biochemistea

27 || medical student || they/them || art blog is @alesbianlook

[hajihiko]

You'd expect the stern, analytical people-reader character to be cold and aloof, so Impostor authentically being a responsible and caring person is fun to me. Lookadisguy lovedisguy

[hajihiko]

You'd expect the stern, analytical people-reader character to be cold and aloof, so Impostor authentically being a responsible and caring person is fun to me. Lookadisguy lovedisguy

[keep-ur-head-low]

I’ve been trying to put my finger on why Hades being depicted as a villain is so annoying in other media but works so well in Hadestown, and I think I’ve figured out why: Hadestown Hades isn’t the bad guy because he’s the god of the DEAD; instead, he’s the bad guy because he’s the god of WEALTH. Usually, whenever Hades appears in a movie or video game, he has some stupid motivation like “ughh I’m tired of being lord of the underworld I wanna be lord of everything” or “I’m the Greek mythology version of the western concept of Satan, fear me!!” but Hadestown really said screw that and made his motivation “I love my wife so much but we have a shitty marriage arrangement and her long absence combined with my severe self-doubt has lead me down the hellish road to corruption by all the riches under the ground.”

[osha-official-the-sequel]

I'm hear to tell you to listen to Hadestown (the musical) and unlock New Emotions (it will make you more OSHA compliant)

To convince you it's very explicitly anti-capitalist

[xiaq]

Small Town Grocery Store Stories: LGBTQ+ friendly edition

Me: minding my own damn business in the grocery store

One of my students and a few of his teammates enter the dairy aisle. 

My student is holding hands with one of his teammates. 

My student: Oh hey, Professor X!

Me, who has both my student and his girlfriend in my class: …Hello

My student, looking at his hand-holding partner: Oh! Don’t worry. My girlfriend knows. Not that I’m cheating! I’m not cheating. I’m not gay.

Hand Holding boy: Not that being gay is a bad thing! It’s a good thing!

My student: Right! But no, listen. We aren’t together, we just hold hands in public sometimes.

Hand Holding Boy: Especially on Friday nights. And weekends. And at away games.

My student: Because sometimes people will say shit and then we can punch them! And if the fight started because someone was being homophobic, coach won’t get mad at us.

Hand Holding Boy: Always nice to punch a homophobe. And [gesturing to another boy in the group] maybe they’ll think twice about saying something to [other boy’s name] if he ever gets a boyfriend and wants to hold his hand for real. The Gay One, resigned but smiling: I’ve decided it’s sweet and not really fucking weird.

[aroseforcaulfield]

Infodumping is a love language, and I will die on this hill

[biochemistea]

the painful reality of changing your Zoom pronouns to match your birth sex because medical school is four years long and you may not be safe by the end of it

(re: roe v wade, lawrence, obergefell, the rainbow scare, and disturbing similarities to weimar germany)

[mjwalker-writing]

hey, writers. reblog this with your opinions on:

(using parentheses)

using em-dashes—more or less liberally

using italics

DIALOGUE IN ALL CAPS TO IMPLY YELLING

the semicolon; or, how to properly use it

capitalizing Important words

using. repetitive. punctuation. for. emphasis.

[biochemistea]

Love parentheses, italics, and capitalizing important words for comedy in writing

More em-dashes and semicolons, we love sentence variation.

All caps dialogue and repetitive punctuation is uglyyyyyyyyy >:(

[aevios]

[id= an edited version of the "No take only throw" meme based on comic by cupcakelogic about a dog. The dog says "please queer intimacy??" with a pleading expression and a ball in its mouth. A hand reaches for the ball, and the dog, looking angry, says "no date/romance!!" and insists "only queer intimacy". The ace and aro pride flags have been drawn on the dog in each panel. /end id]

Here's to the queer, oriented, angled, electio, alterous, queerplatonic, grey, etc etc aroaces who aren't into dating but still yearn for intimacy and affection and companionship. I feel ya.

[alesbianlook]

same energy 🥺

[robzombies-hotwife]

I'm having a lot of election anxiety. I'm anxious that Trump will get re-elected or will refuse to leave office and be backed by a conservative loyalist coup. I'm also anxious that Biden gets elected and we have to contend with a massive losing side of heavily armed, angry, bigoted, and completely delusional "people" ready to take their fury out on the nearest target. Basically, my stomach hurts.

[burntcopper]

things english speakers know, but don’t know we know.

[windycityteacher-deactivated202]

WOAH WHAT?

[ice-light-red-deactivated201611]

That is profound. I noticed this by accident when asked about adjectives by a Japanese student. She translated something from Japanese like “Brown big cat” and I corrected her. When she asked me why, I bluescreened.

[moved--306389]

What the fuck, English isn’t even my first language and yet I picked up on that. How the fuck. What the fuck.

[exomoon]

Reasoning: It Just Sounds Right

[arkthepieking]

Oooh, don’t like that. Nope, I do not even like that a little bit.  That’s parting the veil and looking at some forbidden fucking knowledge there.

[canthinkofaurl-deactivated20221]

How did I even learn this language wtf

[titaniumelemental]

I had to read “brown big cat” like three times before my brain stopped interpreting it as “big brown cat”

[arjan-de-lumens]

I’m kinda reading “brown big cat” as “brown (big cat)”, that is, a “big cat” - like a tiger or lion or other felid of similar size - that happens to be brown. “Big brown cat”, on the other hand, sounds more like a brown cat that’s just a bit bigger than a regular housecat - like a bobcat or a maine coon cat or something like that.

[the-real-seebs]

yeah, a brown big cat is almost certainly a puma. a big brown cat is probably a maine coon.

[whetstonefires]

yeah, if you put the adjectives out of order you wind up implying a compound noun, which is presumably why we have this rule; we stripped out so much inflection over the centuries word order now dictates a huge amount of our grammar

[delphinidin4]

Just looked up why we do this and one of the first lines in this article is, “Adjectives are where the elves of language both cheat and illumine reality.” so I know it’s a good article.

Things this article has taught me:

This same order of adjectives more or less applies to languages around the world.  “It’s possible that these elements of universal grammar clarify our thought in some way,” says Barbara Partee, a professor emeritus of linguistics and philosophy at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Yet when the human race tacitly decided that shape words go before color words go before origin words, it left no record of its rationale.

One theory is that the more specific term always falls closer to the noun. But that doesn’t explain everything in adjective order.

Another theory is that as you get closer to the noun, you encounter adjectives that denote more innate properties. In general, nouns pick out the type of thing we’re talking about, and adjectives describe it,” Partee told me. She observes that the modifiers most likely to sit right next to nouns are the ones most inclined to serve as nouns in different contexts: Rubber duck. Stone wall.

Rules are made to be broken. Switching up the order of adjectives allows you to redistribute emphasis. (If you wish to buy the black small purse, not the gray one, for instance, you can communicate your priorities by placing color before size).  Scrambling the order of adjectives also helps authors achieve a sense of spontaneity, of improvising as they go. Wolfe discovers such a rhythm, a feeling-his-way quality, when he discusses his childhood recollection of “brown tired autumn earth” and a “flat moist plug of apple tobacco.”

Brain scans have discovered that your brain has to work harder to read adjectives in the “wrong” order.

TL;DR: No one knows why we do this adjective thing but it’s pretty hardwired in.

[cuzosu-blog]

@deadcatwithaflamethrower Linguistics tidbit.

[han100894]

huh…

[petermorwood]

More interesting additions to this ongoing topic.

NB, if concerned by the doings of the elves of language, keep an iron nail in your pen-pot… ;->

[p1013]

Linguistics like

[the2headedcalf-moved]

being in your early twenties is like [grocery shopping alone] [having instant noodles for dinner] [remembering random details about that one friend you haven’t spoken to in five years] [feeling overwhelming guilt for every purchase that isn’t strictly “necessary”] [having midday naps] [finding out through facebook that the girl who was mean to you in high school has a husband and a baby] [falling a little in love with every stranger on public transport] [pretending you’re not afraid of being alone] [wondering when you’ll feel like a fully realized person] [listening to bands you liked in middle school] [blinking and it’s suddenly december] [failing to imagine yourself ten years from now] [feeling like you’re running out of time]

[biochemistea]

Flufftober Days 1 + 2: “In the Shadows” and “Comfort”

“The light of a passing car shines through the windows as I lean into your arms. I indulge in the warmth of you, the comfort of your bed, the knowledge that we are still here together, despite it all. 

Under the blanket of shadows as dark as the sea, I finally say it aloud. “Riya, you are my Spring grass.” 

You tilt forward and poke me in the side. “I love you, too, Mariana.”

[biochemistea]

Hi friends! 

The guy who made InkTober did some problematic things so this year I’m doing FLUFFtober! I plan on doing a mix of art and writing and I’ll probably make a masterpost at some point.

[alesbianlook]

We will not be silent.

This blog stands with the Black community in the fight against systematic oppression and injustice. The murder of George Floyd by policemen is one drop in an ocean of racially motivated crimes against Black folks. A complete overhaul of the criminal justice system is long overdue. It is time to act.

I encourage my fellow white folks and non-Black POC allies to lend your support by listening, donating, protesting, and examining your own biases. Below is a list of nonprofit organizations and fundraisers who provide supplies and support for the Black Lives Matter movement. Personally, I have donated to Black Lives Matter Detroit and the Detroit Justice Center, and I strongly encourage you to do the same if at all possible.

Black Lives Matter

Detroit Justice Center

NAACP’s Legal Defense and Education Fund

ActBlue Community Bail Funds

Reclaim the Block

[alesbianlook]

skatin’ into your DMs~~

(this character is nonbinary, filipino, and very happy that the 90s are in fashion!)

[biochemistea]

they are also a sticker!