Orange was considered a shade of red until the 1670s. That’s why people with orange hair are called redheads: the word “redhead” predates the naming of the color orange.

Oh no.

The English language is capable of endless nuance. If you can’t convey tone, just get better at writing.

You also shouldn’t get in the habit of undercutting everything you say. It’s ok to say something and mean it. If you don’t take yourself seriously, other people won’t take you seriously.

Besides, when you are joking, it’s funnier when you don’t wink. Winking is for suckers.

You improve nothing and create nothing.

Weird. There wasn’t any attribution for you to remove, and yet you edited it anyway.

Personally I’d say it’s the hero being an orphaned “chosen one”, or maybe the damsel in distress trope. But maybe it depends on what kind of media you consume.

You know we’re on the internet and you can just look stuff up instead of making it up.

Thumbnail looks like a bloodhound.

As of a month or two ago, any time I see a post that’s so thoroughly unfunny that it brings down the average quality of all Lemmy posts, I don’t even need to check the community. It’s always this one. Why is that? What happened here? It didn’t used to be like this.

To be even more specific, it’s a Mexican dessert made of sponge cake, soaked in a mixture of three milks. Wet cake may not sound appetizing, but it’s absolutely delicious.