i love how everyone on this website interacts with each other in ways that are so socially impermissible irl. how did we get here
like i know none of us call people we barely know "bestie" out loud. i know none of us say "i am kissing you on the mouth" in response to every mild compliment. but god i wish we did
(recent) tumblr exclusive linguistic phenomena:
bestie (said to someone you've never spoken to directly)
so false worstie
we are holding hands
i am kissing you on the mouth
you're going in the soup
variations on "your dad looks gnc af" "YOURE INSANE"
mutuals (technically this exists on other social media but not in spirit)
[gunshots] (people say this on twitter but they say it wrong)
using periods incorrectly to. fine tune the cadence of a line
my beloved/my beloathed
hyperspecific day of the week holidays e.g. flat fuck friday
variations on gaslight gatekeep girlboss
and, of course, prev tags
I think my absolute favorite is "Thank you for the input, Tumblr user [[wildly inappropriate username]]"
Iām on the younger side for a college professor, and one of my students started saying āSo true bestieā then panicked and tried to pivot and ended up with āSo true professtieā
you're going in the soup, my beloathed professtie























