Yes. Hello. @ohmachine - Tumblr Blog

me: I really like history

what some ppl think I mean, and understandably so: eheheh I like military history

what I mean: people are and have always been fucking crazy and it's very entertaining to find out what they were up to. it's like drama but like three centuries old.

stolenthemoon

On our first date my bf said he really liked history and immediately I was like ‘oh, ok so now I’m gonna have to listen to WWII facts forever’ but no he ended up going on a tangent about the evolution of language and how he’s trying to learn a dead language that Duolingo offers and damn if that wasn’t an extremely pleasant surprise

wizardnuke

YEAH THATS THE SHIT

thegleampt2fromtheglowpt22001

I know it’s not hard to point out reactionaries hypocrisy when it comes to like safe spaces or hug boxes or whatever but genuinely how much of an echo chamber do you have to exist in for you to think this is a reasonable thing to say

apisashla

reblog if attacking fascism is really the hill you want to die on

alpine-insurrection

this is literally like one of the most justified and honorable hills you could die on??? lol??

flipjack

I need more Jennifer Garner content

herstory1789

THE FUCKING CAT IM DEAD!!!!!!

caroldanversenthusiast

PRECIOUS

calamardoybobesponja

waitwhatdidtheysay

[captions]

“well, hello fellow hunker-downers! coming to you high on half’a ambien, my doctor prescribes 10mg for when i can’t sleep and i get so wound up over all this but i only take a half otherwise i’ll eat everything in the house, but look- another way i calm down is i write in my journal! and i put little stickers- [chuckling] i decorate- i’m a high school cheerleader stuck in a 65 year old male body… my violette stickers came today, LOOK!! aren’t they beautiful? i think i fell outta the womb and landed in my mother’s high heels. i just like things pretty, i think that’s why homosexuals were put on this earth, just to make things pretty! rabbits!!”

whitepeopletwitter

homopower

Like to charge, reblog to cast…

ruinedchildhood

lluvia185

For all of you who are confussed.

demitherobosexual-deactivated20

Oh

breakaway71

As an older millennial, I bless the people who created both the meme and the timeline because, YES, THIS

Over This

Y’all talk weird on here. Sometimes I see a post and i agree but y’all talk weird so I’m like fuckYou.

theproblematicblogger

gaysubplot

That and “adulting” . You’re 32 .

luckyladylily

Because when we meet someone who has such a visceral reaction to harmless slang we know to stay away from them because they are going to be one of those annoyingly immature people who still hasn’t figured out that growing up and abandoning child like simplicity and joy is an artificial concept created to shame the masses into conformity.

roach-works

no one is going to respect you anyway, you know, so you might as well sound stupid on purpose and have a little fun with it.

son-of-drogo

I carry a bb8 backpack and I dress like I’m from the 70’s. No one has ever taken me seriously in my life.

hollowedskin

also a lot of them are references to memes that existed before a lot of these kids were born. We don’t stop having fun and joking around just because you think we’re too old for that. If your only experience with older people is with your unfun parents and uncles who only work and drink and make bigoted jokes then like, that sucks babe but thats also not my problem.

kintatsujo

Also we’re tired and words is hard when you’re tired

perspicaciousembroiderist

You have to make your fun where you can.

leeshajoy

“Critics who treat ‘adult’ as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”

— C.S. Lewis

randomslasher

Not to mention?? The lexicon and grammatical particulars of online communication are freaking fascinating. There are different dialects and referential imagery that is so steeped in layers of meme evolution that you can literally see a picture of Obama’s eyes kind of half-hooded and know exactly what you’re supposed to feel and it’s so freaking cool because these forms of communication, they aren’t just “zomg random,” they actually do follow rules and have structural foundations that we’ve all somehow internalized, and we use them as a way of relating to one another in a text-based medium that could be, SHOULD be, incredibly stifling but it’s not, because we made it our own. We created new ways of speaking, of communicating with one another clearly even when we can’t see faces or read tone or body language, so that I can say to someone “I did a cool thing!!” online and be talking about the exact same thing I’m also referencing in that corporate email where I say “the objective was successfully completed” but those do not sound the same at all because they aren’t the same at all. One conveys my excitement, my pride, my happiness at achieving whatever goal I achieved, while the other is a polite, professional-sounding report to a superior, and the fact that they were both conveying the same idea in 5 words but in such different ways is freaking awesome, so frankly fuck you if you think I’m somehow ‘childish’ for enjoying that.

Online communication grew organically with my generation and it’s still growing today and it is a freaking playground, so hell yes I’m gonna use the swings and the slide and the monkey bars because it’s fun, and if you want to stand by the fence and scowl at me that’s all right, but it’s your problem, not mine.

annie-banks

cookingwithroxy

I’m only going to add this?

‘Adulting’ has a very specific usage, which comes out to ‘I am performing the functions of a normal member of society, while still finding it surprising that this is what I’m doing.’ You don’t FEEL like an adult, but you’re doing adult things, so it seems, to the user, like being an adult is a mask they’re putting on.

Words have meaning.