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M36. Chaotic main blog, pro-life, Baptist. A lot of my fandom stuff ends up or starts on my fandom sideblog. Pro-Jedi, Disney canon didn’t happen we live in the Expanded Universe. I’m always happy to answer questions.

[secretwriter-studentjaune]

This is a fun remix for the song

[kooldewd123]

actually the craziest impact animorphs has had on me is that i never really got an urge to eat cinnamon buns from reading them BUT the phrase "the refreshing beverage known as vinegar" has forced its way into my head every other week for years to try and convince me it would be a good idea to chug a whole glass of it

[kooldewd123]

tyhe voices in my head are gettinh louder

[sarifel-corrisafid-ilxhel]

Vinegar is what we used to use as the acid in our sodas before we switched to Carbonated Water in the 19th century, and vinegar-based sodas trace their roots all the way back to the Bronze Age Meditteranean! The Romans called it Posca! The Ottomans adopted it from the Romans and called it Sharab, which means "Drink", and then American colonists acquired the recipe from the Ottomans in the 17th century and changed the name to Shrub!

There's a famous example of Posca that most people misremember because we don't drink Vinegar much anymore. If you're familiar with the Crucifixion of Jesus in the Bible, you probably remember the bit about the Roman soldier offering Jesus a sponge full of vinegar to drink. Most people think the Roman dude was mocking Jesus, but that's wrong. That was a sponge full of Posca. The Roman dude was like "Well this sucks. Want a Sprite?"

...Fun fact, I know this because the phrase "Refreshing Beverage known as Vinegar" got stuck in my head one night at work, and I started googling "Does anybody drink vinegar". I had to know. It turns out the answer is yes! And you can still find vinegar-based soft drinks today! Switchel is a vinegar-and-ginger drink you can find at some bars in the US, and it goes back to pre-carbonated soft drinks.

Also, I know several people who drink pickle juice regularly, and white vinegar is a key component of pickle juice! So that's also where vinegar as a drink can pop up in your day to day life.

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

There's also a trendy New Age beverage called fire cider that's literally just vinegar, cinnamon, spice, and pretensions. RIP Ax, you would've loved the fire cider craze.

[kooldewd123]

op here. imagine how i feel. i've been dealing with this propaganda in my notifications all week.

[foldingfittedsheets]

Alright so one of my past jobs was working at an on tap place called Oil and Vinegar store. It’s supposed to be for salad dressings and stuff. People would bring in their bottles and we’d fill them up.

Vinegar is basically just made from fruit sugars so we had. The most. Amazing vinegars. There’s this one made with mango pulp that I straight up would have just drunk but if you add it to soda water it was truly the most decadent beverage imaginable. So there’s like passion fruit, raspberry, elderflower- just every wonderful sharp flavor imaginable.

We had pregnant ladies who’d buy several bottles at a time because it’s really great for nausea.

What I’m saying here is that Ax wasn’t wrong at all, that dude knew what was up even if he was probably chugging boring household white vinegar.

[rubinaito-inactive]

The things I learn on this godforsaken website.

[ganondorf]

the amount of 20+ year olds on this tweet getting defensive over something that was taught in middle school

[theconstitutionisgayculture]

Also, dialogue is denoted by quotation marks and only quotation marks.

"This is dialogue."

-This is not.

-Neither is this-

Prose prose prose prose. Neither is this. Prose prose prose prose.

[greater-than-the-sword]

^ regarding the above, you CAN do this, but it is considered stylistically avante-garde and will be a huge turnoff for a major segment of your audience so you just have to be aware of that and you can't complain about it.

[morfinwen]

What i'm seeing a lot of is too many new paragraphs.

Starting a new paragraph indicates to the reader that there has been a change. This works great for action scenes, where things are happening fast, and/or you're cutting between different perspectives. In non-action scenes, though, it's like dramatically switching camera angles while two people sitting at the same table have an ordinary conversation. It's exhausting to read.

[greater-than-the-sword]

Every time a speaker switches, there's a new paragraph. It's not exhausting, it is for clarity and breathing room.

[morfinwen]

I'm not talking about switches between characters talking, i'm talking about paragraphs in general.

Like single-sentence paragraphs.

Even when the topic is the same.

A new sentence, a new paragraph.

Etc.

I can see how my comment could be interpreted as being about changing paragraphs for new speakers, and i apologize. I've been really frustrated about the "too many paragraphs" problem, so it's been on my mind, and the connetion was much clearer in my head.

[greater-than-the-sword]

Oh yeah every sentence being a new paragraph is something a lot of writers also do for some reason.

[secretwriter-studentjaune]

I can see breaking a paragraph for emphasis, like when making a point or sudden observation, when the focus/topic is still the same. But not for every sentence.

@morfinwen you did it for your example on overusing paragraphs, it can add emphasis. But it can be overused, just like you point out.

[prokopetz]

You know, when I've remarked that a lot of the responses to my posts feel like people are just plucking out keywords they think they recognise based on the shape of them and replying to what they imagine the post says based on that, the possibility never occurred to me that this is actually how many American schools are currently teaching kids to read.

[prokopetz]

Like, my assumption this whole time has been that when folks go "I misunderstood this post that says [thing] as saying [unrelated thing] because I mistook [word] for [completely different word that happens to start with the same letter]", that was a bit. What do you mean they're teaching kids a reading method that's tailored to produce this exact error?

[buggyhuman]

Three cueing. Once you learn about it, a whole lot of very frustrating online discourse with US Americans makes so much sense 😭

How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers

For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have

[woodsfae]

If you were taught to read with the three cueing method, and now struggle to read fluently, you can still learn to read properly!

-> Phonics For Adults <-

If you're a teenager, you can still use this resource.

[homunculus-argument]

Wednesday the 15th. What an excellent day. Middle of the week, middle of the month. Truly, we are in the middle of things.

[tablesage]

useful framework

[boomer-mythology-destroyer]

[absynthe--minded]

this is saved on my desktop with the title ‘Every D&D Campaign Ever’

[justkeeptrekkin]

This is genuinely one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. The lack of music is amazing

[theoutcastrogue]

Oh, aye, it is truly a disgrace that, when asked what genre our D&D game is, we say pretentious shit like “fantasy” or “epic fantasy” or “sword & sorcery”, instead of honestly replying, “slapstick”.

[heroineimages]

I don’t get people who don’t like the Three Stooges. 

[angiemelon]

[secundus-cinaedus]

so funny when people on twitter talk about tumblr and 1) assume we're dead, 2) out themselves as people who need to see porn on their social media feed. turns out the porn ban was literally the best possible way to filter out the braindead gooners and leave only the Real Poasters behind, in a sort of purifying reverse-rapture. also there's still porn on tumblr you just have to open up your dash in public

[luna-drinker]

The porn addicts turned out to be the unhinged people making tumblr suck, someone should look into that for science.

[frangipani-wanderlust]

Bluesky...failed? I thought it eas carrying on as idiotically as ever.

[secretwriter-studentjaune]

It's like a weird mirror to us. B-sky claims they, themselves, are dead when they aren't; everyone else claims we are dead, when we're not.

We're actual eccentric recluses; they're across the street in a town house (asylum) next to town hall, loudly yelling that they're recluses.

Or something, y'all get what I mean I hope...

[frangipani-wanderlust]

I am not preparing for a Netflix documentary.

...But the music used in that meme is actually kind of a cool piece.

[userfish]

hey you 🫵 have you washed your water bottle lately? 🫵 it’s getting hot and mold is going to grow 🫵 wash it 🫵

[cal3ris]

is this gonna get me fired you think

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

shoutout to my brother for setting me up for this

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

guys if you keep reblogging this i’m gonna have to tell him it blew up on tumblr and my credibility from this comeback will instantly plummet

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

oh no this is still getting notes

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

this broke 10,000 notes so

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

results are in. no I can’t tell him about this I can’t do it

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

I’ve made a mistake

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

OKAY

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

well he believes me now!

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

ABORT ABORT ABORT

[izzyhill]

[camiekahle-deactivated20190815]

THIS IS THE BEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN

[macncheese-blog]

I’VE BEEN TRYING TO FIND THIS FOR SEVEN YEARS

DO YOU UNDERSTAND HOW HARD IT IS TO ?????

[pinkifingers]

That last fatal scream tho

[flawlessputaa-deactivated201610]

THE TERROR IN HIS SCREAM OH GOSH

[piss-pirate]

[chillyfeetsteak]

i’m crying

[smore-692-deactivated20170712]

WAAA-

[veritashopian]

I will always reblog this on the off chance some other poor soul has been searching for it

[molten-by-determination-deactiv]

IT’S BACK

[llibratin-deactivated20170617]

HOYL SHIT ITS B A CK

[not-a-recommended-url]

IT’S BACK?? ON MY DASH?

[keymageheartfilia]

re-blogging again xD

[lionowlonao3]

what was that we were just saying about still having posts circulating from ridiculous numbers of years ago? 😂

[best-of-reblogs]

[peptothesi]

I feel like it’s a duty to reblog such a natural treasure

[bogleech]

All those accounts though….

[thegeekogecko]

[ensalada-de-lengua-de-pajaritos]

[crabs-and-bongos]

[haventacluewhatimdoing]

Love that this alien arm is clearly just green bubblewrap. 70s prosthetics I love you

[circular-time]

Classic SF once again betrayed by a clear, static-free signal and a flat digital screen

This is how I remember classic Who and Star Trek, folks, with signal ghosts and scanning lines (but usually with more static/snow)

[sepdet]

Sharing this on my main because it appears from the notes that it's useful for some modern viewers.

You KNOW classic SF used the limited displays of CRT television and the static of transmitted signals the way theaters use stage makeup and lighting to make inexpensive props look great fine— take advantage of the medium! But it's hard to imagine how it looked if you've only seen Blu-ray HD restorations.

I swear to you, despite classic Who using bubble wrap for years as one of its go-to materials that reflected light in interesting ways, we never realized that's what it was.

[warpsbyherself]

I remember when HD tv was first available back in the 2000s, my university had a random HD channel. I watched SNL on it and it was crazy to be able to see how flimsy the sets were and how caked on and flat the makeup was. Then you’d flip back to the normal channel and everything would look fine again.

[chekhovs-raygun]

they need to release like vintage-mode low-def de-stored versions of classic sci fi so you can see how the costumes and sets were supposed to look like.