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@vey-is-the-consequence
I have been so disappointed by fanfiction lately. I used to always read the newest fics to support them but now I find myself avoiding the “rank by date updated” button on AO3 just because an overt amount is AI.
I got into fanfic because all of them were works of passion and love. I don’t think you can call it ff anymore if it isn’t written by a fan :(
I don’t like my circus, I hate my monkeys, I don’t wanna be associated with any of them, yet thems the cheeses I got in my hand.
party rock is in the house tonight except it’s a panic attack
this too shall pass but the fuck was that for
you've heard of death of the author, now get ready for death of the audience: where instead of basing your reaction on a thousand uninformed opinions online, you actually read the text and engage with it
girl help there's people on this post who can't actually read my text
Main universe Batman is so good rn, all 3 of these comics have been hit after hit. New villains, lots of character depth for Batman, an actual understanding of the Batfamily and their role in Bruce's life, just so fantastic all the way around. This is gonna be a great year for Batman comics
things english speakers know, but don’t know we know.
WOAH WHAT?
That is profound. I noticed this by accident when asked about adjectives by a Japanese student. She translated something from Japanese like “Brown big cat” and I corrected her. When she asked me why, I bluescreened.
What the fuck, English isn’t even my first language and yet I picked up on that. How the fuck. What the fuck.
Reasoning: It Just Sounds Right
Oooh, don’t like that. Nope, I do not even like that a little bit. That’s parting the veil and looking at some forbidden fucking knowledge there.
How did I even learn this language wtf
I had to read “brown big cat” like three times before my brain stopped interpreting it as “big brown cat”
I’m kinda reading “brown big cat” as “brown (big cat)”, that is, a “big cat” - like a tiger or lion or other felid of similar size - that happens to be brown. “Big brown cat”, on the other hand, sounds more like a brown cat that’s just a bit bigger than a regular housecat - like a bobcat or a maine coon cat or something like that.
yeah, a brown big cat is almost certainly a puma. a big brown cat is probably a maine coon.
yeah, if you put the adjectives out of order you wind up implying a compound noun, which is presumably why we have this rule; we stripped out so much inflection over the centuries word order now dictates a huge amount of our grammar
Just looked up why we do this and one of the first lines in this article is, “Adjectives are where the elves of language both cheat and illumine reality.” so I know it’s a good article.
Things this article has taught me:
This same order of adjectives more or less applies to languages around the world. “It’s possible that these elements of universal grammar clarify our thought in some way,” says Barbara Partee, a professor emeritus of linguistics and philosophy at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Yet when the human race tacitly decided that shape words go before color words go before origin words, it left no record of its rationale.
One theory is that the more specific term always falls closer to the noun. But that doesn’t explain everything in adjective order.
Another theory is that as you get closer to the noun, you encounter adjectives that denote more innate properties. In general, nouns pick out the type of thing we’re talking about, and adjectives describe it,” Partee told me. She observes that the modifiers most likely to sit right next to nouns are the ones most inclined to serve as nouns in different contexts: Rubber duck. Stone wall.
Rules are made to be broken. Switching up the order of adjectives allows you to redistribute emphasis. (If you wish to buy the black small purse, not the gray one, for instance, you can communicate your priorities by placing color before size). Scrambling the order of adjectives also helps authors achieve a sense of spontaneity, of improvising as they go. Wolfe discovers such a rhythm, a feeling-his-way quality, when he discusses his childhood recollection of “brown tired autumn earth” and a “flat moist plug of apple tobacco.”
Brain scans have discovered that your brain has to work harder to read adjectives in the “wrong” order.
TL;DR: No one knows why we do this adjective thing but it’s pretty hardwired in.
@deadcatwithaflamethrower Linguistics tidbit.
Since it’s never credited, this is from Mark Forsyth’s The Elements of Eloquence, and just one reason why I think it’s required reading for anyone interested in prosecraft. Every page is this useful.
I DONT CARE IF HE COMES WITH A FUCKING MACHETE, RA’S AL GHUL IS NOT COMING TO MY CHRISTMAS DINNER PARTY‼️‼️
Batman my baby ♥️
Batman animation 👍🌟
It's the law to reblog this every time you see it.
some people think writers are so eloquent and good with words, but the reality is that we can sit there with our fingers on the keyboard going, “what’s the word for non-sunlight lighting? Like, fake lighting?” and for ten minutes, all our brain will supply is “unofficial”, and we know that’s not the right word, but it’s the only word we can come up with…until finally it’s like our face got smashed into a brick wall and we remember the word we want is “artificial”.
I couldn't remember the word "doorknob" ten minutes ago.
ok but the onelook thesaurus will save your life, i literally could not live without this website
REBLOG TO SAVE A WRITER'S LIFE
LIFE SAVED
REBLOGGING TO SAVE ANOTHER WRITERS LIFE
I use this every time I sit down to write. It's the best tool in the world and I would be lost without it!
It’s a godsend for writing essays too
Batman why did young me think of you as cringe? What was I thinking? Batman I love you. And your absurd amount of children.
sirius and james acting like a toxic couple in the ikea kitchens and peter is sitting at the table between them as their son
oh look at me i’m bucky barnes my metal arm is so cool and my waist is so tiny and im pretty like a girl fuck you man
AND ANOTHER THING!
(Spoilers for Superman 2025)
The clone that Lex Luthor made of Superman is one of the most tragic things in this entire movie imo.
He had no name. Only a title. (Ultraman)
He had no personality except that he’s dumb
All he knew were the attacks that he could preform at the mention of a letter and a number
He had no lines
He was just a thing who got raised by the wrong people in the wrong situation.
He was only a clone. A tragedy in itself.
He is what I think about late at night.
I just watched the Superman movie and decided to call my friend to tell him about it.
We then proceeded to talk for the next hour about how amazing Nicholas Hoult as Lex Luthor was.
The acting was so brilliant that I felt bad for him at the end of the movie. Lex Luthor is a villain. A human one. And they really nailed the human part of him in this movie.
