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Sven | 19 | Belgium This is my personal blog on which I write personal things. I'm a tap dancing, UK-loving language and literature student and longtime Nerdfighter. Current fandoms: Doctor Who, Sherlock, Marvel, Harry Potter, Starkid, Orange Is the New Black, Welcome to Night Vale. (But I post all sorts of things.)

[gypsums]

friends: why are you single? me screaming inside: IM FUCKING UGLY me: idk I just don’t have the time for anyone

[hufflefox]

In other news, I got testosterone yesterday!

[flittering-sylph]

Man I hate it when people use the pronoun “you” as a singular pronoun in an informal setting. “You” is plural, unless thou dost speak to an unfamiliar person. The correct singular second person pronoun is “thou” in most cases. Grammar never changes. Pronouns must always stay one way until the end of time. Learn thy proper English. *sigh* Kids these days.

[gollyplot]

If thou this mistake shouldst make on thine own blog, then know, villain, that thou art a dirty descriptivist, and no friend of mine. Ne'er should language itself alter, it doth remain fixèd as such, untouch’d by change. Wouldst thou, vile descriptivist, that we forget the heritage of our great tongue? Nay, say I. Thou art but a dickhead who sayest so.

[kingfucko]

stynt ðy clappe! beoð ðo writerris be wetleas knafen. ðy langag o engelond diffoulened be, ille usenid bi sclaundrous novelri.

[boneyardchamp]

Your professor will not be happy with you if he says the Stanford Prison Experiment shows human nature and you say it shows the nature of white middle class college-aged boys.

Like he will not be happy at all.

[cannon-fannon]

For real though. That experiment. Scary shit.

[septemberpoems]

someone brought that up once and my teacher (can’t remember which one) was like

no

nonono

[hollowedskin]

This reminds me of a discussion that I read once which said Lord of the Flies would have turned out a hell of a lot differently if it was a private school of young girls (who are expected to be responsible and selfless instead), or a public school where the children weren’t all from an inherently entitled, emotionally stunted social class (studies have shown that people in lower socioeconomic classes show more compassion for others). Or that the same premise with children raised in a different culture than the toxic and opressive British Empire and it’s emphasis on social hierarchy and personal wealth and status. And that what we perceive as the unchangable truth deep inside humanity because of things like Lord of the Flies and the Stanford Prison Experiment, is just the base truths about what happens when you remove any accountabilty controlling one social group with an overwhelming sense of entitlement and an inability to feel compassion.

[septemberpoems]

^could never have put it better. bolded for emphasis.

[lady-feral]

I will always reblog this.

[hufflefox]

Today a friend of mine thought it was okay to steal a bike just because the lock wasn’t attached well enough. He luckily decided against it, but why do I stick with these people they are bad for me

[sosuperawesome]

[disneypixarmagic]

sosuperawesome:

Joey Chou on Tumblr

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[gaywrites]

Germany will allow parents to choose no gender on a baby's birth certificate

On Friday, Nov. 1, Germany will become the first country in the world to allow parents to leave the gender box blank on their child's birth certificate. As reported in August, the move is an effort

Starting next month, new parents in Germany will no longer be required to designate their newborn children as either male or female.

In an effort to be more inclusive of intersex individuals, Germany will allow parents to leave the gender box blank on their baby’s birth certificate if they so choose. The law takes effect on November 1.

With babies reportedly born without clearly determinable genitalia at a rate of 1 in every 1,500 – and many intersex individuals not exhibiting characteristics until later in life – the legislation seeks “to take the pressure off parents to commit themselves to a gender immediately after birth.”

“This will be the first time that the law acknowledges that there are human beings who are neither male nor female, or are both,” stated University of Bremen law professor Konstanze Plett. “People who do not fit into the traditional legal categories… We will have fellow human beings with no sex registered. They can’t be forced into either one of the traditional sexes in these other contexts.”

Earlier this year, the United Nations condemned “normalization” surgery, citing research that surgeries aiming to create an either anatomically male or female bodyfor intersex infants often leads to more harm than help.

The German law reportedly states that if a child “cannot be assigned to the female nor the male gender,” their status “shall be entered without such information in the register of births.”

Long live blank gender boxes! 

[hufflefox]

Yesterday I sent an email to an assistant professor I know quite well about something personal and I addressed her by her first name. I realized afterwards that I completely misjudged the situation and I’ve felt bad about it all day. Can someone cheer me up? I feel so stupid...

[hufflefox]

I’m pissed at my GP. I just went there for the same prescription he gave me last month and he began questioning my life and mental health. He even skeptically said “a lot of changes...” when I told him I was getting testosterone next month, while also dealing with some life shit. Well, sorry that my life is hectic, but my mental health is fine at the moment and not starting testosterone is certainly not going to improve it.

[stfuconnor]

I know… I hate that I can’t have meaningful conversations with my friends about Barbra Streisand anymore

[eouz-deactivated20170125]

old ass cartoonists hate youth so much they will reach at great lengths to look like they’ve made a point it’s truly fascinating

[bassiter]

i honestly thought at first that this was supposed to portray how smartphones have given us the ability to look up information we don’t know at a moment’s notice

[ccorinthian]

I fixed it

[fastforwardpauseplay]

LITERALLY yes

[becausedragonage]

People who:

a) resent attempts to manipulate them into reblogging a post. 

b) have no desire to pass that manipulation on to their followers.

[bugsongs]

my aesthetic is students at the library who have all their study materials out but are blatantly Not Studying

[goodticklebrain]

First of all, I apologize for this post being a bit late. I was JUST ABOUT to upload it when the internet at my house cut out. This should not have been a surprise, given all the various technical difficulties in the US yesterday…

Anyways… today’s comic deals with one of the more interesting topics in contemporary Shakespeare studies: Original Pronunciation!

O.P. and the amazing ways in which it has been reconstructed, deserve a lot more space than six stick-figure comic panels, but hey, barbarically reducing things of great literary and scholarly merit to their bare bones is kind of my “thing”. At the very least, now you know that when Hamlet tries to rhyme “move” and “love”, it’s not actually him pretending to be mad.

The super-linguist in question is David Crystal, whose praises I repeatedly sung. In his O.P. endeavors he has been ably assisted by his son, Ben Crystal, an actor who, armed with Shakespeare’s O.P., can make the prologue of Romeo and Juliet sound sexier and more piratical than you could have ever imagined. If you don’t believe, just take a listen:

Seriously. That’s gorgeous. Here’s a longer video, featuring Papa Crystal and Ben at the Globe:

It’s easy to get snobbish about Shakespeare and to believe it works only when performed in the elegantly trained received pronunciation of an Ian McKellen or a Benedict Cumberbatch. But, as the Crystals point out, received pronunciation is even further away from Shakespeare’s original accent than American are from it.

Shakespeare can be performed in any accent. English, Welsh, Scottish, American, Canadian, Singaporean, I don’t care. His words still have immense power. However, when you hear it spoken in O.P., you really get a sense of what it must have been like for those first groundlings at the first Globe Theatre.

[goodticklebrain]

So, this old post has picked up about 700 new notes in the past couple days, which makes me happy because the world needs (a) more appreciation of OP, and (b) more appreciation of the Magnificent Linguistic Crystals. Here, let me add on a couple more links:

Passion in Practice - Theatre company founded by Ben Crystal, does awesome OP productions. Or at least I assume they’re awesome, but they haven’t come on tour to Michigan yet. What’s up with that, Ben?

Original Pronunciation - Site run by the Crystals, including tons of great resources for people who want to learn OP.  

[girlwithalessonplan]

Whispers quietly….. … .. . I hate the o.p.

[thenerdcloset]

I quite like the way this flows. I wouldn’t want to see every production of his plays like this, just like I wouldn’t want to see every production in the “proper english” way, but I would love to see a full production with it. 

I kind of even want to see a production where they have O.P but a modern production design. 

[dbttiger]

[thgchoir]

no offense but this is literally the most neurotypical thing i have ever seen

[pyrrhicgoddess-deactivated20180]

Uhhhh… no. This is what they teach you in therapy to deal with BPD and general depression. When I got out of the hospital after hurting myself a second time, I got put into intensive outpatient program for people being released from mental hospitals as a way to monitor and help transition them into getting them efficient long-term care. This is something they stressed, especially for people with general depression. When you want to stay at home and hide in your bed, forcing yourself to do the opposite is what is helpful. For me, who struggles with self harm- “I want to really slice my arm up. The opposite would be to put lotion on my skin (or whatever would be better, like drawing on my skin) the opposite is the better decision.” It doesn’t always work because of course mental health isn’t that easy, but this is part of what’s called mindfulness (they say this all the time in therapy)

Being mindful of these is what puts you on the path to recovery. If you’re mindful, you are able to live in that moment and try your best to remember these better options.

I swear to god, I don’t get why some people on this website straight up reject good recovery help like this because either they a)have never been in therapy so don’t understand in context how to use these coping tactics. Or b)want to insist that all therapists and psych doctors are neurotypical and have zero idea what they are talking about. (Just so ya know, they teach this in DBT, the therapy used to help BPD. The psychologist who came up with DBT actually had BPD, so….a neurotypical women didn’t come up with this.)

[adeles]

[hufflefox]

86 Questions- Ask me any

1. favorite thing about your crush?

2. favorite place to be?

3. whens your birthday and what age are you mistaken for?

4. Is trust a big issue for you?

5. Did you hang out with the person you like recently?

6. What are you excited for?

7. What happened tonight?

8. Do you think it’s disgusting when girls get really wasted?

9. Is confidence cute?

10. What is the last beverage you had?

11. How many people of the opposite sex do you fully trust?

12. Do you want to get married?

13. What are you gonna do Saturday night?

14. What are you going to spend money on next?

15. Are you going out with the last person you kissed?

16. Do you think you’ll change in the next 3 months?

17. Who do you feel most comfortable talking to about anything?

18. The last time you felt broken?

19. Have you had sex today?

20. Are you starting to realize anything?

21. Are you in a good mood?

22. Would you ever want to swim with sharks?

23. Are your eyes the same color as your dad’s?

24. What do you want right this second?

25. What would you say if the person you love/like kissed another girl/boy?

26. Is your current hair color your natural hair color?

27. Would you be able to date someone who doesn’t make you laugh?

28. What was the last thing that made you laugh?

29. Do you really, truly miss someone right now?

30. Does everyone deserve a second chance?

31. Honestly, do you hate the last boy/girl you were talking to?

32. Does the person you have feelings for right now, know you do?

33. Are you one of those people who never drinks soda?

34. Listening to?

35. Do you ever write in pencil anymore?

36. Do you know where the last person you kissed is?

37. Do you believe in love at first sight?

38. Who did you last call?

39. Who was the last person you danced with?

40. Why did you kiss the last person you kissed?

41. When was the last time you ate a cupcake?

42. Did you hug/kiss one of your parents today?

43. Ever embarrass yourself in front of a crush?

44. I’ll tell you the first letter of my name and you complete it your way (the name that goes through your mind)

45. If you could, would you take back your last kiss?

46. Did you talk to someone until you fell asleep last night?

47. Who was the last person to call you?

48. Do you sing in the shower?

49. Do you dance in the car?

50. Ever used a bow and arrow?

51. Confession?

52. Do you think musicals are cheesy?

53. Is Christmas stressful?

54. Are you in Love?

55. Did you ever dream of a guy (name)?

56. Occupations you wanted to be when you were a kid?

57. Do you believe in ghosts?

58. Ever have a Deja-vu feeling?

59. Take a vitamin daily?

60. Best Kiss (name)?

61. Wear a bath robe?

62. What do you wear to bed?

63. First concert?

64. Wal-Mart, Target or Kmart?

65. Nike or Adidas?

66. Cheetos Or Fritos?

67. Best Sex (name)?

68. Favorite Taylor Swift song?

69. Ever take dance lessons?

70. Is there a profession you picture your future spouse doing?

71. Can you curl your tongue?

72. If you had to bring someone to your favorite spot, where would that be?

73. Have you ever cried because you were so happy?

74. What is your favorite book?

75. Do you study better with or without music?

76. Would you fuck someone from school (name)?

77. Ever been in love?

78. Who would you like to see in concert?

79. What was the last concert you saw?

80. Horoscope sign that fits you best?

81. Tea or coffee?

82. Favorite type of cookie?

83. Can you swim well?

84. Ever won a contest?

85. Are you patient?

86. Would you show your tumblr to someone in particular (name)?

[thotfuss]

biphobia is the way that TV shows will portray a character who is very clearly attracted to both men and women and still call them “straight and confused” or “gay and confused.”

biphobia is the constant mockery of young girls with “bi” in their bios, as if their identity isn’t valid because they are too young to know.

biphobia is the fact that lesbians are allowed to call their hatred of bi women a “preference” despite the fact that it’s ridiculously hurtful and based entirely on stereotypes. 

biphobia is present simply in how many people refuse to believe that bisexuality is anything more than a phase.

biphobia is the way that bi people are excluded both from the straight community AND the queer community, a community where they are supposed to be safe and accepted.

biphobia is the fact that bi kids are often terrified off accepting their sexualities because they’ve so often been told that they can either be “one or the other.”

biphobia is the myth of straight passing privilege.

biphobia is being told that being bi means you are inherently transphobic.

biphobia is the supported, and almost expected open hatred of bisexuals from both the gay and lesbian communities.

biphobia is the gatekeeper complex that gay and lesbian people have about the queer community.

biphobia is the fact that every time I’ve spoken up about this, a gay or lesbian person will instantly butt in and talk about how “they have it worse.” 

biphobia is real, and i’m sick of it. biphobia is real, and its not just straight people who perpetrate it.