[camiyak]

that’s it. that’s the relationship.

[bitemewinchester]

the fact that Odo is 1200% done all the fucking time delights me

[aldora89]

Earlier today I paused about here by accident and laughed because…

This cap pretty much summarizes their entire relationship.

[ladyyatexel]

me: reads fanfic.
otp: "i love you."
me: mutant noise
me: strokes screen
me: flails
me: drops laptop
me: rolls off of bed
me: rolls into space

Tags: lady and tinsnip re: dd9. mature adults.

[tinsnip]

[ladyyatexel]

no no no no no no non no ono onooo goddammit

[micathemineral]

imagine just being busy sewing or reading or something and then there’s this weird tingly feeling and the next thing you know you’re in the middle of the weird futuristic building with blinking lights and monitors displaying some weird interface and all you can see out the windows is stars and everyone in the room is staring at you, including your lover, who is wearing some weird uniform thing- they all are, even the ones who are really fucking weird looking- then he asks you who the hell you are

just imagine that feeling

[my-singing-soul]

why is it that all the most popular posts on tumblr

are written like this

with no capitals

and no punctuation

i just really want there to be a popular and grammatically correct post on tumblr

[turnabout-taisa]

I think the majority of Tumblr’s dialect (is there a word for a written dialect? Hardly anyone speaks Tumblr.) comes from influence within the tag system.

My theory is that the lack of capitalization is stylized, ironic laziness (same reason as the increasingly popular use of abbreviations such as idek and ikr, and particles like desu), whereas the punctuation stems from the tag system, where commas split up tags. So, “this is like, so totally cool” would be tagged “this is like” “so totally cool.”

With commas struck from the tumblr blogger’s arsenal, they rely on run-on sentences and other means to show emphasis. One such means, spacing, is another quirk influenced by the tags. If you repeat a tag, it will only show once, which is why you get “really r e a l l y weird things like this.”

Also common on Tumblr are people who show their enthusiasm through their text by pretending their haNDS ARE FRKEAKIGN OUT AN D THEY CANT TPYE OMFGGGG. This adaptation is actually pretty cool, I think, as it serves to communicate tone across a very toneless medium.

[edgebug]

Did you hear that noise? That was the sound of my desk breaking. My linguistics boner just snapped it in half.

[crowleyaziraphale]

 #we’ve created our own language with its own set of rules and guidelines #based on the environment #that is cool #if you don’t think that’s cool you’re wrong