#but depends on the context

[krystal-prisms]

#my bs #im canadian from BC #and id comsider a 3-4 hour drive to be long #but depends on the context #poll #polls #tumblr poll #tumblr polls #tumblr #long drive #road trip #trip #driving #canada #car #cars #drive

[critter-of-habit]

wolfwren brainrot 👀

#I may finish this depending on how the next two episode go lol #I don't need canon but I do need context #wolfwren #mine #art #swart

[ventique18]

Streamer 🌸 who's decently popular because they give practical, low-cost cooking lessons while being cute.

🌸: "Today we're going to make a healthy dinner using common leftovers!"

Anonymous4791638 superchatted $1000: "You are simply breathtaking, my darling. May I come over to your place tonight? I wish to give you a blessing of love."

...

You've been kicked out of U-chan's livestream.

🐉: "What has happened? How do I view their 'profile' again..? Let's see..."

You've been blocked by U-chan.

🐉: "..."

He was blocked and reported for being a creep. When he confronts 🌸 about it, they apologize and unblock him, but not without a stern warning.

🌸: "Why are you going around randomly giving $1000, sending thirst comments--"

🐉: "What is a thirst comment?"

🌸: "Unwanted compliments."

🐉, shocked: "You do not appreciate my compliments?"

🌸: "I didn't know it was you. Your account name is literally Anonymous4791638. How would you feel if a complete stranger threatened that they'd barge into your house at night and 'give you blessings of love'?"

🐉, scoffing: "I'd like to see them try to get past my lightning arrows first."

🌸: "Well I can't do that for myself. See?"

🐉: "... I'm sorry."

🌸: "Just don't scare people like that again... And, well. Don't you throw cash at me like that next time. Just come over anytime. We could even stream cooking lessons together~"

🐉: "I would appreciate that."

He stays over for a bit more as 🌸 helps him change his name to MDGargoyleEnthusiast instead.

#words can have completely different meanings depending on context #and mal's a frequent victim of that lmao #clueless old man #twisted wonderland #ventique rambles #malleus draconia #malleus x reader

[zillychu]

my toxic trait is I see the :) emote as a calm, relaxed smile. whereas 99% of the population sees it as not only a death threat, but a Promise

#to be fair sometimes it's both #it's completely context dependent for me #'that sounds nice :)' is sincere #'i will harvest your bones :)' is also sincere but a different kind of sincere #if you ever see me use it just remember my brother is gen X and I absorbed some of his ICQ era quirks #mixed with millennial vernacular it makes for an. interesting dialect

[coquelicoq]

what i like especially about the pronouns in the goblin emperor is that this language doesn't just have the T-V distinction (aka informal vs. formal second-person pronouns, in this case 'thou' vs. 'you'), it also has informal and formal first-person pronouns. having BOTH of these distinctions in the same language lets you fine-tune your tone by mixing and matching. with only one axis of formality, when you use informal pronouns, are you being familiar in an intimate way, or in an insolent or dismissive way? when you use formal pronouns, are you being polite or standoffish? you can't tell just from the pronouns; there's ambiguity. but a language where you can use a formal first-person pronoun in the same sentence as an informal second-person pronoun allows you to distance yourself (via the formal first) while also being familiar (via the informal second), thereby achieving the conversational tenor known to linguists as Fuck Thee Specifically.

#just kidding i don't know what linguists call that tenor. or any tenors. i'm not totally positive what a tenor even is #but i can't let that stop me from writing a jokey post on tumblr dot com #register is a very interesting area of linguistics that i know very little about #so i'm probably revealing the depths of my vast ignorance here to all the sociolinguists who surely hang on my every word #but i've always thought of the formal/informal pronoun thing as being about two things: intimacy-distance & rudeness-politeness #and of course you can usually tell from context whether a formal pronoun is meant to indicate distance or politeness #(plus distance and politeness are related to each other (to various degrees depending on culture)) #but it seems like it would be cool to have a built-in alignment chart of sorts just for pronoun combos #instead of prep jock nerd goth...why not try intimate self-effacing polite superior? #the goblin emperor #pronouns #register #sociolinguistics #my posts #f #anyway i know i said i wasn't going to reread the goblin emperor...but guess what. lol #and i edited my tags on that earlier post but fyi the language DOES distinguish between plural and formal singular pronouns #i had said i thought it used the same pronouns for plural and formal but i just wasn't paying close enough attention #so anyway i just reread the part where maia is talking to setheris in formal first and informal second #and you can see setheris going ohhh shit. oh shit oh shit oh shit #i'm in biiiiiig trouble #you sure are dude. that's the Time to Grovel signal #it's interesting because at the very beginning of the book when i first saw the formal first used i just thought it was the royal we #because i knew the main character was supposed to be royalty #but then EVERYONE was doing it. so it's not the royal we it's just the formal we #however. this does make me realize that the way the royal we would function in a language that retains the t-v distinction #is the same way i'm describing here. it's just reserving that particular tone (i'm better than you and am displeased with you) #for royalty only. which makes sense given royalty's whole deal

[continent-of-wild-endeavor]

A moment for a petty complaint:

When people are explaining how to weave in ends, in a tutorial or any video, and they say to "just follow the path of the yarn" or "double the stitches" and then proceed to do THIS

That's a valid way to weave in your ends, assuming your yarn is wooly enough to not slip and it won't be super visible, but that's simply not what you've described.

THIS is following the path of the yarn. It is also the superior way to weave in ends securely and least-visibly from both sides.

#thx to techknitting for the diagram #they have nothing to do with this complaint I just knew I'd find the illustration i needed there #knitting #weaving in ends #petty complaint #fiber arts #needlework #many methods are good depending on context but DO the thing you DESCRIBE and not some OTHER thing #skimming in ends by splitting plies is also very secure but is more visible from the back #nothing but felting the ends together when you join is completely invisible in the middle of stockinette

[putting-kinger-in-places]

Trip him and make him fall into the underground

*Down to the bone is distantly playing*

The Underground, Undertale

#idk if this image is fanart cuz i got it off the wikia but it doesnt match the game style #so pls lmk if it is and ill edit the post/credit the creator depending on context #the amazing digital circus #tadc kinger #kinger #crossover #undertale

[kuruk]

I dint know how to say this but women who wear men's clothes make me feel like I'm a fan of them like I feel like a young girl with a crush on a celebrity like fangirling but for masc women

[deathberi]

FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH (2024) ↳ Zack chooses to help Cloud because...?

#translator's notes at the end tags v^^ #ffvii #final fantasy vii #zack fair #marlene wallace #aerith gainsborough #ffgraphics #gamingedit #gaming #* #ff7r #final fantasy vii rebirth #final fantasy #videogameedit #dailygaming #zakkura #clerith #zerith #took the liberty to retranslate this well if you know the difference then see!!! how different it is #*ひゅひゅ* or hyu hyu is a japanese onomatopoeia thingy #theres a lot of meanings depending on the context of course but it almost all means positive #like excitement. amazement. sound of lovebirds (loool). or hot cute aww #he's telling marin something like *thats ooohhhh sooooo loveydovey sweet information huh* #marin's response was an excited tone of hyu hyu as well. and they laughed off after #anyway point is zack supporting his top loves of his life is finally shown in the game #and hopefully accepted as something entirely positive considering they all done it through marlene the purest of them all #i expected this much of his comeback like they touch on this #but still it was a bit lacking like bro really didnt get a catch up moment with the besties @-)

[chongoblog]

now THIS is a polycule

#balatro #for context #far right one is canio and he multiplies your score depending on how many face cards you've erased #next one to the left means Every Card Is A Face Card #scary face gives you a bunch of chips for every face card you play #the rainbow one gives you multipliers every time you play A 2 3 5 or 8 #trading card lets you erase one card per round for money

[perths]

CHASER GAME W EPISODE 05

#there is a fansubber translating this too and she's said that some of the gaga translations are a bit off so #i might remake this if there is more context depending on their translation idk #chaser game w #jdrama #jdramaedit #jdramasource #wlwsource #girlslovenet #wlwgif #gif

[anghraine]

Darcy's role in P&P would work for me anyway, but tbh it works for me 10x better because he halfway reverts back to form towards the end of the book.

#so many takes on darcy seem to think his presentation of himself at pemberley is a permanent radical transformation of his personality #and the end point of his character arc #and it's explicitly not a static end point in that way #his inwards change is real but how much that translates into outwards presentation depends on the context #like late-novel darcy trying to compliment mrs bennet and doing it in a way that reads as icy and brusque is just peak darcy #the difference isn't that he's become personable in this social context; he's not! but he's doing his best now #and this being an ongoing struggle at which he sometimes comically fails is so much more austen #than the total transformation into a perfect dreamboat narrative #but yeah i love that austen goes out of her way at the end to yank him out of his fulfillment enclosures and underscores his foibles #anghraine babbles #austen blogging #austen fanwank #lady anne blogging #fitzwilliam darcy

[b6d11f]

but tonight he is alive and in the north field

#dream smp #dsmp #c!tommy #art #context dependent dream had just escaped pandoras vault at time of drawing #based on the poem two headed calf - laura gilpin #ofc

[paradimeart]

prowl has 0 idea what goes on in protoform development these days

(V.S. = vector sigma)

#my art #transformers animated #tfa #optimus prime tfa #ratchet tfa #prowl tfa #sorry to any1 in the tags seeing this entirely out of context #divorce baby au #technically orbabies but there are no orbs or little guys here #i think a lot about how there could be different views on younger bots born from vs instead of the allspark...even outside of this au #like do older war and pre war bots see them as lesser. or no more than just drones. do the post war bots themselves feel lesser for not #being from the allspark? is there any like way to tell if someone is from the allspark or from vector sigma? its fun for me #i like this kind of thing i have going b/c its like #making normal irl adolescent development happen to alien robots who have no idea what the fuck is going on #sort of. the orb stage is more akin to a fetus than a baby its not a 1:1 but like #the idea of not being born 100% fully functional and mature and complete and being dependent on someone else is so bonkers for them #thats why they put ninjas in charge of all the infants

[nerves-nebula]

im so funny, i was like

"yeah i enjoy romance but not that basic 'omg i just wanna hug you and kiss you and love you and snuggle you' shit that makes me sooo uneasy. i just want a comfortable silence and someone i know i can trust and watch stuff with and feel comfortable around no matter what. someone i can really fully trust that I don't have to put on a whole weird lovey dovey show around. that other stuff feels so fake and forced and weird, even if it's true it's like, oh my god shut up what are you talking about." <- IDIOT!!!! YOU'RE AROMANTIC. GOD.

#nnstuff #rambling #arospec #aro #aromantic #this post inspired by me overhearing my roommate talking all sweet to her bf #and i am. so uncomfortable lmao. body shuddering #i love being vaguely sex repulsed and vaguely romance repulsed #both those things make me like. kind of uneasy. but not enough to be full on repulsion #they just kinda make me wince or grimace most of the time #but other times im completely normal about it #really depends on the context and my vibes i suppose

[stuckinapril]

still very much have my anxious attachment style at play but i'm getting so much better at being okay w people leaving

#i used to get hung up on that shit for a month #now i'm over it in like a day. depending on context ofc but that has been my general baseline #i feel so much more emotionally grounded not letting my anxiety ab this stuff fuck me up in the long term #i need to work on my snap judgment reactions but sometimes it's human to be a little messy #so i'm simply forgiving myself and working on being better #p