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YOUR HONOR, THEY WERE ROOMATES

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what i love is that it's obvious Abed meant to say "me gusta papas fritas", (i like french fries) but instead he said "me gustas papas frías" (i like cold potatoes). but still, they learned all that with chang as their teacher!

*starts beatboxing out of nowhere*

¿donde esta la biblioteca? where is the library?

me llamo t-bone la araña discoteca my name is t-bone the disco spider

discoteca, muñeca, la biblioteca disco, doll, the library

es en bigote grande, perro, manteca is in big mustache, dog, lard.

manteca, bigote, gigante, pequeño lard, mustache, huge, little

cabeza es nueve, cerveza es bueno head is ice cream, beer is good

buenos, dias, me gustas papas frías good, morning, i like cold potatoes

bigote de la cabra es Cameron Diaz! the goat's mustache is Cameron Diaz!

yea, boi. boi. whatt. it's 2009.

word.

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Uncritical support for this kid who hospitalized Elon Musk

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Do people really care about tags on ao3? Like I understand tagging content warnings and genres and such, but when it comes to additional tags, how much should I tag? I’ve noticed the funniest common tags that just make me wonder if anyone’s really interested in filtering fics by “inspired by music”, “North America” or “umbrellas”. Especially in smaller fandoms, like most of mine, it just seems kind of pointless bc you can’t afford to be picky anyway. Do you think additional tags are useful?

I think…

Actually, I’m going to take this as an opportunity to nerd. So there’s a phenomenon in linguistics called a sprachbund. A sprachbund is basically an area where a bunch of languages that aren’t from the same family have been rubbing up against each other for a very long time. When this happens, these unrelated languages start to pick up features from each other in a kind of linguistic crosspollination.

Example: Romanian is a Romance language, like French or Spanish. But it has a bunch of weird phonetic and grammatical features that no other Romance languages have. Why? Because it’s been living next to a bunch of Slavic languages for so long that it started to act like a Slavic language.

What does any of this have to do with your question? Well, I think that there are a bunch of websites that form a kind of internet fandom sprachbund. Each has its own features, but those features bleed into the other sites, even though they don’t belong there. Think about how ff.net style “legal disclaimers” (that actually have no legal meaning or function) sometimes show up on works written for ao3, which is designed to offer legal protection that makes those disclaimers irrelevant. Or how that ao3 tag generator started getting used as a prompt generator for tumblr drabbles. And on, and on, and on. Internet fandom is an enormous cross-platform sprachbund.

So what does that have to do with tagging on ao3? Well, I think ao3 picked up that style of tagging from tumblr. Because of the way tumblr is structured, it’s considered bad form to add non-constructive comments on your reblog of a post. Otherwise, you get dozens of reblogs just saying “wow” or “mood” and the post becomes unreadable. So people started putting their reactions to a post into the tags they added to their reblog, which prevented the post from accumulating nonsense. But then people were used to thinking of tagging as a mode of expression rather than purely functional, so the expressive use of tagging spread to ao3, even though it doesn’t serve the same purpose there.

The cool bit is that the weird tagging conventions ao3 got from tumblr have come to serve an entirely different and still valuable purpose on ao3. Since author’s notes aren’t visible in search results but tags are, the tags can be used to signal a set of things about the fic that a summary might not get across. For instance, if a fic is tagged “hurt/comfort”, that tells you the genre of the fic, but not its tone. But if the author then adds a tag like “but really mostly comfort we’re all about the comfort here”, you have a much better sense of what kind of fic you’re about to read. So even though no one would ever filter by that tag, it’s still conveying important information.

Isn’t human communication amazing?

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99.9% of the community fandom:

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the first one 😭

trobed as textposts + jeff winger

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actually, YNB will be there. and donald hasn't denied, just hasn't confirmed. people's agents getting them different deals means everything is up in the air.

*starts beatboxing out of nowhere*

¿donde esta la biblioteca? where is the library?

me llamo t-bone la araña discoteca my name is t-bone the disco spider

discoteca, muñeca, la biblioteca disco, doll, the library

es en bigote grande, perro, manteca is in big mustache, dog, lard.

manteca, bigote, gigante, pequeño lard, mustache, huge, little

cabeza es nueve, cerveza es bueno head is ice cream, beer is good

buenos, dias, me gustas papas frías good, morning, i like cold potatoes

bigote de la cabra es Cameron Diaz! the goat's mustache is Cameron Diaz!

yea, boi. boi. whatt. it's 2009.

word.

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*starts beatboxing out of nowhere*

¿donde esta la biblioteca? where is the library?

me llamo t-bone la araña discoteca my name is t-bone the disco spider

discoteca, muñeca, la biblioteca disco, doll, the library

es en bigote grande, perro, manteca is in big mustache, dog, lard.

manteca, bigote, gigante, pequeño lard, mustache, huge, little

cabeza es nueve, cerveza es bueno head is ice cream, beer is good

buenos, dias, me gustas papas frías good, morning, i like cold potatoes

bigote de la cabra es Cameron Diaz! the goat's mustache is Cameron Diaz!

yea, boi. boi. whatt. it's 2009.

word.

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ive hidden in a hole and obsessively watched the entirety of community in a week and now im crawling out bearing gay gifts. enjoy

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tumblr polls would rule. I think it’d be funny if you could add polls to someone else’s post in the reblog. I’d reblog all my mutuals posts with some shit like “shall they feel the fire of a thousand suns burn upon them for all eternity? [yes] [no]”

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babe, where is my souper suit?

YOU’RE KIDDING

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bitches will see the names abed nadir or troy barnes and hit reblog

it’s me. im bitches

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me after seeing this

this fucking sends me

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THEY WERE FUCKING ROOMATES

nooooooo stop longingly looking into my eyes after we both make our first real friend, an unlikely pair of a seemingly detached film nerd and a hyper emotional popular former jock, teaching me what it’s like to love someone after a turn in both of our lives leads us into each other’s arms, taking priority over any heterosexual romances we might be forced into for plot, only for one of us to leave in order to find himself while the other deals with the loss of someone he truly cared about… people are gonna start thinking we’re gay

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The lore goes further!

leonardllikespizza promotes a variety of other channels, some of them being for other community characters- but also including the PewDiePie account created for the South Park episode he cameod in.

"Johan Friedner/Jofri016 Second" is just some random guy who I can only assume may be the person who created these channels?

"PewDiePieStreams" has no information available from my searches, but it does feature one other channel- PewDiePie's main channel. The business email is "pewdschat@gmail.com" which I couldn't find anything on, either.

From everything I've seen I'm going to have to assume that these are fan channels and not real ones- most likely the graphics used in the show were either not real channels, or the channels were deleted after the show finished filming.

Leonard’s YouTube channel changed its name in community btw. between the first and second time we see his YouTube videos during the credits.

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abed is one of the best, most well-written and well-excecuted autistic characters i've seen in all of television. he made me learn things about myself i didn't even know.

I think that another thing that makes Abed a well written autistic character is that the writers allow him to be flexible within the traits he has.

So Abed doesn't like changes, as an example there is his Christmas ep or the one that where Annie changes the room. But also when he isn't able to get in the that rocket van he is able to adapt.

His social skills too. Like first he had problems with sarcasm and jokes, and then he got better at it.

He is not always the same in every situation, he changes and adapts and his autistic traits are not set on stone. And although how his autistic traits impact him might change, they never disappear.

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abed was literally so based for smashing pierces guitar that one time and also being more concerned with fixing the figurine on his raiders display than helping piece when he was bleeding to death