just keep reading

Bibliophile x INTJ = Reading books alone

[malcolm-f-tucker]

I wish people would stop saying “It’s July. Well done for wasting half a year.” Did you make someone smile in the past six months? Did you stroke a cat or throw a stick for a dog? Did you learn a new fact or teach someone a new joke? Did you laugh, cry, scream or sing in the past six months? Because if so, congratulations for not wasting your time at all.

[luftblumen-deactivated20150807]

I really needed this

[theradicalace]

I’m bringing this back for December to remind everyone.

You did not waste your year.

If you made it this far, that’s already not wasting your year.

You made it through the year, you laughed, you cried, you smiled, you saw the sun and felt the rain, and most importantly, you’re still here.

You did not waste your year.

You mad it this far, and I’m proud of you.

[gallusrostromegalus]

Bringing this back for 2020 to tell you:

DUDE.

YOU SURVIVED A MOTHERFUCKING 

PANDEMIC.

You lived through what is, and I’m not exaggerating, a fucking apocalyptic event.  DURING a major political crisis to boot! This year, still having a pulse is a major accomplishment, and I’m so glad you’re here.

[herondalealltheway]

been a long time since i last posted on tumblr. and it was a rage post about the ph government too

[jaubaius]

Tactoon-cat Cartoons

[articulate-anxious-atheist-deac]

With each I was like “Surely the cat doesn’t actually look like that in the image. surely this is an exaggeration.” but then I scrolled and yes, the cats are liquid

[lonelyroommp3]

the other day i was perusing the dessert options in the dining hall and this group of absolute stereotypical frat boy types were also milling around the desserts and one of them pointed to the strawberry pastries and said to the others “what’s the vibe with these, boys?” and i haven’t been able to get that sentence out of my head since

[celestiyal-deactivated20201022]

same energy

[ezk03]

-

[hktk04]

bless y’all

[hktk02]

bonus:

[anxietyproblem]

[malcolm-f-tucker]

I wish people would stop saying “It’s July. Well done for wasting half a year.” Did you make someone smile in the past six months? Did you stroke a cat or throw a stick for a dog? Did you learn a new fact or teach someone a new joke? Did you laugh, cry, scream or sing in the past six months? Because if so, congratulations for not wasting your time at all.

[luftblumen-deactivated20150807]

I really needed this

[theradicalace]

I’m bringing this back for December to remind everyone.

You did not waste your year.

If you made it this far, that’s already not wasting your year.

You made it through the year, you laughed, you cried, you smiled, you saw the sun and felt the rain, and most importantly, you’re still here.

You did not waste your year.

You mad it this far, and I’m proud of you.

[gallusrostromegalus]

Bringing this back for 2020 to tell you:

DUDE.

YOU SURVIVED A MOTHERFUCKING 

PANDEMIC.

You lived through what is, and I’m not exaggerating, a fucking apocalyptic event.  DURING a major political crisis to boot! This year, still having a pulse is a major accomplishment, and I’m so glad you’re here.

[moosekleenex]

Give yourself a big hug for making it through this year.

[fear-is-nameless]

To everyone who needs it.

I’m glad you’re here reading this.

[parksanddeserts]

In my linguistics class we had a Chinese girl who had adopted a European name. We all didn’t speak Cantonese and understood her wish to not have her name butchered all the time, except for one of us, a guy who thought he knew to differentiate between tones perfectly because he was learning Vietnamese. He saw himself as super woke and he thought it was wrong for her to adopt a European name when we should just try harder to pronounce her Chinese name (which honestly is just really difficult if you don’t speak the language at all, even for linguists). So he would constantly call her by her Chinese name which she initially didn’t even want to share, but he kept asking her for it, and from the look on her face I could tell that he did not get it right, and that she didn’t like it at all. The first time he did it she even told him it wasn’t correct, but he kept going, so sure he knew how to pronounce it. So like I 100% agree that we should put in effort to pronounce names from foreign languages and not give up on the first try if we get it wrong, but we should also respect people’s wishes when they know we can’t do it/they know it takes too much effort for them to teach us how to pronounce it. In that case, we should just use the name we’re being told to use. It’s that simple.

[linguisten]

Fellow linguists, don’t be that guy™

[kipplekipple]

When someone tells you what to call them, that is their name. Whether it is what’s on their birth certificate or not has literally nothing to do with you. You call them what they’ve said to call them. The end.

[rosedaughter-deactivated2023101]

finally, a post about the pronunciation of names that i agree with. it’s far too much effort to teach everyone i meet to say an arabic ع or an arabic glottal stop ء and I don’t want to go through with it constantly. my own students of arabic take about two to three weeks just to practice trying to say it, and even then it’s a constant effort to learn and to pronounce it correctly every time. 

it also comes off as arrogant and silly for white linguistics students to assume that just because they study language in general, or a certain language in a clinical way, that they have the ability to speak that language well enough to presume upon a native speaker. even if you did speak the language well enough, you wouldn’t have that right.

just respect that i gave you an easy out with the name i introduced myself with, and that it’s no skin off my back to be called it if i use it first. i’ll correct you on how to pronounce THAT, because it’s a string of vowels, but i’ll do that because i know you can pronounce it. none of those vowels are absent from the english language, and even the configuration and order is common enough that you’d be able to say it all. 

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

Yeah, I’ve actually seen some well-meaning posts that are like “make people learn to pronounce your name!” not realising that even the most devoted person might just… not be able to. I know a lot of white Anglos can be outright dismissive of other languages, but at the same time, some sounds for non-native speakers can be difficult to hear let alone pronounce, and it’s not always out of malice or a sense of superiority (not saying it can’t be of course! It sure can! Just… not always). While my Bengali name is actually pretty easy to pronounce, with my Hebrew name, getting the guttural “CH” for people who aren’t familiar with Semitic languages can be a massive struggle, and I don’t particularly want to be called “Ra-Hell,” y’know? Some people, regardless of intent, are just not good at sounds/accents, and I accept that.

[rhythmelia]

The perpetual push-pull, I think, for anyone who has a name with sounds non-native speakers may have trouble with. On the one hand, being a child of immigrants myself in the US with its particular history and attitudes towards non-Anglo folks, “make people learn to pronounce your name” to me is… choosing to take up space, refusing to be erased and whitewashed and dismissed and belittled.

On another hand, yeah, one only has so much energy to teach people to say a name, and some days it’s not worth it. Lucky me, my fam set me up with an English name too (which lol my Canto fam can’t say accurately at all) because folks who don’t speak Chinese can’t usually handle the tones of my Cantonese name, even though all the phonemes exist in English too. Whatever messy argument is happening in the notes right now, sometimes no matter how much you try, the best you can get with a name from an entirely different phonological system from yours might be an approximation, and each of us gets to decide how much of an approximation we’re willing to tolerate from others at any given time, and some days (all days) that might be zero(0).

Like @kipplekipple above said, and @flange5 said in her tags: it’s about consent. It’s one thing if someone is a racist jerk imposing a nickname or English name on you because they ‘can’t be bothered’ or ‘it’s too hard.’ It’s an entirely different thing for someone to tell you - hey this is how I’m called. Use this name.

(TERFs don’t even clown in the notes, I see you, go away)

[dope-salad-bouquet]

I do love when people ask me got clarification on my name! Usually they did get it wrong and its awkward to always bring it up myself. That being said, no means no in any situation and if someone doesn’t want to teach you then don’t make it weird.

[metalcrushers-blog]

when u try to tell ur parents about a problem but they end up yelling at u

[theemotionmachine]

[sketchy-saram]

I’ve never ONCE seen one of these and not being just like…absolutely riddled with tension, so. Keep passing them around, I guess!

[zippy-64]

Needed that, thanks. 👍🏻

[dimespin]

“Why do you beat yourself up so much over little mistakes?”

[chronicdisaster-deactivated2017]

This is such a good illustration of emotional abuse

[artist-rayne]

Just a reblog to spread the most UN noticed abuse, be aware

[monochrome-flight-feathers]

and reminder for everyone to be patient with your loved ones who apologize constantly, or have a really emotional reaction to something that seems insignificant to you.

[polkavona]

Another post that breaks my theme. But I really like seeing problems myself and other people have being explained in such a wonderful way

[xxvi0lent-vahlkampfiidaexx]

My mom will be the first person and then turn into the last person and I get so confused

[everydaylouie]

onion magic

[cassandraclare]

Even slowed down by the London traffic, the little car felt wildly fast; it was able to nip in and out of spaces that a carriage would never have been able to navigate. Feeling somewhat windblown, Cordelia tied her hat down more firmly with her scarf as they zipped between two horse-buses and a milk cart and narrowly missed swerving onto the pavement. Several workmen by the side of the road cheered.

“Apologies!” yelled Matthew with a grin, spinning the wheel deftly to the right and shooting across another junction.

Cordelia eyed him severely. “Do you actually know where we’re going?”

— Chain of Iron

Art by Cassandra Jean

[misterracoon]

“Stop cringing — at your future, at your failure, at yourself in the mirror — and stand up and look directly at who you are. Not who you should’ve been, but who you are now. Let that person in. Let her be as mediocre and wrong and shameful and sad and miserable and brilliant and hilarious as she wants to be, because she knows exactly what you need to feel good. She has plans for you. She wants to show you what comes next. She wants to take you into the future you’re dreading and say, “See? You never would’ve imagined this.”

— “Ask Polly: Is Life All Downhill From Here?” by Heather Havrilesky

[herondalealltheway]

I'm today years old when I learned that Domhnall Gleeson who plays Bill Weasly in Harry Potter is the son of Brendan Gleeson who plays Mad-Eye Moody!!!

[theforceawakens]

that’s it folks

[herondalealltheway]

Ahhh its been a long time since I've been here in Tumblr. Its been a wild 6 months! I hope you guys are doing well and staying safe!!!