das Monster = monster
das Wort = word
der Groll = grudge, anger, malice, rancor
der Monsterwortgroll = …
Monsterwortbildungsimitationsunfähigkeitsverzweiflungsgroll
die Bildung = formation
die Imitation = imitation
un- = un-, in-
fähig = able
-keit = -ility
die Unfähigkeit = inability
der Monsterwortbildungsimitationsunfähigkeitsverzweiflungsgroll = anger about the inability to imitate the formation of monster words
Linguistikfehdenhandschuhwurf
die Linguistik = linguistics
die Fehde = feud
der Handschuh = glove
der Fehdehandschuh = gauntlet
der Wurf = throw
der Linguistikfehdenhandschuhwurf = throwing down the linguistic gauntlet
*slowly backs in fear*
@shiplocks-of-love, @thatswhywelovegermany
Monsterwortbildungsunfähigkeitsangstverzweiflungsrückzugsecke
Monster=monster // wort=word // bildung(s)=formation
unfähigkeit (s)=incabability // angst=anxiety
verzweiflung(s)=desperation // rückzug(s)=retreat // ecke=corner
=the corner in which you retreat when you´re desperate because of your fear when being unable to form monster words
*eye twitch*
But what I want to see now is two germans arguing over the construction of one of these monster words.
@shiplocks-of-love I don’t think that will happen. The words make perfect sense. I think if German is your mother tongue you get a feeling for combining words, like a
Monsterwortbildungsgespür
Monster = monster
Wort = word
Bildung(s) = formation
Gespür = intuition
;-)
Sprachirrgartenbelustigungsbeitrag
die Sprache = language
• irren = to become lost (also: to err, to be mistaken; to wander, to stray)
• der Garten = garden
der Irrgarten = maze, knot garden
• be- = prefix with a variety of functions: ¹as part of a compound word, it denotes a processing or change of state; ²as part of a compound word, it denotes a touch; ³as part of a compound word, it denotes a more intensive preoccupation with or thematization of something; ⁴it forms from a noun an adjective with a pseudo-participle form because the corresponding verb does not exist; ⁵as a prefix, it forms a transitive verb from a previously intransitive verb; ⁶as a prefix of a verb, it shifts the focus and thus changes the sentence structure
• lustig = funny
• -ung = suffix turning an adjective/adverb into a noun
die Belustigung = amusement, entertainment, merriment
der Beitrag = contribution, article in a newspaper or magazine, posting on social media, input to a discussion
Bloody love this language <3<3<3
The thing is, since in German you have to decline/conjugate many words in relation to the noun they are refering to those monster words actually serve a purpose of making the language simpler. A common example is a (as in any) red wine (ein roter Wein) as compaired to the compound a red wine (ein Rotwein). If rot is an adjective it has to be conjugated: der rote Wein - des roten Weins - die roten Weine - and many more. But it if rot is part of the noun you only have to decline Wein: der Rotwein - des Rotweins - die Rotweine. So, die Verzweiflung über die Vermüllung der Umwelt is way longer than Umweltvermüllungsverzweiflung and you would have to know three grammatical genders and the words’ respective declinations. Whereas for Umweltvermüllungsverzweiflung you only need to know that Verzweiflung is grammatically feminine (die) and its deklinations.
Ok, now I want to see Germans playing Scrabble
All these justices are going against their previous opinions now that a Republican is in the White House.
The lying, the perjury, the deception. MAGA101.
I really do think that it’s good for the soul to be unironically pretentious about something. Not in a gatekeeping kind of way but in a “yes, it really is that deep and I would love to enthusiastically and passionately explain why” kind of way.
I’m a fan of “yes, it really is deep and I’m still swimming in the shallow end, but isn’t it interesting”
That’s not being pretentious though. That’s literally not what the word means.
Pretentiousness is not about Actually Being Enthusiastic about stuff. It’s about PRETENDING to find and appreciate Depths in something so as to make yourself look Intelligent and Deep.
That’s where the gatekeeping bit comes in. Because people who are being pretentious about something value being smarter than other people about the thing. That’s different to valuing the thing itself.
(Sometimes people can do both. That’s when you get things like gatekeepy fan communities that are also genuinely passionate about their fandom. But the two things aren’t the same and each can exist independently of the other. People can be pretentious without any true passion, cultivating an appearance of Liking Something without actually liking it much or at all-or they can be deeply passionate without any pretence at all.)
To illustrate my point, here’s a hypothetical example:
Ann, Beth, and Cathy all say they are into classical music. But each of them means something different by that
Ann’s interest in classical music is motivated primarily by the fact that she feels that classical music is elegant high-class, intellectual, refined. Therefore being a fan of it reflects well on her. She isn’t really interested in it for its own sake, so her knowledge about may stay fairly shallow no matter how much time passes, if she can get the same social benefit from only an beginner-level amount of knowledge about the subject.
Beth genuinely enjoys classical music; she has Opinions about conposers and pieces, and has over the years amassed a LOT of knowledge on the subject. However, she also feels that loving classical is a sign that she’s more intelligent and cultured than most. She likes conversing with other classical music nerds, but she’s invested in that group remaining a walled garden for people she feels are as intelligent and cultured as she is. She is often shocked and suspicious when someone she’d stereotyped as not on her level turns out to actually also appreciate and understand classical music.
Cathy, like Beth, genuinely loves classical music, has Opinions and can happily talk about it all day….but unlike Beth, she doesn’t think of her interest as a Smart People Thing or a High Class Thing. It’s just her particular interest thst she finds endlessly fascinating and beautiful. Cathy will actively try to get people into classical, or at least try to explain to them in ways they can understand why she loves it so much. She wants to share the joy classical music gives to her, and will probably become upset or demoralised if the general feeling in her community is that classical is ‘not worth their time, especially if they opine that it is only for boring snobs.
Ann is pretentious. Beth is passionate but also pretentious. Cathy is just passionate.
This kind of misuse of terminology is rife on tumblr and twitter, and in my opinion it really needs to stop. It makes it harder to communicate, and associates positive or neutral things with strictly negative ones. We all remember that tweet Grimes made where she claimed to love being mansplained to; that’s the kind of misunderstanding that this can produce. She used the word as if it meant ‘being infodumped to by a man about his interests’ when the actual meaning is ‘being condescended to by a man about things you know perfectly well already’. And don’t even get me started on widespread misuse of the word ‘codependent’….
Words are important. You’re not being pretentious by having a deep interest, no matter how nerdy or unusual that interest is. You’re being passionate. Don’t insult yourself by claiming the love you feel is a character flaw.
Something that I get chills about is the fact that the oldest story told made by the oldest civilization opens with "In those days, in those distant days, in those ancient nights."
This confirms that there is a civilization older than the Sumerians that we have yet to find
Some people get existential dread from this
Me? I think it's fucking awesome it shows just how much of this world we have yet to discover and that is just fascinating
@makaeru peer review cos this made me check when the Sumerians happened and I forget how recent history is for every other continent. 7000 - 8000 years ago just isn't that long when you're in Australia, and the amount of detailed history we have access to here is wonderful and should be recognised more internationally
Source (non Aboriginal)
And a quote I picked out from a longer interview with an Aboriginal local elder about the area where he touched on the history
Source (the rest of the interview is really interesting and all transcribed, have a look if you're curious)
This is part of my Ancient Civilizations class that I teach, which does a whole week about Australia and the Torres Strait Islands because I was sick of never seeing them represented in USAmerican history contexts. With the help of @micewithknives and @acearchaeologist I've learned so many incredible things about Australia's past and it's been incredibly rewarding to share them with students.
My favorite fact about Aboriginal oral history is the fact that we pretty recently discovered that the Aboriginal myth of the 7 Sisters, an origin story for the Pleiades star cluster, accurately reflects a point TEN THOUSAND YEARS AGO when two stars in the constellation got close enough together to no longer be distinguishable by the naked eye.
The story? 6 sisters running from something that took their 7th sister.
as a gilgar gunditj woman, i was not expecting to see my culture on my dash.
thank you for spreading our words and treating our culture with respect.
Boosting signal.
Echoes from the ancient human past, wonderful.
Their oral history also contains stories about hunting prehistoric megafauna too. Native Australians are the oldest existing culture on earth, which is even more amazing considering how hard the british tried to wipe it out.
Budji Bim volcano.
