Just a hedgehog, y'know?

One of my favorite things is learning what words people used for this hand game—where you sit in a circle with your hands facing up, right hand on top of your neighbor's, left hand below your other neighbor's, and you sequentially go around slapping right hand into left— where they lived when they were kids. The regional variations are the best. It's in Wikipedia as "Stella Ella Ola," but for me (and many NE USAmericans) it's "Quack Diddly Oso."

The way these games are taught to younger kids by older kids and spread throughout regions is so fascinating; I want a visualization where you can see what happens when one random kid 50 years ago moved to a different state. I have no idea how widespread this game is, but I think it's all across the US and Canada, at a minimum. I haven't seen my kids play this—is it still a thing?

In my school in the 90s, it went like this—

Quack diddly oso, 
Quack, quack, quack, 
Señorita, 
Rita, rita, rita, 
Velour, velour, 
Velour, velour, velour, velour, 
1, 2, 3, 4!

I especially appreciate the versions that include “your mother smells like pizza,” “the toilet over fulled,” and “the cat peed on the floor,” “potatoes on the floor-a”

What about you? Anyone play it outside of North America?

everyone who played “down by the banks,” I feel sorry for you that you had such a boring version

sometimes a man will be a babygirl, a fairy princess but also a whore

I hope all those white boys shocking waiters by ordering in [asian language] all collapse into a black hole singularity

I just watched a tiktok where the white guy tried speaking in vietnamese to the waitress who had to admit on film that no, she doesn't speak her ancestors language, and he was like "oh I've out-vietnamesed you" while she like sat down on the restaurant floor in shock. and the comments were like haha how cool and smart of the white guy isn't this funny! like how do people not realize this is humiliating? white people will never understand the complex relationship asian diaspora have with their language and the shame and guilt and baggage of assimilation, and then they get to exploit that shit for views and clout like I genuinely want all those people to kill themselves

feeding you all my buff lesbian musketeer barbie agenda

hang on I’m trying to see something

don’t tell me the name of your pet, just tell me in the tags the name you call them that’s got nothing to do with their actual name

here's a fandom challenge: stop referring to lxc and xxc as himbos or at the very least build up a good defense that doesn't fall back on "he trusted the villain"

I'm creating like 600 threads with this post and I'm sorry but you are so real for this

also "ough life-saving essential medical equipment uses so much plastic" in this country you can purchase an artificial ballsack for your pickup truck

"ough watching a show uses so much electricity" on road sides there are giant electrified billboards that do nothing but show you ads

Exactly! Stop asking me what MY carbon footprint is when Hershey used 5,829 million litres of water in 2021, Disneyland uses over a billion kWhs per year, Keystone spilled 2,226,000 litres of oil in 2022, Bob Iger's old house had 7 fucking bathrooms and I guarantee he doesn't recycle or use energy efficient lightbulbs in his fuckin million dollar jet.

this tweet & this scene from the mystery of the abyss moviei

i love when modern AU jin guangyao and wei wuxian are buddies. like they don’t give a shit about each other in canon, but when jin guangyao is an overworked customer service rep who doesn’t kill people this time but still thinks abt it? and wei wuxian is still one master’s degree away from becoming a mad scientist? i think they should unionize. and be besties about it

if i was a little kitty and you were a little kitty would you touch noses with me to say hi

rb to touch prevs kitty nose to say hi

someone tell the tumblerinas that you can raise an issue without deliberately guilt-tripping everyone about it

okay, I take it back. I don’t think everyone is doing this deliberately. some of it is so deeply entrenched in tumblr culture that you probably don’t always notice you’re doing it

“nobody’s talking about this” -> you can just delete this phrase

“if you can’t reblog this, unfollow me” -> you can also delete this one

“x group can, and should, reblog this” -> remove the “should”. or you know. delete the entire sentence

your post will still spread all the important information without the guilt-tripping parts, I promise

if an otherwise valid post tries to guilt trip me it’s a pass on the rb, sry.

preserving this here bc op turned off reblogs

& the thrilling sequel

Maybe if he was a little less fuckable we wouldn’t be in this mess

If AO3 had a slogan

Allow me to elucidate, @a-sour-nectarine

When most people "roll their eyes", they flick their eyes directly upward, usually as far as they comfortably go, then resume looking normally.

When someone who learned the phrase before the behavior does it, they usually go in a circular (ish) motion. Since most eye movements are lines, it's usually pretty triangular: the key points are usually a diagonal up one way, then to the far other side, then to a diagonal low the first way. Thus, the eyes basically make a loop, so they "rolled".

I've found that when people who learned the up-down way first try the circular motion, they might risk motion sickness, so experiment carefully.

WHAT DO YOU MEAN MOST PEOPLE JUST LOOK UP