#( when the /j starts to becomes /sr )

[lazymonth]

Idk what’s happening to me or why this is happening to me but I’m take this ship seriously than I should

I’m literally thinking it was a funny joke at first but as long I’m thinking about it, I started to like this crack ship…

[alenablack]

The contrasting parallels of Tom M. Riddle & Harry J. Potter

(Big thanks to @chaos-bear for helping me formulate and think this through!)

Let’s start with the basics;

Blood status: Both Tom and Harry are half-bloods according to pureblood society. Harry from his muggleborn mother, Lily Evans, and muggle grandparents. And Tom from his muggle father, Tom Sr.

Moving on we can touch on upbringing:

Both Tom and Harry are raised in the muggle world in unfavorable circumstances. For Tom he is trapped at an orphanage during the Second World War where he experiences bullying and isolation due to his magical nature. For Harry he is left in the care of his mother’s muggle sister and her family. Due to his magical nature he is treated with neglect and verbal abuse. Both of these circumstances create an inherent distrust in authority figures for both Tom and Harry. This also had an impact on their desire for a place or sense of belonging. This brings us to the next point: Hogwarts.

Both Tom and Harry experience Hogwarts as their first home, and the first place either of them call home. Throughout the books we see how both of them are drawn to and protective of hogwarts.For Harry we can clearly see his attachment through his narration. For Tom we mainly see this in three ways; his creation of Hogwarts artifacts as horcruxes as well as his desire to teach there immediately after graduation. Later his takeover of Hogwarts can be attributed to this desire for his first home as well as what it represents to the Wizarding world as a whole. This comparison is made by Tom Riddle himself. He notices similarities in their orphaned wizarding "blood," childhood, Parselmouth talents, and appearance. He makes Harry aware of the things they share, and this in turns shape how Harry views himself later throughout the story.

Finally in terms of basic parallels we can discuss the twin cores. While this could simply be because of the horcrux inside of Harry, I believe it is a further plot device meant to highlight the similarities between the two. Interestingly enough the nature of a phoenix is a constant state of life, death, and rebirth. Which is the cycle Harry and Tom repeat throughout their conflict with one another.

Next let’s move to more obscure parallels, or parallels that rely heavily on personal assumptions. Let’s discuss some similar personality traits between the two wizards. Both Harry and Tom experience moments of obsession; for Harry this can show through how he hyperfixates on death throughout his life or how he has an ability to obsess over the actions of others (I.E. Draco in HBP) and is very unable to be dissuaded from said obsession. For Tom there’s many ways in which his personality is considered obsessive; he too has an obsession with death, although his goal is to outwit it. His obsession with power, and later his obsession with pursuing Harry as an adversary. Furthermore Harry and Tom are both natural leaders; again with different styles and visions. Harry uses kindness and compassion to inspire loyalty, while Tom uses power and fear to motivate others into following him. Both boys have had the experience of being identified as separate and unusual by their classmates, as well as being acknowledged as leaders. Although popular may not be the best term, it is apparent that Tom Riddle and Harry Potter are idolized or reviled depending on the circumstance. Tom, who had become accustomed to power and authority, cultivated these traits even further in founding the Death Eaters. Harry may find it much simpler to embrace the "hero" character in the seventh book, having had so much experience with people looking to him for answers and expecting so much from him. I’ll circle back to this when discussing the polarity between these two. Next, I want to touch on their shared slytherin traits which dumbledore himself calls attention to:

"Listen to me, Harry. You happen to have many qualities Salazar Slytherin prized in his hand-picked students. His own very rare gift, Parseltongue, resourcefulness , determination ¦ a certain disregard for the rules' he added, his mustache quivering again. "Yet it is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."

While Harry is very clearly a gryffindor he utilizes traits that Salazar prized. This causes an internal conflict within Harry, funnily enough in his pursuit to separate himself from his idea of voldemort he actually begins to display these qualities further.

While not a parallel in itself I do think it’s interesting how both Harry and Tom place special importance on familial objects (such as the gaunt ring or the invisibility cloak) especially since they share a common ancestor through the peverall line.

Changing gears I believe it is necessary to discuss, at least in part, how these two characters contrast. The fundamental difference between them is simply how they choose to deal with an issue at hand. While Harry and Tom have similar upbringings, they react extremely differently. Harry appreciates the qualities he lacked as a child, such as love, connection, trust, and joy. While Tom appears to be completely opposed to emotional attachments. Loyalty empowers Harry, whereas Tom feels owed it. Tom seeks credit for his uniqueness, whereas Harry avoids praise and criticism. Tom believes he is more powerful than death, whereas Harry believes death is his inevitable fate. Consider their leadership styles: Harry utilizes authority to teach and protect; his objective is to empower. While Tom utilizes his power to oppress and destroy, he lives on his own powers and those of his followers. Although there are clear differences such as, Harry serving as the protagonist and Tom serving as the story’s antagonist, I don’t believe it's central to their characters as to how they fundamentally differ in worldview.

[vazaha-tya]

Chapter 6 of "no longer human is out". And as promised in the author's note, here're two snippets from the Voldemort PoV that didn't make it into the fic:

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Lord Voldemort remembers being eleven and told he is a wizard. He remembers the judgement of an elder, and being found wanting. He remembers fire, and the loss of his trophies. He remembers thinking he never wanted to feel small again.

"Sinful little beast. I hope you never come back," cursed the matron of the orphanage the night before he left.

Lord Voldemort knows the Riddles died by his wand. He knows because they were the first people he truly intended to kill. He knows there could not have been another son of Tom Riddle Sr. He knows it cannot be him either, for he has never felt the need to indulge.

“Merope was pregnant. I shouldn’t have... I shouldn’t have left, if only for the child, but I couldn’t. I couldn’t! She... she raped me. She made me think I loved her and reshaped my mind to only think of her, bewitched me and touched me. I never wished... I cannot heal from this madness,” lamented the father who abandoned him in a memory Voldemort plucked from his mind.

Lord Voldemort thinks of all the ways his participation might not have been needed. He thinks of all the rituals and spells and potions one might have performed, cast or brewed to put him under a thrall, steal from him, violate him. He thinks of who might have done this, and why. He thinks of a boy with his face and hair, whose magic tastes like his and who might speak the language of their ancestors.

“I know that you are not mad. Hogwarts is not a school for mad people. It is a school of magic,” assured a great man to a wary child so used to fighting for every scrap he'd become a bestial little thing with a poorly-tacked on mask of cracked porcelain by the age of eleven.

Lord Voldemort believes the boy must have been drawn to him, or he wouldn't have sought out jumpy Quirrinus Quirrell on the first day of class.

A blood son could be his salvation. It could also be a trap.

"Who are you, child?" he hisses wonderingly in Parseltongue.

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"Mother committed a crime and stole from you. She is dead now, and cannot pay the price of her transgression, but the debt House Mulciber owes you for the slight is great. I am prepared to pay it on her behalf."

Voldemort's magic stutters like a breath caught in his throat. He hates it, this vulnerable state of his. His magic reflects the beat of his still living soul, stops and starts with his emotions and is only truly dormant when he himself is recuperating, or when he exhausts all his strength to hide from Dumbledore.

He has a son. An heir of his blood, born from Medea Mulciber, his Knight's daughter. Priam had sung her praises. She had raw talent, where her brother Hector's power was more subtle.

She was mad, however, and a mad tool was an unpredictable one. Voldemort had considered sending her to be taught by Bellatrix, so she could learn to curb her madness when the cause required it. He remembers, distantly, that she had talked to him at her father's funeral. She'd asked what he wanted. He'd replied dismissively, "Right now, I want Edgar Bones' head on a spike." The man had been an annoyance. Dumbledore's man through and through and a consummate liar to boot. He'd called the Greyback pack child predators, and swore they sought to infect all of Albion with lycanthropy. Fenrir had been livid.

The week after, Medea and Rosier Jr had conducted a raid, and brought him the heads of the Bones couple. Medea had apologised for letting Amelia Bones escape. He had found it very amusing. At Evan Rosier's funeral, he had needed to knock her out. The curse Lily Evans had thrown at her in grief had unbalanced her magic to the point she had almost caused an earthquake. When she had awoken, she had asked him again, "is there anything else that would please you, my lord?"

And he'd said, "Surprise me."

He never saw her again. She was ill, said her brother. He'd wondered if she'd defected, but somehow he doubted it. And so he'd assumed the curse had gotten worse. Then there was the prophecy, and he'd had other things in mind. He couldn't allow a newborn to pose him a threat.

"I told her to surprise me... I did not expect..."

[snuggles-and-struggles]

I have probably half a dozen or more ideas around one or both halves of spicyhoney being a "gaster blaster dragon" shapeshifter beast thing, but the most recent addition to the pile is rattling around again so

In this specific version, they're more akin to werewolves in their alternate form than full quadruped "dragons" (or what have you), so still mostly biped, no wings, just bigger and pointier with the Signature elongated skulls with horns and the double jointed legs. And tails of course, I would never miss an opportunity to add tails.

Anyways. After meeting via typical machine shenanigans before surfacing, none of them are certain the others can shapeshift and sort of try to hide it while simultaneously finding out? But of course, eventually, they soon learn the truth, and are more comfortable discussing the odd trait amongst each other.

Except Edge. For whatever reason, he excludes himself from anything related to shifting, and hasn't done so in front of any of the others. To each their own, whatever, eventually, one by one, they're freed to a shared surface, and things are looking up.

Except for Edge. At least for the most part. Ever since surfacing, he’s seemed to have gradually increasing problems with his temper and magic control. This could be chalked up to how stressful his job is, or the same reasons other monsters had noticed changes in their magic control (just natural adjusting to no longer being underground). But Rus suspects it's more than that.

He enlists Stretch's help to figure out what's wrong with Edge, and primarily only manage to stress and upset him further. So Stretch takes one rare opportunity to talk to Edge alone, and with a lot of patience, ultimately learns that Edge's shifting ability doesn't work like everyone else's. It's almost like some sort of alter ego takes over, and he almost never remembers what he did while shifted.

It started when he was a young teen, and got worse over the years, especially as he gained LV. It really is almost like a stereotypical werewolf situation for him, as he, apparently, behaves very animalistic and aggressive. He used to be able to shift with his brother's supervision just to burn off the excess magic but it's become a bigger problem since surfacing, likely due to the improved quality of health and living.

Stretch listens, and then they talk, and ultimately, he offers to help Edge burn off some of the energy now and then. Edge is averse to the idea for the same reason he doesn't want his brother around anymore, fear of hurting him, but Stretch insists his reflexes are plenty good, and he has full conscious control in his shifted form, so he'd be more than equipped.

They back and forth a bit more, until Edge agrees to think about it, which leads to accepting some time a few days later. He can't keep letting this hamper him. Stretch is also hopeful that exercising his alt form more frequently might help him redeveloped his self awareness as he couldn't shift all that frequently back underground, which Stretch believes to be the bulk of the problem.

The story then goes on to follow Stretch figuring out the best ways to help Edge (starting with supervised romps through mostly empty woods), and Edge slowly slowly slowly regaining his consciousness even while shifted, and of course growing closer as friends as well. And then they kiss <3

/j but also /srs, although of course there's drama that comes up here and there, probably involving either Edge accidentally hurting Stretch, or someone else hurting Stretch and Stretch having to stop Edge from tearing them limb from limb lol, idk. But they're cute! After they're closer Stretch sometimes calls Edge puppydog and he fucking hates it (<- lie)

[fishyishy]

A3! Translation - Rurikawa Yuki SR 【Bright Star of Blooming】 「My performance memories ~Yuki~」 (1/2)

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Hato: Isn't it about time to go home, Rurikawa-kun? Let's just stop here and go home.

Yuki: 'Kay.

Yuki: (Phew, now I can finally take a breather. Now then, I'll just clean up and head home––)

Koro: Sniff sniff.

Yuki: Eh? Wait, Koro? If you sit on my lap then i can't go home.

Hato: Rurikawa-kun and Koro have become a lot closer than you'd think from the beginning.

Yuki: ....Well, we are similar after all.

Koro: Wooof!

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Muku: Ah, Director-san, thank you for your hard work!

Misumi: Thank you~.

Izumi: Thank you guys for your hard work as well. It's been a while since I've seen you guys in this performance, but you still look so cute in that outfit!

Izumi: It's not just the costume, the dog ears make it even cuter!

Kazunari: It's not just Yukki who likes animal ears, but Director-chan too~.

Izumi: Is that so...?

Yuki: What are you guys talking about?

Misumi: We were talking about how Director-san likes animal ears!

Izumi: Wait a minute, isn't that a bit misleading!?

Yuki: Ehh....is that so. I see the director has some good hobbies too.

Izumi: Ahaha....

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Announcer: This concludes the screening. Now, four members from the summer troupe will appear!

Kazunari: Woof woof!

Misumi: Woof woooof!

Yuki: Woof.

Muku: Arf arf!

Audience Member A: Ahaha! Everyone came out pretending to be dogs~.

Audience Member B: That makes me so happy!

Kazunari: And so just like that, let's start the talk show!

Yuki: There must be a limit to how much you can overly promote something.

Audience Member C: How cute~!

Audience Member D: The dog ears are so cool!

Yuki: Well, of course they're cute--

Yuki: I'm sure everyone here wore cute clothes for today. Thank you, they look good on you.

Audience: Kyaaa--!

Muku: Uwahh, Yuki-kun is so cool....!

Misumi: Our fans are happy too~

Kazunari: Being so forward from just the beginning!

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Kazunari: So, I thought I'd start talking about the behind the scenes of the show... Yukki is there anything you wanna say?

Yuki: ...Actually the theme of our show "WONDER RUSH" was decided based on the costumes.

Audience Member E: Ehhh!?

Audience Member F: Doesn't the story come first though!?

Kazunari: The pomeranian, "Koro" that Yukki plays is also based on someone from real life~

Misumi: We've met him before too~!

Muku: The name and breed are the same too.

Yuki: Their personality is exactly the same too, by the way.

Yuki: He's a pomeranian at the studio where I work at part-time. When we met for the first time, he was wary and barked at me.

Yuki: But as we spent more time together and talked, we became a lot closer.

Kazunari: Imagining Yukki and the dog having a conversation is so cute~.

Audience Member G: Mhm mhm, so cute!

Audience Member H: I want to see it!

Yuki: Well, I guess talking to the dog was largely due to Misumi's influence.

Muku: Misumi-san can talk to animals.

Audience Member I: Amazing!

Audience Member J: I envy him~!

Misumi: Ehehe~ Yuki's words were conveyed to Koro properly!

Yukki: Honestly, it's a really mysterious ability.

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[oskarcore]

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[ace-and-the-rpg-horrors]

i recently had a dream where a random author wrote a novel that was meant to appeal to Gen Z, and he unironically called it something along the lines of "When /J Becomes /SRS..." and he actually expected it to be taken seriously, so when everyone started taking the piss online, he got really upset and ranted about how attacked he felt like every week

[sleepykitten16]

The Adventures on Steamboat Willie cartoon ideas.

So steamboat willie has been in the public domain for a while now and what interesting this have people done with it, some bad horror movies and some bad horror games of course. Come on guys it's a version of mickey and minnie that we can do whatever we want with and you choose bad cliche horror stuff and NSFW art seriously!!! So here is my idea a steamboat willie cartoon where the characters are other public domain characters. In this post I will be going over the setting, characters, and Plot and if anyone wants to do anything with this like a comic or cartoon make sure to ask me for help and stuff or just credit me if ya make it.

Setting

So obviously the steamboat Willie cartoon will take place on, well steamboat willie. But I don't mean the entire setting is gonna be on a small dingy little steamboat, no I'm turning the Willie into a giant cruise ship (so I guess it would be the cruise ship Willie but steamboat Willie is more iconic so we're still gonna call it that). The cruise will have everything an indoor pool, an outdoor pool, a lounge, a play area, a gym, a 4 star cafeteria, an arcade, a movie room, a zoo, a trampoline room, a doll room, a bee room, an anvil room, a room just filled with boxes of bananas, a room with like one chair an that's it, and so much more!!! There will of course be episodes where they dock and get off the boat for the majority of the show they gonna be on that boat doin boat things, but since the steamboat Willie is technically living the boat would feel alive it would have a bunch of weird stuff and no 2 rooms would be the same. Anyway let's move on to the part I'm most excited to talk about, the characters.

The Characters

This is probably gonna be the longest part so strap in. Like I said the characters would be other public domain characters just changed to fit into this world, let's start off with the 3 main characters your gonna see every episode.

Michael J. Mouse aka Mickey-He is a cabin boy basically a janitor his job is to do the smaller messier jobs on the Willie stuff like swabbing the deck, cleaning the animals, getting diapers outta the pool, and of course peeling the potatoes (which is mainly just a form of punishment on the ship). Mickey is a very determined and headstrong young fellow he's got big dreams and won't let anyone get in his way, but he can also be a bit stubborn and his "consequences be damned" attitude gets him into a lot of trouble. Mickey dreams of one day becoming captain of the Steamboat Willie, he loves the ship and being out on the open sea. He also has a major crush on the new hire of the ship I wonder who she is.

Minerva Eliza Mouse (no relation to Mickey) aka Minnie-She's a new hire on the steamboat Willie, a housekeeping maid for the first couple episodes but eventually she'll become the pianist for the lounge. Minnie is a little shy and has a bit of a self confidence issue, she's been beaten down by the cruel hammer of life and she doesn't believe she'll ever achieve her dream. Minnie is very kind and giving but can be assertive and snarky when the situation calls for it also she is deceptively strong. As the series goes on she learns to believe in herself more and gain more confidence thanks to Mickey. Her dream is to become a famous musician, to create songs that people will love and will touch their hearts in a beautiful way. Very ambitious right but Mickey believes in her, although there is one person on the cruise that wants them both to give up their silly dreams.

Peter Pete Sr.-The grumpy captain of the ship and sort of the villain of the show. Pete inherited steamboat Willie from his father who he hates that got it from his father who he hates and so on. Pete cares more about the reputation of the steamboat willie than the people inside especially the employees, he's also incredibly greedy prioritizing guests with lots of money. Despite being grouchy and greedy Pete isn't all that bad, there are moments were he shows at least a little care to his employees and is genuinely a good father and husband. He's sort of like mr. Krabs and mr. Burns mixed together but a pinch more kind. Still he absolutely can't stand Mickey or Minnie and is usually the thorn in their side making it almost impossible for them to prove themselves, still neither give up which Pete can kind of respect.

Alright now that we're done with the main characters here are the staff of the Steamboat Willie.

Tinker bell & the lost boys-Tinker bell is the hostess for the huge lounge area on the Steamboat Wille as well as the lead singer for her band, the lost boys which does contain Peter pan and wendy on bass and violin respectively.

Winnie Pooh-The 3 star chef for the 4 star kitchen, he might be a little accident prone but he is a damn good chef and don't worry he brought his friends piglet, owl, Eeyore, and rabbit with him as his cooking crew.

Felix Tom-The ships mechanic a happy and silly fellow who at first doesn't great at his job. He has a small handbag that seems to have every tool in the world in it but it never really looks like he knows how to use them.

The Oz crew-This is the 4 wizard of Oz characters and what they do on the ship. Dorothy Gale and Toto are the other housekeepers that work on the ship and is Minnies best friend, Scarecrow is the marine biologist in charge of tours for their in house aquarium (why a cruise needs one of those no one knows) but doesn't seem to know anything about fish, Tin Man is the activities director but is basically a robot so has no idea what counts as fun, and the Cowardly Lion is the head lifeguard who is deathly afraid of water.

Hercules-The other lifeguard on the ship and Mickeys rival in love for Minnie. Kind of a himbo and would totally be voiced by Patrick Warburton.

Jenny Everywhere-Ship Doctor and Minnies rival in love for Mickey. Is a great doctor and kind to her patients but is also kind of a bitch. Also no one knows where she came from just kinda showed up one day on the cruise saying she was the doctor.

Buck Rogers-Cashier of one of the space themed restaurants on the ship and delivery boy. Super dramatic, thinks he's some awesome action hero.

Dorian Gray-The guy who wears the mascot suit for steamboat Willie, which is a giant smiling boat with legs. Dorian creeps everyone out and he always has this aura that makes it look like he's killed someone. But he is genuinely a nice guy you just have to get past the fact he somehow always smells like old seaweed.

Alright that's all the crew for the Steamboat Willie, or at least the ones I got ideas for. Now to end the character portion let's go over some of the passengers on the Steamboat Willie.

Geppetto & Penny-Geppetto is an old wood carver going on a vacation with his adopted daughter Penny (who is obviously a reworked version of Pinocchio). Geppetto is very overprotective of his daughter not letting her go anywhere or do anything without like 50 different things meant to keep her safe. Penny is a good kid but she lies to people a lot and is kind of prone to getting into trouble.

Sherlock holmes-a detective here on a vacation with his husband but can't help seeing everything as a mystery and being suspicious of everyone on board.

James bond-Sherlocks husband and retired agent. He used to be a suave ladies man, now he's a kind old man who wants to enjoy this cruise with his husband. Though his spy training sometimes comes out.

Dracula & Wilhelmina-One of those married couples who are always arguing and people always think why don't they just get a divorce. Dracula can be a little prissy when it comes to his comfort but Mina is pretty nice especially to kids but she's gotta bit of anger issues.

Arthur King-You want an obnoxious rich person, well look no further than Arthur king model and successful businessman (though not by his own skill), who came to the Willie for a vacation and to hit on cute girls. In short he is the worst kind of rich person.

Cathy & Nya-Yes these are indeed Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep and yes they still have tentacles. They're the obnoxious rich girls on the Willie looking to spot some cute guys and be incredibly rude to everyone working their always flaunting their cash and looks. Their sisters by the way.

Pulloff Boots-An old friend of Felix who has become a famous writer for his book Puss in Boots with a main character that is very obviously a self insert but everyone loves it so who cares.

Jack Frost-The whole joke with them is that no matter the weather wherever they are on the ship they are always cold but other than that pretty nice person to talk to when their teeth aren't chattering.

Hua Mulan-She was an introvert her whole life and never went anywhere fun for fear of well everything, but she has decided to step out of her comfort zone and go on a cruise. Let's just hope she actually does stuff on it instead of hiding in her room. Also has a huge crush on tinkerbell but don't tell anyone.

Merlin-Kind old man and Arthurs Grandfather, tries to help him do good but usually ends up having to apologize for all of arthurs shenanigans.

Grandma, Red, and Wolf Hood-Red and wolf are new step siblings and their grandma decided to bring them aboard the cruise to help them get along better. Wolf is a self proclaimed bad boy but the only bad thing about him is his style and Red looks like a a sweet little girl but she's actually kind of a nightmare child causing trouble for the hell of it. Still though they do love each other and their grandma.

Lemuel Gulliver-obsessed with finding adventure on the open sea wants this cruise to get into pirate fighting adventures and will stop at nothing to make it happen.

Tin Tin and Snowy-A very curious kid who's parents don't pay a lot of attention too so he's usually running around the cruise getting into mischief. He's also a good kid but when he tries to help out things usually get destroyed.

Victor & his big son Frankie-Victor is totally not an evil scientist and is totally not trying to take over the world and is certainly not trying to turn this cruise ship into his evil lair. His son Frankie doesn't talk much usually is on his phone but he is really big and really strong.

Captain Nemo-Not a passenger on the cruise but owns a rival cruise company called Twenty thousand leagues straight to fun!!! He seems at first like a nice and friendly guy making it look like the rivalry he and Pete have is more one sided, but it turns out he's probably even more competitive than Pete and vows to run the Steamboat Willie out of business.

Popeye & Olive-Popeye is a retired sea captain here with his wife Olive Oyl, he's kind of father figure to Mickey and Minnie giving out great advice even if he is a little hard to understand. Olive of course is the mother figure to them and a nice woman although she really can't seem to stop getting in danger.

Sandy Manna-She is really onto relaxation, which is good cause she is on a cruise. She also believes in third eye and chakra stuff, a little odd but great at calming people down.

Oswald Rabbit-He's a Rabbit.

Alright that's all the characters I got ideas for, now to end this post off let's talk about the plot which may be the shortest out of the 3.

Plot

Hop on the number 3 rated cruise ship in the world, the Steamboat Willie! From it's origins as a humble steamboat it has now grown to one of the biggest cruise ships in the world. Join Mickey and Minnie as they have a bunch of crazy adventures on the ship to try and impress captain Pete, but it always leads to trouble of course. But there's also dangerous rivals, crazy passengers, and monsters lurking in the deep can Mickey and Minnie prove they have what it takes to make it big while also dealing with their obvious feeling for one another we'll see. I imagine the rating for this show will probably be the same as like gravity falls something appropriate for kids and teens but got some adult jokes sprinkled in. Also this probably wouldn't be a very plot heavy show it'll be more in the vain of shows like spongebob or gumball where every episode something wacky and different happens and maybe a character learns a lesson or something.

Wrapping it up

There's just a bunch of interesting things we could be doing with steamboat willie that no one is doing. I just hope that one day someone can do something at least a little interesting with the now public domain Mickey and Minnie.

[ionlycareaboutyou]

Hiii! Can I ask you how did you study Japanese to become an intermediate level? Do you have any tips? 🥰

i'm sorry i'm just getting around to answering this now, i hope you'll still see it.

i've lived in one of the most rural prefectures of japan for almost three years now, so i need to be continually improving my japanese in order to make my life easier. i've always had an interest in the language and taught myself hiragana and katakana in high school, then took two years of japanese in college. my college used the genki textbooks. they're sort of the standard beginner textbooks. i think they're pretty good, they teach grammar and vocab in a very accessible way. i think you could use them for self study, but there are some parts where you'll be instructed to roleplay or do pair work, so you might have to modify things to your liking.

i'm currently self-studying through a variety of resources, the #1 being wanikani, which is an online kanji resource. it uses a spaced-repetition-system in order to teach you kanji, and i've seen my reading level improve so much since i started using it. the first three levels are free and then you have to pay. if you're serious about learning japanese and you find that the system works for you, i think it's worth the price. i also use bunpro which teaches japanese grammar points and vocab through the same SRS system as wanikani. i've been slacking a little on bunpro lately because the reviews really pile up and get overwhelming at times, but that's my fault LOL. i'm also using the quartet textbook (by the same people who made genki) irregularly.

a lot of people on r/learnjapanese advocate for immersion; changing your phone language to japanese, changing most of the media you watch to be japanese, etc. to be honest, i don't really watch a lot of japanese media despite living here. i'm not a huge fan of most anime and j-drama, but i'm currently looking for a good drama to watch for listening practice. that being said, i love a lot of japanese films and music, and i often go to karaoke to practice reading. i also consume a lot of takarazuka revue content; when i first went to a takarazuka show, i didn't speak japanese that well, so i had to piece together the story with my limited vocab and grammar understanding. there are no subtitles at the theatre, so just being thrown into a story and picking up vocab, etc while watching has been helpful for me (though my brain is often quite tired after a show, and disclaimer that takarazuka has a very specific style of acting and the way that the actresses speak is often not similar to irl interactions!). also, i live here (LOL) so i have to talk to people every day, which i guess is the biggest immersion of all.

that's all the advice that i have right now, but please don't hesitate to ask any more questions if you have them. i'm not fluent in japanese and i make silly mistakes all the time, but i am committed to learning!

[kidflashimpulse]

saw a post you made a while back answering an ask about YJA Bart's civvie life mirroring the comics, and i realized that comic Bart went straight into high school due to being 14 going on 15 when he came to the past, but YJA Bart was 12 going on 13, so he'd be in middle school for a little over a year first. so! an idea i thought i'd share: people mostly think he's Weird (derogatory) in middle school because that's where he goes through his biggest adjustment period. middle school is frustrating for him, but he manages. then high school happens and suddenly he's Mr Popularity bc 1) he's more used to being in school now, even if he still doesn't like it and high school is a different beast, 2) his West-Allen (and Meloni) related pretty genes have started to properly kick in (underrated Bart fact: he's supposed to be noticeably good-looking. like not just cute, but a Certified Pretty Boy. it gets brought up SO MUCH in his solo it's so funny) and he has a canon big growth spurt between 13 and 15, and 3) there's a ton of new ppl his age who have no established opinions of him the way others do. and like in the comics Bart hates the attention and keeps almost exclusively to his friends (one of my fave running gags is Bart being surrounded by people trying to get his attention and he just keeps doing what he's doing without engaging or even reacting barely at all)

omg anon…. this ask has given me the biggest smile ever because it just brings back so many memories of my first ever (drafted) fic ahhhhhhhh !!! especially because of the way it starts!! in middle school where he’s the certified weirdo!!! not that he minds it at all he’s more concerned with the whole concept of wtf even is school and how’s he supposed to be stuck in a classroom when he has more pressing issues like uh preventing an impending apocalypse?? lmfao but yes that first year/couple months is a huge adjustment period for him, at the very least in terms of school.

the thing is at least in my non-existent fic, i was really motivated to have carol and preston be the first civilians he befriended, which would be in middle school. But then I also want them (and others) to be his classmates throughout high school too! Cause u know, they’re the civilians we know that he interacts with and gets along. I don’t think the chances of that are too off because if they all live within the same district it would be reasonable to assume they’d attend the same high school? Like not the exact same class, but there r bound to be a few familiar faces. But that’s not rlly a problem for the concept that u outlined considering they’re his friends so the whole preconceived notion thing wouldn’t play much of a role in the first place (and if anything more accurately reflect the plot of how Carol befriends him and then at that point worries about popularity getting to him, like the impulse timeline was crazy fast (understandably ig)) . Also like yes, mirroring the comics he accidentally becomes quite popular lmfao but like u said it’s high school so it’s not without its totally dramatised plot issues (i could come up with way too many honestly they’re just so entertaining especially considering like how i mentioned he wants no part in it both intentionally as well as not lol) just like the impulse run!

Certified Pretty Boy huh that’s just as much as a trait to him as it is him having brown hair (which is always! suck it red hair truthers lmfao) but yes totally!! His genes have done him well and it’s obviously the reason why everyone is in love with him (looking at u Preston /j /srs)

basically, thank u for sharing your thoughts with us <3 cause it’s just so entertaining to think about all this!! I’m not even exaggerating i could come up with so many plots about his school experience i think there’s just so much room for potential and fun and it’s pretty amusing to think about. I would love to write a fic o. it specifically (side eye to that first fic lol) but unfortunately i’ve just got one brain and set of hands and can only really focus on one fic at a time 🫠 on the bright side i am planning on covering at least a little bit of his civvie life in the next chapter of AAIT (still in its really early stages so it’ll take a while, sorry) so if anyones interested in that, stay tuned lol

[dhr-ao3]

Welcome to the Madhouse

Welcome to the Madhouse https://ift.tt/bZpdvJ7 by ArtGirl The war dragged on longer than anyone could have ever imagined. Eight years to be exact. However, when the Final Battle was won and the dust settled, Hermione Granger was nowhere to be found and after a search ensues, she is declared dead. While everyone seems eager to move on, recently pardoned Draco Malfoy is not so sure the Golden Girl is truly gone. Author's Note Before You Read: Please read all tags and trigger warnings as this story will contain some heavy and dark subjects. Please take care of your mental health. I will do my best to add tags as they become relevant and trigger warning at the start of each chapter if necessary. The rape/non-con tags do not refer to anything that happens between Draco and Hermione. I do not own the characters or anything from the Harry Potter universe. Words: 2117, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Rape/Non-Con Categories: F/M Characters: Hermione Granger, Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Narcissa Black Malfoy, Bellatrix Black Lestrange, Lucius Malfoy, Tom Riddle | Voldemort, Theodore Nott, Nott Sr. (Harry Potter), Molly Weasley, Arthur Weasley, Severus Snape Relationships: Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy, Hermione Granger/Ron Weasley, Harry Potter/Ginny Weasley Additional Tags: Post-War, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Imprisonment, Death Eater Draco Malfoy, Healer Draco Malfoy, Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con, Past Rape/Non-con, Happy Ending, Espionage, Mystery, It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better, Protective Draco Malfoy, Possessive Draco Malfoy, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Implied/Referenced Torture, Torture, Past Torture, Smut, Praise Kink, Dirty Talk, Draco Malfoy Has a Large Cock, Hair-pulling, Oral Sex, Ron Weasley Bashing, Past Hermione Granger/Ron Weasley, Sexually Experienced Draco Malfoy, Healing, Hurt/Comfort, Angst, Blood and Injury, Blood and Gore, Explicit Sexual Content, Tags May Change, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, POV Draco Malfoy via AO3 works tagged 'Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy' https://ift.tt/95xYGo2 December 26, 2023 at 02:24PM

[eeclare]

Bob’s Burgers Character Bedrooms pt. 2

Starting off with our hot gurl Tammy :)

Tammy fell for the 2019/2020 Tik tok trend of the LED lights

She def made her dad build her some sort of canopy for her bed

And ofc he agreed because she is his little princess

She also fell into the vine decor trend so that’s there

She wants to become an influencer BAD

Like currently, that is her number one goal in life

Hence the ring light and the very bare and “aesthetically pleasing” walls

Let’s pretend that those records are Harry Styles vinyls

She really really thinks pink is her colour so most things in her room coordinate with that general colour scheme

She has her own “walk in” closet (walk in is in quotations because it’s prettttyyy tiny, she just wants people to think it’s a full walk in closet)

That’s why she doesn’t have a dresser

Our girly Tammy is not a clean lady

Like, she doesn’t have garbage all over her room but she just throws her clothes and everything on the floor

But she thinks it’s okay because her parents hire a house cleaner once a week

She has one of those cool vanities with the Hollywood lights

Because she BEGGED for one for her 12th birthday

she wants to become the internet’s next favourite beauty guru so she hopped right on the “healthy water trend”

So there’s a lil tumbler on her nightstand

She films grwm vlogs and films days in her life

I fully believe that she is one of those girls that cover themselves in perfume instead of deodorant because she’s convinced it makes her smell amazing

Jocelyn :D

Her room’s kinda small but she and her mum decorated it rlly nicely to make up for it

Jocelyn says she made most of the design choices, but it was mostly her mum’s doing when it comes to the vanity and wall colour lol

She Fr loves her room tho so it doesn’t even matter

She isn’t as much of a makeup girl as Tammy is, but she dabbles in natural eyeshadow shades and she takes her skin care seriously

At her mum’s suggestion, naturally

Honestly, her mum gives her pretty good advice

Tammy convinced her to do the healthy water trend too

We love our healthy queens

Tammy doesn’t have a full length mirror anymore so whenever they’re hanging out at Jocelyn’s house they HAVE to take a billion OOTD selfies in her mirror

Jocelyn too fell into the vine decor rabbit hole, except she switched it up a bit with the pop of floral by her bed

J-Ju!

Jimmy Jr. has two rooms

This one is the bedroom he has when he’s with Jimmy Sr.

The thing is though, he really hates this room

His dad has always wanted him to be into sports, so his room is basketball themed

Jimmy Pesto knew his son would be tall as he grew up, so he always pushed him HARD to be a basketball player

But J-Ju HATES it

He’s just not into it

But he really does like baseball!

So Jimmy Sr. is at least a little bit happy with the choices his kid makes

The room though, it just isn’t him

The colours just don’t suit him (that’s what Zeke says) and the vibe is off

J-Ju still sleeps with his childhood stuffed animal

It’s piglet from Winnie the Pooh

He’s also kinda a messy kid

Clothes and garbage and Gatorade bottles EVERYWHERE

Jimmy Sr. doesnt really give a fuck though

Just kinda lets J-Ju clean as he pleases

Don’t worry guys, Jimmy Jr. still has bits and pieces of himself around the room

His fav. Comic book characters are on his walls, and he even convinced his dad to get him a figurine of his number one character!

The sloth snake is only really there because Zeke got it for him

Don’t get him wrong, he likes sloth snake, it just isn’t his favourite thing really

But it’s just one more thing he can use to bond with Zeke, so he’ll put the poster up if he has to

(but there is a reason he put it up in the room he spends the least amount of time in)

Because of their custody agreement, J-Ju and Andy and Ollie are only at Jimmy Sr.’s every two weeks

J-Ju pt. 2!

This is his room at his mum’s house!

His mum moved into a house in suburbia and it has a very clean white kind of aesthetic

And she isn’t a neat freak or anything, but his mum does like to keep the house clean

So she’ll go in during the week that he’s with his dad and just organize things again

She doesn’t want to be one of those snoopy type mothers

But she did put a plant in Jimmy Jr.’s room so that she would have an excuse to go in there and “notice that his rooms a mess” so she can clean it

He does bring piglet with him from home to home, just don’t tell anyone that

J-Ju has read exactly three books and he displays them very proudly on his bookshelf

They’re the first Harry Potter book (he likes the movies better), The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, and the book Wonder (he cried when he finished reading it, he was just so emotional)

His mum also bought him figurines of his fav. Comic book characters

Except he didn’t even have to ask her for them, she just knows what he likes and wants lol

Even though she completely supports Jimmy’s passion for the art of dance, she secretly wishes he was more into sports like basketball (she is a big b-ball fan lmfao)

So she did frame a jersey and put it above his bed

Just in hopes that maybe it will inspire him

It doesn’t though, obviously

Peep the lil heart-shaped pillow Jimmy Jr. Is failing really hard at hiding

It’s from Tina, for Valentine’s Day

He keeps it because he really likes her, he’s just not sure if it’s in THAT way, you know?

His mum makes sure he always has a glass of water on his nightstand

“He has to keep hydrated”, she says

The only things she doesn’t clean up is his baseball equipment

She just isn’t sure where to put it all

The lion is from some soccer camp he did once as a kid

Its the first award type thing he’s ever won and he’s still pretty proud of it

Also hope you caught a glance of the cologne that J-Ju stole from his dad on the dresser

Iykyk

And ofc peep the LED light strips lmao

The death grip they had on teenagers

Andy and Ollie’s turn

Ollie is on the left, Andy’s on the right

Ollie has a weird lol shrimp stuffed toy that he just LOVES and Andy has a sheepdog looking toy, mostly because he doesn’t want to be left out

This is their room in Jimmy Sr.’s house btw

When Jimmy Pesto moved into his apartment after his divorce, he let the twins pick out their own wallpaper

He regrets it every day

They also picked out the bunny bookcase

As if Jimmy Sr. Didn’t have enough problems

They both got some of those glow in the dark stars

They love them

They also have cat and dog themed beds

It just makes sense for their characters, okay?

I don’t have a headcannon for why

The sleep in the same bed btw (Andy’s)

No matter how much their dad complains, they will keep sleeping together forever

This room is kinda Baren

They like their room at their dad’s house but all the toys and stuff Jimmy has for them are from when they were toddlers

He always complains that their mum babies them and is making them soft and while that may be true, he kinda babies them even more

He just doesn’t really know what they like anymore

But they still love him and their bedroom

The boys are avid colour-ers

You can see the evidence on their floor

But the pictures aren’t there because Jimmy Sr. Put their art on his fridge Awwh

And and Ollie pt. 2

Their room at their mum’s house!

She mostly decorated it

She knew better than to let them choose their own wallpaper

Their mum gives them more interactive toys

The dollhouse is one of their favs

Even if their dad says it’s “girly” whatever that means

Their bunk bed is very them

Just colourful and happy

They got to pick out their bed decor since it’s kinda like their own individual little spaces

They’re still very similar though

And they still sleep together, just so you know

But this time it’s in Ollie’s bed (the bottom bunk) because the twins (mostly Ollie) are afraid of heights

Their mum didn’t want to clutter their walls or anything, so she figured the flower painting was enough

Just a lil pop of colour

The flowers are again, for her own gain lmao

The boys have pillows that they sit on while they’re colouring

And their mum would but their artwork up on her fridge, really, she WOULD

It’s just that her fridge is already decked out in not only their art but also pics of them and J-Ju

She just cannot fit anything more

Zeke :3

Zeke’s bedroom is a lil different

He lives in a trailer with his dad and stepmom, so because of limited space he has to share his room with his new baby brother

Zeke loves his little brother with his whole heart (he would die for him) but dang he just wants his own space

Every time he looks at his lil bro though, he changes his mind

He is just so gash darn cute

When he was decorating the baby’s side of the room with Cheryl, he made SURE to tape a Bulko poster next to his brother’s crib

Gotta have something there to inspire him

Zeke is convinced his baby brother is going to become the world greatest wrestler (well, second after himself, of course)

His room gets hot as all he’ll at night so naturally he has a fan in there

The only issue now is that he has to share the cool air in the coming summertime

His favourite show ever is Sloth Snake

And he was lucky enough to snag TWO posters so that J-Ju could have a matching one!

I am personally convinced that Zeke is a Jess-style reader from Gilmore girls

Like, personality-wise he is NOT Jess

But hell does he sure read like him

Just the most pretentious books/novels

Not that he’ll ever admit it to anyone

I absolutely HAD to give him a sports water bottle

It kinda reminds me of those green Gatorade ones that every athlete and their mother has

And YES CHERYL he KNOWS he has to move the weight off the floor when the baby starts crawling -_-

Regular-Sized Rudy

This is Rudy’s room when he’s staying with his dad

He doesn’t keep a TON of stuff here, mostly just because he spends most of his time at his mums house

And plus, there’s not much he can do to alter his room since his dad’s just leasing the condo

He has his flounder plushie. He’s obsessed with that thing

Tissues next to his bed because he has allergies all of the time

His favourite comic book series makes posters and he HAD to have the fish guy

His dad kinda uses his room to put random stuff in

Like the bonsai trees

Rudy won’t say it to his face, but he does not care about those plants in the slightest

He also has never played baseball and neither has his dad? So where did that ball come from??

The car is vintage, it’s his dads old toy

He loves to bring it in for show and tell

Rudy also likes aliens and outer space

But it’s not one of his main interests at all so he keeps it on the downlow

He and his dad play competitive ping pong together

It’s one of the few sports that he can play as long as he has a puff of his inhaler between each set(?)

Needless to say, he does NOT miss this room when he’s with his mum, that’s for sure

Regular-sized Rudy pt. 2

This is his room at his mum’s now house

This used to be where he and his mum AND dad lived before the divorce

Which is why it’s a little more personalized

He loves to read and his mum loves it when he reads so she keeps his bookshelf stocked

The fish guy figurine was bought for him by his dad, he just prefers to keep it in this room

His dad understands (at least, Rudy thinks he does)

I’m going to pretend that green toy is a borobu plush lol

Louise is mega jealous because it’s an official licensed one

But now he knows what to get her for her birthday, so..

His mum keeps medicated ointment and sunscreen on his bookcase for easy access

She is a teeny bit of a helicopter mommy

His flounder plush comes with him back and forth

He really likes music (obviously, he spends his free time playing in his school’s orchestra)

So when he was little his dad bought him his own radio

He listens to it every night before bed and every morning when he’s getting ready for school

Again, he likes outer space, so he absolutely had to have those glow in the dark wall stars

His mum has a humidifier in his room because it helps him breathe at night

Or at least that’s what she says, and who is he to disagree with her?

Millie

Millie’s room is essentially a replica of Louise’s room, just with a few personalized touches here and there

She demanded a Kitty for her birthday so she got one

It’s name is Princess Sparkle Rainbow Muffin

Or at least, that’s what she tells Louise (his real name is Keith)

She doesn’t have Louise’s most current bed

Her parents had to draw the line somewhere, I guess

Her mum also wouldn’t let her get any of those LED light strips even though “Louise has them mom! I NEED THEM”

She read some article about the adhesive attracting bugs and noped the fuck out of that

So they compromised and she got string lights that she literally never turns on

Millie isn’t a huge fan of Kuchi Kopi

So she doesn’t sleep with him

But she still has one

Just cuz

The only other mentionable thing is her cactus

Idk, I wanted to give her some sort of carnivorous plant but they didn’t have any so I had to make do with what I had

Millie would totally have a Venus fly trap and she would keep that thing alive and FED

Lowkey I think that she got into the same comic series as the other boys I’ve made rooms for, so she has a poster of the crystal ball thing

[lboogie1906]

Robert Allen Cole Jr. (July 1, 1868 – August 2, 1911) was born in Athens, Georgia to Robert Allen Cole, Sr. and Isabella Thomas Weldon. The Coles were well known in the Athens community, which boasted a robust African American community at the time. He learned to play the drums, banjo, guitar, piano, and cello at a young age.

He left Athens when he was fifteen, moving in with his mother’s relatives from Florida. He had many roles in entertainment. Much of these included playing in clubs throughout the East Coast, often involving singing, playing instruments, and performing comedy.

He became a formidable act in writing music and performing in a show titled “Black America.” He was a stage manager and writer for a touring act called “The Creole Show,” which featured many of his composed songs. He left his touring group. His former managers blacklisted him, preventing much interest in him from any subsequent managers. He began to write and publish his songs under the pseudonym Will Handy.

Cole and some of the dissidents from his original touring group would go on to form one of his better-known works, “A Trip to Coontown.” Written by him and his partner Billy Johnson, “A Trip to Coontown” debuted on September 27, 1897, in South Amboy, New Jersey, and is considered the first Black musical comedy. Black Patti’s Troubadours, attempted to book shows in the same cities as Cole’s group. They would compete by booking in the same cities two weeks before to try to relieve interest in Cole’s show. He ended his partnership with Billy Johnson and started a new partnership with two brothers, also named Johnson.

His partnership with James Weldon and J. Rosamond Johnson would last until his retirement in 1911 after he collapsed on stage. Their partnership would lead to a contract with Jos. W. Stern and Sons for publication of their music. Johnson and Cole would become one of the most famous musical duos in America, and some of their hits included “Under the Bamboo Tree,” as well as a series of songs called “The Evolution of Ragtime.”#africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[levil0vesyou]

I know you probably didn't intend for me to reply to this but I will anyway because why not. This turned into half a novel but I hope you'll read it anyway, maybe even change your mind.

The reason you don't recognise these common tone indicators is... that you don't use tone indicators! I'm in many discords with a lot of neurodivergent ppl, a good portion of which is younger than me (because they're fandom based servers). We use tone indicators all the time and nobody bats an eye at them and if someone does indeed not know what one means... we ask. We literally just ask. It's that easy. Since tone indicators are usually used in real time chats, it really isn't that big a deal.

And if you truly are so socially anxious that you cannot ask the person you are already talking to a question (no offense if you are, we're all different) you can just look it up. "tone indicators list" brings up many results, I've linked one here to make it even easier, (although I do think that one should be updated slightly as, at the time of writing this, it does not have the increaingly popular "/ref" (indicating that something is a reference, eg to pop culture, one of my most used) nor does it have "/gq") and you can also search up the tone indicator without the slash in combination with the words "tone indicator" which will almost always yield an accurate answer within the first three results.

It's a bit like with anything but especially internet slang: the more you use it, the more familiar with it you get. You probably know what the (also frequently used by me) shortenings "ppl", "bc/cuz" or even "v" mean, right? You probably also know what "PS5", "USA" or "km" mean. That's because you've been in contact with them a lot. The same would eventually become true for tone indicators.

As to address two points from your tags: 1) sequences of letters can have more than one meaning (remember the "animal crossing did not attack air conditioners" post?) so even if you originally think "gq" stands for genderqueer, it can still stand for something else as a tone indicator and 2) there are actually multiple reasons you might use shorthand instead of writing everything out, including less time you have to spend typing and a shorter overall message resulting in better readability - plus, having it be short makes it more clear it's a tone indicator, not an alternative to something, since it follows a slash.

All of this "debate" reminds me a lot of when vine captions (and later video descriptions in general, image descriptions, etc) became more commonly used, btw. Like, a minority of disabled ppl is saying "hey, I actually really benefit from having this, could you provide it?" and many other people are coming in with "well I don't need it and also it's annoying" so there's a debate on whether you should provide said accomodation or not. And I hope that, like with captions before it, we eventually settle on providing it because I've had enough emotional turmoil due to not being able to read "tones" to last me a lifetime. (In fact I think we should even start using something akin to tone indicators irl but let's cross that bridge when we're done with this one.)

Finally, for your ultimate convenience, here are the meanings of the five tone indicators I mentioned in my original tags:

/s - sarcasm (or irony, since those are usually treated as synonymous in English). not to be confused with /srs (serious tone)

/j - joking tone or joke

/lh - light hearted tone

/gq - genuine question

/nm - not mad

(speaking of, this entire reply is nm. i genuinely am trying to explain, maybe even change your mind)

In conclusion, language evolves, things have multiple meanings and some people need accomodations. Thank you for your time 💜

PLEASE reblog for a bigger sample size! I know everyone says this, but my blog gets very little interaction, so any reblog helps!

[witness-lessme]

TEXT 3

Text 3 is a reddit post and its top comments that I came across from r/Singapore, a community of Singaporean redditors (reddit users).

The subject of this post is IKEA Singapore's recent cutting of prices for some of its products, and the purpose of the post is to start a discussion on how r/Singapore users feel about this change.

CODE SWITCHING

Something I found interesting about this post was the way that the top commenter, heartofgold48, changes his linguistic style to fit in with the person who he responds to. The original post (top screenshot) simply provides the link and title to the news article about IKEA, written in standard English and a short joke in the caption from the poster ClaytonWest74 which reads "can IKEA run our government instead?". heartofgold48's initial comment, which was voted as the top comment, is another joke that plays off the humour of ClaytonWest74's joke. It reads "Even the IKEA cabinet is better than our expensive world class cabinet", a pun in jest of Singapore's government. This comment is also written in standard English.

However, user Personal-Shallot1014 responds to heartofgold48 with a comment that makes use of both Singlish, Textese, and some other feature of online language.

"Cannot say like that leh": Singlish grammar. Standard English would say: "You shouldn't say that". The use of "leh" is also a particle seen from Singlish speakers.

"cuz": derived from "'cause", derived from "because". This is a shortening of the word "because" that is commonly seen in texting and online language.

In response to Personal-Shallot1014's comment, heartofgold48 responds with a comment using the Singlish particles "hor" (Ya hor = meaning, "oh, yeah!") and "woh" (confirmation, agreement) that matches the Singlish used by Shallot. To me, this is an example of how Singaporeans engage in code-switching and incorporate elements of Singlish into our online language in order to connect and relate to other Singaporeans online.

TONE INDICATORS

"/s": The use of a slash at the end of a sentence followed by a letter or string of letters, when seen in the context of an online post such as this, is meant to be an indicator of the author's tone. The name for this type of labelling is literally called a 'tone indicator'.

In this instance, both Personal-Shallot1014 and heartofgold48 use /s, which refers to sarcasm, indicating that their comments are meant to be interpreted as sarcastic.

I believe that while tone indicators have existed for a long time, they have become particularly prevalent on the internet since 2020, when a majority of people were forced to stay indoors due to Covid-19 and began spending more of their time in online spaces. This is also around the time when Gen Z, on platforms such as TikTok, began discussing social matters such as ableism, accessibility and acceptance for neuro-divergent people (people on the autism spectrum, ADHD, etc.). Tone indicators became more common around that time as a means of accessibility for neuro-divergent people who may struggle with picking up nuances such as tone and intent through text-based communication. Some other common indicators include /neg (negative), /srs (serious), or /j (joking). Usage of tone indicators is not mandatory in most online spaces including Reddit, but Personal-Shallot1014 and heartofgold48's usage of /s suggests that they spend a fair amount of time online, enough that it would be a familiar concept to them.

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the v v v first time i saw ur acct was when u had the yeonjun prive alliance layout ^3^ those reincarnation aus made me saur emo T^T

i luv that for u agghh<3 not that there's anything wrong w it,but i find it most satisfying when ppl get into kpop from kpop-genre songs rather than western-sounding kpop songs lol my first kpop artists were b2st (highlight) and t-ara hehe

mhm yea mayybbe! i know 100% why i don't post them and its cos i used to be consistent w posting on both kpop & personal socmed accts but mental health happens and i kinda stopped bc numbers make me want 2 cry lmfao

except im slightly less mentally ill since that time now and yk i actually genuinely do rlly want to start all my socmed accts up again but im putting it off bc im a bit of a perfectionist and so im lazy to be doing all dat... all of nothin :D don't call the orderly i'm fine ^_^ /lh

2019-21? ah probably not then i'm pretty sure i was in and out of the school roster (pls tell me if i am oversharing/trauma dumping/crossing any boundaries bc i genuinely do not know i no longer have any social skills T_T /gen /srs)

hm i'm not sure tbh i only followed the one 😭😭 i haven't been on wattpad in a long ass time and i remember i tried seeing what wattpad was like nowadays and was v disappointed w the ads and paid stuff (i think i don't remember). booooo 👎👎

omg wait that's so cool aaaaah!!! i changed my user a lot so i honestly could not tell u bc i have goldfish memory ;__; i do remember i had a user like taempons(_) i think it had an underscore idk don't remember but i changed it (kinda wish i saved it ngl) and oh one i do remember was peachyjihoons (my wannaone phase lmao) but yeah im pretty sure my most recent user was some based on some tumblr shit like svnshine or something idfk 💀💀

u are already a talented writer save some for the rest of us 👺 /j if u could also draw u would be too powerful 👁️👄👁️

omg THAT WAS MY FIRST LAYOUT TOO!! this account isn't that old tbh i still haven't gotten the feel of writing smuts as of yet that's why i havent been much active on it BUT WAIT REINCARNATION AU?!? from my main???

DUDE I LOVE B2ST!!!! and t-ara!!!!!!!! i really got into kpop slowly because i fell for kdrama at first (found replay in one of the kdrama edit lmao) so like my music journey has been very, very kpop ish. i think the global influence in most of kpop songs started to become mroe prominent during 2018?

bro i get you like the fear of starting the stuff you love because you feel like you won't be able to give it all and starting it and feeling it like you're gonna disappoint yourself. i hadn't started anything since like 2017 until recently because i was scared i was gonna stumble, or it won't be good ( well mostly that) or i won't be able to finish that. me and my bff still has this one project we started around like 2018 lmao we both still haven't finished it or picked it up bc we developed the idea sm and got so close to it that we fear writing it now.

not OVERSHARINH I WANNA KNOW!!! NO but like FR wattpad went through the biggest glow down IVE EVer seen like. it's legit LEGIT inhabitable. like at first you take away the newsfeed?!? like how am i gonna pine over other accounts now?!? and then everything became paid and shit like wtf is that?!

omg i wonder if I ever saw you on my explore page or tags bro fr this is so interesting my ig handle has always been one tbh it's @celestialsoo ( my intense love affair with kyungsoo era) like since the dawn of the day.

YOU LIE!!!!! i wish i could fr draw tho i want to draw my muses :///