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just a run-of-the-mill adult; she/her

[deannego]

Agott 🐈‍⬛️

This art will be given out as a Witch Hat Atelier stamp rally prize at Animazement! The final will be an iridescent foil photocard~

Come see me at C29 to join the rally to get one~

[stupiderat]

Baby ducklings!

[abocadew]

Daughter of Summer 🌟

[zhabaloid]

wha dads with their kids

[questionartbox]

...I want one art tumblr | art twt | everything-twt

[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.

[qiffreyz]

i am a certified low quality silly goofy brushbug enthusiast for life

[atteleon]

“Kim Dokja. My father had given me that name so that I would become a strong man even if I was on my own. But thanks to that, I was instead living as your average lonely guy. In short, my life was like this: Kim Dokja, 28 years old, single. My hobby was reading web novels on the subway while going home from work.” — Chapter 2, Ep. 1 "Starting the Paid Service"

[alfheimr]

no work allowed !!!

[bowowark]

“character who gained weight to show how they are healthy now” trope my beloved

[demonadelem]

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

Every time OP dances, her parrot flies along with her. OP says she never trained it on purpose and her parrot just loves doing this naturally. Sometimes it’ll just hop right onto her face. (cr 月下郭城)

[wizardjellyfish]

[forsakenqueer]

witch hat atelier is actually great for my posture because every time i see olruggio i'm like oh my god his posture is so bad and then i'm like hang on and sit up from an equally bad position to the one he was in

[randomidiocyncrazies]

Wow ep 33 of digimon bb sure was a whole nothingburger!

I feel like so much of this episode falls short of its potential and it kills the momentum built up last ep—like sure bring team 7 back but have Hotaruko and Granit be kidnapped (and conveniently write Reina and Makoto out while they're at it) to basically rehash the Tomoro & Raito rivalry/reluctant friendship/whatever is like. Okay we've done this before. This has nothing to do with the 'main plot' relating to GIFT at all, or with Rose and her ladies. Why introduce all that and then do nothing with those characters in favor of rehashing a dynamic we've already seen before? Like I guess Raito is working with Kaito+Honoka, but that the only interesting new info we learned this ep. And it's only at the very end so there aren't even any interesting developments from that that was explored in the ep. "I'll surpass/beat you one day" okay sure whatever

Idk, Raito as a character just doesn’t interest me that much, and it kinda feels like he's crafted to bait the shippers (i'm happy for them but he just does nothing for me personally, and i don't see the romatic chemistry between him and Tomoro)

[xiaodanart]

Cecil? I have to go. Be patient with me. We have our phones. We have our voices, and you have the best voice of them all.

or, the lines from wtnv that truly messed me up

[butch-tradwife]

For everyone who ‘used to love reading’ but now hasn’t finished a book in years, you CAN get it back. Genuinely start bringing a book (preferably short and either fiction or a non fiction topic you already really enjoy) everywhere you go and when you have 5-20 mins waiting for the bus or at the doctors office or mechanic or whatever, get out your book and read it! You don’t have to finish it quickly or even read it often but it is so good for your brain and fun to get into the habit of reading more (and replacing being on your phone for those moments). Source: I read 0 books in 2023 and I’ve read 12 in the first 4 months of 2026

[power-handmaiden]

reading a short story a day in 2024 was huge for making this happen for me personally. I had been really struggling to finish novels for a while but having a finite bit of reading to do every day really helped me notice where those little bits of time are that I wouldn't have thought of as "enough time to read" when I was a literature devouring kid.

And now, at my job that's like. My Thing I'm known for. Reading in every spare moment, going through books rapidly. And I didn't read shit a few years ago. So, yeah, anyone out there who wants to get back into reading, short stories or poetry might be a good way to go if chipping away at a novel still feels unapproachable.

[ceeejus]

break in the case