#and started thinking about it

[lilietsblog]

non-mat Russian insults!

"Donkey" refers to a person who makes avoidable mistakes with significant consequences.

"Goat" refers to a person who is inconsiderate to others.

"Infection" (notably Russian does have a transliteration version of this word, but the version used in the insult is the 'native' word "zaraza") conveys a general "I wish you weren't doing this right now" sentiment. Unlike the rest of this list, easily applies to inanimate objects and abstract phenomena.

"Svoloch" is not quite translatable directly, although it's a relative to the verb "to drag". Refers to someone who is not merely inconsiderate, but evidently actively malicious.

So a driver on the road cutting you off is a goat ("kozel", specifically male goat); your boss committing fraud to underpay your salary is a svoloch; your relative falling for a transparent scam and losing a large sum of money is a donkey; and a small child putting a frog in your tea for laughs is an infection, as is a stuck desk drawer and a usb stick that appears to have no less than 20 sides. (Yes, this is an insult that's mild enough to apply to a child, although usually not by its own - that's a harsher insult, while the context of "you little infection" is more playful)

All of these are literary words, fully acceptable in books, on TV etc, although of course you won't see them in academic/formal writing. Children aren't encouraged to use any of these, but outside of insulting someone specifically (which is a problem because they're being mean) won't get punished for it either.

(As distinct from 'mat', which originates from the word 'mother' and refers to the category of insults of severity that is in a certain category of legal system legally equivalent to assault. The words themselves don't actually reference motherhood directly and instead are derived from words that mean 'penis', 'vagina', 'to have sex', and in a less word-creation productive way 'prostitute'. Those are 100% not acceptable anywhere that has any pretension of being 'for kids', and in most literary fiction will be censored. Sometimes a book will have 'just one bad word' and that will usually be the Russian word for 'female dog', 'suka'. NOTE: this is NOT the same word as bitch regarding actual context of use. You can say 'bitch' respectfully, it produces the adjective 'bitchy' which is more or less an objective quality, and overall the word is in most context most accurately translated as the Russian word 'sterva' which describes an aggressive/disagreeable woman. The only context in which 'suka' / 'sukin syn' (literal translation 'son of a bitch') is used is to communicate extreme hostility and denigration. It's 100% fighting words. While most mat is curious in that it can produce pretty much neutral meaningful sentences (a famous example is 'why did you put that here? Put it back!') with its profane word roots, 'suka' does not have this productive capacity; what derivatives do come from it will still communicate extreme hostility and denigration. Do NOT confuse 'bitch' with 'suka' or things will go poorly for you, socially speaking. There are also 'mat substitutes', words that are like 'dangit' or 'gosh darn it' in that they're softened grammatical and semantic analogues of the actual swear and don't carry as much weight. Children are discouraged (sometimes heavily) from using those, but not punished. These words are relatively literary and will be used in books whose characters are swear-heavy, and in online spaces mat will often be banned altogether while these words are allowed. And I don't mean censor heavy spaces, I mean the kind of friendly self-policed fandom space where kids can find out about queer identities - there's no meaning/sentiment that mat conveys that can't be conveyed without it with the rest of the Russian swear word arsenal Children are 100% punished for using 'mat' words, even on accident. It's heavily taboo, although some households will of course use these words anyway and their kids will pick it up. It's a class thing)

[visenyaism]

i don’t know about you guys but the main reason i am still on tumblr in 2024 is BECAUSE it is the most cloutless least influential social media app out there and that is the experience i am after. absolutely none of this will ever translate into significant attention or real success in my life and that is so beautiful.

[riacte]

not romantic not platonic but a secret third thing [what would happen between earth and the moon if the earth stopped spinning as illustrated by xkcd randall munroe]

[mushroom-through-the-stargate]

Mythbusters have 3 categories of myths

the general public doesnt know how physics works

the general public doesnt know how lying works

oh crap this ones real

[yeehawpim]

a comic about fix-it fanfics

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The math just adds up!

[lazylittledragon]

can't believe we're all adults being forced into the club penguin level of censorship in 2024

[skull-pun]

[canisalbus]

✦ Fashionably late ✦

[moxie-girl]

im so normal abt sibling relationships in media i swear

[lady-raziel]

honestly if in like 2012 you had told anyone that dick Cheney and Taylor swift had both endorsed the same candidate for president and that person was a Democratic woman of color and she was running against reality tv star Donald Trump they would have asked what shitty adult cartoon episode you were referencing

[illusioncanthurtme--art]

Physically? I am sitting in my bedroom. Mentally? Spiritually? I AM DEAD ON THE FLOOR!!!!! THESE TWO HAVE KILLED ME!!!!

(Another drawing! This was originally attempt #1 at drawing stan, and then fiddleford just showed up. Kinda feels like them five minutes after the above acting like nothing happened though, so it works sdjkgkjfshj)

[adriles]

they are Cancelling me for dealing with my grief as best i can . also for the vicious war Crimes

[demaparbat-hp]

He truly did.

[sparrowlucero]

The greatest injustice ever faced is that I almost certainly started the still thriving "clown husbandry" tag on here, but any discussion about it (from a know your meme page to a youtube video with 500k views) says it's a joke of "unknown origin" or credited to this post, likely bouncing off of mine (which was actively circulating at the time with like 30k notes):

This is a tragedy for many reasons, most of all because it wasn't just an offhand joke but actually a direct response to some of the funniest online hate I ever got:

They're erasing the truest history of tumblr: its desperate need to seethe and argue over every obvious joke with more than 10 notes.

anyways here is the canonical pet clown. according to me

[chloesimaginationthings]

Michael doesn’t like Halloween anymore in FNAF..