Cryptozoology is my favourite kind of fake science stuff. Wish there was also cryptobotany, like mothman but its just a really big fern in the middle of a field with literally nothing else around it , that spawned in the dead of night, might have killed a few people and never shows up in photos, and no one is sure its even real
Cryptogeology is also like "Yeah, that mountain likes to move around. Nobody's seen it do it. But I've been tracking it since Saskatoon."
"There are no mountains in Saskatoon."
"Not anymore, there aren't."
Cryptogeography: didn't used to be a France there
the problem with reading and writing leading to a strong vocabulary is that you tend to know the vibe of words instead of their meanings.
if I used this word in a sentence, would it make sense? absolutely. if you asked me what it meant, could I tell you? absolutely not.
"Tumblr should be user-owned" half you guys can't even stand AO3 having fundraising drives
I think there's just a contingent of people who think stuff on the internet should be Free and don't understand that all these services exist on physical servers that someone ultimately has to pay rent and utility bills on.
And that's not even getting in to the labor required to maintain them!
I left my YouTube on autoplay while I've been working and somehow ended up listening to a true crime thing and I would be absolutely fucked in a police interrogation.
"Repetition and forgetfulness during storytelling are signs of guilt," the detective says with certainty.
Worstie, you can ask me the same question multiple times in a row, and I will think of new details to tell you each time while simultaneously forgetting everything else I previously told you. That doesn't mean I murdered Karen, it just means I've got mental illness and ADHD.
By the way, this is part of why you never talk to the cops and you always get a lawyer. It is commonly held belief among cops that a number of common and totally innocent interrogation behaviors (forgetfulness, nervousness, forced calm, excessive precision, repetitive phrasing, inconsistent phrasing, etc) indicate guilt. And cops will testify at trial that their years of experience indicated you were guilty when you talked to them.
I love that every year fire departments are like "hey. maybe DON'T fry your turkeys?"
and across the nation, patriots rise up and shout "FUCK YOU" bc surely it'll be fine for THEM
and then start massive grease fires in their backyards
it is my most favorite thanksgiving tradition
for non-americans who have no idea what I'm talking about, a TON of fire departments and public health people will do annual presentation videos on how deep frying turkeys can go catastrophically bad
and every year, the american public goes "...anyway, where's my propane tank-"
I don't speak Spanish but I understand every word
I appreciate 'adn' being preserved in the form of 'qeu', that's absolutely beautiful.
The fact that "leche" is the most common slang term for semen in Spanish Castilian makes this post quite something.
Holy shit I think I just cracked the code of why people think you can’t sell things on Tumblr 😭
I was reading one of the Substacks I subscribe to, talking about how they promote their publication and their various sources of traffic, when I came across this paragraph:
Now I happen to also run a fairly popular Substack (about gay vampires). One whose readers are almost entirely Tumblr users. And Tumblr clicks have just never shown up in my stats, I’m used to it. Naturally I had to comment:
It’s not just Substack’s tracking that doesn’t work on here. NO tracking works on here. Tumblr is just one of the last platforms left that completely obscures its users’ data!
That’s why there’s this persistent myth that you can’t advertise on Tumblr. It's not that you can't sell things here, it's that you can't use the invasive methods that are standard everywhere else.
I can’t wrap my head around why Tumblr’s self-promo is all about Goncharov and dashboard crabs and not THIS! My god, their website on its last legs and this - this thing which is purely for the benefit of all their users - is certainly hurting their revenue. They aren’t patting themselves on the back for not selling us out? Not even a little?
Altogether, I really like the way americans say "can I help you?" as a polite general one-size-fits-all stand-in for "who the fuck are you/what the fuck are you doing here/how the fuck did you get in here/what the fuck are you staring at/what is your fucking problem." Such a polite way of going "bitch what the fuck."
People who sculpt in marble do fabrics and shit just to flex don’t they
Marble is a medium in which you can be horny on main and everyone’s like “wow that’s classy.”
I think having skills to construct flesh out of stone gives you as much right to be horny on main as any creator god.