the fact that amélie and nathalie are going to be coparenting adrien and félix means there is about to be a very awkward reunion between nathalie and duusu
I need this actually
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“I hate when people make Inuyasha curse and call Kagome a bitch in their fics ugh so OOC”
— Anyone that has never read Inuyasha manga
There’s a technicality to that.
Japanese doesn’t really have “swearing” in the same way English does. Instead, it has “politeness levels”, depending on who you’re talking to. If you’re speaking to a superior, you use a high politeness level. If you’re of a high position and speaking to an inferior, you use a low politeness level. Inuyasha’s “rude” speech is basically talking to everyone using the “low politeness level” when he doesn’t actually have the authority to do so.
Because English doesn’t have this feature, “low politeness level” is often translated as swearing, though the severity of the swearing is completely up to the individual translator and actually has no literal basis in the original. Sesshoumaru also uses “low politeness level”, after all (though a different form), but no one translates that as swearing.
For example, Inuyasha often calls Kagome “temee” (てめえ), which is just a rude way of saying “you”. However, since there’s really no way to make just the word “you” any more or less offensive in English, translators often translate this term as something like “you bitch”, even though there was no actual “curse word” there in the original.
Strangely, the closest comparable equivalent in English to Inuyasha’s speech style is the Cockney accent from England, both in the stereotypical personality associations and the pronunciation scheme (Inuyasha pronounces his “ai” vowels as “ay”, while Cockney pronounces “ay” vowels as “ai”).
I guess that makes Inuyasha a chav.
Life tip: start everyday like you're expecting someone to come in at 10am. Take a shower put on clean clothes and hurriedly clean as much as your immediate living space as possible. And then nobody shows up (most of the time) and you get to ride that high feeling clean in your clean clothes and your clean(er) place.
If that wasn't clear I'm saying, literally, to PRETEND to be in the one situation that we all know will actually prompt ND to do any fucking thing, that is being the last few minutes to do it. Like please don't hit me with your terminally online takes when I'm actually struggling to get up every morning and finding ways to deal with it.
Douga animation of Sango from episode 163: 琥珀珊瑚雲母 秘密の花園 (Kohaku, Sango & Kirara: The Secret Flower Garden)
“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
An actual World Heritage Post
how does this post not have a million notes but anyone online can quote it
one week until ten years of Spiders Georg
All these people on this website are so cool and diverse I love being here but I wish I could meet you all in person
There should be a tumblr convention
What a fun idea! There could even be an indoor playground... Maybe with a ball pit or something.....
Time is a circle we are always doomed to repeat it whether we learn the error of our ways or not
I mean, the world is set on a course to repeat things much worse than dashcon anyway, so we might as well
If dashcon 2024 is the light in the darkness of this harsh world. Then we are surly headed down a grim path
dashcon 2024 is a beacon of hope in our dark, hopeless reality. unfortunately that beacon belongs to an anglerfish
I swear to god if this post breaches containment and inadvertently unleashes the fresh hell that is dashcon 2024 upon us. It will be the end of days
fuck yeah daschon 2024!!!!!!!!!!
Don't call it dashcon 2024, call it dashcon 2015. It's important.
If this post reaches 100,000 notes, OP *has* to organize a Tumblr con! Let's get it up there!
I’m 19 and I do not have the money or time to do such a thing
Yes, that will make it Authentic!
Has this been done yet
[ID: Pippin : "What about pride month?"
Aragorn, next to a Pride flag, "You've already had Pride month"
Pippin: next to a Disabled Pride flag, "We've had one, yes, but what about second Pride month?" /ID]
Internet Safety
Look, I’m nearly 30. I know that means I’m inches from death to most teens here. In the United States, teens have been so utterly failed by the education system deciding that “digital native” meant “miraculously knows how the internet works”.
I was taught, in school, how to use search engines. I was taught about what information people can take advantage of and how they do that. Did I still do teens stuff? Yes - I accessed sites I shouldn’t have and lied about my age to read erotica. But I didn’t announce my presence, and I knew that if I decided to say I was an adult, despite not being one, if I saw shit I didn’t want to see, that was my fault. Because I was taught why age gates are there.
I am not saying this to say “teens are stupid” - if you’re a teenager and reading this, I do not think you’re stupid. You were not given the appropriate amount of information to keep yourself safe in the same way I was. That’s not fair. Please try to keep in mind that adults who have the information and want to share it aren’t doing so because we think you’re an idiot. We want you to have good information so you can keep yourself safe.
after a suicide attempt in 2016
deformititties
“When Daddy comes in, he carries you to bed. Is there anything you feel like you could eat, Pokey? Anything at all? All you can imagine putting in your mouth is a cold plum, one with really tight skin on the outside but gum-shocking sweetness inside. And he and your mother discuss where he might find some this late in the season. Mother says hell I don’t know. Further north, I’d guess. The next morning, you wake up in your bed and sit up. Mother says, Pete, I think she’s up. He hollers in, You ready for breakfast, Pokey. Then he comes in grinning, still in his work clothes from the night before. He’s holding a farm bushel. The plums he empties onto the bed river toward you through folds in the quilt. If you stacked them up, they’d fill the deepest bin at the Piggly Wiggly. Damned if I didn’t get the urge to drive to Arkansas last night, he says. Your mother stands behind him saying he’s pure USDA crazy. Fort Smith, Arkansas. Found a roadside stand out there with a feller selling plums. And I says, Buddy, I got a little girl sick back in Texas. She’s got a hanker for plums and ain’t nothing else gonna do. It’s when you sink your teeth into the plum that you make a promise. The skin is still warm from riding in the sun in Daddy’s truck, and the nectar runs down your chin. And you snap out of it. Or are snapped out of it. Never again will you lay a hand against yourself, not so long as there are plums to eat and somebody-anybody-who gives enough of a damn to haul them to you. So long as you bear the least nibblet of love for any other creature in this dark world, though in love portions are never stingy. There are no smidgens or pinches, only rolling abundance. That’s how you acquire the resolution for survival that the coming years are about to demand. You don’t earn it. It’s given.”
excerpt from Cherry by Mary Karr, context being after a suicide attempt at age 13
Some context: Texas and Arkansas share a corner border. Now, Texas is FECKING HUGE and there are many, many parts of Texas that cannot visit Arkansas overnight, but there are parts where it’s no trouble at all.
However, those places of Texas that are close to Arkansas, do not include “close to Fort Smith, Arkansas.”
The closest Texas gets to Fort Smith is about 185 miles (about 300km), at “a little closer than Texarkana.” (Dallas, fwiw, is about 275 miles/450km from Fort Smith.)
So the dad in this story drove at least SEVEN HOURS round trip, to pick up a bushel of plums for his little girl, in the hope that some almost-out-of-season fruit would convince her to go on living.
Okay.
It’s bigger than this.
According to Wikipedia, the poet Mary Karr was born in 1955 and grew up in Groves, Texas and “lived there until she moved to Los Angeles in 1972.” So she would have been there when she was 13 and attempted suicide.
According to Google Maps, the shortest driving distance between Groves, TX and Fort Smith, AR is 439 miles (or 706 km for metric using folks).
That’s almost 8 hours of driving.
Almost 16 hours roundtrip.
(I assume he broke every speed limit he could.)
That’s how much this man loved his daughter.
May we all be worthy of such love.
May we all be capable of giving such love.
May we all have people in our lives with which we can share this love.
some meanings cuz i saw someone ask for them algiz rune - this was used in postwar germany as a symbol of the neo-nazi movement in place of the actual nazi symbols that were banned 88/HH - code for Heil Hitler a phrase used in the nazi salute. also used as a reference to the 88 precept, a manifesto written by white supremacist david lane the black sun - this symbol originates in nazi germany and later utilized by neo-nazis and other far right movements. celtic cross - it was used by nazis in norway in the 30s and 40s, and more recently it has been used by neo-nazis, klansmen, and other white supremacist groups. white nationalists use a version of the symbol with a square cross as opposed to the elongated cross Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging - an afrikaner nationalist, neo-nazi, and white supremacist political party in south africa i believe this one stands for völkisch equality (if im wrong correct me) - a concept within nazism which ascribed racial equality and full legal rights to people of german or related blood but deliberately excluded people outside this definition odal rune - was the badge of the SS race and settlement main office, which was responsible for maintaining the racial purity. it was also the emblem of ethnic Germans and neo-nazis in nazi germany occupied territories and other neo-fascist groups 14 - from the fourteen words coined by david lane: "we must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children" Wolfsangel - a heraldic charge from germany and eastern france, which was inspired by medieval european wolf traps. widely adopted in nazi symbolism Atomwaffen - Atomwaffen Division is a neo-Nazi group that emerged in 2016 92 - not too sure about this but it could refer to the 92nd Infantry Division, correct me if im wrong Totenkopf/SS death head - julius schreck, the leader of the stabswache (hitler's bodyguard unit), resurrected the use of the totenkopf as the unit's insignia. this unit grew into the schutzstaffel (SS) which continued to use the totenkopf as insignia throughout its history iron cross - a military decoration in the kingdom of prussia, and later in the german empire and nazi germany Identity Evropa - an american neo-nazi and white supremacist organization established in March 2016. It was rebranded as the American Identity Movement in March 2019. In November 2020, the group disbanded. 18 - code for Adolf Hitler. The number comes from the position of the letters in the alphabet: A = 1 H = 8 iron guard - a romanian militant revolutionary fascist movement and political party founded in 1927 arrow cross - the symbol of a far-right hungarist fascist political party the arrow cross party, led by ferenc szálasi,
unable to find any information regarding the rest of symbols, if anyone knows them please feel free to add
small addition: the Algiz rune was not a post war alternative to nazi symbols, it was very much a popular nazi symbol during the war also, associated with health and life. See, for example, the nazi Health ministry’s logo:
the sanitation services of the Hitler Youth:
the badge of the nazi association ‘German Women’s Work’:
As with all these symbols: this symbol also has non-nazi uses and context is key. If you see this thing on a random person, maybe do a double take and look for other signs that they’re a nazi. If you see this thing on a person at a white lives matter demo? you don’t need to wonder what it means.
This one is Patriot Front, a neo-nazi hate group that split from another group, Vanguard America, in 2017.
This is the symbol of the Iron Guard which combined fascism, nationalism, Eastern Orthodox Christianity and antisemitism. The hate movement was wiped out during WWII but it was resurrected as a neo-nazi symbol and spread to the US in the 2010s
I couldn't find the upward arrows one but it's similar to the anarchist chaos symbol, I think that's unrelated tho. I did find a couple other labeled references:
Stay safe out there!
This is both helpful and frustrating.We need to stop letting fascists co-opt symbols for their hate-fueled existence. Nazis using the Celtic wheel for their symbology should be tossed into the deepest part of the Mississippi River with rocks in their pockets. Really big rocks. And maybe some special shoes. My kids and I are most dominantly Irish and Romani. We all have Celtic wheel necklaces as a nod to that branch of our ancestry. Apparently we need to coordinate with some sort Punch Nazis or Fuck Fascists bandanas when we wear them now.
video description:
Video starts on a black woman wearing a light pink snapback hat with gold glasses and a blue shirt, sat in the backseat of a car on the passenger side, captioned "What is the most pettiest things you've taken after a breakup?" She asks the camera, "What's the most petty thing you've taken from your ex after your breakup? I'll go first."
Video cuts to a black woman with short hair in a floral shirt standing before a brick wall. What she says is as follows:
"Many years ago, just a few days before Christmas, my ex informed me that he was no longer happy; he was seeing someone else and um. He just wanted to 'move on' with his life. And he suggested that I move out after the holidays because" The woman shrugs.
"You know it was his house. And I understood that." The woman rolls her eyes.
"I left that same day. I called my sister she brought a U-Haul, and we got my stuff outta there. But when I say 'my stuff' I meant My Stuff.
"I took everything. He had nothing when I got there; I left him with nothing.
"And, to top it off..." She looks to her left, before looking at the camera again.
"I took the damn Christmas tree. Yes I did. Tied it to the top of my car, ornaments and all, I was riding down the highway ornaments falling off.
"I felt like the Grinch.
"It was exhilarating." A short pause.
"Ho ho ho you mother- I can't say that."
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99.99% of rap haters have never even listened to rap. or if they have it's like one gangsta rap song & they treat the genre as a monolith and act like it's representative of every rap song ever. and well of course they are also just racist
first & last line still stand even if rap was a monolith and all rap was gangsta rap. btw
Rap is great! Everyone knows the worst genre of music is country
99.99% of country haters have never even listened to country. or if they have it's like one post-9/11 pop country song by a rich poser & they treat the genre as a monolith and act like it's representative of every country song ever. and well of course they are also just classist
They did it again
Oh, cool! I love the behind-the-scenes stuff. If you’ve never seen the original (this version is narrower so you miss a lot that was going on) it’s here:
THANK YOU