what if the world was made of pudding

kiwi / chinese american / ze/zir / 24 / id prefer if proship did not interact if possible

[segamascott]

[speedlimit15]

[kushblazer666]

[washedupkam]

a gem from the twitter feed this fine monday morning

[fairycosmos]

generational tweet

[hotvampireadjacent]

[egberts]

getting one of those big drinks on a roadtrip knowing the only place im headed is piss city population me

i think this is the button you meant to use

[anglaised]

u can tell the 4chan migration on here was successful / we lost the culture war bc anytime i even touch a post regarding autism i automatically get recommended more post about it and the post will literally have phrases like “total neurotypical death” with 20k notes and a bunch of high functioning white autistic ppl rbing it happily and giggling and whatever not even caring that “tnd” is a racist dog whistle no not even a dog whistle just straight up a racist chant but if u ask them to stop using it they go “so now we cant even complain about neurotypical?????” as if thats whats being criticized instead of the fact that yall r extremely open to fascism as long as its fun

[tonysopranoproskater69420]

thanks tvtropes I can always count on you to gas me up

[aomitois]

rb and tag your favorite song that's not in english, japanese or korean

[zxid]

collection

[fishlung8877]

[sapphling]

let's all have a fun time looking up new words when we encounter them to see what they mean before incorporating them into our vocabularies

[wileycap]

[godsfavoritespecialangel]

The chances of your fish committing credit card fraud is low, but never 0

[tuxankhamun]

[gryffon]

[infertilityidol]

[lockkeyy]

Fuuuuckkk dude. My exact age? Fuckkk

[kingcatnine]

i know it's not fair to compare the writing of recent debut tumblr authors to Terry Pratchett no matter how much they want to be him but reading a discworld really is making me despair at ppl not understanding what makes a metaphor good. Pratchett just hit me with "the silence of the room crowded in like a fist slowly being clenched" and you want to try my patience with sharpened bananas. go home.

[rebellum]

Hard disagree!!!

I really like it, its a good simile. It tells me how ridiculously oversized the claws are. If it were just "giant claws" I'd assume normal giant claws, like a grizzly

But with this description I'm imagining like

[kingcatnine]

yes, it tells you that the claws are the size of bananas. but it says "like sharpened bananas", invoking the spirit of the banana: soft. yellow. sweet. it invokes the size, but not the menace, of huge fuck-off claws, and distracts the reader from a high-action moment by inviting them to imagine trying to sharpen a banana to hurt someone with