Speaking of Doorknobs

AKA @effulgentinara - A vivid assortment of fancy-catchers and objects of shininess. (aka a firehose of my current fixations) Everything queued unless tagged otherwise. Likes/comments will be from my main/original works blog effulgentinara

[canis-latranz]

he was onto something

[animentality]

[circus0shifter]

😔😔😔

[black-lodge-gatekeeper]

jesus christ we just trudge on dont we

[worldscoolest]

[cpericardium]

parried three bait posts in a row

[intercal]

leaving a bad review of The Art of War on Amazon so my enemies don't buy it

[garaks-padded-bra]

Remember when ezri was like hey remember how your dad used to lock you in a closet when he wasnt manipulating you into a tool to do his bidding. Thats kind of like when i get space sick. And then garak had a seizure about it

[garaks-padded-bra]

Reblog if you support Ezri Daxs reign of terror

[thepromiscuousfinger]

[gooseworx]

Looking back on the show, what are you most proud of?

Every time I've hurt people.

[victusinveritas]

[thestuffedalligator]

They’ve been rebuilding the Tower of Babel, but this time they have a team of linguists on site. Every time God smites the builders and invents a dozen new languages, the linguists have a dozen decently sized translations in about a month and work can start up again.

The linguists have been really into it. They say the new phonemes are fascinating. As for God, I assume that at this point he’s just curious to see how far this goes.

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

To keep us on out toes, God gives the next group of builders an extra place of articulation called the flongus between the pharynx and the glottis, creating an entire new column of the IPA chart with sounds between sounds that are literally physiologically impossible for non-flongled people to replicate.

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

Improved symbols for the flongal plosives ("gacks"), flongal trill ("hacks"), flongal fricatives ("groans"), and and the flongal lateral approximant ("moans")

[inthefallofasparrow]

Update: The builders have now simply switched to communicating entirely through a universal sign language like they should've done to start with. No sounds need be spoken, flongal or otherwise. The Tower steadily rises. Be seeing you soon, God, you little bitch.

[koth-harvest-final]

update: the builders are all speaking different sign languages now

[lakesbian]

i genuinely love that the way k.a applegate resolves the issue of needing the alien on the team to be able to drop plot crumbs without totally solving everything for the human kids is by making aximili-esgarrouth-isthill a jock who only tangentially paid attention to when his teachers were explaining, like, the andalite equivalent of how to find the cosine of a triangle, and now he's in an astronomically rare circumstance where the fate of an entire species depends on him remembering how to do that. and he's cold sweating trying to recall the answers to homework problems he didn't do. and also he's always lying.

[lakesbian]

ax is literally experiencing like if you got teleported back several hundred years and everyone was expecting you to explain the precise mechanisms of how cell phones work to them and if you don't come up with a sufficient explanation they're all going to die. And he's not enjoying it.

[lakesbian]

every day this happens to ax

[plaguedocboi]

Nothing beats the experience of seeing some true tumblr discourse float by and reading like two paragraphs into a post and suddenly realizing “oh wait. I don’t care” and scrolling right past

[onscreenkisses]

YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, dir. Mel Brooks (1974)

[shiftythrifting]

Submission from sinclaire: I probably should submit the mannequin vault at my local thrift

[64mpg]

i should be able to donate my excess shame to those in need