#im 22 btw

[littlemuppetmonsters]

is it too late to become spiderman

[doctordiscosbignaturals]

i need other people to look at these tags on my post that have physically aged me 60 years

[iloveyou8600]

writing my notes for therapy tomorrow. genuinely like "im soooo jealous of your friend group :/ you guys always have fun together :/ you have the same sense of humor :/ you take candid pictures of each other :/ and talk about your weird psychosexual obsessions together :/ my friends dont have psychosexual obsessions i feel like im perpetually stuck in a middle school cafeteria"

[earth-realmed]

if i wake up later and i dont get kuai liang as a birthday gift im blowing myself up

[emrysthirteen]

i am solidly split between the last two poll options. because on the one hand, i don't care and i know i hear both and don't notice either way 95% of the time. however, when i do notice, it is usually someone using by accident in a way that feels off, where on accident never feels off. also any time i put any thought into it, the use of by doesn't make any sense for exactly the reason in the last poll option

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

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

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

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

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

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

[simping-for-rods]

Hiii~

I just wanted to make a little update.

YES, I'm still very obsessed with Rodimus, my beloved.

I'm a college student, so... I reblog very sporadically, like, I am in the most intense and stressful moment of my academic life, and i reblog impulsively, so sorry about that :[

Do I want to upload art or other stuff? Nah, of course I draw Rods all the time, especially during classes, but I'm not confident enough to upload those.

You can find me on Twitter (I refuse to call it X), but I only reply and retweet *shrugs* so @/AlxsBlck on there.

Do I plan on making more posts like this? Where I ramble my heart contents? Yeah, maybe, but everything you want to know of me or my life is in my tags.

Another point I think it's relevant to mention is that I'm not a native english speaker so my english sounds very wacky and strange because I don't understand grammar at all (even in spanish), so I'm sorry if my rambling is confusing and reads like moon runes.

That's all, besties ♡♡♡

Til all are one or whatever the silly wife says.

[vanyafresita]

IMAGINE YOURSELF.

TELL ME OF YOURSELF.

WHAT IS IT YOU WANT?

and here is some close ups from the still frames with no filters !

[mawklee]

jerma in unpaid intern ep. 3

[kaleidoskuls]

the magnus archives is a comedy

[linoyes]

lee know in every skz code - ep 22-23

[freaky-flawless]

The De Nile sisters!

[neominthe]

Oh well, look who's (briefly) back to post future! Luffy from my fic! Don't ask me what happened to his chinelo (and straw hat)

da fic is here

[inkskinned]

one of the things about having an unstable parent is that it can so easily ruin your future. you want to get out, but getting out takes having agency. it takes the resume and the grades and the stellar community service history.

but you have to choose your battles. you know if you sign up for an after-school activity, it'll be okay for a while, so long as the activity is parent-approved and god-fearing. over time, like all things, it will become an argument (i can't keep carting your ass to these things) or a weapon (talk to me like that again, see if you get to go to practice). sometimes, if you love the thing, it's worth it. but you also know better than to love something: that's how they get you. if you ever actually want something, it will always be the center of their attention. they will never stop threatening you with it. telling you of course i'm a good parent, i came to all of those stupid events.

you learn to balance yourself perfectly. you can either have a social life or you can have hobbies. both of these things will be under constant scrutiny. you spend too much time with her, you should be at home with family is equally paired with you're acting like this because you're addicted to what's on that goddamn screen. you cannot ever actually win, so everything falls within a barter system that you calculate before entering: do you want to learn how to drive? if so, you'll need to give up asking for a new laptop, even though yours died. maybe you can work on a computer at the library. of course, that would mean you'd be allowed to go to the library, which would mean something else has to bleed. nothing ever actually comes free.

and that bitter, horrible irony: you could be literally following their orders and it still isn't pretty. they tell you to get a job; they hate that your job keeps you late and gives you access to actual money. they tell you to do better in school; they say no child of mine needs a tutor. they want you to stop being so morose, don't you know there are people who are really suffering - but they revile the idea you might actually need therapy.

you didn't survive that fall the way other people would. you've seen other people scramble and get their way out, however they could. maybe you were made too-soft: the answer didn't come to you easily. it wasn't quick. it was brutal and nasty. some people even asked you why didn't you just work hard and escape during school? and you felt your head spinning. why didn't you? (they control your financial aid. they control your loan status. they love having that kind of thing). maybe in another life you got diagnosed sooner and got the meds you needed to actually focus and got attention from the right teachers who helped you clear hurdles to get up out of here - but for now? here?

the effort of trying. the effort of not-dying. that kind of effort was absolutely agonizing.

[prostocupoftea]

finally. i am free. now have this map part i was doing for whole of last month

more like last two weeks bc of how i procrastinated the shit out of it :')

also yes this is the same map as this post. ghfhgfdjh i hove their part so much go look if you haven't (which you statistically probably have)

anyways. *hypnotizes you into liking it*

Also woe! backgrounds under the cut! too much effort went into split second stuff so now you have to see it!

windows startup backround is... significantly lower-effort than other ones (: mostly bc it was made last and i got laizy, also bc i do not like painting nature

first one is now my profile top bc i like i so much

second was good to hide stuff in

and others are... there, i guess. my energy ran out for them unfortunately lol

[stil-lindigo]

brittle bones

[whimhaven]

quick malachi update! - malachi and his fiancé, laurel, are currently third-year students at britechester university. they are both computer science majors and they live in their cute student apartments on campus 🤎

thank you again @wildmelon for laurel <3