Lizzy

A fossil from the Palaeozoic era

[squeeegs]

happy birthday, techno.

[novesaur]

i like drawing ymir fritz as some sort of alien bird looking girl...

[troythecatfish]

About 48% of the world's cobalt reserves are in Congo, but 70% of the world's mined cobalt comes from there.

Cobalt is toxic to touch and breathe - and there are hundreds of thousands of poor Congolese people touching and breathing it day in and day out.

[lmhavingaboibee]

Reblog to claim your medal if you were always a Yuta fan even before the switch up

To all my people out there, who loved Yuta ever since JJK 0 and stood tall despite his slander.

In Yuta Okkotsu we trust.

[maidsuokasenpai]

I honestly think the original ah lads not again post is the funniest

[maidsuokasenpai]

[tabortrillion]

Some of the reactions I have been seeing after the Stranger Things finale makes it evident people really need to reevaluate how they interact with media. The amount of people who are attaching negative connotations to the ending of the show that aren’t inherently there in the writing is staggering. And way too many people have negative emotions and feel that justifies harassing the actors, writers, or directors. Emotional maturity is increasingly absent and it’s so depressing to see.

[surlifen]

NO ONE knows how to use thou/thee/thy/thine and i need to see that change if ur going to keep making “talking like a medieval peasant” jokes. /lh

They play the same roles as I/me/my/mine. In modern english, we use “you” for both the subject and the direct object/object of preposition/etc, so it’s difficult to compare “thou” to “you”.

So the trick is this: if you are trying to turn something Olde, first turn every “you” into first-person and then replace it like so:

“I” →  “thou”

“Me” →  “thee”

“My” →  “thy”

“Mine” →  “thine”

Let’s suppose we had the sentences “You have a cow. He gave it to you. It is your cow. The cow is yours”.

We could first imagine it in the first person-

“I have a cow. He gave it to me. It is my cow. The cow is mine”.

And then replace it-

“Thou hast a cow. He gave it to thee. It is thy cow. The cow is thine.”

[some-stars]

This is perfect and the only thing missing is that when “thy” comes before a vowel it’s replaced by “thine”, i.e. “thy nose” but “thine eyes.” English used to do this with my and mine too (and still does with a and an).

[fremedon]

The second person singular verb ending is -(e)st. In the present tense, it works more or less like the third person singular ending, -s: 

I sleep in the attic. Thou sleepest in the attic. He sleeps in the attic.

I love pickles. Thou lovest pickles. He loves pickles.

I go to school. Thou goest to school. He goes to school.

The -(e)st ending is only added to one word in a compound verb. This is where a lot of people make mistakes:

I will believe it when I see it. Thou wilt believe it when thou seest it. He will believe it when he sees it.

NOT

*thou willst believest it! NOPE! This is wrong

If you’re not sure, try saying it in the third person and replacing the -(e)st with -s:

*He will believes it when he sees it. ALSO NOPE! 

In general, if there’s one auxiliary, it takes the -(e)st ending) and the main verb does not. If there are multiple auxiliaries, only one of them takes -(e)st:

I could eat a horse. Thou couldst eat a horse. He could eat a horse.

I should go. Thou shouldst go. He should go.

I would have gone. Thou wouldst have gone. He would have gone. 

You can reduce the full -est ending to -st in poetry, if you need to drop a syllable:

thou sleepst, thou lov'st.

In some common words–mostly auxiliary verbs, or what you might have learned as “helping verbs”–the ending is always reduced:

I can swim. Thou canst swim. He can swim.

Sometimes this reduction takes the last consonant of the stem with it:

I have a cow. Thou hast a cow. He has a cow. 

Or reduces the -st down to -t:

I must believe her. Thou must believe her. He must believe her.

I shall not kill. Thou shalt not kill. He shall not kill.

However! UNLIKE the third-person singular -s, the second person -(e)st is ALSO added to PAST TENSE words, either to the past stem in strong (irregular) verbs or AFTER THE -ed in weak (regular) verbs: 

I gave her the horse. Thou gavest her the horse. He gave her the horse.

I made a pie. Thou mad’st a pie. He made a pie.

I wanted to go. Thou wantedst to go. He wanted to go.

This is different from the third person!

*He gaves her the horse. He mades a pie. He wanteds to go. SO MUCH NOPE!

It’s not wrong to add -(e)st to a long Latinate verb in the past tense, but it’s unusual; it’s much more common to use a helping verb instead:

I delivered the letter. (Great!)

Thou deliveredst the letter. (Not wrong, but weird)

He delivered the letter. (Great!)

I did deliver the letter. (Normal if emphatic, or an answer to a question; otherwise, a little weird.)

Thou didst deliver the letter. (Great!) 

And a couple last things:

1.) Third-person -(e)th is mostly equivalent to and interchangeable with third-person -s:

I have a cow. Thou hast a cow. He hath a cow.

I love her. Thou lovest her. He loveth her.

I do not understand. Thou dost not understand. He doth not understand.

HOWEVER! Third-person -(e)th, unlike -s but like -(e)st, can, sometimes, go on STRONG past-tense verbs:

I gave her the cow. Thou gavest her the cow. He gaveth her the cow.

This never happens with weak verbs:

*He lovedeth her. NOPE NOPE NOPE!

And even with strong verbs, from Early Modern (e.g., Shakespearean) English onward, it’s quite rare. But you will see it from time to time.

2.) In contemporary Modern English, we invert the order of subjects and auxiliary verbs in questions:

Will I die? I will die. 

Has she eaten? She has eaten.

If there’s no auxiliary, we add one–do–and invert that:

Do you hear the people sing? You (do) hear the people sing.

In Early Modern English, this process was optional, and mostly used for emphasis; all verbs could be and were moved to the front of the sentence in questions:

Hear ye the people sing? (Or singen, if we’re early enough to still be inflecting infinitives.)

Do-support was also optional for negatives:

I don’t like him. I like him not.

Thou dost not care. Thou carest not.

She does not love thee. She loves thee not.

3.) Imperative verbs never take endings:

Hear ye, hear ye!

Go thou and do likewise!

Give me thy hand. Take thou this sword. 

4.) Singular ‘you’–that is, calling a singular person by a plural pronoun–arose as a politeness marker; and ‘thou’ fell out of use because it eventually came to be seen as impolite in almost all contexts. In general, once singular ‘you’ comes into use, it is used for addressing

people of higher social status than the speaker

or of equivalent status, if both speakers are high-status

strangers

anyone the speaker wants to flatter

‘Thou’ is used for

people of lower social status than the speaker

family and intimate friends

children

anyone the speaker wants to insult

It is safer to ‘you’ someone who doesn’t necessarily warrant ‘you’ than to ‘thou’ someone who does.

5.) And finally, that ‘ye’? That’s the nominative form of you–the one that’s equivalent to ‘I’ or ‘we.’ 

I  → thou → he/she/it  → we → ye → they

Me → thee → him/her/it → us → you → them

My → thy → his/her/its → our → your → their

Mine → thine → his/hers/its → ours → yours → theirs

Any time you’re using ‘thou’ for the singular, the second person plural– ‘y’all’– declines like this:

ye:  Ye are all a bunch of weirdos.

you: And I love you very much.

your: This has been your grammar lesson.

yours: This grammar lesson is yours. 

[joeyclaire]

when i was fifteen i had a theory that the only truly unifying experience for people born 2001-2007 is having at least one noteworthy experience of listening to faded by alan walker

[joeyclaire]

was i onto something or on something

i was born 2001-2007 and have history with faded by alan walker

i was born 2001-2007 and do not have history with faded by alan walker

i was not born 2001-2007 button

Voting ended onNov 22, 2025

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[lavonimacbeth]

So in 2019, I discovered the song faded and literally become obsessed. I genuinely wish I was joking— but every day, for an entire year, the only song I ever listened to was faded by Alan walker. Mind you I would listen to it multiple times a day even. Every time I hear this song I experience war flashbacks to that time 😭

[kaijuno]

[evilwizard]

[jhopessidechick]

Gender-based violence is a global problem, and in South Africa it is growing at an exponential rate. The government is staying silent and has made too many false promises.

Sign the petition: https://c.org/GKsyK4zdTV

Sign the Petition

Declare GBVF a National Disaster in South Africa

[dukeoftrash]

Please sign! I'm sharing this as a South African woman living in South Africa right now

[the-tired-opossum]

hey guys, i don’t rly know what 2 say here, but i just wanted to ask if u could pls sign this petition. gender based violence exists everywhere, but right now the women of south africa need as much help as we can get

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

Declare GBVF a National Disaster in South Africa

it hurts my soul more than i can express that this is even something that needs to be done

[nommethemba]

Reflection: The Beat Beneath the Words

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

Declare GBVF a National Disaster in South Africa

There’s this line I keep hearing - “Nika labafana ikhekhe labo. Balambile.” Translated: Give these boys their cake. They’re hungry.

It didn’t start as a song. It began as a chant, an MC hyping up the crowd, playing with rhythm and response.

Now they’ve added a beat to it and it’s becoming more popular. It’s catchy, I won’t lie, especially the, “Nika nika nika nika,” part.

But every time I hear it, something in me pulls back because I know what it means. And maybe it’s the survivor in me (or maybe it’s just the woman in me) but I can’t dance to the idea that women owe anyone their “cake.” Because when you grow up in South Africa AKA the 🍇 capital of the world, you learn early that music, laughter, and danger sometimes dance together. What sounds like fun often carries the echo of entitlement - the idea that men’s desire is hunger, and women’s bodies are the meal. We laugh, we dance, we sing along… until the words sink deeper than the beat.

That tension doesn’t just live in songs. It finds its way into intimacy too.

I once had an ex who would ask during sex, “Whose p*$$¥ is this?” - as if pleasure had to come with possession. I remember always saying, “It’s mine,” not to challenge him, but to hold on to something that was already mine. It wasn’t rebellion, really. It was protection because even in play, words matter. For me, words alway matter. As a survivor of sexual abuse, that small moment of claiming myself back, even in bed, felt like survival in motion.

When you’ve survived what I’ve survived, you hear everything differently, even the things that make people dance. You start to notice how easily ownership slips into affection. How quickly control hides inside desire.

Maybe that’s why this chant-turned-song unsettles me so much. It’s a mirror of the everyday - the casual ways we teach boys that wanting means deserving, and teach girls that giving in is part of the game.

But I still love music. I still love our rhythms, our language, our joy. I don’t want to stop dancing - I just want to dance consciously, to rhythms that honour women, not reduce them. To beats that celebrate pleasure without feeding power. To live in a country where pleasure and respect can share the same beat.

Because reclaiming my body doesn’t mean rejecting pleasure. It means defining it for myself. It means saying: my body isn’t your hunger to feed. My voice isn’t background noise. It means that when I move, when I sing, when I love - every word, every beat, every breath is mine.

And that’s why, on the 21st of November, I’ll be joining the National Women’s Shutdown initiated by Women for Change. A day where we stop working, spending, moving - to show what this country looks like without women’s labour, without women’s presence. A day to say we’re done being reduced to hunger, to silence, to background noise. Changing your profile picture purple is the first step.

A day to remind this nation that without women, it stops.

[w1ckedw1tchofdasouth]

I dont know if there are any other SAns here or what, but please dont close your heart to the national emergency that is Gender Based Violence in our country.

[lavonimacbeth]

Now I do not usually post things as sad as this because it mentally exhausts me, but this is a cause dear to my heart. My country, South Africa has the highest gender based violence against women (GBVF) in the WORLD. Our femicide rate is SIX times higher than the global average, and in just one year 5,578 women were murdered— a 33.33% increase from the previous year. Understandably, you may ask what the government has been doing to combat this? NOTHING. In 2019, President Cyril Ramaphosa pledged R21 billion to implement the national strategic plan on GBVF. So far, we don’t know if the money has even been spent. The ruling party of the this country, the ANC, are incompetent crooks. All of the taxes paid to the government are spent on their fancy cars and luxurious mansions; and the unemployment rate is currently 33,2%. 42,569 rape cases were reported this year, yet it is estimated up to 95% are never reported. Gender based violence is linked to poverty. Women for change and the citizens of South Africa have been demanding this be addressed and categorised as a national disaster. The government rejected this plea. At least 117 women report rape cases every day to the police, most of which are never investigated or reported in the first place. I am not asking for donations, I am asking you to sign a petition so that all the women and children in South Africa can feel safe, and that no more women, children and men will be lost to gender based violence.

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

Declare GBVF a National Disaster in South Africa

[lavonimacbeth]

Now I do not usually post things as sad as this because it mentally exhausts me, but this is a cause dear to my heart. My country, South Africa has the highest gender based violence against women (GBVF) in the WORLD. Our femicide rate is SIX times higher than the global average, and in just one year 5,578 women were murdered— a 33.33% increase from the previous year. Understandably, you may ask what the government has been doing to combat this? NOTHING. In 2019, President Cyril Ramaphosa pledged R21 billion to implement the national strategic plan on GBVF. So far, we don’t know if the money has even been spent. The ruling party of the this country, the ANC, are incompetent crooks. All of the taxes paid to the government are spent on their fancy cars and luxurious mansions; and the unemployment rate is currently 33,2%. 42,569 rape cases were reported this year, yet it is estimated up to 95% are never reported. Gender based violence is linked to poverty. Women for change and the citizens of South Africa have been demanding this be addressed and categorised as a national disaster. The government rejected this plea. At least 117 women report rape cases every day to the police, most of which are never investigated or reported in the first place. I am not asking for donations, I am asking you to sign a petition so that all the women and children in South Africa can feel safe, and that no more women, children and men will be lost to gender based violence.

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

Declare GBVF a National Disaster in South Africa

[lavonimacbeth]

We don’t talk about as a fandom how complex of a character Ymir Fritz was

[deadinparadice]

Don't ever hesitate. Reblog this. TUMBLR RULE. When you see it, REBLOG IT.

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