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so i only did like two thirds of the song and therefore left out the hopeful ending but whatever, it’s not like this will be listened to probably anywayyyyyyy~~ *sparkle* DISCLAIMER THIS IS A COVER BTW

keepin’ my day job, ya’ll, don’t worry

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i can only imagine the day that they said

no, the world isn’t flat, it’s a circle instead you can run to wherever you want to now and those dizzy stargazers who dreamed of the black kept their heads in the clouds and they never looked back they kept wandering and never did they look down charting neptune by the fire of the sun kept looking for new constellations, new constellations there’s no walls and no ceilings as far as i know just the echoes of scars and the unbeaten road trip the gun on cautions that i’ve been sold cause it’s hard to believe that it’s wrong to want more than the truest of blue and a love like a roar i will run to wherever i want to go, oh charting neptune by the fire of the sun i’m looking for new constellations, new constellations so keep callin’ me crazy cause i never learned you should stop loving fire because you got burned now it feels like i’m living some sick déjà vu like the answers were there when i stared into you child of neptune, i’m the daughter of the Sun keep showing me new constellations, new constellations

#new constellations #ryn weaver #a cappella #four part harmony #mymusic #keep ya day job

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sometimes self care is saying “this is stupid” and closing the tab

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the speech impediment of the 21st century (by Marc Johns)

lyctorgideon

I’ll fuck you up buddy this is not a speech impediment it’s linguistic evolution!! the existence of the phrase “Aisha was like” allows the speaker to convey whatever Aisha said without making the listener assume they’re quoting Aisha directly while still maintaining the FEELING of what Aisha said.

ie, Aisha said she didn’t want to go out with me VERSUS Aisha was like, “I’d rather kiss a Wookie”.

the addition of “XYZ was like” lets the speaker be more expressive and efficient and it is a totally valid method of communicating information!!

corvidaedream

With the way language has evolved, this is one of the few ways I can even think of to express in casual conversation what someone said.

“So I said to Aisha,” is certainly used, but if you remove the “so,” which implies casual tone (“and” can be used in the same way), you get

“I said to Aisha,” which is really formal in most English dialects/variations. I don’t know about all, but in New England dialects, you sound like you’re reading aloud from a novel.

“I told Aisha,” is really only used when you continue to describe, not tell, what you told her. Ex: “I told Aisha that James was too punk for her” works while, “I told Aisha, ‘James is too punk for you’” crosses the line back into formalness of the “I said.”

Things like “I asked” or “I answered [with]” are similar levels of casual and efficient to the “So, I said [or say, as many conversations about the past take place in present tense anyway, as if the speaker is giving a play-by-play in the moment]” but are specific to only certain situations.

“I was like, ‘Marc Johns, what is your obsession with restoring archaic speech patterns and interfering with the natural progression of English from complex to efficient?’” envelopes all of these easily and is accessible and crisp, and allows for more variations on inflection than the others.

Of course, James is probably like, “I already fucking said that.” But eh, I tried adding on.

axonsandsynapses

#linguistics #a.k.a. how I learned to stop worrying and love the evolution of the English language without being a discriminatory elitist jerk (via crystalandrock)

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Yayyyyyy I love this. ❤

kingcheddarxvii

“Not all men” I say, “there is but one who is purely good.” But which man am I referring to? In Iceland, deep in the woods and the snow, there lives a lad raised by wolves who feasts upon sunbeams and loves all of nature, unburdened by man’s sins. Tenderly, he strokes a hungry squirrel, sharing with her the last acorns of the autumn harvest. A tear rolls down his cheek. Who is he

coffiend-jackalope

It doesn’t have to be malicious to be ableism.

When you say “Aww” when you hear of someone doing something for a disabled person, that’s ableism.

When you feel inspired because you saw a story about a disabled person going on with their life “despite their disability” and you’re able bodied, that’s ableism.

When a parent of a disabled child says their child taught them so much about life and what it means to live, that’s ableism.

When disabled kids are called sweet little innocent angels just because they’re disabled, that’s ableism.

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When you tell my daughter that she must do a lot for her mother (because her mother is blind), that’s ableism.

When you are “just trying to help” after they have said “No”, that is ableism.

When you are just trying to help, when they have said no, and it involves physical contact with the person, that is criminal assault. Like it or not, that’s what it is. Oh, and it’s ableism.

When they are your “special” friend, that’s ableism.

dateagirlwhosuggestion

date a girl who stops mid-sentence to tell you there’s a dog nearby

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awed-frog

Okay, you need to make sure you play this game at some point. Maybe not today or anything, because you’ll need about thirty minutes and a serious willingness to understand how it works, but - it’s so worth it. It’s basically an answer to our occasional frustration - why do assholes always come out on top? - and the beautiful thing about it is that not only does it explain how that happens, but also how we can change it.