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#god this is HARD #I probably gotta go with concentration #but so many of these would be SO welcome. my adhd ass needs help in all of these categories

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#signs #…upsetting.

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“We talk a lot in the writer’s room about Eliot and Hardison’s friendship and it’s always weird because [Aldis] and Kane are friends and it’s hard to separate out, but Eliot would kill people to keep Hardison safe and it’s something we don’t often talk about. He would kill people to keep any of the team safe.” - John Rogers, ‘The Experimental Job’ DVD Commentary

#leverage #oooogh YEAH #good good commentary. excellent bit of meta

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#ao3

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There’s that post that’s like ‘everyone should get into a tiny niche fandom at least once’ fully agree, that was really fun -- but I would like to add that everyone should get into a fandom where their opinions run counter to major fanon because it really teaches you about sticking to your guns and trusting your interpretation of the text without having to rely on peer validation

because WHAT are people talking about sometimes

#oh REAL #fandom #and op’s tags about how sometimes it will make you feel like a killjoy… also just. VERY real. #sometimes people are either very stubborn that theirs is the ONLY valid interpretation #when its clearly in fact just one of many #or they just really insist on their fun :) idea :) #and you will feel like such a bummer for pointing out that it doesn’t fit #(or even just for refusing to include it in your own fanon) #but that’s okay!!! and you should be comfortable sticking to the reading that feels true to you!!!

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#I could handle the babysitting tbh

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the curse of the English degree is that you watch a horror movie that might be overall kind of middling but DOES make some salient commentary on very real social issues and cultural phenomena, and it activates some fucked up part of your brain that starts whispering, ‘man, you could totally write an essay about this.’

#once I pull my thoughts together a little more my shiny new letterboxd account will be receiving some WORDS #not quite in essay quality. but very possibly at essay length #life #Courtney thinks

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children existing in public spaces is genuinely like. necessary for the continuation of society. it doesnt have to be your kids you dont have to volunteer at a daycare or whatever but you need to be able to tolerate the presence of someone who is learning how to exist as a human and interact with people

#it takes a village and you are part of that village. #you don’t have to participate actively. you don’t have to step up to babysit. #but you DO have to behave compassionately when interacting with them! #be responsible. be respectful. and if a child needs help either be the help or find the help.

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all descriptions gender neutral, based on vibes only

#buddy pal comrade <3

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The tumblr experience is having politics that make the most left leaning progressive you know irl blush and then logging on here and getting called a bootlicker fascist because you said that you dont think we should make the reign of terror happen again

#YEAH #the folks on this website really hate it when you try to be nuanced or realistic

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If I ask nicely will people reblog this and tell me what their most common breakfast is? Not your favorite necessarily, just what you have for breakfast most frequently? 🙏🏽

#English muffins toasted with peanut butter

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#videos #tiktok #sculpture #oh my god?

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Had a dream that there was a new Pokemon that was ghost type and it was like. Half a greyhound. It was a spectral dog that was known as one of the fastest Pokemon. And yet it only had it front legs. There were wispy floating stubs on its back half which sort of implied there COULD be legs, but they never reached even close to the ground. It stood on its front legs as if the back legs were still there.

I don’t know what this Pokemon’s name was but its appeared in many of my dreams so either they made it real and I forgot or I’m being haunted by a Fakemon.

#pokemon #fakemon #ohhh I love them… #these are all such good and self-evident names too

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I think I stumbled upon some kind of ichthyological forbidden knowledge. Opened up a book of names that were never meant to be read.

You've probably heard of "can-opener smoothdream", right? It's practically a meme by now.

But the thing is, it's a deep-sea fish. And deep-sea fish have historically not had English names because nobody drops them into the conversation over a hot cuppa. Sure, there's generic stuff like hatchetfish and barreleye, but when you want to refer to the actual fish you're probably saying such euphonious phrases as Diretmus argenteus, Sternoptyx diaphana, or maybe even Opisthoproctus soleatus.

So whence "can-opener smoothdream"? Certainly no non-ichthyologist has ever used that name. It's not even a direct translation of the scientific name Chaenophryne longiceps - that would be "long-headed gape-toad". Which to me is even cooler than "can-opener smoothdream".

But I digress. The "dream" bit comes from the anglerfish family Oneirodidae, from oneiros, "dream", because those marvelous fishes look like they came out of a dream (Pietsch, 2009).

Note that Pietsch (2009), more or less the anglerfish bible, uses English names at the genus level only. So Chaenophryne is the smoothhead dreamers genus but no mention is made of "can-opener smoothdreams". So no luck there.

Wikipedia, root cause of a lot of misinformation, has this to say.

"Longhead dreamer" is a far more accurate name. And in fact, despite Wikipedia prioritizing "can-opener smoothdream" (because it's funny?), the links listed use "longhead dreamer" and "smoothhead dreamer" as the name and "can-opener smoothdream" as an alternative.

So. Again. Where did "can-opener smoothdream" come from?

The answer, as it turns out, lies with McAllister (1990).

In the book A List of the Fishes of Canada, ichthyologist D. E. McAllister sought out to list every single fish known to Canadian waters, providing both an English and a French name.

And when there wasn't an English name, like for most deep-sea fishes, he arbitrarily gave them a name. And his names "differ in many instances from the widely accepted names" (Holm, 1998)

This had varying results. This is his name for one of the netdevil anglerfishes.

The humpback anglerfish or blackdevil anglerfish becomes a werewolf (????).

This one is just confusing.

The white-spotted lanternfish or Rafinesque's lanternfish instead becomes...

And most embarrassingly, the Mediterranean spiderfish gets saddled with something that "violates the tenet of good taste" (Holm, 1998).

This then is the original source of "can-opener smoothdream". It was invented by an ichthyologist in 1990, and has seen little to no use outside of how bizarre the name is.

Maybe McAllister's goofier names will catch on. Who knows? They certainly aren't very popular in the scientific community though.

References

Holm, E. (1998) Encyclopedia of Canadian Fishes (review). The Canadian Field-Naturalist, 112, p. 174-175.

McAllister, D. E. (1990) A List of the Fishes of Canada. National Museum of Natural Sciences, Ottawa.

Pietsch, T. W. (2009) Oceanic Anglerfishes: Extraordinary Diversity in the Deep Sea. University of California Press, Berkeley.

#…huh. #would love to hear McAllister’s thoughts tbh. #animals #fish

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This was an interesting article to read. I think it's a little simple but still fun to skim thru.

#reblogging to remind myself to read the full piece later #bc this excerpt is interesting and I’m curious what the author’s actual thesis is here.

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#language #laugh tag

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#please. please give yourself an icon.