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hi!! welcome to casa jules where the vibes are good and the thoughts are deep (when i can manage to have them lol) i read, i write, i occasionally draw badly. i love interacting with people on here and my ask box is always open for whatever you want to use it for (respectfully). more details about what you may find here under the cut <3

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wellgotogether

honestly, i just love shipping. i love the spirit of it. at its core, for me, is treating canon as a playground of endless possibilities and interpretations. where you can look at all these moments, or all these characters, and dig into what the elements of the story suggest they'd be like together, narratively intertwined. i think it gets a weirdly bad rap as being somehow counter to caring about canon or the "real story" but like, it really isn't. like i find shippers are some of the people who care the most about canon and viewing it through a lens of interpretation and story analysis. it often leads to some great critical analysis, and rich character studies. but another part of it i love is how it's so embedded into the suggested space of canon. the stuff gestured or left in subtext. the gaps between what they do show you and what they could've shown you, just off screen. and if they had, and it went like this or looked like this, with the context of everything around it, what might that be like? what if we played with this element or that? what would it be like if the story jumped ahead, what would it be like if it leaned into this tone or that one? i think that is always an endlessly fascinating question to explore as fans and that's why shipping appears in every single fandom, no matter the canon story. it's an act of both passionate interpretation and creation, at its best moments.

less a fan of shipping when people treat it more like team sports or whatever. where you're either on Team This or Team That and the other side has to lose, in the end, so we have to "cheer our team on" by trashtalking the other side or being militant on our interpretations/beliefs because that will somehow make us more likely to win in the end, as canon "proves" us right and them wrong.

jjjjjjjjoey

When ur mutuals w/ some cool ass people rb if u agree

#prev included!!!!

dragonologist-phd

the thing about heavy handed symbolism is that sometimes. it's fun.

#🙂‍↕️#i'm such a slut for symbolism #it's simply always fun idc

hadesisqueer

Miraculous characters as tweets part 2 (I'm bored)

#ml

samsincerely

EVERYONE get in the tags rn and tell me your favorite cheese

#brie #my life was changed when i tried it for the first time fr #ugh i miss brie #that and tillamook cheddar cheese are the only cheeses i ever really miss

classicjdiesandgoestohell

i study 2 languages, norwegian and swahili, and the differences between their resources kind of drives me insane.

norwegian has 5 million speakers. it has courses on any language learning platform you can think of. the norwegian learning subreddit has 58k members - a bunch of passionate learners and natives who answer questions. in the last year ive managed to find 12 books in norwegian at thrift stores, book warehouses, etc. never even bothered to get some online because of this! you can watch basically any show you want in it, or at least with subtitles.

what does swahili have? swahili has around 100~ million speakers, making it the most spoken language in africa (excluding colonizer languages like french and arabic). most platforms dont have a course for it, but the few that do are incredibly poorly made and almost impossible to use to learn with. the swahili learning subreddit has only 6.7k members (and most of these people have personal ties like family, as opposed to norwegian where people just learn it randomly for fun). i have never found ANY books IN swahili. ive found two dictionaries, and they were both at speciality stores (unlike norwegian which ive found at my usual medium sized town thrift store). virtually nothing is translated to swahili. not even the fucking Lion King, which uses words from the swahili language (hakuna matata, simba, rafiki, mufasa).

im not expecting tanzania and kenya to translate every western movie ever, they have their own stories to tell (as well as some government censorship), but thats not the whole story. the west has no interest in giving their stories to africa and they have no interest in translating african stories to english.

and like. I understand Why these disparities exist. due to colonization and therefore lower education levels, there are less books in swahili in the first place. people would rather learn a language with grammar and vocabulary similarities to their own, like an indo european language. but the difference is actually fucking absurd. a language with 100 million speakers should not have this few resources. with norwegian, i could always google any niche grammar question i had and find someone online asking the same question. with swahili, i have to search through decades old grammar guides in search of an answer on my own.

swahili is a beautiful language. it has the most consistent grammar of any language ive studied. i wish more people were interested in it, in ANY african language. i cannot imagine what resources are like for literally any other african language! i want people to care to learn these languages the way that people randomly decide to learn lithuanian, estonian, and other smaller european languages. i want their resources to be greater, more courses to be created, more books to be written, more translations to bridge the gaps between cultures.

#linguistics

meet the robinsons is so fucking quotable i'm honestly suprised i don't have More quotes worked into my vocabulary (and i have quite a few as it is)

#yes i gave in to the signs and am rewatching it lol #i can't believe it's been like a decade since i've seen this last #meet the robinsons #jules talks (and talks)

soshinee

if u think abt it i guess bald ppl are the most aerodynamic. i bet if u shot a bald person out of a cannon they wld fly way further than a haired person

soshinee

which of course is a huge advantage in day to day life

#conversations that aang and sokka have at 2 am #<- prev akfhak

delphinium-03

Thinking about how tessa was in rosemary's body long enough to reenact her whole story so atleast PART of the love she shows kit is from his mother

#🥺🥺#tsc #tessa gray #kit herondale #rosemary herondale

w4steland-ba6y

the merry thieves (minus james):

#obsessed with the fact that theyre so represented here hehe #tsc #the merry thieves

i love that my brother sent me this over 12 hours ago and proceeded to never follow up

#the suspense 😭#the sibs

lifeafterpsychiatry

Give me less "being kind requires zero effort" and more "being kind is worth the effort it takes."

liarambles

⋆˚꩜｡ 𝐌𝐚𝐢𝐚 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐬 ⋆✴︎˚｡⋆

"Patience, grasshopper. Good things come to those who wait.”

#maia roberts #tsc #tmi

mortalityplays

opened the comments on a post and tumblr somehow had a half written comment already autofilled from the last time I saw that post. which was at least two years and several computers ago. what does this site's back end look like

mortalityplays

tumblr is going to gain sentience 100 years before any fuckass genAI comes close. this site runs on mold spores.

ipa-tournament

Sexiest IPA Symbol: Pulmonic Consonants

Round 5 match 1: [ɸ] v [β] v [ɬ]

Which IPA symbol is sexier?

[ɸ]

[β]

[ɬ]

Remaining time: 5 days 14 minutes

[ɸ]

Voiceless bilabial fricative

[β]

Voiced bilabial fricative

[ɬ]

Voiceless Alveolar Lateral Fricative

To hear what these sound like, you can use an interactive IPA chart

artbyblastweave

Being a henchman suuuucks dude. This latest guy I'm working for, the War-Madillo, he's got a, an Armadillo- motif, or theme, or whatever, right? That's fine, fine, I did a two-month stint with a Marmoset-themed guy once, it's not bottom of the barrel- except. Except. It turns out, he picked the Armadillo thing because he thinks that they're obligate carnivores. Which they kind of are, I mean I googled this, they're insectivores, but he thinks that they're like, land piranhas. He thinks they work in packs to take down significantly larger animals. He thinks they lay eggs in the remains of their prey. He's killed like three guys for trying to correct him. Me and the other guys are paying out of pocket to get the poor little guys in his Armadillo pit food that they can actually eat. Every time he drops some sucker into that thing we all have to draw straws to see who's gonna have to go in and gnaw on the body so he thinks the Armadillos are doing it. Thank god it's such a long drop

oralhardwarestore

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artbyblastweave

listen, man, I don't appreciate this kind of pressure. I'm posting as often as I can. I spent this morning shoving store-bought eggs down a dead guy's throat. Some of us have jobs, man

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