fideleus

23. she/her. intp. truthwatcher. ace. physics grad student. avid fantasy reader. light and dark academia. always realm of the elderlings brainrot

[daweyt]

thinking of when vincent van gogh said that “poverty stops the best minds in their tracks” and how art would see a new era if we funded struggling independent artists instead of hiring talentless nepotism babies.

[justsomeguycore]

also while i’m ranting about gender i always see debate about whether girls are rewarded for being tomboys or not and it’s like. actually girls are rewarded for mirroring whatever the situation demands of them. girls can’t be too prissy and refuse to play in the creek, but girls also can’t show up to girly events covered in mud. girls can’t have makeup art as a hobby or else they’re superficial, but if they never wear makeup they’re a slob and dumpy, etc. it’s not that girls are universally rewarded or punished for being tomboys, they’re rewarded for bending over backwards to always be exactly right for any given situation and punished for breaking those boundaries. so yes a classically pretty girl who cleans up nice is rewarded when she can ALSO be a tomboy. but a girl who is a tomboy all the time is definitely punished for never being able to achieve that prerequisite feminine side. this debate is over now thanks

[thoughtkick]

“So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

[monsiearts]

Never enough Potter

[uchicagoadmissions]

[thedarkestacademia]

women of dark academia appreciation post. 

in this house we support all women (just maybe not terfs)

[plullaby]

[geniuss-loci-deactivated2021052]

[one-time-i-dreamt]

but sir, that’s my emotional support unachievable dream scenario that I came up with in my head

[literaturebylamplight]

College administrators 2020: We have successfully transitioned to online learning! Our staff is prepared to provide both in person and online education!!! at even the shortest of notice!!! :) :) :)

Me *pointing to my shaking, emotionally exhausted professor*: you’ve fucked up a perfectly good Professor is what you’ve done! Look at him, he’s got anxiety!

[fideleus]

Regal: I got grounded for a whole week just because I came home late.

The Fool: Well, you deserved it. I mean, getting everyone's hopes up like that and then showing up again.

[galaxxiesfaraway]

modern songs with dark academia vibes:

eleanor rigby - the beatles

a little death - the neighbourhood

young & beautiful - lana del rey

buzzcut season - lorde

take me to church - hozier

the louvre - lorde

boy meets evil - bts

sweater weather - the neighbourhood

scarborough fair - simon & garfunkel

video games - lana del rey

everybody wants to rule the world - lorde

daddy issues - the neighbourhood

nfwmb - hozier

lover of mine - 5 seconds of summer

falling - harry styles

style - taylor swift

talk- hozier

girls - girl in red

this charming man - the smiths

englishman in new york - sting

greek god - conan grey

dog days are over - florence + the machine

[geschiedenis-en-talen]

You will not believe the amount of times I’ve read an English word and thought of a pronunciation and then continued to pronounce the word that way in my head for years only to discover that it has a completely different pronunciation and I would’ve made a fool of myself if I had ever pronounced that word out loud

[nordic-language-love]

it’s okay native speakers have exactly the same experience

[randomslasher]

It’s a phenomenon unofficially known as “reader’s accent” and it’s very common! Because English has so many words (in fact considered to be the language with the greatest number of words) lots of people, and in particular those who read a lot as children, will encounter a word in writing long before they hear it spoken. They’ll develop the idea of what the word will sound like in their head, and only realize when they hear it spoken that their idea was different than the common pronunciation. 

I’ve even had it where I’ve known words as spoken words, and I’ve known words as written words, and it’s taken me a significant amount of time to realize that they were the same word. One example I can think of is the word indictment. I always thought “indictment” was pronounced “in-dict-ment,” and it was only when all these police indictments started happening on the news (with the news crawls below the words being spoken) that I realized it was “in-DITE-ment.” 

So yeah, never feel bad for discovering that a word in English is pronounced differently than you would’ve expected. English has had influence from SO many other languages over the centuries as it developed, and as a result, many of our pronunciation “guidelines” are borrowed from the languages the words originally came from. It’s massively inconsistent, and it’s one of the reasons that learning English as a second language is so difficult. 

As my favorite poster in the campus writing center used to proclaim: 

“English: A language that lurks in dark alleyways, beats up other languages, and rifles through their pockets for spare vocabulary.” 

[mikkeneko]

it wasn’t until an adult that I realized that colonel and spoken word “kernal” were the same word

[thesongsmithtumbles]

My fiance was so confused when we saw the word “pavilion”, which I’d absolutely heard before, and I read it as “pavil-on” because as a child when I’d read the word that’s how it became cemented in my head.

[thundercakes22]

I still have absolutely no idea how to pronounce “chagrin” or “bemuse”

[my-massivelyhopefulcollection]

Remember you are not ignorant.

English is just stupid.

[geschiedenis-en-talen]

Oh believe me. I know.

[disc80s]

person: *gives scientific explanation of the phenomenon*

what I kept from this post: english is stupid.

[figofswords]

weary and wary are not the same word and have very different meanings and if i see one more person use wearily when they mean warily I’m gonna combust

[figofswords]

weary: tired, worn-out, beaten down, exhausted, in need of rest. they were weary after their long journey. wearily, she sat down on the couch and kicked off her shoes. he had grown weary of this conversation.

wary: guarded, cautious, on-edge, careful. they were wary of the approaching stranger. warily, she poked at the dark shape in the corner of her room. he paused, wary, but nodded anyway.

[luxwing]

[figofswords]

thank you for this reply you get the funny crown today with bonus points for accuracy

[naturallytom]

hi can we normalize the idea of choosing not to drink

[kendallroy-deactivated20210425]

idk who needs to hear this but when your english teacher asks you to explain why an author chose to use a specific metaphor or literary device, it’s not because you won’t be able to function in real-world society without the essential knowledge of gatsby’s green light or whatever, it’s because that process develops your abilities to parse a text for meaning and fill in gaps in information by yourself, and if you’re wondering what happens when you DON’T develop an adult level of reading comprehension, look no further than the dizzying array of examples right here on tumblr dot com

[kendallroy-deactivated20210425]

this post went from 600 to 2400 notes in the time it took me to write 3 emails. i’m already terrified for what’s going to happen in there

[kendallroy-deactivated20210425]

k but also, as an addendum, the reason we study literary analysis is because everything an author writes has meaning, whether it was intentional or not, and their biases and agendas are often reflected in their choice of language and literary devices and so forth! and that ties directly into being able to identify, for example, the racist and antisemitic dogwhistles often employed by the right wing, or the subconscious word choices that can unintentionally illustrate someone’s bias or blind spot. LANGUAGE HAS WEIGHT AND MEANING! the way we communicate is a reflection of our inner selves, and that’s true regardless of whether it’s a short story or a novel or a blog post or a tweet. instead of taking a piece of writing at face value and stopping there, assuming that there is no deeper meaning or thought behind the words on the page, ask yourself these two questions instead:

1. what is the author trying to say? 2. what does the author maybe not realize they’re saying?

because the most interesting reading of any piece of literature, imho, usually occupies the space in between those questions.

[c-is-for-circinate]

I also want to add: literary analysis doesn’t just reveal things about the authors and the work, it also reveals things about you, the reader.

This is the part that sometimes (maybe even often) gets ignored/avoided in English classes, because it’s so personal, but it’s just as important, and if your teacher isn’t thinking about it then you should be.  “I liked this” or “ugh, this one was boring and terrible” are important starting points for analysis, because they open you up to ask:

What part of this piece of writing resonated with me so much?  Why do I feel in my gut like this is important?  Do I like this because I agree with it?  Just because I agree with it, does that make it right?

OR

Why does this put me off?  What are the author’s priorities here?  Do I dislike it because it’s saying something I don’t want to acknowledge or agree with?  Just because I disagree, does that make it wrong?

And those questions really matter too, maybe just as much as trying to figure out what the author is communicating.  They’re the questions that lead to thinking and growing, not just in how well we understand other people, but in how well we understand ourselves.

[faint-glimmers-of-hope]

I love Rose Tyler because every time she encountered a new alien life form or a fellow human that seemed to be mistreated in some way she went “HELLO DO THEY TREAT YOU WELL, HOW MUCH DO THEY PAY YOU, ARE YOUR BASIC RIGHTS BEING VIOLATED, DID YOU KNOW YOU ARE ENTITLED TO AN EIGHT HOUR SHIFT AND THREE WEEKS OF VACATION ALSO YOU COULD JOIN A UNION, MY NAME IS ROSE I’M HERE TO HELP” and that was just so rad of her

[counterspellthisyoucasual]

It’s because she worked in retail