Jamesxide

James is just this guy, you know? (Yes, I'm comparing myself to Zaphod Beeblebrox) For more personal content check out the-just-king.tumblr.com or jamesxide.blogspot.com body, a, a:hover { cursor:url(http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g411/thisdayandage/cursortennant.png), auto }

[conarcoin]

[kittenchomp]

hears someone pounding at my door immediately before receiving this message

[westmeath]

[wizardshark]

It took me like three reads to realize those are different

[wizardpotions]

We need to start objectifying wizards. We can't slap them on the ass though they only have 4 hit points they may perish

[chocolateonfire]

[sirius170103]

[wizardpotions]

i hope you die, i hope we both die, hand on unslappable ass.

[what-even-is-thiss]

I'm a red-blooded corn-fed AMERICAN MAN and if I wanna get my tits chopped off that's my god-given right as a tax payer.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Why should the government tell me what my gender is? Back in my day we earned our own genders uphill in a blizzard both ways.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Well I think this post has started reaching people that don’t get the joke. It was nice knowing you all.

[akiwuff]

No but this is hilarious and reminds me of a galaxy-brained shirt I saw the other day

Walk into the nearest Hobby Lobby wearing this and watch people begin to disintegrate

[what-even-is-thiss]

I want that to become my 4th of July shirt. I want to wear that shirt to the family barbecue so bad.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Guess who’s $25 poorer and prepared for July 4th already

[introvertedx10]

[headspace-hotel]

This linguistic problem is only going to continue getting worse unless we fuck it in the ass now.

[gummybearattacktheworldofdespair]

[ababeinthewoods]

Moments before disaster.

[the-real-numbers-deactivated202]

this little freak keeps sneaking into my garden and rubbing himself all over my flowers??Hello?????

[james-silvercat]

Real, male bees don’t go after flowers they stay home, that freak is a herself

[the-real-numbers-deactivated202]

googling ‘bee genders’ as I dictate this post

[lierdumoa]

The more you google bee reproductive biology the more absurd it is that we’re applying the words male and female to them. Their actual genders are worker, drone and queen. The queen is capable of both asexual and sexual reproduction. Bees born of unfertilized eggs become drones that are capable of fertilizing eggs. Bees born of fertilized eggs become workers, but can also potentially become a queen depending on how they are fed during the larval stage.

Use whatever the fuck pronouns you want to describe bees because they’re all equally incorrect projections of human worldview onto an insect species. Bees don’t experience mammalian sexual dimorphism in a biological sense nor do they experience human gender dimorphism in a sociopolitical sense.

[titkoks]

this was a RIDE and the end was a huge slap in the face

[ante--meridiem]

Possibly unpopular opinion? There’s a thin line between anti-elitism-in-academia and anti-intellectualism, and tumblr really walks it sometimes.

Anti-elitism:

Criticizing class barriers to getting into academia

Criticizing lack of resources to help students with physical or mental health issues

Calling out racism and sexism in academia

Calling out people who treat others badly for being less educated

Calling out people who believe academia is the only way to gain knowledge

Anti-intellectualism:

Being opposed to academia as an institution

Acting like everyone in academia is a rich and privileged white man

Acting like their opinions shouldn’t matter because of this

Assuming that any specialised language exists only to make things difficult for a layperson to understand and couldn’t possibly be necessary in order to explain a complicated topic

Assuming that if a specialist can’t explain what they’re doing to a non-specialist in five minutes then what they do is nonsense

Shaming people for taking pride in their academic and intellectual achievements

Am I crazy for thinking that tumblr sometimes veers towards the second?

[octopuscato]

Nope, you’re observant.

[aidoku-deactivated20191023]

There’s a post about the specialised language thing that kills me everytime I see it. Every field has jargon, even non-academic ones. But for some reason people act like they’re somehow incapable of learning a few new words.

Besides published academic papers are written with the expectation that the reader has at least some prior knowledge on the subject. They go through peer review and editing before they get published and most journals request clear wording in their submissions. Their language choice is an attempt to explain their point in the most clear and concise way possible to people already working and researching that field, because those are the people that are going to be able to use it. It might be a pain in the ass to read as a beginner, but you either work your way up to it or consult with someone more knowledge on the topic.

Yes some people can be overzealous with their word choice, but you’re not always going to be the target audience for someone’s work and that’s not the authors fault.

[kalichnikov]

terfs are so fucking stupid its actually funny

[kalichnikov]

I probably shouldn't be surprised about this, but a lot of people missing the point here. the joke isn't "terfs calling Sigourney weaver, a hot woman, unattractive" and tbh I think seeing this post and going "terfs are so stupid because Sigourney weaver is obviously gorgeous" is even potentially harmful or at least hurtful

the joke here is terfs seeing a picture of Sigourney Weaver, famous actress and cis woman, but because they were told its a picture of a trans woman they're immediately yakking about how 'clockable' she is

[assassinationtipsforladies]

Reminds me of when me and a friend were tabling for Mermaids and some TERF came over and told us, in great detail, why we, two cis women, would never "pass". Because its incomprehensible to them that any actual cis people would just support trans rights. I'm obviously taller than any real woman and my tits are obviously fake, and her man hands and "beer belly" gave her away.

She was six months pregnant

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

I've yet to hear any definition of womanhood as set by TERFs that doesn't exclude huge swathes of women, both cis and trans alike.

[pattinsonsupremacy]

i have two heroes

[thebibliosphere]

I think I might have played too many city builder games during quarantine. I just tried to rotate the angle of my word document using the middle scroll button to try and get a better look at the plot.

[gallusrostromegalus]

If it makes you feel better, I’ve been gardening so much the thought “The wifi is running slow, maybe the router needs to be watered” occured to me last night.

[booksandchainmail]

#crosswired impulses are deeply hilarious to me#i was taking a greek class and a higher math class at the same and i tried to decline some differential equations#which. did not help funnily enough. differential equations are still bad even in the accusative (tags via @thoughtsformtheuniverse)

[jess-abides]

This is it, this is the one

[theworsethingsgettheharderifight]

Oh mY GOD do I try

[dunkstein]

You will never hear dwarven folk metal. You will never hear elf prog rock. You will never see an orc do a drum solo. You will never see a gnome shredding on the keyboard. You will never see a goblin punk band. Despair eternally

[angstytwat]

[thestuffedalligator]

I deeply appreciate the fact that Discworld translators add their own terrible, terrible puns.

[loubatas]

Patrick Couton, who translated the entire Discworld series in French, is absolutely excellent, and even won an award for the quality of his Discworld translation. For every untranslatable pun, he adds a new one (so the final translation has roughly the same amount of puns as the original) and they blend in so well it's sometimes very hard to tell they weren't from Pratchett himself He actually wrote footnotes about Death's gender in most of the earliest books, not just the first, going from "probably to the surprise of French readers, Death is male" to "Male, yes" or "once and for all, Death is male!", until at some point the footnote went basically "fuck it you should know it now"

[archibaldtuttle]

I went to a convention years ago and Couton was there doing a talk on his work translating Discworld - here are a few highlights

- When asked why he chose to translate Discworld, he said "I didn't have a job and my buddy offered since he knew I speak English. I don't really like fantasy actually I'm more of a noir novel guy."

- like the previous reblog said, he added a pun for each one he couldn't translate, sometimes puns referencing specifically French culture when the original joke referenced something most French people wouldn't know about

- at first, Pratchett hated his guts because Couton would call Pratchett's editor to ask questions - about words Pratchett made up, about specificities of the names of places and people - so he could make sure that he was translating it right. Pratchett found this irritating and thought that if this translator had to call him this often, he had to be a bad translator. "He said none of the other translators ever called him. When I checked out the German translation of one of the books - I am fluent in German - I noticed that it was a lot of nonsense. They clearly had never called Pratchett, but not because they were better than me."

- at one convention in Nantes, Pratchett was invited to sign autographs. Couton was there too but just as a guest. When they opened the line for the autographs, the Frenchies refused to advance. They said they wanted the translator's autograph too. The organisers had to run after Couton and fetch him a chair so he could also sign the books. "After this day, Pratchett never gave me trouble about my calls. I think he understood that my work was important."

[cowpokeprose]

Maybe you aren’t annoying, maybe they were just annoyed. Maybe your entire personality can’t be boiled down to actions others found disruptive. Maybe peoples feelings are subjective views of you, not objective. The same way we teach kids to say “I feel angry when you do this thing” instead of “you made me angry!” maybe you should consider that people, due to their own personal beliefs about social interaction, felt annoyed in response to your actions but that that doesn’t necessarily mean you did something bad or are something bad. And while its sweet that you want to make sure people don’t have negative feelings, there’s a lot of humans in this world and we’re always going to be stepping on each others toes so maybe don’t let people feeling annoyed with you define you. 

[theaxiomofhope]

holy shit did I need to hear that

[ambientwitch]

[phantomsteed]

“do you rodents think you can handle a semicircle” is making me lose my damn mind

[shoelace-and-friends]

This mouse is absolutely gay