#dictionaries back then

[theworstcreature]

*gets bored and starts reading Wikipedia articles at you*

#my hobby fr #honestly just reading shit like that I general is fun #I have this really old dictionary from like 1942 #and once I spent like an hour just skimming over the new words section #just like enjoying it and thinking about how maybe once upon a time that WASNT a word everyone and their grandmother knew #I can’t believe that word meant something completely different than it does now #also a little fun fact I learned from that: #transgender folks (or at least trans femmes.. that’s the only entry I remember seeing) existed and were known enough to make it into the #dictionaries back then #also there was a form of hormone therapy that existed back then with transgender women being mentioned in its definition #I don’t remember how it was worded #nor do I feel like going and opening this dictionary rn #but I could probably find it tomorrow

[rapidhighway]

They need to stop trying to make Sonic good and instead just make him cool as fuck you know. Do you know what I mean

#they need to make it COOL #it's so cookie cutter rn idk man go back to when they were fighting the military and witnessing awful trauma you know #they tried to make him thee coolest guy in sa and i loved it so much and now he just feels like some guy #who has good intentions #but he should be cool also that's like #very important stuff #idk if i used the cookie cutter word correctly but you will not force me to check a dictionary BLEH

[kiwifie]

naming wanderer

#scaramouche #wanderer #aether #genshin impact #scaraether #kiwi fanart #kiwi scribbles #went back and forth on posting this #cuz i'm embarrassed i spent like four hours with a kanji dictionary naming him lmao

[muffinlance]

That moment when you have to completely stop using Google docs for your writing because the AI spellchecker is actively, insistently wrong, when it catches things at all

Anyway here's me crawling back to LibreOffice and Scrivener like the disloyal hussy I am

#I was getting sick of Firefox's spell checker being my primary source for reliable edits #Google your AI really needs to have a basic dictionary check built in #or just a dictionary check with no AI that was significantly better can we go back to that #old people were right technology really is getting worse #do I need to invest in a cane to shake at tech firms? #so HELP me if my cane tries to connect to wifi

[coloriza]

"Sakura had never felt so validated in her love until she met a man made better by her burning."

The Void Between Fireflies by @renaerys

#sasosaku #sakura haruno #sasori #akasuna no sasori #this one was inspired by both jo's beautiful fic and a sasosaku month prompt “like fire” #jo is super duper talented and i highly recommend checking out her stuff #she is one of the few who truly nails sasori's characterization in my opinion #another fun fact is that she is partially responsible for the fact that i speak english #her stuff was the catalyst that really got me studying english back in the day #i read zero hour while having a dictionary open in front of me lmao those really were the days #anyways i'm rambling #my art

[lab-gr0wn-lambs]

I'm obsessed with this deleted scene, I see people mischaracterizing Daryl as stupid all the time. Man's always been smart. They shoulda kept this scene in because some of y'all needed that spelled out 💀

#dude figured out Shane killed Otis before anybody else did without even talking to him #''came back with the dead guy's gun'' damn bitch. observant. #he book-learned sign language #also why was the 'get a dictionary' kinda zesty- #the walking dead #daryl dixon #twd #blood #I mean I am glad they didn't keep this scene though because aint no WAY Rick The Literal Police Officer would need that pointed out

[bongo-spindash]

I was thinking about what different Sonic characters' names could be in sign a couple of months ago, since so many people headcanon Sonic knowing sign language, and I ended up making animations for a few!! Here's what I came up with for Sonic!! :D

mp4 version & description for it under the cut!!

[ID:

A video of Sonic The Hedgehog viewed from the waist-up against a green background. Sonic is drawn in a simplistic style, though with tanner patches of skin on his muzzle, ears, stomach, and arms compared to his typical design, and he has curved scars on his chest. 

In the video, Sonic is signing his name, comprised of the words ‘fast’ and ‘hedgehog’ in BSL. He signs ‘fast’ by bouncing his index fingers off of each other—his right finger coming down as his left goes up—with the other fingers and thumb curled in. “fast” is written in dark green on the left side of the background as he signs this. 

The word in the background changes to “Hedgehog” as he signs the second part. His raised right hand opens up so that his fingers and thumb are all splayed, while the lowered left hand curls into a fist. The left arm moves horizontal in front of his chest, and the splayed right hand lowers to run the heel of the palm across the top of the forearm, to symbolise the spines of a hedgehog. Lifting his right elbow up to move the palm across the other arm obscures the “Hedgehog” lettering slightly.

Sonic's head moves as he signs, spines bouncing up and down and head tilting to the left. While he’s signing, he mouths his name, the first syllable ‘So’ being mouthed during the ‘fast’ sign, and the second syllable ‘nic’ being mouthed during the ‘hedgehog’ sign.  

On the right side of the video, next to Sonic’s head, is the artist’s signature—the silhouette of a bongo with the letters BD written inside.

End ID]

#sonic the hedgehog #sonic the hedgehog fanart #sth fanart #sonic animation #sonic sign language #I made this and a couple of other animations a few months back so I'll be posting them over time!! And hopefully finishing the rest too!! #I feel like he uses the full sign name when he's introducing himself or if people need to clarify that they're talking about him #But I feel like his friends usually shorten it to the first half in casual conversation!! #Hsdhjfgd like they're full-naming him when they use the second part lmao!!! #I found a really good video dictionary for BSL so that's the sign that's used in the video!! #I'm not remotely fluent in any sign language though so hopefully this is still okay!! It was really fun to make!! :D #Bongo's Art!!! #Bongo's Animations!!! #Crossing my fingers that the colour quality doesn't end up too bad HSJDFG #sonic disability headcanons #(since this is to do with my hc that Sonic is HoH that I haven't talked about yet HSJDFG)

[engagemythrusters]

Lando did not do a single wrong thing in ESB. Sure, his actions sparked a terrible chain of events. But selling out Han to save an entire population of people? Not a wrong move. Will never, ever be a wrong move.

#HOW WAS HE SUPPOSED TO KNOW HAN BEFRIENDED A LITERAL WALKING TALKING DICTIONARY DEFINITION OF A PROTAGONIST #ALL HE KNEW WAS HIS PEOPLE WERE GOIJG TO DIE #BECAUSE SOME SMUGGLER SHOWED UP ON HIS DOORSTEP #so. yeah. #LANDO BEST GUY #anyway cant wait to have tumblr lose comprehension bc I said the dread words of ‘did nothing wrong’ #everyone’s gonna get so mad. oh well too bad I said what I said. #his choices sucked for the main characters #nobody is denying that. fr the cause and effect sucked ass and Lando was indeed the cause #but. doesn’t mean it was the wrong move. #lando calrissian #Star Wars: the empire strikes back

[breaking-news-the-aroace-has]

New term to be added to the aroace dictionary:

CUPID'S ARO: An aromantic person who supports their friends in romantic endeavours; basically the best wingperson in existence.

#The aroace has been trying to get their friend to realize that their crush likes them back #however #they were purposefully oblivious #but then they both confessed!!!!! #The aroace is very proud of themselves #aroace #aromantic #asexual #aromantic asexual #aspec #breaking news #brought to you by ^him #what has the aroace done today #aroacespec #arospec #aroace dictionary #lgbtq #dating #wingperson

[alexis-royce]

Please indicate when you're done with the Starved Event because Pages thoughts are being thought and I wanna know what your thoughts are about one particular scene later in the event.

My vote's for poison. How quickly we forget that it's been implied that Pages taxidermies authors that it really likes

#Fallen London Spoilers #Fallen London #Mr Pages #The dictionary is telling me that taxidermy isn't a verb with conjugations #Oh dear what about LEXIDERMY #OH DEAR OH MY #Anyway I expected Irons and Fires to show back up at the end #But Pages was an absolute treat #I assume Irons and Fires actually cared about protecting London #Or at least Irons was happy to have a good fight #Did Pages just want to show off??? #Make a big speech? #Pages why did you show up to fight you don't even want to stay here #I mean for The Academic's timeline this uh #This certainly means something #If I have time maybe that fic will get a second chapter #Eeeeheeheeeheee #I'll bet that Pages had to watch The Academic die #HEEHEEHEEHEEEE #I'm CERTAIN it didn't care at all #I'm CERTAIN it wasn't worried in the least that a stray photon of sunlight might've hit the exceptionally unlawful Mr Cards #Instantly wiping them out of existence #Actually EVERYONE should be writing fics with their PCs right now #You ALL have a perfect opportunity to make your loved ones SICK WITH WORRY #Have you considered the TERROR as your fav NPCs watched you soar right into the sun??? #The Ex-Disgraced Academic #Scribbles #Picshuas

[autumngracy]

Not me creeping up to the wordcount of the fourth longest book ever written

#A Reflection of Starlight #AROS #valvert #fanfic #writing #Hey I switched back to LibreOffice again after setting up my new computer #(RIP my old computer's installation of MS Office 2009) #And also my old computer in general as it is now giving me the blue screen of death upon boot #but ANYWAY #does anybody know how to make LibreOffice stop highlighting formatted areas? BC with Dark Mode it's highlighting white text #which makes it impossible to read my footnote and page numbers #Also I CANNOT believe this program was coded to be so that 'Ignore' and 'Ignore All' options only do so for the CURRENT SESSION ONLY #Like what in god's name??? #I spent 3-4 hours reformatting AROS after converting it only to learn that all the 'errors' I told it to ignore just popped back #the second I reopened the document like jesus christ #Why even offer those options if it doesn't do it permanently for that document file #HHHHHHHhhhhhhHHHHHH #I then spent another several hours being forced to change the language formatting to French for all the French bits #JUST so it would stop underlining all of them in red #And there's no way for me to get rid of the underlining on things like cut off bits of dialogue #bc they are NOT proper words and I refuse to add them to my Dictionary (thus polluting it) just to get rid of them #Ugh #So anyway remember years ago how I joked about what if I accidentally wrote a fanfic longer than the source material itself #That being one of the longest books ever written (technically THE longest book ever written #if we're counting the FRENCH version of it and not the English translation #And yeah I know I technically split AROS into 3 books but that was only for reader convenience #It's still one book in my heart #And also because I think it would be REALLY funny to surpass Hugo's wordcount #Which is entirely plausible bc in English it was only about 531k so I only a little over 100k off and I think I can easily make that #with the material I have left to write but is already mostly plotted out

[anaalnathrakhs]

oh god ed reddit is having the “uwu anorexia isn’t rooted in fatphobia my mental illness is not abt you” talk again please god help me

fatphobia doesn’t mean “being a meanie to fat ppl” i’m begging you to use critical thinking skills for five seconds and apply what you know about literally any other form of oppression to this situation.

people’s point isn’t that you having anorexia makes them feel bad and therefore you’re a bad fatphobic person.

they’re pointing out how the deeply ingrained fatphobia our society upholds, from misconceptions about health to moralization of looks and weight, including yes being jerks to fat ppl’s faces bc they’re fat, is affecting what you think about your own looks, weight, health, body, clothes, eating habits, etc.

the logic isn’t “you became anorexic because you hate fat people so much you never wanted to be fat yourself (and that makes you a bad person)” it’s “fatphobia is a prism that transforms the root cause of your ed into disordered thoughts, behaviors, and patterns (and unlearning fatphobia will help you with recovery and harm-reduction)”

like. it’s not for no reason that anorexia is a disorder that disproportionatedly affects women. it’s not for no reason that there’s sky high comorbidity rates for eds and ocd. it’s not for no reason that people who need control in their lives so badly that they develop a mental disorder abt it get obssessed with being skinny and not with being a sumo. it’s not for no reason that ppl who feel the need to retract to childhood due to trauma envy things like being skinny light and frail, instead of being a tubby baby. it’s not for no reason that there is an incredibly common anorexic thought pattern (internal and self-directed, don’t make me say what i didn’t say) that associaties restriction and weight loss with moral goodness.

for each of these there IS a number of exceptions, but you can see case by case how the root cause (trauma, need for control, for self-destruction, growing up poor, whatever you think is “unrelated to fatphobia” basically) is processed through the prism of the fatphobic culture we’ve all been raised in. some people just, voluntarily or not, deal with those root causes in different way, which might or might not be healthy. but it’s a consequence of ambiant fatphobia that “i should starve and be skinny about it” is a statistically pretty common response to this distress.

the point isn’t “it’s fatphobic that you don’t deal with your neuroses in a body positive way uwu” the point is that no matter how cool you are with fat people on like, a personal level, you’ve been (like the rest of us) bombarded with fatphobic thought patterns your entire life basically, both directly fatphobic things and reactions to this fatphobia. maybe spoken to you directly, maybe not. maybe about you maybe about other people. you live in a society that places moral values into looks and health, and also pushes some deeply rooted falsehoods about how those things tie into each other. you have a disorder defined by obsessive behaviors. maybe, just maybe, deconstructing the logic that those obsessives behaviors are based upon will help you deal with this disorder. and recover or reduce harm.

basically, anorexia isn’t “getting skinny disorder” it’s “obsession disorder”, obsession with looking attractive, or pleasing your family, or going back to being a kid, or being healthy, or being fit, or being driven and capable, or being worth saving, or having your suffering known, or having control over something, or whatever. the fatphobia that is omnipresent (and i repeat, omnipresent, nobody is singling you out as a bad fatphobic meanie, or even talking about your behavior towards other people around you) in our society picks the direction in which many many people will express that disorder.

of course if you live in a society that tells you “being fat is morally bad” at every turn, when you start developping an obssessive pathological need to control things, without another factor weighting in, most people’s default reaction will be anorexia. food is a regular fixture of everybody’s life, everyone wants to be morally good, and even if we know/understand/believe to an extent the flaws of that “fat = bad” logic we know the world around us still believes it, and nobody wants to be treated like shit. we can think it’s stupid and fight against fatphobia and work to treat fat ppl better in our lives and support body positivity, but in any case, one always judges oneself on different metrics than they judge others, cuz we control our self-improvement. that’s natural. just it doesn’t mesh well with a pathologically obssessive need for control above self-preservation.

#ed tw #ana #notprojusttags #proana #ed #last year i got into an argument abt this that was so potent #it caused me to turn all my childhood attempts of having anorexia into actually having purging disorder #out of fucking spite #guess what you dicks from last year i have anorexia now i still think you're wrong #in an act of good faith i'll say i'm ready to admit that maybe it's just that my debating skills suck #maybe i'm just a shitty argumentative writer #maybe i didn't formulate things right and that's why people got the wrong idea #and that's not a maybe i was not considerate enough of causes of anorexia that aren't related to weight directly #like food insecurity as a child and whatnot #however #no matter how bad the delivery might've been #we're not working with a completely different dictionary here #i remember people actively arguing with things i literally said the opposite of #you can't chalk everyone and everything up to that but man some ppl were really not in a state to have this kind of discussion #come back after your omad #broadcasting my misery #discourse #vent #fatphobia #fatphobia tw

[serpentyletorc]

Trigun and Hellsing often draw comparisons due to their close release dates, similar aesthetics, dramatic style, and u know, the red coat and shades.

But it's funny how polar opposite their stance on violence is

Trigun: Love and Peace! Killing is never the answer!

Hellsing: Carnage and Mayhem. Sing the chorus of war and swim in the blood of your enemies.

#trigun #hellsing #i fucking love hellsing its so batshit insane #holding back is not in Hirano's dictionary #reading og trigun manga rn and damn that pacing is ROUGH #he improved so much in trimax. love when you can actually tell what's going on

[crispyliza]

Guys I think bemused means slightly confused

#thanks cambridge dictionary #if only i knew about you back in 2010-2011 when i was trying to learn English through quizilla #if only you were there to explain the meaning of a word in the same way thrice #shitpost #crispy talks

[too-fond-to-be-fearful]

ba mhaith liom Gaeilge a labhairt inniu freisin ach níl mé rómhaith fós 😢

an bhliain seo chugainn, b'fhéidir

#okay but if anyone wants to send me like. super basic asks (in any language) I will do my best to answer them as Gaeilge if I can #or yn y Gymraeg‚ if it's a bit beyond what I can manage with my limited Irish ability and some dictionary/textbook wizardry #it's easy for me to default to Japanese because I have a lot more experience with it‚ but I'd like to use my other languages too :) #(...when i get back up tomorrow‚ it is late and i should. sleep) #gaeilge #irish #language #spyld #speak your language day

[my-deer-friend]

Will you let us know how it goes tomorrow???

Hello friend!

Interview done – much tougher than I anticipated, but I did well.

They really dug into the substance of my application, and asked me about queer history, social network analysis (from my PhD work), knowledge dissemination in the 18th century, and other things about method and content... So much for "tell me about yourself"! I snuck in a brag about my many languages and the citizen history projects I've done, both of which got very positive responses.

I'll hear back in about two weeks. I'm happy with how I did, so it's ultimately a matter of seeing if I did better than at least half the other applicants.

#always hard to assess one's own performance #but i didn't have any noticeable stumbles #and got a few “that's a great answer” comments #all in all it was a good conversation with a nice back and forth flow #and i think i dropped enough very specific details to prove i'm not just messing around (samuel johnson's dictionary my beloved)