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Aqua Utopia|海の底で記憶を紡ぐ
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
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the fact that I've stumbled into multiple examples of apo vampires cutting moments of her showing compassion from her finale. she tries so hard to act like she's done with everyone here, that she can't care about anything but getting home to cherri
and yet
(apo giving pearl food when she offhandedly mentions starving)
and yet
(apo complimenting doc when he looks like he needs it)
and yet
(apo asking if cleo is alright when they're audibly crying)
and these are just three that I noticed were absent from their pov!
#google translate does not capture the tone switch so i have to say. first two sentences are like. normal maybe kind of feminine posting tone #& the last is like. shounen manga protagonist. action movie hero. jojo's bizarre adventure character. #the tone you would use if you were holding a gun with the safety off (– @chadlesbianjasontodd)
Basically, a translation could be:
I just think it's so interesting that people end up falling in love with their friends' boyfriends! I absolutely despise every single one of them. give me my fucking homie back you goddamn bastard
translation tags by @minothtime because they are so so good
if i had to explain what tumblr is like i’d only show this
No one seems to be acknowledging the far funnier element of this, which is, that when you go to the commenter’s account, you find out they are actually fucking roleplaying as a sexually repressed skeleton and jjst really committed to the bit while everyone in the reblogs is talking about how much they hate minors or whatever. thank you kharak the skeleton servant of the almighty lich king
if i had to explain what tumblr is like i’d only show this
at some point The Character stops being a character and starts being a close personal friend
@funnier-as-a-system
All it means when people say “you’re speaking from a place of privilege” is that you’re likely to underestimate how bad the problem is by default because you are never personally exposed to that problem. It’s not a moral judgement of how difficult your life is.
^^^^^^ read it. say it out loud. keep repeating it until you understand.
i love when boomers complain about shit like this because as a fast food worker i would literally rather walk out into the lobby and shoot myself in the head than suggest more than one menu item to a customer
Yeah former 8 year Starbucks employ here. This never happens. I’ve have had what amounts to a flip on this happen more often. Something like
“Welcome in what can I get you”
“I want a plain black coffee”
“All rights wha-“
“No sugar or cream or flavor or anything else.”
“Okay, got it, wha-“
“I don’t want no caramachmocha flippy-do’s or frappachina-what-it’s. Just. A plain ol regular black coffee”
“That’s great sir, now please wha”
“Just a old fashioned stright up coff-“
“SIR WHAT SIZE DO YOU WANT YOU STUPID FUCKING COFFEE”
the most crucial aspect of role playing games is that sometimes you get to wear a cute outfit for them
it is vitally important to play role playing games because sometimes you can make people laugh or gasp just by using your words
the world needs role playing games because it lets you imagine and describe a really cool image you thought of
role playing games are so important because you can make your dolls kiss
one of MY favorite things about role playing games is slipping into character so far that you start genuinely responding and thinking differently than you do in real life
did you know? when you play role playing games, you can make something creative with other people in a flow state kind of way
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i don't think i'll ever forget when the boys' PE teacher so casually prompted me to join the other lads. there were no bells and whistles or some big grand gesture making a massive deal. he tret me like he would any other young lad. school was rough for me (like with most queer kids), so moments like these really shine. cheers, sir 🫡
You can really tell who’s never experienced poverty and food insecurity when it comes to discussions around food costs and how unhealthy food is cheaper. Some fucker always comes in with the price of like… lettuce or… apples. And it’s like yeah bitch but can you work an 11 hour shift after eating some salad and an apple!?! Find me something cheaper, and more filling than the broke ass staples of boxed mac and cheese, hot dogs, noodles, bread, beans, and rice. I’ll wait.
It also ignores the mental toll that poverty takes like maybe your home made veggie filled recipe isn’t crazy expensive but it also involves prep time and cooking time and organization in terms of fresh food that a lotta poor people can’t manage.
Not to mention if you can only afford to get to the store once every couple weeks via bus or cab then you can’t keep fresh veg on deck.
But ya know.. poor people are just dumb and lazy.
The other tell (to me) that someone has never experienced poverty or food insecurity is when people are viscerally disgusted by the idea of eating anything past expiration date, God forbid food that was pulled out of the garbage.
I have probably eaten more free food than food I’ve paid for. Because I don’t care if it’s expired or from the trash, as long as it passes the look test, smell test, and taste test, it’s fine.
40% of food in this country literally just goes to landfills because it’s more profitable to destroy edible food that won’t sell than it is to give it away/heavily discount it before it goes out of date.
We could enormously cut down on both food waste and hunger if there were laws passed making extremely heavy discounts on nearly out of date food mandatory.
baseball interviewers will ask "how do you throw the ball so good" and Mariners players will casually drop that they have a headmate who plays the game for them
It never hurts to have a good alter ego.
SEATTLE -- Within the walls of the Mariners’ clubhouse, many have already met “Walter,” the imposing alter ego of Logan Gilbert. But on Tues
After giving up a homer in the first inning, Logan Gilbert unleashed his alter ego "Walter" to shut down the A's the rest of the way as the
Logan Gilbert is making a name for himself as an emerging ace for the Mariners ... all with the help of his alter ego, "Walter," Ben Verland
Logan Gilbert's nickname, "Walter," is a captivating enigma within the world of professional baseball. In a sport where distinct personas a
Some of the links to those articles + extra, if you're interested!
The last article gets extremely repetitive, but here are some favorite quotes I just couldn't leave out..
"The character of Walter, which Gilbert created as an alter ego, is a study in contrast. While Logan Gilbert is known for his kindness, respect, and humility off the field, Walter embodies entirely different traits" (Smith).
"The origin of the name “Walter” is intriguingly random. It is not associated with Gilbert’s middle name, family name, or any personal connections" (Smith).
"Gilbert’s transformation into Walter is the occasional memory loss he experiences during his pitching performances. He has admitted to blacking out and not remembering certain actions or words spoken while he embodies Walter" (Smith).
"When he’s not on the mound, Logan Gilbert prefers to revert to his given name" (Smith).
"Gilbert’s emotional outbursts on the field while in the persona of ‘Walter’" (Smith).
"For Gilbert, ‘Walter’ is not just a nickname; it’s an integral part of his professional identity" (Smith).
"While fans may not fully understand the reasons behind the nickname, they often express respect for the concept of an alter ego in sports" (Smith).
Someone at an old job asked why I wanted to write up the meeting minutes for our team and I said 'i wanna control the narrative' and they were like 'what' and I pointed out that no one was gonna remember what we said in six months and so my interpretation of the meeting would dictate the assumed reality of what happened
"none of you ever send corrections when I offer the draft so y'all have consented to my version"
"we don't read that shit"
"you must trust me implicitly to create our shared reality that's so sweet"
That's how several coworkers decided I was a supervillain and how I learned several coworkers didn't understand record keeping as like a CONCEPT
What a highly specific and devastating word
So much translation discourse just boils down to monolinguals not understanding that "coolness" doesn't translate across languages, and you need to re-add it manually on the other end.
Spanish and French understand the anglicism so just say "eso es muy cool" or "c'est très cool" if the context is not particularly formal
No no, not literally the word "cool" I mean the [concept of coolness]. Things that sound cool, poetic, funny, dramatic, etc in one language will completely fail to land if you simply go 1-to-1 word equivalents.
In the Japanese version of Fullmetal Alchemist, the antagonists are named after the seven deadly sins, in English. As in, rather than the Japanese word, "Greed" is still Greed in the original.
Because loan words from English are often pretty "cool", as with your Spanish and French example.
But this presents a problem, because, to give them a bit of flair, the antagonists are sometimes given a proper Japanese adjective along with their name, to make a sort of title of sorts.
"Greedy Greed"
The italicized part would be a Japanese adjective, and the bolded part is an English loanword. This is fine in Japanese, but would be totally nonsense in an English translation.
After all, it's common sense to keep the names the same, duh, and obviously the whole point of what you're doing is to translate the Japanese.
Greedy Greed. You cannot call him that.
You can't go 1-to-1. To keep the [concept of coolness], you have to identify what made the original cool, and then recreate it in the new language.
And here, we have a foreign word, and a native word, both meaning the same thing, paired together to give an antagonist a cool sounding title. So how do we do that in English.
Well, the seven deadly sins, being Christian and Catholic and all, have fancy names in Latin. Or well, they just sound fancy in English, because Latin was the language of intellectuals for a long long time.
And in fact, while we also have the word "greed", English has a fancier sounding word that means the same thing, but whose etymology comes from the fancy Latin. That might give a similar cool-loanword feeling, right?
Let's try it.
"Greed the Avaricious"
Oh yeah. That's definitely, undeniably, "cool".
learning Abt American black history should radicalize people because 80% of it is just "yeah these white people committed hate crimes and mostly got away with it while black families and communities were left in shambles and still haven't had reparations met decades later"
white Americans will teach fabricated black history but remove the other half of it because it quite literally makes them look evil with the amount of murder and displacement they have caused to black communities. they'll teach you a portion of MLK but not the BPP or Tulsa race massacre
"we'll teach you a little bit about Rosa Parks but exclude every other black civil rights leader and activist especially Malcolm x + accomplishments enslaved black people made or their rebellion against their slavers"
"don't ask us what happened to that black neighborhood in 1985"
it's very fucking important to learn about black American history in full detail because they are dead set on erasing and fabricating our trauma filled history. it is detrimental to civil rights as a whole.
I don't know who needs to hear this, but the idea that you can make a little mistake while doing your taxes and then go to jail for it is mostly not a thing. If you make a mistake on your taxes you'll get a letter in the mail that says 'hey you made a mistake on your taxes' and then you can fix it (source: I have made mistakes on my taxes, international tax treaties are complicated). The only time people typically go to jail for tax stuff is if they commit massive intentional (or negligent, like if they run a business and never consult any expert on how payroll taxes work) fraud over a long period of time.
There's basically no way for a person new to doing taxes - and presumably not handling a lot of money - to accidentally fuck up those taxes in a way that's going to end with that person in jail.
time for this to start going around again
remember: the IRS wants its money more than they want to deal with the headache of prosecuting you.
they send you a letter, you take an hour (or less) to fix it, you send in your correction, and then it's all fine. you might have to pay a late fee or something but they're not gonna jump down your throat for a mistake, literally hundreds of thousands of people fuck up on their taxes every year.
I literally did this last year -- I do my taxes by hand (because fuck TurboTax and HR Block).
I made an error with a decimal place and told them that they owed me $800.
The IRS sent me a letter pointing out what line I'd made the error on and said that they were going to send me an $80 refund.
They didn't even make me refile.
ALSO
THEY WILL NEVER CONTACT YOU BY PHONE. THE IRS IN MY EXPERIENCE SO FAR DOES EVERYTHING BY PAPER.
ETHAN COLE ISN'T REAL, it's a VERY busy scam.
to all of my not-american followers: yes, the IRS knows exactly how much you owe. no, they will not tell us. yes, we just have to live like this.
btw abled people dont really sit around thinking abt how much nicer life would be and how much more theyd get to do with disability aids
you're allowed to get the things that may help you
destroy the ableist inside you and get the disability aid
"comparing apples and oranges" has always been funny to me as an expression because people's go to exampe of two things so radically different that they defy any useful comparison are apples. and oranges. like you would struggle to find a more comparable pair of objects than that. theyre literally sold right next to each other in most stores.
wikipedia has a whole ass section dedicated to international variants of the idiom so let me quickly run through them
see this is even worse than oranges. pears and apples are like the most comparable things ever. france takes another L
ok so this is what i mean. these are measures of temperature and texture and are in fact not very comparable. молодцы ребята продолжаем в том же духе.
colombia wins most vivid image invoked hands down. would not want that to happen to me.
and i think we can all agree romania wins this hands down. everyone give a big round of applause to romania