YEAH BASICALLY alloros are too fragile to examine the societal norms that they personally like aka romance and it’s really embarassing
Tumblr: Let’s kill social norms! Honestly we should just be able to be however we are inside!
Aros: Hey society’s focus on romance hurts everyone, let’s end that. Right tumblr?
Tumblr: New phone who dis
tumblr: we should all analyse the harmful societal norms we ascribe to even if we personally benefit from or enjoy them
aros: ok so can you all reflect on some of the ways you talk about romantic relationships? we know y’all like romance but ouch you’re killing us scoob
tumblr: [cricket noises but somehow angry ones]
this calls for meme
[Image description: A picture of a man captioned “alloros” holding his hand out towards a butterfly captioned “Aros being upset by amatonormativity. Under the entire picture reads the caption “Is this a personal attack?”]
lawful: for better or worse, one bound to law, order, and retaining stability neutral: no general inclination towards good or evil chaotic: hell raiser of various motives
valid: does their best and tries their hardest, usually for their greater good dumbass: for better or for worse, clueless. no leaning toward good or evil. bastard: a dick for the sake of being a dick
unit: gets through their problems and tolerates being wronged bitch: gets through but makes a big deal about it motherfucker: makes their problems other people’s problems
i’m going through some 19th century travel diaries of people traveling from england to australia, and there’s this diary dated 1835, by a woman called eliza taylor. she’s fascinated by flying fish and dolphins, sees seagulls (”they are like pigeons but make a similar noise to ducks”), stargazes “till tea time” with the captain and another woman passenger, describes the boatswain playing the violin very well. these two paragraphs struck me, this one she writes during some party on deck:
Their merriment accorded not with my gloomy reflections both for the past and the future. I am very melancholy this warm weather and often wonder whether in any future years I shall ever have a taste of the joys and scenes of happiness I had in my childhood. My evil genius whispers No.
(what happened to you, eliza? we won’t know. just a glimpse of her sadness in a travelogue is all we’re allowed to see)
and then, on another evening, she sees something that may be bioluminescence, or maybe just starlight:
In a fine blue sea, the foam caused by the vessel at night seems full of stars. The snow white ferment, with the golden sparkles in it is beautiful beyond description. You look over and devour it with your eyes, as you would do much etherial syllabub. Finalmente, the stars issue forth, and the Moon always more lovely the farther you get South, completed the magnificience of the imposing scene.
it’s such a lovely description, so full of wonder.
Hey I’m seeing a lot of people freaking out because they think Tumblr just absolutely hides posts with outgoing links and that is at least not *completely* true
they may be hidden under the Search function but if you go into the /tagged/ searches they should still show up! Some screencap evidence, from a /tagged/Les Miserables search, 11/21/2018 (none of these are my posts btw, just examples):
^^ that one went to Youtube
^^^^ a post with a link to Discord
^^^^ a post with a link to AO3
so I’m not sure where the whole “ Tumblr Hides Links “ thing kicks in –again, it may well be a problem with sitewide Search function, which I never use– but it doesn’t kick posts out of the tags for having links!
Why I never mock or even bring attention to mispronunciation in a conversation, and will snap down anyone who tries to
Besides poverty, for many peoplevEnglish is a second (or third+) language and has weird rules too.
Most of the time, even when words are mispronounced, they’re still understandable if you make an effort. Just be patient and don’t look down on people who mispronounce!
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