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stil-lindigo · 2 years ago

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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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sunn-mechanic · 5 months ago

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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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omg-snakes · 1 year ago

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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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cinnabuntastic · 15 days ago

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Wait I haven't posted my annual Screamer.

#just cinnabun things #goofs and gaffs #wordplay!#I know it's not easy to trust on April 1 but I promise it's not scary #you can even yell at me in asks if it is!!

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everything-written-down · 2 months ago

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My friend revealed to me last night that all this time when she heard me talking about Rilo Kiley she thought I was talking about Reylo

#do you still check tumblr if so i love you so much #kylo ren rilo kiley i get it #this is going to bring me joy for months #rilo kiley #fandom #friendship #wordplay!#make a new tag for life stuff at some point #elizablr

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thedragonchilde · 7 months ago

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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: