no offense but if your writing is so dense and pretentious and superfluously flowery and confusing in its wording that more effort is spent in literally understanding what you’re trying to say than analyzing what you mean, it’s bad writing. half of academia is just bad writing
The sad thing is that academia trains you, Pavlovian style, to write that way. After I left academia it took me at least five years to unlearn those habits.
Please for the love of all that is holy DO NOT USE THIS TO PERSONALIZE YOUR TUMBLR. It’s covered in adware and every single time I click onto someone’s tumblr who has it I have to run my spybot and then it catches a bunch of stuff and in one case one of these addresses downloaded an adware program onto my computer that prevented me from hitting back on my browser and had loud popup ads now and then and annoying blue hyperlinks everywhere. It took several hours of my time to remove the darn thing from my computer completely.
“But I can have a cool personalized name with .co .vu!” Yeah, you know why? Because most people don’t use it so names aren’t taken. Why?
Because it’s covered in adware and spyware.
If you respect your followers AT ALL do not use this. Please.
This is actually a really fascinating scam.
So, you know how how “co.[country abbreviation]” is commonly used to signify that a site is from some country? For example, “amazon.co.jp” is the Japanese version of Amazon dot com.
The people selling “co.vu” sites want you to think that that’s what’s going on–that you’re getting nice good web addresses from Vanuatu.
But what’s actually happening is that they publish your sites as a subdomain of a site called “co” that is in Vanuatu.
In other words:
In the url “http://amielleon.tumblr.com”, “amielleon” is the subdomain, “tumblr” is the actual site, and “com” tells me that it’s a commercial site and probably from America.
In the url “http://mytrashyotp.co.vu”, “mytrashyotp” is the subdomain, “co” is the actual site, and “vu” indicates it’s from Vanuatu. But they WANT you to think that “mytrashyotp” is the site, and “co.vu” indicates that it’s a commercial site from Vanuatu.
What are they getting out of this? The ability to throw shit on top of your blog (like adware) and also leech off your content for search engine rankings.
(Source: I based this post off of this blog post which is somewhat more technical in nature.)
Guys this is actually true ;;; it’s been happening to me quite a lot and I’ve had so many pop ups and ads everywhere. I get programs that I’ve never installed plus it can cause real harm to your PC. I seriously suggest to not use a co.vu domain for the sake of your mutuals & followers !!!
I used to have a co.vu domain, but I got rid of it sometime back in 2015. I’m so glad I did.
i still like how this old-ass song by the diamonds is just about this guy whose girlfriend wants to fuck monsters, and i’d never expect such a relatable song to come from a 1950s quartet
“monsters turn my girlfriend on” the song
I love to take my baby to a movie show So I can try to smooch her while the lights are way down low But she won’t curdle to a story of romance- There’s only one way I have a chance.
It takes the batman, wolfman, frankenstein or dracula To put her in the mood for love. It takes the catgirl, dogboy, creature from the black lagoon To make her feel like making love.
i like how it implies that she’s a comic geek and bi too. so relatable.
Cup with bat, Henri Husson (French, 1852-1914), dinandier and Goldsmith, Maison A.A Hébrard
(about 1895-1937), founder and Goldsmith, Paris, about 1909.
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris.
The bat motif, an extremely unusual and highly evocative image for the period. The bat has the highest rate of homosexuality among mammals and their sexuality was first studied in 1895 by Raymond Rollinat and Édouard Louis Trouessart (French). The image of a bat became a symbol of homosexuality. (x)
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