#and yes you worded this correctly

[energywarning]

Who does octo girl speak more like, Eight or Marina?

In my head I keep thinking she knows how to speak inklish (inkling?) Fluently but speaks in a formal way sometimes (like eight does). For example, consistently calling 4 "Her prince" but that's kinda formal so it colldies with her general way of speaking.

( I hope I worded this correctly)

How does cherry speak ? Time to find out!

. Shes rather eloquent, "formal" in a "speaks on a formal level" , but not necessarily polite? shes not a slang girl. shes rather well. Uh . She tries to speak as clearly as possible and it can come off as brutally honest cringe depending on who shes talking to... and she is rather... aloof ? She doesnt get along with people easy, because once again she has trouble shutting up and ends up saying whatever shes thinking. And usually shes not thinking very nice things of strangers that she doesnt trust. So shes not like. A social talker ? Has trouble with social cues. Like a certain amount, and when she knows its wrong she does it anyway. With friends shes cheery instead of standoff ish sure but she still has those semibold quirks,

2. Indeed she does call alex her prince ! She thinks its a very clever nickname... Alex thinks its kind of dumb though, esp considering that like, she didnt really save her on purpose as in she was not aware of cherry's existence. Cherry doesnt really care though...

But overall id say her way of speaking is Not similar to marina. And not eight either,? well not fully at least. like they share similarities ( bad at social cues+ speak in a "formal" way) but the way they go around it is like quite different.

So basically... Shes eloquent but not poetic in the way she speaks ? She does not phrase her words prettily (except when shes trying to like . Talk to alex LOL) i guess its rather cut and dry. She says whats on her mind. And while she can hold her tongue technically she doesnt want to or fails to notice she has to so its rare for her to shut her mouth or wait for the good moment to say something. Misses many social cues. she has very good knowledge of the inkling language on an academical level (bought any and all inkling books she could find when she got to the surface and for a while her life was just bartending (then after some times tattoo artist) job, go home and back to Learning Inkling)but informal/new words she has trouble with bc shes a loner (skittish around people does not trust easy AT ALL) and doesnt really bother learning about inkling culture, the trends the slang and so forth. So on a certain level cherry s inkling is much better than eight but on the everyday slang thing eight is better i think. Because like eight is able to pierce the meaning of whatever is said after a certain point on the surface even if she never heard of the word b4 while cherry is clueless abt this unless she gets to look up a translation of what she didnt understand "what the hell does swag mean*forgets the rest of what was said to her and becomes focused on this word*". Cherry also genuinely has almost no accent compared to marina or eight.

Thank you for the ask anon ! If you have any other questions feel free to send me another ask !

#and yes you worded this correctly #:^DDD #sillies #cherry(oc)

[lazylittledragon]

someone being upset/disappointed that a famous person they liked turned out to be shitty is absolutely NOT the same as putting them on a pedestal/having a parasocial relationship and you need to stop pretending that it is

#ramble #words have meanings use them correctly #yes this is about exactly what you think it's about #also you smug shitholes saying 'oh i knew something wasn't right i knew he was off' #no the fuck you didn't #stop shaming people who didn't expect this AT ALL because somehow you're psychic and knew more than the actual people involved did #if you're like me and have been watching them for YEARS it's ok to be upset and disappointed because this is a horrible horrible thing

[lethally-hedonistic]

Hey I've lately seen a lot of people complaining about how the alterhuman/otherkin/Lycanthropy/ and so so so much more communities are never represented right so my goal is to fix that! I'm a snow leopard therian, questioning lycanthrope and conceptkin. I'm asking around about one specific thing right now, if you were to see more writing about our communities, what would you like to be represented more? ^^

hi, so!

I wanted to take my time answering to make sure I actually think this through first, since my identity is one of the chronically underreprested in the community. why's that, you ask? well, cause it doesn't have a name. and it's not being questioning. it also can't have a name, because, well.... that's impossible, is it?

what I mean by that: there's some of us whose identities are vague. who can never seem to settle on anything, because no label ever feels Right. identities that one could write ten essays about, but never sum it up in a word or two. I realize I'm not being very specific, but that's kinda the point, is it not?

I'm alterhuman. I'm nonhuman. I don't have any other labels to myself. Sure, I can take more, but.... on a core level, I'm just alterhuman. I experience humanity differently, and that's the main point. Why doesn't really matter, because all of us will have our own reasons.

Sure, I flicker, I have a canine identity going on, feline sometimes, sometimes robot, even fictional at other times. But I'm never all of these things all of the time. I've called myself a vast array of things over the years, because my identity is everfluid. It shifts, and it changes over the years. It's not a stable thing and that's okay too.

And what I'm trying to say here is, I'd like to see identities which are... Unstable. Identities that change, that don't have these moments of "this explains everything", or "need to seek out the right term". Some of us are 'just' alterhuman, and I want to see that talked about too.

#also yes I realize there's a term called “othervague” but i really don't like the way it's explained and presented cause it always feels #like it's somehow a bit less. like you're otherkin but you just haven't figured out exactly what you're kin with or are still questioning #sometimes you're just something entirely else there's no binaries in the community we lay completely elsewhere #I'm not even sure if I worded any of this correctly it's such a difficult topic to talk about #but the tldr: unstable identities that change over time and aren't treated as less real #nonhuman #alterhuman

[kaeyapilled]

So with the hangout.. do you think that settles the issue of mistranslation or not of Kaeya and Diluc being brothers?

is it even possible to settle it? i feel like there must be some insane cultural difference between me as a western person and chinese people when it comes to adoptive siblings because, i honestly don't see how the biological son of the guy you consider your adoptive father isn't, by extension, your adoptive brother; how would that relationship not be familial? even when you bring in the "sworn brothers" trope as a means of queercoding, which is a concept ive had explained to me more than once – like, okay? i agree that it's true you can't properly translate/localize that, but. how else did you want them to translate it? even if the word brother was never used once in the eng translation, how do you make it so that kaeya and diluc calling the same guy "father" doesn't imply some uncomfortable things if he and diluc are romantically involved..? but then, who knows, maybe i just don't have enough knowledge about how censorship works in china, how they do queercoding over there, how they deal with adopted relationships, whatever. it's fine. different cultural upbringings, no? it's funny when it's the western side of the fandom discussing this, though. because you'll have these extremely white people arguing with you about the intricacies of chinese BL media. as if either of us knows what the hell we're talking about. anyway, none of this matters in the end because most klc shippers just... like the incest. and the day we stop arguing about mistranslations and simply accept that people either 1) see this relationship in a different light due to their cultural background or 2) are a little bit of a freak online is the day i will finally know peace as a kaeya fan

#i dont think this will be settled until we stop asking if it's settled. what if we just don't speak about it anymore #me: no i dont do discourse. sorry. *five minutes later* #first and last time i will spend this many words on this topic #and i hate the ''it's just fiction'' argument because yes. it is just fiction. #im not gonna come here and say this has an effect on real life. of course it doesnt this is gacha game yaoi #and i wont say that people aren't well within their right to engage with this sort of content either #i dont think it necessarily means anything about the moral values you apply to reality #i myself am into things in fiction that i find horrible in real life. why wouldn't i extend this same logic to proshipping? #doesn't change the fact that it's something i find weird and uncomfortable. #and that it's something that a Lot of people are going to find weird and uncomfortable #and that acting like this is just a regular pairing between two random guys is.. frankly really dumb #if you're gonna be weird about it at least own it! admit you're just into things society perceives as very gross #and tag your thing correctly so i can filter it out and block me so i never ever have to interact with you in my life #Okay. that's out of my system now. i apologize for posting discourse #complaining tag #askpilled #discourse

[zeussim]

What are your favourite parts of my cc in general?

#i wanna see if there is a common delimiter #did i use that term correctly i feel like i heard it in a movie once #YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN and that is the only necessity #seee??? #ok im tired #my brain is fried #i shall read manwha and sleep #YES it is only 9.30 pm #its called adultinf #ADUKTING #A-D-U-L-T-I-N-G #there!! amazing #bye #EDIT it's denominator #ALSO WHY IS THAT A WORD

[nemotheenvisionist]

Just little comic about a realisation I had

#please dont steal #illustration #digital art #lego monkie kid #lmk tang #howls moving castle #turnip head #the owl house #toh luz #kinning #bare in mind i don’t know if I’m using that word correctly #as far as I know it means a character you relate to #yes I know it’s a little more than that #but I’m thinking of it at its core #very quick and sketchy comic

[frowerssx2]

#That's not even a word #me when seeing torhi's last name for the first time: #there is no way I can even try and spell it with my dyslexia #and saying it is always a disaster with my speech problems #if you see me spell his name correctly in the tags on my blog it is because of the auto tagging system #hatoful boyfriend #tohri nishikikouji #torhi rainbowbeaks #if you don't know where I got that name from it is from Team Hatoful playthrough #Torhi wouldn't lazer me right because I find it impossible to say his name right? #like it isn't my fault dude #frowerss makes a terrible meme #I hate my speech problems but I never thought I'd have the possibility of getting lazered to death because of them #and yes I did use Google to spell his name correctly for this #has this been done already #idk #I've been in this fandom for eight years and me saying or spelling Torhi's name right will never be a thing #ever #not on my own anyway

[ravenloftbythelamplight]

Dialogue is already something when you're a professional over-thinker, but dialogue for characters who already exist and have personalities and ways of speaking? Also something

#dm thoughts #Yes I am the kind of person to stare at a line of text and go #'Is this phrased correctly? Does the word choice fit the character? Is it in character for them to use this verb?' #it is a blessing and a curse at the same time #I've been working on stuff for my warlock player's backstory #so the mental visual has just been Azalin looming over me like 'You better be writing my dialogue accurately or else.' #and me sitting at my computer like a sad little cartoon henchman going 'UH-HUH BOSS I'M ON IT BOSS-' #like I know I could just say 'fuck it' and go in my own direction and I have done just that multiple times and will continue to do so #but I also don't want to pick up Strahd and throw him so far that he becomes entirely unrecognizable ya know?

[silverandebony]

i'm sorry. TAGGING SASKATCHEWAN CANADA AS KANSAS SOUTHERN GOTHIC AND APPALACHIA????

TAGGING SASKATCHEWAN CANADA AS KANSAS SOUTHERN GOTHIC AND APPALACHIA*

*i misremembered and the one tagged with appalachia&appalachian gothic isn't Explicitly saskatchewan (all of the pictures with location captions are apparently from saskatchewan so i'd be inclined to guess it probably is too, but there's no way to know for sure). so who knows!! i don't know what appalachia looks like! maybe it IS appalachia! in which case why is it also tagged saskatchewan

[Image ids: three cropped screenshots of 'regional gothic' style tumblr picture posts and their tags. The first picture is a truck at an empty intersection with a hazy yellow sky; the second is part of a building mural depicting a nature scene with canada geese captioned 'rural saskatchewan'; the third is of the edge of a town on a foggy day, with old, short buildings fading into the mist, captioned 'uranium city, sk'. Tags common across all three posts are: ethel cain, southern gothic, regional gothic, rural gothic, midwestern gothic, kansas, and midwest. Two of them are tagged with 'gibson girl'. Additionally, the truck picture is tagged with appalachia, appalachian gothic, twin peaks, and hayden anhedonia; the mural picture is tagged with small town usa, small town, small town america, small town canada, great plains, prairies, prairie, and prairiecore; and the foggy town is tagged with 'ghost town, liminal, liminal spaces, and foggy day.

End id.]

I also went back to the blog to see if those posts were still there so I could take better screenshots (they weren't; hooray reporting things for spam) but upon further scrolling I realized that every tagged post. Every. Single. Post. With Tags. all of them. Are tagged with southern gothic and kansas and saskatchewan. THESE ARE NOT THE SAME. WHY ARE YOU USING ALL OF THEM THESE ARE NOT THE SAME

*coughs* anyway. Among all of these, in all their spammy mistagged glory, there is one I would like to give a special shout out to, for in my opinion being the most wildly tagged:

[Image id: another screenshot of a tumblr picture post. This one is a picture of a small motel with a rundown fence in the foreground. A colour filter has been used to make the picture look washed out and fit the regional gothic vibes. This picture has been tagged with: gibson girl, americana, appalachian gothic, midwest gothic, preacher's daughter, regional gothic, rural gothic, southern gothic, hayden anhedonia, ethel cain, nebraska, kansas, motelcore, appalachia, southern aesthetic, saskatchewan, alberta.

end id.]

Take a moment to appreciate it. Bask in its questionable glory. Allow yourself the time to question why?

I think it's the 'alberta' tag that really makes it for me here. The 'nebraska' as well. The latter I assume is from the title of one of Ethel Cain's songs, which would explain... to some degree... how it got there. Why 'alberta' though? Why this picture, out of all of them? Is it actually from Alberta? (It could be; I've seen similar looking things) If it's from Alberta, why is it also tagged 'saskatchewan'? 'kansas'? 'appalachia'? 'southern gothic'? Do not each of these preclude all others? If it's Saskatchewan or Albertan, why is it tagged 'americana'?? Is it for views??? If you want it seen, it's already got the tags! Regional and rural gothic are fine! They'll probably get you a lot more views than tagging something with a Canadian province ever will! I just. I don't understand. why. why have you done this. please stop. i'm begging skfjjsjfjj

in conclusion: tumblr has tagging etiquette and i am begging the young aesthetic bloggers to take a moment to learn it. it will save you so much being reported for spam and having your posts and or possibly your entire blog taken down because of it. And now, if you'll excuse me, I have a blog to go report specifically because of this

#aesthetic post #regional gothic posts #tag spamming #look. look. i have no particular great love for canada in general #but you cannot. you Cannot. tag an image post saskatchewan AND appalchia. not in this context. they are Not The Same #one of them is a flat as fuck region of canada. one of them is a region of the use with one of the oldest mountain ranges in the world #you understand how these are different right #and sure tbc there is absolutely an element of 'that's MY distinct region that you're comparing to (insert other region here) going on with #this #do canada and the us have a lot of similarities both good and terrible? yeah definitely #but there are still significant cultural and geographical differences dammit!!! #you can't just fucking call saskatchewan appalachia! that's not how it works!! #anyway tho. i'm so tempted to tag this 'ethel cain' or 'southern gothic' just for the irony #but i will be brave. i will be so so brave. i will not. i will be polite #(though i imagine it will show up in at least the tag searches anyway since i've mentioned them in the main body :') my apologies) #tldr please tags your gothics correctly. don't tag saskatchewan with appalachia or southern gothic. be polite. #learn the etiquette lest ye be reported for spam to hell and back #caps warning #image described #silvered words #asks #adamshallperish #also yeah i'm just ignoring the ethel cain related tags for the moment. they shouldn't be there either but they're not focus here

[theworld-accordingtocasey]

Why did tumblr put the fucking community label button where the tags button should be stop FORCING US to use your shit and let your user experience be a happy one my GOD

#if it’s so much of a problem then why do people of age have to be inconvenienced #if someone needs special accommodations ok fine make them available but why does it have to involve rearranging shit for EVERYONE #when you use a site like tumblr you should reasonably expect that there’s a chance you’ll see SOME shit if ppl didn’t label it correctly #make tumblr jr. or tumblr lite for ppl who have sensitivities to mature content and filtering words or tags isn’t enough #work on the overloaded amount of spam bots instead of moving shit that *we enjoy* around!!! #it’s so aggravating to keep having muscle memory issues bc of staff’s nonsense #I hate it here #exceptions can have an alternative place entirely for all I care #but stop being so fuckin pushy with your features that only a segment of people *if any* want #I been using this site for a decade can there be a mf legacy version where you stop trying to “fix” shit that isn’t working?! #cus OGs are NOT the ones asking for this #maintain your user base instead of doing gymnastics for newcomers #ugh #dumblr #Yes offense #dissenting opinions are not welcome #criticism is not accepted #/end rant

[dwarrowdams]

I thought I was prepared for the balloon shifter omegaverse book.

If it had just been that, I think i would've been fine, but it also featured certain fluids that taste like funnel cake icing and balloon noises during/after sex and that was just a liiiiiiittle too much for me (but in a good way).

Anyways, take this as your cue to write whatever weird shit you want because even if it's fucking wild, I'm sure people will read and enjoy it.

#hush Bree #it's 'squeak' by Vera Valentine btw #if you're asking yourself 'did I read those words correctly?' yes you probably did #also the plot did feel a bit rushed but it was a good novelette overall #(short story? idk it wasn't very long) #good if you just need/want something weird to distract you

[sourkitsch]

When I was a boy, newly interested in art, my mother took me to the Metropolitan Museum. We looked around the lobby, and when we discovered that there were no art classes being offered, my mother lost interest. I begged her, I wanted to see something, so she let me go upstairs alone. The Met then wasn't like it was now: it was like a big warehouse for scholars. When I got to one dark room filled with paintings I heard a tapping sound, like a cane on the floor. I was fearful, somebody was coming towards me. This guy came up to me -- he had polished shoes -- he put his walking stick on my sternum and pushed me down. He told me 'Dirty little boys like you should not be in museums like this.' Years later I realized who that man was: James Rorimer the director of the museum.

from Jerome Witkin: Painting History, Memory and Fantasy

The Met now has a number of Witkins in its collection.

#'dirty little boys like you' Witkin's Jewish #it's a loaded statement #but there is not a single museum out there that does not have at least one story like this #I am all for informed critique but I loathe anti-intellectualism #The met has his work in it's collection– these are not immutable monoliths. museums when they function correctly are supposed to grow #and change and respond #yes shits fucked up sometimes #there are museums out there that I think have made mistakes and some that I even despise on principle #but Its important that museums do exist and are appreciated as a wealth of knowledge #sorry I get so heated about this #Jerome Witkin #anyway class sucked but my professor said that I can have a word count extension on my Boston Expressionism paper so that is nice

[beholdthemem]

On one hand I don't have the patience for the kind of people who declare themselves the judge of what does or does not qualify as 'problematic' in a ship, because I've noticed that it inevitably seems to boil down to 'You don't ship the thing that I do, and I don't think that ships besides mine should exist' using progressive sounding buzzwords that kind of fall apart the minute you investigate them closer. ('That's pedophilia!' Two year age gap between an 18 and 20 year old. 'You're homophobic!' Shipping a bisexual dude with a female character.)

On the other hand, I also do not have the patience for the type of people who unironically use the word 'antis' when talking about people who don't like their ship, because every one that I have ever talked to has the BIGGEST fucking victim complex about shipping something unpopular and seems to consider themselves genuinely oppressed because of it to the point where I want to be like

#personal #it's just two different flavors of Too Invested In Fandom Please Go Outside #i promise you both THERE IS MORE TO LIFE #TOUCH GRASS I AM BEGGING YOU #words mean things. 'pedophilia' 'homophobia' etc- those have ACTUAL MEANINGS and YOU HAVE USED NONE OF THEM CORRECTLY. #which i *know* you know. #and then on the other hand it's like... #jfc SOMETIMES PEOPLE THINK THE THING YOU LIKE IS GROSS. THAT SUCKS BUT IT'S NOT THE END OF THE WORLD. #GROW UP. #bitch i shipped HitsuHina and GAAMATSU in the 2000s/early 2010s #on FANFICTION.NET. #you know how many death threats you were likely to get per perfectly tame fic containing either of those? #on deviantart?? #you don't wail about what a martyr you are to have to deal with it you roll your eyes ignore it and MOVE ON. #buddy on tumblr you can fucking BLOCK PEOPLE! we did not have that option in ye olde FFN days! #THE BLOCK BUTTON IS YOUR FRIEND. BLOCK. AND. MOVE ON. #you know how many people I've blocked in the past two months? #neither do i because i no longer bother keeping track #somebody says something rude to me about the thing i like and then i block them and move on with my fuckin day. #10/10 would recommend.

[oh-lacy]

hey there! i love ur blog and u never fail to put a smile on ur face. ur super kind and amazing and im so so glad that we're mutuals

hi anon!!! thank you so so much! i don't know who you are (which is the point but i digress) but im so happy we're mutuals too!!!

<333

#yes i am aware i did not use the phrase but i digress correctly #but i digress #i love you guys #you're all so so sweet #thank you for the kind words !!!!

[hrokkall]

GRABS YOU

Wanna share your voice claims ideas? 👀

Genuinely do Not think I have enough to warrant making even half a list but P03 sounds like Edgar from Electric Dreams 1984 in my brain but ONLY extremely specific scenes like this particular bit for about 10 seconds when he’s being unplugged.

#Re: Inbox #Tasmanianstripes #Again it’s not EXACTLY what I picture but it’s the closest I’ve heard #I would say the character as a whole but I can’t imagine 03 having Nearly as much inflection in its tone #Barring the bit at the end of act 3 where it gives the whole ''I fooled you all!'' speech #Tried to screenrecord and upload just the lines I'm talking about but tumblr... doesn't let you add #internal video when replying to an ask apparently #Warning for loud noises on this; tried to skip past the bit where there's a ton of screaming but who knows if I did the timestamp correctly #Back to voiceclaims though; the Scrybes are in a weird grey area #Because I don't HC Lesh//y to speak at all outside of animal mimicry/telepathically beaming the words into your brain #(Though I guess that *could* have a specific sound to it as opposed to varying person-to-person) #And Mora straight up has a voice actress so I wouldn't want to stray from that #Which just leaves Mags and 03 #Neither of which I have really been able to find anything I say ''YES!! THAT!!'' to #03's is just a ''Yeah sure close enough.'' #These tags have gotten longer than the actual answer; I'm just gonna hit send on this one 💀

[starpros-sunshine]

Unstoppable force (whatever insanities the enstarsblr throws at us) meets immovable object (my having exactly one braincell that's just rotating wataei around like on a carousel)

#hehe I'm lomve thems <33 #I'm sorry I'm just in a very good mood right now please bear me no mind #i almost wrote 'unstoppable force meets immovable horse' because somehow that just got stuck in my head from somewhere #mightve been a jojos video #I'm also just vibing to the yuumori op #the first one #it is SO good #not even listening to it rn it's just also rotating in my mind as well #but yes Wataei the world <33 #I actually don't know if I'm using that correctly I'm so bad with internet terminology you don't even know #perks of articulating yourself like #I don't know actually but I've been told the way I speak english is a little unusual for someone with it as a second language #my written english is wayyy better than my spoken english though with some words you can just really hear that I'm german #i like having a little bit of an accent though even if it only gets really noticeable when I'm nervous