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call that a gender fender bender
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#wordplay!#im so annoying#not ship art btw although i dont have anything against people who do ship these two#i just like them as homies who bond over music and also rejecting the gender binary#i see gwen as a transwoman and hobie as unlabelled fwiw#my scrunklies#spiderman across the spiderverse#spiderverse#gwen stacy#spidergwen#spiderwoman#hobie brown#spider punk#stillindigo art
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The first of this year's holdbacks to get a name: Annelida
Anne for short
#wordplay!#snake#snakes#reptile#reptiles#reptiblr#corn snake#corn snakes#corn snake morphs#annelida#baby snake#palmetto corn snake#i thought she was charcoal pom but now IDK#worm baby
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I am Plotting. Scheming, even, a DR au...
Ghost Vex that escaped the departed realm during the merge :)
#unsure what to call it...#hmmmm.....#a shade of advice au#wordplay!#yipee!#im still mostly focusing on mocf rn but I just had to get this out there#anyway#sunn chats#lego ninjago#dragons rising#vex
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This reminds me of the greeting in a server I'm in, where like this there are people from all over the world so 'good morning/evening' doesn't apply... So we started saying 'good timezone' to cover all our bases. And now we just shout 'timezone!' at each other
A little something for Linguistics Tumblr.
So the Crunchyroll newsroom isn't a "room" so much as a Slack channel. We have news writers all over the US, in Australia, and in Japan. This means we have something akin to 'round-the-clock coverage, but it also means that our schedules respective to each other are skewed. For example, when the East Coast contingent is starting their day, the Japan contingent is shutting down for the evening.
Because of that, we started experimenting with greetings that could apply when Party A was coming in for the morning and Party B was leaving for the night. One person came up with "konbarning": a combination of "good morning" and "konban wa" ("good evening" in Japanese). It stuck.
Over the following months, "konbarning" got shortened to "barning" and other permutations. Now, a year or some later, this is how we announce our arrival:
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framing is everything
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if we could stay connected, just like this
#ok last orbit niigo post im emubrained again and also i miss leoneed#project sekai#pjsk#prsk#mizuki5 spoilers#proseka#mizuki akiyama#mizu5#nightcord at 25:00#hurray !#meltdown released an amazing translation of the event so i read it and had my final cathartic transgender cry about it#and now i have ~4 assignments due on friday so i have to stop drawing mizuki. sad.#i recommend everyone watch meltdown's translation#please. its very good and better than the mtls floating around#i Get why people wanted to see it translated asap like i Get it i didnt understand half of the wordplay or kanji but like . wah#its so crazy how this event breached containment n how many people are rooting for mizuki even tho they dont play the game so i just#think its a shame that the translation everyones reading isnt really accurate/lacks the nuances.. Ok sorrynits a good event.#ive just been thinking abiut that for a few days and i love talking in tags. Adios#real Orbit heads will know this is an Heartorbit reference (that tarot card sketch i did almost 2 years ago and said i would finish)#(i havent finished shit)
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well you know what they say
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🎣lure me in, baby!
#knitting#wip#knitblr#pattern is Lure Me In on Ravelry🐠#all of this started because I reblogged a photo set of fishing lures on here and immediately was taken aback by the sheer amount of fishing#wordplay there is out there. like. reel me in here if I get carried away. catch and release me if nothing else. i'll never stop baiting you#anyways! fun details! a return of the fibonacci spaced waves on the sleeves my signature fav. stitches that look like fish along the raglan#and fishing lure colorwork designed by yours truly who has only been fishing once in her life and was ultimately just as thrilled digging u#worms for bait because I sure as heck didn’t have sick fishing lures like these😅#fish art
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Vivienne you fucking genius
#the wordplay#it fits his personality so well#hazbin hotel#helluva boss#vivziepop#alastor#alastor hazbin hotel#spoilers
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Im not sorry
Jason: Tim I need you to be straight with me
Tim: Wow Jason I never thought you were homophobic
Jason:
Tim: *finger guns*
Bruce: Duke, can you call your siblings down for dinner?
Duke, using his powers: Don’t you mean…dimmer? *puts on sunglasses*
Bruce: How long have you been carrying those around?
Duke: …three months
Tim: When I first met Damian he tried to stab me!
Dick: That’s just his way of saying knife to meet you.
Tim: …
Dick: Hey my sword play isn’t that bad
Tim: just leave
#batfam#batman#batfamily#tim drake#dc comics#jason todd#bruce wayne#dick grayson#incorrect quotes#incorrect batboys quotes#duke thomas#puns#bad puns#i love puns#terrible puns#dumb puns#wordplay#incorrect batman quotes#incorect quote#incoorect quotes#incorrect dc quotes#batman incorrect quotes#incorrect batfam#incorrect bruce wayne#incorrect batfamily quotes#incorrect dick grayson#dick grayson incorrect quotes#jason todd incorrect quotes#incorrect jason todd#tim drake incorrect quotes
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okay so I was doing a Research™️ about ancient Greek etymology as one does and I found some Things that made me want to Violently Claw My Arms Off please allow me to force feed you my discoveries
So there are 2 words for "not" in ancient Greek, depending on the context: ou and mē. Having introduced himself in the Cyclops episode as " ou tis", or No-man, he then stabs Polyphemus in the eye. When Polyphemus' brothers come to check on him, they say this:
"... surely no man [mē tis] is carrying off your sheep? Surely no man [mē tis] is trying to kill you either by fraud or by force?"
Right after this, after the other cyclopes ditch Polyphemus, Odysseus's inner monologue goes something like this:
"Then they went away, and I laughed inwardly at the success of my clever strategem [metis]." (pronounced mEH-Tis)
Now, there's a difference between mē tis and metis. [mē tis] (pronounced mEH-Tis with a space between the syllables) is the literal translation for "no man". Metis is a word for extreme intelligence/cunning, which is something Odysseus is famous for.
Now, there are several examples of abuse of metis/intelligence in the Odyssey, but I think the juxtaposition between [mē tis], or the concept of anonymity, and metis, or extreme intelligence, is REALLY interesting. Odysseus's adoption of the title "No-man" was characteristic of metis--it was a really smart move that simultaneously hid him from the cyclops and avoided any future consequences. It was a highly effective strategy all wrapped up in a nest little package with a bow on it.
But when he revealed himself as Odysseus of Ithaca, effectively throwing off No-man (anonymity and [mē tis]), that was characterized as idiocy--he's essentially doxxed himself, and now he's doing to (spoiler alert) get tossed around the Mediterranean by Poseidon for the next 10 years.
This is really interesting because it lets you see the parallels/codependency between metis(intelligence) and humility. When Odysseus refused to allow himself to go unnoticed (hubris) he suffered for it. BUT when he declined instant glory/satisfaction (kleos) in order to achieve the long term goal of survival, he was rewarded with Athena's favor (pay attention. This part is important).
And this situation repeats itself MULTIPLE TIMES in the Odyssey--the EXACT SAME THING happens near the end of the book, with the suitors. When. Odysseus is dressed as a beggar and the suitors/Antinious are abusing him, he ACTIVELY CHOOSES not to react--he doesn't stand up and rip off his disguise and start hollering "TIS I, ODYSSEUS OF ITHACA! FEAR MY WRATH"
No. He sits there patiently and waits. He plans and schemes and quietly orchestrates their downfall without alerting them of it. Why? Because he learned his lesson the first time this happened. He buried his rage and adopted what was, according to Grace LA Franz, a more feminine form of metis, weaving a web of destruction for his enemies that ultimately resulted in their total annihilation (see Weaving a Way to Nostos: Odysseus and Feminine Metis in the Odyssey by Grace LaFranz). His patience allowed him to win the whole prize--no questions asked, no 10-year-long-business-trip strings attached--just the sweetness of a full victory. And he is, once again, rewarded with Athena's favor--both in the battle with the suitors and in the aftermath (cleanup/reuniting with Penelope).
This really reinforces the idea in the Odyssey that Odysseus's defining characteristic is not just his intelligence--it's his ability to learn from his mistakes. He used what he learned at the Lotus Eaters Island against Polyphemus--the Lotus Eaters drugged his men, so he drugged Polyphemus. He used what he learned from Circe and Polyphemus against the suitors--Circe used false sweetness and honeyed words to lure his men into a trap, so that's exactly what he did to the suitors. His hubris on Polyphemus' island cost his whole crew their lives, so he intentionally left well enough alone until the right time. He didn't just learn from his failures--he turned them into BATTLE STRATEGY.
i don't care what anyone says that is completely totally and objectively awesome
#Odysseus is a certified baddie 112% of the time#he's literally the coolest you can't convince me otherwise#there's a reason that literally everyone has a crush on him#even the lesbians#its the wordplay. his words#read me a poem in iambic pentameter you bloody stinky man#literally everyone: his sad wet vibes and dark undereye circles have captivated me entirely#odysseus#the odyssey#tagamemnon#odysseus x penelope#telemachus#epic the musical#the cyclops saga#odysseus of ithaca#poseidon#etymology#ancient greece#ancient history
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yes, yes she has.
#i feel like danny should get his Sassy Wordplay (tm) from his mother.#also I'm not sure what it is about Vlad and Maddie but platonically speaking they are CRIMINALLY underrated.#this is why the first thing to go in any of my domesticated/redeemed college trio Vlad situations is his unreasonable infatuation with her.#because that opens up a world where all they do is verbally spar and serve absolute looks.#in fact if they weren't bickering all the time they could probably collapse the government in a single afternoon#danny phantom#vlad masters#maddie fenton#comics
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toriel helping her kids beat super mario land
#undertale#deltarune#toriel dreemurr#kris dreemurr#frisk dreemurr#chara dreemurr#asriel dreemurr#geddit.... with the kids wordplay#sfw#clem art
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