Drumming on to a New Beat

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[secondbeatsongs]

@zombiemollusk:

this makes me think of you

I am exactly one thousand percent convinced that tumblr’s whole Crab Army thing came about because of this video. there’s no way that it didn’t. I would bet real actual money on it

[photomatt]

This is what (almost) all of the Tumblr @staff team looks like in a room. 192 people here at the meetup! In my introduction I ended up doing an impromptu presentation on typography and how that brought me to open source. I originally learned about this stuff through our Automattic colleague @apartness, in this article on A List Apart The Trouble With EM ’n EN (and Other Shady Characters).

[secondbeatsongs]

honestly really sexy of tumblr to keep follower numbers private. how many people are following me? you'll never know unless I tell you. maybe it's a million, or a thousand, or five, or maybe it's just you. maybe you're the only one here, all by yourself, unable to see if there's anyone standing next to you.

and you'd never know, because status here is based on opinion and not numbers; how popular you think someone is is a vibes-only calculation, and besides the chronological algorithms-optional feed, it's genuinely the best thing tumblr's ever done.

[buggyeyes]

op this made me think about how tumblr is one of the last bastions of social media where old internet style choose-your-own-comfort-level-of-anonymity is still the norm and i started making your post into a blackout poem and it kinda got away from me

[rpsourcedmemes]

Send ⭐ for a sample of a new muse I am thinking of writing

[dazeylo]

Caught on camera for the first time in history, this is the extremely-rare Chirodectes Maculatus—a species of spotted box jelly.

[linguistisch]

i find the way europeans call summer a “heatwave” very cute

[sorashige-deactivated20180918]

yeah nah it’s not normal. we usually barely get two weeks over 20°c here in northern germany. now it’s been over 2 months where it hasn’t gone below 20°c even at night and we’ve been scratching at 30°c for 2 weeks. and it’s dry as fuck, it hasn’t rained in weeks. farmers are seeing the worst harvest in a century because of it, they’re expecting a loss of at least 50% compared to last year.

[mintedwitcher]

I find the way people are mocking Europeans for not being used to extreme heat (yes it is extreme for them considering their normal climate) and making light of actual deaths from heatstroke/exhaustion, pretty fucking disgusting actually, OP.

[schnaf]

it’s not just a heatwave. In February, we had -20°C - five months later, same place, it’s close to 40°C. That’s 60°C difference - 140°Fahrenheit. That’s not cute.

[sir-heck-deactivated20200327]

just some selected effects of this europe’s heatwave:

denmark: more than 1,000 wildfires in july alone, which is a typical yearly total

france: white storks suffering from malnourishment, and, unable to fly, they get injured when falling from nests

germany: 10,000lbs of fish suffocated in hamburg because rivers are unable to release heat efficiently

greece: the attica wildfires were the deadliest in living memory, with 90+ confirmed to be dead

poland: outbreaks of toxic cyanobacteria, which only formed due to the warmer weather, forced beaches to close

portugal and spain: saw almost record-breaking temperatures of 46C+/115F+ which contributed to several deadly wildfires

sweden: the government issued 1.2 billion krona (approx. $191million) in aid for farmers, as the droughts made crops and livestock at serious risk

netherlands: asphalt roads melted all over the country, which caused long-term damage as car tyres peel it away from the road

united kingdom: manchester and several other areas burned for three weeks, with effects estimated to last for 15 years

our infrastructure isn’t designed for this. stop belittling countries you know nothing about

[katbelleinthedark]

Europeans don’t call summer a “heatwave”. Summer is summer and is normal. We call a heatwave a fucking “heatwave”.

[just-themys]

Also please consider most Europeans don’t have AC in their houses because it’s not normal for temperatures to go so high.

[leebrontide]

This ticks me off the same way asshole northerners we’re mocking Texas during their blizzard. Yes, we in MN have that weather every year but we HAVE PLOWS FOR THAT. We have mandated insulation that can handle it. We have annual coat drives. Why would Texas have any of those things when this has never been their normal?

Weather that is outside the range that a place has infrastructure for can be dangerous, no matter what that is. Hot cold dry rain wind whatever.

Don’t be assholes to ppl who don’t have the infrastructure for what they’re experiencing.

[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.

[sussexbound]

i love this post

[willowgrovecreates]

This is super cool! Also idk if this has any relevance whatsoever but if you wanna have an argument inside one tag you cannot have commas in it so that’s a real existing constraint that has forced tumblrites to construct commaless sentences and perhaps this has helped in adopting the custom into posts as well ok I have no idea if this is what’s happened just I think it’s a reasonable assumption there might be a connection

[sanerontheinside]

^this.

The tags are absolutely a factor. You want someone to take a breath in the middle of a sentence, you start a new tag. You want to have, as seen here, this removable piece between commas (does it have a name?) - you have 5 tags in this sentence alone. And sometimes you just

pause in the middle of a sentence…

and let your voice

trail away

[obaewankenope]

look at all you precious brilliant nerds nerding about language you make me so fucking happy omg

language is this constantly evolving thing tbh, it doesn’t remain the same unless it’s dead and the people who used it gone so seeing the evolution of the language used on tumblr is literally so fucking amazing i want to cry with joy at it

because we also add in words from other languages, or make entirely new words up as additional terms to denote something (see ‘tol’ and ‘smol’ in relation to ‘tall’ and ‘small’) and this is constant. we are doing this daily without any sort of breathing space because there’s millions of us on this hellsite and we are constantly talking and so the language changes day-by-day until we have general, universal rules for what to do in a post, what to add in our tags, how to add it, why we add it, what we mean by it

we’ve created a language in the same way our ancestors all did: by building on the ones that came before and changing them to suit our needs and our system

and that’s fucking awesome okay

awesome

[adora-korra]

I love this so much and language is so great and I’ve noticed the lack of punctuation thing recently, even on twitter, and used it for like a specific kind of rhetorical effect. idk it’s so fun I fucking love linguistics and the evolution of language

[elenorasweet]

I also loved that the following one-word responses all sound drastically different out loud and showcase different reactions:

What?

What.

what

[novafire-is-thinking]

Transformers Robot Husband Poll (SEMIFINALS)

Make sure to vote on BOTH of the matches here.

SOUNDWAVE vs. JAZZ vs. THUNDERCRACKER

Soundwave

Jazz

Thundercracker

Voting ended onFeb 13, 2023

[unkillablejazz]

"Ah, frag. Really hate when the boss bots hand out suicide missions. Like give a mech a chance, won't ya?" He's stretching languidly, a full frame motion that started with simply stretching one arm above his helm. Then he leans back, arching further and further until he can reach the knife holster in the back of his ped. A wickedly arced dagger slides free and he rights himself by completing the back-flips, spinning the dagger for a bit of flair at the end. By what he knows of the internets, he may just be the least popular version carrying his namesake, but that'll hardly keep him from offering an extra servo. "Well. If we're goin' down, Best to do it in style."

[unkillablejazz]

Maximum be gay do crime is to let the stupid fucking IP finally die in obscurity instead of continuing to make queers, Jews and POC have to keep thinking about that dumb fucking white slag’s shitty writing

((Okay, I don't understand enough social queues to tell if this is supposed to be hate mail that someone just threw into my inbox with no interest in hearing anything back, or if they are actually interested in the answer and it'd be rude to trash it. So I'm gonna answer and hope whoever this is sees it and ends up less stressed out for it. (I'm kind of wondering why you went anon though if that's the case. You'd have to be watching my blog pretty religiously for that.)

Short and snarky answer because I think I'm funny:

Nah. That's totally legal, but you do you.

Longer answer with clarification:

I was suggesting stealing the source code and making a better wizard school game because I want to help. (I may not know enough hacking to get ahold of the source code but I know a bit of coding and I'd love to learn how to mod a game.) I'm an autistic lesbian with a special interest in magic. That beast's get rich quick scheme of copyright claiming every common magic/wizard term she could get her hands on with her generic coming of age boarding school rag has cornered the market on new wizard and magic stories. It makes it very hard to find new stories that appeal to my special interest without having to wade through at least the comparisons with that slag. I want to go full death of the author on her. Make it literal. Take that cardboard cutout magic school and make it into something so good it totally overshadows her. And it's fair use if it's free. Can't copyright claim fair use. I want her losing money so fast that she has a heart attack out of rage. That is what I want when I say go maximum "be gay, do crime. Eat the rich."

))

[novafire-is-thinking]

Transformers Robot Husband Poll (Round 2)

Make sure to vote on ALL of the matches here.

PROWL vs. SWERVE

Prowl

Swerve

Voting ended onFeb 6, 2023

[vodid]

the NERVE of this person reblogging from ME and removing my propaganda. disgusting. /lh

vote prowl for this injustice.

[frogmaster-123]

I look at you from top of the bar stool sipping on my fake wine. /j

[vodid]

fuck you (/LH /LH) i'm putting my prowl propaganda back. with the addition of jazz because they deserve to kiss fight in the next round

make the husbands fight 2023. 👊💥👊💥

[frogmaster-123]

Nooo

Beat his ass Swerve

[vodid]

i will not bow.

beat his ass prowl

[frogmaster-123]

Get em swerve

[vodid]

oh don't worry. i have memes too.

if prowl is smart enough for sideswipe's pranks then he's husband enough to win this poll <3

[novafire-is-thinking]

Transformers Robot Husband Poll (Round 2)

Make sure to vote on ALL of the matches here.

PROWL vs. SWERVE

Prowl

Swerve

Voting ended onFeb 6, 2023

[sulfuric-nest]

IF SWERVE WINS IM TURNING HIM INTO A KANDI NECKLACE

[vodid]

if prowl wins i will run a raffle of everyone who has liked/reblogged my propaganda and i will draw the winner a full illustration of either swerve as an apology or prowl as a celebration.

choose the vo art. vote for prowl. i can even draw them with a kandi necklace if you want.

[sulfuric-nest]

I DOUBLE THE OFFER ILL DRAW STUFF TOO IF SWERVE WINS

It is 1:57 AM and I have to get up for class at 6 I am filled with so much energy I cannot sleep

VOTE SWERVE VOTE SWERVE

[vodid]

OH? OH? SO THATS HOW IT IS HUH? YOU WANNA FUCKING GO? FINE.

i will draw the raffle winner a swerve with WHOEVER YOU MAY SHIP HIM WITH (or just a second character in general) if PROWL wins.

VOTE FOR PROWL.

[sulfuric-nest]

[vodid]

PLS THIS IS SO FUNNY HSDFSDFS i love how you think prowl is that tall. or is swerve really that short 💀

[novafire-is-thinking]

Transformers Robot Husband Poll (Round 2)

Make sure to vote on ALL of the matches here.

PROWL vs. SWERVE

Prowl

Swerve

Voting ended onFeb 6, 2023

[sulfuric-nest]

[vodid]

if it makes you feel any better, prowl is not my favorite either. he's my third. ratchet is my #1 in which my dumbass misclicked dinobot and my second fav is ironhide who SOMEBODY forgot to include in the polls /lh

with that being said tho, prowl has everyone's schedule. he manages it all. he could give u time off. he could give you vacation. he could arrange so that that engex? would never arrive. do something stupid? in the brig you go. you wouldn't even be able to see the poll.

vote for prowl. stay on his good side.

[inkoutsidethelines]

Thinking about how I would write an adult Scooby-Doo series, because I think it can be done.

The first thing I’d do is make the characters actually be adults.  Still young, but adults, in the mid to late 20s range.  Mystery Inc. is a private detective type business that they run together.  In this universe, the supernatural/ghosts/etc are real, but not necessarily common, so when they take on a case, the culprit might be a person disguised as a monster, or it might actually be a real ghost.  The stakes can be higher; sometimes a bad guy is legitimately trying to kill them.  Sometimes the mystery they’re trying to solve is a murder.  Sometimes they actually get hurt on their cases.

Fred: the core of Fred’s character should be that he’s incredibly kind.  Like, give a stranger the shirt off his back kind.  The “Fred can’t talk to potential clients because he might take a case for free and we need to eat” kind.  He’s an honest and good person and sometimes gets himself into trouble because he assumes other people are too.  While he’s not very good at reading people or noticing ulterior motives, he’s brilliant when it comes to mechanical or engineering type stuff, so he’s the one who keeps the mystery machine running, builds their gadgets, and of course, designs the traps.

Daphne: she comes from old money, and her parents absolutely despise her life choices, to the point where they haven’t officially disowned her, but they have basically cut her off, so she doesn’t actually have access to any family money.  Growing up wealthy has granted her a variety of skills, including speaking multiple languages, horseback riding, and fencing.  She’s very into fashion and jewelry (even if she can’t afford it anymore) and has extensive knowledge of both that can occasionally provide a vital clue in a case. And even though her parents have cut her off, Daphne still has a wide network of contacts she can ask for favors sometimes, because she’s personable, and people tend to like her.  Daphne is also very emotionally intelligent, and is usually the one who can spot when someone is lying to them.

Side note - I ship Fred and Daphne, so I think I would start them off as an established couple for this universe.  Dating, engaged, married, I don’t care.  They are stupidly in love, ride or die for each other.  There’s no will they, won’t they, no worries about cheating.  They are in a healthy, happy, loving relationship, and no one (not even Daphne’s disapproving parents) are going to mess that up for them.

Velma: she is the forensics nerd who sometimes gets super excited about the wrong thing at the wrong time (”He was mummified in seconds? That’s so cool!” “Velma!  His wife is standing right there!” “Oh.  Sorry.”).  She’s not purposely insensitive, she just gets laser focused on her work and forgets to filter herself sometimes.  She’s also the one who can get so fixated on solving whatever mystery they’re working on, she’s willing to bend or maybe break laws.  Is breaking and entering really so bad?  Not if it gets them answers.

Shaggy: he is still the comic relief, but he’s the comic relief by being the only person in the group that actually has common sense.  He manages the business’s finances, he’s the only one who knows how to cook, and the others tease him for being a coward sometimes, but Shaggy maintains that if a ghost with an axe is coming for you, running is the only sensible option.  He should also have a range of random knowledge that sounds useless, but sometimes saves the day (ex ventriloquism, origami, the history of spoons, etc).

Scooby: as this is a universe where supernatural creatures exist, Scooby is an ancient eldritch type being that took a shine to Shaggy when he was a kid, and took the form of a talking dog to befriend and hang out with him.  Aside from the talking dog bit and not aging, he never uses his powers in a way that anyone notices.  The audience is not told upfront that Scooby is an ancient eldritch being; it should slowly be hinted at throughout the series so the audience put it together, but the characters never realize it.  Scooby genuinely considers Shaggy to be his best friend, and cares about the rest of the gang too.

[unkillablejazz]

Shaggy is wrong genre savvy to his benefit. Would be the only guy to survive a horror movie, except his friends are experiencing a mystery adventure. Things get a little axe murder horror when he and Scooby get split from the gang, but Scooby’s willing to secretly put in some off screen devour the baddy moments to protect his buddy.

[stealingyourbones]

Short DPXDC Prompts #594

Tim finds a strange amulet while on a mission for Bruce. Instead of putting it in storage in the Batcave, he puts the necklace on and convinces himself that it’s safer on his person. He can’t for the life of him figure out why he just can’t let the amulet leave his line of sight but he just can’t.  He figured out why a few weeks later when he woke up at least 150ft (46m) taller than he was before.  He came to two conclusions very quickly: 

1.) The amulet is absolutely magical. 2.) He was a dragon.

—— King Danny received word that an amulet from Aragon’s kingdom has found a new host. Not only that but Dora and himself were tasked to train and teach this new amulet user. Upon using a ghost portal to find the amulet wielder he came to two conclusions very quickly: 

1.) The amulet had chosen an alive human as its wearer. 2.) The amulet wearer was very hot.

[ichi-is-a-cat]

Honestly the fact that Tim’s last name is drake fits in so well.

Damian tries to tame him.

[unkillablejazz]

Better yet. It was Damian’s tendency to try and stab people when they irritate him that was the instigating event. Now Tim’s too busy freaking out about being a dragon to calm down and change back.

And as soon as Damian learned Tim can turn into a dragon, he went from rival to favorite brother. But right now Tim doesn’t want to be anywhere near him.

[extratragic]

i stole this from twitter

[im-somewhere-in-the-stratosphere]

To all my mutuals whether we talk much or not I love you all

[unkillablejazz]

𝐈𝐍 𝐁𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐋𝐄      [ … ]   𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐄,

Jazz

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BOLD what applies - italicize sometimes.   repost, don’t reblog.

fights honourably / fights dirty

prefers close - quarters / prefers range

chats during / goes silent

low pain tolerance / high pain tolerance

attacks in bursts / attacks steadily

goes for the kill / aims to disarm / fights defensively / strikes first

is provoked easily / provokes their opponent / teases

gets visibly frustrated / shouts while attacking

uses strategy / focuses on the battle / experiences conflicting thoughts during battle / rushes in recklessly / tries to read their opponent before engaging

fights wildly / fights calmly / fights apathetically / fights with anger / fights with excitement

fights because they have to / fights because they want to

fights without regard to wounds / runs away when wounded / hides wounds / takes a blow to protect another

prefers a blade /  prefers a gun / prefers hand to hand combat / prefers a bow / prefers a shield / prefers a personalised weapon  / prefers magic, alchemy or spells

their greatest weakness is physical / their greatest weakness is mental / their greatest weakness is emotional

transforms for battle / fights as they appear

relies on strength / doubts their strength / relies on speed

uses everything they have / proceeds with caution / hides their full potential / exhausts quickly / has high stamina

behaves arrogantly / brags after landing a hit / belittles their abilities

uses psychological tactics / uses brute strength

avoids civilians / strikes down civilians

damages surroundings / avoids damaging surroundings

signature fighting style / makes it up as they go

mastered skill - set / learning their skill - set

fancy footwork / sloppy footwork

messy fighter / elegant fighter

accepts defeat / refuses defeat / begs for mercy

compliments their opponent / insults their opponent

uses unnecessary movements / moves efficiently / barely moves

prefers to dodge / prefers to block

defends their blindside / has no blindside / leaves blindsides vulnerable

uses all available advantages / strictly uses one main method

plays around / holds back / fights ruthlessly / shows mercy

waits for an opponent to be ready / strikes when opponent isn’t ready

fears death / fears pain / fears killing

has PTSD  / avoids fighting

has lost a fight / has won a fight

has killed / refuses to kill

wants to die standing / would succumb slowly

Tagged: Stole it from @spymeister

Tagging: everyone

[rahulkoh]

“When you send me for a role and it says ‘South Asian, his name is Raj’ … I say ‘I don’t fucking want it.’ And then the next one comes in and it says it doesn’t have a race. ‘This is John. 30s. Handsome.’ … When it says that, I want that fucking role. So I want to take from the majority. That’s the only time I think about race.” —Rahul Kohli on Blackman Beyond podcast

[whatevergreen]

Please, please take roles from Chris Pratt.

[gingersnapwolves]

petition for Rahul Kohli to replace Chris Pratt in everything