#it's worth a shot

[transingthoseformers]

Okay but what if we give Starscream bird wings and thus he turns into a jet with bird wings

[bomberqueen17]

I agree with your post on tone indicators but be careful with labeling coming up with new terms/language functions as making up a conlang, you seem to know non-native english speakers so you'll know the struggles they have in getting very necessary language such as neutral gender added to their language, and even in english itself there's a lot of push against adding words to describe things like genders, and saying "nah those new things are not real [language]" is often weaponized against people who need new language (i am not saying this applies to tone indicators specifically just to be absolutely 100% clear)

There's nothing wrong with conlangs. I love them, and admire people who create them; they're perfectly valid as an art form and can be a fun and beautiful way to communicate. There's nothing wrong with inside jokes or memes; I employ them among my groups of friends, and love the glimpses of humanity I get from hearing about other people's. Sometimes the confluence of references can be the sweetest, funniest, most concise way of communicating something, and sometimes what you're communicating is just you're my people and I love you, and that is beautiful and valid. There's nothing wrong with neopronouns or any such adapted language; they're perfectly valid, I use them, whenever asked, and in fact I once assigned some to a character in a work of fiction I wrote solely to give myself practice using them, so it wouldn't be so strange to me, since the idea was new to me but I had begun to encounter people who used them. And they convey things that could not already be conveyed using existing language, and so their creation is beautiful and necessary-- as is their explanation.

The thing all these things have in common is that nobody is assuming you know them. If someone has created a conlang, they'd be excited to give me a glossary, and would not use the language with me if I had not been given an opportunity to know what the words meant.

If I am making a bunch of references to inside jokes, I will make sure that everyone in the conversation has had a chance to hear the background context, so that they are not excluded-- if it is not possible, I will apologize to the excluded person, and try to keep my references to a minimum in conversations they're part of.

If someone has neopronouns, I will happily use them, but I need to be told what they are and how to use them grammatically. Once this is done, I will do my best, just as I do with anything I'm learning, but I don't think it would be reasonable for me to know to use pronouns if I haven't been told what they are. This is why people say "she/her", "they/them", "xe/xer" and so on, by the way, instead of just saying "she"-- it's to give you what you need to use it!

So tone indicators-- fine, use them, but if you're using them in a conversation with me, understand that they are opaque to me so I will not understand them so you using them is serving absolutely no purpose, and so you will have to also, if indicating your tone is important to the meaning of the conversation, do so using language I can understand, and additionally know that if you have repurposed widely-used existing acronyms or abbreviations, you're going to have to clear up what you mean, and in fact for the ones whose older and far more common usages are actively offensive, you should avoid using them unless you're trying to cause offense.

Because this is the main point I'm getting to: It's really fucking rude to address someone using language they do not know and are excluded from.

So every single time you use a tone indicator with someone whose familiarity with the system you haven't bothered to verify, you are appending another, secret, tone indicator on the end, which just says HOSTILE, invisibly appended after every other thing you have typed, because you are using abbreviations that in broader culture mean other things, and expecting your reader, without having asked if they know them, to discard everything else they know, and put themselves out to decipher your unfamiliar jargon.

It's entitled and hostile and counterproductive. So I'm not saying don't use them, I'm saying ask first, and if the person's not familiar, then make your meaning clear in standard language. It's pretty simple. If you love this specific system a lot and talk to this person a lot, maybe drop a link to a key and ask if they'd be willing to learn them. But understand that is a big ask, because there are so many other ways to convey the same exact information that are not reliant upon a brand-new obscure code.

[bonezone44]

Does anyone have any stories where Joel is with someone NB or just.... not super femme?

[dem0lition-lover]

yes mcr things are better if you stay, so why don't you just go ahead and release mcr5 for us, pretty please

[joethetoonfanandoutcast]

Save Coyote vs. Acme

WB f'd up big time by cancelling the release of this new completed and anticipated Looney Tunes film.

Sign this petition and spread it around to hopefully get them to change their minds.

[julesnichols]

I wonder if we're weird enough if we could somehow manifest Snowpiercer being picked up somewhere else

[count100]

Vent Post, I suppose

I don't even know how to express how exausted I am. Mostly physically, but I'm not doing great psychologically either. I've been struggling so much at just about everything for years now, and it's tiring. I want to do something great, to be creative and too learn and grow, but I can't do that when it's a struggle to even make a meal or leave my apartment. I've been trying things to help with adhd for years and I've even been transitioning for one, but nothing has been enough and things just keep stagnating and falling apart. I know things will eventually be ok as long as I keep going but when I'm laying on my couch struggling to move it's really hard to internalize that. I just want to be ok

[lovesickgoose]

Hoping that drawing jv's succulent ass and tits will cure me of the flu

[sezja]

Maybe writing some Garlemald bard boys content will fix me

[matthewkimble]

i wanna rewatch hannibal but if will and hannibal don’t tongue kiss at the end of it this time i’m gonna be so pissed off

[chuunibyou]

Anyone want to send me money for my birthday today on Cash App ah haha $Fruitraka

[helluvamystery]

My new years resolution was to be more of a nuisance, so I just emailed my work's HR to consider putting in native plant life, to combat the small swamps that are appearing everywhere because all the landscaping at work is just grass in the middle of a wet (ass) p(ussy)lain biome

[reallifepotato]

me: i should take some medicine before i feel worse

also me: i don’t need to take medicine i don’t feel that bad

[diiisplxced-a]

Jessica may actually give me the Ivy muse I've been waiting for.

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

i'm begging you guys to start pirating shit from streaming platforms. there are so many websites where you can stream that shit for free, here's a quick HOW TO:

1) Search for: watch TITLE OF WORK free online

2) Scroll to the bottom of results. Click any of the "Complaint" links

3) You will be taken to a long list of links that were removed for copyright infringement. Use the 'find' function to search for the name of the show/movie you were originally searching for. You will get something like this (specifics removed because if you love an illegal streaming site you don't post its url on social media)

4) each of these links is to a website where you can stream shit for free. go to the individual websites and search for your show/movie. you might have to copy-paste a few before you find exactly what you're looking, but the whole process only takes a minute. the speed/quality is usually the same as on netflix/whatever, and they even have subtitles! (make sure to use an adblocker though, these sites are funded by annoying popups)

In conclusion, if you do this often enough you will start recognizing the most dependable websites, and you can just bookmark those instead. (note: this is completely separate from torrenting, which is also a beautiful thing but requires different software and a vpn)

you can also download the media in question (look for a "download" button built into the video window, or use a browser extension such as Video DownloadHelper.)

[special-agent-spooky-mulder]

apropos of nothing, biden's insta accounts aren't as full as they were of comments telling him to stop funding genocide and i think that's a shame