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asgardreid:

emo-officielle:

stayuglystayangry:

Tfw you know there is a new meme because you keep seeing the fallout from it, like references to it, people being annoyed by it’s popularity, even the inevitable “this meme is problematic” posts, but you haven’t seem the thing itself yet, leaving you in this tumultuous purgatory of not caring at all and feeling this unexplainable hollowness of “not knowing”

can we ever truly see “the thing itself”

Shadows on the wall of the Meme Cave.

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#yes #like the dress #and Uptown Funk #(I eventually sought out both of those so I could find out what the fuck was going on) #(Uptown Funk was…okay I guess?) #(I don’t get what all the fuss was about) #(I didn’t *dis*like it but I don’t think I’ll bother listening to it again) #((when you recently read a short story)) #((in which a piece of media becomes a worldwide phenomenon by brainwashing its consumers into loving it)) #((and you are listening to the music video of Uptown Funk in another window without actually looking at it)) #((‘[if you] don’t believe me just watch’ starts to take on a rather ominous tone)) #((I did not watch)) #((I did not dare)) #tag rambles

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anneapocalypse:

The tension between the Director and the Counselor stems from the fact that the Counselor is a better war criminal than the Director. The Counselor has helped to administrate no less than nine military programs easy comparable to Freelancer in terms of atrocities committed, though he’s never listed on the payroll as anything more than a “consultant” and he makes sure to thoroughly document his objections to any and all questionable decisions, because documentation is an important part of any scientific endeavor.

The Counselor has an appreciation for subtlety. The Counselor is not merely a scientist but an artist, and knows exactly which lines can be crossed during wartime without consequence, and which cannot.

The Director is brash and unsubtle and this is a constant point of annoyance for the Counselor, whose experience in the field has given him a nuanced understanding of precisely when, for example, a MAC cannon may be fired at a civilian target without substantial repercussions, and when it cannot. (The former is a short list. Actually, it’s not so much a list as a complex algorithm taking into account no less than 30 data points relating to recent Covenant and Insurrectionist activity as well as public opinion regarding the UNSC and the state of the war. The Counselor has this algorithm programmed into his phone. It calculates in approximately seven seconds, based on currently available data.)

The Counselor also possesses a nuanced understanding of how public opinion shifts in peacetime, and has passed his meager free time for the past decade or so quietly and thoroughly preparing an exit strategy and a new identity which he is fully prepared to assume in the event that the war ever ends. The strategy shifts only slightly depending on the outcome of the war.

Dr. Church, the Counselor thinks (with exasperation, if not without a certain amount of affection) is an oaf and a clumsy excuse for a war criminal. Be a better war criminal, sir. Aim higher.

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#Red vs Blue #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog

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adoxographist:

acclassiguy:

acclassiguy:

aRE U KIDDING ME

btw i just looked at the playlist they linked and i am so fucking mad

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The resurgence of rick rolling has brought about a new form of rick rolling. A rick rolling where you trick someone into thinking you’re going to classic rick roll them, only to link them to a photograph of the video, or an ashley tisdale cover, or this playlist. 

Like living creatures, memes must evolve to survive….

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#music #rickrolling #dear god

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justice-turtle:

thetransintransgenic:

veronicastraszh:

gruntledandhinged:

[image: A tweet by Johanna Fateman (@johannafateman)

people who mispronounce words because they learned them from reading independently are deserving of admiration not scorn

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ALL of this. Encourage people to try new words, to mess them up, to experiment with vocabulary, to learn complicated adjectives and verbs and nouns, because words are fun.

Also, don’t be a jerk.

Like, I learned math from books. So of course the first time I talked about the “Lap-lace transform” I got some weird looks.

I wonder if that Euler guy and that Euclid guy were related? :) Since, you know, their names obviously begin with the same syllable.

(A friend I was hanging with last night learned programming on his own, so he says “ARray” rather than “arRAY,” which is rather charming actually.)

Wait it’s not pronounced “Lap-lace”? How is it pronounced?

Luh-PLOSS. More or less. (I’m from Indiana, even when I’m trying to pronounce French properly there’s a definite… lack of Frenchitude there. ^_^)

…I’m going to have to go look up the pronunciation of Euler now.

I’m back. Apparently Anglophones generally can’t quite manage the proper pronunciation, but the standard English approximation is “oiler”.

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#language #the more you know