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Randomonium

@musewhipped / musewhipped.tumblr.com

I'm a bisexual cis woman living in Melbourne, Australia, my pronouns are she/her. The title says it all really. Here I will post pictures and words, some by me, but most by others. You'll find all kinds of things here, funny stuff, serious stuff, art, activism... There's no real theme except that it all resonates with me in some way.

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It was already bad! It started as a Mormon-owned company that probably used your data to sell you Jesus ads and posthumously baptize your heathen family. This is just a turd on a turd

I've always been too paranoid to submit my DNA to any of these services, because they always seemed like databases that would be very attractive to Nazis.

The library at Dunham Massey Hall, an early 17th century country house in the parish of Dunham Massey. The library contains the earliest-known wood carving by Grinling Gibbons and astronomical instruments, including an 18th-century orrery (a mechanical model of the solar system).

twitter: currently owned by techbro pissman

tumblr: actively removing functionality and bloating the interface with things nobody uses

discord: being retooled by ex-Meta management who don't understand the appeal of the platform

youtube: neutered by advertisers and algorithms and also tiktokification

reddit: half of the site is down due to protests about the outrageous monetization of third-party API support

facebook: my mom is on there

Make a Vampire character who’s lived through several waves of the common language’s development and can’t let go if certain gramatical habbits from different time eras.

So like, thou ist a horrid creature, an absolute cur, but go off i guess

… can i use that phrase irl?

Absolutely you can and I encourage more uses of similar phrases that just completely fuck up the chronology of the english langauge. I wanna hear 15th century english mixed with surfer speak mixed with current age internet lingo like all the time.

Like this? Well my dude, seems like a weasel hath not such a deal of splean as you’re toss’d with. Chill already, you’re not valid.

You are an unrighteous, bastardly gullion. Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell. When you die, I will face God and walk backwards into hell just so that I can beat your ass in the afterlife too.

I love the idea of a vampire who’s language travels back in time as they get pissed.

I grieve for thee in these trying times. Alexa play Despacito

Reading these is like literary whiplash

This whole post is gold, but the comment about the vampire’s dialect “devolving” into older and older periods when he’s angry stood out to me.

It’s a cinematic cliché for a person of any foreign nationality to revert to their native language when angry (I usually see it with Spanish-speaking characters), and my southern accent deepens as I get angrier.

It makes sense that an immortal character who saw the eras of his language change and evolve over time would speak more and more archaically as he got angrier.

Historical linguists decide to get especially ancient vampires pissed off in order to study ancient languages

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are you telling me that if I get a 5000yo vampire angry enough I can directly test the glottalic theory?

*Pisses off a vampire so much that they teach me Minoan*

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@deadcatwithaflamethrower because a. languages! and b. this made me think of Nizar whose vocal patterns shift all the time depending on his mood/the conversation/how pissed off he is with someone/something!

Also reblogging for the update of *Pisses off a vampire so much that they teach me Minoan*

“Once you’ve got your teeth out of my neck, could you demonstrate what Linear B sounds like…?”

Climate crisis is coming for all of us. We need to vote for people who are not insulated from reality via donor bribes.

We need a robust EPA. The current Supreme Court wants to end the EPA and Federal power to regulate our air and water. Never forget.

Get involved. Vote.

This is not an American/non-American thing

This is a CLASS thing

When I (American) went to college (expensive private school on scholarships) (almost everyone there upper middle class or upper class) I and one of my friends (average) incited anger and rejection for asking to ‘tag along’ to the grocery store

They saw it as selfishly asking a favor and were shocked, just like the OOP’s friend, whereas we saw it as a normal and sensible thing to do.

A Roman doll with moveable joints and accessories was found in the sarcophagus of Crepereia Tryphaena, an unmarried 20-year-old woman. The sarcophagus is dated to the late 100s (2nd c. AD) making the ivory “Crepereia Doll” nearly two thousand years old.