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anxietyproblem

bakwaaas

Euripides (Tr. Anne Carson) / @wholeheartedsuggestions / Jenny Slate / Euripides again

the-worryin-librarian

euripedes

how can you press me to your breast

and rock me to sleep

when I am like this?

how do you never tire

of the same old thing?

the truth of me is an ugly, brooding creature

mewling and unwell

and frightened of its own power

come, let me see your hands

surely I’ve marred them with my doings

oh, what have I done to deserve being held so soft and sweet?

timcurrysbooty

carlottagiudicellivevo

takiki16

NO FEAR. The actors who played Long John Silver and Captain Flint in Black Sails FULLY ACKOWLEDGE that the Muppet adaptation was the best

(source)

saint-batrick

alder-knight

hi i hope i get to be the one to break this news on Tumblr, because

I am reading Tim Curry’s 2025 memoir, Vagabond

and in it, he not only devotes a chapter to Muppet Treasure Island, but also references this very post

so, to recap

no, Tim Curry is absolutely NOT a Muppet; however

yes, he and Miss Piggy ABSOLUTELY fucked

orcboxer

got a crick in my neck and a frog in my throat and a chip on my shoulder and a stick up my ass and now you're gonna stand there puttin words in my mouth? haven't I been through enough?

seasonofhorror

HEREDITARY (2018) dir. Ari Aster

THE WITCH (2015) dir. Robert Eggers

animusrox

baba-fett

Reblog to bonk your mutuals on the head every time they start thinking negatively about themselves

paranormal-taters

specifically this kind of bonk.

humanityinahandbag

Reblonk

3000s

i'd truly be fucked in her situation because rumpelstiltskin is not a name that would come to mind for me

3000s

to be honest i forgot he did that

reblog and put in the tags what your childhood password that you just stuck with is!

apyr-the-struggler

innerchildabortionclinic

the worst person you know thinks they're super empathetic. the kindest person you know thinks they're fucked up and evil

peppermoths

does anyone want to see a really good picture of my kitty cat

not a cat, first off

snale

To be frank I think talking about your fiction project on the internet is poisonous to the creative process. It's a placebo hit. Makes you feel like you wrote without having to write. My rule used to be "nothing plot critical should be revealed outside the text" but my stance has since hardened into "nothing even plot related should be revealed outside the text"

cheers-mrhiddleston

Tom Hiddleston and Taylor Swift at the Met Gala

stuckinthistaydream

There is literally no romantic thing here, it’s just two friends being goofy and dancing weirdly together. Everybody needs to calm the fuck down.

stuckinthistaydream

whoops.

grootficguy

i tried explaining to this girl at a party once how i could be gay and asexual at the same time and it basically boils down to never being into anyone but like once a year i’ll find a man attractive. and she was like “so what am i if i only like girls, and i’ve never found any of my boyfriends attractive and and i just wanna do cocaine all the time?” i was like “you’re a lesbian with a coke addiction?” and she was like “woooooah”. she broke up with her boyfriend that night and had a threesome with two girls in the bathtub. rebecca if you’re out there, i hope you’re going places. well, not far, since you’re electronically tagged. but spiritually.

moon111111

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.