February 2024

the-gnomish-bastard:

silver-tongues-blog:

thatidiotagain:

infamouslydorky:

team-magma-grunt-gordi:

patron-de-los-santos:

doublereversequadrupleagent:

xikar:

a-random-mod:

We should be fine as long as we do not reblog bread.

Question.

I’ve rebogged bread.

What?

I have done nothing but reblog bread for the past three days.

Where, where have you been sending it?!

I love how there are more reblogs than likes

This post. This fucking post. I cannot believe after nearly 7 years its still going around. Let alone ON MY OWN DASH! A kid born on the day i posted this would be entering 2nd grade right now.

Bread

catchymemes:

shimmeringdungeon:

Screaming at “YOURE ONLY 17?!” I geuss Marcille didnt realize she was a Mom now

sugas6thtooth:

It’s unfathomable, even more so when you realize this isn’t the first time Israel has done this. She was a baby. The men were so obviously red crescent medics, and still, Israeli soldiers shot and killed them.

It wasn’t a misfired bomb. It was guns. They knew what they were targeting.

Anyone who defends this, for whatever religion you believe in, even if you believe in nothing at all, I can only hope the afterlife brings you your deserved suffering on a platter. You’re disgusting, vile creatures, who must’ve snuck onto the Earth because there is no way in nature that you are human. Die.

نَّا ِلِلَّٰهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ

Save the children of Palestine. Protect the medics. Free Palestine. 🇵🇸

tittysuckersworld:

echoeyee:

my take on shipping aromantic characters is that if you’re aro you get to do whatever you want and if you’re not you have to write me a three page essay 12 pt font times new roman double spaced explaining in detail why you believe entering a romantic relationship would be an interesting and worthwhile storyline for the character and how you believe their aromanticism would affect the way they experience said relationship

love being aromantic and hcing others as aro wile shipping them

desinteresse:

desinteresse:

A lot of ppl think that “love” is enough to raise a happy child and that’s not true. It also requires emotional maturity and financial stability but they don’t like hearing that because it changes their idea of a miracle that happens to them into a conscious decision that requires personal responsibility.

They think that having kids is a life phase that they’re required to go through and have no agency in but that’s not true. It’s not puberty, it’s a conscious choice that you make

wattse:

Hi this is jigsaw. last week in starbucks you did a gross fucking burp that put me off my panini. In front of you is a panini press. You will notice also, that your dick is out,

Hey, stop scrolling.

creepy-marshmallow:

Everyone who is reading this: I’m so glad you’re alive. I’m so proud of you. You are loved. I’m here. Don’t give up, we’re almost there.

Pass it on.

hanselfrei:

thewarmvoid:

thewarmvoid:

“Thought that was a beautiful butch lesbian but it’s just a man” did you know these things aren’t mutually exclusive

anyways shout out to butch lesbians who are also men, if you have a million fans I am one of them, if you have one fan that fan is me, if you have no fans, I am no longer alive, if the world is against butch lesbians who are also men, I am against the world

notetoriouslylazy:

sugas6thtooth:

favroitecrime:

My entire twitter feed is people in Rafah saying they’re terrified, saying their good byes, and asking us to remember them in our prayers. Rafah is facing a massacre. It’s a genocide. We will not know the number of deaths until the morning.

catchymemes:

The game show for people who watch pressure washing videos (via)

draakart:

"If I Must Die" is written on a classic black and white keffiyeh. "Refaat Alareer" is written beneath the title.ALT
A scene of hundreds of besser-block gravestones span a desolate and dusty landscape, with a distant damaged city in the background. One of the tombs has a piece of cardboard with "۞مِنۡهَا خَلَقۡنَٰكُمۡ وَفِيهَا نُعِيدُكُمۡ وَمِنۡهَا نُخۡرِجُكُمۡ تَارَةً أُخۡرَىٰ" (From the earth We created you, and into it We will return you, and from it We will extract you another time) written on it. In the midground, a man with a sombre facial expression carries the shrouded body of a child.
A line of text says: "If I must die,"ALT
A close-up of the first image, zoomed into one of the besser-blocks. A small watermelon seedling has sprouted from the dirt of the grave.
A line of text says: "you must live"ALT
A hexagonal, white kite with a keffiyeh pattern is sitting on a table.
Some lines of text says: "to tell my story, to sell my things, to buy a piece of cloth and some strings, (make it white with a long tail)"ALT
A child with dark, curly hair stands surrounded by grey, dusty rubble. He has dust on his feet and is looking up at the sky.
Some lines of text says: "so that a child, somewhere in Gaza, while looking heaven in the eye"ALT
A scene depicting buildings being bombed, with billowing flames obscuring the sky.
Some lines of text says: "awaiting his dad who left in a blaze - and bid no one farewell"ALT
The child from the previous image is looking out over a barren landscape with a great concrete wall in the distance, his back to us. There is rubble in the foreground.
Some text says: "not even to his flesh, not even to himself -"ALT
A close up of the wall from the previous image, showing the white keffiyeh kite flying in the blue sky above it.
Some text says: "sees the kite, my kite you made, flying up above"ALT
A close up of the child's face, with the kite reflecting in his eyes, tears running down his face. The child's face is painterly.
Some text says: "and thinks for a moment an angel is there, bringing back love"ALT
A painting of the besser-block tombstones, but the watermelon seedling has grown to cover the grave, into a watermelon vine. Small watermelons are growing and there are multiple yellow flowers.
Some text says: "If I must die, let it bring hope"ALT
One of the watermelons has split open, showing off the colours of the Palestinian flag. It is surrounded by other watermelons and watermelon leaves.
Some text says: "let it be a tale"ALT

🍉If I must die, let it bring hope. Let it be a tale 🪁

Keep reading

daily-spooky:

kyraneko:

roach-works:

unwelcome-ozian:

when i was getting trained as a welder the guys started playing sneaky grabass with each other and with me. i almost hit a few people while holding dangerous tools in my hand because they wouldn’t stop grabbing me from behind, then laughing that i ‘almost’ hit them, so i finally had to go to the instructor and say, look, i’ve had years and years of self defense training due the fact i’m a very small weirdo who is in legitimate danger of getting hatecrimed and at some point one of these guys is going to goose me again and im going to bury a wrench in his eye. get them to stop grabbing me, because i don’t want to get kicked out for hitting people.

the next day i ended up punching someone in the face with a doughnut in my fist because she thought i was being a big fucking buzzkill who tattled to teacher about a harmless game, and, guess what, grabbed my butt. i got icing all over her hair. she complained to teacher…who let everyone know that this was why they weren’t supposed to be playing grabass in the fucking shop.

anyway don’t fucking sneak up on twitchy little queers with hypervigilance, it fucking sucks and you’re lucky if you get a doughnut to a face instead of a hammer.

given that this was a welding class, I was expecting this to end up so much worse

non-binary-lil-star:

Shout out to every doctor and nurse and person who works with medical care in Gaza rn

Shout out to every press person influencer and journalist in Gaza rn

Shout out to all the survivors and all of the people who keep hoping and fighting for a better future

Shout out to everyone who talks about Palestine, ralies and every single person who will make it possible that one day a Palestine child is running in the re constructed streets of Gaza, laughing, with no fear whatsoever and only joy as sunlight shines on their people, on their culture again

Shout out to Gaza as a whole

jacuzziwaters:

“Who got you smiling like that?”

My friends. I’m so sorry that you can’t gain joy from platonic interactions but I’m gonna go back to texting them now.

equius:

decepti-thots:

pengychan:

I mean I know a certain level of projection on fictional characters and situations is inevitable and even healthy, but sometimes you got to step back into the real world to remind yourself that Character X is not your shitty parent/abusive ex/asshole boss/bully from high school, and that people who like Character X are not personally victimizing you.

op is getting death threats now probably

humphul-deactivated20241215:

“READ MY DNI” no. use your block button like an adult. i’m not scrolling through the many-paragraphs-long pinned posts of every blog i reblog something from. if you insist certain types of people aren’t welcome in the notes of your posts then it’s your responsibility to curate that. or choose a closed social media platform like facebook or instagram. or go and live in a barn away from humanity if you really don’t like sharing the world with people who are different from you

xenosagaepisodeone:

tumblr’s current ceo is really setting his reputation in stone here because when this site inevitably gets sold again everyone’s just going to start saying that the new owner took over after the last one died in a hammer car explosion

howtofuckamonster:

corseque:

“When her kiss transforms the Beast, she is furious. “You should have warned me! Here I was smitten by an exceptional being, and all of a sudden, my fiance becomes an ordinary distinguished young man!””

the 1909 play Beauty and the Beast:  Fantasy in Two Acts by Fernand Noziere, the very first published version of the story where the Beauty is disappointed when the Beast transforms into a human at the end.

we feel a sudden kinship across centuries

You should not upload your art to xitter.

homoqueerjewhobbit:

homoqueerjewhobbit:

homoqueerjewhobbit:

Wow, this “gender free” fashion brand sure doesn’t have any AMAB models.

Gonna die fucking mad about this. If you can’t put someone with a beard in one of your skirts, is your clothing gender neutral? If your brand is full of plus-sized black femmes and white, androgynous bean poles, do you really have a handle on diversity?

You passed peer review. Highlighted for emphasis but again:

jackhawksmoor:

allskywalkerswhine:

in fics where luke gets plopped into the prequels i want every jedi within ten metres of him to think hes the weirdest jedi theyve ever seen. he has negative lightsaber form. he doesnt know what a kata is. he handstands when he meditates. his solution to sith is to try and have a chat. hes a political radical who keeps suggesting revolution. you ask him what the jedi code is and he says “kindness and compassion and helping those in need :) ”. you ask how he used the force like that and he says some shit about how you are a luminous being limited only by your mind. the councils authority is just a suggestion. he is somehow the new favourite of both qui gon and yoda

Part of the reason Luke is instantly Yoda’s darling is that Yoda has been dreaming about him for years. Luke’s eyes light up at the sight of him and Yoda suddenly knows Luke will be the most important person in the universe to him one day. But this Yoda isn’t meeting an impatient little shit who looks like his father who destroyed the Jedi order, he’s meeting Luke as a chilled-out towering presence in the Force, who plows through every limitation a Jedi should have like it’s not even there.

How they act towards each other is the freakiest thing anyone has ever seen. Luke treats Yoda like a beloved lunatic uncle. He will casually swipe food off Yoda’s plate like a five year old poking around for gum in mom’s purse. When he starts bringing Yoda frogs to swap for sweets is the first time anyone in the Jedi Order realizes Yoda fucking loves eating frogs. Luke keeps offering to give Yoda a ride on his back. The first time Yoda says yes Obi-wan trips and falls on his face.

doyoulikethissong-poll:

impromptu-lizard-surgery:

notmikesblog:

whoviankendokaqueenbeewithbooks:

one-time-i-dreamt:

dominyk9:

writing-prompt-s:

i-am-a-fish:

badjokesbyjeff:

shaevilux:

writing-prompt-s:

forlayina:

violet-the-red-panda:

badjokesbyjeff:

neil-gaiman:

weirdly-specific-but-ok:

falling-raine:

ivankaramazov07-deactivated2024:

mystic-mae:

ivankaramazov07-deactivated2024:

mystic-mae:

ivankaramazov07-deactivated2024:

probablyadhdapparently:

ivankaramazov07-deactivated2024:

probablyadhdapparently:

ivankaramazov07-deactivated2024:

nastasya–filippovna:

weirdly-specific-but-ok:

yronnia:

free-post-store:

idontrateyourposts:

kittybroker:

cat-spotted:

goosemoosse:

i-say-ok:

therainbowgorilla:

identifying-horses-in-posts:

absurdly-useful:

the-haiku-bot:

cantotallyeven:

identifying-cars-in-posts:

terminusverge:

identifying-cars-in-posts:

mysteryviolencesideblog3000:

rotary-supercollider:

pointless-achievements:

tothechaos:

slicedcheesegremlin:

catboybeebop:

tothechaos:

tothechaos:

:

tothechaos:

glad that im not popular enough to have an evil shadow version of my blog that exists just to make contradictions on my posts

:)

Do Not Do This To Me

if this post hits 200k im printing it out and eating it

Achievement Unlocked:

Daily Recommended Dose of Fiber

Make an ill-advised promise within earshot of a gimmick blog.

Quick someone add a fucked-up car so we can get @identifying-cars-in-posts

Ok!

1976-1977 Oldsmobile Cutlass

That car is not messed up enough. Here.

@identifying-cars-in-posts

1981-1983 Delorean DMC-12

I’ll write a hauiku as a comment on this post and hope the bot sees

I’ll write a hauiku

as a comment on this post

and hope the bot sees

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

@identifying-horses-in-posts

Pretty horse!

@i-say-ok

ok.

@cat-spotted

CAT SPOTTED!!☆ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ

Fine kitty appearing during our time of need! This Delightful beast only appears once every 1000 years for the small price of $2.50!

/200K

$0

I choose @weirdly-specific-but-ok ! And it’s effective!

the second i saw someone chose me for something i felt deep irrational fear. what eldritch demon is this site sacrificing me to now?

oh are we eating paper is that a thing because i am down baby

If someone asks what Tumblr is, show them this thread.

@turtleneck-crowley @ivankaramazov07 isn’t this magic. :D :D ;D

TUMBLR IS HUMAN CULTURE AT ITS FINEST I TELL YOU THE DOCTOR WOULD BE PROUD TO SEE US IDIOTS. IVE SHENANID-ONCE, ILL SHENAN-AGAIN

to all those who got the ducktales reference, i send my love and kisses

I’m turning this into a picrew chain also guys lots of pressure

Do it or the animatronics fucking get me also no I did not kill anyone what are you talking about

tags: @biscuits-lovely-corner @expresso4thedeppresso @funkingrn @aroacesigma @lastdivantruther @barracuda677 @pengumi12 @sulkystella @misschuchuw @someonebeatmetotheseusernames @blinksager @sav3yee @chuuyasboner @ur-local-remy-kinnie @urazayt @thelittleprinceconfirmed @gherkin-saute @vinylbiohazard @amioddlyart

tag all you moots this is not an option

also prev yes you @ivankaramazov07 I want you to do it as well

@probablyautism thnx for remembering the weirdest tumblrina on the planet. also can u explain to ur local grandma what she has to do(apologies are afoot)

So tap on the link above my character and simply make your own it could be an OC or you or your sona, anything.

ON IT BESTIE!

im here watching this lmao, funniest shit i seen

NOT THE KILGRAVE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

oh and @probablyautism here u go luv

CMON FOLKS

DO IT

here you are!!

@mystic-mae IM IN LOVE WITH YOUR PICREW!!!!!! beautiful business.

@weirdly-specific-but-ok @styx142 no pressue :)

Wild how I keep returning to this goddamn post. @queermarzipan ball’s in your court babe.

It may still need help getting to 200,000.

Here’s Aziraphale in disguise:


And here’s a backstage shot of the Gentlemen in 1941 suits:

@tothechaos will you print and eat the entire post? If so, here is a long joke. Don’t choke:

A man obsessed with trains finally steals one and immediately crashes it, killing several people.

At the trial, the man is found guilty of multiple murders and sentenced to death.

Before he faces his sentence, he’s offered a last meal, and asks for a single banana, which is given to him.

The next day, he’s led to the electric chair. They strap him in, pull the switch, and… nothing happens.

There’s never been a failure before. But because you cannot punish a person twice for the same crime, the court is forced to let him go free.

Within a week’s time, naturally, the man, who is obsessed with trains, goes and steals another one.

He doesn’t care that he can’t drive it or that he failed catastrophically before; he is obsessed with trains and his only desire is to operate one. As before, he crashes it, and kills several people.

Again, he stands trial, and again, he is sentenced to death, showing no remorse, only delight that he got to operate the train.

His last meal request is a single banana. When he goes to the chair, the executioner pulls the switch, but nothing happens. He goes free again.

The train-obsessed maniac, once more on the loose, wastes no time in hijacking a train and crashing it.

His trial is speedy, because this has already happened twice, and he is sentenced to death.

They ask him what he’d like for his last meal. “A single banana,” he says.

“Oh, no you don’t, you son of a bitch. We’re on to you, now. We know all about your little banana trick, and you’re not escaping this time!”

The guards refuse his request, and instead serve him a standard last meal of steak, potatoes, and berry cobbler.

The next morning they strap him into the electric chair, pull the switch, and… nothing happens.

Did you give him the banana?” demands the head guard.

“No, sir! He asked for the banana but we didn’t give it to him, we swear!” says one of the guards.

Turns out the banana had nothing to do with anything. He was just a really bad conductor.

JEFF, CHANGE YOUR FUCKING URL

@writing-prompt-s

Quick! Gordon Ramsey has tasked you to come up with a new recipe with a rather special ingredient: ‘this trainwreck of a Tumblr post printed out on paper’. You don’t have much time as the exquisite guest will enter the doors of your fancy establishment the moment this post hits 200k notes. Come up with a recipe. Please provide detailed instructions.

Chaos Course Set Meal

Bespoke 9 course meal meant to be enjoyed by @tothechaos

Foreword:

As tasked by the prolific Gordan Ramsey, this 9 Course endeavour will feature the post in its entirety segmented into 9 delightfully ornate, unreasonably complex yet delectably unparalleled dishes. In the following, we’ll see how to prepare each of these dishes.


Course One

Dish name: 10k notes of Hubris


10k Notes of Hubris is a simple risotto with saffron infusion and forest mushrooms, topped with shavings of the top 9th piece of this post, printed in full colour, regular stock. Due to the nature of a 9 course setting, it is wise to start with a simpler dish.


Ingredients (serves four people):

1 teaspoon of saffron

300g carnaroli rice

50g extra virgin olive oil

20g butter

5g shallots

1l vegetable broth

parsley (to taste)

100g porcini mushrooms

80g portobello mushrooms

100g brown mushrooms

5g truffle oil

5g lemon peel and lemon juice

30g parmesan cheese

thyme (a dash)

5g garlic

A pinch of salt and pepper

The first 9th of this post, printed in full colour with regular stock.


Method:

In a saucepan, pour the oil and the chopped shallot(s), then add the rice and saffron and toast

Pour the broth a little at a time and cook slowly. Allow to cook before adding salt and black pepper. Stir in butter, grated parmesan cheese, chopped parsley, truffle oil, lemon juice and peel.

In a separate saucepan, cook the mushrooms with oil, garlic, thyme, salt and black pepper.


Presentation:

At the base of the dish pour the risotto, complete with forest mushrooms and basil leaves. Shave the printed top 9th of the post and sprinkle on top. Drizzle a dash of olive oil before serving.


The next dish and recipe of this 9 course meal, complete with the next 9th of the post printed and incorporated, will be presented by another chef.

@one-time-i-dreamt @i-am-a-fish @pukicho

hi jeff (:

I just texted @one-time-i-dreamt

i don’t what’s more wild to me, how much we are all working on giving someone ink poisoning or learning that @writing-prompt-s has @one-time-i-dreamt ’s phone number

I have been summoned many, many times

This post is already one of the most epic I have ever seen. Keep going!

The tumblr post equivalent of the fall of ceasar. Well can’t miss my turn with the knife.

@card-of-the-day @doyoulikethissong-poll

@a-counter @t-counter @ebugsdotjpeg

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myenterpriseisparked:

All the other Star Trek series fandoms: We don’t like to talk about our One Weird Episode. If you mention it you will promptly told to shush and never speak of it again. Besides the occasional meme, we really just like to ignore that episode.

The Voyager Fandom: HEY EVERYBODY HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT OUR LIZARD SEX EPISODE?????????? IT’S CONSIDERED THE WORST EPISODE OF ANY STAR TREK EVER AND ITS ALL OURS!!!!!! WE ARE PROUD TO HAVE IT!!!! IT WON AN EMMY!!!! OUR MAIN FANDOM HOLIDAY IS IN CELEBRATION OF THE LIZARD SEX EPISODE!!!!!! ITS THE FIRST EPISODE WE SHOW OUR FRIENDS WHILE TRYING TO GET THEM TO WATCH OUR SHOW!!!!!!! LOOK AT ALL OF OUR LIZARD SEX MEMES!!!!!

a-teacup-of-golden-cracks:

ublock-origin:

txttletale:

karcatgirl-vantas:

kontextmaschine:

Our Japanese class found it funny that in common terminology “food” isn’t very distinguished from specifically “rice” until it was pointed out to us that in English “meal” is “loose roughly ground grain”

humans be like staple crop

staple crop to what

directly to forehead

Kinky

ashestoashesjc:

monkeysaysficus:

iosonomer-blog:

Generational trauma

hurt people hurt people :/

animal-moments:

luckykittycolor:

sic-semper-hominibus:

happyroadkillart:

based off a dumb discord conversation

Listen.

terephin:

secretscreamsofjoy:

a-very-fishy-salad:

amingethia:

ms-cellanies:

inyuji:

lyrslair:

wofworld:

itsabeautifulworldrightnow:

tenmei-savvvv:

wordsaremylife:

sesty-exe:

unified-multiversal-theory:

idrinkluciostears:

yawpers:

thatpettyblackgirl:

EVERYBODY knows (or should) that you DO. NOT. STOP. in Vidor, Texas. 

It’s best to just run out of gas elsewhere. Whatever you do, black folks, DO NOT STOP IN VIDOR, TEXAS. 

There’s a good chance you’ll get lynched or just come up missing - and I’m not joking.

also do NOT stop in Harrison, Arkansas!!!! (relatively close to OK and MI) a nazi town with a BIG KKK organization.

Reblog To Save Life

Okay but like reblog to LITERALLY SAVE SOMEONE’S LIFE

Please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please puHLEAAASSEEEEEEE BE SAFE

They are called sundown towns and there are a LOT of them in the US.

https://sundown.tougaloo.edu/sundowntowns.php

This website has a clickable map where you can see suspected and confirmed sundown towns by state, as well as information about whether these attitudes are historical or current.

Reblog for the link

reblog for the link

REBLOG FOR THE LINK

Please stay safe

REBLOG IT DOESNT MATTER WHAT BLOG YOU ARE THIS IS GONNA SAVE SOMEONE

I am poc too and i am scared for my LIFE when i go to the south. please stay safe.

I am not poc but I know this could save someone’s life. Please reblog and spread the message.

My obligatory addition to this every time it crosses my dash, because I know the link is definitely missing ones in my own (northern) state and there are some in this thread not on the above link either - thread by LeVar Burton with a LOT of replies from people naming the sundown towns near them:

https://twitter.com/levarburton/status/1300918792143339520

Just in case someone is traveling, please be careful

AUTO REBLOG

On this weeks episode of why America is terrifying.

im not american but god this is terrifying

REBLOG REBLOG REBLOG THIS IS HORRIFYING

AND these fuckwads are waving the flag of a dead country. Honestly why doesn’t physically displaying the flag of the Confederate outside a museum or history lesson/book in the US count as an act of treason? They’re flying the flag of the first group of people who actively wanted the death of the Union?

headspace-hotel:

Today I learned that “mangrove” is not a biological classification of plant, and instead a general word for trees and shrubs that are specially adapted to grow in coastal areas periodically inundated because of tides.

theehorsepusssy:

lukadjo:

novodontia:

Guys I’m gonna be honest, I’m fucking terrified about KOSA and the fact that it might pass. Like, as a minor, I WANT to still be able to use the internet. To read my silly fanfics, and look at other people’s amazing creations. I don’t want that taken away.

Being on Tumblr and with everyone here has helped me cope so much in the past few years, that if I loose it I don’t know what I’ll do. Because it’ll all be censored.

Content about LGBT, information about recent events, protests and even anything as small as fucking fanfiction might be taken away be weeks end.

I’m scared. I don’t want to loose it all. And I’m gonna fight for it tooth and nail to be able to keep what I have, and I ask that anyone who sees this helps the cause too. Because it’s bigger than just me. Every single person online will be affected.

Call or email your senators and ask them—PLEASE DENY THE KOSA BILL. The website I’ve linked below has more information.

and to any friends or followers I have on this; thank you so much. You all have meant the world to me, and if it’s over, I just want everyone to know that it’s been great. Hopefully it won’t come to that, but still. Thanks :)

“Your senators”

The United States of America has far too much power over the world. I have no senator yet I must abide by their laws.

This is the definition of unilateral decision making.

Anyone who is from US-America, please fight.

trupie:

runehart-deactivated20240217:

“magic isnt real” — plants just grow out of the ground. for free. everywhere.

“It doesn’t stop being magic just because you know how it works.”

-Terry Pratchett

politicalantibody:

progressivepower:

A legend http://dlvr.it/T2ykjP

“And that’s the way it is”

stardustemotions-deactivated202:

One day you think: I want to die. And then you think, very quietly, actually I want a coffee. I want a nap. A sandwich. A book. And I want to die turns day by day into I want to go home, I want to walk in the woods, I want to see my friends, I want to sit in the sun. I want a cleaner room, I want a better job, I want to live somewhere else, I want to live.

ibenology:

“kill them with kindness” WRONG

CAR HAMMER EXPLOSION 💥🔨🚗💥💥

progressivepower:

That is how http://dlvr.it/T33rqZ

joyflameball:

joyflameball:

joyflameball:

Your activism shouldn’t start and end at drawing your blorbos with a watermelon

Drawing your blorbos with a watermelon isn’t bad and it does spread awareness but. If drawing your blorbos with a watermelon is all you do when you could actually fucking do more then you’re not doing much. Call your fucking representatives. Go to a protest. Don’t give up on Palestine. Do not stop talking about Palestine. This is a genocide not a fucking trend

Hey can y'all reblog this version of the post instead. Here are links

https://piousprojects.org/campaign/2712

https://www.pcrf.net

https://www.unrwa.org

ivy-saurs:

GO OFF KING !!!

sliviaplath:

friendship lives in little things and little things make up love. and what is love if not knowing everything about them before you know their name?

just something i made for school on the prompt internet. to my best friends and to my amazing online friends <3

sabertoothwalrus:

sabertoothwalrus:

sabertoothwalrus:

I just finished reading dungeon meshi and yknow. when people talked about laois doing things like getting on the ground and barking I was like yeah “haha so true” but no he literally does that. there was no amount of irony in those statements he really said “mind if I get on all fours and start barking and snarling and growling” and he did not wait for answer

this does not even rank top 10 in the craziest things this man does

tulipsempai:

*the day before new AvA episode is uploaded*

Orange: QUICK HIDE THE MINECRAFT BLOCKS!! WE CANT LET PEOPLE KNOW THAT WE PLAY MINECRAFT

mellifier:

last night i dreamt that jerma streamed himself hiking in this beautiful glade and went exclusively by she/her pronouns during it, then back to he/him afterward. there was a lot of hype for the she/her hiking stream and everybody loved it

1yearexpired:

Artist rendition of how cats spread their little feeties when they stretch

Two badly drawn cat paws with an arrow in between pointing from left to right. The left cat paw is normal, and the right one is an exaggerated version of what it looks like when a cat stretches and its toes separate a lot.ALT

ejacutastic:

ejacutastic:

check out this disc that seemingly manifested itself at my work. it contains:

  • an illegal copy of Microsoft office
  • a copy of 7zip and winrar
  • a keygen that plays the hunger games theme song when opened and has a red button that when you click it just closes the entire program
  • an informative .txt file that tells you to turn off all the firewall and antivirus on your computer
  • definitely no viruses

deny disc is the funniest thing that’s happened to me in weeks nobody knows where it came from it might be sentient

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mirkwoodest:

rescue-ram:

mirkwoodest:

mirkwoodest:

mirkwoodest:

One of the ballsiest things Tolkien ever did was write 473k words about some hobbits called frodo, sam, merry, and pippin and then write in the appendices that their names are actually maura, ban, kali, and razal. 

This just in: Eowyn and Eomer’s names actually start with the letter “L.” [source for other nerds

#wait so they have hobbitish names and common names?

No, they have Westron names and English names.

What you’ve got to understand is that everything Tolkien wrote was him pretending to merely translate ancient documents. He was writing as if the Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings were actually been written by Bilbo, Frodo, and Sam (or Bilba, Maura, and Ban) and he was just some random contemporary academic translating it all into English for us. 

There are many languages in his books, but generally speaking, everything written in English in the books is a translation of the language “Westron.” Therefore any names that come from Westron, he translated. Names coming from other languages, like Sindarin, he left as they were. Why? IDK. Maybe because the stories are from a hobbit perspective and hobbits speak Westron, so he wanted the Westron parts to sound familiar and the other languages/names to remain foreign? 

“But Mirkwoodest!” you cry, “The word ‘hobbit’ isn’t an English word! And the names Bilbo Baggins, Frodo Baggins, Samwise Gamgee, Peregrin Took, and Meriadoc Brandybuck” all sounds super weird and not like English at all!”

Psych! They are in English! (Or Old English, German, or Norse.) Once again you underestimate what a nerd Tolkien was. Let me break it down: 

In Westron, hobbits are actually called “kuduk,” which means “hole-dweller,” so for an English translation, Tolkien called them “hobbits” which is a modernization of the Old English word “holbytla” which comes from “Hol” (hole) and “Bytla”(builder)

“Maura” is a Westron name which means “Wise.” Weirdly enough, “Frodo” is an actual Proto-Germanic name that actual people used to have and it means the same thing. 

“Banazîr” is Westron for “half-wise, or simple.” In Proto Germanic, the prefix “Sam” means half, and wise is obviously a word we still use. 

“Razanur” means “Traveler” or “Stranger” which is also the meaning of the word “Peregrin(e)” This one is a twofer because  “Razar” means “a small red apple” and in English so does “Pippin.”

“Kalimac” apparently is a meaningless name in Westron, but the shortened form “Kali” means “happy,” so Jirt decided his nickname would be “Merry” and chose the really obscure ancient Celtic name “Meriodoc” to match. 

Jirt chose to leave “Bilba” almost exactly the same in English, but he changed the ending to an “O” because in Westron names ending in “a” are masculine. 

I’m not going to go on and talk about the last names but those all have special meanings too (except Tûk, which is too iconic to change more than the spelling of, apparently). 

The Rohirrim were also Westron speakers first and foremost, so their names are also “translations” into Old English and Proto-Germanic words, i.e. “Eowyn”  is a combination of “Eoh” (horse) and “Wynn” (joy/bliss)

“Rohirrim/Rohan” are Sindarin words, but in the books, they call themselves the “Éothéod” which is an Old English/Norse combo that means “horse people.” Tolkien tells us in the “Peoples of Middle Earth” that the actual Westron for “Éothéod” is Lohtûr, which means that Eowyn and Eomer’s names, which come from the same root word, must also start with the letter L. 

The names of all the elves, dwarves, Dunedain, and men from Gondor are not English translations, since they come from root words other than Westron. 

The takeaway from this is that when a guy whose first real job was researching the history and etymology of words of Germanic origin beginning with the letter “W” writes a book, you can expect this kind of tomfoolery.

Notes: Sorry I said “Razal” instead of “Razar” in my original post I’m a fraud. 

Further Reading: 

Rohirric , Westron 

Ok but the fact Frodo means wise and Samwise is half-wise is actually some extremely cute name matching OTP nonsense and I love it

Oh my GOD how did I write this long-ass post and not notice that?

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