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[siickangel]

i’m so mentally exhausted, it’s so tiring

[mollymurakami-archive]

you go on | a comic

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[weonsinnombre]

[steadfast-deactivated20210221]

This is the way you’re supposed to do pranks!

[darcyshire]

I try SO hard not to make faces when I hear someone around me say wild shit but I just can’t stop myself

[doodle-shenanigans]

Choose your fighter

[hopesterling]

one of the greatest joys in life is making a joke with your friends and getting a stranger overhearing you to laugh

[petermorwood]

Perfect. :-D

[everythingfox]

“The music fits quite nicely for this little guy”

(Source)

[bloodytales]

[inbetweenfictionandreality-deac]

“I waited too long to read the sequel, and now I can’t even remember the characters.”

 A novel by me

[haliasjane]

“I read the whole series in less than two days, and now can’t separate the events of individual books” the thrilling sequel

[chocolatequeennk]

“I’ve read so much fanfic for this series, I can’t remember what really happened in the books” the stunning conclusion

[captain-snark]

“i’ve read so much fan fic I can’t remember what fic I’ve read and only find out when I go to leave kudos and discover I’ve already left it” a fanfic by me

[thisiswhymomworries]

my parents: don’t worry sweetie you’ll understand when you move out and have a house of your own :)

me, in this economy: a what

[thisiswhymomworries]

my parents: don’t worry sweetie you’ll understand when you get married and have a husband :)

me, a known gay: a what

[thisiswhymomworries]

my parents: don’t worry sweetie you’ll understand when you start a family and have your first baby :)

me, an asexual: A WHAT

[exomoon]

my parents: our little girl is growing into a woman! me, a nonbinary: a what

[you-looked-at-mysecrets-deactiv]

my parents: our boy is growing into a strong man me, a nonbinary: a what

[exoskyll]

my parents: can you tell us the SI unit of power, equivalent to one joule per second, corresponding to the power in an electric circuit in which the potential difference is one volt and the current one ampere? me: a watt

[cockyhorror]

the large man who just obliterated my front door: you’re a wizard harry

me, just harry: a what

[van-dyne]

there are two types of dads 

[ionlypartiallyslay]

Two very different types of dads

[sandersstudies]

Fucking annoyed at how many times I’ve given a friend or student a twenty second explanation of a grammatical (+ punctuation, etymology, etc.) concept and they’re like “that’s IT? No teacher ever explained it to me that way!”

Right because teachers don’t explain language rules in a functional way, which is ridiculous.

[sandersstudies]

Here’s a common one: “say fewer if you can count it, less if you can’t count it.

Example: there may be less water in the sea, but fewer water bottles on the table, because I cannot count the ‘waters’ but I can count the water bottles.”

[randomslasher]

Here’s one I like to do: instead of trying to explain subject and object pronouns, I tell them, “Think about what the answer could potentially be in terms of ‘he/him, she/her, or they/them.’ If the answer ends in a consonant, then so should your question. For example: 

“Whom is it for? It is for them.”

“Who is coming to the party? She is coming to the party.”

“Who said that? He said that.”

[randomslasher]

The issue is that grammar isn’t really taught anymore; it’s absorbed. We assume people will “just figure it out” because people DO develop an instinctive grasp of the grammar of their native language. You hear something often enough, you can tell when it “just doesn’t sound right.” 

But the problem with that is twofold: 1) language, especially spoken language, evolves, and 2) instinctive grammar doesn’t always cover written language, since we don’t write the same way we talk. 

It’s why we end up with things like “should of” (when it should be “should have”), or people saying “For all intensive purposes” (instead of “for all intents and purposes”) or trying to put an ‘a’ in “definitely.” Grammar (and spelling) isn’t necessarily intuitive, especially in the bonkers language that is English, but there are some rules that can be taught and understood and generally trusted to be true most of the time. They just…aren’t taught anymore? And that baffles me too. 

(I was a straight-A student and a writer and it wasn’t until I became a writing tutor that I finally had to learn the actual rules of grammar myself, so that I could teach them to others, because saying something like, “I know a comma goes here but I can’t really tell you why, I just know it” isn’t good teaching.)

[wordsnstuff]

I’m worried that I’m not very good at coming up with original ideas. A lot of the story ideas I have are very similar to other stories I’ve read, and I often have a hard time even thinking of plot points if I haven’t seen something like them used before. I know some people say that a lot of creativity is using things from other sources that you like, but I think I go a little too far with it. Do you have any advice for being more original?

This problem comes from overthinking. Kind of. The thing about the word “original” that bugs me is that people think it means “never seen before”, but that’s not how it should be perceived by an artist or a writer. Original should mean “seen again in a different way” because honestly, there are no new ideas; there are only twisted ones. Creativity isn’t using things from other art, it’s changing them. If you want to write a science fiction story that takes place on a spaceship in the far depths of the galaxy, go right ahead, but the aspects you mirror from other fiction should be tweaked to be your own, rather than a reflection of another author’s interpretation of these devices. 

For instance, I’m writing a superhero story that has a lot of similarities to the Marvel comics, but there’s a lot of things I’ve changed or elaborated more on than the comic series did when it comes to what a world with superheroes would look like. I focus on different what ifs and different struggles of characters in these circumstances, and though it’s easy to see where my inspiration came from, it’s clearly a very different story that I would classify as original.

Original is an often misunderstood word in art, but hopefully this explanation will contribute toward a less constricting mindset, and give you new ideas toward your own work.

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[thatsthat24]

Summer Mood ☀️ (W/ @domgoldofficial)

[oreodragonborn]

Let's be Friends in Harry Potter: Wizards Unite! My Friend Code is: 6082 9397 7719.

[mwagneto]

I’M CRYING HE’S STANDING IN THE ASS-TITS POSE

[214-thotline-bling]

how did abortions get banned faster than assault rifles

[hammertimeinthegrill420]

[ghostmage-remade-deactivated202]

i’m starting to realize the “friendship where we bully each other” thing is a complicated subject for me, because as a survivor of bullying and my interests being mocked for basically my entire life, i don’t really find it funny or endearing when pals do it. i don’t mind gentle insults and inside jokes, but idk, there has to be a point where you go “maybe i shouldn’t cut on my friend’s new oc or special interest” and stop yourself. i think we should all try a little harder to know that boundary and not put our friends in those situations

[phoenixiancrystallist]

My best friend and I used to greet each other with insults (“hey bitch!” “wassup slut?”) and generally poke fun at each other all the time. It’s how we showed affection, just constant little pokes and prods and minor nuisances. But I noticed that these exchanges were wearing her down through little behavioral ticks, like she’d go quiet or her laugh wasn’t as bubbly. So I changed how I show her affection and now scream “hi Dawn I love you :D” at the top of my lungs when I say hi. And I hear her stifle a giggle and she answers with either “love you too” or “hiiiii, love you!!!” depending on her mood at the time.

It’s fine to have a close friendship where you can pretend to be mean to each other and you both understand that none of that meanness is real. But the second it starts to feel real to either of you, that behavior should change.

[teathattast]

[tahthetrickster]

dave benjamin barnes and buster jerry noble

[prettiboifloyd]

dave “mike” benjamin barnes and buster “ike” jerry noble

[smoshwintergames]

we stan one (1) actor banana