Violet

20 y/o she/her asexual lesbian Safe space for everyone lgbtqia+ DNI if you're homophobic/transphobic/ableist/sexist Credits for pfp: picrew by @naylissah

[lilaclupin]

In today's linguistics class we talked about metaphors, and we really want two of the ones we talked about to become conventionalised.

So first of all this one girl told us about a newer metaphor in Russian, "I have paws", which is something you say when you don't really want to do something, so you say you're incapable of doing it since you have paws instead of hands. Like, "hey, finish that report" "aw but I have paws :(" and I think that's adorable. It has "I'm just a girl" energy without the misogyny.

We also had the task to invent a novel metaphor and have the others guess what it means, and the teacher really liked my "she's such a capybara" = "everyone loves her". Capybara energy is like golden retriever energy except you're chill about it. You're just vibing and everyone digs that.

Anyway I think these deserve to become more common in English

[vampire-loving-vampire]

hey white people . if u dont know how to pronounce an ethnic persons name *google it* or if its someone ur talking directly to *ask them*. dont fucking do that "erm i dont know how to pronounce but __" or "im gonna butcher this haha" or "im not even gonna bother trying" . ur not funny. do u know what poc think when they hear u saying that ? u sound like a loser asshole and we dont want to spend time with u . im so fucking tired of watching youtube videos about media from my country and hearing those phrases. im tired of people saying that to my face . i respect someone who clearly looked it up and is tryong but says my name wrong over someone who just goes with whatever bad first guess they had without trying. u have too many resources at ur disposal to keep doing this. for the love of god just Fucking Try. if ur confused Just Try.

[despair-tea]

I highly recommend Forvo.com, the website where native speakers of a language contribute their time and voices to read words and names in their own language. It is a fantastic way to expand your world, open up your ears, and it's way more likely to nab a hit than just googling.

[vampire-loving-vampire]

wow , I didn't know this existed, thanks so much for sharing the resource !! I will absolutely be using it now too 🖤

[ozzy-from-the-cafeteria]

tumblr is the most genuine social media because on other sites such as instagram people get famous for appearances, but here people appreciate me for my depressive thoughts and shitposting

[thequeenoftheentiregoddamnworld]

Hey, hey, look me in the eyes when I tell you this okay? The whole "do trans women or trans men have it worse?" debate going on right now is the most obvious CIA bullshit on earth cause honestly we've both got it pretty shitty and fighting each other isn't helping anyone

[marshmellowed]

every time.

[geniusbee]

these are getting weird

[sparxdoodles]

I think Grace will never escape weird kid humor, no matter the classroom

[aknowwhatyouare]

When he found out about what happened to Grace, Rocky was reasonably horrified and livid. On their way to Erid, Grace hears the most beautiful tune he cannot seem to understand. It doesn’t sound Eridian, it just sounds like regular music. He sees Rocky on his laptop messing with Garage Band. Grace asks what’s up, very amused. Rocky tells him,

Rocky made Stratt diss track.

[cchickki]

If you haven’t started already, start archiving/downloading everything. Save it to an external hard drive if you’re able. Collecting physical media is also a good idea, if you’re able.

Download your own/your favorite fanfics. Save as much as you can from online sources/digital libraries. Recipes, tutorials, history, LGBTQ media, etc. It has been claimed, though I can’t find the exact source if true, that some materials about the Revolutionary War were deleted from the Library of Congress.

It’s always better to be safe than sorry and save and preserve what you can. Remember that cloud storage also is not always reliable!

Library of Congress - millions of books, films and video, audio recordings, photographs, newspapers, maps, manuscripts.

Internet Archive - millions of free texts, movies, software, music, websites, and more. Has been taken offline multiple times because of cyber attacks last month, it has recently started archiving again.

Anna's Archive - 'largest truly open library in human history.’

Queer Liberation Library - queer literature and resources. Does require applying for a library membership to browse and borrow from their collection.

List of art resources - list of art resources complied on tumblr back in 2019. Not sure if all links are still operational now, but the few I clicked on seemed to work.

Alexis Amber - TikToker who is an archivist who's whole page is about archiving. She has a database extensively recording the events of Hurricane Katrina.

I'll be adding more to this list, if anyone else wants to add anything feel free!

[no-one-offical]

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[poorlythoughtoutdescisions]

Grace, setting something on Rocky for a second because he needs his hands and Rockys the closest flat surface: Hold this for a sec

Rocky, absolutely aghast: Grace use rocky as TABLE question? Rocky is but furniture to Grace question? oh! oh! jail for Grace! jail for Grace for One Thousand Years!!!

[gumy-shark]

sometimes my Beloved Mutuals will rb a post about a certain character archetype and i will have to physically restrain myself from saying “yeah you would say that wouldn’t you”

[gumy-shark]

jasper you don’t get to get away with this that easily.

new ask game: what’s the character archetype that makes you go “of course you would say that” when i post about it?

[molabuddy]

3 hours of sleep = i hate people who laugh

0 ours of sleep = waouw 🌼🌼🌼🌼🐎

[digitalmyyth]

Hanging out with people will make you remember you're the crazy woke friend for like. not wanting to shop at shien

[crownkeeper]

before there were blorbos there were little meow meows and before there were little meow meows there were cinnamon rolls

[rcktpwr]

fill your body with cranberries so the horse that kills you gets a sensual surprise when he begins to feed

[ceeberoni]

i will give the  horse that kills me no such luxury

[fwippy]

interesting dates on this post

[gigglepuffpixie]

those aren’t dates, they are explicitly stated to be cranberries

[foxisconfused]

@hellsite-hall-of-fame

[puzzled-on-main]

am i allowed to say kill all trillionaires or is that too specific of a threat

[teaboot]

Okay so Ollie loves sinks and showers and running water of all kinds, yes? This is known.

And ever since he was a kitten, when I first caught him peeing in the bathtub and he sae me use the shower to clean it out, he has been doing this whenever he wants a faucet turned on

Tub, sink, shower, whatever- he will climb on in. Scratch scratch scratch. LOOK at me. Then do it again

I learned this was intentional when I taught him the word "water", and after that whenever I caught him scratching I'd say "water?" and he'd stop to run over to the spigot and stare at it in anticipation like the strange little freak he is.

Well it's been a few years. I keep the bathroom sink filled when it's out of use because whenever it's empty he gets upset. I have learned to live around this

Tonight he didn't get to watch the bathtub drain because he was playing with a can downstairs. By the time he was done the bath was empty and I was getting dressed.

And so he began to scratch.

"No", I told myself. "I just got dry. I am not turning the shower on now. Not this time."

I saw him stop. Look back at me. Then resume scratching.

I left to throw my towel in the laundry.

Then I came back.

And I heard a plop.

My friends. Family. Compatriots.

I pulled back the curtain to find my son dropping STEAMING HOT LOGS in my MOTHER FUCKING BATHTUB

What the absolute FUCK