"You Can't Be A Lurker On Tumblr." Yes, You Absolutely Can. I've Been Quietly Reblogging Things Since

Just the amount of research I'm guessing this person did, so much respect, have to reblog

Okay, this is in incredibly petty nitpick, but: if you’re writing a fantasy setting with same-sex marriage, a same-sex noble or royal couple typically would not have titles of the same rank - e.g., a prince and a prince, or two queens.

It depends on which system of ranking you use, of course (there are several), but in most systems there’s actually a rule covering this scenario: in the event that a consort’s courtesy title being of the same rank as their spouse’s would potentially create confusion over who holds the title by right and who by courtesy, the consort instead receives the next-highest title on the ladder.

So the husband of a prince would be a duke; the wife of a queen, a princess; and so forth.

(You actually see this rule in practice in the United Kingdom, albeit not in the context of a same-sex marriage; the Queen’s husband is styled a prince because if he were a king, folks might get confused about which of them was the reigning monarch.)

The only common situation where you’d expect to see, for example, two queens in the same marriage is if the reigning monarchs of two different realms married each other - and even then, you’d more likely end up with a complicated arrangement where each party is technically a princess of the other’s realm in addition to being queen of her own.

You’ve gotta keep it nice and unambiguous who’s actually in charge!

Tiny darkness learns how to walk

baby animals blog

C12H22O11 is sugar

First picture: sugar

Second picture: sugar cubed

deserves at least a sarcastic laugh. xp

By “relaxing with a book” I actually mean that I’ll be crying and sweating and having heart palpitations and basically just stressing the fuck out but y’know details

when you ship a rarepair but youre real passionate about it

Fair warning

if you’re following me i’m just warning you that i don’t know where i’m going

A family of cheetahs sleep with the forest guard every night. When the Forest Dept. heard about it, they decided to check the veracity of the claim by installing a CCTV camera. This is what the camera recorded! Just amazing.

Kitties will be kitties 🐈‍⬛

Listen, I totally see where you're coming from, but this post reached the Wrong audience because I firmly believe they/them is JUST as grammatically correct as the singular "you" (I can go on an extensive rant about this) But I cared SO MUCH about them dropping the Oxford comma (the same sentence can have Very different meanings with and without the comma!)

Everyone’s complaining about they/them, but nobody cared even half as much when they dropped the Oxford comma…

Why can't someone love me the way my cat loves my leg

You know you're shipping trash when you read the synopsis for a new show and you're first thought is "I ship it" before you even started watching. Tbh, you'd be surprised how often this happens to me.