the attention for details ⭐
I thought you had to finish your mission report.
I do. But I thought it would be more pleasing to engage with you socially.
You old romantic.
New Year, New Gifs Challenge - Day 4 - Favorite Romantic Pairing
just thinking about... love... the physical aspects... comfort in each other's presence etc you know? regular day for me
Liu Xiaodong (Chinese, b. 1963), Love, 1995 / Clare Elsaesser / Harold Von Schmidt, Cosmopolitan Illustration (1926) / Clare Elsaesser
Diego Luna's character head-over-heels in love with Zoe Saldana's character across two decades 🥺
Enrique Cruz ♡ Dolores Torres in The Terminal (2004) Manolo Sanchez ♡ Maria Posada in The Book of Life (2014) Zatz: Prince of Bats ♡ Maya: Wrath of Teca in Maya and the Three (2021)
i forgot how fucking weird november is theres no afternoon its just night after 2pm
when it rains you simply do not get a day
Learning a language that doesn’t use the same writing system as your native one is so fun because they change the font and you’re doomed
I had a penpal from Greece in high school. She had the neatest handwriting ever. She taught me a bunch of basic stuff, and it got to the point that we’d write our letters almost exclusively in Greek (a big deal, as this was before Google Translate was even a thing).
Cut to junior year of college. I took Classical Greek as part of my degree, and I was feeling like I had a leg up over my classmates, whose Greek handwriting looked like kindergarten chicken scratch, while mine was smooth and quick. I turned in my first assignment feeling pretty damn proud of myself.
About three assignments later, my professor pulled me aside with the goofiest look on his face…
“I appreciate the effort, but…”
You remember that phase I think all little girls go through in middle school/junior high? Where we have swirly tails on our G’s or our Y’s get all swoopy, or we dot all our I’s with little hearts?
Yeah…
Turns out, all the perfect little flourishes I’d been putting on my letters were not, in fact, part of the letters at all. My penpal had just still been in that phase when she taught me the alphabet!
some examples of printed vs. handwritten, and handwritten variability
chinese:
korean:
russian:
greek:
mushroomtale
chinese calligraphy
chinese doctor’s prescription
decoded
n ofc there’s the infamous russian cursive
My eyes, my EYES!!! * screams *
I write in Russian cursive when I’m trying to check if my pen has ink
I wouldn’t say ‘When Harry Met Sally’ is my favorite movie in the world, but it pinpointed something that everyone connects to: the I-didn’t-know-I-was-in-love-with-my-best-friend thing. That obviously comes from Emma. Jane Austen pinpointed it in the Emma-Mr. Knightley relationship. It’s been used successfully as a thematic problem in two people’s lives in a lot of stories, and that’s really a testament to Jane Austen’s observation of the romantic human condition. /… / I think everyone has had that best friend where you just argue, you do everything together, and years go by and you wonder if you should have kissed that person. And I think that’s why ‘When Harry Met Sally’ exists, because of Knightley and Emma—and ‘Reality Bites’ with Winona Ryder and Ethan Hawke. That’s a totally Mr. Knightley/Emma relationship. /… / The movie is very much supposed to play into everyone’s memory of that best friend that maybe they should have kissed. — Autumn De Wilde
Anya Taylor Joy & Johnny Flynn | EMMA. (2020)
Part of the reason why I’m not more of a Trekkie is that every time I look up “spock/uhura” or “spock & his family” nine out of every ten posts are still about Spirk.
Oh the struggle of Spock fans who don't care about ships, or they like his actual romance in the reboot just fine and/or would like for his actual stories and backstory to get developed more.
It's funny because some people in this fandom concern troll so much about Uhura being "reduced to a love interest" but I actually, ironically, at times find much more fanon gen content about her than about Spock. It's like people essentially project on her the very thing they do with Spock themselves. I mean, try being a Spock fan who doesn't think his role is just being either Kirk's nerdy friend or boyfriend, or one piece of the original trio. Try finding content that isn't, like, about Spock needing to see the light and understand how to human thank to his dudebro (cue the whining when canon doesn't align with such interpretations.. I mean, it's almost as if...Spock is part human himself? And he has a life beyond THAT captain and ship? Whoa).
STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS 2013, dir. J. J. Abrams
If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
EMMA (2020) dir. Autumn de Wilde
Source: prideandprejudice
Interspecies Relationship- Day 22 of Trektober 2021
This can be summed up as Nyota Uhura is a Disney princess and Spock is in awe
Spock awoke to a quiet, overcast morning. The sky was covered with clouds, the sun barely peeking through to the world below.
It was the first day of spring break and he wasn't looking forward to it. Although most of the students would be travelling somewhere else, perhaps Las Vegas or to the swaying palm trees of Florida, there were still plenty on campus to make going anywhere insufferable.
Nyota had laughed when he told her the previous night of his annoyance. He had been offended but her promise to make their first spring break less insufferable was holding true. Today they would be going to the California Academy of Sciences. He'd thoroughly planned their day, if he got up now, they would have time to eat breakfast, prepare lunch and get going before the predicted rush.
He threw an arm over to Nyota's side of the bed and felt the cold sheets instead. Peculiar, he thought. She'd been there when he went to sleep, and when he woke up at three o'clock in the morning.
While he got up to investigate, he heard a song drifting in the air. He opened the door and walked down the corridor. The song got louder.
He stopped and listened for a moment.
ahhh i'm so glad you also like grey's anatomy! I figured i might as well ask haha. and Christina's arc is so good? I love her friendship with Meredith and eventually with Derek, him talking her through her trauma is such a soft and good part of that show. she really does have parallels with bones too, and i would Kill for spock looking into the camera like "yeah Dr. McCoy and my wife sometimes have sleepovers ... in my bed ... with me in it"
ok this was too funny I had to askskjsjsl
Chris Pine in Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
Say what you will about Into Darkness but I actually REALLY LOVE Kirk in it. Chris Pine was super charming. This is one of my favourite moments for his (my favourite being his way of saying “What is that even like?” when asking Uhura about fighting with Spock)
Changes to Tagged and Search URLs on Tumblr
Heads up! We’re changing the way we parse URLs on tagged and search pages, to properly encode/decode them to support spaces, hyphens, plus signs, and underscores. Most of these changes will be invisible to you, but if you’ve kept bookmarks or links to tagged and search pages on Tumblr or your blog, read on!
We’re going to start this process by rolling out a new setting you can enable when customizing your blog on the web:
What does it do? Today, and with that toggle disabled, going to a blog’s tagged URL like https://staff.tumblr.com/tagged/tumblr-tuesday would turn “tumblr-tuesday” into “tumblr tuesday” and you’d see posts with that tag. Same with search URLs. If you have that toggle enabled, that https://staff.tumblr.com/tagged/tumblr-tuesday URL will be decoded as “tumblr-tuesday” instead. If you want to link to the “tumblr tuesday” tag on your blog, you’ll have to use “tumblr%20tuesday” in the URL. But this means that if you use certain special characters in your tags, you’ll now properly be able to link to them!
The toggle above gives you early access to figure this all out. On December 1st, 2021, we’ll be enabling this behavior for all blogs on Tumblr.
We’ll update all of the links when you click on tags in Tumblr. However, if you manually added links to your tags in your blog description, theme, somewhere off Tumblr, saved bookmarks, or in posts (like a pinned post on your blog), then you’ll need to update those links if they contain spaces, underscores, or hyphens. Spaces in tags will now be encoded as “%20” rather than “-” or “+”. To do this, turn that toggle on, and click around on your tags to see if any of the URLs changed. Having this setting enabled and updating any links you’ve saved somewhere will future-proof you for when we roll this change out site-wide.
We hope this is great news for anyone who uses tags in specific ways (we see you!) and has been frustrated that the way to link to them has been inconsistent, or just plain not working since… forever. We’re working on several fixes across Tumblr related to these inconsistencies, but the majority of them require no action on your part.
Please hit us up via Support if you have any questions or concerns about this!
tl;dr
- new opt-in blog setting that changes what your tag urls look like
- setting is in the Edit Theme page (???)
- if you turn it on, then spaces are no longer changed to dashes in your tag urls
- setting is turned on for everyone on december 1, so this is basically just giving us time to fix up our masterlists ahead of time 🥲
example:
- you use the #cool cats tag on your blog
- previously, the link to that tag was: wow.tumblr.com/tagged/cool-cats
- now, if you turn that setting on, the link will be: wow.tumblr.com/tagged/cool cats