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one of the most underappreciated moments in she's the man imo is when the real sebastian shows up at the school and just yes-and's himself all the way to halftime of a soccer game. unhinged king moment tbh. he doesn't know what's going on but by god he's gonna join in

yeoldenews

"Doesn't 23 seem awfully old for a girl to be. Last night my 23 candles looked like immeasurable rows." - Rachel to Will, May 14, 1901.

For Rachel's 23rd birthday (May 13, 1901) she received numerous presents from family and friends: a silver chatelaine bag and 23 pink roses (from her mother), shoe buckles and sheet music (which they sang at her birthday party - from Will), chocolate from Huyler's, a handkerchief, a book of Heinrich Heine's poetry, American Beauty roses, and a silver mounted whip.

Though, as usual, her largest present was from her father. A horse, who Rachel named Crit.

Rachel's family owned a lumber mill in rural Pennsylvania (in what is now the Allegheny National Forest) and unpaved roads made horses a necessity.

I know which horse in Rachel's photo albums is Crit, because Rachel made sure to label him despite her failure to label many pictures of her human friends and family.

(Identifying animals and not humans in old photo albums has been a reoccurring problem in multiple research projects I've worked on.)

Despite modern "man-style" (to quote Will's friend Jennie) saddles gaining popularity, Rachel appears to have still chosen to ride sidesaddle, as her saddle is visible in this picture.

Though it's slightly overexposed, my favorite picture of Rachel and Crit is this one - which caught Crit mid-whinny and Rachel mid-giggle.

Rachel reported in the same May 14, 1901 letter that she rarely went riding with Jack (who was living with them at the time), as Crit and Jack's horse were "most uncongenial".

#rachel & co #cute!!

oldenglishtextposts

does only linguistics do squibs? you other fields are all are missing out squibs are great. just write a paper thats like huh isnt this weird. ok thats it im done :)

jewishtransdyke

A squib, to me, is a small explosive device used to simulate a bullet impact for filmmaking purposes. Can you elaborate on what it is in linguistics? Because now I'm curious.

bophtelophti

In linguistics, a squib is a short journal article, typically one that doesn't aim to make a deep theoretical argument but reports on some interesting data. The journal Glossa defines a squib for its purposes as "short notes (5,000 words max.) that make a scintillating point by calling attention to a theoretically unexpected observation about language but without the need for a developed analysis or solution."

This is a recent example from Glossa of what I would consider a longish squib of about 14 pages, exploring the difference between the use of singular they to refer to a specific person whose pronouns are they/them vs. using it to refer to an unspecified or generic individual. The squib's goal is just to call attention to the fact that these are two actually different uses of the word they, which should probably be treated separately for the purposes of theoretical analysis; its goal isn't to actually carry out that analysis.

Here's a couple even squibbier squibs from American Speech in 2001, each less than four pages, consisting of just a brief discussion of some point of interest about American English that the authors found interesting and wanted to call attention to but that there isn't that much to say about: the emergence of the use of the word of in expressions like not that big of a deal, and the use of the with freeway numbers in Southern California (as in, take the 405).

oldenglishtextposts

I'm personally a fan of snippets, which is an online journal that's just squibs! they're usually on the scale of two or three pages. if you don't know much linguistics but are curious, "A Singular Note on Singular-They/Them" from the most recent issue is pretty accessible

#writing

wizardarchetypes

we need another bidoof’s law to refer to the phenomenon where someone says some rude stupid shit in the reblogs of your post and you go to their blog and all their posts are about nature loving you and being kind to each other and cute illustrations about friendship etc. the cognitive dissonance

canadianwheatpirates

Fleming's law: the most toxic person you've ever met over-relates to woodland creatures on social media

thestuffedalligator

Shout out to the clover, the dandelion and the daisy. The triumvirate of springtime childish whimsy. WHO is doing it like them

thestuffedalligator

This plant, we tell children, has a one in ten-thousand chance to have four leaves. You can search through a clover patch all day and never find one. But if you do, and you pluck it and keep it, it will bring you luck.

And this flower, we tell children, if you let it bud and bloom and age from sun-yellow flower to moon-white seed, you can then pluck it and blow its seeds away to make a wish.

And this flower, we tell children, can be woven into a hat

vedurnan

today at work i rung up a customer and the total was 12.30 and i said “12:30, reminds me of a clock :)” and they kind of smiled at me with confusion and i was like “like the time on a clock, just reminds me of it… 12:30” and they said “i have no idea what you’re talking about…” with an expression of supreme pity and gentleness. after that was finished i turned to my coworker next to me and said “i just bombed so hard with this clock comment” and then realized the customer hadn’t moved and was still standing right next to me. if my fate continues down this path, the customer will probably read this tumblr post as well

#god this is me asf at work

toxictboy

medieval "girl" cutting her hair short and running off to enlist as a knight's squire, because "she" can't face the idea of being a housewife.

grizzled older knight who susses "her" out right away, but rather than rat out his new squire he says if you're going to be a man, at least do it properly. shows "her" the proper way to wrap your breasts without restricting your breathing, plans out exercises to build a masculine figure and snaps at "her" to man up when "she" complains.

squire who ends up getting used to being treated like a boy, eventually. he responds to his new name as naturally as his old one, jokes with the lads and flirts with the serving girls, wields a sword as well as any other. only the binding under his shirt reminds him of his secret, and when he becomes a knight himself, that'll all be hidden under the cuirass. that's how it went for his mentor, after all.

#this is my dream novel #to read and write tbh

the-quasar-hero

Very many white LGBT people understand the idea that the societal concept that CisHet is the ‘standard’ or ‘default’ state of a human, at best, is a flattened look at the human experience, and worse a dangerous idea that leads to discrimination. Yet not very many of them seem to grasp the similar concept that thinking white people are the ‘default’ or ‘standard’ version of a person also leads to the same thing.

the-quasar-hero

Allowing myself to be perfectly blunt, this post is about racism. Specifically about how y’all can analyze and identify bigotry under the lens of sexual orientation and gender identity; but CANNOT or WILL NOT hear the criticisms of race and racism in the same regard. Please don’t get it twisted.

gabriestat

why did no one tell me jeremy irons lives in a restored irish castle

gabriestat

cop-disliker69

somethingusefulfromflorida

This is what Willem Defoe was writing on his detective pad

glorious-spoon

honestly i think the selling point of romance for me (and where it usually fails to land) is 'can i imagine these people sharing an in-joke'

like, are they in cahoots. can they laugh together. do they have a similar enough or at least complementary enough outlook that they can connect over something being funny (even if it's funny in a fucked up way! sometimes those are the best in-jokes!)

that's not necessarily true love in and of itself, but it does feel like an essential component to me

laerugo

cutetanuki-chan

going through second book

he should get the lamp

#the raven cycle

aglionbyacademia

Gansey is actually so cunt if you think about it. His parents are conservative republicans. He’s in a homoerotic situationship with every single one of his friends and some old man from Europe. Died twice. Stole his ex situationship’s girl — ON SAID SITUATIONSHIP’S BIRTHDAY. Always on the phone, always busy and booked. Punched his Latin teacher, threw a Molotov cocktail at a substance party he wasn’t even invited to. Can fly a helicopter, isn’t very good at it. Drives a vintage car even though it’s shit, simply for aesthetics. Wears contacts instead of his nerdy glasses, because he’s vain. Writes in an old leather notebook instead of just using his laptop. Truly believes in magic. His roommate is a ghost. Captain of the rowing team. Everyone at his fancy private school knows his name, everyone thinks he’s cool but also very very weird. The absolute aura on this guy.

#the raven cycle #trc