Land of Nightmares and Ice

I’m back y’all! Our staff overlords have seen fit to grant me reprieve from NSFW jail thankfully. I’ll be here to stay now.

[birdofmay]

I want to know something regarding the pronunciation of the word "iron", and I'm only asking native speakers and those who've been living in an English speaking country since forever (as a child), but it's not quite their native language. The latter is my definition for "second language". And only that. If you went to school in an English speaking country for a couple of years (for example studying abroad), that doesn't count as a second language in this case, please press the last button then.

The description in the poll is only a "more or less", not an absolute.

So...

How do you pronounce the word "iron" (mostly)?

eye-on (native language)

eye-orn (native language)

eye-ron (native language)

something else (native language)

eye-on (second language)

eye-orn (second language)

eye-ron (second language)

something else (second language)

button for everyone else

Voting ended onDec 3, 2023

[cordria]

I’m apparently a wierd one.

Ire-n. One syllable. Emphasis on the consonants. The ‘I’ is more in the back of the throat, almost an ‘ur’ sound, but is slightly more an ‘I’ sound to my ears, and is basically skipped over in the hurry to say the consonants.

Native English speaker, Midwest USA, from a family with strong very Scandinavian roots, growing up learning to speak from people that do silly things like stick an r in wash (warsh).

[ghoulishautism]

Decided that I wanted to re-learn the Homestuck Styles as a potential commission type, I might do a few more of these to practice/be sane so uh...You can drop a request in my inbox and I might do it

These will be tagged as "PhantomStuck" if you wish to block it

[thecrazyfantrolls]

@ridiculousfantrolls lmao look at this

[ayeforscotland]

US Government going after Amazon after they announce they will display tariff-based price increases on products.

White House claims it is "a hostile and political act by Amazon" who they accuse of working with "a Chinese propaganda arm."

[recurringwriter]

WHOA!!!!! i love my friends' ocs

[abtl]

Reblog to let your friends know you love their ocs

[hogwartzlou]

you can tell a lot about someone based on their phone background. it shows what’s most important to them

[uss-clairvoyant]

Reblog this and put what your phone background in the tags

[huramuna]

stop normalizing ai use in fandom 👎

[zooophagous]

I know I sound like your mom but you kids need to stop fucking vaping

[joshgrobanscock]

1) Vaping is confirmed to cause cancer. Vaping coats the lungs with toxic substances, such as heavy metals and benzene, which are known to cause cancer

2) Many vapes contain diacetyl, which, when inhaled causes popcorn lung, or scarring of the lung

3) Ultrafine particles, when being inhaled, can be lodged in the trachea (not good!)

4) Ultrafine particles can also constrict the arteries in the lungs potentially causing A HEART ATTACK

5) Vaping is relatively new. Not much studies have been done in comparison to tobacco. Plus, the vaping companies are powerful people. There is a large chance that they are purposely downplaying and even burying any evidence that vaping is harmful - just like the tobacco companies before them. They do not care about you, or your health, or the truth. They only care for money

[letsoulswander]

Also STOP VAPING INDOORS AROUND OTHER PEOPLE. Holy shit, if you're gonna wreck your lungs at least give me the option not to wreck mine.

[cephalopodvictorious]

It’s such an issue that the MTA had to run a campaign about it

[yeahokayillreblogthat]

yeah okay ill reblog that

[stripedroseandsketchpads]

Please I’m begging yall as an asthmatic, your fruit-flavored vapor will still give people around you who are smoke-sensitive attacks. So will weed. Don’t do it inside; if you’re at a bus stop or something try to not stand right next to people or move downwind of them if you can.

[mekanikaltrifle]

quick, tell me: is it a 'housecoat' or a 'dressing gown'?

housecoat

dressing gown

something else? Secret third thing?

Voting ended onAug 26, 2024

RB to see how others think-- also, what territory you're from and version of English you speak! (this is to settle a thing I am pondering)

[mekanikaltrifle]

in case you need further context: this beaft of yore

[redhead7675]

[chososbabymomma-deactivated2025]

As someone who lost their father to cancer I feel this is very important to share. Please vote in 2024, and vote for those who care more about the people rather than bullshit politics.

(I don’t typically talk politics or world affairs but this hit me hard.)

[yesornopolls]

Would you be embarrassed to show someone your last google search?

Yes

No

Voting ended onAug 3, 2024

[chrispineofficial]

i love this poll so much. i 100% respect the ~15% who don’t want to talk about it that’s real we’ve been there. but i am also so in love with the ~85% who dgaf and put their searches in the tags. i’m obsessed with us all sometimes the world is good

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Tea party time.

[ouijawaydidhego]

@thebiscuiteternal

[mcgregorswench]

[mamalaw1021]

@thebibliosphere

[thebibliosphere]

Oh. that's beautiful.

[glorious-spoon]

one of the most challenging skills i've had to learn as an adult is the art of figuring out whether i'm proportionally annoyed with someone or just tired and overstimulated and looking for reasons to be pissed off

[glorious-spoon]

congratulations to the only post i've ever had breach 100k notes without any real discourse or fighting, just a lot of people wearily going, oh, god, same

[guooey]

[guooey]

[nerdy-mlm]

hairy chests. you agree. reblog

[thecrazyfantrolls]

It has just occurred to me

I will fully admit that the oldest version of Legend of Zelda I have played is Ocarina of Time, having said that!

Is it just me or is it weird that you can’t play an instrument in Breath of the Wild or Tears of the Kingdom? Like every other Zelda game from OoT to BotW has had some kind of instrument thing that you have needed in order to do the dungeons! Admittedly Wind Waker was more a Conductors Baton than an instrument but Music was still a huge part of the game! Breath of the Wild had the Bard bird but it’s not the same. Where’s the songs you have to track down and learn to unlock things?

You can still make it so you need to find a particular song to open the dungeon and have an open world map guys! It just means you need to complete a step before the dungeon or something. Or maybe the song/sheet music is in the dungeon and that’s how you unlock the big boss at the end. IDK! I just think it’s kinda weird that’s all.

[thecrazyfantrolls]

I just had a thought.

What if, and hear me out here.

What if you mashed ABBA’s Money, Money Money with Eiffel 65’s Blue (Da Ba Dee)

Picture this, we take the intro of Blue up to the point where it goes

“And all day and all night and everything he sees is just blue”

Then somewhere in the middle of this you hear

“Money money money,” “it’s a rich man’s world”

By the end of Blue’s next line

“Like him inside and outside”

We add the opening for ABBA’s Money

“I work all night I work all day, to pay the bills I have to pay, ain’t it sad?”

From there I’m not quite sure how this would go but I really want to hear it now.

I’d do it myself but I have no app and no willingness to pay for an app to try and attempt it myself at this time. If some one does do this, please please tag me. I want to hear it badly. I don’t know why I think it would work just that it would.

[thecrazyfantrolls]

It has just occurred to me

I will fully admit that the oldest version of Legend of Zelda I have played is Ocarina of Time, having said that!

Is it just me or is it weird that you can’t play an instrument in Breath of the Wild or Tears of the Kingdom? Like every other Zelda game from OoT to BotW has had some kind of instrument thing that you have needed in order to do the dungeons! Admittedly Wind Waker was more a Conductors Baton than an instrument but Music was still a huge part of the game! Breath of the Wild had the Bard bird but it’s not the same. Where’s the songs you have to track down and learn to unlock things?

You can still make it so you need to find a particular song to open the dungeon and have an open world map guys! It just means you need to complete a step before the dungeon or something. Or maybe the song/sheet music is in the dungeon and that’s how you unlock the big boss at the end. IDK! I just think it’s kinda weird that’s all.