C'est La Vie

sofia | she/her | enfj | 17 | taurus | slytherin books, musicals, history, fashion

[professoroaksboytoy]

Me getting dressed in the morning: Would Tan be proud of this outfit?

[sucker-for-six-of-crows]

Grishaverse Characters as High School Teachers

Kuwei: Chemistry

“I’m 87% sure this won’t blow up so I don’t think you need goggles for this lab”

Nikolai: That overzealous AP World History teacher that talks really fast and has trouble being a neutral party in global matters because he has Opinions™

“Okay so lemme just put it out there that Christopher Columbus was an actual DICK and he was NOT A GOOD NAVIGATOR BECAUSE AS AN EXPERIENCED SAILOR I CAN TELL YOU-”

Alina: English

Complete nerd. Geeks out over Brit Lit (I feel like she’d bust a fucking nut over Beowulf like no joke) and is super hyper even during first Period.

Genya: Fashion

“Fuck lesson plans just make something snazzy”

Matthias: AP Calculus

*Actual responsible and well-thought-out teaching methods*

Zoya: Earth Science

“Let’s learn about some motherfucking rocks and some motherfucking weather, BITCHES”

Kaz: Would hold some sort of administrative position like Principal or Vice Principal

*Actually doesn’t give a fuck when kids do bad things. Only really gets mad when there’s bullying and discrimination involved, but otherwise with phones, cheating, and stealing, he really doesn’t care*

Inej: Foreign language teacher

*Glances around* “Okay, kids, today’s lesson is on how to curse the fuck out of people you hate without them knowing-”

Mal: Gym Teacher that doubles as a football coach

Constant “when I was your age” lectures. “Idgaf if you have a doctor’s note yOU ARE DOING LAPS”

Jesper: Way out of line guidance counselor that is always flirting with the band teacher in the teacher’s lounge

“Hey, baby, are you a C Major scale? Because you look all natural to me.”

“Do you even know what a C Major scale is?”

“Tbh no.”

Wylan: Band teacher

“I speciFICALLY SAID YOU HAVE TO MIND,,, THE CRESCENDO,,, IN MEASURE 35,,,,”

Nina: Health

“You see, kids, when you’re a stupid bitch and smoke you get throat cancer” *proceeds to flip through a slide show showing very gruesome pictures of said throat cancer. Permanently scars her students for life.*

Bonus:

The Darkling: Creepy guy who sells drugs in the school parking lot

[historyandmemes]

King George III reading the Declaration of Independence

[blackhtorns]

hiii guys my dash is really damn dead and full of fandoms i’m not in, so i need more blogs to follow!! so ahhhh if you post or reblog aesthetic content with over half the content in the fandoms below pls rb and i’ll check your blog out!!💞

the shadowhunter chronicles

six of crows series

percy jackson verse

mythology

tog and acotar

the lunar chronicles

shatter me series

classical literature/other ya lit

photography/architecture/aesthetic stuff in general

mutuals i’d appreciate it if you reblog this to signal boost^^ ty for your attention!!💕

[jasonmomoadaily]

Jason Momoa Steven Pan @ GQ

[aristia]

How to pronounce Celtic words and names

Step 1: Read the word. Step 2: Wrong.

[literary-potato]

A REAL LIST OF ACTUAL NAMES AND THEIR (approximate) PRONUNCIATIONS: Siobhan — “sheh-VAWN” Aoife – “EE-fa” Aislin – “ASH-linn” Bláithín - “BLAW-heen” Caoimhe - “KEE-va” Eoghan - Owen (sometimes with a slight “y” at the beginning) Gráinne - “GRAW-nya” Iarfhlaith - “EER-lah” Méabh - “MAYV” Naomh or Niamh - “NEEV” Oisín - OSH-een or USH-een Órfhlaith - OR-la Odhrán - O-rawn Sinéad - shi-NAYD Tadhg - TIEG (like you’re saying “tie” or “Thai” with a G and the end)

[rubyvroom]

I work with an Aoife and I have been pronouncing it SO WRONG

[breelandwalker]

As someone who is trying and failing to learn Gaelic, I feel like is an accurate portrayal of my pain.

[prettyarb]

This is the Anglicized spelling of a people who really fucking hate the English.

[madmaudlingoes]

No, no, this is the orthographic equivalent of installing Windows on Mac.

The Latin alphabet was barely adequate for Latin by the time it got to the British Isles, but it’s what people were writing with, so somebody tried to hack it to make it work for Irish. Except, major problem: Irish has two sets of consonants, “broad” and “slender” (labialized and palatalized) and there’s a non-trivial difference between the two of them. But there weren’t enough letters in the Latin alphabet to assign separate characters to the broad and slender version of similar sounds.

Instead, someone though, let’s just use the surrounding vowels to disambiguate–but there weren’t enough vowel characters to indicate all the vowel sounds they needed to write, so that required some doubling up, and then adding in some silent vowels just to serve as markers of broad vs. slender made eveything worse. 

They also had to double up some consonants, because, for example, <v> wasn’t actually a letter at the time–just a variation on <u>–so for the /v/ sound they <bh>. AND THEN ALSO Irish has this weird-ass system where the initial consonant sound in a word changes as a grammatical marker, called “mutation,” so they had to account somehow for mutated sounds vs. non-mutated sounds, which sometimes meant leaving a lot of other silent letters in a word to remind you what word you were looking at.

And then a thousand years of sound change rubbed its dirty little hands all over a system that was kind of pasted together in the first place.

My point is, there is a METHOD to the orthography of Irish besides “fuck the English.” The “fuck the English” part is just a delightful side-effect.

[prettyarb]

I love it when snarky quips lead to real info.

[cybersquat]

@meabhd UNF me and you talking about English speakers ridiculing anglicised Irish when it’s like???? What the HECK do you think happened?? We never intended for our language to look like this so don’t rave about how it’s weird and different thanks

[meabhd]

Nice.

[gameofthronesdaily]

[lila-jelly]

just wanted to pay tribute to one of the first series i ever loved/ made art for. @cassandraclare‘s writing is addicting and beautiful. 

[meabhd]

I mean.. I said I would…

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[miacorverre]

Greed bows to me. It is my servant and my lever.

[crunchie-morris]

Does anyone else have this insecurity where you consider people friends, but you don’t know if they consider you a friend? Like, my super close friends, the ones I talk to every day, I don’t have doubts about, but like my friends in theatre or ones I just see at school, etc., like…do they think of me as a friend?? Like, I almost get the temptation to be like, “Hey, are we friends??” But that would be weird because if we are friends, why would I question it, and if we aren’t, then why do I think we are???

[akshaykvmar-archive]

Emika Chen in the ‘Warcross’ Trailer

[danisaurrs-deactivated20160510]

what’s with all these stories of hundred plus year old vampires falling in love with teenagers like yes they might LOOK your age but you’ve got a few centuries of maturity on them I want vampires falling in love with 40 year old suburban housewives and business executives and preschool teachers not high school students

[melthemagpie]

vampires falling in love with spry 90-year-old great-grandmothers

[strix-alba]

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[the-disney-elite]

Original storyboards for Disney’s Mulan (1998).

[sycretsside]

So I just started my short story writing class! These are dialogue tips

[lady-feral]

reference later

[youngleeks]

here are scans of a little project I sent to the cast! they were all individual cards but I put them together for easier viewing

disclaimer: this was before they released photos of oak in costume (i’ve been slacking aaaaa)

[louisthesixteenth-deactivated20]

which is the worst: americans on tumblr that think that they’re the only country that matters or canadians that act like canada is the perfect country

[louisthesixteenth-deactivated20]

this is a trick question because the real answer is europeans that brag about how much better europe is than the united states for “not having a big racism problem” despite the fact that europeans are the ones that started the slave trade and era of colonization that led to the genocide of indigenous people throughout north america and eventually led to the creation of the united states of america