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Even without words, we communicate through our eyes.

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If you guys can afford to pre-order my novella All According to Norm I would be so so so so so grateful thank you loves

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“unalive myself” “grippy socks visit to the hospital” “corn addicts” talk like a fucking grown up. seriously.

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Ever Given, Never Forgotten

 by Beatriz Seelaender 

For days on end one great ship

Which into the Suez did stick

Managed to delay the trips

Of cruises, containers, and cargos,

After having drawn a dick

In the unknowing Black Sea.

A more efficient of embargo

A living person has not seen.

News refreshed evergreen,

Nautical surfers were keen

On keeping up with the knot which,

having besot a blockade

On ten percent of world trade,

Was cheered on for its daring

Anti-capitalist disdain –

Grievances given airing

Screw-ups not ever tame

Ever given did contain

Its own containers and many

Others in a three-day-old traffic

Isn’t this bloody fantastic?

The voice of the people exclaimed.

Yet Ever Given’s long shift

Was not done giving us gifts

Whilst unmoved by the drifts

The obstruction tossed betwixt the curb,

Boats turn into isles of turf

Its sailors rot into nomads

Growing roots in the sand –

We find that an ephemeral gonad

Was traced in the innocent spume.

When we all asked but to whom

Did the ship owe its sky-rocketed fame?

An anonymous captain must’ve grinned

and said it was all because of a sandstorm

that swept the phallic trajectory

transforming it into a guilt-trip.

If the penis drawn was to blame

Neither wished for nor seen was an end

And experts tried to explain

while engineers were sent for

to float Ever Given’s bounty which fell to the bottom

Those secret containers became

Buried treasures for future mermen of Asia Minor

Whose knowledge of naval streamliners

Are down to the minimal. But the Ever Given is mythical.

And how swift the current, taken for granted

Oh, to embark upon the waves without worrying

To read the news without dread

To be intrigued rather than scared –

Thank you, Ever Given, clingy mistress of the Suez

When you were unwieldy with your largeness,

resolved to butt heads with the margins,

You caused much trouble and mirth,

Spread out all over the Earth.

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Yesterday I kept checking in w my roommate about the differences between gentile bernie memes and zayde bernie memes

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The way we purposely mangle, misspell, and interrupt the name of a person or thing on Tumblr to avoid a post being found in tags or searches makes me think of various folklore- where a being is summoned by speaking their name. Add this to the list of reasons why the Internet is a folkloric culture of its own.

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Jewish mood

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Y’all talk weird on here. Sometimes I see a post and i agree but y’all talk weird so I’m like fuckYou.

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Gonna start a post with blank memes. Please add any you have on hand and reblog to spread them.

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the question of whether modern internet humor is dadaist is fascinating because sure on a surface level, it absolutely resembles dadaist art of the 1920′s but my question is…………..is it art?

the original dada movement emerged specifically to interact with that question, of whether an incoherent collage, or a gold-plated toilet seat, or poetry pulled out of a hat should be considered art

but internet humor?  it exists solely for us to entertain one another.  it doesn’t give a shit about what art is or isn’t, and comments like “this belongs in a museum” or “where’s her oscar” always come after the fact, and, more importantly, are made specifically to add entertainment value

so my take for today is that internet humor isn’t neo-dada, or post-dada, or even “e-dada” or “#dada”; as a mass movement concerned more with community participation than performance to an audience and wholly unconcerned with questions about higher meaning…………….this is folk dada

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the ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ has only been actually typed once by a single person, everyone else who has ever used it has just googled “shrug emoji” and copy-pasted it

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Gonna start a post with blank memes. Please add any you have on hand and reblog to spread them.

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You get ‘on’ a bus or train, but you get ‘in’ a car or taxi

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Hi! I want to use the points you make in Sociolinguistics of the English Language in a speech I'm making about how the internet is influencing our dialogue, and was wondering how you would like to be cited? Thank you!

Hi! Thank you for the ask and the request! Is this for a formal paper or an internet article?

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here’s a lil smtg I wrote…

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I love how, because of that “Beautiful Cinnamon Roll Too Good For This World, Too Pure” Onion headline, “cinnamon roll” has become a commonly accepted phrase for “a character who is cute and kind and typically gets more pain in canon than they deserve”.

Like, we didn’t have a real phrase for that common phenomenon (wubbie maybe, but that has negative connotations ie “this character has been wubbiefied by the fandom”) and then someone used a screenshot of a headline from a satire news website to describe it, and then everyone else was like “yes good let’s use this”. You couldn’t make that shit up. I bet there are people who use that phrase now who didn’t even see that headline.

Language is evolving right before our eyes in a very weird and beautiful way and I am very very sorry for future linguist who have to puzzle this shit out.