welcome to my twisted mind

grown ass woman (she/her) can’t believe I’ve been in tumblr for over 10 years lmao

[queerautism]

Where's that tweet about people still living long fulfilling lives even through the fall of the roman empire because I think about it constantly

[queerautism]

[ecstaticadventures]

‘bread is bad for you’ ‘rice is bad for you’ sorry im not subscribing to the idea that staple grains that have been integral to cultures for centuries are evil. i love you carbs

[stuckinapril]

Sometimes you stress yourself out to the point of tears and then u have to coax urself off the ledge by reminding urself that nothing is ever that fucking serious . It works out how it works out the point is we put in the effort

[hiveswap]

Not expalining WHY bookburning is bad and WHAT books were targeted has left us with Bookworm uwu girlies treating any art project or act involving destorying/modifying any random ass mass printed novel as if it was a crime against humanity

[rumade]

We literally had this at the eco squat I used to live at. People would donate stuff to us all the time and on one occasion it was trash novels. We were low on wood that winter and started burning them, and one of the older guys got up in arms about "burning books" and where that would lead us.

[skelegun]

If you don’t learn the context and reasoning behind your politics, you risk that it will degenerate into some kind of half formed religion where you have a series of commandments and taboos that you don’t understand.

[powerburial]

i love how theres no rules for pronouncing words in English, you literally just have to learn and hear someone say every single word

[3liza]

if anyone is wondering why this is, it's because they stopped teaching American children (and many British) the rules (which exist, and have been standardized and written down for centuries) sometime at the turn of the 21st century. if you are gen x or older, have English degree-holding parents, and/or had any really old teachers who were still teaching into the "fuck grammar" era of public schooling, you unlock a special level of English comprehension where you can pronounce 99% of words perfectly without ever hearing them at all, as well as the ability to code switch to a higher-"class" dialect of English at will, which is extremely important for any social interaction where you have to deal with people who are judging you for such a thing, which happens a lot more often than you're aware of unless someone has already told you about it. usually no one tells you about it unless they're teaching it.

there were a lot of reasons for the shift, most of them can be blamed on Reagan and Thatcher (like everything else). it was pushed through to school curriculums and popular culture as a "de-snobbification" of english education where everyone's regional and ethnic accents would be normalized and accepted, what actually happened is that language gaps between rich and poor kids was crowbarred farther apart as you could no longer learn to talk, write, or read fancy in a free public school, leaving only the wealthy kids who got tutors and private schools and educated parents with a formal English education able to choose to code switch or to struggle considerably less in college when professors usually start expecting you to know grammar and etymology already and don't think it's their job to fix your high school teacher's fuckups. (it is, but that's a different post)

this is why almost everyone on YouTube is speaking only approximate English (see the #youtube grammar tag) a lot of the time and one of the big reasons people with average hearing and reading and processing function have started needing subtitles a lot more in the past ten years, when they didn't before

this gets brought up on Tumblr a lot, see prior discourse about cursive not being taught anymore (not actually a good thing, prevents you from reading anything handwritten before 1990, bad for handwriting ergonomics especially for hypermobile people [see: why do so many hypermobile and autistic people get into fountain pens]) and the new yorker article about "vibes based literacy".

anyway the lesson here is every time the education establishment announces they are about to make education "less formal" and that this will benefit "everyone", because hooray we all thought learning cursive and sentence diagramming and Greek word roots was boring, right? what they are actually announcing is that you will still be judged for not being able to use those formal skills, but now only rich people will be able to learn them from tutors as basic education becomes increasingly privatized.

[bourtange]

specifically on the topic of pronouncing words, a conlang nerd sat down and brute-force compiled a numbered list of rules for correctly pronouncing english words that gets it right for nearly every word 23 years ago (the date explains why his phonetic transcription is so weird, sorry)

[kilrosk]

[moofahdrome]

[hotgirlmuseboard]

there’s sooo much beauty in slowing down and understanding yourself btw

[visenyaism]

if pointing out that the age of getting a phone decreasing along with the prevalence of short form video as the dominant form of social media content during the most significant collective educational gap in recent history all of which happened during one of the most significant windows of psychological development in a human lifetime has had a deleterious effect on the attention spans, self-regulation, impulse control, social skills, tech literacy, and actual literacy of zoomers and gen alpha. if pointing out that that is a real and serious problem makes me a boomer and an old crank who has fallen for “kids these days” propaganda someone find me a porch and a rocking chair so i can yell at you to get off my lawn

[laerugo]

#you have to meet the problem with empathy not deny its existence. it’s not their fault but things should also change about this #i’m extremely passionate abt this like. i am too online and was as a teenager but the extent to which you can Be Online has like quadrupled #and it is not good for you (via @aimmyarrowshigh)

[enki2]

[scientia-rex]

Before him, it was Carnegie. Vertical integration, monopoly by undercutting competitor prices. Every wildly rich man of the Industrial Revolution got there by walking on the backs of every other human they possibly could.

[pierog]

i'm so glad goncharov happened when it did, right before prolific public use of AI. that was pure honest gaslighting straight from the heart. real human whimsicality and trickery thru blood sweat and tears. we were a family. and we all gonched, together. you cant replicate that with any machine.

[prokopetz]

This site: What the fuck is with all these animated shows getting terrible live-action remakes? We should start remaking live action media as cartoons to balance the scales.

The monkey's paw: *curls one finger*

[tiwaztyrsfist]

What's happened now?

[prokopetz]

[were--ralph]

drinking game for everytime anime edward cullen says "tch" coldly

[dilf-in-peril]

I understand some of you are 19 but that is not an old man, he's 32.

[stellaluna33]

-Eleanor to Marianne Dashwood

[nessa007]

hallmark doesn’t even try lmao

[racethewind10]

#I mean it's entirely intentional?#they know their audience#their audience wants variations upon a theme but not too much variation because the familiarity breeds comfort#on this site which functions as the social features of Ao3 we should be able to recognize this#it's basically Christmas bigbang hetero edition sorry @amatterofcomplication these cannot be left in the tags

[sugarkaney]

Hedy Lamarr as Sandra Kolter Ziegfeld Girl (1941) dir. Robert Z. Leonard

[thesituation]

she/her? blocked and unfollowed.

what the hell

[peach-paradox]

[bunjywunjy]

Trick or treat?

you get COSTCO SALMON FILLET [x1]

[cipheramnesia]

I bet if a mushroom could lap water out of your hand with a tongue that a gently drinking mushroom tongue on your hand would be the softest and gentlest thing.

[saint-batrick]

jesus christ, i experienced brief but severe grief over not actually being able to experience this.

[cipheramnesia]

I think it would feel like a lizard tongue but I've never had a lizard drink out of my hand either, and thus the whole thing remains conceptually elusive.

[hypercam2-mp4]

this put such a vivid image in my head i needed to make it real as soon as i got home

[cipheramnesia]

This makes me indescribably overjoyed.