My Servants Never Die!

Hi there! My name is Linaxtic or Lin (he/they) and I'm a middle school librarian, writer, streamer, crocheter and general nerd.

[the-semicolonoscopy]

It’s Pride Month Eve, so leave out some milk for Freddie Mercury and his cats.

[the-semicolonoscopy]

Annual reblog of Freddie and his magnificent cats.

[tumbalendar]

happy Pride Eve!

[kdinjenzen]

Donate to Help Kdin Crawl Out of Medical Debt, organized by Kdin Jenzen

My name is Kdin Jenzen, I'm a trans woman voice actress/producer/social media manager … Kdin Jenzen needs your support for Help Kdin Crawl O

Welp, a new "the worst thing that could happen" has happened for me:

I received a letter YESTERDAY that my medical debt from 2018-2022 has hit a point where the creditor is no longer allowing "min payments" & I have til June 6th to pay it IN FULL... "or else."

If you can help, I'd appreciate it.

Unfortunately that ALSO means I'm still struggling for rent and bills as well, but I've decided to keep that and this separate as to not combine the issues into something even more stressful for my brain...

[kdinjenzen]

We are at 73% funds raised with 7 days left until the due date!

[kdinjenzen]

WE'RE AT 95% WITH 5 DAYS LEFT!

[miniaturize]

the concept of a site that doesn't even allow porn requiring age verification for mature content. you gotta give us your legal id or else we'll hide random posts that were incorrectly flagged from you

[captain-price-returns]

[oinkymoo]

especially when so many of the incorrectly tagged posts are like. trans women existing. or black ppl existing

[fuckaspunk]

@staff @humans @support y'all just can't stop trippin on your dick huh

[lesbianbettyboop]

not to sound like a crazy sjw but parents putting little girls in frilly dresses/lavish clothes and telling them not to run, climb, play in dirt, etc lest they ruin their outfits or somebody look up their skirts is one of the most direct ways we as a society teach girls that they are only ornamental and cut their childhoods short

[wolfythewitch]

This too shall pass but like holy fuck

[pocketss]

it’s just one of those croissant days

[pocketss]

we love a recovery

[dragon-in-a-fez]

the important thing to remember about corporations is that they are so so stupid

[dragon-in-a-fez]

this post brought to you by my ex employer claiming that they can't have done disability discrimination against me because there's no proof I had PTSD in January 2025, although they do admit I had it both four months before and six months after that

[dragon-in-a-fez]

asked my lawyer if this was the dumbest thing she'd ever seen and she gave me the ol' dead eyed stare that has watched a thousand civilisations fall

[rebellum]

Kinda wild how the concept of emotional labour changed from

"people have to hide their emotions to perform specific types of labour where their apparent emotions influence another person's. Eg. Flight attendants have to be cheerful all the time, so that passengers feel welcome and safe. This suppression and masking of emotion can cause a sense of disconnect within the individual where they dont know what their true feelings are. This is part of the Marxist idea of alienation from labour and from the self."

To

"If you ask me to care about you or listen to your problems, youre being toxic."

[livebloggingmydescentintomadness]

i was watching a video about how regional cheeses are made around the world, and was shown a type of mozzarella called zizzona (the z/zz pronounced like the 'zz' in 'pizza', with a 'tz' sound), which, yes, means "mother's breast".

so rest easy tonight knowing they have titty cheese in italy.

[livebloggingmydescentintomadness]

they also make special GIANT 66lb zizzona

so rest easy tonight knowing they have hummina hummina aWOOGAH iyiyiyiyi GAZONGA cheese in italy

[metalheadsagainstfascism]

‘This is long overdue’: Jan. 6 rioters and election deniers celebrate Trump’s $1.8 billion compensation fund | CNN Politics

Supporters of President Donald Trump who tried to overturn the 2020 election are among those eager to potentially cash in from Donald Trump’

Fuck it. I'm applying.

Either a) I get free money

Or b) we hit them with so many applications that it has to shut down

Because it's only 5 people

[galvanizedfriend]

Chloé Zhao, who just won an Oscar for best director, writes fanfiction.

That's the kind of validation I needed in my life. Thank you, ma'am.

[absurdthirst]

To all those that think there is an age limit to fanfiction or you “have to be this” to write fanfiction — fuck off.

[fadinggalaxysalad]

I hope this reaches every author on this site. If they haven’t written a word in years, only are writing in their head and haven’t put it down yet, are hip deep in their own War and Peace wordcount fic. 

[animentality]

[moxilock]

Teachers: anyway yea here's this story about a guy who hated slavery with his guts and died trying to kill it

Me: woah this guy sounds super cool! He's like a hero

Teachers: NO!!!!! >:( BAD!!!!! HE WAS A BAD GUY!!!!!!! HE DID MURDER!!!!!!!!!!!

[k1ntsug1-r0b0t-g1rl]

what if we promised to keep living? would you do that for me? would you do that for yourself?

[k1ntsug1-r0b0t-g1rl]

even if you're scared, just promise me tomorrow?

[k1ntsug1-r0b0t-g1rl]

you made it and im so proud of you, I'll see you tomorrow?

[k1ntsug1-r0b0t-g1rl]

please <3

[akaanmo]

i think i just witnessed a miracle

[fractiousrvt]

There is always hope

[linaxtic]

Tags via @whatacartouchebag but very important

[kurtwagnermorelikekurtwagnerd]

sickens me to my stomach. how dare this guy get to live my dream.

[acutecoral]

Some clarifications and an update

[biglawbear]

This person has more emotional intelligence and healthier skills in navigating relationships than most people

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Stay out of the notes of this one guys.

[akinmytua2]

Honestly if a new partner kept snackies on them to help me if I looked stressed, why would I let them know I knew and possibly end the snackies?

[dungeonmastersconsortium]

"Scam" you mean people are fighting back against housing discrimination??? I don't think these people know what the word scam means

Scams are designed to trick someone into giving up money based on lies. This is just.. asking for information then legally enforcing the law??

Fuck landlords

[voidandradiance]

the most disorienting thing thats ever happened to me was when a linguistics major stopped in the middle of our conversation, looked me in the eye, and said, "you have a very interesting vernacular. were you on tumblr in 2014?" and i had to just stand there and process that one for a good ten seconds

[booksandchainmail]

#i was in a car with a linguist i had never met before the car trip and like half an hour in he looked at me#after i finished describing a geology thing that was happening out the window and asked if i'd ever spent much time on tumblr#the fuckor of it all#and then we spent six more hours driving#it sure does leave linguistic markers! i'm not sure i'm good with it (tags via @thoughtsformtheuniverse)

[issela-santina]

it is one thing to be a linguist and another to be a linguist who knows enough of 2010s Tumblr to spot one of its enjoyers

[lierdumoa]

Oh! @meret118 see above comment! The use of the word "enjoyers" instead of "users" or "bloggers" -> You left a comment a while back asking, "Does this just mean vocabulary words? Other than blorbo and sweet cinnamon roll etc, I can't think of what a Tumblr accent would be." I almost never see anyone use the word "enjoyer" anywhere outside of tumblr, but I see it on tumblr fairly frequently.

Another one is the verb "perceive" i.e. "don't perceive me" "I am perceiving" "I am being percieved." That's something that feels very specific to tumblr parlance.

There's the thing where people on tumblr have an emotional reaction to something and instead of, or in addition to telling you how they feel about it using emotion words, they will narrate a fictional action in the present progressive tense. "I am gnawing at the bars of my enclosure "I am kissing you on the mouth" "you are going into the soup" "you are getting all of the awards"

I once saw someone use that response format in ... I think it was a restaurant review, or a doordash review, or something like that. It was very unexpected seeing it outside of a tumblr post.

There are a lot of other tumblr linguistic quirks I can't currently remember off the top of my head, but I'll instantly recognize them if I see/hear them outside of tumblr. It's always a bit startling to see them out of context.

[pacificnorthwhore]

[i-wear-the-cheese]

when I was in university one of my modules was about internet slang and for our grades project we had to compile and analyse a small database of 100 words used by a specific community of our choice. I chose tumblr and that's how I stumbled across Gretchen McCulloch's research and discovered that yes not only did tumblr have its own vernacular and syntax (as @lierdumoa demonstrates), it was at the time a crucible of slang and memes probably unrivalled by any other part of the internet. and it's stayed that way! even the very title is McCulloch's book because internet is an example of this specific phraseology.

sadly my project is lost due to the website being wiped from the university database after graduation and my then laptop having a major hardware failure. backup your backups people! but the crux of the entire module was that the internet is full of communities using language not only as jargon for specific purpose but also to signal membership in said community. I even wrote a bit about non capitalisation and punctuation useage as a visual cue on tumblr and how including information in the reblog body or the tags indicated different levels of importance or intimacy of thought

I am holding the side of your face and looking deep in your eyes and telling you that love is stored in the syntax, and that we are rotating words together all at once as we all nod at their new and baffling meanings. if the devils sacrament be tumblr then the devils gospel is our collective voice. thanks for coming to my tedtalk

[weirdchristmas]

I am being perceived.