#pedants

[hometoursandotherstuff]

"Your Grammar."

[aistobascistod]

[ladelbarrio]

Pomegranate pendant by Tom Elrom

[neurodivergent-fangirling]

Is Nico di Angelo the kind of person who would correct someone on the use of the word “poison” vs “venom”? I keep thinking about that line in The Titan’s Curse where Percy gets injured by one of the manticore’s projectiles and Dr. Thorn tells him to quit whining because his poison causes pain, it won’t kill him. And I’m imagining ten-year-old nerd/fanboy Nico lecturing him on the difference between poison and venom while Bianca is telling him to shut up because they’re already being kidnapped, does he want to make things worse?

[burnitalldownism]

Language is bullshit.

The English language even more so. Basically ten linguistic roots crammed into a trenchcoat & masquerading as a language.

Lingua Bastardis.

Pedants, puritanicals and straight up bigots trying to claim anything has “always meant X”are arguing in bad faith, and also thicker than two planks.

They don’t give a fuck about the language. Coz I fecking love linguistics & cannot believe I’m alive to see hundreds of cultures & languages using English as a Lingua Franca online, changing it & evolving it at a rate every week that in the past you would have had to wait a century to observe.

Anyone claiming to be an authority on language who doesn’t embrace its infinite diversity in infinite combinations is not an authority on linguistics. They’re an authority on like one ultra-specific dictionary we used 83yrs ago.

[runningfromadream]

The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.

Ursula K. LeGuin

[taikavaris-grimoire]

Witch tip: airdry clay

Airqdry clay is your best friend now. You can make basically anything.

Blank flat amulets/talismans to write sigils on. Curved ones (with your fingerprint maybe) where you can seal herbs with wax in for a spell and keep with you. Leaf pedants and things for offerings, spell pods, I even made a pendulum for my mother!

The options are endless! And if you get white clay you can paint it however you want after it's dry!

Go off and create, try stuff, it doesnt have to be perfect! It's made by you and that's the most beautiful thing

[thraxxhouse]

never thought you'd fall on your way to hell.