Ominous Positivity

Came for my nerdy fandoms, stayed because I love my mutuals more than I hate this hellsite. I try to reblog what makes me happy more than what doesn’t but results will vary.

[kosmogrl]

[chilewithcarnage]

when the treat you treated yourself to is mid

[sbeep]

A bronze dragon idling on the jetty⛵️

[ijaazat]

[thisrobotbeatcaptcha]

I can think of at least one other! Yuri Knorozov, the linguist who translated the Mayan language!

Russia put him on a stamp in 2022:

[tlachapoud]

Bedřich Hrozný, the czech orientalist and linguist who deciphered the Hittite language.

Put on a stamp in 2025:

[bookwormwinnetou]

Also: Rasmus Rask, one of the fathers of comparative linguistics

[castlescrumblingdown]

Johann Caspar Zeuss, father of Celtic Philology.

Eric P. Hamp, Indo-Europeanist (...who had a specialization in Celtic among...many other things).

[shofarsogood]

Don't forget Dr. Zamenhof!

He created Esperanto after learning and studying eight languages. It was intended to be a universal language and a second language so people all over the world could speak. He's a really cool person!

[formaldehydedoesstuff]

Crazy how that lion got all of them.

[marciaillust]

curious. anyway,

[branden-aka-cowboyduke]

Never forget how far you’ve come, despite how far you still have to go

[porterr-robinson]

[sandersstudies]

This is so

Unnecessary

[myrrhguy-deactivated20250626]

how do you explain to someone that this is your sense of humour

[celtic-pyro-deactivated20230725]

“What could the audio possibly be?”

*unmutes*

“Oh,”

[moonblossom]

If I ever don’t laugh at this, assume I died.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

there was a time when social media just didn’t have ads and no one had to pay for ad-free service by the way

[fu-boss]

Real life Road Runner

[sahonithereadwolf]

Looney Tunes is real and happening outside.

[dancing-crow]

good lord its feet really do spin around in a circle when going fast

[incisedwound]

[tosety]

Bumps your ankle

Bumps your ankle

Bumps your ankle

Bumps your ankle

Bumps your ankle

[storm-of-feathers]

speaking of volcanology i am at my LIMIT with people thinking that yellowstone is "overdue". Its not fucking pregnant. if it ever erupts again we'll have decades if not centuries of warning. whenever theres "increased activity" there it means something vibrated a bit more or something.

and while we're on it the eruptions happening rn are also not out of the ordinary. what kilauea is doing is not a cause for alarm. volcanoes erupt all the time its a part of our planet I am losing my mind

[he-who-reads-until-dawn]

They aborted the Yellowstone super eruption because of woke

[storm-of-feathers]

this is true

[nerd-bastard]

#fun fact: yellowstone has to replace their roads fucking constantly because of how much the magma shifts!#they rise and fall like frost heaves except much more extensive and it cracks any concrete or asphalt all to hell#i only lived there for like two years and the road was repaved twice#this is why so many roads in the park are gravel. they might be annoying but at least they don't have to rip it up every summer.#anyway.#my point being that we have kind of a good eye on the yellowstone situation because that kind of fuckery happens all the time#if/when it blows we're probably going to have lots of notice#science!

something delightful about a national park actively resisting being paved at all. fuck em up girl, be free

[introvertsnation]

[targetedknowledge]

[thundergrace]

WOW I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS IS MY FAVORITE TELEVISION SERIES OF ALL TIME (it's not out yet)

[cryoverkiltmilk]

📝

[comicgeekscomicgeek]

Oh, I am in.

[dduane]

WANT. :)

[sodiumvaporss]

i do have to say that no matter how shitty any sort of media is or how shitty your own creations are. always remember

[denizoid]

"a vague disclaimer is nobody's friend"

4x07 The Initiative

[sorrelchestnut]

Y'all this is a piece of history right here. Every single time you see a reference to a "shovel talk" in fic, defined here as "someone threatening harm to a potential romantic partner of a friend/loved one," it's referencing this scene. This scene specifically. Everywhere else that is not fannish internet, that interaction is referred to a "shotgun talk," referencing the father threatening a daughter's boyfriend with a shotgun. This scene gave a lot of people a chance to reframe that interaction in terms of a protective friend rather than a possessive father, which for a lot of obvious reasons resonated with people a whole fucking lot, and it immediately spread like wildfire into fannish and then general internet lexicon. I've seen people try and backronym it into an extension of the shotgun talk, as in, "I've got a shotgun and a shovel to bury you with," but I've asked a lot of rednecks from a lot of different necks of the woods and no one has ever encountered that variant in brickspace life. It's all Buffy, babey. This shit is linguistic history in the making.

[bowditch]

it is wild how much buffy the vampire slayer impacted language, fandom, and internet culture. even if you've never watched buffy, i can almost guarantee that if you're online, there's something in your vocabulary that's from buffy

[dxntloseurhead]

welcome to my blog, where 99% of the time you will probably not be getting the content you signed up for.

[vendetta06]

Do you guys remember this, literally what was it for? it feels like a fever dream because there’s no explanation

[captain-price-officially]

I vividly remember this because I got an alert on my phone that a clown was spotted close to university campus

[theworsethingsgettheharderifight]

someone reported you on your way to class?? 😧

[captain-price-officially]