Re: OT Thread

(Anonymous) 2021-03-31 11:02 am (UTC)(link)
Spent 15 min writing and rewriting a sentence because I couldn't make up my mind whether it's a 'themself' or a 'themselves' if 'they' refers to one person... Googling says 'themselves' but that's not logical so may I ask that we stop breaking English even more, plz & thx

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/themself
https://www.lexico.com/grammar/themselves-or-themself
https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr/csj-sjc/legis-redact/legistics/p1p30.html

Re: OT Thread

(Anonymous) 2021-03-31 11:22 am (UTC)(link)
not an english native speaker here
I kinda switch between themself and themselves as I like it lol

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(Anonymous) 2021-03-31 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
I do the same as the anon above. If themself sounds better in a sentence I use it, and I wind up using themself a lot. Word yells at me for it.

Re: OT Thread

(Anonymous) 2021-04-01 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
Word can eat a dick, it doesn't even recognize my name and it's way more common than you'd guess.

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(Anonymous) 2021-04-01 03:06 am (UTC)(link)
AYRT

Oh yeah Word is absolute trash with corrections, it tries to fix things incorrectly all the time. :'D But I'm still attached to it.

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(Anonymous) 2021-04-01 06:02 am (UTC)(link)
I switched to Scrivener and have never fucking looked back.

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(Anonymous) 2021-04-02 04:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Whenever I look up shipping/fanfic stuff on Google it suggests "lemons" even though no one has used that word since 2007. Anyone else notice this?

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(Anonymous) 2021-04-02 05:07 pm (UTC)(link)
probably because that's how folks are tagging nsfw fandom stuff on tumblr now.

NSFW and NWS are usually autoflags for the tumblr censoring system, so folks have reverted back to using lemon as the tags.

Re: OT Thread

(Anonymous) 2021-04-02 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
I got lemon as a suggestion even before the tumblr nsfw ban so I don’t think that explains it

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(Anonymous) 2021-04-02 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
You're wildly underestimating the usage - people kept using lemon all these years, it didn't mystically disappear just to reappear in the times of need, and that is enough for search algorithms to pick up and suggest

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(Anonymous) 2021-04-02 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
i don't doubt it but i wonder where it's used. i haven't seen it be used on ao3 and tumblr.

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(Anonymous) 2021-04-03 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
nayrt

It was definitely used a lot on deviantart past 2007 all the way into the early 2010s, but I'm not sure if it's still used today. Don't ask how I know this.

Re: OT Thread

(Anonymous) 2021-04-03 06:24 am (UTC)(link)
deviantart, fanfiction, and definitely seen it on dreamwidth. (can't speak for pre-purge livejournal)

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(Anonymous) 2021-04-23 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
*bites tongue* do not engage in tumblr discourse, do not engage in tumblr discourse... gfdi why are people so stupid

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(Anonymous) 2021-04-23 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)

bites tongue do not engage in tumblr discourse, do not engage in tumblr discourse... gfdi why are people so stupid

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(Anonymous) 2021-04-23 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
oops

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(Anonymous) 2021-04-24 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
don't do it nonny. the rabbit hole of internet discourse has no victors

AYRT

(Anonymous) 2021-04-24 03:37 pm (UTC)(link)
https://xkcd.com/386/

Re: OT Thread

(Anonymous) 2021-05-17 06:14 am (UTC)(link)
"What about international men's day???"

The other 364 days of the year.

thank u mods

(Anonymous) 2021-05-17 04:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I frequently mis-post and y'all are always really kind about it, just deleting my obviously wrong post and keeping up my other one. I appreciate it a lot, if I could delete my mistakes I would and it gives me anxiety not being able to control that. u r the best thank u sm
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Re: thank u mods

[personal profile] vasemod 2021-05-17 05:45 pm (UTC)(link)
That'll be mostly mindless! He's been very keen on freezing, screening and deleting so I'll be sure to pass it on to him for you nonny <3

Re: OT Thread

(Anonymous) 2021-05-29 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)
had a dream I made a post here with new colour suggestions and came back the next morning and for some reason was permabanned from fr and all the discords and the reason was because I "challenged the admins power" and it was sent from an Australian flight less bird and I woke up in a cold sweat. I think I spend too much time on flight rising

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(Anonymous) 2021-05-30 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
we are all permanently damaged by time spent on fr