I don't know much about lady Gaga but I saw this clip on my timeline once years ago and since then I've been ride or die. idc. she a real one. I need this energy from more cis folks

when did tumblr collectively decide not to use punctuation like when did this happen why is this a thing

it just looks so smooth I mean look at this sentence flow like a jungle river

ACTUALLY

This is really exciting, linguistically speaking.

Because it’s not true that Tumblr never uses punctuation. But it is true that lack of punctuation has become, itself, a form of punctuation. On Tumblr the lack of punctuation in multisentence-long posts creates the function of rhetorical speech, or speech that is not intended to have an answer, usually in the form of a question. Consider the following two potential posts. Each individual line should be taken as a post:

ugh is there any particular reason people at work have to take these massive handfuls of sauce packets they know they’re not going to use like god put that back we have to pay for that stuff

Ugh. Is there any particular reason people at work have to take these massive handfuls of sauce packets they know they’re not going to use? Like god, put that back. We have to pay for that stuff.

In your head, those two potential posts sound totally different. In the first one I’m ranting about work, and this requires no answer. The second may actually engage you to give an answer about hoarding sauce packets. And if you answer the first post, you will likely do so in the same style. 

Here’s what makes this exciting: the English language has no actual punctuation for rhetorical speech–that is, there are no special marks that specifically indicate “this speech is in the abstract, and requires no answer.” Not only that, it never has. The first written record of English (actually proto-English, predating even Old English) dates to the 400s CE, so we’re talking about 1600 years of having absolutely no marker whatsoever for rhetorical speech.

A group of teens and young adults on a blogging website literally reshaped a deficit a millennium and a half old in our language to fit their language needs. More! This group has agreed on a more or less universal standard for these new rules, which fits the definition of “language.” Which is to say Tumblr English is its own actual, real, separate dialect of the English language, and because it is spoken by people worldwide who have introduced concepts from their own languages into it, it may qualify as a written form of pidgin. 

Tumblr English should literally be treated as its own language, because it does not follow the rules of any form of formal written English, and yet it does have its own consistent internal rules. If you don’t think that’s cool as fuck then I don’t even know what to tell you.

i love this post

This is super cool! Also idk if this has any relevance whatsoever but if you wanna have an argument inside one tag you cannot have commas in it so that’s a real existing constraint that has forced tumblrites to construct commaless sentences and perhaps this has helped in adopting the custom into posts as well ok I have no idea if this is what’s happened just I think it’s a reasonable assumption there might be a connection

^this.

The tags are absolutely a factor. You want someone to take a breath in the middle of a sentence, you start a new tag. You want to have, as seen here, this removable piece between commas (does it have a name?) - you have 5 tags in this sentence alone. And sometimes you just

pause in the middle of a sentence…

and let your voice

trail away

look at all you precious brilliant nerds nerding about language you make me so fucking happy omg

language is this constantly evolving thing tbh, it doesn’t remain the same unless it’s dead and the people who used it gone so seeing the evolution of the language used on tumblr is literally so fucking amazing i want to cry with joy at it

because we also add in words from other languages, or make entirely new words up as additional terms to denote something (see ‘tol’ and ‘smol’ in relation to ‘tall’ and ‘small’) and this is constant. we are doing this daily without any sort of breathing space because there’s millions of us on this hellsite and we are constantly talking and so the language changes day-by-day until we have general, universal rules for what to do in a post, what to add in our tags, how to add it, why we add it, what we mean by it

we’ve created a language in the same way our ancestors all did: by building on the ones that came before and changing them to suit our needs and our system

and that’s fucking awesome okay

awesome

I love this so much and language is so great and I’ve noticed the lack of punctuation thing recently, even on twitter, and used it for like a specific kind of rhetorical effect. idk it’s so fun I fucking love linguistics and the evolution of language

I also loved that the following one-word responses all sound drastically different out loud and showcase different reactions:

What?

What.

what

THIS POST IS TWELVE YEARS OLD?!?!?????

Punch-Out!! Comic Project

oh my god we did it. it took like 6+ months but just in time for the 15th anniversary of the release of Punch-Out!! for the Wii, we created our own comic panels inspired by the original ones released alongside the game! a labour of love and extreme hyper-fixation lmao! please read them all because they're absolutely fantastic! and here are all the artists responsible <3 <3

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Glass Joe: @blormpo

Von Kaiser: @matchamabs

Disco Kid: @derpposen

King Hippo: @pulporila

Piston Hondo: @honeyhive65

Bear Hugger: @scrubazoid

Great Tiger: @glassjoemybeloved

Don Flamenco: @powpowpunchout

Aran Ryan: @ohshy

Soda Popinski: @fan-mans

Bald Bull: @lazypastrys-thingymajingky

Super Macho Man: @sukipershipper

Mr Sandman: @ashtxeman

Little Mac: @lukasdoodles

Donkey Kong: @bellasbarginart

why does typing love lies bleeding into the search bar on tumblr yield literally zero results. you cant seriously tell me this site is sleeping on the new horny lesbian bodybuilders who kill people movie

i love being abnormal abt men

one of the chocolate guys videos appears on your dash. you pause your scrolling to watch it, trying to guess what he’s making because this doesn’t seem to be one you’ve seen before. as the video goes on you get more unnerved and impressed — he seems to be making a whole human being this time, and it’s uncannily realistic. it’s even filled with candied fruit and sweet pastries in place of organs, red velvet cake and a cherry reduction making up flesh and blood beneath the chocolate. but something feels off. the person he’s making seems strangely familiar. upon the final reveal, you know why. amaury guichon has created a perfect replica of you

when will it end..... when will we be free......

considering you dont have to sneak into the furry fandom bro shouldve just called it i spent 200 days wasting my time

the concept of this video is this dude wanted to "prove the existence" of furry orgies at cons (as if its hard to find this information) so he pretended to be a furry and filmed himself going to orgies he didnt want to go to and then was like i didnt want to go to them or have sex and filmed the people at the orgies without their knowledge and was like it was so crazy the people at the orgies were fucking. good fucking god. And then he says "most furries know they're cringe and are neurodivergent <3" bro you just snuck into a fucking private sex event and filmed it

It's so crazy watching normies feel guilty about their weird obsession with the behaviors of strange people but be intent on justifying it. They're like well furries are cool cuz they're neurodivergent freaks who cant make friends elsewhere :( we can still make fun of them but it would be so mean to make their lives bad. Except for the fact that they have sex. Neurodivergent people having sex is like really fucking funny and crazy. Obviously by having sex in private these neurodivergent people have crossed the line into Freak zone and we can just go ham

The Dislike button may not work as intended anymore but the Report Buttons are working just fine.

Report it for Sexual or Violent/Repulsive content until it gets demonitized and he starts the old dance of editing and re-uploading it to where he can try to make money off of it.

Then Report those re-uploads until he gives up.

Honestly the worst part for me was glancing through the comments and seeing people go “wait, I was there, what the fuck?” Like he violated their trust. And they’re seeing it. And a couple of them said stuff along the lines of “I’m autistic, I didn’t even know he was making fun of me.” Fucking nauseating. Even worse seeing a bunch of his fans go “oh he’s being so respectful of them!” No bitch he is perpetuating harmful stereotypes about a group of neurodivergent/queer people and filming them having sex without their permission so he can paint them as deviants! Under no circumstances is that “respectful”!

Normally, I don't reblog things like this to my blog, but I urge anyone who was caught in an orgy in this video, or has had a similar situation occur to them, without their consent to contact a lawyer. Having your nudes and/or pornographic content uploaded to the internet without consent is called Revenge Porn. This is illegal, and was made illegal back in 2022, under the Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization Act, according to the website called Ballotpedia. Now, it will be a fedral lawsuit, but it's a start and it allows for at least a little bit of reprocussion.

Report the video, absolutely, but I also beg the furries that had their sexual acts caught on camera without their consent to band together and contact a lawyer. They can likely get additional charges if any of the footage was captured in a two-party consent state, a state where recording anyone without their consent is illegal (some states make it so that only one party needs to consent for recording, so this may not be a guarantee if the guy bothered to do his research, but... I doubt he did, if he was willing to do this atrocious and disgusting stunt).

Sue. Press charges if you can. Do NOT let this go unpunished. And please, please, PLEASE spread the word about how revenge porn is illegal! That action can be taken against people who think this is ok! This is not ok! At all!

people online talk so much about hating babies and kids but in "the meatspace" people LOVE babies. hang out with a baby and you will see so many people staring at you with big smiles and waving at you and going "that baby is SO cute" and generally being pleasant unprompted. the lady at the vietnamese place just now gave us like three extra soup spoons because my niece loves those spoons but kept dropping them on the floor and the lady kept giving us more with a massive smile on her face. on our walk today a bunch of construction guys waved and grinned at her the whole time we walked by, and when we passed by an elementary school a little girl said "your baby's really sweet!" babies are not balls of irritation and hatred they are beacons of joy and kindness actually and they bring out the best in strangers. whenever im out with her we have multiple positive interactions with strangers who are so happy to see her. or maybe it's just that my baby niece is the cutest most wonderful baby in the world :]

Hey guys

Cat tourney 2024

Have a favorite cat character? Want to see them fight to the death for the right to be named Tumblr's #1 fictional cat? Introducing the cat tourney!

Run by @betatrolls

Submissions are OPEN!

Inspired by @only-horse-polls' fictional horse tournament!

Note: if your submission is debatably catlike, it is up to my judgement and only my judgement to decide whether they qualify. If I am unsure, I may post a qualifiers poll.

shoutout to Tumblr user @tonitheloftwing who is the reason I now know the word "intrinsic" exists

first 5 faceless emojis are how your summers gonna go

Magnus Archives fan I see

THIS IS SO FUNNY I'M SORRY

hey everypony