I'm A Mess™️

Just me being a mess about things I love (especially Greek mythology) Lilou | 17 y.o | she/they | queer

[lilwindie]

Everyday I wake up and do my silly little tasks and wonder when will Ice Adolescence come out

[the-strawman]

For a moment I was so overcome with Lister Bird with a mullet, that I forgot about Lister Bird with short hair

[frodo-baggins]

everyday i wake up and attempt my silly little tasks while daydreaming about fictional characters

[lilwindie]

How dare you doing dark academia playlists without including any songs by Palaye Royale. They did the most dark academia music video I’ve ever seen. I mean. With vampires and everything. Please.

[entertainingfaith]

I'M DOING AN EXPERIMENT

To prove something to a friend, please

REBLOG IF YOU THINK ASEXUALS BELONG IN LGBTQ+ SPACES

LIKE IF YOU THINK ASEXUALS DON’T BELONG IN LGBTQ+ SPACES

[lilwindie]

«My child is fine»

Your child just spent 3 hours on Pinterest adding pins to a board about their favourite book character who happens to be a villain to feed their obsession

[screnwriter-old-deactivated2021]

please remember that it’s okay to use popular tropes and clichés in your writing. just remember to make them your own, and put your own kinda spin on them. 

don’t let yourself be stopped by what other people say you can or can’t do when it comes to writing. you are allowed to write about whatever you want, regardless of how popular it is in mainstream media. 

edit: obviously, this doesn’t apply to harmful stereotypes, which is incredibly important that we do not write about! (thank you to @stormypaint for the reminder in the tags) 

[yinqors-deactivated20141206]

[nesft-deactivated20180108]

#CROW NO

Crow: CROW YES!

[notcuddles]

It’s actually impossible to measure how many fucks a corvid give because there is no device sensitive enough to register such a tiny amount.

[pardonmewhileipanic]

science/animal side of tumblr… explain to me the birb thing

[red3blog]

Tail Pulling is a behavior noted in many corvids. The practical application is to create a distraction that will allow the birb to make off with the target’s food. Imagine being in the lunch room and a large fellow has a Twinkie you covet. You can’t just take it from him because he’ll defend his Twinkie. But if you thwap him on the back of his neck and then dash around to snag the Twinkie while he investigates, you stand a decent chance of enjoying spongey goodness. This is basically that in birb form.

Except corvids don’t only do this as a distraction. Sometimes they seem to just being doing it to mess with other animals/birbs. But to use my lunch room analogy, there are times you might thwap someone sneakily on the back of the neck just for amusement. Primates exhibit behavior that appears to be just be annoying other animals for amusement. Given how intelligent crows are, its not unlikely that this is a manifestation of an innate desire to just fuck with someone else for the fun of it. Such as this from the link above:

[pardonmewhileipanic]

THANK YOU FOR THE BIRB KNOWLEDGE

[whitmerule]

BECAUSE IT IS FUN

[queenbloo-blog]

This speaks to me on a molecular level.

[askfordoodles]

birbs just wanna have fun

[huntersonthewingarchive]

Sorry to hijack a little, but to put it bluntly, corvids are also pretty BALSY. They are more than prepared to harass other huge birds of prey which could deal them a lot of damage. There’s plenty of cases of corvids ‘riding’ other birds as well. It’s often to harass the larger bird out of the area, but as @red3blog said, they quite often (in layman’s terms) enjoy fucking shit up for fun.

‘Where the hell is the seatbelt on this thing?’

I mean they deserve a medal for having such huge bird balls imo

Literally no fucks are given by corvids. Ever.

[thclie]

me reading the classics

[lilwindie]

Does anyone want to create content of my OCs? Really? No one? FINE I guess I’ll do it myself

[lilwindie]

Went to a museum and decided to share with y’all some Greek mythology related art, part 2 ! ♥︎ (PS: the lighting in the paintings area was horrible)

Priam aux pieds d’Achille (« Priam at Achilles’ feet ») - Jules Bastien-Lepage (1876, oil painting)

Hebe - Jean Pierre Victor Huguenin (XIXth c., marble)

Naissance de Vénus (Birth of Venus) - Amaury-Duval (1863, oil painting)

Médée furieuse (« Furious Medea ») - Eugène Delacroix (1838, oil painting)

Ganymede - Jean Pierre Cortot (~1811/1814, marble)

[my-name-is-apollo]

Get yourself someone who looks at you the way Muses look at Apollo

[radiodarkblue]

making new playlists again just because i feel bad but also very tired and i don’t sleep ✔︎

[lilwindie]

One of the things I like the most in French is how we use the verb “miss”. It is build differently in a sentence than in English, when we mean “I miss you” in English, we say “Tu (you) me (I) manques” in French. There’s an inversion of the pronouns, so the object of the missing actually becomes the centre of the sentence.

What I found truly amazing is that in that way, saying “Tu me manques” actually means at its origins “a piece of me is missing when you are not near”. And that for me, is one of the most beautiful and poetic thing in the French language.

[cat-brodsky]

(I had to reblog to reply)

Reflective pronouns are just that, pronouns that correspond to -self pronouns - e.g. myself, yourself, etc.

I am certainly not a French teacher either, so, I asked a native speaker friend of mine. His take is that the translation is “You are missed by me”, and that while your interpretation is beautiful, it’s not correct. There’s no such implication.

Manquer is a verb with many meanings - to lack, to miss (in time), to fail to do something, and, of course, to miss emotionally - manquer à. Paul manque à sa mère - Paul is missed by his mother. Since à generally corresponds to the “to” preposition, we can reasonably infer that the literal translation is simply “you are missing to me”.

lawlessfrench.com/grammar/manquer-lesson/ french.kwiziq.com/revision/grammar/manquer-a-means-to-miss-someone-something-emotionally Sources

[lilwindie]

I am, actually, also a native speaker and it is true that most of the time we use the preposition "à", as in "to". But in some specific cases, when we don’t use explicitly the object, the literary explanation and analysis can refer to what I said earlier— i do agree with you though I’m not trying to contradict anyone here! I think your explanation is more grammatically correct while mine is more based on a literary analysis ? Anyways saying "Tu me manques" or as you said, "tu manques à moi" (which we don’t say as it’s not that natural to say in French) still implies that something is missing within you.

Hope it clarified a bit !

[lilwindie]

One of the things I like the most in French is how we use the verb “miss”. It is build differently in a sentence than in English, when we mean “I miss you” in English, we say “Tu (you) me (I) manques” in French. There’s an inversion of the pronouns, so the object of the missing actually becomes the centre of the sentence.

What I found truly amazing is that in that way, saying “Tu me manques” actually means at its origins “a piece of me is missing when you are not near”. And that for me, is one of the most beautiful and poetic thing in the French language.

[barbasbackside]

what do you mean i can’t just daydream about my characters and hope that the words will spontaneously appear on paper?

[lilwindie]

The fact that in Part of Me (aka “You Will Be Found” 1st version) the cast starts by singing “you were not alone” and THEN continues with “you are not alone” it just,, it hits different yknow