strong enough to break the bravest heart

Daphne/Ten | she/her | lesbian | married | Black/mixed WOC | Elden Ring/One Piece/Utena/Kingdom Hearts fangirl | eldritch horror in a teapot |

[tentacleteapot]

can I borrow The Amulet or are you still cursed by it or whatever

[voidandradiance]

the most disorienting thing thats ever happened to me was when a linguistics major stopped in the middle of our conversation, looked me in the eye, and said, "you have a very interesting vernacular. were you on tumblr in 2014?" and i had to just stand there and process that one for a good ten seconds

[booksandchainmail]

#i was in a car with a linguist i had never met before the car trip and like half an hour in he looked at me#after i finished describing a geology thing that was happening out the window and asked if i'd ever spent much time on tumblr#the fuckor of it all#and then we spent six more hours driving#it sure does leave linguistic markers! i'm not sure i'm good with it (tags via @thoughtsformtheuniverse)

[issela-santina]

it is one thing to be a linguist and another to be a linguist who knows enough of 2010s Tumblr to spot one of its enjoyers

[lierdumoa]

Oh! @meret118 see above comment! The use of the word "enjoyers" instead of "users" or "bloggers" -> You left a comment a while back asking, "Does this just mean vocabulary words? Other than blorbo and sweet cinnamon roll etc, I can't think of what a Tumblr accent would be." I almost never see anyone use the word "enjoyer" anywhere outside of tumblr, but I see it on tumblr fairly frequently.

Another one is the verb "perceive" i.e. "don't perceive me" "I am perceiving" "I am being percieved." That's something that feels very specific to tumblr parlance.

There's the thing where people on tumblr have an emotional reaction to something and instead of, or in addition to telling you how they feel about it using emotion words, they will narrate a fictional action in the present progressive tense. "I am gnawing at the bars of my enclosure "I am kissing you on the mouth" "you are going into the soup" "you are getting all of the awards"

I once saw someone use that response format in ... I think it was a restaurant review, or a doordash review, or something like that. It was very unexpected seeing it outside of a tumblr post.

There are a lot of other tumblr linguistic quirks I can't currently remember off the top of my head, but I'll instantly recognize them if I see/hear them outside of tumblr. It's always a bit startling to see them out of context.

[pacificnorthwhore]

[i-wear-the-cheese]

when I was in university one of my modules was about internet slang and for our grades project we had to compile and analyse a small database of 100 words used by a specific community of our choice. I chose tumblr and that's how I stumbled across Gretchen McCulloch's research and discovered that yes not only did tumblr have its own vernacular and syntax (as @lierdumoa demonstrates), it was at the time a crucible of slang and memes probably unrivalled by any other part of the internet. and it's stayed that way! even the very title is McCulloch's book because internet is an example of this specific phraseology.

sadly my project is lost due to the website being wiped from the university database after graduation and my then laptop having a major hardware failure. backup your backups people! but the crux of the entire module was that the internet is full of communities using language not only as jargon for specific purpose but also to signal membership in said community. I even wrote a bit about non capitalisation and punctuation useage as a visual cue on tumblr and how including information in the reblog body or the tags indicated different levels of importance or intimacy of thought

I am holding the side of your face and looking deep in your eyes and telling you that love is stored in the syntax, and that we are rotating words together all at once as we all nod at their new and baffling meanings. if the devils sacrament be tumblr then the devils gospel is our collective voice. thanks for coming to my tedtalk

[weirdchristmas]

I am being perceived.

[toskarin]

do you think insight can be gained about an author from the stories they write?

no. authors are like squids and can only be understood through spirited but ultimately futile combat

[havensys]

We'll be going live at 7PM BST! We'll be returning to Laika: Aged Through Blood! We'll be heading for the Big Tree and probably doing more sidequests! Come join us as we ride out into the wasteland once again, for puppy!

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[girlnextvore]

what if we all started saying trans woman when we meant trans woman instead of trans fem as a catch all

wouldnt that be cool

[girlnextvore]

Wouldnt it also be cool if we said trans man when we meant trans man instead of saying trans masc

that be SOO COOL

[xalatath]

Domanaar Sickos:

[ellzilla]

Everyone should have a Gremlin sona methinks If I had the power to set a trend it'd be that

[therobotmonster]

[gammelgaedda]

Ceratopsian <3

[monmon-txt]

this is a good post, and you should reblog it

[ungezieferwerden]

we need swimmable cities 

[warcraftconceptart]

Fingers of Frost Artist: Andrea Uderzo World of Warcraft TCG: Icecrown (2010) Image cropped from a card scan provided by the WoW TCG scan project

[tentacleteapot]

it’s really funny that there was a time I used to think ‘reclusive artist who can’t stand to talk to their fans’ was a character archetype that only existed in real life in extreme situations. now that I’ve seen what giving a fandom any sort of consistent access to the creative force behind the media they’re into can do, I really feel like every artist should be allowed to bite their fans if they get too familiar

[69shrimp]

why dont you make like a tree and feel the breeze and the sun and the changing of the seasons. and Grow

[weepingwidar]

Devan Shimoyama (US-American, 1989) - Dual Wielder (2026)

[trans-lykanthropie]

people on here always talk about Americans describing things through the lens of burgers but seldom mention the other peculiarity of dividing anything socio-geographic into belts. Bible belt, rust belt, sun belt, corn belt, pine belt, why do you have so many belts

[ozth]

curious