In case you think the writers on strike aren't making good use of their time, think no more!

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Hey y’all wanna see the worlds most appropriately unhinged phantom of the opera as it came up on my FYP?

Concept: The Gotham Citizen app has a forum for posting candid photos of vigilantes and there’s an ongoing phenomenon where photos of Tim are impossibly gorgeous no matter the angle and photos of Dick (one of the most beautiful people in the entire world) look like when you take high-speed photos of Olympic athletes mid-sport

op’s tags are killing me

They're going to run out of movies, let's trick them into releasing morbius a third time

Marvel Heroines Icons by Gurihiru

Best one shot I’ve ever read lmao

(By the excellent @motleyfam )

Omg I've read this fic! Reading this note originally made me laugh out loud, and it made me laugh again to see it now. I know which fandom, but I can't remember which fic it was

this cannot be a real fortune i just got

me: oh yay! i love fortune cookies 🥰 can’t wait to see what my fortune is! 😄💕

this cookie: kill yourself and shut the fuck up

[Batfam member finds out Tim Drake figured out Bruce Wayne was Batman because Dick Grayson Robin did a quadruple somersault]

Batfam: lol Dick only did that because he is so extra

Me [vibrating]: trapeze artists tried unsuccessfully to nail the quadruple for 70 years because the flyer picks up enough velocity on the spins that they reach 80 miles an hour and hit with so much force it can dislocate the shoulders of the person trying to catch him and rip the skin off their hands in big flaps 

the flyer would hit so hard the people attempting it would box and slap their hands against wooden blocks to toughen their skin and hitting a quadruple in the air magnified the power behind tiny nine-year-old Dick’s strikes to the point where it could have probably stunned a metahuman and this was probably a large reason behind his ability to be a crimefighter at an earlier age than any other person in the DC universe and in this essay I will

How dare you leave the emoji somersaults of doom in the tags

Let young Dick somersault into his parents killers

This is glorious, holy shit Dickie is terrifying

Father's Day Gifts

Rhotics aren't real

I mean, in the headline up there, R appears 3 times but is made by at least 2 distinct vocal gestures and my native-US-English-speaking ears interpret it as the same sound. And if you're from Boston, the second word doesn't even have an R in it (but there's a ghost of it on the A).

In German, there are at least 3 different ways to pronounce an R, depending on where it is in the word and/or your dialect. Spanish has a trilled R, and Japanese has a coronal tap that's romanized as either R or L. Scots uses this same coronal tap in words like "bairn." (The coronal tap is the sound (US) English speakers use for D and T in the phrase "Adam edited it," and I daresay we wouldn't interpret that as "Aram erired it.")

So what the fuck is an R?

Linguists don't fucking know. There's this software called Praat written and maintained by a linguistics professor in the Netherlands that lets you take recordings of speech and turn them into waveforms and spectrograms, which you can then analyze. You can see where the vowels are and the sibilants, nasals, and stops, but the nebulous group of sounds included in the letter R aren't easy to visualize. You can see ghosts of their presence in the deformation of vowel formant frequencies, but there's nothing we can point to and say "THIS! THIS is an R!"

So your brain hears this sound that isn't this and isn't that and isn't this other thing or that other thing, and decides it's an R because it doesn't know what else to do with it.

R has that "behold! a man!" energy and I think that's beautiful.

If you liked this post, check out my Kickstarter, where I'll be writing a book with some weird linguistic facts that you can use to give your characters better voices.

business majors are like orcs to me. and not the hot kind

dnik toh eht ton dna .em ot scro ekil era srojam ssenisub

the backwards version for anyone who needs it

how many of my followers do you think are from the mirror dimension

Y WVUTSR ONMLKJIH FEDCBA

62/12

you motherfucker

My favorite Tim moment is when he's struggling to undo his shoelace and refers to it as an "entity of pure evil" and then he immediately questions where his pocketknife is so that he can just cut the knot off alskdja.

Robin #100

I read somewhere that its common in Arab culture to refer to someone close to you as your organs, implying you can’t live without them. Like how in english someone would say “my heart” (qalbi), in Arabic someone would also use “my liver” (kabidi) “my lungs” (riati). Notably, “my blood” is “Dami” which is funny bc it’s Damian’s shortened nickname.

Damian’s brothers have been using the nickname for years with or without knowing. I propose that as Damian gets closer to them, and Tim in particular, he responds in kind.

He starts to refer to Tim as “tuhali.”

…it means “my spleen.”

(Edit: this has now been confirmed by several Arabic speakers! Except the pronunciation of Dami as in “my blood” and Dami (shortened) might be different? Unclear.)

someone writing “dami” in a text to damian for the first time and you just hear down the hall:

“Ya hamar- WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME??”