108echoes:

derinthemadscientist:

great-tweets:

wait WHAT

Wait, so… does -copter come *from* helicopter?

Yep! This is called rebracketing. Another famous example would be “-burger”: the original food item is named after the German city, [Hamburg]+[er], but got semantically reinterpreted as [ham]+[burger]. Now it’s used as a suffix indicating a type of sandwich.

I love etymology!!!!!

[Image shows a tweet by Karthik Balakrishnan, @karthikb351, saying, “Was slightly mindblown when I discovered this.

“The two parts to the word “helicopter” are not “heli” and “copter”, but “helico” meaning spiral, and “pter” meaning one with wings, like pterodactyl.”

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ladydragon76:

furbearingbrick:

sirtroyofbaker:

balalaikaboss:

ejacutastic:

I DIDN’T LEARN ABOUT THIS IN DRIVING SCHOOL

Stop says the red light, go says the green

Wait says the yellow light, twinkling in between.

KNEEL, SAYS THE DEMON LIGHT
WITH ITS EYE OF COAL
SAURON KNOWS YOUR LICENSE PLATE
AND STARES INTO YOUR SOUL

THIS IS ALWAYS FUNNY

I’ve only seen this legendary post in screenshots

Forever Reblog!!

*CACKLES* This is never not funny.

[Image shows a comment thread on a social media platform.

Matt, @mattwhitlockPM, says, “Without revealing your actual age, what’s something you remember that if you told a younger person they wouldn’t understand?“

MonsterKing, @CerromeRussell, replies, “Video games only worked on channel 3“

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floralconversesations:

since we all use the same lingo here on tunglr.hell add the tags that come up when you put in “lmao” “kin” “mood” and “worm”

alloverthegaf:

holy fuck holy FUCK my parents mean well and only want the best for me but holy FUCK are they experts on getting on my damn nerves

To protect myself when dealing with my mama, I now have a formula.

“Hey mama, I want to tell you something and you need to be positive about it right now, okay?“

~wait for okay~

~proceed with exciting news~

You’d need to tailor to your parents, to avoid them getting defensive or feeling insulted. I needed to have a conversation the first few times, while she argued with me and explained why her usual reactions were Right and her motives were Pure.

I explained why I wasn’t able to hear it the way she meant it. (Instead of telling her she was saying the wrong thing, or arguing that it WASN’T helpful, I focused on how her words affected me and how I wanted her support). I asked her to talk to me about concerns at a later time.

There’s so much freedom in stating your expectations.

I’m curious about people’s opinions about reading a fic on tumblr vs ao3. What I mean is when I post a fic to ao3, I also make a post on tumblr with the title, summary, a link, and the first bunch of paragraphs. It’s that last bit that I’m wondering about: do most people (readers, but writers too) prefer a tumblr post that links to an fic to also contain the whole fic, particularly if it’s a one-shot? Or do people generally prefer reading on ao3 and like having a preview on tumblr?

ao3commentoftheday:

robin-mask:

ao3commentoftheday:

Interesting question. I just put the link and summary on tumblr, without the intro paragraphs. I’ve seen people add the start of the fic as well but I don’t know how preferred that is.

Readers? tumblr-ers?

I will say, though, that if you’re going to post the whole fic definitely use a Read More. And also be aware that Read Mores don’t always work on phones (ie, someone scrolling their dash on their phone might end up seeing your entire 20K work)

Added to that:

Be careful if you post it all on Tumblr.

You lose control on Tumblr; example, maybe you spot a really embarrassing typing error that totally changes the meaning of a certain sentence … on AO3, you can just ‘edit’ and fix the problem, but on Tumblr it could have been reblogged dozens of times and you can’t edit all those reblogs, even if you edit the original. That mistake is out there forever and ever.

Likewise, if you grow to hate your story … maybe it’s written in a way you dislike and you want to rewrite it to your current standards, maybe you’ve become morally against x ship or content, maybe you just want to quit social media and so forth … you can ‘orphan’ on AO3 or delete, but not on Tumblr.

You know when you change directions in your blog? Or you reblog from someone and say something stupid or rude or whatever, either by mistake or having a bad day or because you were young? How it’s there forever and you can’t get rid of it, and sometimes – years later – someone comes back to say something about it, even after you deleted the original post?

That, but with your story.

the amount of horror that crept up my bones while I read this…

In general, I read on ao3, but it depends on fandom.

I only read my friend’s Dragon Age fanfic on Tumblr. I don’t care much about DA, but her writing is so good that I’ll start reading and finish it here, even though I’m never in the mood to click the ao3 notification.

I prefer reading another friend’s writing on Tumblr, too, because this is where I found her and the narrower width seems RIGHT for her fic? It is too impersonal on ao3, for some reason??

Even more importantly, I love reblogging good fic on Tumblr. If I find one on ao3, I’ll search out a Tumblr version to reblog and recommend. I’m not sure if I could find a post that’s just a link. I guess, as long as you use a special tag for all fic, whether it’s a link or a whole fic, that would work.

So I like when you have both, with an important disclaimer – if you change your name frequently, linking to a Tumblr fic is almost impossible. Even read-mores often need to be retyped. So a Tumblr version is less valuable.

Don’t know if this has been discussed before but I really hate it when people tag characters in their fics when they’re not main characters to that story, like they just get a mention. My fandom is so clogged with my fave character getting tagged for minor appearances that I literally have no way to find fics actually about that character.

pazithigallifreya:

ao3commentoftheday:

lananiscorner:

Except that it says right here in the “Additional Tags” help text:

ao3commentoftheday:

As a general rule:

Relationships: tag the main ship(s). Use / if the ship is romantic or sexual in nature, use & if the ship is platonic or non-romantic

Characters: tag the central characters for this fic

Additional tags: this is where you can tag ships or characters that are mentioned in the fic but are tangential/minor

This is another one of those things that doesn’t get talked about very much and so not everyone knows. In fact, I’m not 100% sure I’m right here so please correct me if I’m wrong 🙂

Any other tags you want to give your work (for example, “Angst”,
“Crossover”, or “Tentacles”). You may also use this field to warn for
things not covered by the Archive Warnings. Please do not enter fandom,
relationship, or character names in this field. Multiple tags should be
separated by commas.

The character and relationship tag fields exist for a reason, and I’m sorry, but for every person I’ve met who would have wanted only major ships and characters tagged, I’ve met people who were upset when I didn’t tag secondary characters and ships. It’s really not that clear-cut and easy, although putting “characterX-centric” to show which character is the main can certainly help.

whelp, there’s me being dumb. Thanks for pointing it out!

You can add author’s notes at the beginning of your story, and that’s where background stuff can be mentioned. Something like “hey people who don’t like x character/y ship/whatever thing, it’s mentioned in chapter XX briefly/is a secondary plot/is kinda hinted at” or whatever. That will give the whingers fair warning and if they still give you hate comments you have grounds to delete them without guilt.

This kind of tagging makes rarepairs & less popular characters in a fandom AN ABSOLUTE HELL to find. Because when you have to wade through 10,000 stories about the Popular Ship that have the Thing You Want as a bare passing mention clogging up the tag, it makes it essentially impossible to find any content about the less popular pairing or character on Ao3.

I don’t want to read your Popular Ship Fic™ when I’m actually looking for stories where a rarepair is the central pairing, okay? Nobody is going to wade through 30 chapters about something they don’t give a flying rat’s ass about to find one passing mention, and it’s not a good way to promote your story to people who might actually be interested in it.

I think people forget that story tags on Ao3 are primarily an indexing system. And jamming barely tangential stuff in there plays merry hell with it.

tuesdayisfordancing replied to your post:
Okay my friends. I need recs to Tim fic where Tim…

oh man, i think i got most of my tim recs from you in the first place. i will try to think.

Tuesday, you are the best. By all means, remind me of things I recced you! I’m feeling tired, unable to gather up the energy to check my tag or my ao3 subscription list.

tuesdayisfordancing:

kiragecko:

Okay my friends.

I need recs to Tim fic where Tim was neglected and/or moderately abused as a kid and the Batfamily are relating to him, then or later. Or where preboot Tim and Dick hang out together and care about each other.

I need authours that read the 90s Robin series, and knew the two from before Damian showed up. Even if the fic is written after – people write their relationship so differently these days.

And I need LOTS of recs, because I’ve already read them all.

I know I’m asking a lot, but I just NEED them today. I just had to pause writing to pull on my hair and express excess emotion. I need fic with real Tim and people caring.

Please?

It’s not Dick and Tim, but Checking Up by DusttoDust has some family neglect. (I think Doubtful Sanity might as well, but that one actively removes Tim’s link to any Bat other than Babs, so it might be the absolute opposite of what you’re looking for. It’s also super shippy.) I will keep thinking, but I wanted to drop this one off so you can take a peek while I ponder!