i don’t mean the prevalence of (over?)sharing broad-brush feelings like sadness and anger and love
i mean the ones there are no words for, the ones you thought you were experiencing alone, that turn out to be universal once someone comes up with a way to depict them in a post
take for instance ‘cursed image’ and ‘blessed image’
it’s not that the feeling that describes is new – i guarantee you as far back as like 1978 i have looked at a picture and felt squirmy and uncertain like it changed my brain in a way i didn’t consent to, even though it wasn’t a picture of a bad or scary thing happening.
but it would never have occurred to me to even show such a picture to someone else and elicit their reaction, let alone that the reaction is a thing humanity shares.
it took tumblr’s unique combination of oversharing, relatability-seeking, and memes to stick the caption ‘cursed image’ on, say, a gas mask full of spaghetti, and suddenly we all discovered we knew EXACTLY what they were talking about.
same with ‘blessed image’ – it can’t just be any old cute or nice picture. a kitty touching someone’s hand is just a pet photo. but this
is a blessed image. i can’t put into words why. but you know it is.
i would also like to bring up ‘a real feeling’, the tumblr outgrowth of the general internet ‘that feel when’ meme
‘that feel’ goes for the obviously relatable, like getting dumped, eating food, watching tv, etc; ‘a real feeling’ goes for the stuff so niche that simply mentioning it is evocative, and that it turns out to be relatable is a huge surprise. i tried to find examples but they’re hard to search because ppl don’t tag them. it’s just like, “a real feeling is when you feed a parking meter in ohio and pretend you’re in new york” or “a real feeling is knowing how to float on your back in a pool but you can’t quite bring yourself to stop paddling a little bit anyway” – little glimpses into someone’s life that turn out to be things you’ve experienced, or can imagine so well that you feel like you have.
a lot of the posts i see going around that credit millennials for inventing some form of communication are wrong – y’all are not more sarcastic than gen x, sorry, you just ain’t – but this one? congratulations, you did this, and it’s very cool.
So the last time I reblogged this, someone reblogged from me with a comment along the lines of “wait till you see them with swords”. So I went to search it up, and… guys. GUYS.
There are actual sparks flying holy shit =O
and at the very end one ballerina comes rolling up like “you have learned well, my padawans”
(these two audio tracks come from episode 14 and Kiseki no Shiai, respectively)
There are two things common in these tracks. First is how Takao ‘provokes’ Midorima (he does something that annoys the other), and the second is how Midorima reacts to it. And that’s probably the most important thing—Midorima reacting to Takao the way he does.
Midorima is usually very reserved. But here, Takao changes that. Here Midorima reveals another side of himself to Takao, the complete opposite. If you pay close attention (track one), you hear Midorima pulling Takao out of the okonomiyaki house, and then he headlocks* him and smacks him. And (track two), he actually runs after Takao after Takao tries to get away from him (what he does to make Takao scream like that, I don’t know).
Not very reserved, is it?
He could have responded with a simple ‘hmph’, or could have merely ignored Takao, but he doesn’t. He acts on it. The best thing I like about this (and my point) is Midorima being comfortable enough to act that way around Takao. Like Takao is someone he can act naturally around with. And this shows how Takao was able to get through to Midorima.
(*Album art above. Also, in Teikou, there were instances where Atsushi had, more or less, gotten on Midorima’s nerves. But you don’t see Midorima headlocking him and pulling him out of the gym. He tells him off with that little tic mark on the side of his temple.That’s it.)
After 3 months of glitchy websites and deliberation, the Percy Jackson Greek Godly Parent Quiz is finally complete. 33 questions long, and inspired by Pottermore and Golden Compass quizzes, take the quiz to find out which is your Greek godly parent/patron. The results include the 12 Olympians and Hades, and shouldn’t take you more than 10 minutes.
I can edit the quiz anytime I like, so please spread the word and I am open to any feedback and comments at any time. You can leave them in the tags or send a message to me directly!
Quiz Link : You can take the quiz here, and you can find the link on my sidebar as well.
Alternate Link: If the above doesn’t work, I’ve embedded the quiz onto my blog over here.
Guys, this is it. This is the time for you to pass this test and to know who you really are. This is the day when all those “Do you like death? Or achitecture? Or fashion?” quizes can be left alone in the past. This is the day for THE quiz.
can every mutual i have do this so i can start judging you by this instead of the zodiac
and it’s a zeugma where one of the words is literal and one is metaphorical which is the BEST KIND
I didn’t know about zeugmas until just now! That is so awesome, everybody:
zeug·ma
ˈzo͞oɡmə/
noun
a figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses (e.g.,John and his license expired last week ) or to two others of which it semantically suits only one (e.g., with weeping eyes and hearts ).
She dropped her dress and inhibitions at the door.
What’s this? My favorite rhetorical device showing up on my dashboard?
IT HAS A NAMEEEE!! OH MY GOD!!!
ZEUGMA IS THE GREATEST
(Nitpicking: It doesn’t require one of the meanings to be metaphorical, however. Both meanings that the verb takes can be literally true. e.g., One of the most famous zeugmas is Pope’s “Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey / Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea.” Take is literal in both cases, just different.)
I didn’t really even WANT to make a post about this.
The alpha-beta-omega model of wolf packs is dead in scientific literature, hammered into the ground, so to speak, and it’s been dead for over ten years. So why am I still hearing about it on TV and reading about it in articles? Why are popular dog trainers that encourage you to “be the alpha” still taken seriously?
I think the unfortunate truth is that the idea that there are strong and ferocious leaders in wolf packs and that you, too, can take on that role with your dog is just somehow appealing to people. Almost romantic, in the older sense of the word. And because of this, it makes money. It sells werewolf media. It sells dog training classes. Educational science channels that have no business promoting this false ideology keep it on board because it gets people watching.
If you couldn’t tell, I’m pretty fed up with the whole thing.
Okay, let’s talk about dominance, particularly what the word even means, because popular media does a terrible job of explaining it.
A great and very scientific but accessible explanation of not only why dominance (alpha) theory in canids is bunk, but how dominance hierarchies actually work.
Koryos is amazing and if you want super intense awesome posts about animal behavioral science, they’re a great person to follow.
Share this far and wide and off tumblr! This theory needs to be debunked in the modern pet world so, so badly. (I find this just as frustrating as the OP does).
Today I found out that the name Alexandra is found in Linear B, and it’s kind of blowing my mind because that means that name has been in use for at least 4500 years
just moving along like everyone else 