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hate hate hate that anxiety translates over into physical symptoms like what the fuck you're supposed to be a MENTAL illness
wait until you learn cartesian dualism is bullshit and your body and mind are one same being and not separate houses in one subdivision
#relatable
i love it actually when nonnative speakers make mistakes that reveal how their native languages work.
lots of koreans online say they "eat" drinks which would assume they only have one word which covers the concept of consumption.
arabic immigrants in sweden (my mother included) have a hard time differentiating between "i think/i believe/my opinion is" which suggests that in arabic these different modalities of speaker agency is treated as one or at least interchangeable.
swedish speakers in english will use should/shall/have to/must with much higher nuance precision than native english speakers, to the point where they sound well awkward, because the distinction between these commands in swedish is much clearer than in english. i make mistakes between is/am/are and has/have constantly because swedish only has one pronoun covering all grammatical persons.
i've heard speakers of languages without gendered pronouns (finnish, the chinese dialects, and a tonne more) make he/she mistakes because it's hard(!!) to learn two or more gendered pronouns and when to use them correctly.
how neat is that?! it add a charm to international english usage in particular and make our appreciation of both our native languages and our learnt ones stronger...!!
i love this! one thing i notice with a lot of people (native speakers of polish, romanian, french and others) is no differentiation between present simple (i go) and present continuous (I am going), because those languages only have one present tense to cover both. it's so lovely every time i hear it
i always think one of the most fun things about learning languages is that it teaches you how weird your own is! especially english phrasal verbs (the very different meanings of stand up, stand down, stand off, stand up to), or trying to explain the difference between being up to something and being up for something to my french friend. I love it!
another tag reminded me of how spanish speakers often mix up /v/ and /b/ because in panish they pronounced identically!
I wish more people had the ability to become bilingual because you're right, it makes you understand your own language at a more intimate and analytical level!!
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itâs been ten years and i can confirm that everything still happens so much. happy anniversary king
literally how boring and dull do you have to be to dislike codependent relationships in fiction like where is the passion where is the devotion where is the worship that inevitably corrupts and destroys one if not both of them
My blog is a safe space for burnouts, flakes, layabouts, ne'er-do-wells, underachievers, and anyone who can't be arsed
Patron Saint of just hanging out
jinx likers: firm subscribers to the malnourished, emotionally volatile little meow meow pipeline, now with neon colors. love her because of her unparalleled emotional depth as a character and the agency she had within her own tragedy but ALSO because of her vitamin d deficiency
vi enjoyers: true believers in huge arms and the inherent attractiveness of grievous bodily harm. love her because she somehow manages to be the literal heart and soul of the story despite the fact that she spent the entire season wearing what had to be her filthy striped prison uniform pants. distracted everyone from that fact by bleeding so attractively
caitlyn connoisseurs: perhaps the funniest of the bunch, these people slammed on the brakes the moment they saw this Mad Hatter/Sherlock Holmes allusion with blue hair and pronouns. love her because she has somehow managed to dodge the guillotine of being rich and a cop by being perhaps one of the most effective portrayals of true empathy and compassion in recent times, despite being built like a praying mantis
mel medarda fan club presidents: soldiersâand I mean SOLDIERSâfighting for our right to love shady politicians who neglect half their city. love her because she is simultaneously one of the best-executed morally gray characters of all time, the most jaw-droppingly stunning collection of pixels ever commited to screen, and has successfully been able to turn a blind eye to both the suffering of Zaun and the fact that she is miles out of jayceâs league.
sevika supporters: cousins of vi enjoyers, but more interested in the one doling out the grievous bodily harm than the one receiving it. love her because instead of being your average Grunt #2, she brought another crucial layer of depth as an antagonist who was blunt and honest, even though her apology for betraying of Vander came in the form of kicking the shit out of his kid not once but THRICE
heimerdinger heads: heâs a little fucking guy
You Can See Me
by helloliriels (inspired by: You Can See Me fan art)
...
âWho would want me for a flatmate?â
John had been serious, but Mike was chuckling âŠ
âYou know,â Mike said, all smiles still, âyouâre the second person to say that to me today?â
This intrigued John âŠ
âOh, really?â he found himself asking, uncharacteristically, âwho was the first?â
...
Mike shuffled into the lab at St. Bartâs with John in tow. It certainly looked different from his day! And he said as much ⊠Mike just laughed. Always jolly.
Then John saw him. Doing a double take, as the younger man also noticed him and then Mike and then back to him. John smiled in return. Only nodding when Mike left them to it. The man was gorgeous!
John stretched out his hand, âJohn Watson, you uh âŠ? Mike says you were looking for a flatmate?â
The curly haired model turned left and right as if assessing if John was actually looking at and talking to him???
John smiled his most charming, and he hoped, disarming smile in reply, âI wonât bite.â He teased.
The man stood up, still reluctantly looking around - John noticed - and came over to shake Johnâs hand. He seemed a little shocked when John actually shook it?
John laughed, âguessing youâre a bit of the âstrong silentâ type, then? Do you have a name? Mike didnât actually say âŠâ he stood waiting for an answer âŠ
The apparition simply smiled in return, as if he couldnât believe it.
âHe said you have the same problem as me? Trouble finding a flatmate that could tolerate you? Iâm afraid Iâm not the best candidate ⊠but then, I guess I shouldnât be saying that, if I want you to take me in? Huh?â He liked the honest smile that earned him â... so? Uh⊠name?â
âSherlock Holmes.â
The voice was deep and velvety. John repressed a shiver of delight, as he turned on the charm in reply. Noting how the taller man was looking him over appraisingly also.
âHow long have you lived in the flat alone?â he asked.
âLived is a relative term.â Was the non-committal reply.
John laughed. âFair enough,â he imagined the mess of unpacking was taking the man a while, âhow long have you been looking for a flatmate?â
âAges.â
The words accompanied a very fair amount of blinking.
John licked his lips, nervously hoping that the man before him wouldnât just disappear, now that he had offered himself up as a flatmate, and god ⊠if he didnât think this could be so much more ⊠?
âThe address is 221b ⊠Baker Street. If you think you can handle a flatmate who doesnât talk for days on end - or appear - for that matter? Who plays violin at nights, and often does terrible experiments for the purpose of solving cold cases? Flatmates should know the worst about each other, donât you think?â
John grinned. It sounded right up his alley! âThat the worst of it? Sounds rather ideal to me!â Too soon? Too much? GOD! Donât mess this up, Watson! âDo you need my list of failings? Afraid it might be too many to list? Haha!â
âAs long as youâre willing to accept mine, yours will not be a problem,â Sherlock was smiling, kindly, âBesides, I could probably deduce them all if given a moment to.â He didnât sound arrogant when he said it ⊠simply brilliant.
John knew he could too ⊠somehow ⊠He bit his lip, wondering what had been deduced already? âWhat time?â he asked. Anxious to know how soon he could see this vision again?
âSeven oâclock? Tomorrow? Good for you?â Sherlock was grabbing up his coat and heading towards the door.
John was elated, he went over and opened it for him, âIâll be there!â he replied. Winking.
The man turned around, just as he entered the hall. Apology written on his face, âSorry I have to run? Left my things in the mortuary ⊠â He trailed off as if thinking âŠ
John tried to pick his jaw up from the floor as he watched that figure turn and reluctantly walk away ⊠as if being torn from Johnâs side ⊠?
He was really going to like this new living situation âŠ
God Bless Mike!
Sherlock turned around at the end of the hall, looked John over one more time with a huge smile as John waved at him ⊠and winked in reply before rounding a corner. Out of sight.
...
âThere you are! Done exploring the lab?â Mike was coming down the opposite end of the hall with someone tall and blonde in tow. âThought itâd be easier if I brought him to you, while you reminisced!â
âI wasnât -â John took the outstretched hand of the new stranger, looking puzzled at Mike? âAnd who is this?â John asked, only mildly curious. His eyes flitted back down the hall where Sherlock had just left âŠ
Mike interrupted his thoughts.
âThis is the guy I told you about! John? Meet Mr. Hastings. Been looking for a flatmate for weeks now.â
Johnâs mind raced back to Sherlockâs response ⊠âagesâ âŠ
John looked back at this man. Hastings did he say?
He blinked and looked back at Mike. Mind still full of Sherlock.
âIâve missed something, havenât I?â
I think a lot of the discourse on here, esp about intra-community issues, comes from the perspective of people who are a part of pretty insular leftist queer communities and assume everyone else engaging w their writing is too. so you have stuff like âwhite trans people are celebrated when they come outâ or âeveryone wants to fuck transmasc genderqueer peopleâ as statements people are making, which are very very true in some cases from within these really insular communities but seem like youâre blogging from another dimension to people who like, live in small town Iowa.
I think this is why we get a lot of the tumblr arguments we get. like one personâs like âask every single person you meet for pronouns no exceptions or youâre a bad personâ and someone reading that who isnât part of an urban leftist queer scene is like??? you want me to as the aggressively homophobic straight men who live in my open carry state for their pronouns?????? but no one wants to add âdisclaimer: I go to smith college/live in Montreal/have completely forgotten what fear feels likeâ to their posts
This is a very long form way of saying that privilege is subjective
Which, itself, goes against a lot of leftist rhetoric that asserts that a personâs traits make them universally more or less privileged, everywhere.
Privilege is, indeed, subjective and often conditional.
i canât talk shit about the pirates of the caribbean films as if elizabeth swann becoming pirate king didnât hand my entire ass to me and make me the gay i am today
these 2 looks basically defined my sexuality and iâm not afraid to admit it
things pirates of the caribbean got right:
1. will and elizabethâs love story
2. elizabeth becoming pirate king
3. avoiding sexualizing elizabeth or the other female pirate characters in the first 3 films by allowing them to wear period-accurate pirate outfits that arenât tailored to be revealing and impractical for âsex appealâ just because theyâre women
4. hans zimmerâs entire score but especially the iconic âheâs a pirateâ main theme
5. When the movie came out, morally-gray characters like Jack were actually not really a thing yet in pop culture, and itâs not Piratesâ fault that there are a ton of stupid shitty copycats out there.
6. I run a corseting panel at cons and literally use Elizabethâs lace-up scene as a video clip of what historical corseting was actually like, because the only thing they got wrong in this scene is that tightlacing wouldnât be a thing for about another 200 years (and you couldnât tightlace with the corset style Elizabeth is wearing anyway). Itâs one of the most accurate corseting scenes Iâve ever seen.
7. Willâs hat.
8. That scene with all the pirates on the gallows where that little boy starts singing Hoist the Colours? Yeah, thatâs fucking legendary. The rest of AWE was kind of a trash fire, but that scene gave me goosebumps.
9. Thereâs this great shot in the first one where they really drive home the class differences inherent in this time period by having the governor talking about progress and civilization to Elizabeth in their carriage, and then they cut to a shot outside the carriage where a beggar gets splashed by mud from the wheel. Itâs a perfect way to underline that everything is not, in fact, a nice little upper-class fairytale, and to give some weight to Willâs storyline, because he has a lot more in common with that beggar than with the governor.
10. For its time, the CGI was fucking amazing.
11. And letâs not forget the work of the makeup department, which had to actually invent new ways of putting on makeup for this movie.
12. The governorâs death scene. Holy shit.
13. They could have gone with a Jack/Will/Elizabeth love triangle, but they didnât. There are some hints Jack is in love (or at least in lust) with Elizabeth, but he recognizes that she loves Will, and thatâs that.
14. Youâve got to admit that wedding was unique.
15. The introduction of fantasy elements to historical fiction outside of Tolkein-esque fantasy, and how it contributed to and expanded the Fantasy Media boom weâre still enjoying today.
1. They had a woman of colour play a goddess.
2. They had a woman pirate right in the first film, when the tradition is to only show male ones (hell, the PotC ride at Disney had a wench auction scene until recently). And it was a female pirate of colour at that!
3. Elizabeth may not have known how to fight in the first film, but she wasnât helpless either. Her first instinct was to fight, but she also had the brains to recognize when it was best to hide instead. Plus when given the chance she stabbed Barbosa that one time.
4. Elizabethâs lack of fighting ability was not simply because she was a woman, it was clear it was due to her societal circumstances, since we saw other women of different socioeconomic backgrounds being able to fight (and when given the opportunity to learn Elizabeth took to fighting like a duck on water).
5. The Hoist the Colours scene where we see pirates of multiple ethnicities and their varying flags, reminding us that pirates came in all shapes and sizes and werenât just white men.
6. One of the Pirate Lords being yet ANOTHER woman of colour. She may not have had much of a speaking role if memory serves, but even her presence is already a big deal.
7. The pirates accepting their King is a woman without much fuss.
Pirates is amazing I will not here a bad word
Davy Jones CGI is legendary and a ton better than some of the stuff done today đ
Iâm pretty sure that female Chinese pirate was a nod to a real, documented female pirate king who was Chinese and had a whole fleet of ships at her disposal but I canât remember her name rn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ching_Shih
My favorite part about the Bretheren Court voting wasnât that they were against Elizabeth for becoming King as a woman and newcomer. They were pissed at Jack for being a chaotic neutral who broke the decades long tradition of an egotistical stalemate by voting for someone besides himself.
Also, the deleted scenes from Black Pearl and At Worldâs End that divulge more of Jackâs troubled past, like how he was branded as a pirate by the East Indian Trading Company because he stole a ship full of slaves and freed them.
âPeople arenât cargo, mate.â
actually supervillains with kid hero nemeses are hysterical bc if i was a billionaire and i found out the kid who was also my nemesis was a preteen orphan i would simply adopt them. oh youâre going to stop my nefarious schemes? how when youâre grounded. go to your room
the trick is be a good parent so they donât wanna fight you. son if you topple my criminal empire how will i pay for your college? reverse batmanning
Weaponized guilt. Son youâre out on a school night? When you have that big science test tomorrow? I thought youâd be studyingâŠgetti g some restâŠno Iâm not mad Iâm just. Well a little disappointed I guess. What do you mean this wouldnât be happening if Iâd stop robbing banks their insurance covers it son money isnât real
Whoâs this guy is he your âsidekickâ? Thatâs so cute when are you having him over for dinner. Iâm not teasing I think itâs sweet Iâm glad youâre making friends. Side note how durable is he Iâm about to throw a car at you
getting over the fear of being bad is so fucking hard⊠like, itâs literally a super power if you can start something and say âit doesnât matter if itâs bad, it just matters that it existsâ
âbadâ is so terrifying, âbadâ is wrecking, and the ability to apply self-compassion to things deemed âbadâ is beyond amazing, to understand not everything in life will be âgoodâ and thatâs okay
essays, art, novels, school, relationships, anyone out there starting things when they are terrified of the arbitrary metric of the result⊠I am so fucking proud of you, you are so brave and strong
keep starting new things, even if âbadâ is a possibilityÂ
Reblog to give a hug, a forehead kiss, and a grilled cheese cut diagonal to the person you reblogged it from.Â
fuck it. be creative even if you never really *make* anything. write out plot synopses of stories and then move on. design OCs you'll never use. make mood boards and concept art and don't do anything with them. life's too short to forget everything that inspired you and creation doesn't have to be "complete" to be worth the time you put into it.
