How do you become a gimmick blog?
step 1: think of a gimmick
step 2: blog
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Distributing powerful beasts must explicitly require a quest of suitable magnitude and/or scale to the power of the recipient.
Nnggfff....
Have to say, House MD is the only show that really does live up to the hype on tumblr.
Dr Medical Malpractice really does walk around committing the most insane crimes on the daily.
The show oscillates between radically protective of vulnerable people, and the most mean spirited takes possible in the name of edginess.
House and Wilson really do have the wildest little fucked up relationship you’ve ever seen.
It’s like the opposite of the Yo, Mr White meme, where’s every joke post is just a canonical scene from this damn show.
2,121,566 people are not Amanda and counting!
We’ll find you Amanda.
this has almost 11 million notes what is this
I’ve never seen this post once in 10 years on this site
I’ve never even heard of this before tho??? Wtf??????????
oh my god, I didn’t think there were any surviving versions of this post left
For those who weren’t around in the Deep Lore times, this is one of the relics of the editable post era. This post has THE SINGLE HIGHEST NOTES of ANY post on this site, bar none, but with more than a dozen variations. Every single post you’ve ever seen with more than 3 million notes has been a different version of this one.
This is the “Dean’s Gym Shorts” post. This is the Flubber post. This is the original “Reblog if you support gay people” post. it was ALL of them. before half the site got nuked, it had even more notes than it has now - at one point, well over 15 million, and that was years ago.
This, with no exaggeration, is the ONE TRUE heritage post
World Heritage Post
I actually like that all media is now created to be thoughtlessly consumed within a single alloted month before it's destroyed by business guys whose stated favourite book is a dingy unread copy of The Art of War they left on their bedside to "reference". it's cool that everything is just one middling budget twelve episode season and half of it is dropped all at once directly onto streaming services so you have to sit down for six miserable hours to watch it in the most antisocial way possible. this is probably how art was meant to be consumed. this is how humans best process things, like death.
I let it all pass over me like a limp breeze. did I see the new show? oh no, and I suppose I will not, but that's okay because I don't feel much of anything at all about it. [pleasantly] I don't feel much of anything at all.
@a-beautiful-crow your tags ended me
loving this new tiktok trend of 14 year olds thinking 1998 was actually the 1800s
our tasteful callbacks vs their garish references
Our clever Easter Eggs vs their desperate pandering
Our impactful foreshadowing vs their clumsy Chekhov’s gun
A weird thing in English is that “savory” means (and has always meant) the exact same thing as “umami”, but everyone has agreed to switch to the word that comes with this bizarre backing mythology of a secret fifth flavor recovered from the depths of the Orient
I wish I had an OED subscription so I could investigate this more carefully, but I absolutely don’t believe that “savory” has always meant umami. It’s true that that if you look at a dictionary like Merriam-Webster today you can find
c : pleasing to the sense of taste or smell especially by reason of effective seasoning d : having a spicy or salty quality without sweetness e : being, inducing, or marked by the rich or meaty taste sensation of umami
but this was added recently! Back in 2015 it only had the senses c & d. My guess for how this happened is that this is a back-formation from the Japanese; someone was looking for a less foreign-sounding way to refer to umami, and calqued it as “savory”. (This is a pretty good rendering, because the Japanese word umami うま味 is itself a kind of pun. With a slightly different spelling うまみ it means “tastiness”—i.e. “savory” in sense c.)
I think historically the core meaning has just been c, it was a different word for “tasty”. If you look in Webster 1913, that’s how they define it. (I’m even slightly suspicious of sense d! It certainly occurs in set phrases like “would you like a sweet or savory dish”, but did people really have a coherent concept of non-sweet tastes? But that’s a digression.)
If you search for “savory” in 19th century books on on Google Books, there are a few examples which could plausibly refer to an umami taste, e.g. “a savory stew”, but those are in the minority, equally many hits are for things like “savory herbs”, “a savory fruit”, “savory smell”, which obviously aren’t umami, they are simply things that taste good. And perhaps more importantly, even in the case of meat dishes, the word only seems to be used to mean it tastes good. Obviously I have not done a thorough inventory, but I challenge you to find any historical usages of “savory” as a specific taste, analogous to “sweet” or “salty”.
I’m pretty confident that you will not find any such examples, because the idea of a fifth basic taste did not get generally accepted until the 1980s. E.g. as late as 1999, Alan Davidson writes in The Oxford Companion to Food:
the view that has been most widely accepted, at least in western countries, is that there are four tastes: sweet, bitter, acid (or sour), salt. However, many people believe that one or some of the following should be added to the list: metallic; ‘meaty’ or (to use the Japanese term) umami; astringent; pungent (as in the Chinese list above).
Note that even at this point there apparently was no consensus to translate it as “savory”, since he instead writes “meaty”.
I think this is the basic reason people use the loanword: the idea that umami is a taste a fairly recent scientific discovery and conceptual reorganization, while the word “savory” has been around since Middle English, so if you want a word referring specifically to things that trigger the glutamate/inosinate/guanylate receptor, “savory” would be unworkably ambiguous.
Also, apparently the notion that umami qualifies as a basic taste got accepted thanks to a specific research program by group of Japanese scientists who launched a subfield of umami studies in 1982. It seems pretty dismissive to write it off as orientalism when it was due to the deliberate work of actual people living in the orient!
where’s that photo of kubrick getting a mirror selfie with his daughter and jack nicholson’s in the foreground because he thought they were taking a picture of him asdfghjkl
Oh fuuuuck. Oh fuck dude. I just got bit by a fucking clam and tonight's the full moon
I. Love this.
Love it.
Oh my god
yes.
This is it, I found it, the funniest post on this entire godsforsaken website
I will never get over how brilliant this comic is. The artist could have just drawn a single image in response, but instead we have this masterpiece. The world doesn’t deserve @iguanamouth.
honestly? fruit is love. peeling an orange and sharing the segments. that post about the husband making an apple & cheese platter for his wife. I bought a cantaloupe at the store and was too tired to cut it up, and then this morning my dad said “hey I cut up that cantaloupe for you it’s in the fridge.” cherries on top of milkshakes with two straws. a margarita with a lime slice purchased at a bar for a potential lover. fruit is love
I see posts go by periodically about how modern audiences are impatient or unwilling to trust the creator. And I agree that that's true. What the posts almost never mention, though, is that this didn't happen in a vacuum. Audiences have had their patience and trust beaten out of them by the popular media of the past few decades.
J J Abrams is famous for making stories that raise questions he never figures out how to answer. He's also the guy with some weird story about a present he never opened and how that's better than presents you open--failing to see that there's a difference between choosing not to open a present and being forbidden from opening one.
You've got lengthy media franchises where installments undo character development or satisfying resolutions from previous installments. Worse, there are media franchises with "trilogies" that are weird slap fights between the makers of each installment.
You've got wildly popular TV shows that end so poorly and unsatisfyingly that no one speaks of them again.
On top of that, a lot of the media actively punishes people for engaging thoughtfully with it. Creators panic and change their stories if the audience properly reacts to foreshadowing. Emotional parts of storytelling are trampled by jokes. Shocking the audience has become the go to, rather than providing a solid story.
Of course audiences have gotten cynical and untrusting! Of course they're unwilling to form their own expectations of what's coming! Of course they make the worst assumptions based on what's in front of them! The media they've been consuming has trained them well.
JJ Abrams’ mystery box and its consequences has been a disaster for screenwriting.
another cool bug on this site is when youre on mobile and suddenly the ads will just move and cover the post youre reading
im so sorry ill make it up to you
enjoy the WOOLLY CHAFER BEETLE
im still pissed off about シ and ツ
I don’t シ whaツ bad about this?
im going to stab you in the face
ソン of a—
There’s really ノ need to get ソ worked up over something as miンor as this!
ワt the フck is going on
this is my worst nightmare.
Oケ guys let’s chill out, it クld be a lot worse.
I can’t speak for every screen reader, but if you listen to this post on VoiceOver it reads almost perfectly.
For those without a screen reader that transitions between English and Japanese so easily (or sight readers who can’t read Japanese): the symbols are Japanese Katakana. Each symbol represents a phonetic syllable. The entire post is just making puns with that, except for the first post, which is just OP being upset that [shi] and [tsu] look so similar.
This isn’t really a plain language transcription, but more of…a sort of translation?
Actual roman epitaph for a dog
humans are the same
this post is already on tumblr, why repost it?
You must be new here.
I've been here for a decade and my puzzlement over this kind of behavior remains evergreen
I admire the restraint not to point out you literally wrote the post that was screencapped.
This one is pissing me off because there’s cheese in it. I’m not sure there’s a period of Chinese dynastic history wherein the type of dudes likely to be having rap battles would also have been familiar with hard cheese. There’d be political fucking implications to that. Fermented dairy products were often seen as uncivilized foods, and were associated in particular with northern “barbarian” cuisine (see: <lactose intolerance in Eurasia>), whereas competitive poetry was viewed as a civilized and scholarly pastime appropriate to civil servants and courtiers. Mentioning cheese in a verse which also references the heavens could be seen as an effort to legitimize the presence of these dangerous foreign elements within Chinese society, and, thus, as seditious. If dairy were to become a common theme in rap battles, it might be viewed as a dangerous sign of poor morale and defeatist thinking among the literati. “Emperor, we have got to move the capital to the south. The scholars are rapping about cheese. It’s all falling apart.”
Now this is a fucking post
