starseedwanderer

"We don't see the world with our eyes. Our eyes merely let us look at the world. We see the world with our hearts."

[whattodowhenyouaredead]

[powerburial]

this is actually the scariest thing ive seen in a long time

[remanence-of-love]

Same people, different bodies.

[copperbooms]

when did tumblr collectively decide not to use punctuation like when did this happen why is this a thing

[rodimuss]

it just looks so smooth I mean look at this sentence flow like a jungle river

[prismatic-bell]

ACTUALLY

This is really exciting, linguistically speaking.

Because it’s not true that Tumblr never uses punctuation. But it is true that lack of punctuation has become, itself, a form of punctuation. On Tumblr the lack of punctuation in multisentence-long posts creates the function of rhetorical speech, or speech that is not intended to have an answer, usually in the form of a question. Consider the following two potential posts. Each individual line should be taken as a post:

ugh is there any particular reason people at work have to take these massive handfuls of sauce packets they know they’re not going to use like god put that back we have to pay for that stuff

Ugh. Is there any particular reason people at work have to take these massive handfuls of sauce packets they know they’re not going to use? Like god, put that back. We have to pay for that stuff.

In your head, those two potential posts sound totally different. In the first one I’m ranting about work, and this requires no answer. The second may actually engage you to give an answer about hoarding sauce packets. And if you answer the first post, you will likely do so in the same style. 

Here’s what makes this exciting: the English language has no actual punctuation for rhetorical speech–that is, there are no special marks that specifically indicate “this speech is in the abstract, and requires no answer.” Not only that, it never has. The first written record of English (actually proto-English, predating even Old English) dates to the 400s CE, so we’re talking about 1600 years of having absolutely no marker whatsoever for rhetorical speech.

A group of teens and young adults on a blogging website literally reshaped a deficit a millennium and a half old in our language to fit their language needs. More! This group has agreed on a more or less universal standard for these new rules, which fits the definition of “language.” Which is to say Tumblr English is its own actual, real, separate dialect of the English language, and because it is spoken by people worldwide who have introduced concepts from their own languages into it, it may qualify as a written form of pidgin. 

Tumblr English should literally be treated as its own language, because it does not follow the rules of any form of formal written English, and yet it does have its own consistent internal rules. If you don’t think that’s cool as fuck then I don’t even know what to tell you.

[staff]

Hey cool

[agraceful-disgrace]

There’s a difference between being happy and being distracted from sadness

[lost-broken786-deactivated20200]

[starseedwanderer]

First thought, every morning I wake up again.

[awbrainno]

To all the weird, shadowy, glitchy creatures moving in the corners of my vision lately: I consider u my friends so please stop hiding when I try to look at u

[katswenski]

[starseedwanderer]

Funny shit.

[mcapriglioneart]

how to draw arms ? ? 

[swagginsloths]

holy fuck

[shoutsofthunder]

holy fuck is right… but… does it work with legs???

[mcapriglioneart]

yes !!

[signherepleased]

IT CANT HAVE BEEN THAT SIMPLE ALL ALONG

[butterflyinthewell]

To any suicidal followers I may have: This is a sign to not kill yourself. You are loved and the world is special because you are in it. Keep holding on.

Reblog this when it’s on your dash. You will save someone’s life.

[prettyaveragewhiteshark]

A Biology Teacher Just Destroyed Every Excuse for Transphobia With Cold, Hard Facts

A biology teacher posted a status pointing out the wide variety of genders in the human and animal kingdoms.

This is AMAZING. The teacher’s rebuttal:

I just commented this on a transphobic post that was all like, “In a sexual species, females have two X chromosomes and males have an X and a Y, I’m not a bigot it’s just science.” I’m a science teacher so I responded with this.

First of all, in a sexual species, you can have females be XX and males be X (insects), you can have females be ZW and males be ZZ (birds), you can have females be females because they developed in a warm environment and males be males because they developed in a cool environment (reptiles), you can have females be females because they lost a penis sword fighting contest (some flatworms), you can have males be males because they were born female, but changed sexes because the only male in their group died (parrotfish and clownfish), you can have males look and act like females because they are trying to get close enough to actual females to mate with them (cuttlefish, bluegills, others), or you can be one of thousands of sexes (slime mold, some mushrooms.) Oh, did you mean humans? Oh ok then. You can be male because you were born female, but you have 5-alphareductase deficiency and so you grew a penis at age 12. You can be female because you have an X and a Y chromosome but you are insensitive to androgens, and so you have a female body. You can be female because you have an X and a Y chromosome but your Y is missing the SRY gene, and so you have a female body. You can be male because you have two X chromosomes, but one of your X’s HAS an SRY gene, and so you have a male body. You can be male because you have two X chromosomes- but also a Y. You can be female because you have only one X chromosome at all. And you can be male because you have two X chromosomes, but your heart and brain are male. And vice - effing - versa. Don’t use science to justify your bigotry. The world is way too weird for that shit.

[freelancervermont]

Addressing this to the TERF that assaulted me.

[starseedwanderer]

When There’s Just No Relief

When even the silence in your head is just too damn loud sometimes,

and you can’t think of one thing, because you’re thinking about everything.

When you can see the worth of everyone all around you,

except for the person that stares back at you from the mirror, through blurry tear stained vision.

When you can shut your eyes and hear the music playing beneath the rain falling from the sky,

but you can’t hear yourself telling you that it will all be okay.

When the wisdom of ages rolls out your mouth like angelic song at the time that someone needs to hear it from you,

yet all you can do is stutter and sit in perpetual muteness, when you have to encourage yourself to do the smallest thing.

When there’s just no relief,

from just being you.

[starseedwanderer]

Life in (dis)order

Have to get up for work, in just 5 and a half hours.

So instead of sleeping I’m sitting with a beer, smoking, and on Tumblr.

Yeah, I’ve got my life together for a 30 year old.

You know I’m going places.

[steampunktendencies]

Skulls of the Villains by  Travis Durden

[starseedwanderer]

So cool...

[blazersparadise-blog]

[criedforme]

someone: so tell me about yourself

me:

[starseedwanderer]

Pretty much sums it up.

[ghostintheshell-uk]

Geisha mask animation by blind artist, George Redhawk.

“I am an artist, I am also the creator of what has been known as the Redhawk effect. It’s a technique that I developed to create animation in a still photo“

See the amazing way George creates his art. https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/future-technology-george-redhawk-115803098.html

[starseedwanderer]

So cool...

[starseedwanderer]

Found my new favourite song. Beautiful. Almost makes me cry. Makes me wish I had someone to love, so I could learn this song to sing to them.