Idk What To Tag This - Blog Posts

OOH! this seems like fun! Lets see...

"You did wonderful, my little star. If all goes according to plan, then the timeline will be fixed and everyone will know the truth like you and I." The Dark Link whispered, clasping the young hero's hand tightly. "Everything will be okay. I won't leave you I promise."

Ah yes, a good amount of Four (Red) angst. Love a good amount and its been brewing up for a while lol.. hmmm.... Anyone who wants to join is welcome to join!! But I def want to tag: @tinydragontoons, @zetrif and I think that is my only mutuals...

Rules: In a new post, show the last line you wrote and tag as many people as there are words.

I was tagged by @triforce-of-mischief and @the-legend-of-mothlad Thanks for the tags guys! 

For hours a day, while his mother tended their garden and watched from the corner of her eye, Link practiced his swordplay, despite never being taught sword forms by his father or anything more than how to hold one, he spun the practice blade around him like he was born for it. Dancing with the weapon as if he stood against a real rival, stopping to correct his stance or technique like someone was instructing him to. 

I kinda hate tagging people so if you want to participate, I don’t care who you are, just feel free to pretend that your tag is here. 

Has anyone ever been ficmatized?? Kind of like dickmatized but all you can think about is that fic you're reading cuz it's soooo good

I don't have anything to post, here's a doodle of myself

Made this for a friend who's obsessed with chifuyu

i have created a game called: "watch those kawaii unboxing videos and find every mistake, inconsistency, or things that just don't make since" for example: I just watched a video where someone put 2 straws in a drink. :]

I like how I go from: " I hate myself *sigh* " to "omfg I'm like so damn cool oml oml" in the span of a second- its so funny omg

man, the aroace posting ive been seeing lately kinda hits. like yeah man, i feel you, i get that, ive experienced that

huge vomit in the tags btw

tv tropes that fit me:

Academic athlete

Affectionate Nickname

Animal Motif

all loving hero

Apologizes a lot

Beneath the Mask

Brainy Brunette

Butch lesbian (a downplayed bi example)

Character Development

The comically serious

creepy good

Deadpan Snarker

Dissonant serenity

even the loving hero has hated ones

foolish sibling, responsible sibling

insecure love interest

jerk with a heart of gold

kind-hearted cat lover

lesbian jock (a bi example)

luminescent blush

meaningful name

nice girl

nervous wreck

nightmare fetishist

opposites attract

pint-sized powerhouse

queer colors

red oni, blue oni

stepford smiler

team mom

tomboyish ponytail

violently protective girlfriend

when she smiles

you are better than you think you are

you are not alone

A warmup piece, here's some cats

(Tap for better quality)

oddly enough these are the major themes of any classic russian novel

The universe's algorithm is so weird like wdym I keep seeing his name EVERYWHERE

Wondrous advice

now for ur phone. go make some strangers uneasy in public 👉👉

Linguistic Anarchy

[PT: Linguistic Anarchy /end PT]

Linguistic Anarchy is a subset of descriptivism (the idea that following linguistic rules is not always strictly necessary, read more about it on the wikipedia page) that emphasizes the bending or ignoring of linguistic rules to create more inclusive and accommodating language for queer people (especially neopronoun users) and preserving and recording language in an effort to oppose colonization.

[ID: A flag with three equal horizontal stripes. In descending order, the stripes are faded orange, faded yellow, and faded blue. The lower half of the flag is covered by a black triangle. In the center of the flag, there is a black circle with a white outline. In the middle of the symbol is a birdlike creature. End ID.]

The illustration in the center is a wug, which you can read about here.

Linguistic anarchy supports:

neopronouns, nounself pronouns, and emojipronouns

decolonization

degendering of language as needed

typing quirks with translation provided for accessibility

being accommodating and patient with people of neurodivergencies that make spelling and/or language difficult (i.e. dyslexia)

being accommodating and patient of those with OCD or similar who may feel the need to correct grammar or spelling

reclaiming slurs

normalization of Ebonics and similar

learning languages for communication or educational purposes (cultural appreciation)

Linguistic anarchy does NOT support:

spreading misinformation or disinformation about preexisting linguistic rules or concepts (i.e. folk etymologies)

getting rid of languages

misusing slurs or other offensive, marginalizing, and/or culturally appropriative language

prescriptivism

capitalism and associated concepts

bigotry

tagging @radiomogai (idk if this completely fits sorry)

Potential Commissions

I have a couple more week of class before I’m out for the summer and I was thinking about potentially opening up some commissions when I am done to help me get back into the rhythm of drawing more often and such. Not a definite yes yet, just a possibility.

I know I received a few asks about them in the past, but would there still be any interest in me doing them now? Even after I’ve been like dead like the entire school year

MEDUSA?!

nNOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Spin a wheel to be assigned someone!

my favorite oneshot manga

you can pry these two trios from my cold dead hands

wait what??? i had no idea well, reblog time i guess!!!!!!!

hi rain world community

if you haven't heard or seen yet, pansear-doodles has been outed as being incredibly disgusting. i am sure many of you, including myself, really enjoy using pansear's emojis; but are conflicted now due to not wanting to support them.

i propose the idea of a collaborative redraw! if enough people are interested in this, i can make a server for it. basically we can just get together as a bunch of artists and redraw our favorite emojis from pansear, in our own unique styles using our own unique designs.

i would like to say however i would appreciate it if people didn't outright trace the emojis. we went to put our own spin on these and add personalization and creativity to it! and to distance these emojis from pansear.

if you are interested in this, or interested in joining / helping create a server, please let me know in the comments, tags, or PM me. i really hope we can make the most out of this horrible situation and have some fun drawing together.

REBLOG TIME

I'M DOING AN EXPERIMENT

To prove something to a friend, please

REBLOG IF YOU THINK ASEXUALS BELONG IN LGBTQ+ SPACES

LIKE IF YOU THINK ASEXUALS DON’T BELONG IN LGBTQ+ SPACES

YEAG!!!!!!!!!!!

Reblog if you think asexuality is a legitimate sexuality.

I'm trying to prove something.

:3

:3

What if in Harry Potter the killing curse didn't immediately kill someone? What if they just appear dead with no signs of life but on the inside they're still well and conscious? What if they get buried while alive through the whole process? And if the preparation didn't kill them then what if they just starved/dehydrated to death in a wooden box, unable to let anyone know they're still alive?

Have you seen this post?

You probably have. It currently has over 120,000 notes, largely because of this addition.

Of course it's going to get reblogged, this kind of unsourced factoid does numbers on here. But something about it wasn't quite right.

A bit of searching turned up the origin of the "fact".

Alright, so it's someone who posted this on reddit 4 years ago and somehow ended up in the search hits. And the post confuses the electric eel (from South America) with the electric catfish (from the Nile, which the Egyptians would have known about).

Reminder: this is an electric eel (Electrophorus electricus). It is from South America. (image from Wikipedia)

And this is an electric catfish (Malapterurus electricus). It is from the Nile and would have been familiar to the ancient Egyptians. (image from Wikipedia)

And then of course people were speculating in the notes to that post about trade routes between South America and Egypt. Excellent scholarship everyone.

At this point I was ready to call it another made-up internet fact that gets reified by people repeating it. But something was still bothering me.

An ancient Egyptian slab from 3100 BC. What could that be...

Oh.

The Narmer palette. It's the goddamn Narmer palette. (image, once again, from Wikipedia)

So where is this "angry catfish"?

It's not the Egyptian name for the electric catfish.

It's... Narmer. It's Narmer himself.

Narmer's name is written as above (detail of top middle of the palette), using the catfish (n`r) and the chisel (mr), giving N'r-mr. The chisel is associated with pain, so this reads as "painful catfish", "striking catfish", or, yes, "angry catfish" or other similar variants, although some authors have suggested that it means "Beloved of [the catfish god] Nar".

So.

Where does this leave us?

It would appear that this redditor not only confused electric eels with electric catfish, but also confused a Pharaoh's name with the name of a fish. And then it got pushed to the top search hits by a crappy search engine and shared uncritically on tumblr.

In short, "the electric eel is called angry catfish" factoid actually literacy error. Angry Catfish, who ruled upper Egypt and smote his enemies, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.

Also the Arabic name for the electric catfish is raad (thunder) or raada (thunderer).

References

Afsaruddin, A., & Zahniser, A. H. M. (1997). Humanism, culture, and language in the Near East: studies in honor of Georg Krotkoff. Eisenbrauns.

Clayton, P. A. (2001). Chronicle of the Pharaohs. Thames & Hudson.

Godron, G. (1949). A propos du nom royal. Annales du Service des antiquités de l'Egypte, 49, 217-221.

Sperveslage, G., & Heagy, T. C. (2023). A tail's tale: Narmer, the catfish, and bovine symbolism. The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 109(1), 3-319.

I had this sitting in the graveyard of unfinished art for to long