Reblogged headspace-hotel
fuck it
had to eliminate some more specific ones for space, shout out to “intelligent alien species have not developed advanced technologies”
Reblogged owlmylove
[Image of text saying,
Some AAVE speakers pluralize 'child' as 'childrens'. People get racist about this ("It's already plural!"), but 'children' actually comes from Middle English speakers doing the same thing: slapping their plural marker on word already pluralized by an extinct plural marker.
To oversimplify: in Old English, 'childer' ('ċildra') was the plural of 'child' ('ċild'). Middle English developed an '-en' plural marker, which we see in 'oxen'. Instead of updating to 'childen', people slapped their preferred '-en' onto the end of 'childer' - so now we have 'child-er-en'. AAVE carries on this tradition with 'child-er-en-s'.
"Pure" language is just impurity obscured by the passage of time.
End ID.]
"Pure" language is just impurity obscured by the passage of time.
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Generally speaking, I am supportive of kids when they struggle. Everyone struggles, and just because your struggle is different than mine, doesn't mean it's less valid.
But.
BUT.
Come on. 600 words is nothing. I will write and throw away 600 words ten times before I finish the 800 words I need to turn in. You can do this. You need to do this. You do not want a future -- and I don't want to grow old in a future -- where you are outsourcing your creativity, your critical thinking, and your ability to put words together to a computer.
Trust me? Please? I'm old and I've read / watched / written a lot of science fiction about this.
Reblogged a-bit-daydreamish
okay tumblr’s exclusion from the twitter social media ban list is hilarious but genuinely we do not belong on there. if a real human person asks “where can i find you on social media” and your choice is a swift death or revealing your tumblr, most of us would simply expire. half of y’all change urls every week like you’re in witness protection. just imagine for one second attaching your wholeass government name to your latest two am clownposting and tell me that didn’t send a cold chill down your spine. the only place i ever want to see the words “connect with me on tumblr!” is on the ao3 profile of an author i’m actively stalking. anyone in the world can follow me except anyone i personally know. antisocial media.
fully obsessed with the people in the notes who are like “i don’t know what y’all are worried about 🙄 i simply curate an entire dummy tumblr account connected to a different email address where i reblog a regular stream of cute animals and aesthetic pictures of old buildings and then give that url out instead” like they’re maintaining a deep cover identity for a cold war spy. completely normal behavior.
a funny thing about this being one of my more popular posts is that in all truth i DO tell people out loud that i'm on tumblr, and the myth that this site is dead is so pervasive that it absolutely does not matter. i can say “i have a tumblr” present tense, or “i am going home after work tonight to spend a ridiculous amount of time on tumblr,” or even “here is a direct link to a post on my personal tumblr blog, that i made just now today about a currently happening event,” and they’re like “wow i remember hearing about tumblr. how many years ago is this from?” it quite simply will not sink in. great news for the “i do not wish to be perceived” crowd we are actually comically impervious to it.
Reblogged katjohnadams
not a week goes by without me remembering this jhonen vasquez strip and i so often want to reference it and i keep forgetting it is not, in fact, a well-known meme
Reblogged mockingmolly
my 7 year old is currently singing "H-O-T-C-O-C-O, you should make me Hot Cocoa" and I am legitimate impressed
Reblogged a-bit-daydreamish
The Middle
I wrote and illustrated this story as a birthday present for my partner, I hope you enjoy it!
Reblogged fairandfatalasfair
I’d like to live through a week that’s not a whole new verse of “We Didn’t Start the Fire.”
#dated three four years ago is really what makes this one#sorry op if you still have notifications on for this one#but hoo-wee did you hit on the sentiment of the decade
I do have notifications still on for this post because I love the sense of community it gives me. We're all just staring at each other blankly and occasionally screaming.
Also for the people who have post dates turned on and just go JESUS CHRIST FOUR YEARS AGO?!
Yeah, some of us have long enough memories to remember the first Trump administration. Which is why we worked so hard to prevent another.
Other people, generously, may be suffering from Long Covid as a result of the first Trump administration.
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How the fuck am I supposed to be normal about Nick reciting the To Be or Not to Be monologue in the Shelterwood finale????
When I have more brain power to give, I might dust off my media analysis skills and do some kind of breakdown of why this is PERFECT for Nick.
Okay twist my arm lol let me just try to remember everything from my 2015 Shakespeare class in college. 😆
keep in mind these are my personal opinions from my own interpretation of both shakespeare and the shelterwood pod. also its been a decade since I read Hamlet.
Main theme of Hamlet vs Shelterwood/Nick's character arc:
The to be or not to be monologue is the epitome of the main theme of Hamlet which is indecision. The majority of the bad things that happen in Hamlet happen because Hamlet can't just make a choice. Basically his choices are: kill his uncle and deal with the consequences, kill himself to stop suffering under the circumstances he finds himself, or (perhaps more unlikely for the plot of Hamlet but more probable for Nick) let it go and just live in this new reality. Instead Hamlet neither accepts where he is, nor does he take action to change it or to leave it. Instead he spends the whole play trying to find more and more evidence as to why he should make that choice, or when the perfect time and situation to make that choice would be. And by doing this, he waits too long and other people get caught in the crossfire.
Nick's choice at the beginning of the show is to let Sadie go and more on with his life, or keep chasing after her ghost even as it leads him down the rabbit hole to Shelterwood. Just like Hamlet can't take his father's ghost on his word, Nick can't accept that Sadie is gone and so they both continue to seek answers even to their own and others' detriment. For Nick it isn't a lack of action but a lack of willingness to accept what is right in front of him.
This shows up as first stubbornness, then as blinders, and then as willful ignorance. Even once he is in shelterwood, he let's himself get dragged around by William Brewster and by the young documentarians club but his singleminded search for Sadie keeps him from truly taking in what he is seeing. He can say "wow yeah Shelterwood sure is scary" but he is still barely noticing how truly WRONG it is. He isn't making the connection to William Brewster being untrustworthy like the audience and Solomon have -- something that seems obvious to others. He doesn't even notice that the fake Shelterwood version of Monica is a fake and is super suspicious (something that if he had noticed may have made him more skeptical of Sadie). Lastly, in the finale episode we see this take the form of willful ignorance in a very literal sense. It is very clear that he isn't 100% sure that this really is Sadie and not just a shelterwood trick but he is willing to say that he doesn't care to know the truth. in the contract he literally gives up his desire to care what is real and what is fake. he drinks the Kool aid because achieving this goal he had built up in his head is more important, even if it hurts others, even if it isn't even really achieving his goal.
Nick and Hamlet are similar in this desire to achieve the desired outcome that they have built up to in their head, even if it isn't actually what they wanted or what was the best course of action.
Line breakdown of To Be or Not to Be:
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
- This is what it sounds like, should I stay alive or should I die. For Hamlet its more literal, for Nick it is more likely should I stay true to myself or give up who I am at my core.
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?
- This is a commentary on the taking-action part of Hamlet. It's saying that choosing to take yourself out of the equation is a type of action too. you can take arms to fight to change the situation or you can change it by ending your life. if you don't do either, then you just suffer.
To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd.
- ending your life might be better and easier than continuing to fight on. for Nick this would be giving in to the sweet dream that is his happily ever after with his sister in their own home.
To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause:
- the opposite side of dreams are nightmares. This line is about being afraid of what happens if you make that choice. what if its worse? this one is interesting for Nick. Since he already took the plunge into the unknown that is shelterwood but now he's facing a new unknown and he's afraid to face it. here the mortal coil isn't the afterlife, but its the truth of what shelterwood really is.
there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
- this is a really long part that basically boils down to: we suffer through life's many toils.
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
- and it goes on to explain that we suffer through that because we are afraid of what else happens next might be worse. for Nick this means that he would rather accept this sweet lie that is getting to be with Sadie again than find out what happens if he pushes back against the facade.
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
- an iconic line. Nick and hamlet are both too afraid to know what comes next if they take action.
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.
- they loose the will to take action since fear makes it easier to take in action.
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further note: the juxtaposition of what it means to end one's life/self in for these two characters. For Hamlet, the action is choosing to end his own self and the fear of what happens if he does this. for Nick the IN-action is ending his sense of self and the action would be to fight against this and seek truth and the fear is what he would find if he found that truth.
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and that's all I got. I wrote this while watching a youtuber react to the new starkid musical so its not exactly a proper analytical essay and idk if my train of thought even makes sense. but I hope you enjoy it. I'd love to hear your thoughts too! anything that doesn't make sense or anything u disagree with?
Reblogged darkxaidan
Waiting for the bus simulator
bus due in 5 mins
bus due in 4 mins
bus due in 3 mins
bus due in 2 mins
bus due in 1 mins
bus due in 0 mins
Whoops we forgot to send the bus again
bus due in 30 mins
glad to see this is resonating with the bus taker fandom
Reblogged cryptidfuckery
take me to snurch (snail church)
happy 10 years to snurch
oh do not do this to me
Reblogged see-arcane
Here's an accessible article I found on this as the Washington Post has a fee to be able to read. Overview on the wildlife refuge.
And I just want to remind people of what is happening at Boca Chica beach and wildlife refuge, the site of SpaceX's largest launch and test site. Here is a PBS shortfilm on it and what affects it has on the local community and local indigenous community. Here is an article on it more focused on the impacts on migratory birds.
If we do not put a stop to it, Johnston Atoll will face the same impacts, if not worse, as in Boca Chica and SpaceX's numerous other launch sites.
Not even mentioning that Johnston Atoll was perviously a launch site used by the U.S. government in the 60's and we know from the past what will happen to the ecosystem if it occurs again.
sign petition here!!!
thank you for sharing it in the comments @chromochaotic
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credit, via riversidemaiden on instagram