two sides to nowhere

there is zero consistency to this blog, i'm sorry (everyone PLEASE watch Black Sails)

[electroniccarcass]

flint, with blood all over his face: this is a love story

[sunbeetle]

friend group in their 20s

friend 1: just folded laundry for 3 hours 😊

friend 2: i think my stomach wall is eroding guys idk what to do

friend 3: have u seen a doctor yet???

friend 2: well nooo...

friend 4: someone is at my door 😰

friend 1: just cleaned the sinks and toilets 😍

friend 2: no really the light is fading from my eyes

friend 4: a tree fell on my neighbor

you: just got off work is anybody free

[a hot, silent wind blows]

[louisegluckpdf]

umm how to be a dog by andrew kane. btw.

[louisegluckpdf]

in case you didnt fucking know

[charlemane]

writing tip: searching "[place of origin]ish names" will get you a lot of stuff and nonsense made up by baby bloggers.

searching "[place] census [year]" will get you lists of real names of real people who lived in that place.

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

I feel like I'm constantly shilling for them but BehindTheName.com, the only baby name site that doesn't feel like it's run by mommy bloggers, includes census-based graphs for dozens of countries/regions (though not all of them go back very far yet)

And you can expand them to see rank, number of babies, and percentage of babies and add a second name to compare. (in 1973 four percent of babies were named Jennifer! 1 in 25!!!)

Also this. Cursed.

[emperorsfoot]

@homoqueerjewhobbit what name did you search for your example, and what's going on with Moldova?

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

Those are the graphs for Samuel. They only have 1 year's data for Moldova right now, so that's why it's a straight line. Similarly, they only have 2 years for Mexico right now. The US goes back to 1880. I'm not sure how much of that is publicly available/translated records and how much of it is that it's like 1 or 2 guys maintaining a website of 27000 names and a finite amount of time to format and upload.

Here's the list of all of the countries/regions they have popularity statistics for if you want to nerd out on it!

[some-teeth-in-a-trench-coat]

You can't advertise BehindTheName for writers without mentioning the advanced search! You can search names based on cultural origin and usage, gender (including unisex), meaning, and even things like meter and number of syllables, or famous namesakes (you can also see a list of famous namesakes on every name's page, along with meaning, history, related names, alternate spellings in different languages, the above popularity graphs, and more).

I wouldn't even call BehindTheName a baby name site. They have a surname sister site and a random name generator with tons of variables to set that is very clearly intended to be used for fictional characters (iirc it can even generate a cause of death? I haven't looked at it in many years so it might have changed but these things predate generative AI so unless it's been forcefully enshittified it shouldn't be slop). Like, you can use it for baby names, but the website isn't explicitly intended for that purpose. This website caters to us.

[emptyjunior]

If I was Denethor the second, Steward of Gondor I would not have sent my son to a council meeting to try and get a cursed ring- I would have sent both my sons out to Seduce Aragorn by any means necessary.

If I wanted the crown of Gondor and to secure leadership for my family for all time I would have said boys. Get out there. Make it happen. Fluff your beautiful shiny hair up. Make papa proud

[wisheduponastar]

you cannot just leave this in the tags @greatmolassesflood

[baggebythesea]

"Boromir, impress him with your manly charm and sexual charisma. Faramir, some guys are into pathetic wet sacks, I guess."

[ruffboi-mags]

Boromir: It's okay you're not a pathetic wet sack, you're just bookish and in touch with your emotions. Faramir: Really? Denethor from the other room: NO, YOU'RE A FUCKIN SAD SACK FIXER-UPPER, BUT WE'RE TRYING TO GIVE HIM OPTIONS

[snommelp]

[191195-deactivated20240210]

this obliterated me

[violentthunder]

Antigonick, Anne Carson

[folk-melody]

Punishment, Rabindranath Tagore (Translated by William Butler Yeats)

[tunisian]

weight, jacqueline woodson

[sajirah]

Just gonna leave this here since a lot of people seem to be missing the point of this thread.

[etirabys]

can anyone find me that mesopotamian clay tablet telling you to marry a party girl because she'll bring you joy

[mentalwires]

It's from the "Maxims of Ptahhotep", purportedly written by a 96-year-old vizier to pass on his wisdom to his son:

If you marry a good-time girl

A joyful woman known to her town,

If she is wayward,

and revels in the moment,

do not reject her, but instead let her enjoy;

joyfulness is what marks calm water.

[etirabys]

yay ty. Between the above and the links in the mentions we have 3 translations total

[fatsexybitch]

Happy Wife Happy Life is 4.5k years old

[assortedinsanities]

Other sites also have the "Does anyone have this image?" posts, but only on tumblr you'll find "Does anyone have that mesopotamien clay tablet?" posts.

[podcastwizard]

some royal jewels were stolen from the louvre which is unfortunate for historical reasons but you gotta appreciate a classic crime. so many crimes are online these days it’s nice to see heist culture is still alive

[lovrito]

i feel like tumblr users are the only ones who don’t use ai. everyone else would fuck chatgpt if they could

[runcibility]

[exwife-of-frankenstein]

Youtube is full of ads, spotify is full of ads, tumblr is full of ads, pinterest is full of ads. Everything uses ai. Every new update makes the website/app worse. Youtube auto translates almost every video I want to watch. Sometimes pinterest only loads ads for me. Check out this new ai feature. Here's a new update that breaks ur laptop. Here's a new update that breaks ur phone. Why are u complaining about ur phone, just get the newest iphone lol. Join my patreon. Join my membership. Pay a monthly membership to get all features. Upgrade your membership to get even more features. Subscribe to netflix. Subscribe to disney. Subscribe to amazon. Subscribe to hulu. This content isn't available in ur country. This content was removed. This website was removed. This feature only exists for apple. This app only exists for apple. U need to a WiFi connection to play this game. U need an account. We need your email to finish creating this account. We need your number to finish creating your account. We need your id to finish creating your account. In order to delete your account please write an email. In order to delete your account you need a laptop. Oops our database was hacked and ur information was stolen. Ur data was sold from this random website u used once 10 years ago. Spam call. Spam call. Spam call.

[gnetophyte]

OH MY GODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

CALLOUT POST FOR FUCKING EURIPIDES

[deadpanwalking]

[notallmensheviks]

did classical athens do something problematic

[spider-hands-mannos-deactivated]

I so desperately wish I could physically stop you fucking people from using the internet.

[dagny-hashtaggart-deactivated20]

That said, has the answer to the question “did classical Athens do something problematic” ever, in all its history and all subsequent discussion, been “no?”

[amysnotdeadyet]

Not to me. Not if it’s classical Athens.

[magnusarchvile]

Did classical Athens not do something problematic

[taraljc]

Even if they did I’m still going to blame the British Museum

[onewhodiedyoung]

Just marked 30 creative writing pieces and it really is astounding that within one set there are children who, at the ripe age of 13, could probably be published, and meanwhile, some of them have just handed in a 500 words long sentence…

An actual footage of me looking for a single full stop and/or comma before I start reading:

[justaverysmallbird]

i was thinking about lady macbeth again (as one does) when i realized it’s possible that her hands actually ARE bloody from all the washing making them dry and cracked, or even from actually scrubbing the skin off in places.

her frantic attempts to make herself clean are only harming her, but when she looks down at the bleeding wounds, all she sees is sin. so she washes them again, stopping them from scabbing over and healing. is that anything

[arealtrashact]

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

[mapletree100]

@gracechastityinthetardis guess what conversation the phone overheard

[mistressaccost]

white heathcliff. it’s me. margot robbie. i’ve come home to hollywoodland california. it’s so sunny. let me in your barbie dream car.

[leonardcohenofficial]

with the spirit (pun intended) of spooky season being upon us, i threw together a little horror reclist for all thirty one days of october! while this is not my actual top horror films of all time list, it consists of many personal faves, some new-to-me titles i'm excited to check out, and quite a few films that i think are underappreciated and deserve more attention—all in all i think there's something for everybody! 💀⚰️🕯️🕸️🏚️🌲🌚🔪🩸😱