yes this

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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

The Food Network Show I Want

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proletavian:

anyoneseenmyhead:

4 chefs complete in a contest to determine who is the best.

But they are not given certain ingredients they must use. They can use whatever they want.

They are given… the name of the dish.

The judge says, “Make me ‘Purple Nirvana’” and we get to watch one chef make au gratin blue potatoes, another make a blueberry shortcake, etc. The worst dish is eliminated until one chef wins.

I would watch the hell out of this omg

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#food #oh my god #yes this #quite possibly this already exists somewhere and I just haven’t heard of it

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cosmictuesdays:

audible-smiles:

I love Tom Paris but in the early days of this show its like someone managed to bottle roguish-yet-likable young hotshot white dude protagonist who everyone hates because he fucked up something while trying to be good enough for his strict father and now has to redeem himself, y’know?

I mean he gets better but all they had to do was change one thing, man. One thing. Imagine. Tom Paris but asexual instead of a wannabe lady killer. Tom Paris but he’s a hotshot xenolinguist instead of a pilot. Tom Paris but Admiral Paris is actually his mom. Tom Paris but he’s lost his ability to fake cheerful bravado while in prison and is mostly just really quiet and sullen. Tom Paris but he’s Andorian instead of human, which would as a bonus make him also not male because no one I care to associate with would turn down an extra-canonical novel’s perfectly good alien gender worldbuilding. Anything. ONE THING.

Admiral Paris being his mom would be so fucking good.

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#Star Trek #Voyager #yes this

þ!

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maire-annatari:

eggypeggy:

A feature of English which I think is stupid,

If we’re carrying on with this game,

Is how we abolished the thorn and replaced it,

With two letters that meant the same.

The þ was a letter, amazing, astounding,

Perfect in every respect,

Representing the ‘th’ sound and shortening words,

The one thing it didn’t expect;

One day T and H went and burgled its meaning,

And then, thanks to the printing press,

Its symbol mutated and morphed into Y,

Which is pointless, I must confess.

Þoughtlessly, the þ was forgotten,

Þreatened as the language evolved,

Þankful for þose who knew of old English,

A topic where it was involved.

It only survived in Modern Icelandic,

In English it’s treated with scorn,

And as barely anyone knows it exists,

Please try to remember the thorn.

ð!

Saving the thorn from obscurity
Is surely a laudable aim
But if this letter deserves our praise
The eth should receive the same.

The scribes of the Anglo-Saxons
interchanged the eth and thorn
until the first one fell from use
and the second was left forlorn,

But for the modern Icelander
their roles are more defined
and could improve our English texts
if we were so inclined.

The thorn (Þ, þ) denotes a voiceless dental fricative
as in the English ‘think’ or ‘thresh’ but not the ‘th’ in ‘hither,’
whereas the eth (Ð, ð) is a voiced dental fricative
perfect for ‘this’ and ‘that’ and most especially for ‘thither.’

So I propose ðey boþ be used 
in the Icelandic manner;
ðen students won’t be loaþ to learn
our spelling and our grammar.

To þink we’ve never fixed ðis mess
is really quite astounding.
One letter cluster for two sounds?
Ðat’s damnably confounding!

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#language #poetry #yes this #I have to refer to the phoneme I can’t perceive as ‘theta’ #because English-speakers are more likely to know that letter than to know our own thorn #(and they don’t even always understand me then) #such a shame #(the following category tag was added retroactively:) #fun wif forn fronting