sapphic selkie

je suis saph | j'ai trente-trois ans | she/her/hers | unmotivated writer

[pokemonpostsonly]

[alicenthightowerdaily]

ALICENT HIGHTOWER + her children

+ Bonus:

[eternoct-void]

Art by Maryneart

[targaryensource]

[wofwalker]

one day, i promise to draw mdzs seriously

[daily-elven-duo]

Day 51

I don’t think Gem has ever been more disappointed in scar

[chiptrillino-art]

(ID in ALT Text)

its not like i dislike the canon design! i just... can't help myself ;;;

also aang is my exception to the 'no cape' rule

[queensinchains]

# clearly not here # I checked

[ochablooms]

hi i need to say. im obsessed with your etho design

thank yous,,, i havent drawn him in so long but heres efo ☺️

[multiverse-of-multifandoms]

#let's dissociate at dinner with mama

[gameofthronesdaily]

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON | Season 3, Episode 8, "The Dragon in Winter"

[lurker-at-thresholds]

Thinking about a new bit where i start using “workers of the world” as my go-to second person plural pronoun. Like “chat”.

[lurker-at-thresholds]

Workers of the world what do we think of this. Is it funny.

[lurker-at-thresholds]

Workers of the world please like and reblog my post

[linkito]

a dance with death, yet still full of joy

art trade with @fishbloc !!

[grithogirl]

the attachments mincecraft creators have to their rp characters is really fucking unhealthy, immature and would make people less likely to hire you in professional acting spaces but that opinion wont be commonplace until like 2036 so im gonna get crucified

[grithogirl]

telling actors, artists, art creators in professional spaces how their characters will be used by the public is commonplace for a good reason, "rule 34" exists for a reason, most humans inherently have romantic and sexual desires and a wish to express them in fiction. being uncomfortable with this is immature, not to mention actively being public with that distaste. roleplay characters are just that, characters. i am of course annoyed but im surprising even myself at how overshadowed that is by genuine concern for creators mental health and well being, this way of thinking isn't healthy at all and im fed up of it being normalized. you cannot go into an acting/character-playing career and be genuinely upset when character interpretations turn romantic, you're going to mess yourself up health wise, this isn't normal

[falloutingenue]

(op) thought these were good tags

[movementnudge]

Movement nudge, hand mobility! 🙌

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[ruffboi-mags]

1) do this even if you're under 40. seriously. I definitely should have been doing something like this for years and I only turned 40 a month and a half ago

2) if you're like me just now trying this going "oh god i've only done 15 and i think my hands are cramping" start lower than 30 and increase by 5 once whatever number you're doing no longer makes your hand cramp up. I can manage about 15 per exercise at the moment.

[hemipenal-system]

for the last time, the “tumblr accent” is not an ACCENT it is a DIALECT

[ladyofspoons]

ok so it's not quite a dialect, since that would necessitate a fundamental shift in grammatical structure while still being sorta recognizable as the same language to speakers of other dialects

[hemipenal-system]

i mean, how fundamental you want to argue they are is somewhat YMMV, but the way people use language on this website has absolutely had grammatical and linguistic structure shifts from most "offline" dialects

it's hard to make a coherent argument for phonological changes because text-based website. lets ignore that one lol

from a morphological and vocabulary-based standpoint, there's a few. consider "glup shitto" and "blorbo", as well as generalized affix fuckery like -"ito" as a diminutive, as examples of morphemes originally from tumblr. we also have the concept of the Sexyman (derogatory)

most of the really interesting tumblrspeak comes from syntax though. there is of course the oft-mocked, parodied, and misunderstood Tumblr Prose, where someone just sticks words together in an order that sort of conveys an aesthetic-based meaning as long as you don't think about it too hard and realize it doesn't make a whole lot of sense together

it's obvious what is being conveyed here even though the words barely function together. beyond Tumblr Prose, we also have Emphasis And Nounification Through Capital Letters, and its inverse where everything is lowercase unless it's being emphasized, as well as using sentences that while easily parseable by a reader do lack a lot of punctuation that would be desired by stricter english speakers often commas and periods. this last trait is particularly despicable considering the high amount of neurodivergence among tumblr users makes us very prone to run-on sentences anyway

there is also using "lol" and "lmao" similar to STOP on a telegraph, though it's hard to say how exclusive to tumblr this is

the in-joke about how being on tumblr is a cheat code to being funny as fuck around people who aren't is reliant on the fact that tumblr netizens are often playing with an entirely different set of learned syntax rules than non-tumblr residents

[bram-stoners]

You’re in the wind, I’m in the water