also genuinely fascinated by how much the cool to cringe cycle has accelerated over the past few years. we used to get at least a couple of years of something being widely popular before everyone started pretending they never liked it and shitting all over everyone who does, but now it's like six months between some media property becoming tumblr's new darling and everyone declaring open season on it. that's not sustainable i'm worried about our ecosystem can we get greenpeace on this
all figures of speech and their definitions taken directly from the wikipedia page for figures of speech
DREAM - PARADIASTOLE: Extenuating a vice in order to flatter or soothe
CALLAHAN - ELLIPSIS: Omission of words
AWESAMDUDE - ANTONOMASIA: Substitution of a proper name for a phrase or vice versa
BADBOYHALO - OXYMORON: Using two terms together that normally contradict each other
TOMMY - PARRHESIA: Speaking openly or boldly in a situation where it is unexpected
PUNZ - PUN: When a word or phrase is used in two or more different senses
WILBUR - ENJAMBMENT: Incomplete sentences at the end of lines in poetry
SCHLATT - ANTI-CLIMAX: When expectations are raised, everything is built-up, and then suddenly something boring or disappointing happens
SKEPPY - HYPERBATON: Words that naturally belong together separated from each other for emphasis or effect
ERET - EPANORTHOSIS: Immediate and emphatic self-correction
TECHNOBLADE - METAPHOR: An implied comparison between two things, attributing the properties of one thing to another that it does not literally possess
ANTFROST - APOSTROPHE: Directing the attention away from the audience to an absent third party, often in the form of a personified abstraction or inanimate object
CAPTAIN PUFFY - MEIOSIS: Use of understatement, usually to diminish the importance of something
RANBOO - ANTITHESIS: Juxtaposition of opposing or contrasting ideas
FOOLISH - ARCHAISM: Use of an obsolete, archaic word
HANNAH - PATHETIC FALLACY: Ascribing human conduct and feelings to nature
SLIMECICLE - ONOMATOPOEIA: Word that imitates a real sound
and what will we do if Wilbur’s ao3 fic doesn’t have the right kind of paragraph breaks?
This isn't related to anything at all, but Amino Apps is more dead than Tumblr lol
Literally every image of rat can easily be a reaction image why is no one taking advantage of this
Watermelon tourmaline is forbidden jolly rancher 😔