#luv humaning

[yther]

cogito ergo Sum Tumblr Ranting

there is a new type of illiteracy that'll be fully exposed in like 10-15 years due to a plethora of products, start-ups, branding of every kind using "stolen" words (single, specific, but obscure enough to sound like a noun or portmanteau generated by corporate whimsy) or useful general terms getting co-opted that have persisted perhaps thousands of years (pre-anglicized) and yet.. the internet (assume youth/average users - not proactively knowing augments are needed) results will pull a full page of bullshit unrelated or ad or extents far removed from origins before giving a simple definition to a simple fucking word and valuable fundamental concept and

there's no way there won't be a massive effect of these...enshittifying word bubbles.

not a staunch linguistic prescriptivist but this is not "typical" language evolution..

Ask a kid what adobe is! they won't know but they might know *how to gather the info* (-insert related thesis about para/prosthetic knowledge). And then they still won't understand how people live in adobe houses, and it's something that exists today, is relevant today, from Egypt to New Mexico to future of sustainability. Thousands of years, a passed knowledge, maybe antiquated but not fucking obsolete as a word.

Big, obvious example.

Lesser scale branding is still within a dilemma of innovation vs "conservation" (of mutual intelligibility) but there must be a distinction between types of benign generification, creative usage and corporate erasure of functional terminology within 1 human generation. Like a Finland tech company naming itself Avoine because it sounds cool... means oat in French and unrelated, but no one looking for oats is constantly redirected to Avoine Oy.

Kids are not stupid, they're information sponges. Digital nativism was an optimism proved fallacy.

"Ipad babies" as a way to describe online social and intellectual development is going to reach beyond motor skills, socialization norms and critical thinking skills!

I'm ranting like an old professor but I am a baby-millennial-change-maker. I want a better future, I can See it.

a love letter of irony. will any person read this post and care? no. will the words persist and someday be part of an amalgamate? perhaps. maybe it will train a machine that maximizes word salad. maybe it will be preserved, vestigial. like a dusty cassette tape coming to be a Relic (contents unknown, a fun stand-in for humans and our howl, milk-mother cry to A God. Aliens. Ourselves. To speak and be absolved of our horrifying echoes..)

there will emerge again some Rosetta Stone. Machine rendered or hand worked adobe. I wonder what the words will make of us. And if through word-fodder now, we are making that machine.

tldr

...Holy fuck we need to lock Christopher Nolan in a room with the ghost of Joseph Campbell, 3 linguists and 2 angry anthropologists until he writes a holy script(ure)... a Tenet of tenets, a 2001 Space Odyssey that guides a thread of Odysseus ("Homer's") to the Doctors Brand (Interstellar, both father and daughter) and back to The Protagonist. Who would either break the monolith // "This is a Gesture" or surround one ape with a field of mirrored monoliths all facing.. the single great ape. Waiting, watching for: ""This is my (humanity's) gesture (unspoken)"

tldrdr

This (non)sense can either be parsed or understood, but never both.

Also, if I could talk about Dune without my brain exploding, anyone forced to listen would be driven to violence.

[noisyghost]

sketches of ark's werewolf form except based on the designs of some other funny dogs i like

[pxgeturner]

thinking bout casual dominance w teyam

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Neteyam who wraps his tail around your leg or waist while walking. Neteyam who carries you close to his chest if he’s having a hard time matching your steps. Neteyam who feeds you. Neteyam who makes you clothes and jewelry. Neteyam who doesn’t let you do anything dangerous because he won’t have his little human in peril or pain. Neteyam who writes poetry and songs about you. Neteyam who takes your phone away at night so you can have plenty of sweet dreams. Neteyam who always hugs or kiss you goodbye even if you had a fight because you should never go to bed angry. Neteyam who has you ride in front of him on his ikran. Neteyam who is obsessed with your tiny alien hands. Neteyam who completely engulfs you while spooning. Neteyam who always greets you with flowers. Neteyam who puts some braids in your hair so you two match. Neteyam who never makes you lift a finger.

[fun-esta]

[chxfvyu777]

Random solomon doodles?? this started off as outfit redesigns idk what happened😭

[aryartzs-ttte]

My little tribute to @shikariiin’s DTIYS

Congratulations on 500+ followers! 🎉🎉

[aryartzs-tugs]

pov: warrior in munitions

[boatemboys]

can i come over and pretend to be a normal human being except neither of us know what a normal human being is meant to look like

[mischeva]

girly is batty

[tired-ophidian]

Away from the kids...

Shhh they're taking a break.

ashdhjrsgdfr finally done 😭😭 here's my 20+ followers special! totally didn't procrastinate this for a week haha... srsly tho, where did y'all come from?

anygays, thank you all so much for the support, literally the motivation I have—apart from the brainrot—to keep making content for these silly old train men.

and for that have these bonus charts for good measures!

as always, stay hydrated and have a good morning, noon and night everyone! <333

[tricos-here]

catch them in bloodtide coast everyday braiding each other's hair like they're not about to get eaten alive by a giant jungle wurm

[plumuto]

grass boy!!

[speedofsunlight]

whats in alice cullen’s bag? (2002)

[mileniyum]

Canon accurate Spraykit

[snz4]

i love silly men

[starzwave]

I doodle Billford again. I can never escape Billford. Billford is apart of me. Send Help—