That’s some fucking next level tagposting right there.
Do you mean that in a good way or a bad way? (I suppose the hug gif is probably a good sign?)
(Tumblr’s tag-inspired register is good for some things–particularly when one wants to mimic the aspect voice-based conversation often has of shifting fluidly from one topic to another with no obvious places to put sentence or paragraph breaks–but I still have trouble bringing myself to write much of it in the main body of a post, so I rely a little more heavily on tags to communicate than might be ideal. As you can see, the main body of this post is really serving the function of a post title rather than an actual body.)
#IIRC I haven’t been in America during Girl Scout cookie season since 2007 #(Girl Guides have mint cookies but they’re just not the same) #we carefully arranged our latest NY grocery trip to fall on a day with a booth sale in the right location #possibly we should have bought more than five boxes of Thin Mints #the first one is nearly gone #but we did buy a further five boxes of assorted other types of cookie so there’s that #(we exploited NY’s lower cost of living to the tune of probably a good $200) #(and we did not spend *all* of it on egg challah and Girl Scout cookies and Cheez-Its and miracle chicken fingers) #((the chicken fingers were from a brand I thought went out of business a dozen years ago)) #((turns out my tastes are no longer compatible but I’m glad to have had a chance to find out)) #(and anyway if we weren’t eating American delicacies we’d be eating Canadian food instead and paying for that) #(so it’s not like the Cheez-Its and whatnot are a total loss) #home of the brave #food #tag rambles #(P.S. they didn’t have Thin Mint ice cream) #(which was disappointing but we might end up just crumbling some Thin Mints into chocolate ice cream ourselves) #oh look an original post
Soon after the onset of postlarval metamorphosis, the entity known to us as @nihilsupernum was placed into a vessel by his creators and sent to a planet 150 lightyears away; a quieter planet with only one sun, so he would find relief from the constant state of æsthetosexual arousal that had been surging through him uncontrollably for weeks without pause, threatening to rip apart even his physical form in violent ecstasy. Now, in exile, he has slowly been growing stronger. He is channeling his appreciation for that lone sun and its most intricate causal descendants into his presence on the æsthetic plane. He is learning how to ride ever higher waves of beauty without getting crushed by their untamed force.
At night, he looks up, and gazes into the void between the wings of the Swan. For beyond that veil of blackness lie that estranged cosmic furnace, and its twin companions, dancing in chaotic harmony. A thought crystallizes within his mind, serene and pure:
One day, he will return home, and he will fuck three sunsets at once.
[context: “Planet HD 188753 has 3 suns you should have triple shadows and there would be almost daily eclipses. and no matter which direction u face on the planet u would always see a sunset”]
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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #nsfw? #I don’t know #something like that
if you put chips in a cob it becomes a butty, everyone knows that
Ok what the fuck is a chip butty?
The wrong name for a chip cob
I am so glad George Washington told y’all to fuck of so I don’t gotta participate in whatever this BS is
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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #despite never having told the Brits to fuck off I still don’t know what a chip cob/butty is #but that last line is funny anyway #(going to go look up what they’re talking about now)
@ilzolende and I were discussing linguistic sound change. I mentioned I’d read that ת (tav) has gone from ‘th’ in Biblical Hebrew to ‘t’ in Modern Hebrew and ‘s’ for some Ashkenazim; while ב (bet) and ו (vav) merge for (some) Sephardim, because of Spanish b/v merger.
Which eventually led to this story:
The Gileadites encamped at the Jordan and waited to slaughter the retreating Ephraimites. To distinguish them, they asked all comers to say ‘shibboleth’, because the Ephraimites could not pronounce the /sh/ phoneme and instead said it as /s/.
Gileadite 1: …So then you kill anyone who mispronounces ‘shibboleth’. Understood?
Gileadite 2: Understood.
(Modern) Israeli: Shalom!
Gileadite 2: Hey, we’re testing nationality. Say ‘shibboleth’.
Israeli: Uh, OK. ‘shibbolet’?
Gileadite 2: …u wot, mate?
Israeli: I said ‘shibbolet’, just like you asked.
Gileadite 2: Um, wrong, I guess. *slash*
Gileadite 1: No no no! That wasn’t an Ephraimite! That was a… Weirdo. Anyway, we’re just killing people who say /s/, dude. Listen for a /s/.
Gileadite 2: OK, got it.
Ashkenazi: Shalom!
Gileadite 2: Hey, we’re testing nationality. Say ‘shibboleth’.
Ashkenazi: Oy vey, what is this ‘shibboles’ thi-
Gileadite 2: *slash*
Gileadite 1: NO! We’re checking if they say /s/ at the beginning, man! The beginning!
Gileadite 2: Make up your MIND.
[One diversity training session later]
Gileadite 2: *sigh* OK. Sibboleth: Kill. Shibboleth: Let through. Shibbolet or Shibboles: Turn away. That’s everyone, right?
Gileadite 1: Yep. Good luck!
Sephardi: Shalom!
Gileadite 2: Hey, we’re testing nationality. Say ‘shibboleth’.
Saw this tumblr promoted post in my feed and assumed it was a hypno porn gif …
That’s happened to me a couple times.
Same, though not this specific one. I wonder if tumblr’s got an ad consultant who just sits around helping companies make ads that appeal tangentially and subtly to weird kinky shit.
Did anyone else read that post theorising that Tumblr is using pornbots to inflate the note counts on sponsored posts, so they can say to the sponsoring companies “Look at how much exposure you’re getting! You’ve got X likes, Y reblogs, and Z follows! don’t look too closely at the composition of those numbers”?
Sex sells, indeed.
(Okay, yes, there’s also the “salience mechanisms cause fetishists to see kink in everything” explanation, but still.)
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#reply via reblog #sexuality and lack thereof #advertising
Although, thinking about the timing of that 60kg period for Light Sprites, I suppose it’s possible it was because of Brightshine? I wouldn’t want to bet on it, but I can’t rule it out.
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#oh look an update #oh look an original post #Flight Rising #not adding it as a postscript on the previous post because JT already read it
