KryptidKing @kryptid-king - Tumblr Blog

₊˚⊹Welcome, lemme introduce myself.⊹˚₊

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Name's Kryptid, I'm a 35 year old creature of the night, quite literally, as I actually do in fact work the night shift as a technician at a technology company. It keeps me very busy along with too many hobbies. (￣▽￣*)

This is my personal account! And I like a lot of different things! You might see memes, jokes, various fandom art but also just cool art I see from other creators!

I apologize in advance if it takes me a while to get back to you. I'm AuDHD and only awake at night, so I can be easily distracted, forgetful, too tired to socialize or I'm just running on another schedule then others. I appreciate you stopping by and sending any asks / mentions / replies, just know that I have difficulties finding the right words sometimes. (๑•﹏•)

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₊˚⊹Some Important Notes!⊹˚₊

☆My handle on most platforms is KryptidKing, Krytpid-King, or Kryptid_King. Something like that. Used to be Ma-Junior wayyy back in the day. But I’m only semi active on tumblr and toyhouse.

☆I do not put up with bullshit, this is an LGBT+ safe space and I will not tolerate racist behavior either. It's gross, stay off my blog. ☆I'm a practicing American folk witch with a Welsh twist. I might make posts about it from time to time. I'm trying to set up a side blog dedicated to this but haven't gotten around to it yet.

Please do not edit, trace, or reupload my art to Tumblr or other sites or use anything of mine for AI!

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₊˚⊹TAGS⊹˚₊

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cilantrhoes

blanketfortarchitect

I can’t decide if it’s funnier if this is about autism or lycanthropy

sometiktoksarevalid

expressions-of-nature

June Flower Meadows by Dmitry Medyantsev

rosieandthemoon

by Herbert Granville Fell, 1899

dogpuppy

saaraahka

Not sure I'm cute enough to get away with being this mentally ill

anxietyproblem

jayeelishere

I miss them......

burntcopper

things english speakers know, but don’t know we know.

windycityteacher-deactivated202

WOAH WHAT?

ice-light-red-deactivated201611

That is profound. I noticed this by accident when asked about adjectives by a Japanese student. She translated something from Japanese like “Brown big cat” and I corrected her. When she asked me why, I bluescreened.

moved--306389

What the fuck, English isn’t even my first language and yet I picked up on that. How the fuck. What the fuck.

exomoon

Reasoning: It Just Sounds Right

arkthepieking

Oooh, don’t like that. Nope, I do not even like that a little bit. That’s parting the veil and looking at some forbidden fucking knowledge there.

canthinkofaurl-deactivated20221

How did I even learn this language wtf

titaniumelemental

I had to read “brown big cat” like three times before my brain stopped interpreting it as “big brown cat”

arjan-de-lumens

I’m kinda reading “brown big cat” as “brown (big cat)”, that is, a “big cat” - like a tiger or lion or other felid of similar size - that happens to be brown. “Big brown cat”, on the other hand, sounds more like a brown cat that’s just a bit bigger than a regular housecat - like a bobcat or a maine coon cat or something like that.

the-real-seebs

yeah, a brown big cat is almost certainly a puma. a big brown cat is probably a maine coon.

whetstonefires

yeah, if you put the adjectives out of order you wind up implying a compound noun, which is presumably why we have this rule; we stripped out so much inflection over the centuries word order now dictates a huge amount of our grammar

delphinidin4

Just looked up why we do this and one of the first lines in this article is, “Adjectives are where the elves of language both cheat and illumine reality.” so I know it’s a good article.

Things this article has taught me:

This same order of adjectives more or less applies to languages around the world. “It’s possible that these elements of universal grammar clarify our thought in some way,” says Barbara Partee, a professor emeritus of linguistics and philosophy at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Yet when the human race tacitly decided that shape words go before color words go before origin words, it left no record of its rationale.

One theory is that the more specific term always falls closer to the noun. But that doesn’t explain everything in adjective order.

Another theory is that as you get closer to the noun, you encounter adjectives that denote more innate properties. In general, nouns pick out the type of thing we’re talking about, and adjectives describe it,” Partee told me. She observes that the modifiers most likely to sit right next to nouns are the ones most inclined to serve as nouns in different contexts: Rubber duck. Stone wall.

Rules are made to be broken. Switching up the order of adjectives allows you to redistribute emphasis. (If you wish to buy the black small purse, not the gray one, for instance, you can communicate your priorities by placing color before size). Scrambling the order of adjectives also helps authors achieve a sense of spontaneity, of improvising as they go. Wolfe discovers such a rhythm, a feeling-his-way quality, when he discusses his childhood recollection of “brown tired autumn earth” and a “flat moist plug of apple tobacco.”

Brain scans have discovered that your brain has to work harder to read adjectives in the “wrong” order.

TL;DR: No one knows why we do this adjective thing but it’s pretty hardwired in.

cuzosu-blog

@deadcatwithaflamethrower Linguistics tidbit.

thecsjones

Since it’s never credited, this is from Mark Forsyth’s The Elements of Eloquence, and just one reason why I think it’s required reading for anyone interested in prosecraft. Every page is this useful.

rosieandthemoon

Postcard c. 1900 {via}

mamath

A unicorn painted for the new postcard in June <3 I keep meaning to draw a lot more unicorns for #Junicorn but I just...can't find the time each year. ;_; Maybe I can make it up later in the year.

ANYWAY. This is the current free postcard in my shop! I'm already starting to run low though so I guess the new postcard will come in sooner than later and then I'll have this art for sale as A5 prints instead. :)