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me whenever characters achieve "secret third thing" levels of friendship:

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nerds-gummy-clusters

back on my resident evil bullshit here's some memes

i'm losing my mind i love resident evil guys

#resident evil

1eos

henstomper

i think the whole Having A Job thing would be less bad if people in management positions were capable of planning and abstract thought

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"

karcatgirl-vantas

humans be like staple crop

txttletale

staple crop to what

ublock-origin

directly to forehead

hellsitegenetics

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Closest match: Cannabis sativa cultivar ERBxHO40_23 chromosome 3

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roundearthsociety

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calware

spiritual successor to my email post

calware

ok this too

courtesycalling

GLaDOS learns about isopods

courtesycalling

When I made this comic, the Wikipedia page for “woodlouse” had a really long “common names” section. In early 2023, somebody pruned the section with the reasoning that Wikipedia “isn’t Urban Dictionary” and most of the names were “unsourcable”, but the older version of the article is still accessible here.

Here’s the list taken from that version of the article:

armadillo bug

billy baker (South Somerset)

billy button (Dorset)

boat-builder (Newfoundland, Canada)

butcher boy or butchy boy (Australia, mostly around Melbourne)

carpenter or cafner (Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada)

carpet shrimp (Ryedale)

charlie pig (Norfolk, England)

cheeselog (Reading, England)

cheesey wig

cheesy bobs (Guildford, England)

cheesy bug (North West Kent, Gravesend, England)

cheesy lou (Suffolk)

cheesy papa (Essex)

chiggy pig (Devon, England)

chisel pig

chucky pig (Devon, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, England)

chuggy pig

crawley baker (Dorset)

daddy grampher (North Somerset)

damp beetle (North East England)

doodlebug (also used for the larva of an antlion and for the cockchafer)

fat pigs (Cork, Ireland),

gramersow (Cornwall, England)

granny grey (Wales)

granny grunter (Isle of Man)

grumper-pig (Bermuda)

hardback (Humberside, England)

hobbling Andrew (Oxfordshire, England)

hobby horse (Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, England)

hog-louse

horton bug (Deal, Kent, England)

humidity bug (Ontario, Canada)

jomits (Cloneganna)

menace (Plymouth, Devon)

mochyn coed (tree pig), pryf lludw (ash bug), granny grey in Wales

monkey-peas (Kent, England)

pea bug (Medway, England)

peasie-bug (Kent, England)

pennysow (Pembrokeshire, Wales)

piggy wig

pill bug (usually applied only to the genus Armadillidium)

potato bug

roll up bug

roly-poly

saw bug (Dingwall, Nova Scotia)

scuttlebug (New Zealand)

slater (Scotland, Ulster, New Zealand and Australia)

sour bug (Cambridgeshire)

sow bug

water bug

wood bug (British Columbia, Canada)

wood-louse

woodwool

severely deficient in whatever vitamin makes u a person

voidandradiance

the most disorienting thing thats ever happened to me was when a linguistics major stopped in the middle of our conversation, looked me in the eye, and said, "you have a very interesting vernacular. were you on tumblr in 2014?" and i had to just stand there and process that one for a good ten seconds

booksandchainmail

#i was in a car with a linguist i had never met before the car trip and like half an hour in he looked at me#after i finished describing a geology thing that was happening out the window and asked if i'd ever spent much time on tumblr#the fuckor of it all#and then we spent six more hours driving#it sure does leave linguistic markers! i'm not sure i'm good with it (tags via @thoughtsformtheuniverse)

issela-santina

it is one thing to be a linguist and another to be a linguist who knows enough of 2010s Tumblr to spot one of its enjoyers

lierdumoa

Oh! @meret118 see above comment! The use of the word "enjoyers" instead of "users" or "bloggers" -> You left a comment a while back asking, "Does this just mean vocabulary words? Other than blorbo and sweet cinnamon roll etc, I can't think of what a Tumblr accent would be." I almost never see anyone use the word "enjoyer" anywhere outside of tumblr, but I see it on tumblr fairly frequently.

Another one is the verb "perceive" i.e. "don't perceive me" "I am perceiving" "I am being percieved." That's something that feels very specific to tumblr parlance.

There's the thing where people on tumblr have an emotional reaction to something and instead of, or in addition to telling you how they feel about it using emotion words, they will narrate a fictional action in the present progressive tense. "I am gnawing at the bars of my enclosure "I am kissing you on the mouth" "you are going into the soup" "you are getting all of the awards"

I once saw someone use that response format in ... I think it was a restaurant review, or a doordash review, or something like that. It was very unexpected seeing it outside of a tumblr post.

There are a lot of other tumblr linguistic quirks I can't currently remember off the top of my head, but I'll instantly recognize them if I see/hear them outside of tumblr. It's always a bit startling to see them out of context.

pacificnorthwhore

i-wear-the-cheese

when I was in university one of my modules was about internet slang and for our grades project we had to compile and analyse a small database of 100 words used by a specific community of our choice. I chose tumblr and that's how I stumbled across Gretchen McCulloch's research and discovered that yes not only did tumblr have its own vernacular and syntax (as @lierdumoa demonstrates), it was at the time a crucible of slang and memes probably unrivalled by any other part of the internet. and it's stayed that way! even the very title is McCulloch's book because internet is an example of this specific phraseology.

sadly my project is lost due to the website being wiped from the university database after graduation and my then laptop having a major hardware failure. backup your backups people! but the crux of the entire module was that the internet is full of communities using language not only as jargon for specific purpose but also to signal membership in said community. I even wrote a bit about non capitalisation and punctuation useage as a visual cue on tumblr and how including information in the reblog body or the tags indicated different levels of importance or intimacy of thought

I am holding the side of your face and looking deep in your eyes and telling you that love is stored in the syntax, and that we are rotating words together all at once as we all nod at their new and baffling meanings. if the devils sacrament be tumblr then the devils gospel is our collective voice. thanks for coming to my tedtalk

weirdchristmas

I am being perceived.

atinymekanie

I literally heard someone say blorbos out loud in a group of people I was with, and immediately turned around and mentioned their shoelaces. Yes, they did steal them from the president.

beadyeyes

This is Morty, a nonreleasable coyote, from the ICRC

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drizzledrawings

I’m gnashing my teeth like a child of Cain

If this is a prison I’m willing to bite my own chain

little-miss-rasputin-pageant

in almost every other children's book where the main heroine is swept away to a land of whimsy she's shown having a lovely time; braving dangers occasionally, trying to find her way home, sure, but ultimately delighting in the magic around her. meanwhile alice spends her entire time in wonderland like

roach-works

look, here’s the thing: alice in wonderland’s enduring fucking charm is that it perfectly captures the vibe of being a very tired and annoyed child who is nonetheless required to play along with adult nonsense.

alice is dragged from place to place without warning, forced to play stupid games with no good prizes, grilled over her schooling and manners and recitation and dress, scolded, judged, insulted to her face, sent away, given gifts she didn’t ask for and doesn’t like, corrected incorrectly, been subject to shifting and arbitrary rules, and then when she gets snappish with all this bullshit everyone acts like a little girl’s temper is the end of the fucking world.

alice in wonderland isn’t a drug trip or a nightmare or a metaphor, that’s just what being ten years old is LIKE. that’s why kids love it so much. even if they can’t quite articulate how, they recognize themselves in it.

trans-pickles

I'm gonna go ahead and add - the reaction image is barely even a joke. This is the original illustration of her at the Mad Hatter's tea party.

look at how fucking angry she is

tevallen

no, we're not

eclair-creates01

Stoplight

App: IbisPaint X

Time: 2 hours 39 minutes

daftpatience

this messed up vintage cat sewing pattern has tormented me since i saw it & like some other folks have done in that post - i tried my hand at tweaking the pattern to resemble the illustration (and my personal tastes) a little more. i've ended up with this, which i have only tested at a small scale and not this final version exactly (where i have done such things as further widening the cheeks and finalizing the leg shapes.) i bestow it upon you nice folks now 👐

go forth and make weird little beanbag kittens! pls show me if you do!

daftpatience

woah this got big!! and after another try i have another untested tweak for yall. this should help the weird pinchy side seams out. yey

calltainn

My first attempt! I made the pattern a bit smaller as I wanted it to be able to fit in a pocket, but then (accidentally but perhaps unavoidably) sewed it with a wider seam allowance than the resized pattern indicated, so the face is proportionally a bit too big and I lost some detail in the ear shape. I'm pleased with it though! It was fun to make something and to do some handsewing.

daftpatience

SOO CUTE AND TINIE 😭

chthonink

I tried this pattern a while back to try out some minky and I get no points for making the pattern well but looook at my boyyy

His name is Tofu. Thank you for sharing the pattern I will love him forever

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simplyghosting

Me, pointing to the mirror: Do NOT become The Joker about this. This isn’t even a Condiment Man situation.

aconstellationcollective

dehumanization as horror is great and all but what about humanization as horror. Being forced into a role that was not made for you. Being forced to fulfill expectations that you can never achieve. Being made to exist in a society that so cruelly expects you to act in a way that is against your nature.

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