[annabelle--cane]

it's rotten work. especially to me especially if it's you. I'll fucking do it but christ alive.

[sachermorte]

so the thing about english is that people think it's so divorced from other germanic languages based on like. words. I've even heard people try to insist that english is a romance language. because of that whole messy business in 1066 with out-of-wedlock willy and his band of naughty normans. and now a good chunk of the vocabulary is french or whatever and they're prestigious so not using them makes you sound like a rube and this and that and the other

and yes william the conqueror will never be safe from me. I will have my revenge on him. he fucked up a perfectly good germanic language is what he did. this will be me in hell

but the thing is that most words in, say, german do have a one to one english equivalent. not all hope is lost, for those who still dare to see it. it's just that you 1066pilled normancels aren't looking in the right place

dog (en) ≠ der Hund (de) but der Hund (de) -> hound (en)

look with your special eyes. that one was easier. not all of them are this intuitive because of semantic narrowing and broadening and waltzing and hokey-pokeying and whatever else. I'll give you a few more

animal (en) ≠ das Tier (de)

aha! you think. I've got him on the ropes now.

but then

das Tier (de) -> deer (en)

nooooo!! you whine and cry in gay baby jail. the consonants are different!!! listen to me. listen, I say, putting both my hands on your shoulder. /t/and /d/ are the same sound. you just put your voice behind one of them.

nooooooooo!! you wail. deer are animals but not all animals are deer!!! listen to me. LISTEN. they used to be. animals used to be deer. that's just what we called them. it was a long time ago. it was a weird time in all our lives. it's okay.

let's try for a verb this time

to die (en) ≠ sterben (de) but sterben (de) -> to starve

same principle with the consonants, we're just changing a stop (where we completely stop the airflow and then let it through) for a fricative (where we still let some air go through. idk where it's going. maybe to its job or something.)

to starve used to mean generally to die, not just to die of malnourishment. we do that a lot. we take one word for a lot of things and make it mean one thing. or take one word for one thing and make it mean a lot of things. this is common and normal.

"okay but roland," you say, suddenly coming up with an argument. "what about tree? trees are super common. I don't think we'd fuck around too much with that. the german word is baum! what about THAT?"

"when did you learn german?" I ask, but then decide it isn't relevant right at this very moment. but fine.

tree (en) ≠ der Baum (de) but der Baum (de) -> beam (en)

beam??? you ask incredulously. beam???? BEAM?????? you continue with the same tone and cadence of captain holt from brooklyn 99.

yes. beam. like the evil beams from my eye I'm going to hit you with if you don't stop shouting.

but the vowels!!! you howl.

listen. listen to me. the vowels mean nothing. absolutely nothing. they're fluid like water. it got raised in english.

"WHAT DOES RAISED MEAN"

it doesn't matter right now. they were raised better than you, at least. stop shouting. open your eyes and see what god has given you. they're the same word.

"they're NOT the same word. they mean different things!"

we've been over this. they didn't used to. a beam was (and is) a long solid piece of wood. much like the long solid piece of wood I showed your mother last night.

FAQ:

Q: could english be some kind of germanic-romance hybrid?

A: do you become a sexy thing from the black lagoon just because you dressed up as one for halloween? english may have gotten a lot of vocabulary from norman french, but its history and syntax are distinctly germanic. that's what we base these things on.

Q: okay but what does it matter? this doesn't actually affect my day to day life

A: you come into my house? you come into my house, the house of an autistic man living in vienna austria and studying english linguistics and you ask me what does it matter? sit back down. I was going to let you go but now I have powerpoints to show you

Q: you're stupid and wrong and gay and a bad person

A: I know it's you, Willy

[sartorialadventure]

Pigeon shoes by Keiko Ohata

[sartorialadventure]

[sartorialadventure]

Pigeon shoes by Keiko Ohata

[sartorialadventure]

Translation:

Everything is sacred—earth and sky— for such was God’s own will! What do I love best? —Your hair. How lovely it turned out! —And what of your mouth, and your arms, and your little rounded hands, and your feet mimicking the gait of the gentle doves?

–From “Profecía” by Rafael de León

[dreamlogic]

asked one of my coworkers how she's doing today and she goes "could be better, could be worse," and another coworker nearby who was eavesdropping chimes in with "could be a lil bit o' alligator curse!" i have no idea what he meant by that but i do know that it has been immediately added to the lexicon.

[ragehangover]

always disappointing to me that jj wasn’t written as thee shane hollander understander on the metros…… jj recapping the game with running commentary to make shane smile while shane feels no pressure to perform…. shane feeds jj the puck so he can break the goal scoring record for a metros defenceman and they hug so hard at the blue line they fall over ……. jj and shane protecting each other on the ice and in the room…….. like the two (2) canon confirmed non white players in the books….. and they have literally zero interactions where the complexity of their intersecting experiences is like. even nodded at

again i am not looking to white canadian rachel reid for nuanced deconstructions of race in sports but the way black and asian athletes are treated in hockey is not an esoteric topic that requires rigorous study. jason robertson did not compete at the olympics this year despite being a score leader for american players because he ‘didn’t have the grit.’ pk subban spent his entire career being criticised for his tone of voice, for being loud, for being opinionated, for being attention seeking. it is very easy to draw parallels from the treatment of real non white players to how — reasonably — shane and jj would have been treated because of their race, regardless of their talents for hockey. it makes both shane and jj’s struggles seem very flat and underwhelming by comparison to characters like ilya and troy barrett. racism is missing from the conversation, although these characters transparently do not live in a post-racial world

it also makes it more insidious that jj, while he makes one ignorant comment, is relegated to villain status in fandom, sometimes ranking even lower than the actual homophobic metros players. he gets more heat than actual former bigot troy barrett and actual rapist dallas kent. ive seen him featured in fanworks as a serial abuser, someone who assaults shane, every variation of ist and phobic. any positive qualities are entirely flattened, often for the benefit of ilya to ‘protect’ shane from material harm caused by jj

rachel, again, has denied a character of colour the dignity of lived experience, something that she empathetically grants to her white characters. shane and jj’s friendship — especially considering that jj was more openly accepting of shane’s sexuality than hayden! — should have been given the opportunity to develop in the story. instead, jj is hijacked as another means to punish shane for his selfishness, his ignorance, and his paranoia. jj and shane don’t even have the luxury of resolving their fight on page like fuck me

[ily-a]

Hollanov + text posts (part 2)

[caribbeanangel]

even in the mist of all this chaos. you have to stay calm, worry less & keep living.

[yuniper]

my specialty is liking the same movies that 50-year-old dads like but in a way that would instantly send those dads into cardiac arrest if they heard me talk about them

[shieldofiron]

Easy to mix those up.

[sladucer]

Say it again in russian please...

[winter-wise]

Some of the 2010s-era Loki stans were annoying but some of them were very justified. They put Tom Hiddleston in handcuffs and a muzzle. Then they put him in chains and a collar. Then they had him look waifishly sad in a prison cell. Then they put him in handcuffs again. Then they chained him up again. Where else were teenage girls going to see that.

[hungwy]

people born in 2000 should be like 12-14 now. but they’re not. that’s how fucked up our world is now

[how-not-to-human]

The older this post gets the funnier it becomes

[duchesspeggy]

My cousin born in 2000 is a licensed psychologist.

[shepardoftheearth]

that’s how fucked up our world is now

[flyora]

shall I add a description here?

[bloominflowers]

thinking about Shane's first pride night with the Centaurs ;u;

[smokingrozanov]

Vampire Shane who won’t drink human blood for ethical reasons & human Ilya who is like oh my god Hollander you’re so boring 🙄 you should just feed from me I’m literally giving you permission. Shane is like Ilya I can literally hear the blood rushing to your penis when you say that

[comingatthecottage]

AND ANOTHER THING

re my conspiracy theory that the stupid plane crash was supposed to be a suicide attempt, in addition to the plot and pacing and causality issues,

is that actually a lot of shane's bizarrely self-effacing behavior makes sense if instead of a plane crash that didnt' happen the crisis was a suicide attempt. like when would you reasonably feel like you need to completely shut down your emotions about all your worst nightmares coming true as you're being forcibly outed, having your career destroyed, and being abandoned by all of your friends? and why would shane, who is not a pushover, not expect ilya to show up for him and check in on him? why would he accept ilya mocking him about it?

on the page as written it kinda seems like the answer is "because your partner doesn't care" or "somehow you don't have any emotions about it?" but it would actually make a ton of sense if the answer was that these things happened under circumstances where it had recently gotten so bad with ilya's mental health that he attempted suicide. then it makes sense that shane is downplaying and erasing and minimizing his feelings, and that everyone else is too.

because if them coming out and moving in together is life or death for ilya then what right does shane have to complain. and it explains why ilya is making so many mean bitter jokes at shane's expense because he's still trying to push him away, trying to prove that shane doesn't care about ilya the way ilya cares about him, because anything else would mean that ilya's death would hurt shane the way irina's death hurt ilya and ilya can't bear that and why shane is taking it all uncomplainingly, because whatever he's going through ilya is going through worse