becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys:

ritavonbees:

becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys:

iamnotshazam:

cacen:

tittily:

whenever im sad i just think about how the welsh word for microwave is popty ping

OH FOR SHITTING GOD’S SAKE

JUST WHEN I THINK I’VE EDUCATED THE WORLD ABOUT THE WELSH WORD FOR MICROWAVE THIS PIECE OF SHIT POST MAKES AN APPEARANCE IN MY LIFE SO LISTEN UP YOU GULLIBLE PLANKS AND GET YOUR SCHOOL BAGS READY BECAUSE I’M ABOUT TO EDUCATE THE ABSOLUTE ILL-INFORMED SHIT OUT OF YOU

THE WELSH WORD FOR MICROWAVE IS MEICRODON WHICH IS A LITERAL FUCKING TRANSLATION OF MICROWAVE WHEREAS POPTY PING MEANS ‘PINGING OVEN’ AND LET ME TELL YOU NOW THAT NO ONE FUCKING SAYS POPTY PING IN WALES AND IF YOU HONESTLY THINK WE EVER USE POPTY PING AS A TERM I WILL PERSONALLY DELIVER MYSELF TO YOUR FRONT DOOR AND SHOUT AT YOU FOR TEN DAYS STRAIGHT

ummm this is obviously a passionate subject and im sorry i was just wondering if anyone knows how this got started? was it a knowing prank, or like someone’s aunt in wales who didn’t really speak welsh panicked when asked “what’s microwave” and said “popty ping” and the lie escaped

Oh damn, this post is old now!

It’s a children’s word. It’s exactly the same as how children in English call a train a ‘choo choo’. And then English people thought it sounded a combination of cute and stupid, which tied in with the whole ‘Welsh isn’t a real/valid language’ thing, and from there it continued because no one listens to Welsh people (I’ve literally had more than one conversation where I’ve explained all this and an English person has looked me in the eye and said “Well I prefer it so I’m going to keep saying it’s popty ping, tee hee”. I also vividly remember an English person on Tumblr - who is otherwise lovely - responding to me on this topic to explain to me that if people start using a word then it becomes a valid word, so actually popty ping now IS the Welsh word for microwave, and I had to explain back that no one is using it outside of nurseries and English people, now please will you actually believe us.)

Basically… imagine if the internet decided that “the English word for a set of carriages pulled on rails by an engine is a Choo Choo” and then either patronisingly simpered about it or sneered about how your language should therefore be wiped out about it and you have the issue

And as a final note, the whole thing is extra ridiculous because Welsh has three different terms for ‘jellyfish’ and every one of them is way more charming and batshit than popty ping on its best day AND are the actual genuine terms, so it’s a missed trick

c'mon Shaharazad, tell us about the jellyfish

Your wish is my command

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aeiously:

gunli:

legunlas:

aragun:

You have my gun

And my gun

And my gun!

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gffa:

The ugly laugh I just made

kobolde:

kobolde:

ALT

for everyone asking for what article this is i actually went back and found it again and you’ll never guess who it’s about

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incorrect-dnd-classes:

Artificer: Listen all science is gay but mad science is especially gay

taraljc:

reiayanamismom:

iamprophet4profit:

ya-wn:

please for the love of god turn ur sound on

*boston accent*  “It takes a pet like NO PRABLEM! Nat afraid at alll, Thats a great cat right there..”

Here he is all grown up!

His name is Maui and he still takes a pat like no phrawblem

But he’s still giving you the stink eye because he’s actually a New York bodega cat at Willy’s Deli in Brooklyn and you know how New Yorkers are about Bostonians

That’s a great cat right there

Also his whittle white peety paws 😍😍😍

OMG ALL GROWED UP

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zonaisona:

zonaisona:

zonaisona:

as a kid i had one of those “there’s a monster under my bed” moments except real.

every night i would cry about a ghost or something trying to scare me by knocking on my bedroom windows and walls. like, really loudly, every hour or so, every night. only at night. so my dad was like “heh okay kiddo let’s check it out :) ah see? there’s nothing here :)” and left.

until years later he admitted to me that he did in fact hear the unexplainable knocking when he slept in that room one night, and it kept him awake with fear. and suddenly felt awful for not believing little kid me.

imagine your kid being like “daddy there’s a demon in my closet” and you being like ok son lemme just check that for you :). and you open the door and there’s a demon in the closet

WHAT

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brakshow:

brakshow:

I think Americans in general should maybe start taking xenophobia more seriously. Because with the. Everything going on in the world right now. It’s gotten really really bad. And while lefties might not be reactionary to the same extent as republicans it’s still very much prevalent. I went to dinner with my family recently and the stuff they said about my cousin’s family who emigrated from Russia made me feel like I was losing my mind. He’s 2 years old. How are you going to discriminate against a baby with a clear conscience. Then you read the news and it’s like “China is spying on you with TikTok and weather balloons” and you hear people on all angles of the political compass repeat it. Are you hearing yourself right now. Are you for real

Cannot believe I have to say this but I am Lakota. as in native american. As in almost everyone’s family came to the united states from another country at one point, except for the people who were already living here. Like my mom’s family. And I live here.

Immediately assuming I must be a white european because I disagree with widespread american xenophobia is prelly wild. Honestly. When I mentioned my family and America in the same post I thought it was clear that I live here.

“But you said you had family from Russia?”

Yes. People get married sometimes. My cousin married someone from Russia. They had a baby. He’s a good baby btw. Fantastic little dude. I hope he grows up in a better world than this one.

I can’t speak for people living in other countries because I don’t live there. I live here. I don’t think it’s my place to berate people from other countries because that’s kind of the problem. Maybe I should have started this post out like a presidential speech. My fellow Americans. Now more than ever.

Reading comprehension test:

1. Where is OP from? What country?

2. What does “xenophobia” mean?

3. Is possible to care about other people? if yes, then:

3.1: even if they’re from another country?

3.2: even if they speak another language?

3.3: even if I don’t like their government?

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stilldoingthisforme:

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elfwreck:

fraddit:

beggars-opera:

Does anyone have a link to a back-to-basics article about good fanfic practices, like standards of content and chapter length and such (speaking as an old fart who only wrote a couple of shitty one-shots back when lemons were a thing)

Sorry in advance if this is too many links, lol.  These are pretty much all about posting to Ao3…

Tagging:

HOW I TAG ON AO3 - A BEGINNER’S GUIDE

AO3 tags 101

What’s the #1 thing you wish everyone knew about tagging?

a reference guide all about tags and warnings on AO3

How to: Tag and Summarise your Fic

Formatting:

ao3 posting script google doc

formatting fic for text-to-speech compatibility and accessibility 

A helpful How to guide for embedding images on AO3

General and misc:

The ao3 faq for posting to the site

Fanfiction resources

things I wish I’d known when I started writing fic on ao3

tips for posting fic on tumblr

psa: don’t mention commissions/patreon on AO3

Had a friend who wrote several serialized fanfic novels, and she swore the optimum chapter length was 3000-4000 words, with 2500-5000 being an acceptable range.

However: This was for posting on Livejournal. You couldn’t make chapters much longer than that in a single post. (But that was only part of the consideration; comments apparently were notably fewer on longer or shorter posts.)

But there is no “correct chapter length” in general. There is “optimum chapter length for maximizing comments/feedback from a specific community,” which is going to vary by community, posting schedule (if you post 2x a week, chapters can be shorter than if you post once a month), and your particular writing style.

For professional mainstream writing? HAH. There are no rules. There are 15,000 word chapters and 150 word chapters. Specific publishing houses or lines may have rules about chapters, either for formatting reasons or because they’re looking for a particular writing style. But that’s “this particular publisher, for this subgenre of books,” not literature in general.

Also: Seconding “DO NOT MENTION PATREON ON AO3.” Don’t mention Ko-Fi, commissions, your Amazon books, or anything else commercial. There’s reasons for this; they are tied to legalities in complex ways; the short version is “just don’t.” You cannot say “hey if you like my stuff you can pay me” on AO3, at all.

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