• Most of the posts here come from my queue, which usually has a few hundred posts in it at any given time. If I give your stuff a like but not a reblog, I’ve most likely put it in the queue

• Spam liking/reblogging will always be okay here

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• I block anyone that creates/supports content that involves shipping a minor with an adult, nsfw content involving minors in general, and any form of incest or nsfw feral art

• Fans of South Park and Harry Potter are also blocked on sight. If any of my blocking criteria applies to you and I interacted with you first, please block me

headspace-hotel:

interstellar-lamb:

rudjedet:

ophilosoraptoro:

teaboot:

wine-dark-sea:

rudjedet:

downside: going to have to include a picture of the Giza pyramids in the slides for the lecture
upside: i get to give people a crash course in why perspective matters in two frames, because

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is such a funny sequence

i find most people who haven’t seen it in person don’t know that cairo is RIGHT THERE

I loved these perspectives so I took some of my own when I was in Cairo and yeah, they’re literally just. Right there. Pass em on your way to work, nbd

No, y'all don’t even understand.

There is literally a Pizza Hut across the street from the pyramids.

That Pizza Hut among other things is why Egyptologists laugh their asses off when we see another piece of media where the protagonists get “lost in the desert near the pyramids”, because it’s like… just turn around my dudes you’re only a seven min walk away from the nearest fastfood shop

Yall don’t know how much I adore all of this

What this really drives home for me, is how fucking BIG the pyramids are

nobody-told-the-horse:

noble-moon:

simplyfx:

annlarimer:

disparition:

where I grew up in California not only is “dude” generally non-gender-specific, half of the time it doesn’t even refer to a person at all.

I said it to a faucet today. 

A customer once came to me to order a sandwich and said “I want this dude”

Dude is more than a word, it’s an emotion. 

dude is a way of life

rabbitbatthing:

back at it again with the rescue team duo

the-legend-of-zelda-series:

Source: DitzyFlama on Twitter

dogboysora:

the-togepi-man:

antifainternational:

ALT

get fucked this is amazing

[ID: Tweets from Twitter user TerpTheatre. The first Tweet reads “Event Organizer: We’re sorry, there won’t be interpreters at the event where you are presenting about Deaf things, sign language, and interpreting. Me: No problem, I’ll present in ASL without interpretation. Hearing people will have to get by. EO: Ummm…” The second tweet reads “I presented for 25 minutes, and opened with a couple of slides in written English that explained the situation. Told them to stay, so they could ‘learn a lesson they didn’t come here for.’ They all did.” /end ID]

prismatic-bell:

esoanem:

datasoong47:

soracities:

really fun part about reading english poetry is finding words that are meant to rhyme but do not rhyme but actually they do rhyme bc the poet is writing in their accent and not yours. humbling and illuminating.

#fun fact: historical linguists analyze old poetry to see how pronunciation of words change over time!#e.g. if two words were used as rhymes in a poem hundreds of years ago but the poem doesn’t rhyme today it indicates a pronunciation shift

One of my favorite examples of this is that 19th century poetry consistently rhymed the verb ending -ing with words ending in -in not words ending in -ing, for example, “pursuing” with “ruin”, showing that the pronunciation now written -in’ was in fact the prestige pronunciation, whereas today that’s a stigmatized pronunciation!

Also, an interesting example in Japanese, although not rhyming but syllable count. The modern past tense ending -ta is derived from an earlier -taru, which in turn was derived from -te aru. We find poetry in the Late Old Japanese period which uses the -te aru spelling, but where pronouncing it that way would create a line with too many syllables (poetic forms in Japanese requiring specific numbers of syllables (or more precisely morae) per line), thus showing that they had already reduced -te aru to -taru while preserving the etymological spelling

The -ing one is especially weird

Because the original form (of this sense of the suffix -ing) in Old English was -ende, so a pronunciation like -in is arguably more conservative than -ing, and modern varieties with -in are likely retaining this rather than innovating from -ing

But that means we must have had -ende > -in, but then -ing became the norm (as evidenced by it’s adoption in spelling), so if -in was also the prestige form at that point it must have switched back again, before switching back to -ing again again

See also the dialectical use of “aks” for normative “ask”, where both ascian & axian are attested in Old English, and both seem to have been accepted and there’s been a bit of see-saw-ing

My favorite is a pun from Hamlet where “onion” and “union” are supposed to be pronounced the same, but we don’t do that anymore.

quixoty:

gutter-guy:

gutter-guy:

You shouldn’t be treating nb people like the secret sexy 3rd gender. Nb people don’t look like a mash of male and female, they’re not sexy androgynous twinks

white skinny androgynous nb people reblogging this and saying shit like “Well this is what I look like! So I feel represented!” Are literally part of the problem. I’m not saying that no nb people are white/skinny/andro, I’m saying that those are the only type of nb bodies that get represented 

its nice, isnt it, when nonbinary people are visibly distinct from binary people? its easy, isnt it? you can remember to use “they” for people who have no visible breasts or beards, right? no need to challenge the notion of male vs female if nonbinary people have their own look, isnt that right?

its time to step the fuck up and really understand that nonbinary looks like anybody. nonbinary looks like you. nonbinary looks like your family and friends and it looks like the strangers who you thoughtlessly call “he” or “she” because of their appearance.

really supporting nonbinary people means understanding that theres no visual tell - you wont recognise all of us as nonbinary on sight. you have to actually LISTEN to us. you have to BELIEVE us. and it means challenging your assumptions about gender, starting with the assumption that youre an ally to trans people while youre still doing puerile shit like gendering body parts and clothes.

NONBINARY LOOKS LIKE ANYBODY. ANY BODY CAN BE NONBINARY.

headspace-hotel:

This is not an American/non-American thing

This is a CLASS thing

When I (American) went to college (expensive private school on scholarships) (almost everyone there upper middle class or upper class) I and one of my friends (average) incited anger and rejection for asking to ‘tag along’ to the grocery store

They saw it as selfishly asking a favor and were shocked, just like the OOP’s friend, whereas we saw it as a normal and sensible thing to do.

peach-pot:

peach-pot:

I’m all for going about queerness with the goal of not being able to be understood by outsiders but like. you’ve GOT to be normal about aro & ace people if you do. you can’t go on about being confusing to cishets for fun and then complain about ace & aro people who go about sex and romance and attraction in ways that don’t make sense to you.

supporting queerness that confuses others should include queerness that confuses YOU too even if you’re queer yourself.

penismage:

ultimateinferno:

A 2017 classic updated for the new game.

gallusrostromegalus:

I love it when characters are immune to psychic attacks/emotional manipulation magic/psychoactive drugs or whatever, but for DEEPLY mentally ill reasons.

Fear gas? I already have an anxiety disorder. Also you don’t know the meaning of fear until you have a category 5 autism event in the middle of a social scene and know you’ll get severely punished if you act out

Depression aura? Bitch I live an economically productive, nutritionally balanced and physically active life that other people rely on like this.

Haunted? How would my ADHD ass even know?

Pain machine? Hm. If your machine’s “10/10” is my “4”, I should probably talk to my doctor about better meds.

Oh, we’re all mutually unintelligible? This is Tuesday with Autism and Audio Processing issues.

There’s something very cathartic about a character facing down the horrors and laughing because the antagonist can’t even get close to what they already live with.

pasteboard:

hey netizens! i’m not sure how many people are aware, but youtube’s been slowly rolling out a new anti-adblock policy that can’t be bypassed with the usual software like uBlock Origin and Pi-Hole out of the gate

BUT, if you’re a uBlock Origin user (or use an adblocker with a similar cosmetics modifier), you can add these commands in the uBlock dashboard (under My Filters) to get rid of it!

youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false)

youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0)

youtube.com##+js(set, ytplayer.config.args.raw_player_response.adPlacements, [])

youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true)

reblog to help keep the internet less annoying and to tell corporations that try shit like this to go fuck themselves <3

dragonladdie:

Racism/appropriation of indigenous ppl is RAMPANT in the furry community so let me say some things:

STOP calling ur characters w*nd*g*s. You don’t even have to change the design, just stop calling them that. Call them like. Skull deer or some shit there is no reason for you to be using that word.

Stop using “spirit animal” in referral to ur fursona. This is obvious idk why it even needs to be said.

Stop making “two wolves inside you” jokes. The “two wolves inside you” is in reference to a racist made up native proverb from a white dude.

You aren’t appreciating cultures by doing things we tell u to stop. If you want to appreciate: buy from indigenous ppl, respectfully learn about cultures, listen to native people, and DON’T MAKE EXCUSES.

lycanthology:

lycanthology:

i think one of the most important things you learn about making connections with others is that a significant portion of the time people just do not know theyre doing what theyre doing

sometimes someone is acting selfish because they just didnt think you had any interest in what theyre hogging. sometimes you dont get invited to the movies because your friend could have sworn that you said no. sometimes you think someone is mad at you because theyre bad at hiding how little sleep they got. we are all like little worlds that briefly crash into one another from time to time and we just arent physically capable of seeing the whole picture at once in those moments. and learning that really changed everything!

infragalaxia:

I keep seeing alt text that contains artist’s notes or jokes instead of an actual image description and I just wanna say: fucking stop doing that. It’s really rude to visually impaired people. Our accessibility features aren’t your playground. Put that shit in the tags where it belongs.