me holding a gun to a mushroom: tell me the name of god you fungal piece of shit

mushroom: can you feel your heart burning? can you feel the struggle within? the fear within me is beyond anything your soul can make. you cannot kill me in a way that matters

me cocking the gun, tears streaming down my face: I’M NOT FUCKING SCARED OF YOU

Hey OP? What the FUCK does this mean?

decay exists as an extant form of life

That’s a terrifying answer, have a nice day

cowboys were a sort of itinerant warrior class common in meiji-era texas

if we wanna save tumblr we just have to put on the biggest talent show this town’s ever seen

If you'd like a reference for what Tumblr looked like when I joined it and then you might understand why people are saying it's copying Twitter

when a british actor does an american accent everyone’s like “i didn’t even know they were british until they were on colbert.” but when americans do a british accent everyone’s like “they’re supposed to be from east cocksford but their glottal e’s are north dicksford. shameful.”

Saw an interesting interview with Hugh Laurie talking about this (on playing House and 'getting away with' doing an American accent):

".... because they're much less interested...they don't have that 'Professor Higgins' ear for.... class and background and geography and the way the British are much more attuned to wait a second where are you from and what trick are you trying to pull on me by... with that particular choice of words. I think partly again because it's such a big country nobody really.... it doesn't bother people so much where you're from or why you sound the way you sound. America's a country that's too big to know itself. Someone living in Florida's go no idea how people behave or what they eat or how they dress in Oregon, it's just so far away - whereas we know, of course, we know absolutely everything about... every British drama we watch, we're like, well that's High Wycombe, that could never happen because it's a one way system there! whereas America's so mythically grand, it's too big to know it'self, and that actually has an affect with things like accent. "

This always confused me, too, because like. Do brits not *move*? My accent and diction are a horrifying hodgepodge because I was a child in the cajun part of the american south, an adolescent and young adult in the appalachian part, and then moved to New England as an adult and have lived here since (further, my parents were appalachian and new englander). Added to that, i watched a *lot* of tv as a kid and picked up aspects of tv's weird region-less diction mixed with southern california. It would be weird if the way I talked *wasn't* a semi-unique mess that's hard to definitively place.

Does that not happen with these apparently hyper-specific British accents? Brits, do y'all not get people who pronounce one word in one region-specific way and another word in a way specific to a completely different region, because they lived both places?

Puzzling.

I can answer this! I was born in Pontypridd (Wales), moved to London (England) when I was 5, posh south England when I was 10, Belfast (Northern Ireland) when I was 17 and Dublin (Ireland) at 28.

The vast majority of British and Irish people think I sound Australian.

The one exception is when people try to fake an American southern accent, because Southerners absolutely do pay attention. You can't go with a Texan southern accent if the character is from Mississippi, and Georgia accents are a whole thing, and Louisiana has two different accents, etc.

UPS drivers making more money will help all workers make more money.

Labor united helps all labor. Rising wages is not zero sum.

Don't fall for 'divide and conquer' rhetoric from the Establishment. They fear the power and influence of worker solidarity.