Hyperfixation Parkour

Call me Phoenix, she/they, I don't know what else I should be putting here

[moonlitphoenixflight]

the soul of the USA is Kronk and p*rtisan p*litics is Yzma

[afloweroutofstone]

Got a great ad encouraging people to dismantle surveillance equipment and then sell the guts at a pawn shop

[lewadny]

happy june to everyone, especially my fellow aroaces

[lewadny]

Listen

LISTEN

I'M SCREAMING THE MAIN SEQUENCE *IS* THE AROACE FLAG WHAT

[artemis-heart-emoji-heart-emoji]

The soon to transition Mrs Nice Guy: No more Mr Nice Guy

[lyss-butterscotch]

Hollow sols :3

[sm64mario]

Hey! Mario was just wondering. Could you'a put a vending machine here? In the middle of this crowded intersection?

[victoriansecret]

I didn't think it was possible to shorten words verbally without removing syllables but sailors managed.

[victoriansecret]

boatswain -> bosun main sail -> mains'l tree nail -> trunnel etc. etc. etc.

[ltwilliammowett]

May I add a few more?

coxswain - coxsun

crossjack - crojik

forecastle - fo'c'sle - folksil

gunwale - gunnel

mast- mist

sail- sill

schooner - skunner

tackle - taykull

topgallant mast - t'garns'l mist

topgallant sail - t'garns'l sill

[hervey-gervey-chip]

based on the research i've done (and lived experience) of nautical linguistics- the syllables are the most important part of the word! for every command- historically and on modern tall ships, the command must be repeated by the crew exactly is it was heard: no conjugation, no changing of word order, nothing (referred to as a "call-back"). so it makes sense that these words are shortened in this manner.

boats are big, the ocean is loud, and there's a lot of stuff that gets in the way of words traveling coherently across the deck. it's also so rare to get a command when you aren't already entrenched in something else, and so may not be able to turn your head before acknowledging that you've heard. i've linked an NPR article from 2015 about how words travel in different environments, but basically the big takeaway for this scenario is: consonants get lost easily in windy or obstructed environments. there's been many a time (even in fair weather) where i'm having a conversation, on the opposite side of the boat, or even down below when an order is given, where i just hear the cadence of a command i'm familiar with and know immediately what i'm supposed to be doing.

on particularly well-practiced crews, i notice that even the tonal pattern of the officer giving the command is repeated. even without the tonal match, it's critical for the officer to have immediate feedback AND immediate response. when you get an order, you lay into it with urgency; therefore, if you repeat just as you head to your station, redirection can be given swiftly if an incorrect order has been transmitted, BUT if you heard it right the first time there's no delay in the task.

Did The Language You Speak Evolve Because Of The Heat?

People speak very differently depending on where they live, and the climate and environment might have something to do with that. Crisp Engl

quick example (callback italicized):

"haul away!" "haul away" clear! exactly the same! i know they heard and the sail is doing the thing!

"haul away" "hauling" sounds an awful lot like holding.. is something wrong? did we forget something? was someone not ready? oh the sail is going up they said HAULing

also explains @ltwilliammowett 's example of "topgallant sail - t'garns'l sill" ... in "gallant" and "garns'l," less than half the consonant sounds are the same but the SYLLABLES match. its just the representation of what the garbled mess that comes across the deck usually sounds like for that Specific Thing!!!

[victoriansecret]

Merging these versions because they're both really interesting!

[ganymedesclock]

Sometimes I like to think biology and taxonomy as a field is, if anything, even more complicated in the pokemon universe than it is in ours? Like it’d be really funny if the seemingly straightforward, reliable, and intuitive systems that are explained to us in the game is just the simple version given to young people who tend to be just starting out in their relationships with pokemon while across the country you have like. Professor Sycamore giving speeches about how much oversight was required to formally accept Fairy as a valid typing and getting derailed by a pundit talking about the Flying type and he’s like “Don’t talk to me about the flying type if you so much as look at the Flying type you’ll get into about eight taxonomical arguments that have been going on longer than you’ve been alive”

next door you have people arguing for the billionth time whether or not Cleffa should be recognized as a True pre-evolution of Clefairy or if the differences in its anatomy aren’t significant enough to classify and there’s at least one school of thought that Evolution doesn’t exist and the only real pokemon are final evolutions, so neither pikachu nor pichu are their own creatures they’re just immature and/or neotenous raichu.

Somewhere else in the world you have a paleontology conference discussing the latest fossils found of the ancient pokemon basculegion and reconstruction implications only for a time traveler to slam the rear doors open like “I SAW GOD, WAS THROWN BACK IN TIME, AND BASCULEGION DID NOT LOOK LIKE THAT,”

[nonaferatu]

My favorite one yet- heres the creator

[16tinyfrogs]

on watching a parent age

i saw somebody say “what if you’re gone and i haven’t become anything yet” and basically that broke me on a random thursday evening

[yourl0calqueer]

[daki-art]

The perks of being androgynous

[sycamorality]

there can be so much symbolism with the ender dragon. she can be the light at the end of the tunnel. she can be freedom. she can be cruel. she can hold all the endermen trapped in the end. she's the end. she can be a malicious overseer. she can be a mother of a child never born. she can be grief. she can be loss and the tragedy that comes with it. she's an endling.

[sycamorality]

so many people see her as just the end, a cruel overseer keeping the endermen trapped.

but she's also a mother. she's a mother of a child that will never hatch and yet she guards the next anyway. do you ever wonder if she mourns? if she grieves? if she yearns?

[sycamorality]

maybe the dragons were important for the ecosystem and thats why its now a barren wasteland.

[whatkindofsoupp]

They easily could have been the apex predator, and in their absence the herbivores overgrazed to the point of extinction. Now they and the plants they ate are gone, with just the last survivors a remnant of what used to be there.

[raytorotitsenthusiast]

Fun fact! Minecraft has autistic representation in its game!

[segamascott]

[goldensunset]

‘the protagonist should be endearing and relatable’ the protagonist should make the audience scream and start banging on the one-way glass of the fourth wall. the protagonist should burn their entire life down and make the world’s worst sandcastle from the ashes. if they aren’t the cause of at least 50% of their own problems what are we doing here

[moonlitphoenixflight]

? You just said the same thing twice

[bloody-monstrous-wolf]

[moonlitphoenixflight]

New stance on gun laws unlocked!

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