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[scenteddreamtheorist]

~ about me ~

Hello!

I am @scenteddreamtheorist, though you can refer to me as SDT! My pronouns are they/them (though perhaps I will try they/she at some point). My blog title is still a WIP!

I am a trans nonbinary aspec lesbian, though I usually just call myself either queer, trans nonbinary, or a trans lesbian. Though I am aspec, I am both romance and sex favorable.

I am an adult and would prefer for the most part if minors DNI, but if we're being real - most my posts should be fine, though I may like/follow/reblog NSFT etc content without thinking or tagging.

DNI: TERFs, SWERFs, bad-faith identities, exclusionists. I will block who I want to for my own reasons, though it is probably because of what I just listed. Some labels are messy (WHICH IS OKAY!), but others are intentionally malicious which is what I want to avoid interacting with.

I am a communist/socialist, and I wont get into a political label more specific than that bc I believe in coalition building since we need to fix what's going on right now.

I enjoy gaming and technology, overall I am a big STEAM (Science Technology Engineering Art Math) nerd.

This isn't my first blog, but I wanted to start fresh and ended up making this account after twitter stuff went down. Haven't really used tumblr in years.

I usually dont tag posts when I reblog, so just a heads-up if you prefer TWs/CWs. I am just really bad at it.

I am usually just reposting shitposts and memes, though I occasionally ramble about things here and there or repost content related to my interests.

Feel free to send me asks and messages! I like making mutuals and interacting with people. Anyone can DM me, just know I wont send/share any personal info).

I am a part of @sideblog-with-everyone (I'm not an admin)! It's a fun little experiment, check it out!

[godspeedyoublackemperor]

[applecherry108]

shit let’s be santa

[in-need-of-lotion-deactivated20]

never too early for the kringlefucker

[applecherry108]

did…did you have this queued for an entire year?

[variablejabberwocky]

merry christmas 1st

[rainbowbarnacle]

MERRY CHRISTMAS 1ST

[ratsquinks]

sometimnes... when your sulking corner gets a little too cold... yoiu may invite a friend... to sulk with...

[ratsquinks]

you may even get... kiss on th head

[catsofyore]

In 1944 a kitten named George (short for General Electric) was saved from drowning by a U.S. Navy crew member. George was then photographed and given a liberty card and detailed health record. Source.

[ethicalhorseslaughter]

[howieduet]

Nationality: pussy

[official-lucifers-child]

this is the funniest fucking medical report i’ve ever seen, like yeah nationality: pussy but also the 69’s?? “cattish”??? “he does alright”???

[hkayakh]

Imagine you get the info card by itself

[bace-jeleren]

Accidentally wound up on "hear me out cake" tiktok, and I swear, if another one of these bitches puts down an at-most-unconventionally-attractive human man, Lady Dimitrescu or Nick Wilde/Robin Hood I am going to lose my fucking mind.

Saw one where the first person they named was Disney's Aladdin and I tapped out so hard I entered a fugue state and didn't regain full consciousness for like a solid hour.

[bace-jeleren]

Girlies giggling and gasping because they said their 'hear me out' was Gill from Finding Nemo, like

I'm so sorry, babygirl, but that's a hot fish. I know you thought you were being so controversial, but that is one of the most fuckable cartoon fish in existence. This is weaksauce.

[trans-rites]

[parkchanwoohoo]

I'm being dragged in the group chat bc I accidentally wore two different pairs of shoes to the theater. I wasn't even in a hurry, I have no fucking excuse for not noticing this

[parkchanwoohoo]

[parkchanwoohoo]

[parkchanwoohoo]

I totally forgot about this oh my god

[parkchanwoohoo]

[aliettali]

this is what being a juvenile officer for 15 years gets him

[professionalchaoticdumbass]

[nitewrighter]

I love you samosas. I love you empanadas. I love you pasties. I love you dumplings. I love you pirozhkis. I love you savory food in a convenient little carb purse.

[fastest-punslinger-in-the-west]

A new study finds that Apple has some of the highest employee turnover rates of any tech company. Google "apple turnover" for more information.

[april]

[ca-dmv-bot]

Customer: I HAVE A GLUTEN ALLERGY AND I FIND IT FUNNY. DMV: HATE Verdict: DENIED

[thowawayuntilfurthernotice]

Said it a year ago and I’ll say it again.

Pirate all your favorite shows, movies and games while you still have the chance.

Oh, and never stop supporting physical media.

[midnightnautilus]

whistles

trips

Oh no!! I just tripped Over this rock in The Garden! They really need to put up some kind of Wall… and I dropped my Link all over the ground…

I really need To Watch where I’m going, geez…

[flightyquinn]

That's so careless of you! What if some poor soul were to click it by accident!

[queer-as-city-folk]

So there is a difference between a college town and a town with a college in my mind,

[queer-as-city-folk]

it's all to do with how ingrained into the town the college is.

Additionally, college towns are typically more walkable than a town with a college and are often more well off economically

[queer-as-city-folk]

Think Bloomington IN vs Muncie IN

[queer-as-city-folk]

I could tell you if any building is a twink, butch, Femme, Bear, bisexual man, bi girl, or any number of other things

[queer-as-city-folk]

For example

Boston City hall, that's a butch with some complicated feelings about the role of government

Philadelphia City Hall is an extravagant Bisexual man who romanticizes paris

The Auditorium building is a slightly butch bi girl in college who gets involved in theater

[queer-as-city-folk]

Sears Tower

He's was twink who got an office job and is confused on why we need liberation if we have marriage equality, but still tries to listen to people

Reunion Tower:

I'm getting some Femme vibes honestly

[queer-as-city-folk]

The twin towers were straight and heterosexually married

[queer-as-city-folk]

She's a trans girl who uses a bit too much make up when getting ready

20 something twink with a job at Amazon, does coke on the weekends

[queer-as-city-folk]

The Shard

Femme who dyes her hair frequently and does fad diets

The gherkin is a large butch woman who comes off as imposing but is a kind soul if you get to know her

[queer-as-city-folk]

US Bank tower

Typical White Gay man who works out a little bit

Roblox HQ (I think)

In the closet and a tad homophobic but they'll realize a few things in college

Chicago 2 flat

Dyke

El Servilletero

Finally, a bear, he is large but kind, he makes abstract art pieces in his free time

[darth-vii]

Hollings building (the toast rack), University of Manchester

[queer-as-city-folk]

Again a butch, but she works in the sciences

[queer-as-city-folk]

National library of Belarus

He is a modernist thinker who feels we must simultaneously preserve the past and move past it, he's tall and for some reason dyed his hair dark blue.

Alhambra

A sweet older woman, she speaks both Spanish and Arabic and has a noble vibe, she has had the same girlfriend for 50 years, and works as a sculpter after growing a bit tired of religion

Lloyd's building

Twink who believes himself to have transcended death as he rapidly loses his last shreds of humanity

[dabouse]

Carnegie Hall?

[queer-as-city-folk]

An aged and refined man, he was an opera singer for 40 years and now donates some of his fortune to the city opera annually alongside his socialite husband

[queer-as-city-folk]

I am getting some botanist vibes from the Sydney opera house, she's a lesbian who maintains a garden in her back yard

This is one of those guys that dress us like it's 1887 and still manages to hook up with a different guy each night, he works as a rail Conductor

[queer-as-city-folk]

Military buff autistic (derogatory)

An older lesbian who works as a baker, not really femme or butch, she calls herself a business woman

Super fucking Canadian, like he is overly Canadian, he's like really tall and played basketball. He occasionally reads books on early sinosoviet relations

[queer-as-city-folk]

Eustin Station

He is a goth bi man but he is really bad at it

Philadelphia Art Museum

Very legalistic, very large, bordering on bear, really Artsy but also kinda fucking pretentious about it

Lakhta center

She is obsessed with Gold Leaf as a form of decoration and will make it your problem, she also is really pretentious but can be kind, a bit girl who currently is leaning a bit more towards men

[queer-as-city-folk]

20 Fenway Street

A minimalist who should not be allowed near a home built pre-1940, he is a sadist and is known to go cruising, he likes to cook eggs

[yourgreatgrandmotherreacts]

I’m obsessed with how this post has become an archive of notable architecture.

[queer-as-city-folk]

Palace of Culture and Science

Bit overbearing and pretty big, a rude and pretentious man who has odd political opinions which are contradictory at best

Flatiron Building

An academic man, he lives art deco architecture and has been studying the city of New York for 30 years, he loves triangular things

Castle of Richard the Lionheart in Kyiv

She's tall and noble, she feels like she is the most important person and she's right, tragically she is straight

Leaning tower of Pisa

She's a classicist and an architect, she's a bit thin and gets a bit confused in her older years but she appreciates her fame

[queer-as-city-folk]

Marina City

They are a pair of sisters who greatly care for each other, the love polka dots and feel comfortable in life, both look out for the other and are trying to find girlfriends (they're both after the tribune tower currently)

[queer-as-city-folk]

Habitat 67

He is not doing well mentally and has been through the fucking ringer, he has a unstable relationship with his boyfriend, French canadian

Sagrada Familia

God's Faggiest Catholic

Coit Tower

A fan of the classics, he loves to go on hikes and meet men in the Castro, has some concerning politics

Library of Congress

An aroace archivist, who has time for romance when the whole of human knowledge is at your fingertips

[queer-as-city-folk]

This has been your weekly installment of Amtrak being a fucking freak

[sycamorality]

GARLIC BREAD

[son-goku-official]

SOOOOO TRUE

[son-goku-official]

WRONG BLOG

[sycamorality]

SON GOKU?!

[thydungeongal]

I think it's funny that in French the word for "unicorn" is "licorne" because:

The word "unicorne" was first reanalyzed as "une icorne"

The definite article was then added, making it "l'icorne"

The new definite form was reanalyzed once again, resulting in "une licorne"

[thydungeongal]

Before any anglophones get on the French people's case on this, consider for a second what y'all did when you reanalyzed the Spanish "el lagarto" ("the lizard") as "alligator."

Reanalysis is fun.

[jkcorellia]

Oh yeah, everybody does this*. Another English example is "apron", which was once "napron" until we reanalyzed the initial N as part of the indefinite article (a napron -> an apron).

A fun one in Arabic is the city of Alexandria in Egypt. Quite understandably, Arabic speakers heard the initial "Al" and thought "ah yes, the ubiquitous definite article" and Alexandria became al-’Iskandariyya.

In the opposite direction, Spanish adopted hundreds of Arabic words during the Middle Ages due to Andalusian/Islamic influence, and there are very few Spanish words that start with al- that aren't of Arabic origin (and in fact, many words that start with A without being followed by an L, as in about half of cases in Arabic the L in "al-" is elided).

Reanalysis occurs in many other places besides article-noun combos, of course, but it's an extremely common case.

*citation needed, but reanalysis is extremely common

[thydungeongal]

Oh, this actually explains something I'd just attributed to a quirk of sequence constraints or something; why Alexander is realized as Iskander/Iskandar in Arabic! It makes sense to analyze it as al-Iskander in Arabic!

[grungeygoddess]

Same thing happened with the word alchemy! Started out as the Arab term "al-kimiya", and when it was transported to Europe, it became "alchemy". This is actually really interesting, because as the term evolved more, it became "chemistry", effectively un-reanalyzing the word!

[thydungeongal]

Oh actually there's another layer of fun there: the Arabic "al-kimiya" is actually a loan of the Ancient Greek χῠμείᾱ (khumeíā), which was used to refer to the art of alloying metals. Arabic borrowed a lot of Greek terminology owing to Arabic translations of Greek classics (many of which were actually lost in Europe until they were retranslated from Arabic). So, yeah, the Greek khumeíā made a round trip through Arabic, then into medieval Latin as "alchemia," and from there we eventually do get chemistry!

[valtharr]

Not quite the same thing, but this reminded me of one of the funniest phenomena in the German language.

So, you may or may not know that x-rays were discovered by a guy called Röntgen (or Roentgen, though the ö is the proper spelling). Because of that, they're called "Röntgen rays" in German. Now, the thing is that in the German, the infinitive of a verb is always formed with an -en at the, so, for example, "to run" is "rennen" or "to sleep" is "schlafen." And because of that, it just so happened that the verb for performing x-rays became... "röntgen."

ich röntge, du röntgst, er/sie/es röntgt, wir röntgen, ihr röntgt, sie röntgen

[thydungeongal]

In the X-rayed lab, straight röntgin it

[kaasiand]

The Dutch word for shoe ("schoen") used to be the plural of the Middle Dutch "schoe"! Which is closer to English shoe, German Schuh, Swedish/Danish/Norw. sko

But of course you've always got more than one shoe with you... so "schoen" got reanalysed as the singular, and the modern (double) plural is now "schoenen" instead.