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A game of Among Us ends immediately as an impostor win when the number of crewmates is equal to or fewer than the number of impostors, without the fate of those crewmates being explicitly specified, so technically all those fanworks where the impostor spares their favourite crewmate and only their favourite crewmate and they ride off into the proverbial sunset together are canon-compliant as long as the sole surviving crewmate is okay with all their coworkers getting murdered by aliens

(or just most of their coworkers if there’s more than one impostor alive at the end, I suppose)

cameoappearance

For that matter, pacifist impostors who don’t kill any crewmates are also canon-compliant; you get a crewmate victory in-game if everyone finishes their tasks no matter how many impostors are left alive, and it doesn’t say what happens to the remaining impostors either. They just have to stand around twiddling their thumbs and pointedly not killing anyone while their crewmate buddies finish repairing the spaceship.

prophecydungeon

that’s not………. how child speech works…………………………………………..

prophecydungeon

god okay in an attempt to be less of an asshole, here’s how child speech DOES work (or tend to work, at least)

kids tend to hypercorrect — this means that they tend to say things like “sleeped” instead of “slept,” “writed” instead of “wrote,” “goed” instead of “went,” etc

kids tend not to make errors such as omitting verbs (“i hungry”)

kids also tend not to make errors in the i/me, she/her department (“me am hungry”)

simplification of difficult sounds — consonant clusters especially, so things like st, sp, ps, etc., as well as f, v, th-sounds, ch-sounds, etc.

“babbling”-type utterances (“apwen” for “airplane,” using one babbly word for multiple objects, things like that) generally occur in children under the age of three and a half

say it with me: an eight-year-old child is not going to be saying “me hungwy”

do not confuse child speech with stereotypical learner english mistakes, that’s not only incorrect but also gross on the stereotypical learner english front (“me love you long time,” anybody?)

if you’re going to write kidfic please do some * research

prokopetz

Totally. It can be helpful to remind yourself that young children tend to speak as though the English language actually made sense. Our brains are pattern-recognising machines: children are really, really good at puzzling out the implicit rules of the English language, but they don’t necessarily know all the silly exceptions and bizarre edge cases that break those rules yet - those can only be learned through experience and rote memorisation.

Basically, when children who speak English as a first language make mistakes, it typically reflects a tendency to treat English as more grammatically, syntactically, and/or orthographically consistent than it really is. In some cases, this can be compounded by the fact that some kids will get offended at how little sense “proper” English makes, and insist upon using the more consistent forms even though they know very well that they’re technically “wrong”.

for a long young portion of my life I insisted on pronouncing Sean “SEEN” because that’s how it’s spelled.

pftones3482

As someone who spends a good majority of her time working with kids, it irks me to no end when I see children written as if they’re babies.

Past the age of about five or six years old, children can have deep, intellectual conversations about the most bizarre of things. I HAD A CONVERSATION LAST WEEK WITH FOUR THIRD GRADERS ABOUT THE GAS PRICES AND TAXES IN HAWAII.

Were they entirely correct in the facts they were giving? No, because it was all from what they had heard from parents or on the news. But that doesn’t take away from the fact that I was having a genuine conversation with four eight and nine year olds about taxes.

Just about the only speech problems most kids have, unless they have a speech impediment, is not being able to pronounce certain consonants (replacing ‘th’ with ‘fw,’ for example, and some letters are harder to form with your mouth than others) and doing exactly what the person above said: using the English language the way they know how, which isn’t always the way English works.

Kids aren’t stupid. Stop writing them like they are.

oldtoadwoman-deactivated2018121

I was tutoring a little kid (second grade, I think). He was complaining about a worksheet. “This is hard.” I started to correct him as I knew he was more than capable of it and this bright kid, who had obviously heard the lecture before from others, interrupted me and said: “I know. I know. It’s not really difficult. It’s just time consuming.” Some kids are spooky-smart and even quite articulate.

If you need (plotwise) to emphasize that the child is specifically childish … have them tell the same joke to everyone they meet, cracking themselves up before they get to the punchline … have them ask “Why?” incessantly … have them fidgeting and possibly breaking things (”Oops.” “What?” “Nothing!” “WHAT?!”) … and if you have more than one kid, even of the same age, you don’t have to write them at the same intelligence level or emotional maturity. Some kids are messy and some are obsessively neat. Some are quiet, some loud. Some giggly, some surly. They basically come in the same range of personalities as adults.

If you don’t want to invest a lot of time writing dialog for kids, just establish that you have a quiet kid. But a kid who gives single-word answers is usually doing so because they don’t like you (or trust you) or they are focused on their own thing and you’re interrupting them. It doesn’t mean they lack the vocabulary or that they don’t understand the adult conversation going on “over their head” (the more inappropriate the conversation, the more likely the kids are paying attention).

santheum

I have jabbed the back button so many times on terrible kid fic. This is an excellent resource - kid fic, when done well, is a real treat for me.

thaxted

The only children I have ever met who did say things like “me hungwy” were the ones who had figured out that if they sounded “adorable” they could wrap adults around their precious little fingers. Kids get it.

spiletta42

Good resource for people who write but spend no time with children.

shadowkat678

“KIDS GET IT”

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^THIS

naamahdarling

In my experience, kids five and up* converse basically like less-educated but still-intelligent adults with smaller vocabularies, a slightly more sketchy understanding of grammar, and really delightful (and often gross) senses of humor.

They are people. Real people with complex thoughts and inner lives, strong opinions, and the ability to draw accurate conclusions about the people around them and their motives with surprisingly little to go on. And writing them well is actually a hell of a lot of fun.

Kids are cool. Write them like it.

* I don’t have much experience with kids younger than this, but I know I was able to read at three, so never, ever underestimate the intelligence of children, for purposes of fic or anything else.

fangirltothefullest

Also please know that the r sound can be tricky even for some 5 and 6 year olds but it’s not considered a problem. It’s more rare but it does happen. Likewise hard G and hard K can be frustrating too (grapes to drapes, cookie to tookie etc.) And if the child has a learning disability like dyslexia it can definitely be reflected in the child’s speech, HOWEVER it is more common that the child will actually start auto correcting themselves because kids are super smart and know when something is wrong.

Many toddlers so have a habit of HATING when you sing a song with the wrong lyrics or get SO UPSET if you tell them the sky is orange because they Know You’re Wrong!

Child development is fascinating, off you’re gonna write about kids please do a little research! 83

what-even-is-thiss

As someone who’s worked with two to four year olds for about eight years now, let me tell you. Two year olds that can talk know very well how to speak in full sentences. What’s more common is people outside their family not understanding how they’re pronouncing things.

A child will know to say “I want to pet the cat.” But someone that doesn’t know them might just hear “I wamma neh muh mleh” because the kid can’t enunciate yet and you need to pull over their dad or older sibling and get them to translate because they’re around the kid all the time and can understand them much better.

And their stuttering more often looks like “I want to um, i want to, I… I did… I, I want to, um, to pet the kitty.” This is especially prevalent in three and four year olds. Two year olds sometimes choose not to talk or mostly babble, making excited noises that aren’t really words. There are some of them that can talk normally though.

Sometimes one year olds can talk in sentences but more often than not they’ll have a favorite word that they use for everything. My best friend’s niece, for example, just says the words “yeah” and “mommy” for everything and expects those to get her point across.

#writing #tip #writing tip #text

catchymemes

#JDISUAJKFNSAJKFNWQOSUJAKF :'))))

lizardsister

god gay af for making adam before eve, like what's he need a man for?

glowpop

did you know people on twitter liken tumblr to an abusive ex

glowpop

yeah.

onien

pastel-bab

rabbitfolly

bruh. bruh what?? what am I reading

maybevillage

self-insert protagonist

#fe3h #byleth #this somehow nails all my feelings regarding byleth thanks op #art

whatthehellisgoingon9374-deacti

Can someone edit this where they’re both chad dogs

Yes.

one thing i do miss about childhood is waking up early on my own before anyone else is awake, not feeling tired because wtf is chronic fatigue, and just minding my business like watching cartoons or doodling all morning. not like i can’t do those things now but the idleness of childhood is a special thing.

luminarai

good morning to these talented husbands who are both called david and wear the same outfits and to them ONLY

#<333 #fav #gay

fluoresensitivearchived

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So, there are literally no words. Just make sure y’all thank @minimalistgrufti for allowing me to show you this first chapter, and then after you’re finished thanking her, come to my inbox and scream as loud as you can.

This is a horror so warnings ahead for violence and blood.

PRE-ORDER ON SUNDAYS SHE PICKED FLOWERS NOW!

LINK TO MEDIUM!

#readlist #booklist #to read

uwmspeccoll

Greek Ornament in The Coloured Ornament of All Historical Styles

Today we are featuring Greek decorative plates from The Coloured Ornament of All Historical Styles, Part I: Antiquity by Alexander Speltz, published in Leipzig, Germany in 1915 by Baumgärtner. The multi volume portfolio was produced with three color and four color printing based on Speltz’s original watercolor paintings.

In a preface to the Part I, Spetz wrote:

“In accomplishing this work special attention has been paid to the possibility of easily finding the text belonging to each figure, and to a classification according to the chronology of art history and archeology, for this work is not merely intended to be a standard for the polychromatic ornament, but also a resource for the study of history of art and archaeology.

If this work, whose first part herewith published and whose further parts Medieval Period, Renaissance, and Rococo Style, Classicism will follow as soon as possible, contributes to revive that sense of colours lost in this our prosaic time and helps to restore to our generation that delightful rejoicing in beautiful forms and colours, the writer’s end has been achieved.”

View more posts about decorative arts and pattern books.

–Sarah, Special Collections Graduate Assistant

#greek #ancient greece #ref #art #save

pukicho

tickling is fun until I get fed up with it (2 seconds in) and then decide to beat the assailant to a pulp

tictacfromdiscord

tickle tickle tickle!

pukicho

justsomeantifas

call me ignorant but i genuinely don’t understand why sports have to be split up by gender.

robobun

@ everyone in the notes talking about physical performance: if that were the case, then sports would be divided by physical performance. that’s a thing you can measure. that’s a thing that varies by individual. a weak man and a strong man would be an unfair fight in boxing/wrestling/MMA, which is why they divide those sports up into weight groups based on physical performance. but they also further segregate them based on gender. chess is segregated by gender for no reason but sexism. if it’s actually about skill and physical ability, then measure those and separate people by those metrics. don’t do some bullshit gender segregation and pretend like men and women are inherently on different levels no matter their individual abilities.

justsomeantifas

💅

aggrokawaii

Remember that time a teenage girl struck out Babe Ruth? That’s fucking why. Men are afraid of being beaten by women.

amuseoffyre

Remember that time male swimmers were pulled out of training because Kate Ledecky was leaving them ‘broken’ by swimming better than them? Remember how she didn’t even notice, because she was busy actually training?

notanadult

Shooting is a sport that has no reliance on strength and so any allowance for gender variation is irrelevant. The last time there was a mixed competition (1992) a chinese woman named Zhang Shan won it.

murderxbaby-deactivated20190102

It’s often presented as for the benefit of women. After all, they’ll be heartbroken when they‘re hurt or bested by men.

Projection is a hell of a drug.

dick-graysons-left-butt-cheek

yungcrybby-anonymousbosch666

this is why they drug test Serena like crazy. the believe no woman should be that good. let alone a black woman. and black women have always been considered “manly” and less feminine.

iampikachuhearmeroar

also can we talk about how surfing is segregated as well? like how the dude who won this years international surfing cup or whatever was given $30,000 worth of prize money, while the woman who won the women’s comp was only awarded like $16,000 of prize money???? or whatever it was. but I know it was either half or less than half of what the man won. like why can’t they get the same prize money and when they’re competing internationally in the same competition? they surely have the same level of skill and talent.

yungcrybby-anonymousbosch666

the pay gap in sports between men and women is fucking insane.

torukun1

The pay gaps, not to mention lack of sponsorships for women athletes who don’t look like models is insane. If you weigh over 250 pounds, no one will sponsor you. It’s why most female Olympic-class weightlifters live in poverty/out of their cars.

shipitbabyonemoretime

intersex-mhacha-deactivated2020

Reminder that in international (and usually national too) womens athletics anybody with 5m/mol of natural testosterone or higher is disqualified. (See legal case of Dutee Chand vs IAAF.)

Do you or somebody you know have PCOS? You are banned from international womens athletics because you are supposedly in posession of an unreasonable advantage in sports.

Folks disqualified for hyper-androgenism in womens athletics.

Francine Niyonsaba

Caster Semenya

Dutee Chand

Margaret Wambui

And more

Why are those disqualified overwhelmingly black and brown? Because testing is case by case when an athletes performance “raises suspicions”. They overwhelmingly test athletes of colour, for being too fast and not meeting white expectations of femininity.

Racism and intersexism(discrimination against intersex people) in sports is abject evil. Desegregate sports.

stunningpicture

So proud of my mother for doing her own research after I sent her that meme. A sign she hung in her car window.

jettestblack-deactivated2017080

Stay woke

pual1010-deactivated20150723

Is this true?

mallninjacode-deactivated201812

Not only is it true, it gets worse. The Susan G Komen For The Cure Foundation has actually successfully sued “competing” charities, because (paraphrasing) their “message or branding was infringing.”

You read that correctly: they took money that people had donated to cure cancer, and hired attorneys with it, to sue ANOTHER group of people trying to find a cure for cancer, who, in turn, had to us their donated money to hire their own legal counsel to defend themselves.

redbloodedamerica

spacemohawks

Yeah signal boost because not enough people know about this and seriously FUCK SUSAN G. KOMEN THEY ARE THE ACTUAL WORST

beanmom

Some links…

http://thinkbeforeyoupink.org/

http://www.somethingawful.com/feature-articles/for-the-cure/

http://thestir.cafemom.com/in_the_news/132728/susan_g_komen_foundation_has

(reblogged in honor of my mother, who died of breast cancer, 11/13/97)

hello-missvixy-deactivated20160

Reblog every time I see it. Roughly once a month.

blockmind

Also please never forget the pink fracking drill bit

that’s right fracking you know, a process using chemicals known to cause cancer that leech into the water supply

http://www.triplepundit.com/2014/10/baker-hughes-fights-breast-cancer-pink-fracking-drill-bits/

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/cancer/pink-drill-bits-bring-complaints-komen-tie-fracking-n223166

alexithymia42

It’s that time of year again, please remember Komen is the actual worst

sofia-ciel

Komen For The Cure is pretty much awful.

imaginarycircus

My mother died in 1996 from breast cancer. Most cancer charities are scams, in that people throw fancy parties and get rich off them and very little money goes into research or support for patients. Here are some vetted cancer charities that get good scores on Charity Navigator and pay medical expenses or fund research:

Breast Cancer Research Foundation

Cancer Research Institute

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

63 four star rated cancer charities on charity navigator

#cancer #charity #save