IdlyIdol

Too lazy to be god rn If I have to google how one more thing on this site works I'm leaving

[my-dailydreams]

[ihatecispeople]

i love it actually when nonnative speakers make mistakes that reveal how their native languages work.

lots of koreans online say they "eat" drinks which would assume they only have one word which covers the concept of consumption.

arabic immigrants in sweden (my mother included) have a hard time differentiating between "i think/i believe/my opinion is" which suggests that in arabic these different modalities of speaker agency is treated as one or at least interchangeable.

swedish speakers in english will use should/shall/have to/must with much higher nuance precision than native english speakers, to the point where they sound well awkward, because the distinction between these commands in swedish is much clearer than in english. i make mistakes between is/am/are and has/have constantly because swedish only has one pronoun covering all grammatical persons.

i've heard speakers of languages without gendered pronouns (finnish, the chinese dialects, and a tonne more) make he/she mistakes because it's hard(!!) to learn two or more gendered pronouns and when to use them correctly.

how neat is that?! it add a charm to international english usage in particular and make our appreciation of both our native languages and our learnt ones stronger...!!

[aandriskobold]

i love this! one thing i notice with a lot of people (native speakers of polish, romanian, french and others) is no differentiation between present simple (i go) and present continuous (I am going), because those languages only have one present tense to cover both. it's so lovely every time i hear it

i always think one of the most fun things about learning languages is that it teaches you how weird your own is! especially english phrasal verbs (the very different meanings of stand up, stand down, stand off, stand up to), or trying to explain the difference between being up to something and being up for something to my french friend. I love it!

[ihatecispeople]

another tag reminded me of how spanish speakers often mix up /v/ and /b/ because in panish they pronounced identically!

I wish more people had the ability to become bilingual because you're right, it makes you understand your own language at a more intimate and analytical level!!

[katakulio]

People whose native language is heavily gendered often apply gendered pronouns to English words that don't have them. For example, my Brazilian sports coach referred to my knee as "she" instead of "it". It's even more interesting when you realise that Old English did have gendered nouns, much like German, and we've essentially lost that entire element of our language.

[spnfanficpond]

Writing Challenge: Fic War

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How will this work?

You can sign up with a buddy, or we can match you up with someone else randomly. 

If you already have a buddy, only one of you needs to fill out this form!

The description says 5 chapters, but we only need THREE: each writer will write three (3) chapters, for a total of six!

You (as a team) will choose two (2) tropes and two (2) prompts that are opposite from the provided list!!   

How many words per chapter? You will decide a range between the two of you. What is doable for each writer always changes so it is up to your team to decide. 

Sign-up period: May 15th to June 15th

Pairing period, if needed, is June 15th to June 30th

There WILL be check-ins every two (2) weeks! 

Check-ins means that Admin Marie will send you a dm on discord or tumblr! 

Deadline for the last chapter: December 31st 2026. 

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We will need to know who is writing which chapters, so we know who to check in with. 

Timeline: 

Sign-ups May 15th- June 15th

Match up singles June 15th- June 30th

Writer A -

Writing starts July 1st

Check-in July 15th

Chapter 1 due July 31st

Writer B -

Check-in August 15th

Chapter 2 due August 30th

Writer A -

Check-in September 15th

Chapter 3 due September 30th

Writer B -

Check-in October 15th

Chapter 4 due October 31st

Writer A -

Check-in November 15th

Chapter 5 due November 30th

Writer B-

Check-in December 15th

Chapter 6 due December 31st

[drizzledrawings]

☆tiger☆

[mayawithany]

aromantic heart button

[catchymemes]

[catchymemes]

[astriiformes]

Really funny to think about the knowledge gap Eridians and humans are going to have about each other the next time they make contact due to Grace spending the rest of his life on Erid (plus all the information aboard the Hail Mary, and especially the laptops Stratt put basically entire internet on!)

Eridians are going to have a fairly solid grasp of the English language (and possibly even some others), an intimate understanding of the environmental conditions a human needs to thrive as well as their nutritional and psychological needs, a solid grasp of a number of scientific concepts discovered by humans, and decent familiarity with human culture and customs (if probably an American-centric one). Some Eridians might even be explicitly trained as diplomats or ambassadors with the expectation that one day the two cultures might interact more regularly.

Whereas humans are like. Well. There sure are talking rocks in space somewhere!

[ficauthor]

A funny implication of Project Hail Mary is they landed on Erid in Grace's tiny ass weird (to them) Nasa spaceship. They'd recognize that its clearly technologically advanced. But it's also like a fifth of the size that their ship was and its not made of any materials they'd use. Plus its got all this tech with interfaces they cant perceive and now there's a weird guy with Rocky who they can't understand but he understands them.

Imagine sending a guy to space and he comes back with a creature you can't fathom but it fathoms you bc it's hung out with the guy you sent for a few years

[dyke-parade]

another phm book thing it would've been so funny to see in the film is stratt trying to brute-force her way into a new zealand max-security prison and getting pissed that she has to have a pat-down first bc that's slowing down her world-saving mission, making grace have a very teachery moment of "uh uh! you can't always use 'i'm saving the world' as an excuse to be a jerk!" to which functional world dictator stratt actually admits "yeah ok you might have a point" (and then recruits an embezzler convicted of manslaughter to pave the sahara desert into an astrophage breeder farm bc this book is fucking wild) i can't stress enough that NOBODY is doing it like these two. dynamic of all time

[medeaschorus]

do you guys think that when Stratt was going through the vlogs she got to the “so I met an alien” part and was like ‘shit he went crazy’ only to see Rocky roll on screen like 3 videos later

[introvertathome]

Okay, stay with me here

Rocky never shows up on the videos until like halfway through. Earth can't see or even hear him until about halfway through Grace's collection of vlogs

They all think he lost his fucking mind but somehow succeeded on the mission

[djpachipikachu]

happy pride month

[theclowninyellow]

Neither of them are happy with this situation

[peitoll]

can I help you man

[ricky-tiki-tah]

I love how the biggest space guys on tumblr right now, Dr. Captain Ryland Grace and Simon the Convict, are played by Mark “send me to space I don’t care if I don’t come back” Iplier, and Ryan “oh my god please don’t send me to space. Why are you sending me to space?!?” Gosling.

I just think that’s hilarious

[sukimas]

"you should be at the club" i should be in the woods. performing the ritual.

[markiplieroncesaid]

“I’ll finally be able to escape the blood ocean and curl up in Ryan Gosling’s arms.”

-Iron Lung Is Now Available**