lady-raziel:

skelettes:

mantorokk-writes:

“This character is dead in canon” to you. They’re dead in canon to you. To me they’re fine

“This character is dead in canon” then explain to me why they’re still running around and living rent free in my head.

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aphr0dyke:

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this tweet hasn’t left my mind once in the two years since it’s been posted

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brother-spankus:

isuggestarson:

brother-spankus:

Oh boy am I pissed off about having to participate in capitalist America

Ive got an idea

Mr Arson bestie, I’m excited to hear it

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headspace-hotel:

lifeamongtheamazons:

For my linguistsics degree, I did a project on why I’m seeing more people saying “on accident” instead of “by accident.” I looked at almost a million pieces of writing pulled from news sites, blogs, academic articles and television transcripts. I found almost three hundred cases of “on accident” being used. It was a surprisingly even spread across sources. Even more interesting, I organized the hits by date and tracked an upward swing in use as time goes on. This means that the use of “on accident” is increasing over time, and may eventually supplant and drive out the classic usage of “by accident.” I like to call this prepositional shift.

Now, looking at my data and looking at the age ranges of the writers or speakers, the majority of them were under the age of thirty. So I interviewed a panel of people, choosing twenty with a spread of about half above thirty, and half below. Those older than thirty years of age felt “strongly” or “very strongly” that “on accident” was wrong in all cases, and that “by accident” was the only correct phrase. However, those younger than thirty were much less rigorous, with more than half feeling “ambivalent” or “less strongly” about which was correct. This demonstrates a generational link in preposition usage.

When presented with options for the definitions of “by” and “on,” we also get some interesting data. For by, there are two main definitions according to the Oxford English Dictionary: 1. Identifying the agent performing an action. Or 2. Indicating the means of achieving something. Whereas “on” has many more definitions, the pertinent ones being 1. To indicate the manner of doing something or 2. To indicate active involvement in a condition or status. By the above definitions, either “by accident” or “on accident” is a correct usage of the term. However, native speakers of English could not successfully define either preposition, instead just choosing one, the other, or both as “sounding correct.”

The only evidence for a rule-based shift that I could find was a correlation with the paired phrase for the opposite condition “on purpose.” While the younger interviewees were ambivalent about the correctness of “on accident,” they uniformly rejected the correctness of the suggested phrase “by purpose.” So the shift can only be in one direction according the the native ear, towards the preposition “on.”

Whether this means that the particular usage of “by” is becoming archaic or the definition of “on” is expanding is a possible subject of further study using a wider range of phrases. But I found the wider acceptance of “on accident” versus “by accident” to be a fascinating look at how prepositions can shift meaning and usage over time.

So now I’m curious, five years from my initial study (and itching to try the Tumblr poll feature):

How do you feel about the use of “on accident”?

It’s grammatically wrong, and possibly also cursed. I will die on this hill.

It might be right sometimes. I’d have to hear it.

Meh. Why do we care about this?

It’s fine. ON accident, BY accident. Both are okay!

…what is this BY accident thing? You don’t do things BY purpose!

I think both are fine but the final poll option makes a compelling point…

nitrogennightmare:

thisdiscontentedwinter:

poetry-protest-pornography:

Oh, I love this an inordinate amount.

This guy covers children’s songs in the style of various artists, and he’s incredible.

I’m weirdly emotional about it?


This is amazing!

This is the exact opposite energy of the “what happens after the camera cuts and you’ve destroyed you labtop for 5 seconds of entertainment”

This guy not only wrote a whole song but dressed up and FILMED it! For what! For 1 and a half seconds of MY entertainment! That must have been HOURS of shooting and editing! I’m touched, this is art

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thesebonesbite:

uberfluss:

first 5 faceless emojis are how your summers gonna go

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Magnus Archives fan I see

cryptotheism:

No no, you misheard me. I said Igneostic I believe that divine salvation can be achieved through the cooling and solidification of molten rock.

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angel-derangement:

tforthetea:

phyrexian-lootbug:

tforthetea:

angel-derangement:

angel-derangement:

they put pussy in the water supply to keep the lesbians healthy

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ⓘ Fact Check

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idk why but they buried the option to turn this feature off - but you can find it if you go to the FAQ.

WHY DID THEY NEED TO CLAIRIFY THAT

Tumblr has fact checking?

apparently???

yeah it’s new :/ they announced it on the staff blog here

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Can you share with us a good rabbit picture





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the-bi-bilingual:

blairwaldcrf:

thepandaredd at it again

“Oh shit, right superhero got it-” has GOT to be one of the funniest lines hes done

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out-there-on-the-maroon:

memecatwings:

you guys are all “men covered in blood” this and “unhinged feral bastards” that and “i love violence” but when captain flint beats a man to death in front of his crew during a duel because he challenged his leadership and then lies afterwords saying the man was a thief suddenly its “boring edgelord” and “hypermasculine posturing” ok i see how it is 🙄

#like idk what more you want he was even trapped by the narrative he himself created (via @memecatwings)

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dinokingdom:

weedass:

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choose your path wisely

going straight into the woods call that penis mysterious

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