#denoted

[vfdinthewild]

"In electromagnetics, the term "magnetic field" is used for two distinct but closely related vector fields denoted by the symbols B and H."

-from the wikipedia page on Magnetic Fields

#vfd #lemony snicket #asoue #a series of unfortunate events #magnetic fields #not the band unfortunately #vector fields denoted #wikipedia #in the running for most original #vector #fields #denoted

[prokopetz]

My favourite example of the distinction between denotation and connotation is "what did you do?" versus "what have you done?"

#language #linguistics #word nerdery #denotation versus connotation #media #tropes

[hauntedmoors]

oh you get it

#when I telllll you that the show uses tumors / livers / organs to denote romances and codependent relationships I Mean it. #house is able to better emotionally connect when his relationships are medicalised in some ways. you just have to trust me on that. #I'm not even particularly a hilson truther because I'm a cuddy girl through and through but I enjoy queerbait. it's more intellectually #satisfying than canonised bland gay romances <3 #text #house md #liverisms tag #sort of

[gallifreyanhotfive]

The Doctor to the Sycorax (and many others): No second chances. *let's them eat shit*

The Doctor to the Master: Oh....you committed genocide??? 😔 You hurt many of my friends?????? 🥺 That's okay--I believe you can be better. 😌 You're my oldest friend, you know. ❤️ I believe you can be beautiful. We could travel the stars, you and I, see everythi--oh no, he escaped. 😕 Til next time!

#they remind me of greek gods #destroying a bunch of shit because of their beef #but they are also very much in love with each other sooooo #doctor who #dw #classic who #dr who #new who #thoschei #doctor/master #doctor x master #the doctor #the master #...except for that one time on sarn of course #there were extenuating circumstances tho #sycorax #the wording and emojis denote how fucking pathetic the doctor is

[4mulaone]

lots to discuss on the minefield of driver/reader insert fics but the literal funniest thing is fake twitter threads of drivers typing in an insane gen z internet specific lingo when factually speaking they talk like this

#that i miss racing you with my truck. on the m1. specifically on Eurotruck Simulator. (sunglasses emoji) #look inside ur heart. charles leclerc doesnt know what a soft launch is #also the fake beef in the comments between like user max69pogchamp and lequestrian420 always just denotes a bomb on me. #literally madness luv............ #f1

[salemoleander]

Thankfully the participants have mostly named themselves, but I wanted to post this anyways

People ragging on duo names are RIGHT, but I think people who default to them are understandably defensive bc no one explains why they're not good beyond being overused

Desert duo works because them being a solo pair of people spiraling around each other in the desert until one beats the other to death is their Entire Deal. Duo here is conveying information/has a connotation beyond "this is 2 people"

Most of the time, the number of people in the relationship is NOT the most significant quality you can be sharing. Flower Husbands, Boat Boys, Team Rancher, Team BEST all give us more useful info/ have more interesting connotations

Are they a team/equal partnership? (Team BEST, Team T.I.E.S., Team Rancher)

Is it an arrangement of mutual need or a fragile alliance? (Monopoly Mountain, Magical Mountain, Southlands - players obfuscate more contractual/ delicate relationships by referring to them as the place they happen, not by the people involved)

Are they irresponsible or childish about the impact of their kills? (Boat Boys, Coral Kids, Bad Boys)

Is it a larger group following a leader? Let's throw in some military or royal imagery! (Red Army, Fairy Fort)

I do think it's very funny that we are so consistently bad at this that the creators have started preemptively offering names

#life series #limited life #24lsmp #i still laugh sometimes about divorceduo like. THATS ALL OF THEM. This clarifies very little! #its all about both connotation AND denotation. and duo trio etc offer very little in either category #salem tag

[motheroftheantichrist]

"It wouldn't make sense narratively" bitch WHAT narrative?!?!

#saw franchise #saw 2004 #saw x #mark hoffman #adam faulkner stanheight #lawrence gordon #john kramer #peter strahm #jigsaw #amanda young #chainshipping #coffinshipping #shotgunshipping #this could apply to literally anything in the Saw franchise #in a world where backwards baseball caps denote age who is to say what makes sense? #in this world it is retcon or be retconned

[butchcockiness]

destroy the idea that dick size denotes dominance or submission. girl with a big dick can be a submissive little bitch for a butch's 1 inch tdick. she can hump his leg with her soft or hard subby cock while she sucks his cock like the good slut she is until his precum and her drool are dripping down her chin. she can beg him to keep frotting his throbbing tcock against her needy dick and to let her cum all over her own tummy. he can destroy her prostate with a 3 inch silicone cock too. (shallow penetration is best for reaching the prostate anyways!) girls w big dicks can be submissive cocksluts for small tdicks and other small dicks. you don't need a small dick/clit to be submissive, and you don't need a big dick to be dominant. transmascs w big dicks can be submissive too and girls w small dicks can be dominant! i speak the truth and everyone especially in trans spaces should remember it!!! (ofc there's absolutely nothing wrong with enjoying content related to doms w big dicks or subs w small dicks, but remember that nothing about bodies inherently makes anyone more dominant or submissive, just as it doesn't make anyone a certain gender!)

d-trans, orientation pl-y blogs, other bioessentialism kinks, cis men DNI i will hunt you for sport

#t4t nsft #lesbian nsft #butch nsft #butch dom #trans nsft #butchcockiness original #transfem bottom #transfem sub #tdick #tcock #girls like this u are sooo sexy #btw girls w small/medium dicks can also be cocksluts for smaller dicks too just wanted to emphasize that dick size does not denote dom/sub

[prissygrlsorority]

lifestyle 🤍

pink stanley tumbler

pink sm water bottle

custom girly happy planner

pink keurig mini

tiffany and co pink lock and key diary

glossier hand lotion

pink tangle teezer ୨୧

fine girl mcbling pieces

cute loungewear ୨୧

cute custom starbucks cups

tech 🤍

pink ipad air

pink beats

macbook pro

hello kitty flash drive necklace

juicy couture laptop bag

pink casio graphing calculator

apple pink iphone 13 case

writing utensils 🤍

fluffy pens ୨୧

pink glitter gel pens ୨୧

pink pilot acroball pens ୨୧

bic sparkle mechanical pencils (my favs)

cute sanrio pens

pink mildliners ୨୧

bags 🤍

ted baker makeup bags

victoria’s secret makeup bags ୨୧

juicy couture backpack ୨୧

juicy couture pencil pouches

pink longchamp bag

tory burch ella tote

chloe tote bag

pink north face backpack

victoria’s secret signature tote ୨୧

notebooks 🤍

juicy couture notebooks

pink leuchtturm journal

pink college ruled notebooks

louis vuitton agenda

lace deco binder

pink binders

sanrio memo pads ୨୧

extras 🤍

sanrio stickers ୨୧

cute binder clips

pink girly stickers ୨୧

pink 3 hole punch

pink stapler

pink 2 ring binder

#prissygrlsorority #୨୧ denotes something i already own #collegiate princess 🎀

[ashtrayfloors]

When other people I knew in grad school read Kathy Acker’s books they were shocked. Appalled. Particularly most of the budding young feminists. I actually began weeding out women friends by their reactions to her books. The ones that smiled and lowered their eyes with sly understanding and touched themselves, I kept. The ones that freaked out, well, they were idiots. Once I read a paragraph from Empire of the Senseless in my theory of gender class and one of the women began to cry and ran out and barfed. No shit. Pussy, I thought.

—Lidia Yuknavitch, from The Chronology of Water

#quotations #lidia yuknavitch #kathy acker #the chronology of water #i think of this so so often #because i had a similar experience in undergrad #but was thinking of it again recently because i noticed a distinct split in the reactions of my women and nonbinary friends re: poor things #(note: i am not saying ‘women and enbies’ because i think they’re the same obvs #i’m just using it to denote ‘any friend who’s not a man’) #so #some are in the ‘smiling and lowering their eyes and touching themselves’ category #like: ‘i related to bella because xyz and therefore i loved it’ #and some are in the ‘crying and barfing’ category #like: ‘i was super triggered and thought the depictions of sexuality were problematic and horrible’ #i mean i’m not going to weed out friends because of it #but it’s…interesting #makes me think of that post that’s like #a piece of art can be triggering and awful for someone and healing and cathartic for someone else

[scealaiscoite]

age gap prompts ˗ˏˋ ꒰ 🐚 ꒱

— “look, i know i said i was okay with you calling me grandma/grandpa as a joke but i need you to stop doing it in public because i’m paranoid that people are believing it.”

— “you make me feel really safe. i’m not used to that.”

— “i love you, and that’s why i can’t subject you to the kind of judgement that us being together will bring you.”

— “it won’t matter to me what other people think so long as we’re together in it. please.”

— “i don’t think you need to worry about your age showing anymore, because at this rate i’m going to be grey enough for the both of us.”

— “hey, you said there’d never be a time where you couldn’t keep up with me. that extends to dancing too, whether you like it or not!”

— “god, couldn’t you have been born in a more fashionable decade? i can’t steal any of your clothes without feeling like i’ve been sucked into the past!”

— “you make me feel alive again. i’ll never be able to thank you enough for that.”

— “i don’t really understand what you’re talking about, but it looks like it’s making you happy so i’m going to be happy about it too.”

— “hey, leave the worrying and the agonising to me. one of us has to be happy and carefree for this to work, and i would much prefer it to be you.”

— “you never have to be nervous about coming to me for help, love. i promise i’ll never think less of you for it.”

#now this Should go without saying but. pls do not denote these as being anything that isn’t two consenting adults in a healthy relationship #prompts #age gap prompts #otp prompts #imagine your otp #otp writing #dialogue prompts #prompt list #writing prompts #writing exercise #rp meme

[aquarianshift]

beatleslash kink/fetish cheat sheet

if you argue with me you have to make your own and also cite your sources

#beatles #loosely the top/side position denotes whos domming or topping but whatever

[hororona]

nico robin and her smile

hiiii ok has anyone else ever thought about the person robin was before joining the straw hats? like who she was when she was at her worst? because i do. a lot. so go along with me here

from her introduction, robin has this very small smile that feels cunning and is seemingly meant to taunt luffy and co. it creates a sense that there's a canyon's depth of difference in power between her and the others.

robin's is a subtle character in her expressions compared to most other major characters in the series. and i think it fits her background of having to work in subterfuge. (???)

she maintains this expression throughout multiple scenes. the same shape of her smile that is so exact that it has to be with intention. this is the face of ms. all sunday. this is the person robin had to be in order to survive.

and yet each one still has it's differences and that's robin being not so perfect at hiding her true feelings (which btw i love that robin will always be exactly who she is). she's stressed or even strained at times. while also feeling perfectly at ease, but still performing a role.

i think for the most part. robin didn't mind what she had to do or who she had to be. because she's pragmatic, but she was definitely bothered by vivi and the strawhats. they're the ones who cause robin to show anything other than that static smile. notably when she is faced with vivi and luffy's determination.

and i've rambled about it once before robin is a kind woman at heart and who has a soft spot for the crew + vivi. their earnestness breaks through her own desire/need to not care for the effect her actions have on the lives of others.

notably the only times robin does seem to genuinely smile is in small sudden outbursts around luffy when something he does makes her laugh.

and throughout the rest of the alabasta arc. robin's clearly uncomfortable with facing the real destruction of alabasta at crocodile and her hands. later revealing that she never planned on helping him obtain the poseidon weapon. she never once smiles, instead dropping everything to focus on getting to the poneglyph.

after that though? she does her miss all sunday smile one last time when she asks luffy to join his crew. it's a famous panel, we all know it, we all love it.

the longer robin was with the straw hats. the more she began to genuinely smile. it's well established that being on the crew brought back joy and laughter into robin's life, that being with them gave her a reason to live again. but it was a slow start until we got to see this robin more often and more freely who is cheered by everyone's bright youth and excitement in being alive in a ways that she never had been allowed.

#one piece #nico robin #i've been working on this one slowly but surely #please i hope this makes sense and i'm not like alone here #using inconsistent sources because i'm not the biggest fan of viz's translation but sometimes have to read it #i haven't read onigashima yet so i can't talk about it with surety just yet but robin also has the habit of using accessories to denote whe #she isn't being herself. #it's why robin stopped wearing the cowboy hats post w7/enies lobby. despite the fact that the she looked so good in it. #i think in onigashima (and vaugely post-ts when she's in hiding) it was her sunglasses btw #i thought this would be longer tbh and it could be but i got impatient and didn't want to wait til later #the full better version is the version of this is made as a total nico robin character study that tracks from her character intro to now

[amethysttribble]

Personally, I just think that Elves should have incredibly detailed and distinct words for every level of kin and every generation of kin.

Great grandmother should be one easy, common word that's separate from one's grandmother, and there should be differing words for cousins based on what degree and how removed they are.

You have to be AT LEAST five generations out of the immediate family circle (i.e. no shared grandparents) before anyone even thinks to just call you 'kin', rather than use a two syllable word that provides excruciating detail on just how you're related.

#and hell #these words should denote matrilineal and patrilineal too #tolkien #can apply to other elves but this is what I mean #quenya needs more familial words #and i know there are people who have worked on this and i thank them

[forestofsprites]

to attempt to categorize aziraphale & crowley's actions into the simple dichotomies of 'correct' and 'wrong' or 'good' and 'bad' is to employ the exact same fallacy that the show warns of. throughout season two we see aziraphale struggle with morals and their ambiguity, no matter crowley's assertion (and demonstration) that there is no true 'good', no true 'evil'- that the lines are not only blurred but frankly non-existent- aziraphale can't move past the principles he was raised on. good actions are good (inherent to angels, inherent to heaven), evil actions are evil (inherent to demons, inherent to hell). aziraphale's decision to try to 'fix' heaven is the perfect representation of the reality of the universe. he believes it to be a simply good decision, something angels do and heaven is all about (he'll get heaven back to normal! back to being good!) but the reality of his decision is so much murkier than that. it isn't that aziraphale did something bad or evil, nor is it that he did something correct or good, he did something that, like many things in the universe, embodies both.

#i haven't done meta in a year guys i am so sad and rusty #i just mean that #you can't define the show that seeks to reject the good/evil fallacy by employing that fallacy to denote their actions #i mean absolutely aziraphale thinks he is being good. he made that choice in the faith that it was a good one. something inherent to him #as an angel #but that decision was never so clear cut. there was no right or wrong within it. he was given a choice and he chose it #it's not going to achieve what he thinks it will. it isn't the path to his happiness #and i definitely think crowley is closer to that path in terms of understanding the reality of heaven and hell- good vs evil #but neither are simply right or wrong #neither is a simply good or simply bad option #the whole point is an 'us' #a middle ground #an understanding that choices and actions are not good or bad or wrong or right. they're just choices. they're inherently made with a bit #of both #good omens #good omens s2 #good omens season two #good omens spoilers #rambling #that tag hasn't been used in sooo long #good omens meta #good omens rambling

[elf-simp]

Sunshine

♫ I had been lost to you, sunlight Flew like a moth to you, sunlight oh sunlight Oh, your love is sunlight ♫

Neza belongs to @seraphinitemir

#ffxiv #ffxiv screenshots #ffxiv gpose #ffxiv elezen #elezen #ffxiv viera #viera #castle atoel #neza atoel #Their last names don't denote any relation #surprisingly #This is one of the people that bullied me into making castle ♥ #They're about as obsessed with Castle as I am