The Thingie, round 3!

floresapriles:

I have returned after recovering from (moderate-to-large homework assignment that would have been infinitely easier had I not left it until the last… three-ish hours before the deadline? after knowing it was due for over a month?) to say more nice things about people on the internet!

@prophecyformula:

One of your about pages implies that you only follow highly interesting people. This is an excellent strategy because it makes your follows feel important and insightful even if they’ve only sporadically participated in a couple of ask memes since September

You’re really good at finding interesting articles from the Outside World and having thoughts about them. This is why you’re one of my favorite options for archive-trawling. If I accidentally like a post from three weeks ago please do not be alarmed

I’m most familiar with your blog as part of the @xhxhxhx@lambdaphagy, etc. triad of people whose economics/sociology opinions I may or may not agree with but always enjoy reading. This is an A+ sphere of Tumblr in which to be involved

@sharkyminimalist:

1. pink hair!!! yes this deserves its own point

2. excellent taste in sushi, artsy hobbies, pretty dresses, and Instagram people

3. blog typically has more horses than sharks, despite what one may expect from the title, but they are very excellent horses

4. makes the CUTEST THINGS like omg

5. very fun to hang out with! also apparently people I have actually met in real life get bullet points not sure why this is

@reasonableapproximation:

You have a really pretty Tumblr avatar. I don’t know what it’s of, but it’s always nice to run across it as I’m scrolling through my dash and see it off to the side being all vaguely rainbow-y. This usually isn’t the kind of thing people hope to be complimented on, but avatar choice is important and you have chosen wisely

I don’t know about the approximation part, but the ‘reasonable’ half of your url is definitely applicable to every post of yours I’ve seen.

…This kind of sounds like a ‘damned with faint praise’ scenario, but seriously, reasonableness is one of the few characteristics that all of the writers I admire invariably share; it’s also important and that kind of consistency is admirable

@brin-bellway:

I haven’t posted them because space-conservation reasons, but your compliment meme request was the funniest! So you win on that front! and yes it was a competition this whole time

Your blog seems like a decent source of non-USian news and general Canadian-ish-ness. As your country has just elected an exceptionally cute prime minister, this is an incredibly important feature and I hope to see further updates in the future

I have a hard time finding blogs that contain Tumblr-typical humor without being too Tumblr-humor-y, so your blog is a great resource! Your anything-that-makes-me-laugh-this-much-deserves-a-reblog tag has been instrumental in bringing the Mint Mistake to my attention, for which I owe you my thanks

(I want to use this as a context link, but @floresapriles got force-safe-moded (for some probably-bullshit reason) and is too dormant to try to do anything about that. So, I skimmed through her blog on the dashboard view until I found it (I knew roughly when it was posted, so it wasn’t all that hard to find), and I’m reblogging it here. A link to this post will be showing up shortly, in an aside on a comment roundup.)


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#(October 2015) #The Last Tumblr Apocalypse #compliment meme

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This one is also easily misinterpreted if its age is not made clear upfront (and more thorough timestamping wouldn’t even necessarily help, because guess what, Tumblr’s post timestamps are glitching right now):

https://web.archive.org/web/20190116204213/http://sinesalvatorem.tumblr.com/post/126786439131/brin-bellway-comparativelysuperlative-well


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#(August 2015) #conversational aglets #The Great Tumblr Apocalypse #compliment meme

Anonymous asked: compliments?

comparativelysuperlative:

Look up on a clear moonless night, you’ll see maybe up to ten thousand stars. And you’re more important than any of them. They’re nothing more than what they look like, enormous balls of plasma, but you’re a conscious being with intrinsic moral worth.

I haven’t been doing a lot of complimenting people’s physical attributes in this meme, but for you I’ll make an exception. The jar your brain lives in is an incredibly complex and useful machine unmatched by anything humans can yet design. Compared to most possible people, who are Boltzmann brains, you’ve basically got superpowers.

Actually, scratch that. You’ve literally got superpowers. You can look at an outside world made entirely of math and physics, and tell inanimate objects what to do. And to you it’ll seem trivial, as mundane and boring as picking up a rock, but of course it would seem that way to you. You’re so used to the epiphenomenal cosmic power of free will that being able to tell gravity “nope” is just a background assumption.

Since that’s not enough, you also happen to be one of the most intelligent known beings to have ever existed. Honestly at this point I’m just hoping you use your powers for good.

Last thing, and I realize it might be a little bit blasphemous but speaking about you this is totally true: YOU ARE.

You are the best person to call in for the following apocalypses: Well, without knowing who you are I can’t answer this one. But right this minute you’re the person standing between half the universe and…actually, stand up for a minute? Now you’re standing between half the universe and the other half.


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#got a point there

comparativelysuperlative:

Well, if I volunteered, I’m also going to get complimented the heck out of. (Shut up, Apocryphal Winston Churchill; no prescriptivism.)

Who do I know who’s doing that meme?

I’m not sure if sinesalvatorem (who was the first option when I pressed the “@” key, before I typed any letters) is still taking them or not. I think it’s too late for Ozy. wirehead-wannabe, maybe?

When I first learned you had a Tumblr, I read the entire archive. (I’ve also read the entire WordPress archive a couple times.) I stuck with you even after Tumblr quietly stopped showing me your posts twice.

You’re very good at taking premises to twistedly logical conclusions, a genre I’m rather fond of. It was you who introduced me to the rationalist-sphere; thank you so much for this source of comfort and enrichment in my life.

In the event of a sudden East Coast road trip*, I would ask you for restaurant recommendations in the DC area. I currently doubt I’ll ever have need of a dead drop, but it was nice of you to offer.

*It would not be the first time: my family was in Florida during 9/11 and was forced to drive back to New Jersey after our flight was cancelled.


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#reply via reblog


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