It's my 10 year anniversary on Tumblr π₯³
holy shit um. ten years huh?
okay so. this is a kinda, weird post to make. because good god have i been extremely tangled up in tumblr as like, a core part of my identity for basically all of these ten years. which hm in retrospect is perhaps not the healthiest relationship to have with a social media website owned by venture capitalists! funny that
but um. to avoid going into an excruciating amount of detail about my personal life. it turns out that having a giant social media presence with a decade of history that i feel way too attached to to ever actually trim down on? is a very hard thing to obsessively keep up with when you are no longer a teenager with a lot of free time but instead are an adult with a full-time job who still spends like two hours a day meticulously reading through every single post that all of the hundreds of people she follows make every single day
and for a good while i was just inclined to suffer through it because it's a good way to keep up with my friends! i don't wanna leave any of the actual people behind! and then as a lot of those people started migrating to other sites, and as most of the people i especially cared about connected with me other places, and as i went through a whole lot of therapy, it started to click with me that. yeah this is in fact not a healthy relationship to have with a website! and when cohost came around and basically turned into 'tumblr but it's run better and it's less frustrating to use' it, became kinda hard to justify having a tumblr at all really. and then because i simply need to wait until momentous occasions for this sort of thing i just planned to stop using my blog cold-turkey once it turned ten. which is, uh, today.
so. i am not deleting this blog nor am i vanishing from the internet wholesale. if you would like to keep up with me past this point, your best spots are gonna be either cohost, or i'm @irlpinkiepie on discord too; i'm also not gonna rule out the possibility that i might end up trimming down my follows and coming back to tumblr at some point down the line! but as it stands i desperately need a break from the way i use this website and this seems like, the most straightforward way to do just that
reblog and put in the tags the earliest songs you remember actively liking as a child (asking adults to play them for you, learning the lyrics, being excited when they came on the radio etc.)
I love the term βloanwordsβ because it implies that you intend to give them back.
*dumps a box full of words on Frenchβs front porch* You never came back for your shit.
Loanwords, loaned to the British Museum so
Would everyone like to know the best thing??? There are two types of borrowed word - loan words and calques. Loan words are words taken directly from the language i.e. tattoo, sushi, guillotine. Calques are words literally translated from the language before being borrowed i.e. beer garden, scapegoat, killer whale (incorrectly calqued, the original actually means whale killer which is a whole other post).
Did anyone notice the fun thing?
Loan word is a calque (German lehnwort lit. Loan+word) and calque is a loan word (French calque - tracing or imitation). Have a good day!
Reblog for sample size. Iβm multiple of these, but pick the one you resonate with most.
Taking my clown medications every night
They got me on that projesterone, jestrodial, and spironolaughtone
something something something girl dissociation
lesbians!! can you tag whether you are butch/femme, if you can drive (and if you can drive do you enjoy driving?)
Seth Dickinson The Monster Baru Cormorant
plural/system/DID moments will sometimes be like: I am giving a handjob and thinking about the gay sex I am having and one of my headmates is thinking really hard about Magic The Gathering lore.
artists rendition
can more people move over to cohost so i can stop using this site that loves to fuck all of its shit up because the CEO doesn't know how to use it and thinks he's the most important boy in the world
people who use she/her and it/its pronouns have it so fucking hard honestly
you list your pronouns as she/it? that sounds like shit. you have poopnouns instead of pronouns. what the hell.
it/she? now you're itchy. girlthings just can't fucking win
i love this tweet very much
little bit of a softer melody doodle while i'm still trying to finish up some more involved pieces <3