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mostly johnlock. too old for this shit.

[bipolyjack]

babys first gay fiction podcast my beloved

[olivekitteridge]

Macro photographs of butterfly and moth wings

[farmgf]

IT’S SPRINGTIME YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS. PASS THE INSTRUCTIONS ON NOT GIVING UP BY ADA LIMÓN

[farmgf]

IT’S THE GREENING OF THE TREES THAT REALLY GETS TO ME!!!!!!!!!!!

[nadi196]

[thecoiledfool]

[misty-eyed-memory]

[ionlyseeyouindreams]

[jemsparklyfire]

WHERE IS MY HUSBAND!

[jemsparklyfire]

I can't believe this edit has reached 1,000 likes and over 300 reblogs! Thank you all so much 😭 I really didn't think this many people would see it. I had so much fun making this edit and I'm so happy people enjoy it. I've been reading all the comments and reblogs and everyone has been so nice, SO AGAIN, THANK YOU!! ❤️ Happy 9-1-1 eve!! ❤️

[insistentbass]

I don't know how I'm trapped in Buddie land without having seen a SINGLE EPISODE, yet here I am. Here I whither. Here I rest in pieces.

Such a great edit.

[fullest-circlest]

If you're writing 18th century dialogue, this website lets you search words and phrases to double-check whether they were in use & meant what you intend. It doesn't include every period-accurate use of a word/phrase, but it certainly helped me separate genuine 18th century grammar from the vague tangle of 💬old-fashioned fancy-speak💬 I've internalized from TV and video games.

[my-deer-friend]

Other websites that let you do this:

Johnson's Dictionary Online (thanks @yellowbelliedtoad!) – 1755 and 1773

Green's Dictionary of Slang – 1300s to today

A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue – 1788

Feraud's Dictionaire critique de la langue française – 1778

[zisurru]

A dictionary of the English and Italian languages by Giuseppe Baretti is a bilingual dictionary from 1790!

[fideliant]

[savannahcore27]

[rederiswrites]

History will remember you today, Minnesota. Well done.

[sheisraging]

yes good.

[langernameohnebedeutung]

Honey I Shrunk La France

[ydrill]

European Politics :

[liivn]

Three Barn Owls at a quatrefoil church window. Photographer: Richard Brooks. Date: July 2009. Shot at a local church in North Norfolk, England.

[liatris-n]

Gwrych Castle.

[intobattle]

[ellipsus-writes]

If you haven't heard, the em dash has been getting a lot of attention lately…

Because it was trained on pirated work—including freely accessible online writing (like fanfic, academic texts)—ChatGPT picked up patterns and quirks native to human writing.

Including (sigh) the em dash.

There are other victims here (RIP tapestry and delve 🫠), but the appropriation of the em dash—a punctuation mark beloved by writers everywhere—feels especially personal.

A kind of low-grade panic is ensuing. Writers who once memed their own em dash overuse—the greatest punctuation mark ever to grace the control-freak’s lexicon, frankly—are suddenly backing away to avoid accusations.

No. More. We have centuries of dash-abusing writers behind us. We will not sit quietly while AI repurposes our beloved stilted aside—or the just-one-more clarification the sentence demands—or the dramatic pause your comma could never—etc.

You don’t write like AI—AI writes like you.

Defend the em dash.

(Feel free to download/share/stick it where it matters!)

[johnlocklives]