Andulka
Love Begins
Aqua Utopia｜海の底で記憶を紡ぐ
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Keni
cherry valley forever
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Sade Olutola
Stranger Things
Product Placement
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Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
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Show & Tell
The Stonewall Inn
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YOU ARE THE REASON
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@lythiumd
public defenders get behind me. i’ll defend you this time
“so you like criminals?” I LIKE THE RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL.
One of worst things copaganda ever perpetuated is the rhetoric that if you aren't guilty of breaking the law, you shouldn't value your personal privacy against the state's surveillance and interrogation. That only guilty people hire lawyers when talking to police.
It never ceases to tickle me how often ancient graffiti is deciphered and turns out to be fucking tourists writing their reviews of the thing they came to see on the wall next to it, because how else are you going to make sure people read it without mass communication? Two thousand years and we're still on the same page.
Yelp reviews actually an ancient tradition, who'd have guessed.
I think you're forgetting the very important "I fucked Claudius' mom last night"
And my eternal favourite: "this is very high!"
oh i never know how to explain this properly but i looooooooooooooooove when a story just absolutely TELLS you something and it’s so obvious it goes right by you. like the equivalent of hiding in plain sight. i’m thinking in the original cut(?) of alien where they showed the full xenomorph, crouched and ready to pounce, but because we’ve never seen it before, we can’t tell what it is and interpret it as part of the spaceship. or it’s a detail that seems so out of place or wildly insane that you automatically ignore it and assume you misinterpreted until that exact detail comes back in a big way? (like when noah the raven boy flat out tells everyone he’s a ghost and they take it as a joke, so the reader does too) is there a tvtropes name for this i’m obsessed with it
I think that this is known as “delayed decoding” in literary analysis. The term was coined by Ian Watt in the ‘70s, don’t remember the exact year, to describe a technique used by Joseph Conrad in Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness, but a lot of writers picked it up. It’s basically what you described: you present a detailed image but don’t make its moral and psychological relevance obvious. You give facts but not their meaning, not until later, and the revelation can come directly from the characters who suddenly realize what they have observed or it can also be left in the text, to be understood by the reader. You can see why Modernists loved it!
It’s also really, really fun as an author.
I feel like you get this a lot in mystery books, too. Someone sees the killer do something but, since they don’t know that’s the killer (and may not know a murder has happened), they (and we) interpret it as something benign until we get the big reveal at the end of the book.
from their first selfie ever posted to their first selfie as an open couple
Congrats to them!
I loved this era of Steven universe discourse
Reblogging again with tags a follower added because they are correct. No you are not insane for reading that deeply into the overall reaction to SU and im glad you said it.
This sort of problem runs deep and i see it fucking everywhere.
i remember when the owl house ended someone i followed who i 100% thought was like a normal leftist made a text post just to be like "FUCK STEVEN UNIVERSE HELL YEAH!!! KILL THE FASCISTS!!!!" and i was just sitting there like. steven isn't in the room. steven hasn't been in the room for years
there's a lot of tags on this post like "yeah he's literally a kid why the hell do people want him to do murder"
And just so we're clear his age has little to do with it. The heart of this discourse is "reformed" and "ex" Christians who refuse to shed their attachment to punitive justice despite them often identifying as leftists. This is about them believing in punishment as a form of justice when in reality they are seeking flawed catharsis.
It's everywhere, but this is one of those absolutely nonsensical examples of it in discourse about an earnest show about restorative justice. Written by, yknow, a Jewish woman and indisputably Jewish in its view toward punishment and justice. The ~ex I swear I'm ex look at my pride flag pfp I'm ex~ Christians on this website cannot handle it and this is what you get as a result
Funny thing is, he did kill someone eventually and it messed him up pretty badly.
Someone in facebook also posted this too
Omg
Mediglyphics
This shit’s infuriating
Oh, this is a type of shorthand!
There are 3 main types, but from my research, this looks to be American Gregg Shorthand.
As you can see, there are set symbols for every letter.
Let’s break one of the words down:
Using the Gregg Alphabet as reference, we can see most of the letters in “atrophied” are present. But why no “o” vowel, and why is “ph” written as “f”?
Simple. In shorthand, you cut out all vowels in a word when writing it down, with the exception of words that BEGIN or END with a vowel (hence the “a” at the start being present), or like in the “i” in “atrophied”, to make it more readable when the sound could be harder to distinguish if it isn’t written. In “atrophied” if the the “i” isn’t written, it could be hard to tell if the writer meant a “fud”, “fad”, “fod” or “fid” sound, for example.
Also, since Shorthand is a phonetic writing system, you are encouraged to write down the phonetic sounds of words rather than the actual letter blends - in this case, write an “f” instead of a “ph”.
So in actuality, these aren’t just meaningless scribbles - it’s Gregg Shorthand, a writing system developed to take down notes more quickly than when written out in full, which is very useful in a medical or journalistic environment.
Some people can even write over 100 words in a minute! And, it’s been in use since John Robert Gregg invented it in 1888! Wow! So old!
Isn’t language amazing~?
I’m writing my signature like this ✌🏾
It’s easy to forget JRR Tolkien was a fairly prolific academic translator with an interest in early medieval literature and philology. It’s so inspiring that he found time to write The Hobbit while fighting for his life over Beowulf.
JRR Tolkien’s introductory notes for Sir Gawain and the Green Knight are like “This is a superb little poem. I really enjoy the author’s ability to weave existing narratives within folklore into one cohesive tale. This was fun!” and his lectures and notes on Beowulf are lowkey like “Translating and analyzing this was my Waterloo. I have been looking at it for 40 years. I am Sisyphus and this poem is my burden. All of you are misinterpreting it. Me too probably. God help us all.”
The best girl in Arcane
It’s always the gays
Old dude came in the shop and when I said "lemme know if you have any questions" he goes "what was the name of Alexander the Great's horse," thinking he was so funny. I told him Bucephalus, and he was so disappointed. Like his whole day was hanging on beating me at trivia. He says "you're only the second person who knew that" and I said "well, probably the third if you count Alexander the Great." He left without buying anything, and did not say goodbye. I think I honestly hurt his weird little feelings! Sorry I'm a bitch, old man!
Google docs isn’t deleting your docs just because they have lewd text.
OP turned off reblogs of the post due to being debunked, but here’s a link of the reblog so you can still read stuff. Hate Google all you want but misinformation helps no one.
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Legit question for Zionists:
In between harassing black folks of all walks of life about even the perceived allyship with Palestinians, how do you defend beating the only black person on these Flotilla trips to provide real aid who for all intents and purposes has the most clout of anybody on that ship, and not lay a single finger on Greta Thunberg?
This is not to say that you should have brutalized Greta, but Chris is American and a labor rights activist icon. And yet you felt brazen enough to actually lay hands on him for doing the same action as Greta and others on that flotilla.
Curious.
incredibly important question that needs to be answered.
Something about Apothecary Diaries and the complexity of what it means to have a mother. Something about Maomao and her only memories of her mother being silence or a pain that has nothing to do with her but is reflected onto her anyway, and yet still engineering things so that Lakan, years later, would come to find and marry her. Something about all of the courtesans in the Verdigris House being like mother figures to Maomao, yet never paying attention to her when she cried. Something about Loulan doing everything in her power to not be a mother - taking drugs to avoid it, knowing that to have a child would be a selfish, cruel thing, even down to 'killing' the children who adore her. Something about Jinshi, and both of his mothers - the one who birthed him and the one who raised him. Anshi, and raising him to be mature and older than he should have had to be to be the opposite of his grandfather, the man who victimized her, and Ah-Duo, unable to be in his life because she chose to give him up. Something about mothers not being unconditional and uncomplicated; something about motherhood being absent, ugly, confined by circumstance or by past pain. Something about not wanting to be your mother; something about being too much like your mother. Something about how your mother haunts you regardless.
This is a perfect examination of the complexity of the mother-child relationship and how unconditional maternal love is actually rare. It's realistic and shows that parents are people first before they are parents; especially when you live in a society that demands so much of you outwardly.
i think one of the best parts about being a teenager in the early to mid 2010s was that cigarettes were definitely not cool anymore and vapes hadn’t popularized yet so my lungs made it out of my peak impressionable years relatively unscathed
If you weren’t in high school in 2014ish you cannot begin to imagine how pathetic vaping was back then. It was so lame, only for the most phony of tryhards.
I truly believe that nicotine addiction was on its way out. Decades of successful public health initiatives had slowly chipped away at its place in the public consciousness. The numbers of new kids picking up the habit was falling every year, and we were so, soooo close.
I will never, ever forgive the execs at Juul for fucking that up.
I remember how Vaping was only used as a way to stop smoking actually cigarettes. As it should have been used. Now, my friend who works in primary schools told me he sees 10 YO with bubblegum flavoured vapes. 10 years olds. Children.
Several years back, I started researching transgender existence in Germany before, during, and after Hitler’s stranglehold on the country. I
