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A HANDY CHART FOR THOSE OF YOU WONDERING WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH THESE. NOTE THAT THESE ARE ALL THE INFORMAL AND YOU IS THE FORMAL SO LIKE YOU WOULD ALWAYS ADDRESS YOUR SUPERIOR/ OLDER PERSON/ SOCIAL BETTER WITH YOU BUT WITH YOUR BUDS YOU CAN USE THESE.
I’m not sure I knew the thy/thine distinction. Thanks for this!
THINE IS ALSO GRAMMATICALLY EQUIVALENT TO YOURS.
“It is yours” and “It is thine” differ only in their level of formality.
as a lover of Women Fighting & Killing media it's so important to me when they actually let the women look like shit. you know what i mean. like im so bored when a woman is in what's supposed to be a brutal fight and her hair is just aesthetically tousled or something and her makeup is still pristine. fuck offfff. if she's beating the shit out of someone and fighting for her life she should be covered in blood n bile she should look like she got hit by a truck and the truck exploded
This is so silly but I'm watching a short video essay on sincerity in cinema and the creator is talking about how he watched Lord of the Rings for the first time at 17. He explains that he'd grown so used to the 'ironic' meta style commentary in the movies of the 2010's that as he was watching the opening narration of LotR, he spent the entire time waiting for the joke to come. For someone to take it all back with a zinger line. He listened to Blanchett describe and explain the backstory, and he waited for the other comedic shoe to drop.
And he kept doing it. Scene after scene.
He spent the film expecting someone to make a joke about how unserious things were or to break the fourth wall or do some other self referential type thing.
Now, maybe I'm just at that point in my cycle or maybe I'm too delicate in general, but I literally teared up hearing that. Straight up cried a bit. It is so fucking sad that sincerity and genuineness is being bred out of people.
People say all the time 'this generation can't take anything seriously!' and really, is it any wonder? Younger people have been trained out of it. You are no longer encouraged to be genuine or show emotion or be honest. You are actively punished for it. In fact, you are almost guaranteed to suffer for it.
That is so fucked up. I'm sorry to go on a bit of a random ramble rant but it's so fucking gut wrenching to see younger people lose that element of themselves. You can't express your passion without being told you're 'crashing out' or 'cringe'. You have to live in this neutral state of fear of perception, and god forbid anybody step outside of it!
You're told you should only consume and succumb and be ironic and emotionless and cool.
Listen, if you're following me and you're like.... 25 or under, let's say. Please. I beg of you. Do not fall for this rhetoric. Please, for the love of all things, feel. Feel and create and be honest with yourself. Indulge in things that make you happy. Be sincere. Wear your heart on your sleeve. Do not let this hyper-capitalistic, hyper-consumerist, self-centred, individualist culture take that from you.
Bleed yourself into the work you create. Live. Don't fucking let anyone tell you different.
I have learned better than to open up in Tumblr posts, but I would like to share something.
When I was a teenager, I was bitter and angry and antisocial, I thought I was an awful person. I was just becoming aware of politics and the politics I had? Not good. I was convinced humans were inherently selfish and abusive and manipulative, because I grew up around adults that were selfish and abusive and manipulative, and I had learned to be like them too. I was unable to connect emotionally with other people or with media; I liked to read a lot but my readings tended to be very superficial.
(I spent a lot of time rolling my eyes at people who did media analysis and watching cringe feminist compilations. I lived life as though it was an argument I had to win and I was miserable.)
Then I read Lord of the Rings.
I think it taught me how to be a person.
It showed me a world where people could be good, uncompromisingly good, where connection had value and where you didn't have to turn around, look at the camera, and point how ridiculous the setting was or how pathetic the characters were.
Troubled people existed, of course. Evil people too. But even them, the story argued, deserved compassion. You know what character I saw myself in the most? Gollum/Sméagol. It's not like the narrative is interested in redeeming him, but it makes an effort to humanize him, constantly reminding us that he was like Frodo once. And it reminded me I was a like Frodo once too, a sensitive, nerdy kid that had been reduced to the worst parts of himself due to a mix of life-shattering trauma, cultural conditioning, and resentful disposition.
It restored something in me, is what I mean. The capacity of seeing good in people, of valuing kindness and compassion. It helped me develop pro-social behaviours, kickstarted the process by which my political worldview went from being on the path to reactionary to full-on proud socialist.
It made me care about art, really care about it. Not as mere entertainment but as the life changing experience it is made to be.
In short, we need more books like Lord of the Rings. Stories that are open and genuine and that inspire people to be better. It might just change someone's life. It might just make the world a better place.
it’s crazy how much you can read if you read
WHY YOU SHOULD WRITE HORRIBLY:
1. You’ll never write anything if you don’t
Evening cape by Emile Pingat, 1890s.
Oh shit. Sally Field kinda went off here. “The garment you knit for yourself as a child.” Might have to read her memoir now.
[Chris Dennis]
Well put. (Source: Writing About Writing Facebook page)
as a lawyer who’s been practicing for six years now I can say with certainty that this 100% applies to lawyers
Me: My writing is so bad. :(
Meanwhile at Disney: Somehow, Palpatine has returned.
I need to print this and put it on a wall
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freak4freak is always so awesome but another character dynamic that i think is really great is freak vs freak. you're the only person who understands me and i'm the only person who understands you. unfortunately this also does not stop either of us from hating each other and in fact it might even make everything significantly worse for everyone involved
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Fuck that post going around saying "you can have coffee in your story without justifying it :) you don't need to explain everything :)" I want, no, I DEMAND a fully researched ethnobotanical paper on every single food item in your work, if you don't explain to me where did potatoes come from in your fantasy setting or don't explain how the industry of coffee works over interstellar distances with full detail you are doing things wrong and I personally hate you and I hate your stupid story, fuck you
Why are your stupid little wizards and knights eating potato stew in your dumb European middle ages fantasy world. Where did they get potatoes from. Where is the center of domestication of potatoes, do you have a fantasy Andean civilization? What are the social and economic consequences of having such a calorie rich crop in cold climates. I don't care about "themes" or "enemies to lovers with found family", I didn't ask about that. Where does your idiot space captain gets their shitty coffee from. Is it imported from Earth? Are there coffee growing worlds? Is it an alien species replacement with the same name? What are the social consequences of that? Don't try to change the subject, I'll stop pointing the gun when I want, I'm trying to have a conversation here,
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