#(i'm not including components bc that would be insane)

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me realising that the zariman's links to the entrati include even the bloody void relics:

[gardenerian]

Mel 😊 Always a pleasure, never a chore, some questions for someone I truly adore:

1) What is the best study/work snack? (For me it's apples and peanut butter, I've gotten whole acts of congress passed on apples and peanut butter)

2) What would you say is your most effective method of communicating?

3) Have you ever been to a protest or a demonstration and what was it for? (if you are comfortable saying.)

Mel ily2 💚

howl, my treasure. what a treat, i always feel like i'm on inside the actor's studio every friday 😌

1. it depends on the project. when i was cramming or thesis-writing, it was always - always - sour patch watermelons. now i get stressed when i see them in the store bc i feel like i'm about to miss a deadline 😭 if i'm just snackin and workin, i like a pb&j, strawberries and/or grapes, or some trail mix. snacks are crucial component of my productivity.

2. yikes. i’m an excellent verbal communicator... until i’m put on the spot. i am the kind of person to immediately cry when faced with unexpected conflict. if i'm mad or upset - tears. even if i'm not that upset, it's just an instant reaction. i tend to get very worked up, very quickly, and i usually can't express myself well that way. so i usually turn to writing. when i was a brooding kid, i used to write letters to my parents after every single moody fight. i was much more able to explain what happened/what i was thinking/what i needed that way. these days i write cards to my partner after our major conversations/life events or arguments.

3. i have! quite a few, for different causes. i’ve been thinking about this one a lot lately - i helped put together a gsa club at my high school, got elected president. parents flipped the fuck out and it was a whole fucking thing. terrible time. absolute insanity, culminating in some giant school-wide meeting run by the worst people you’ve ever seen. grown ass adults, trying to fuck with kids who just wanted to find a place. but we were all there, and we gave our side with way more grace than a pack of teenagers should have to. we ended up having to give up a lot of what we wanted to do (including the word GAY in our literature), but we were able to stay on campus. at the time, it felt like a victory. very hallmark movie. looking back: horse shit. absolute horse shit, and i wish i could go back and make more of a scene. fuck that. the school later got called out on the national stage for some other bullshit and it was incredibly vindicating. ah, to be young and full of trouble.

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ok re: non english speaking languages don’t do this. that’s entirely irrelevant. non english speaking languages have also developed ways of getting across tone and cadence and so on through the screen. like why would they be the same way. that’s like saying well walking is useless because see this other animal has wings if walking was necessary then all winged animals would just walk. anyway

re: this

So on the grounds that it "contains information", I'm honestly unsure. It absolutely conveys a form of pause, yes, but it really speaks to the desire of someone wanting to use the written word like it's a component of actual speech - and not just as another method of communication. Maybe I read too much, but I don't need to see your train of thought veer in another direction, nor do I need to see your own hesitations.

“it speaks to the desire of someone wanting to use the written word like it's a component of actual speech” is the point! im on tumblr talking to my friends im not writing an academic paper. so in this context, i do need you to see my train of thought veer in another direction and my own hesitations. i need you to see how insane i feel, how confused, how apathetic, how whatever! i want to feel like im Talking to you. casually. when im socializing in person, verbally, my friends get to have all this extra information stored in nonverbal communication. it IS information. and it sometimes needs to be communicated the same way the actual Content needs to be communicated. online, we cant use the normal nonverbal cues, so we find creative substitutes. what’s so cool about the full stop mid sentence is it’s not really replacing anything. it’s new and it’s unique to the text medium <3

anyway we do fundamentally disagree bc i think language demands its baseline be regularly disrupted<3 it needs earthquakes and forest fires and biodiversification! the mid sentence full stop fulfills a specific environment niche. that niche does not include Formal Emails and Academic Papers and probably never will! it’s for spaces where people want to talk to their friends. it’s not touching language in other spaces. it’s not disrupting All of language. just the spot where it needs squeezing 🌋🐣 the other spots will get their own kinds of restitching based on their own needs.

and also in this sense you’re kind of right about it being an “evolutionary dead end.” already since i first made this post i don’t see people using the full stop mid sentence as much. just like nobody really says omg #eating glass anymore or what have you there are so many examples language comes running through us all so quick these days like a disposable contact lens 😔. anyway the thing is what’s wrong with an evolutionary dead end? isnt that just a trait whose phenotype stabilizes bc to change anymore in either direction would be deleterious. it’s not a bad thing it’s actually kind of the ideal. so other parts of language won’t evolve this particular full stop mid sentence trait. they don’t need to

the art of. using periods incorrectly to fine tune line delivery