THE GOAT HAS BURNED

LOOK UPON HIM AND REJOICE

Why are humans in Starfleet always so confused by Vulcan behaviour? Vulcans have been part of the Federation since day one and yet people are always so perplexed when Vulcans do what Vulcans do. “Ugh, why are they meditating? Why don’t they laugh at my jokes?” Ummm, maybe because their entire culture pursues a meditative lifestyle of emotional suppression?? Like have you never met a Vulcan in your life? Do they just not cover Vulcan culture in human school? Is it like fight club? I thought the Federation was tolerant? What the fuck???

I unironically love the character names in the Hunger Games series.

Haymitch, Peeta, Hazelle, Leevy, Maysilee, Finnick and Greasy Sae look bizarre when you first see them written down, but then if you think about how they look and/or sound it's pretty clear that they're meant to be modern names, only modern names that have changed spelling and pronounciation over time— as you would have expected them to have done so over how ever many hundreds of years it's been since our modern day.

(Remember, though The Hunger Games themselves have only been going on for 75 years, the universe they're in is canonically post-apocalyptic— the reason nobody ever mentions what's happening in the rest of the world is that everywhere except America was destroyed in a nuclear war. We're not given much of an indication how long it's been since then.)

Peeta is Peter, Haymitch is Hamish, and Hazelle is Hazel, Maysilee is Maisie— the changes in pronunciation are slight (Peeta and Peter are already virtually identical in my accent), and the spelling has changed to match.

Leevy is either a corruption of Lily, or more likely I suspect 'Livvy', a common nickname for Olivia; Finnick is probably from Finnegan (shorten in to 'Finneg' and then say it over and over very fast); Sae could be short for Sarah, or Sally or even Susan— it's not uncommon for nicknames to become real names in their own right (look at Harry or Molly as examples).

I also love the trend of having District 1 parents give their kids names relating to the luxury items their district produces— Glimmer, Marvel, Gloss, Cashmere, Velvereen (presumably a corruption of 'velveteen'), Facet— because those things are all a) objectively pretty/nice (like naming a kid 'Diamond' or 'Star' today) and presumably status symbols in their district.

Meanwhile District 3 does the same thing, but all the pronunciations are corrupted. You've got technical names to do with the manufacture of electronics— Wiress (wireless), Circ (circuit)— but you've also got what I'm pretty sure are meant to be corruptions of modern brand names— Beetee (BT), Teslee (Tesla).

To me this kind of suggests that District 3 is less conscious of this influence than District 1. Like, parents in 1 are more likely to deliberately think "I'll name my kid Glimmer, because things that glimmer are pretty" whereas 3 as a culture might have genuinely forgotten that those names used to mean something, in the same way that most of us don't think much about how the name 'Arthur' comes from the old word for 'Bear'.

And of course, then you've got the Capitol leaning hard into those ancient Roman vibes with names like Fulvia, Plutarch, Seneca, Tigris… but still using the European/American personal name+family name format, which the Romans didn't really do. Like it's very clear that this is a future society fetishising the classical era, rather than an actual resurgence of Roman culture.

It's just such a cool world-building detail. So many dystopian novels just go for modern names (and there's nothing wrong with that, especially if you're only looking a couple of hundred years into the future) but thinking about how names might have evolved over the centuries and the different naming traditions that might have developed in different areas really adds a whole new dimension to the culture of Panem.

reblog to put a weighted blanket on the person u reblog this from

actually YOU are dust and to dust you shall return. not me though im different

im non biodegradable nonedible glitter and im wreaking havoc on the environment

Sometimes correlation does imply causation.

That’s not fucking funny.

And the fact that I am born right there in the hotspot has NOTHING to do with it.

M8

You have an anime avatar, you’re further proving this.

why did sweden get hit by chernobyl fallout? it's on the other end of the continent.

Peanut Butter wants to explore but also wants to stay inside his warm blanket.

Volume up to hear him purring

HIS NAME IS PEANUT BUTTER

Best scene in the whole show

so proud of my organs for unionizing. would be great if it wasn't against me but you can't win them all i guess.

what is the brain but the landlord of the organs

My cat likes to keep a schedule and if I don’t go to bed on time he just… sits somewhere nearby and stares at me until I go to bed.

Tonight while doing that, he fell asleep

So instead of going to bed like he wanted me to I made him into a meme

Okay thinking about that one deleted scene from The Wire script where Sisko mentions he and Curzon worked at the Federation Embassy on Romulus and his Romulan friend was arrested by the Tal Shiar (calculations w Sisko’s age put this around 2360), what if they were there at the same time as Garak? Like the Embassies are probably clustered pretty closely together to keep the aliens in a single area so if they were in the same city, there’s a good chance they would cross paths with each other at one time or another.

Curzon Dax fucked Garak

I’ve always thought Jadzia and Garak would make great friends and peak wlw/mlm solidarity but THIS explains why they avoid each other and are almost never on screen together

Oh okay. So not from a script from the HBO series The Wire.

The thing about the trope whereby the bland everyman protagonist walks into the room and immediately outdoes the female supporting character at some esoteric pursuit that she’s dedicated her life to mastering is that a lot of guys honestly believe that trope applies to real life. Back when I was working in corporate IT support, I witnessed multiple unconnected occasions where some dude basically went “I saw a woman do this, so it must be super easy – let me show her how it’s really done”, stuck his nose into a female co-worker’s responsibilities, and proceeded to fuck everything up so comprehensively that it cost several hundred thousand dollars to fix.

i don’t think violence, or greed are the roots of human nature. i think warping looms and making soups are.

everyone is zeroing on the soup part which is nice but weaving has been around for at least 12,000 years (more like 30,000 years but yee). weaving is one of the first technologies that human beings developed and perfected and i think that’s neat.

two fundamental needs are warm (soup) and soft (fabric)

okay but how fucking funny would it be if immediately after buzzfeed unsolved ends, they announce a new show on watcher with the exact same premise and execution

GUESS WHO GETS TO BE APOLLO'S CHOSEN PROPHET OF THE WEEK BABES

shane and ryan are the funniest bitches alive for making a whole thing about buzzfeed unsolved ending, a dramatic end to an era, only to come back with their own legally distinct version of the show like a week later

“i also choose this guy’s dead wife” was easily the #1 funniest thing to ever be written on the internet.

you can know the punchline but you can’t stop it from punching you.

i do also feel the need to add that phil8248 really liked the joke. he said his wife had always had a dark sense of humour, even about her illness and death, and seeing the joke made him feel like he was laughing with her one last time.

Can someone explain why this is funny? Because I don’t get it. I’m autistic, for context.

imo it's the emotional whiplash- going straight from a heartfelt, tragic story of his wife's death to the absurdity of some random internet stranger going "yeah I also want to fuck your dead wife lol"

It's so funny to me when you can clearly see that someone just moved from a different sm to tumblr and they have yet to learn about enyrhing about the site, like insta artist will try to add a crop piece when tumblr doesn't need that, or Twitter people that speak in short paragraphs and censor names in the posts with letters and numbers. Amusing

newcomer: sorry for spamming your blog with likes and reblogs!

me: no worries, nobody cares about that here

new rando: oof sorry abt that long post you guys, I just needed to rant

me: bestie that was a 400 letter post

It's a testament to how awful other social media sites are when Tumblr is the sane place now.