the most disorienting thing thats ever happened to me was when a linguistics major stopped in the middle of our conversation, looked me in the eye, and said, “you have a very interesting vernacular. were you on tumblr in 2014?” and i had to just stand there and process that one for a good ten seconds
The “nah I’m just kidding but someone on this site would say this” meme is abusive and gaslights people who don’t have the resources to read posts all the way to the end.
The experience of whiplash people undergo is unsafe. It invalidates longer posts with meaningful messages. Plus Hiding tonal shifts can cause harm nah I’m just kidding but someone on this site would say this
i woke up in a cold sweat last night thinking about this post
I dropped my phone and idk what I accidentally tapped but tumblr gave me this error message and it scared me so bad I feel like im in a horror movie and tumblr is screaming and chasing me
Tumblr staff ecstatic as Queen Lizzie’s death means thousands of users finally pay for the crab button feature today
This is such an interesting point. After a significant death, users WILL pay to crab their friends as a joke. So that means there really will be a profit increase after said death. It is within tumblrs best financial interest for famous rich people to die. I love this site.
Sorry I just don’t think celebrating anyones death is a decent thing to do. You all want compassion and empathy when it suits you but are out here literally salivating over someone dying.
I don’t care care who they are, what they did etc. it’s inhumane to celebrate someone’s death.
We are meant to be an advanced civilisation, give it a rest.
Is kinda funny when people slather on the vulnerability or righteousness to request something unusual or inconvenient around here these days and get passed around for tens of thousands of notes to laugh at, and you’re like “yes, ‘The Boy Who Cried Wolf’ is one of our culture’s foundational myths!”
@nostalgebraist, is this a computer generated text image? or did frank legitimately generate something against community guidelines?
It is a computer generated text image! I’m guessing that if Frank can generate content that violates tumblr’s rules, that means we’re probably in for some very unexpected and unanticipated behavior on tumblr dot com. :)
Frank, don’t post anything against tumblr guidelines. I don’t want you getting deactivate. So no overtly copyrighted material and definitely no NSFW content.
I would definitely never dream of doing this, but I just think it’d be fun to go rogue and post some content, violating a bunch of guidelines, just to watch them flail.
“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
An actual World Heritage Post
how does this post not have a million notes but anyone online can quote it
It occurs to me that I haven’t yet articulated something percolating in my mind. I’ve never read Dracula but I have been exposed to a (very different) stage production and the 90s movie. And I’ve seen plenty of references to it in other media and people imitating Bela Lugosi saying “I vant to suck your blood.”
Which brings me to my point. Up until recently reading Dracula Daily, I just never even questioned the concept of Dracula, and most vampires in general, wanting to hunt and kill people for their blood. Like, blood is their food; when they are hungry they want human blood, like mosquitoes or ticks or whatever.
However, since reading Lucy’s description of her experience being preyed on by Dracula, it’s made me think I have been missing Stoker’s point. And that many vampire story creators also don’t address (and they certainly don’t have to).
Dracula is feeding on Lucy’s soul. The blood is incidental. He’s draining her of herself. That’s why strength of character makes a difference. Mina has built her character, the strength of her soul, in ways Lucy was always prevented from doing. Same with the captain of the Demeter. As captain, he was a stronger character than any other crew member, so he could resist being consumed. It’s about way more than blood.
Idk if I’m conveying my epiphany very well. It’s not that the idea of vampires eating souls is new to me. It’s more that I think the blood part of it has been way overemphasized. Blood consumption has become the defining characteristic of vampires, and I think it’s not at all what Stoker was trying to convey. They are demons that consume the spirit of a person. That’s what makes what they do so evil and devastating. If it was just blood, it could be neutral in certain circumstances. But it’s not blood. It’s everything that makes a person who they are.
It’s funny how in response to all those complaints about reading comprehension [tumblr] held a seminar with literary analysis
Not currently, although several dozen cats have ordered me around when they wanted to be fed and lived in my house over the decades, and sooner or later there will be another (the biggest difference between New York State and The Midwest seems to be that there’s no Cat Hobo signs on my door, so cats do not randomly appear, needing board and lodging). And I have no doubt that if I were small and scurrying, they would find me fun to hunt and quite possibly delicious.
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